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This translation makes available for the first time in English one of the most significant Old Testament commentaries of the patristic period. St. John Chrysostom’s extant works outnumber those of any other Father of the East; in the West, only Augustine produced a larger corpus. Of Chrysostom’s more than 600 exegetical homilies, however, only those on the New Testament have previously been...

of everyone (23b) when they draw on themselves the displeasure of God through this extreme intemperance and ill-timed, mindless indulgence. “Drunkards,” Scripture says, “will not inherit the kingdom of God.”5 So what could be worse than the plight of these people who are driven from the precincts of the kingdom for a fleeting and pernicious satisfaction? (6) God forbid that anyone of you gathered here should be overcome by that weakness. May you instead celebrate each day as it comes with restraint
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