Evodius

He has many similar passages which it would be superfluous to collect, as that one may suffice.

I need only remind my readers that the same doctrine is taught by that holy man in his epistle to Evodius.

Where Augustine teaches that nothing is more common than metonymy and mysteries, it is a frivolous quibble to object that there is no mention of the supper.

Were this objection sustained, it would follow that we are not entitled to argue from the genus to the species, e.g., every animal is endued with motion, and therefore, the horse and the ox are endued with motion.

Now that he found the truth, and at Cassiacum his dream had been, in a manner, realized, why should they not continue to live like that, he asked Alypius, at all events until they were ready for work to which God had called them? And where should they live this life but in their own country, which was to be the future field of their labors? Alypius asked nothing better.

Their friend Evodius, like themselves a citizen of Tagaste, who had been baptized a short time before, was ready to join them.

He held a high position in the court of the emperor, but it seemed to him a nobler thing to serve the King of Kings.

So these three future bishops of the Church in Africa made their plans together.

They choked back their tears.

"It did not seem meet," says Augustine, "to celebrate that death with groans and lamentations.

Such things were fit for a less blessed deathbed, but not hers." Then as they knelt gazing at the beloved face that seemed to be smiling at some unseen mystery, Evodius had a happy inspiration.

Taking up the psalter, he opened it at the hundredth and tenth psalm.

And we always get really excited and go, oh, look at the lovely multicultural leadership team here, but Luke doesn't need to say it, because when he's writing Acts, Already, the church has transitioned from this kind of temporary international leadership to local leadership.

So there's a guy called Evodius who was the first local leader who got saved there and became the leader in the church of Antioch very soon.

He became the leader in AD 53.

Acts 13 is written in AD 48.

So five years later, you've got a local leader, Evodius.

There's also many significant leaders that we know who got saved and came through Acts.

Luke, Titus, Mark.

In fact, if you look at the writers of the New Testament...