we are possessed of and changed by it; we are made perfectly safe and brilliant. Ἐνδυσώμεθα τὰ ὅπλα then means: let us give ourselves over to the power of virtue; the ἔχοντα simply expresses the fact of possession. c) But, says Chrysostom, Paul does not pause here but passes on to something greater, something far more tremendous—ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ τὸ μεῖζον ἄγων τὸν λόγον, ὃ πολλῷ φρικωδέστερον ἦν.8 This tremendous mystery is expressed in the following words: αὐτὸν τὸν Δεσπότην δίδωσιν