Acts 8:2 — Greek Interlinear

Church Fathers on Acts 8:2

And devout men, it says, carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him. Acts 8:2 If they were devout, why did they make great lamentation over him? They were not yet perfect. The man was gracious and amiable: this also shows that they were men — not their fear alone, but their grief and lamentation. Who would not have wept to see that mild, that lamb-like person stoned, and lying dead? Fit eulogy to be spoken over his grave has the Evangelist recorded, in…