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STUDIES
 
J.N.D. Kelly
The Story of John Chrysostom
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Hagit Amirav
Rhetoric and Tradition: John Chrysostom on Noah and the Flood (Traditio Exegetica Graeca, 12)
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Chrysostomus Baur
John Chrysostom and His Time: Volume 1: Antioch
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Chrysostomus Baur
John Chrysostom and His Time, Vol. 2: Constantinople
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Duane A. Garrett
An Analysis of the Hermeneutics of John Chrysostom's Commentary on Isaiah 1-8 With an English Translation (Studies in the Bible and Early Christianity)
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Blake Goodall
Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Letters of St.Paul to Titus and Philemon (University of California publications : Classical studies ; v. 20)
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Peter Gorday
Principles of Patristic Exegesis: Romans 9-11 in Origen, John Chrysostom, and Augustine (Studies in the Bible and Early Christianity)
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Aideen M. Hartney
John Chrysostom and the Transformation of the City
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Robert Allen Krupp
Shepherding the Flock of God: The Pastoral Theology of John Chrysostom (American University Studies. Series VII. Theology and Religion)
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Mel Lawrenz
The Christology of John Chrysostom
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Blake Leyerle
Theatrical Shows and Ascetic Lives: John Chrysostom's Attack on Spiritual
Marriage
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Jaclyn LaRae Maxwell
Christianization and Communication in Late Antiquity: John Chrysostom and
his Congregation in Antioch
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Margaret Mary Mitchell
Heavenly Trumpet: John Chrysostom and the Art of Pauline Interpretation
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Robert Louis Wilken
John Chrysostom and the Jews: Rhetoric and Reality in the Late 4th Century
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TRANSLATIONS
 
Gus George Christo
On Repentance and Almsgiving (The Fathers of the Church)
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Thomas Aquinas Goggin
Commentary on Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist: Homilies 48-88 (The Fathers of the Church, 41)
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Robert C. Hill
Eight Sermons on the Book of Genesis
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David G. Hunter
A Comparison Between a King and a Monk/Against the Opponents of the Monastic Life (Studies in the Bible and Early Christianity, Vol 13)
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M.C.W. Laistner
Christianity and pagan culture in the later Roman Empire: Together with an English translation of Johan Chrysostom's Address on vainglory and the right ... bring up their children (Cornell paperbacks)
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Wendy Mayer
John Chrysostom (The Early Church Fathers)
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Mayer and Bronwen
The Cult of the Saints (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press Popular Patristics)
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Graham Neville
Six Books on the Priesthood (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press Popular
Patristics Series)
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? Catherine P. Roth
On Wealth and Poverty
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? David Anderson
On Marriage and Family Life
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Margaret A Schatkin
John Chrysostom as apologist: With special reference to De incomprehensibili, Quod nemo laeditur, Ad eos qui scandalizati sunt, and Adversus oppugnatores vitae monasticae (Analecta VlatadoÌ?n)
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Sally Shore
On Virginity Against Remarriage (Studies in Women and Religion, V. 9)
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HOMILY XVII.
3.....When those who were sent by the Emperor erected that fearful tribunal for
making inquisition into the events which had taken place, and summoned every one
to give account of the deeds which they had perpetrated, and various
anticipations of death pervaded the minds of all, then the monks who dwelt on
the mountain-tops shewed their own true philosophy. For although they had been
shut up so many years in their cells, yet at no one’s entreaty, by no one’s
counsel, when they beheld such a cloud overhanging the city, they left their
caves and huts, and flocked together in every direction, as if they had been so
many angels arriving from heaven. Then might one see the city likened to heaven,
while these saints appeared everywhere; by their mere aspect consoling the
mourners, and leading them to an utter disregard of the calamity. For who on
beholding these would not deride death, would not despise life. And not only was
this wonderful, but that when they drew nigh to the magistrates themselves, they
spoke to them with boldness on behalf of the accused, and were all ready to shed
their blood, and to lay down their heads, so that they might snatch the captured
from the terrible events which they expected. They also declared that they would
not depart until the judges should spare the population of the city, or send
them themselves together with the accused to the Emperor. “He,” said they, “who
rules over our portion of the world is a godly man, a believer, one who lives in
the practice of piety. We therefore shall assuredly reconcile him. We will not
give you leave, nor permit you to embrue the sword, or take off a head. But if
ye do not desist, we also are quite resolved to die with them. We confess that
the crimes committed are very heinous; but the iniquity of those deeds does not
surpass the humanity of the Emperor.” One of them is also reported to have
uttered another saying, full of wisdom, to this effect: “The Statues which have
been thrown down are again set up, and have resumed their proper appearance; and
the mischief was speedily rectified; but if ye put to death the image of God,
how will ye be again able to revoke the deed! or how to reanimate those who are
deprived of life, and to restore their souls to their bodies?” Many things too
they said to them of the Judgment.
4. Who could but be astonished? Who could but admire the moral wisdom of these
men? When the mother of one of the accused, uncovering her head, and exposing
her grey hairs, laid hold of the horse of the judge by the bridle, and running
beside him through the forum, thus entered with him the place of justice, we
were all struck with astonishment, we all admired that exceeding tenderness and
magnanimity. Ought we not, then, to have been much more impressed with wonder at
the conduct of these men? For if she had even died for her son, it would have
been nothing strange, since great is the tyranny of nature, and irresistible is
the obligation arising from the maternal pangs! But these men so loved those
whom they had not begotten, whom they had not brought up, yea rather, whom they
had never seen, whom they had not heard of, whom they had never met, whom they
knew only from their calamity, that if they had possessed a thousand lives, they
would have chosen to deliver them all up for their safety. Tell me not that they
were not slaughtered, that they did not pour forth their blood, but that they
used as much boldness with their judges as it was likely that no other men would
do, but such as had already renounced their own lives; and that with this
sentiment they ran from the mountains to the tribunal. For, indeed, if they had
not before prepared themselves against every sort of slaughter, they would not
have been able to speak thus freely to the judges, or to have manifested such
magnanimity. For they remained all day long sitting before the doors of the
place of justice, being prepared to snatch from the hands of the executioners
those who were about to be led off to punishment!
5. Where now are those who are clad in threadbare cloaks, and display a long
beard, and carry staves in the right hand; the philosophers of the world, who
are more abject in disposition than the dogs under the table; and do every thing
for the sake of the belly? All these men then forsook the city, they all hasted
away, and hid themselves in caves! But they only, who truly by works manifest
the love of wisdom, appeared as fearlessly in the forum, as if no evil had
overtaken the city. And the inhabitants of the city fled away to the mountains
and to the deserts, but the citizens of the desert hastened into the city;
demonstrating by deeds what, on the preceding days, I have not desisted from
saying, that the very furnace will not be able to harm the man who leads a
virtuous life. Such a thing is philosophy of soul, rising superior to all
things, and to all prosperous or adverse events; for neither is it enfeebled by
the former, nor beaten down and debased by the latter, but abides on the same
level through the whole course of things, shewing its own native force and
power! Who, indeed, was not convicted of weakness by the difficulty of the
present crisis? Those who had held the first offices in our city, who were in
places of power, who were surrounded with immense wealth, and who were in high
favour with the Emperor, leaving their houses utterly deserted, all consulted
their own safety, and all friendship and kindred were found worthless, and those
whom they formerly knew, at this season of calamity, they desired not to know,
and prayed to be unknown of them! But the monks, poor as they were, having
nothing more than a mean garment, who had lived in the coarsest manner, who
seemed formerly to be nobodies, men habituated to mountains and forests; as if
they had been so many lions, with a great and lofty soul, whilst all were
fearing and quaking, stood forth and relieved the danger, and that, not in the
course of many days, but in a brief moment of time! And as distinguished
warriors without coming into close conflict with their adversaries, but merely
by making their appearance in the ranks, and shouting, put the foe to rout, so
also these in one day descended, and said their say, and removed the calamity,
and returned to their own tabernacles. So great is the moral wisdom that was
brought among men by Christ.
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