Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers First Series, Volume XIV
Overview
This edition of Phillip Schaff’s Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers includes John Chrysostom’s homilies on the Gospel of John and the Epistle to the Hebrews.
Product Details
- Title: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers First Series, Volume XIV
- Author: Phillip Schaff
- Publisher: Christian Literature Company
- Publication Date: 1888
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“For the intellect, having ascended to ‘the beginning,’ enquires what ‘beginning’; and then finding the ‘was’ always outstripping its imagination, has no point at which to stay its thought; but looking intently onwards, and being unable to cease at any point, it becomes wearied out, and turns back to things below. For this ‘was in the beginning,’ is nothing else than expressive of ever being and being infinitely.” (Page 8)
“For if the Son be not of the same Essence, there is another God; and if He be not Co-eternal, He is after Him; and if He did not proceed from His Essence, clear it is that He was made.” (Page 18)
“But where hath the Scripture said, that ‘rivers of living water shall flow from his belly’? Nowhere.” (Page 183)
“But do thou, when thou seest the unbelief of the disciple, consider the lovingkindness of the Lord, how for the sake of a single soul He showed Himself with His wounds, and cometh in order to save even the one, though he was grosser than the rest; on which account indeed he sought proof from the grossest of the senses, and would not even trust his eyes.” (Page 327)
“Having therefore everywhere excluded compulsion and pointing to (man’s) voluntary choice and free power, he has said the same now. For even in these mystical blessings,2 it is, on the one hand, God’s part, to give the grace, on the other, man’s to supply faith; and in after time there needs for what remains much earnestness. In order to preserve our purity, it is not sufficient for us merely to have been baptized and to have believed, but we must if we will continually enjoy this brightness, display a life worthy of it. This then is God’s work in us. To have been born the mystical Birth, and to have been cleansed from all our former sins, comes from Baptism; but to remain for the future pure, never again after this to admit any stain belongs to our own power and diligence.” (Page 37)
- Title: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 1.14: Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Gospel of St. John and Epistle to the Hebrews
- Authors: John Chrysostom, Philip Schaff
- Series: Early Church Fathers (Protestant Edition)
- Volume: 14
- Publisher: Christian Literature Company
- Print Publication Date: 1889
- Logos Release Date: 2001
- Era: era:nicene
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Christian literature, early; Fathers of the church; Bible. N.T. John › Commentaries; Bible. N.T. Hebrews › Commentaries
- Resource ID: LLS:6.60.14
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
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