Table Of ContentNPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the
Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
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Author(s): Schaff, Philip (1819-1893) (Editor)
Publisher: Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library
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series.The first series focuses on two classical Christian
theologians--St. Augustine and St. John Chrysostom. St.
Augustine is one of the most influential and important Chris-
tian thinkers of all time. In addition to reprinting his most
popular two works--the Confessions and the City of
God--these volumes also contain other noteworthy and im-
portant works of St. Augustine, such as On the Holy Trinity,
Christian Doctrine, and others. St. John Chrysostom was an
eloquent speaker and well-loved Christian clergyman. St.
John took a more literal interpretation of Scripture, and much
of his work focused on practical aspects of Christianity, par-
ticularly what is now called social justice. He advocated for
the poor, and challenged abuses of authority.This volume
contains St. John Chrysostom's homilies on first and second
Corinthians.The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers is compre-
hensive in scope, and provide keen translations of instructive
and illuminating texts from some of the greatest theologians
of the Christian church.These spiritually enlightening texts
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Subjects: Christianity
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Contents
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Series Title. 1
Title Page. 2
Preface. 3
Homilies on First Corinthians. 7
Argument. 7
Homily I 10
Homily II 15
Homily III 23
Homily IV 32
Homily V 43
Homily VI 54
Homily VII 62
Homily VIII 79
Homily IX 88
Homily X 96
Homily XI 104
Homily XII 114
Homily XIII 129
Homily XIV 138
Homily XV 147
Homily XVI 158
Homily XVII 170
Homily XVIII 177
Homily XIX 185
Homily XX 196
Homily XXI 208
Homily XXII 222
Homily XXIII 231
Homily XXIV 243
Homily XXV 253
Homily XXVI 261
Homily XXVII 276
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Homily XXVIII 287
Homily XXIX 296
Homily XXX 308
Homily XXXI 318
Homily XXXII 326
Homily XXXIII 340
Homily XXXIV 353
Homily XXXV 365
Homily XXXVI 377
Homily XXXVII 389
Homily XXXVIII 396
Homily XXXIX 409
Homily XL 427
Homily XLI 437
Homily XLII 448
Homily XLIII 454
Homily XLIV 462
Homilies on Second Corinthians. 474
Homily I 474
Homily II 485
Homily III 502
Homily IV 516
Homily V 527
Homily VI 536
Homily VII 543
Homily VIII 556
Homily IX 563
Homily X 572
Homily XI 581
Homily XII 590
Homily XIII 600
Homily XIV 609
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Homily XV 615
Homily XVI 625
Homily XVII 632
Homily XVIII 639
Homily XIX 646
Homily XX 654
Homily XXI 660
Homily XXII 667
Homily XXIII 674
Homily XXIV 687
Homily XXV 694
Homily XXVI 701
Homily XXVII 712
Homily XXVIII 719
Homily XXIX 726
Homily XXX 736
Index of Subjects 742
Indexes 772
Index of Scripture References 773
Index of Scripture Commentary 779
Greek Words and Phrases 780
Index of Pages of the Print Edition 801
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Series Title.
Series Title.
A SELECT LIBRARY
OF THE
NICENE AND
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POST-NICENE FATHERS
OF
THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
EDITED BY
PHILIP SCHAFF, D.D., LL.D.,
PROFESSOR OF CHURCH HISTORY IN THE UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY,
NEW YORK.
IN CONNECTION WITH A NUMBER OF PATRISTIC SCHOLARS OF EUROPE
AND AMERICA.
VOLUME XII
SAINT CHRYSOSTOM:
HOMILIES ON THE EPISTLES OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS
T&T CLARK
EDINBURGH
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WM. B. EERDMANS PUBLISHING COMPANY
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
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Title Page.
Title Page.
THE HOMILIES OF ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE,
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ON THE
EPISTLES OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS
THE OXFORD TRANSLATION
REVISED WITH ADDITIONAL NOTES
BY
REV. TALBOT W. CHAMBERS, D.D.,
PASTOR OF THE COLLEGIATE REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH, NEW YORK.
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Preface.
Preface.
Preface.
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TheBritish edition of this translation has a preface in which is given a short “sketch”
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of Chrysostom’s history. As a fuller outline has been given in the course of the present re-
production of the homilies, it is considered advisable to omit this sketch here. (See Vol. ix.
pp. 3–23.) The remainder of the English editor’s preface is as follows:
“The history and remains of St. Chrysostom are in one respect more interesting perhaps
to the modern reader, than most of the monuments of those who are technically called the
Fathers. At the time when he was raised up, and in those parts of the Christian world to
which he was sent, the Patriarchates, namely, of Antioch and Constantinople, the Church
was neither agitated by persecution from without, nor by any particular doctrinal controversy
within, sufficient to attract his main attention, and connect his name with its history, as the
name of St. Athanasius, e.g., is connected with the Arian, or that of St. Augustine with the
Pelagian, controversy. The labours of St. Athanasius and St. Basil, and their friends and
disciples, had come to a happy issue at the second Œcumenical Council; the civil power fa-
voured orthodox doctrine, and upheld Episcopal authority. The Church seemed for the
time free to try the force of her morals and discipline against the ordinary vices and errors
of all ages and all nations. This is one reason why the Homilies of St. Chrysostom have always
been considered as eminently likely among the relics of Antiquity, to be useful as models
for preaching, and as containing hints for the application of Scripture to common life, and
the consciences of persons around us.
Another reason undoubtedly is the remarkable energy and fruitfulness of the writer’s
mind, that command of language and of topics, and above all, that depth of charitable and
religious feeling, which enabled him, to a very remarkable extent, to carry his hearers along
with him, even when the things he recommended were most distasteful to their natures and
prejudices. It is obvious how much of the expression of this quality must vanish in translation:
the elegance and fluency of his Greek style, the flow of his periods, the quickness and ingenu-
ity of his turns, all the excellencies to which more especially his surname was owing, must
in the nature of things be sacrificed, except in case of very rare felicity, on passing into a
modern language. His dramatic manner indeed, which was one of the great charms of his
oratory among the Greeks, and his rapid and ingenious selection and variation of topics,
these may in some measure be retained, and may serve to give even English readers some
faint notion of the eloquence which produced so powerful effects on the susceptible people
of the East.
“However, it is not of course as composition that we desire to call attention to these or
any other of the remains of the Fathers. Nor would this topic have been so expressly adverted
to, but for the two following reasons. First, it is in such particulars as these, that the parallel
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