09-19-2018, 05:25 PM
A new reference to a "numerus":
John Chrysostom - Homily 22 on the Acts of the Apostles
"The reason why the writer describes the man so fully, is, that none may say that the Scripture history relates falsehoods: Cornelius, he says, a centurion of the band called the Italian band. Acts 10:1 A band, σπεἵρα, is what we now call a numerous. A devout man, he says, and one that feared God with all his house Acts 10:2: that you may not imagine that it is because of his high station that these things are done.— "
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210122.htm
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Greek Text:
https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_B9gQz5...#page/n185
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Written circa 400 AD, how are we supposed to interpret this statement?
John Chrysostom - Homily 22 on the Acts of the Apostles
"The reason why the writer describes the man so fully, is, that none may say that the Scripture history relates falsehoods: Cornelius, he says, a centurion of the band called the Italian band. Acts 10:1 A band, σπεἵρα, is what we now call a numerous. A devout man, he says, and one that feared God with all his house Acts 10:2: that you may not imagine that it is because of his high station that these things are done.— "
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210122.htm
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Greek Text:
https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_B9gQz5...#page/n185
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Written circa 400 AD, how are we supposed to interpret this statement?
