The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch

Saint John Chrysostom · the golden age of the Fathers · 22 parts

Parts

• The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch — Homily 2 (Chrysostom) · 49 paragraphsSpoken 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 in…
• The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch — Homily 3 (Chrysostom) · 43 paragraphsOn the departure of Flavian, Bishop of Antioch, who was gone on an embassy to the Emperor Theodosius, on behalf of the city. Of the dignity of the…
• The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch — Homily 7 (Chrysostom) · 21 paragraphsRecapitulation of former exhortations. Sin brought death and grief into the world, and they tend to its cure. Grief serviceable only for the…
• The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch — Homily 8 (Chrysostom) · 16 paragraphsAn exhortation to virtue—and particularly upon the passage, “God was walking in Paradise in the cool of the day:”—and again on the subject of…
• The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch — Homily 9 (Chrysostom) · 26 paragraphsCommendation of those who had laid aside the practice of swearing. It is shown that no one need scruple about hearing the divine oracles in the…
• The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch — Homily 11 (Chrysostom) · 28 paragraphsThanksgiving to God for deliverance from the evils expected owing to the sedition; and recollection of the events which took place at the time. Also…
• The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch — Homily 12 (Chrysostom) · 33 paragraphsThanksgiving to God for the pardon granted to the offenders against the Emperor. Physical discourse on the Creation. Proof that God, in creating man,…
• The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch — Homily 13 (Chrysostom) · 24 paragraphsA further thanksgiving to God for the change in the late melancholy aspect of affairs. Reminiscence of those who were dragged away, and punished…
• The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch — Homily 14 (Chrysostom) · 32 paragraphsAfter the whole people had been freed from all distress, and had become assured of safety, certain persons again disturbed the city by fabricating…
• The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch — Homily 15 (Chrysostom) · 31 paragraphsAgain on the calamity of the city of Antioch. That fear is every way profitable. That sorrow is more useful than laughter. And upon the saying,…
• The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch — Homily 16 (Chrysostom) · 30 paragraphsThis Homily was delivered on the occasion of the Prefect entering the Church, for the purpose of pacifying the minds of the people, in consequence of…
• The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch — Homily 17 (Chrysostom) · 30 paragraphsOf the Commissioners (Hellebichus Commander of the Troops,and Cæsarius Master of the Offices) sent by the Emperor Theodosius for the inquisition of…
• The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch — Homily 18 (Chrysostom) · 27 paragraphsThe former subject of the Sedition continued; also of fasting; and upon the Apostolic saying, “Rejoice in the Lord always.”
• The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch — Homily 19 (Chrysostom) · 31 paragraphsOn the Sunday called “Episozomenes,” to those who had come to Antioch from the country—also on the subject of avoiding oaths.
• The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch — Homily 20 (Chrysostom) · 49 paragraphsThat the fast of Lent is not sufficient to make us competent to partake of the Communion, but that holiness is the first thing required. How it is…
• The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch — Homily I (Chrysostom) · 57 paragraphshomilies of st. john chrysostom, archbishop of constantinople, addressed to the people of antioch, concerning the statues. ———————————— This Homily…
• The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch — Homily IV (Chrysostom) · 29 paragraphsAn exhortation to the people respecting fortitude and patience, from the examples of Job and the Three Children in Babylon. The Homily concludes with…
• The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch — Homily V (Chrysostom) · 48 paragraphsThe exhortation of the last Homily is continued in this. The people are exhorted to bear with fortitude the impending wrath of the Emperor. The cases…
• The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch — Homily VI (Chrysostom) · 36 paragraphsThis Homily is intended to shew that the fear of Magistrates is beneficial. It also contains an account of what occurred, during their journey, to…
• The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch — Homily X (Chrysostom) · 29 paragraphsCommendation of those who came to hear after taking a meal.—Observations on the physiology of the natural world; and against those who deify the…
• The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch — Homily XXI (Chrysostom) · 38 paragraphsOn the return of Flavian the Bishop, and the reconciliation of the Emperor with the city, and with those who had offended in overthrowing the Statues.
• The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch — Preface to the Benedictine Edition. (Chrysostom) · 29 paragraphsPREFACE TO THE BENEDICTINE EDITION.