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Acts XVI, 26 – ‘θεμελια’ – ‘themelia’ - ‘foundations’.
Acts XVI, 27 – ‘ημελλεν’ – ‘emellen’ – ‘was about to, was close to’ - from ‘μελλω’ – ‘mello’.
Read about the events that preceded those described in the link:
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It is worth noting that starting a little earlier in chapter XVI, the
book of Acts uses the word we
, meaning that the apostle and evangelist
Luke, my beloved saint, joined Paul and Silas.
The story is about the healing of the young soothsayer and the imprisonment of Paul and Silas, as well as the miraculous conversion of the jailer and his whole household. The events in the prison take place at night, quickly, and we can see how responsible the jailer was, but his desire to commit suicide shows that responsibility can lead a person to evil if he or she does not have the right attitude, the right faith.
Regarding the soothsayer, the fact that the apostles allowed her to
prophesy shows that they were not spiritual conquerors
, but where the
Lord gave them the power, they delivered people from the power of evil,
and this happened in the events described in this reading.
John IX, 5, 9 – ‘ειμι’ – ‘eimi’ – (I) ‘am’. It is used for emphasis.
The story of the healing of a blind man from birth. It has many
important points. In general, we can see a kind of movement, a
spreading
of the Gospel from the closest disciples of Jesus (closer to
the Easter holiday) and up to people who come to know Jesus not
immediately but gradually, including the healed man born blind.
We see God’s permission for the man to be born blind, but also God’s will to heal him and bring him to the cognition of the truth. Let me emphasise that Jesus does not say that God made him blind from birth, but that it was God who healed him. This emphasises that the blindness was an allowance of God, something that God did not want, but providentially permitted and now healed.
The dialogues with the Jews show their hardening of their unbelief,
fear of man’s parents, but also the openness of the healed blind man to
the truth. The readings are available here:
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and they
clarify the situation better.
To the Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian:
There are good readings on light and life at the following links:
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The blood of Jesus Christ
refers to both the Sacrifice of Jesus and
the Sacrament of Communion, the Eucharist.
Communion
is a polysemous word ‘κοινωνια’, which means both
community, fellowship, sharing and participating
and can also mean
communion
. See more:
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For more information, see, for example, the following link:
https://www.facebook.com/Oleksandr.S.Zhabenko/
The readings where the Apostle John the Theologian stands with the Mother of God beside the Crucified Saviour, and Christ actually adopts John to the Mother of God (which is a great honour), as well as the fact that it was John the Theologian who wrote the fourth Gospel, also show that the actions of God are inexhaustible in depth. Therefore, it is wrong to think that everything has been written and said in theology.
Glory be to Thee, our God, glory be to Thee!