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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 1.11: Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistle to the Romans (Catholic Edition) is unavailable, but you can change that!

Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, First Series, Volume XI: Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistle to the Romans. The Early Church Fathers is one of the most important collections of historical, philosophical and theological writings available in English to the student of the Christian Church. These documents provide the most comprehensive witness to the development...

of debt. For when he saith, “Ye are bought with a price, be not ye the servants of men” (1 Cor. 7:23); and when he writes, “Ye are not your own” (ib. 6:19); and again in another passage he calls these selfsame things to their mind, in these words, “If (most MSS. om. “if”) One died for all, then all died1 that they should not henceforth live unto themselves.” (2 Cor. 5:15.) And it is to establish this that he says here also, “We are debtors;” then since he said we are “not” debtors “to the flesh,”
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