“And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:”
Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. — the explicit inclusion of servants (douloi, slaves; and doulon, female servants) shows radical equality in the Spirit's gifting; social status (slave/free, male/female) is erased in Spirit-empowerment. This subverts ancient social hierarchies and anticipates Galatians 3:28's theological vision of baptismal equality.
Church Fathers on Acts 2:18
[He men of Judea, and all you that dwell at Jerusalem,] whom the writer above described as strangers. Here he directs his discourse to those others, the mockers, and while he seems to reason with those, he sets these right. For indeed it was divinely ordered that some mocked, that he might have a starting-point for his defense, and by means of that defense, might teach. [And all you that dwell in Jerusalem.] It seems they accounted it a high encomium to dwell in Jerusalem…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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