“And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.”
And finding disciples, we stayed there seven days. And they said to Paul through the Spirit that he should not go up to Jerusalem — the first prophetic warning emerges not from an Agabus-figure but from the community itself, warned by the Spirit. Yet Paul will not be deterred, revealing both the intensity of his calling and the Spirit's permission for him to face what lies ahead.
Church Fathers on Acts 21:4
for there the ship was to unlade her burden. And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem. Acts 21:4 They too prophesy of the afflictions. It is so ordered that they should be spoken by them also, that none might imagine that Paul said those things without cause, and only by way of boasting. And there again they part from each other with prayer.
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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