And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Observe how, when the Spirit does not forbid, he complies. They said, Adventure not yourself into the theatre, and he did not adventure Acts 19:31: often they bore him off (from dangers), and he complied: again he escaped by a window: and now, though numberless persons, so to say, beseech him, both those at Tyre and those at Cæsarea, weeping also and predicting numberless dangers, he refuses to comply. And yet it is not (merely), they predicted the dangers, but said by the Spirit. If then the Spirit bade, why did he gainsay? By the Spirit, that is, they knowing by the Spirit (what would be the consequences, said to him): for of course it does not mean that the exhortation they made was by the Spirit. For they did not simply foretell to him the dangers (through the Spirit), but (added of themselves) that it behooved him not to go up— sparing him. But after we had accomplished the days, i.e. had fulfilled the appointed days, we separated, and went on our way: they all bringing us on our way with wives and children.
