The Homilies On The Gospel Of St. Matthew: eBook EditionJazzybee Verlag, 2012 - 1099 pages The Homilies of St. Chrysostom on St. Matthew were undoubtedly delivered at Antioch (see Hom. vii. p. 43) and probably in the latter part of the time during which he preached as a Presbyter. Montfaucon consideres his little mention of the sin of swearing a sign of his accomplished some reformation on that point by his previous exertions. In the Homilies delievered from 386 to 388, it is a constant topic; and the Homilies known to belong to that date are so numerous, as scarcely leave room for such a series as the present. These, however, contain very little to mark the period to which they belong. The argument from his reference to dissensions some time gone by, possible those between St. Meletius and Paulinus and Evagrius, in commenting on St. Matt. xxiii. 6. is not very conclusive. A modern reader must sometimes be struck with finding in St. Chrysostom a kind of criticism, which we are apt to thing belongs only to later times. Hist main object, however, is moral, and he searches out with diligence both the meaning and the applications of particular passages, usually concluding with an eloquent exhortation to some special virtue. Some of the most remarkable of these exhortations are on the subject of Alms-giving, which he seems to have pressed with some success at last. His calculation in Hom. lxvi as to what might be done, is somewhat curious. In the end of Hom. lxxxviii. he demands a reformation as the condition of his entering on the cntroversy with Infidels. In the next Homily he discusses the evidence of the Resurrection with nearly the same arguments as would still be used against an objector. |
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... pray thee, are we to do what is commanded, and to put our hand to the works, if we do not endure so much as to hear the words that relate to them, but are impatient and restless about the time we stay here, although it be exceedingly ...
... pray thee, are we to do what is commanded, and to put our hand to the works, if we do not endure so much as to hear the words that relate to them, but are impatient and restless about the time we stay here, although it be exceedingly ...
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... pray thee, since thou hast already mentioned His ancestors?” “I still wish to tell thee the manner also of His birth.” Seest thou, how he wakens up the hearer? For as though he were about to speak of something unusual, he promises to ...
... pray thee, since thou hast already mentioned His ancestors?” “I still wish to tell thee the manner also of His birth.” Seest thou, how he wakens up the hearer? For as though he were about to speak of something unusual, he promises to ...
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... Pray not thou for this people, for I will not hear thee.” And why marvellest thou if I hear not thee? “Though Moses ... prayers of the saints have the greatest power; on condition however of our repentance and amendment. Since even Moses ...
... Pray not thou for this people, for I will not hear thee.” And why marvellest thou if I hear not thee? “Though Moses ... prayers of the saints have the greatest power; on condition however of our repentance and amendment. Since even Moses ...
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... pray thee, beholding, as thou dost, with great eagerness, things which even to name is disgraceful; preferring to all sights these, which even to recount is intolerable? Now then for a season, in order not to be too burdensome, I will ...
... pray thee, beholding, as thou dost, with great eagerness, things which even to name is disgraceful; preferring to all sights these, which even to recount is intolerable? Now then for a season, in order not to be too burdensome, I will ...
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... pray thee? and what sort of excuse? Yet further consider, how of old these Egyptians were both avaricious, and gluttonous, together with their other vices. For there were the fleshpots which the Jews remember; there, the great tyranny ...
... pray thee? and what sort of excuse? Yet further consider, how of old these Egyptians were both avaricious, and gluttonous, together with their other vices. For there were the fleshpots which the Jews remember; there, the great tyranny ...
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