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This volume contains roughly a third of St. Peter Chrysologus’ authentic sermons, now available to an English-speaking audience. The sermons offer readers a glimpse into the daily life, religious debates, political milieu, and Christian belief and practice in the second quarter of fifth-century Ravenna. Chrysologus preached and served as bishop at a time when the seat of the western Roman Empire...

‘After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.’ O man, God fasts in you,7 He hungers in you. More, He fasts for your benefit, He hungers for your benefit. Just as He has no need to eat for His own benefit, so neither can He hunger. Therefore, when Christ fasts because of you, He is desiring you. ‘After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.’ This is not a sign of weakness, but a mark of strength. Because, when the text states: ‘After fasting, he was hungry,’ it proves that
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