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This volume is the third in the Fathers of the Church series to make available selected sermons of St. Peter Chrysologus (ca. 406–450), Archbishop of Ravenna and Doctor of the Church. A gifted homilist, Chrysologus manifested great reverence for the Scriptures as divine communication and made them accessible to his congregation. Making use of imagery drawn from Ravenna’s natural surroundings as...

his understanding is censured, since he believed that whatever he possessed thanks to the Lord’s generosity, was not just given to him, but was due him. Realize the state of his judgment and the direction of his heart when he believed that God was in his debt, and, wicked in his wealth, held his Lord liable to his interest charges. He was ignoring the fact that the Lord, although he walked this earth as a poor man, nevertheless ascended wealthy into heaven, and he lent, he did not borrow, when he
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