Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 1.9: Saint Chrysostom: On the Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises, Select Homilies and Letters, Homilies on the Statues (Catholic Edition)
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Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, First Series, Volume IX: Saint Chrysostom: On the Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises, Select Homilies and Letters, Homilies on the Statues. The Early Church Fathers is one of the most important collections of historical, philosophical and theological writings available in English to the student of the Christian Church. These documents provide the most comprehensive witness to the development of Christianity and Christian thought during the period immediately following the Apostolic Era. The Catholic edition of Early Church Fathers does not include the introductions, prolegomenae, and various interpretive comments made by the protestant editors of the Edinburgh edition. However, it retains all of the footnotes found in the printed editions. Contents of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series IX John Chrysostom Treatise on the Priesthood An Exhortation to Theodore after His Fall Letter to a Young Widow Homilies on S. Ignatius and S. Babylas Concerning Lowliness of Mind Instructions to Catechumens Three Homilies concerning the Power of Demons Against Marcionists and Manichaeans Homily on the Paralytic Let Down through the Roof To Those Who Had Not Attended the Assembly Homily against Publishing the Errors of the Brethren On Eutropius, Patrician and Consul A Treatise to Prove that No One Can Harm the Man Who Does Not Injure Himself Letters to Olympias Correspondence of St. Chrysostom with the Bishop of Rome Homilies concerning the Statues
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“For although they may say these things on your account, you will speedily teach them by your acts that understanding is not to be estimated by age, and the grey head is not to be the test of an elder—that the young man ought not to be absolutely excluded from the ministry, but only the novice: and the difference between the two is great.” (Page 44)
“Do not thus, I pray and beseech you. I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.” (Page 49)
“But God made the gain greater than the loss, and brought our nature to the royal throne.” (Page 179)
“For if no one can enter into the kingdom of Heaven except he be regenerate through water and the Spirit, and he who does not eat the flesh of the Lord and drink His blood is excluded from eternal life, and if all these things are accomplished only by means of those holy hands, I mean the hands of the priest, how will any one, without these, be able to escape the fire of hell, or to win those crowns which are reserved for the victorious?” (Page 47)
“On this, he weeping yet more, rose up. But I, having embraced him and kissed his head, led him forth, exhorting him to bear his lot bravely. For I believe, said I, that through Christ who has called thee, and set thee over his own sheep, thou wilt obtain such assurance from this ministry as to receive me also, if I am in danger at the last day, into thine everlasting tabernacle.” (Page 83)
- Title: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 1.9: Saint Chrysostom: On the Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises, Select Homilies and Letters, Homilies on the Statues (Catholic Edition)
- Authors: Philip Schaff, John Chrysostom
- Series: Early Church Fathers (Catholic Edition)
- Volume: 9
- Publisher: Christian Literature Company
- Print Publication Date: 1889
- Logos Release Date: 2001
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Christian literature, early; Fathers of the church
- Resource ID: LLS:6.60.109
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:03:35Z