Commentary on Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist: Homilies 1-47 AUTH-12924203 ISBN10: 0692127917

ISBN10: 0692127917

you are clearly the winner

could sometimes not resist diversifying from her well-loved central theme

ISBN13: 9781500946715

for the attainment of the modern ideal of Christian culture

Commentary on Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist: Homilies 1-47 AUTH-12924203 ISBN10: 0692127917The Homilies on St. John's Gospel come from the period in which Chrysostom attained his greatest fame as pulpit orator, the years of his simple priesthood at Antioch (386 397). This was the peaceful period in Chrysostom's life that preceded his elevation to the episcopacy as patriarch of Constantinople (398), wherein adverse imperial and ecclesiastical reaction to his program of moral reform led to his deposition, banishment, and all by martyr's death