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St. John Chrysostom: Baptismal Instructions is unavailable, but you can change that!

This series of eight instructions on baptism were given by St. John Chrysostom, probably at Antioch about AD 390. They describe Chrysostom’s activity as a mystagogue for baptismal candidates, as their instructor in Christian doctrine, and in postbaptismal morality.

you to think thoughts too haughty for your own nature, for idleness hath taught all evil.11 Therefore, I condemn you to toil and labor, so that while tilling the earth, you may never forget your disobedience and the vileness of your nature. Since you exalted yourself to great heights and refused to remain within your proper bounds, on this account do I command you to return again to the dust from which you were taken, for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.”12 6. To increase man’s pain
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