“Not what we say, but what we do, is what all men look to.”
Not what we say, but what we do, is what all men look to.
John Chrysostom · Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles · NPNF1 XI, Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles, Homily XLVII (on Acts XXI. 39, 40)
Paul on the stairs of the Antonia, about to address a crowd that wants him dead: Chrysostom notes that it is the bearing they watch, not the speech.
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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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