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Treatise on the priesthood

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  • Book I.
  1: Androgathius in philosophy, Libanius in rhetoric.
  2: An expression frequently employed by St. Chrysostom in the sense of a life of religious contempla[...]
  3: For an account of the oppressive way in which the public taxes were collected, see Gibbon's Histo[...]
  4: The iron furnace was a Hebrew proverbial expression signifying a "furnace hot enough to melt iron[...]
  5: This must be regarded as a kind of rhetorical expression, as we learn from Chrysostom's "Letter t[...]
  6: e0piskoph=j is the reading of most Mss but four have i/erwsun/hj, "the priesthood," which Bengel [...]
  7: Forcible ordinations were not uncommon in the Church at this time. St. Augustin was dragged weepi[...]
  8: Chrysostom was about 28 at this time. The Council of Neo C'sarea (about 320) fixed 30 as the age [...]
  9: A metaphorical expression to denote a perilous position, as those who walked on the edge of the w[...]
  10: Proverbs xviii. 19. LXX. version.
  11: I Sam. xix. 12-18.
  12: I Sam. xx. 11.
  13: Literally, "sons of physicians." Compare the expression "sons of the prophets" in the Old Testame[...]
  14: Clement of Alexandria (Stromata vii.) illustrates the same doctrine of allowable deceit for a use[...]
  15: Acts xxi. 26.
  16: lb. xvi. 3.
  17: Gal. v.2.
  18: Philipp. iii. 7.
  19: Numb. xxv. 7.
  20: 2 Kings i. 9-12.
  21: I Kings xviii. 34.
  22: Gen. xxii. 3.
  23: Ib. xxvii. 19.
  24: Exod. xi. 2. *************



  • Book II.
  1: John xxi. 15-17.
  2: Matt. xxiv. 45. Some Mss. of Chrysostom have the future katasthsei, shall make ruler, but all Ms[...]
  3: Matt. xxiv. 47.
  4: In some editions tbe words "tend my sheep" are added here.
  5: I Sam. x. 23.
  6: Ephes. vi. 12.
  7: Gal. v.19, 20, 21.
  8: 2 Cor. xii. 20
  9: I Cor. ii. II.
  10: 2 Cor. i. 24.
  11: Conf. Jer. v.5.5.
  12: Jer. iii. 3.
  13: 2 Tim. ii. 25.
  14: Matt. xxiv. 45.
  15: 1Tim. iii. 7.
  16: John xiii. 35.
  17: Rom. xiii. 10.
  18: The passage is awkwardly expressed in the original. What Chrysotom says is that he will mention a[...]
  19: Ps. cvii. 42.***********



  • Book III.
  1: Exod. xxviii. 4 sq.
  2: 2 Cor. iii. 10.
  3: This may be only a rhetorical expression, but perhaps there is an allusion to a custom which prev[...]
  4: The caution mentioned just now in note 3 must he repeated here. A comparison of passages in the w[...]
  5: Some Mss. omit the word pi/stewj "of faith," having in its place to/te "at that time."
  6: In the Liturgy which bears the name of St. Chrysostom, the following invocation of the Holy Spiri[...]
  7: Matt. xviii. 18.4.
  8: John xx. 23. 5.
  9: John v.22.
  10: James v.14, 15.
  11: 2 Cor. xi. 3.
  12: 1 cor. ii. 3.
  13: 2 Cor. xii. 4.
  14: 2 Cor. xi. 9; I Thess. ii. 9.
  15: 2 Cor. xi. 29.
  16: Rom. ix. 3.
  17: Chrysostom himself experienced the truth of this, for it was through the influence of Eudoxia, th[...]
  18: I Cor. xiv. 34 ; I Tim. ii. 12.
  19: Possibly the building, not the body of Christians is here signified : for in the contest between [...]
  20: According to another reading the passage must he rendered, "shun the burden at the outset."
  21: I Tim. iii. 1.
  22: Matt. v. 1
  23: Matt. v.22.
  24: Prov. xv. 1, the Septuagint Version.
  25: Dan. iii.
  26: I Cor. xii:26.
  27: I Cor. ii.11.
  28: It is not possible to say precisely who the electors to bishoprics were at this time, but probabl[...]
  29: A narrow Strait between the island of Euboa and the mainland of Greece, in which the tide was ver[...]
  30: i.e., the business of elections. Chrysostom seems to have passed on from the elections of bishops[...]
  31: That is , "put upon the Chruch-roll." From apostolic times as we know from I Tim. v. 9, 10, the C[...]
  32: Ecclus iv. 8.
  33: Ecclus. xviii. 15-17.
  34: i.e., a life of religious contemplation, not, however, as a member of a monastic community, for C[...]
  35: Ecclus. xlii. 9.
  36: Matt. iii. 10.
  37: 2 Cor. ii.7.
  38: Hebrews xiii.17.*****************



  • Book IV.
  1: prolabw=n ga\r au0to\j e9autou= tau/thn a0fei/leto th\n a0pologi/an.page 61
  2: Matt. xxv. 30.
  3: Mark ix. 44.
  4: Matt. xxiv. 51; Luke xii. 46. Dixotomhqh=/ai. Some take this word to express the severance of th[...]
  5: 1 Sam. ix.21.
  6: paranomi/aj. If paranomi/aj be read, then "excesses" must he understood: -the word meaning. 1st, [...]
  7: Aaron.
  8: Ex. xxxii. 10, 11.
  9: Ex. iv. 13.
  10: Numb. xi. 15. <\Ei d0 ou#tw su\ poie=ij moi a0po/kteinonme<\, LXX.
  11: Numb. xx. 12.
  12: Numb. xii. 3.
  13: Ex. xxxiii. 11.
  14: John xii. 6.
  15: i. e., because he had been chosen an apostle.
  16: John xv. 22-24.
  17: 1 Tim. v.22.
  18: Eupori/aj, restricted here to commerce carried on by sea, as the context shows.
  19: See Luke xiv. 28, 29
  20: Is. lxvi. 24.
  21: Matt xxiv. 51 The Revised Version in the margin renders, the lord of that servant shall severly s[...]
  22: Col. i. 18, 24.
  23: Eph. v.27.
  24: Paidotribw=n, literally, those who teach boys wrestling.
  25: Eph. vi. 16, 17.
  26: 1 Pet iii. 15; "Haud seio an ita loqui possit primatus romani defensor." Bengel's Edition of this[...]
  27: Acts vi. 4.
  28: Col. iii. 16.
  29: The followers of Manes, or Manich'us, who was born about 240 A.D. He taught that God was the caus[...]
  30: "oi\ thn e9imapmnehn e0sa/gontej", sc. The Stoics. They were still a numerous body, and St. Chrys[...]
  31: Marcion and Valentinus (A.D. 140) were each founders of a form of Gnosticism. Each held that the [...]
  32: Sc. Jews and Marcionites.
  33: Sabellius was condemned in a Council held in Rome,A.D. 263, for holding that there is but one per[...]
  34: Sc. The Arians.
  35: Paul of Samosata was appointed Bishop of Antioch about 260 A.D. The Humanitarian movement culmina[...]
  36: i. e., while he maintained the Unity of the Godhead against the Arians there was danger of slippi[...]
  37: i.e., while he divided the Persons against the Sabellians he had to guard against the Arian error[...]
  38: Ps xxxvi. 6.
  39: 2 Cor. xi. 6. See alao, 2 Cor. x. 10
  40: Acts xx. 10.
  41: Acts xiv 11.
  42: 2 Cor. xii. 2-4.
  43: Rom. ix. 3.
  44: <\terpqreia/an<\, from <\te/rqron<\, literally, a sail-rope. The man who condescend[...]
  45: 2 Cor. xi. 6.
  46: Acts ix. 22.
  47: Acts xvii. 34.
  48: Acts xx. 9.
  49: Acts xvii. 18.
  50: Acts xiv. 11.
  51: 2 Cor. x. 5.
  52: 2 Cor. xi. 2.
  53: 1 Tim. iv. 13.
  54: 1 Tim. iv. 16.
  55: 2 Tim. ii. 24.
  56: 2 Tim. iii. 14, 15.
  57: 2 Tim. iii. 16, 17, or "every Scripture inspired of God is also profitable," etc., so rendered in[...]
  58: Titus i. 7, 9. Revised Version.
  59: Col. iii. 16.
  60: Col. iv. 6.
  61: 1 Thess. v. 11.
  62: 15. 1 Tim. v.17.
  63: Matt. v. 19.
  64: Acts xx. 31.*********



  • Book V.
  1: Chrysostom's own sermons were often interrupted by applause, which he always severely reprimanded[...]
  2: Col. iv. 6.
  3: e0pistuyai, literally, to purse up the mouth, as at the taste of what is tart or sour.
  4: kakhgori/a - if kathgori/a be read, "accusation" will be the meaning.
  5: Sc. The unlearned.
  6: ei/likrinh=-, so that the sunlight fails to discern a flaw in them..
  7: Another reading is mani/a|, infatuation.
  8: i. e.,The skillful preacher.*****



  • Book VI.
  1: Heb. xiii. 17.
  2: Matt. xviii. 6.
  3: 1 Cor. viii. 12.
  4: Ezek. xxxiii. 6. Gal. ii. 20
  5: All the ancient Liturgies contained prayers for the departed. St. Cyril of Jerusalem (Catech. Mys[...]
  6: "And we pray and beseech Thee, send down thy Holy Ghost upon us and upon these gifts here outspre[...]
  7: Matt. xxii. 13.
  8: Matt. v.13.
  9: The following descriptions of monastic life were no doubt drawn from the habits of the monks in t[...]
  10: Another reading gives its "career towards God."
  11: According to a different reading, eat t\aj lsipa\j bxa/baj, "The injuries which remain."
  12: 2 Cor. viii. 20.
  13: 2 Cor. viii. 21; Rom. xii. 17.
  14: Matt. xxv. 24.
  15: Amos iii. 2.
  16: Amos ii. 11.
  17: Lev. iv. 3, 14.
  18: Lev. xxi. 9.
  19: 5. Ez. xxxiv. 17.
  20: 1. Phil. ii. 1.****



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