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Homilies on the Statues

St John Chrysostom, NPNF I.9

1. 1. On “Use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake”
2. 2. The Calamity at Antioch; Against Covetousness
3. 3. On Flavian’s Embassy to the Emperor; True Fasting
4. 4. On Fortitude, from Job and the Three Children
5. 5. Not Death But Sin to Be Feared
6. 6. The Fear of Magistrates is Beneficial
7. 7. Grief Serves Only to Destroy Sin; on Genesis i. 1
8. 8. “God walking in Paradise”; Against Oaths
9. Why the Scriptures Were Given So Late; “The heavens declare”
10. 10. On the Natural World; Against Deifying the Creation
11. 11. Thanksgiving for Deliverance; the Making of Man
12. 12. Thanksgiving for the Pardon; the Natural Law
13. 13. Those Punished After the Sedition; the Natural Law
14. 14. Against False Rumours; One Oath and Many Perjuries
15. 15. Fear is Profitable; “Thou walkest amid snares”
16. 16. On the Prefect’s Visit; “Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ”
17. 17. On the Imperial Commissioners
18. 18. On Fasting; “Rejoice in the Lord always”
19. 19. To the Country People, on the Sunday of Episozomenes
20. 20. Lent and Communion; Against Resentment
21. 21. On Flavian’s Return and the Emperor’s Pardon