Commentary on Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist: Homilies 48

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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...

Furthermore, some maintain that this conclusion9 was stated, not in a causal sense, but because of what resulted, as when He said: ‘For judgment have I come into this world, that those who do not see may see, and they who see may become blind.’10 Now, of course, He did not come with this purpose: that those who saw might become blind. And again, Paul said: ‘What may be known about God is manifest to them so that they may be without excuse.’11 Yet it was not on this account that He manifested it

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