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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...

to do, not in this alone, but in combining the severed members of the Church. 117. For the shepherd of the sheep has the flock following him whithersoever he leads; and if any of them should turn aside out of the right way, and leaving the good pasture, should feed in barren and precipitous places, it suffices for him to call aloud to bring them back again, and to restore to the fold that which had gone astray. 118. But if a man should wander from the right faith, the shepherd will require much exertion,
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