When she was baptized; showing that St. Paul, as St. Peter (Acts 2:38, Acts 2:41; Acts 10:47), as Philip (Acts 8:38), as Ananias (Acts 22:16), as our Lord himself (Mark 16:16), had put holy baptism in the very forefront of his teaching (camp.
Hebrews 6:2). And her household (comp. Acts 16:33; 1 Corinthians 1:16; 2 Timothy 4:19). This frequent mention of whole households as received into the Church seems necessarily to imply infant baptism.
The exhortations to children as members of the Church in Ephesians 6:1, Ephesians 6:2, and Colossians 3:20, lead to the same inference. Come into my house, etc. A beautiful specimen of true hospitality; comp.
1 Peter 4:9; Hebrews 13:2; 1 Timothy 5:10; 3 John 1:5-8; also 2 Kings 4:8-10, where, however, the Greek word for "constrained" is ἐκράτησεν, not as here παρεβίασατο, which only occurs elsewhere in the New Testament in Luke 24:29.
In the LXX. it is used in 1 Samuel 28:23; Gem 1 Samuel 19:3 (Cod. Alex.) 9 (in a different sense); 2 Kings 2:17; 2 Kings 5:16. Her large hospitality does not bear out Chrysostom's remark as to her humble station of lift,.