ACTS 12:16 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But Peter continued knocking: and when they had opened the door, and saw him, they were astonished.”
But Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astonished.—Peter's persistence (epimeninei, 'continued knocking') overcomes their disbelief; the physical presence (they 'saw him') forces recognition. The astonishment (existēmi) is the proper response to divine action violating human expectation.
Church Fathers on Acts 12:16
And they said to her, You are mad: but she constantly affirmed that it was even so: then said they, It is his Angel. Acts 12:15 This is a truth, that each man has an Angel. And what would the Angel? It was from the time (of night) that they surmised this. But when he continued knocking, and when they had opened, and saw him, they were astonished. But he beckoning to them with his hand (v. 16, 17), made them keep quiet, to hear all that had happened to him. He was now an…
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