18:9 - Then spoke the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not your peace:
Acts and Martyrdom of St. Matthew the Apostle
And when what had come to pass was reported in the palace, the king Fulvanus, having learned what had been done by Matthew about his wife, and his son, and his daughter-in-law, rejoiced for a time at their purification; but seeing that they were inseparable from Matthew, he was seized with rage and anger, and endeavoured to put him to death by fire. And on that night[9]
18:28 - For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publicly, showing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.
Methodius Oration Concerning Simeon and Anna
gs are placed under Thee as their Cause and Author, as He who brought all things into being out of nothing, and gave to what was unstable a firm coherence; as the connecting Band and Preserver of that which has been brought into being; as the Framer of things by nature different; as He who, with wise and steady hand, holds the helm of the universe; as the very Principle of all good order; as the irrefragable Bond of concord and peace. For in Thee we live, and move, and have our being.[52]