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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...

to devour.6 But if you are careful, he will, with the grace of God, wreak no harm. (4) This is the kind of spiritual armor, after all, (40d) with which the grace of the Spirit has clad us, as we taught you, my dear people, yesterday. So if we are constantly protected in all our limbs with this armor, none of the shafts aimed by the enemy will be able to strike us; instead, they will return to him unsuccessful. The grace of God, you see, makes us stronger than steel and quite invincible, if we want
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