Fragments on Acts and the Catholic Epistles

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Greek pieces for which Migne prints Greek; Latin-only pieces are not included.

1. 1A badly damaged fragment on Acts, apparently commenting on the apostles’ prayer against those gathered “against your holy servant Jesus.”
2. 2On Stephen’s vision of Jesus standing at God’s right hand, read as a sign that the Son shares the Father’s dignity.
3. 3Hesychius applies “today I have begotten you” to Christ’s coming as man in time, since his birth from the Father is timeless.
4. 4On Acts 13:35: Christ, as God, kept his body from corruption in the passion.
5. 5On James 1:14: the desires of sinners are the gates of death.
6. 6The lemma of James 1:14 with the end of the comment on it.
7. 7On James 2:13: as oil makes a wrestler slip from his opponent’s grip, mercy makes the demons slip away.
8. 8The start of a comment on James 3:8, comparing the tongue to a whetted sword.
9. 9The end of the comment on James 3:8: the tongue, hard to restrain by nature, becomes worse when trained to slander.
10. 10On James 4:10 and 5:1: God rescues the humble who keep his law, and the threat to the rich is given in love so that they may repent.
11. 11On 1 Peter 3:10, quoting Psalm 33: the psalmist’s “Who?” urges us toward the true life of the age to come.
12. 12On Jude 6: God’s truth did not spare the fallen angels, while his love for mankind brought prostitutes and tax collectors into the kingdom.