The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom - Concerning the Statues

Name: The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom - Concerning the Statues
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By Chrysostom, St. John

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Among the events which occurred in the time of John Chrysostom, there is none more memorable than that sedition of the inhabitants of Antioch, in which the Statues of the Emperor Theodosius and Flacilla his wife were thrown down and dragged about the city, at which Theodosius was so exasperated, as even to think of destroying the city entirely. This afforded ample matter for our Chrysostom to exercise his powers of preaching. For as the people of Antioch were fluctuating between hope and fear (sudden accidents offering of course daily some fresh cause for hope or alarm) Chrysostom, compelled as he was to adapt his style to circumstances as they arose, almost always without preparation, delivered on the spur of the occasion these Homilies, which are certainly well deserving of admiration. At one time his object here is to console a people struggling with present distress; at another, to strengthen minds that were sinking under the extremity of danger; and above all, by repeated admonition, to persuade the people of Antioch, on occasion of the threatened calamities, to correct the vices and to wipe away the crimes that had thus provoked God's wrath; which endeavor on the part of Chrysostom certainly ended in results agreeable to his desire, as he sometimes acknowledges.

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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 420
Release Date:: 2025-12-17
Publication Date:: 2025-12-17
Publisher:: Lighthouse Publishing
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1643735063
ISBN13:: 9781643735061
Weight:: 526 g
Height:: 140 cm
Width:: 216 cm
Thickness:: 23 cm

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