Commentary on Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist: Homilies 1

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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...

and removes it by applying to Him beforehand the appellation of ‘the Word,’ making it plain that the Son proceeds from the Father, and that this occurs effortlessly. Do you see that, as I have said, he has not been silent about the Father in these words about the Son? And if these instances do not suffice to account for everything, do not wonder. Our discussion is about God, though we are unable to speak or think of Him worthily. Therefore, this [writer] nowhere uses the word ‘substance’ of Him—for

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