“Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.”
Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day — the response (apodechōmai, receive, accept) to Peter's message results in mass baptism. Three thousand converts (chiliades treis) is extraordinary and reminiscent of Exodus 32:28 (three thousand die in the golden calf incident, but now three thousand are baptized into life). The daily addition is the church's numerical growth (prosithemi, added, accounted, enrolled).
Church Fathers on Acts 2:41
And with many other words did he testify, and exhort, saying. Acts 2:40 Observe how, throughout, the writer studies brevity, and how free he is from ambition and display. He testified and exhorted, saying. This is the perfection of teaching, comprising something of fear and something of love. Save yourselves from this untoward generation. He says nothing of the future, all is about the present, by which indeed men are chiefly swayed; he shows that the Gospel releases from…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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