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Category Archives: St. John Chrysostom
The Power of God
For the greatest things of all no language can explain … Continue reading
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Tagged lovingkindness, power of God, resurrection
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The Fallen Angel
The devil cannot fight openly, but just as a snake hides in thorns, so he mostly lurks in the delusions of wealth. If you cut out the thorns, he will soon be scared and take to flight… Continue reading
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Tagged attack of the devil, earthly, fallen angel
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Friendship (part 3)
He who loves does not wish to command, nor to rule, but is rather obliged when he is ruled and commanded. He wishes rather to bestow a favor than to receive one, for he loves, and is so affected, as not having satisfied … Continue reading
Friendship (part 2)
for it would be better for us were the sun to be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends… I speak of spiritual friends, who prefer nothing to friendship. Continue reading
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Friendship (part 1)
For him he prays for the same things as for himself …so dear a thing is a
good friend, that times and places are loved on his account. Continue reading
Why the scriptures were given?
but I desire that from those books you convey the letters and sense into your understanding, that so it may be purified when it receiveth the meaning of the writing. Continue reading
Posted in New Testament, St. John Chrysostom
Tagged devil, holy scripture, understanding
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Eager Concerning Doctrines
For which of you when in his house takes some Christian book in hand and goes over its contents, and searches the Scriptures? Continue reading
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Tagged doctrine, reading holy scripture, vainglory
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The Word of the Cross
He descended not from the Cross, not because He could not, but because He would not. For Him Whom the tyranny of death restrained not, how could the nails of the Cross restrain? Continue reading
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Tagged cross, foolishness
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Whenever they reproach you
Wherein the very things which all others flee from, these He declares to be desirable Continue reading
The Persecuted for Righteousness
“The man who has truly received the faith…looks not to the things he has left behind, but to those that come hereafter. Continue reading
Posted in St. John Chrysostom, The Three Holy Hierarchs
Tagged Blessed, persecuted, righteousness
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