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Commentary on Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist: Homilies 1–47 is unavailable, but you can change that!

The homilies on St. John’s Gospel come from the period in which Chrysostom attained his greatest fame as pulpit orator, the years of his simple priesthood at Antioch (386–397). This was the peaceful period in Chrysostom’s life that preceded his elevation to the episcopacy as patriarch of Constantinople (398), wherein adverse imperial and ecclesiastical reaction to his program of moral reform led...

second, which is of grace, we should therefore conceive great esteem for it—an esteem befitting the gift that has been bestowed—and so henceforth show much earnestness. It is not a little to be feared that, having soiled this beautiful garment by our subsequent indifference and sins, we may be cast out of the inner room and the bridal chamber like those five virgins, the foolish ones,10 or like him who did not have a wedding garment. The latter was one of the banqueters, because he himself also was
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