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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.

the sun and the comings together of the months, from the heads of the mountains which are from the beginning, and from the heads of the everlasting hills; they shall be on the head of Joseph (and every man shall be as Joseph) and upon the head of the brethren whom he ruled, glorified among his brethren as the first-born. The beauty of a bull are his horns, his horns are the horns of a unicorn; with them he shall push the nation, even unto the end of the earth.1039 And to Levi he said (and to whosoever
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