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...

approach these words in ill health, but let us receive nourishment from them, after having restored our souls to health. Now, though I have spoken at such length by way of preamble, I have not yet come to the study of these texts16 for the following reason: in order that each one, having put aside every kind of weakness, may enter into them as if he were entering into heaven, purged of anger and worldly cares and strivings, and free from all other passions. Otherwise, unless the soul has been thus

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