BOOK ONE Chapter Three Just think of the kind of gods to whose protection the Romans were content to entrust their city! No more pathetic illusion could be imagined. Yet, the pagans are angry with us because we speak so frankly of their divinities. However, …
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THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS: SECOND STAGE
THE SECOND STAGE Then did Christian address himself to go back; and Evangelist, after he had kissed him, gave him one smile, and bid him God speed; So he went on with haste, neither spake he to any man by the way; nor if any …
Commentary on John 15:12-13
The Oneness of the Branches John 15:12–13 (ESV) “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.” THE union between Christ and His disciples …
Purging out the leaven
‘Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: therefore let us keep the feast, not with …
The City of God: Book 1: Chapter Four
BOOK ONE Chapter Four As I have already suggested, Troy herself, parent of the Roman people, for all her sanctuaries of the gods, offered to her pious citizens no protection from the fire and sword of the Greeks. On the contrary, ‘in Juno’s sanctuary, …
THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS: THIRD STAGE
THE THIRD STAGE Now I saw in my dream, that the highway up which Christian was to go, was fenced on either side with a wall, and that wall was called Salvation. Isaiah 26:1. Up this way, therefore, did burdened Christian run, but not without …
Commentary On 2nd Chronicles 31:1
Return to God And Destroy Your Idols “Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and broke in pieces the pillars and cut down the Asherim and broke down the high places and the altars …
Commentary On Zechariah 13:7–9
The Shepherd Struck 7 “Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, against the man who stands next to me,” declares the LORD of hosts. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; I will turn my hand against the little ones. 8 In the …
Commentary On John 16:23-27
In That Day You Shall Ask Me Nothing 22 So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you. 23 In that day you will ask nothing of me. …
HOMILIES OF JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
HOMILY II “Charge them that are rich that they be not high-minded,” 1 Tim. 6:17. And against covetousness. Spoken in Antioch in the Old Church, as it was called, while he was a presbyter, on the subject of the calamity that had befallen the city …