Annotation CCXXVII

”It came to pass that he tarried many days in Joppa.” — Acts 9:43

Suffrages for the dead.

Chrysostom, at the end of the 21st homily on Acts, seems to allude to the opinion of those who think that the oblations, alms, and suffrages of the living profit even the saints, and those who have finished life, toward the increase of glory. See Annotation 47 of this book.