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Palladius: Dialogue on the Life of St. John Chrysostom is unavailable, but you can change that!

Probably written between AD 406–408, this dialogue between an unidentified bishop and Theodore—a deacon of a church in Rome—aims to point out Chrysostom as a model of what a true Christian bishop should be.

traits of partiality, quackery; pride is followed by overweening arrogance, heartlessness, impiety, distractions of the mind, and so forth and so on.965 There is no call for me to speak further, giving more force to my argument; what has been said is well demonstrated. To each one of these vices God has assigned its contrary virtue. Thus self-control is opposed to lust, temperance to greediness, justice to covetousness, meekness to anger, joy to sorrow, memory to
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