Polycrates Of Ephesus
Ante-Nicene · to AD 325 · d. AD 196 · 5 passages across 3 books
Commentary
Acts 5:29
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
The leaven-I myself, brethren, I say, who am sixty-five years old in the Lord, and have fallen in with the brethren in all parts of the world, and have read through all Holy Scripture, am not frightened at the things which are said to terrify us. For those who are greater than I have said, "We ought to obey God rather than men."
1 Corinthians 1:7
So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:
It is surely noteworthy that nobody doubted that it was kept by a Christian and Apostolic ordinance. So St. Paul argues from its Christian observance, in his rebuke of the Corinthians.
1 Corinthians 16:2
Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.
Those who in our own times have revived the observance of the Jewish Sabbath, show us how much may be said on their side,
1 Corinthians 16:8
But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.
They were keeping it "unleavened "ceremonially, and he urges a spiritual unleavening as more important. The Christian hallowing of Pentecost connects with the Paschal argument.
Philippians 3:20
For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
His other daughter also, who passed her life