Homilies on Acts

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John Chrysostom was the first Christian exegete to interpret systematically the book of Acts, and the only one to do so before the sixth century. He preached on the book in two different instances: first, as a presbyter at Antioch, when he delivered five homilies explaining the title “Acts of the Apostles,” transmitted as On the Beginning of Acts (Hom. princ. Act.); and then, perhaps more than a decade later, as bishop of Constantinople, when he preached fifty-five homilies on the book.

Karl Shuve, “The Patristic Reception of Luke and Acts: Scholarship, Theology, and Moral Exhortation in the Homilies of Origen and Chrysostom,” in Issues in Luke-Acts: Selected Essays, ed. Sean A. Adams and Michael W. Pahl, Gorgias Handbooks 26 (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2012), 276.