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St. John Chrysostom delivered nine homilies on repentance in Antioch of Syria sometime between 386 and 387. With conviction and certitude, he preached that repentance was a necessity for both the sinner and the righteous man. This volume presents Chrysostom’s homilies on repentance and includes a sermon on almsgiving that he preached in Antioch during the winter months in 387. Chrysostom’s work...

in your womb so that you may become benevolent, not inhuman. Do not take the reason for benevolence as an excuse for inhumanity. Do you want to leave your children a good inheritance? Leave them almsgiving so that everyone may praise you and so that you may leave behind your memory well known.” However, you who are childless and crucified to the world, why do you gather money? (14) However, our sermon has a soul and deals with the road of repentance and with almsgiving. We were saying that almsgiving
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