“Not so you: none takes the Bible in hand: nay, everything rather than the Bible.”

Not so you: none takes the Bible in hand: nay, everything rather than the Bible.

John Chrysostom · Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles · NPNF1 XI, Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles, Homily XIX (on Acts VIII. 26, 27)

Preaching on the Ethiopian eunuch reading Isaiah in his chariot, Chrysostom contrasts him with a congregation that owns the book and does not open it.

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Read in Walker, Sheppard & Browne, NPNF series 1 vol. 11 (1889) · J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, revised by George B. Stevens

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