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S. John Chrysostom: On the Priesthood offers a fascinating study of the fourth-century church. Using provocative ideas and beautiful language, John Chrysostom provides valuable insight into ministry. According to the translator, B. Harris Cowper, the book’s aim “is to magnify the priestly office, and to render those who enter upon it conscious of their awful responsibilities.” The text uses...

even if they gave it us, we should not have opportunity to use the power, because God crowns, not such as abstain from evil through necessity, but by choice. 106. Therefore, much art is needed that the sick may willingly persuade themselves to submit to the remedies provided by the priests; and not only so, but that they may be thankful to them for the cure. 107. If any one that is bound should be restive (for he is master of himself in this), he would make the mischief worse; and if he should reject
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