A SELECT LIBRARY

OF THE

NICENE AND

POST-NICENE FATHERS

OF

THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH

EDITED BY

PHILIP SCHAFF, D.D., LL.D.,

PROFESSOR IN THE UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, NEW YORK,

IN CONNECTION WITH A NUMBER OF PATRISTIC SCHOLARS OF EUROPE AND AMERICA.

LOGOS CATHOLIC EDITION

Containing Only the Words of the Fathers

and Translator’s Notes

VOLUME XI

SAINT CHRYSOSTOM:

HOMILIES ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES AND THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS

NEW YORK:

THE CHRISTIAN LITERATURE COMPANY

1889

Copyright, 1889, by

THE CHRISTIAN LITERATURE COMPANY

Volume XI

St. John Chrysostom

Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles

Homily I

Homily II

Homily III

Homily IV

Homily V

Homily VI

Homily VII

Homily VIII

Homily IX

Homily X

Homily XI

Homily XII

Homily XIII

Homily XIV

Homily XV

Homily XVI

Homily XVII

Homily XVIII

Homily XIX

Homily XX

Homily XXI

Homily XXII

Homily XXIII

Homily XXIV

Homily XXV

Homily XXVI

Homily XXVII

Homily XXVIII

Homily XXIX

Homily XXX

Homily XXXI

Homily XXXII

Homily XXXIII

Homily XXXIV

Homily XXXV

Homily XXXVI

Homily XXXVII

Homily XXXVIII

Homily XXXIX

Homily XL

Homily XLI

Homily XLII

Homily XLIII

Homily XLIV

Homily XLV

Homily XLVI

Homily XLVII

Homily XLVIII

Homily XLIX

Homily L

Homily LI

Homily LII

Homily LIII

Homily LIV

Homily LV

Homilies on the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans

Homily I

Homily II

Homily III

Homily IV

Homily V

Homily VI

Homily VII

Homily VIII

Homily IX

Homily X

Homily XI

Homily XII

Homily XIII

Homily XIV

Homily XV

Homily XVI

Homily XVII

Homily XVIII

Homily XIX

Homily XX

Homily XXI

Homily XXII

Homily XXIII

Homily XXIV

Homily XXV

Homily XXVI

Homily XXVII

Homily XXVIII

Homily XXIX

Homily XXX

Homily XXXI

Homily XXXII

St. John Chrysostom

Archbishop of Constantinople

The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom

archbishop of constantinople,

on the

Acts of the Apostles,

TRANSLATED, WITH NOTES AND INDICES, BY

REV. J. WALKER, M. A.,

of brasenose college;

REV. J. SHEPPARD, M. A.,

of oriel college, oxford; and

REV. H. BROWNE, M. A.,

of corpus christi college, cambridge.

REVISED, WITH NOTES, BY

GEORGE B. STEVENS, Ph.D., D.D.,

professor in yale university.

Homily I.

Acts 1:1, 2.

“The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, concerning all things which Jesus began both to do and to teach, until the day on which, having given charge to the Apostles, whom He had chosen, by the Holy Spirit, He was taken up.”

To many persons this Book is so little known, both it and its author, that they are not even aware that there is such a book in existence.1 For this reason especially I have taken this narrative for my subject, that I may draw to it such as do not know it, and not let such a treasure as this remain hidden out of sight. For indeed it may profit us no less than even the Gospels; so replete is it with Christian wisdom and sound doctrine, especially in what is said concerning the Holy Ghost. Then let us not hastily pass by it, but examine it closely. Thus, the predictions which in the Gospels Christ utters, here we may see these actually come to pass; and note in ...