ACTS 22:23 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air,”
And as they were crying out and throwing off their cloaks and tossing dust into the air — the crowd's violent gestures (removing cloaks, throwing dust) signify ritual mourning or protest against blasphemy. The dust-throwing may invoke the curse formula against heretics.
Church Fathers on Acts 22:23
See how he thrusts himself (into danger), I came, he says, after that vision, to Jerusalem. I was in a trance, etc. Again, this is without witness: but observe, the witness follows from the result. He said, They will not receive your testimony: they did not receive it. And yet from calculations of reason the surmise should have been this, that they would assuredly receive him. For I was the man that made war upon the Christians: so that they ought to have received him. Here…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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