Saint Chrysostom's Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistle to the Romans: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, Part 11

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Description: With over twenty volumes, the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers is a
momentous achievement. Originally gathered by Philip Schaff, the
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers is a collection of writings by classical
and medieval Christian theologians. The purpose of such a collection
is to make their writings readily available. The entire work is divided
into two 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 Christian 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 important 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, particularly 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 the Gospel of Acts and Romans. The Nicene and
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Table of Contents
About This Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. ii
Series Title Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 1
Preface to the American Edition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 2
Title Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 4
Preface to Part I. of the Oxford Edition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 5
Preface to Part II. of the Oxford Edition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 6
A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 12
Homily I on Acts i. 1, 2.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 12
Homily II on Acts i. 6.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 27
Homily III on Acts i. 12.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 37
Homily IV on Acts ii. 1, 2.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 49
Homily V on Acts ii. 14.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 60
Homily VI on Acts ii. 22.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 70
Homily VII on Acts ii. 37.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 81
Homily VIII on Acts iii. 1.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 90
Homily IX on Acts iii. 12.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 97
Homily X on Acts iv. 1.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 111
Homily XI on Acts iv. 23.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 122
Homily XII on Acts iv. 36, 37.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 131
Homily XIII on Acts v. 17, 18.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 138
Homily XIV on Acts v. 34.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 149
Homily XV on Acts vi. 8.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 160
Homily XVI on Acts vii. 6, 7.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 170
Homily XVII on Acts vii. 35.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 180
Homily XVIII on Acts vii. 54.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 189
Homily XIX on Acts viii. 26, 27.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 203
Homily XX on Acts ix. 10, 12.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 218
Homily XXI on Acts ix. 26, 27.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 226
Homily XXII on Acts x. 1-4.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 238
Homily XXIII on Acts x. 23, 24.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 251
Homily XXIV on Acts x. 44, 46.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 264
Homily XXV on Acts xi. 19.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 274
Homily XXVI on Acts xii. 1, 2.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 284
Homily XXVII on Acts xii. 18, 19.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 293
Homily XXVIII on Acts xiii. 4, 5.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 300
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Homily XXIX on Acts xiii. 16, 17.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 306
Homily XXX on Acts xiii. 42.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 316
Homily XXXI on Acts xiv. 14, 15.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 326
Homily XXXII on Acts xv. 1.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 336
Homily XXXIII on Acts xv. 13, 15.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 343
Homily XXXIV on Acts xv. 35.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 355
Homily XXXV on Acts xvi. 13, 14.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 366
Homily XXXVI on Acts xvi. 25, 26.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 372
Homily XXXVII on Acts xvii. 1, 2, 3.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 380
Homily XXXVIII on Acts xvii. 16, 17.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 387
Homily XXXIX on Acts xvii. 32-34. xviii. 1.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 398
Homily XL on Acts xviii. 18.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 407
Homily XLI on Acts xix. 8, 9.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 416
Homily XLII on Acts xix. 21, 23.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 427
Homily XLIII on Acts xx. 1.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 436
Homily XLIV on Acts xx. 17-21.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 443
Homily XLV on Acts xx. 32.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 451
Homily XLVI on Acts xxi. 18, 19.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 460
Homily XLVII on Acts xxi. 39, 40.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 466
Homily XLVIII on Acts xxii. 17-20.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 473
Homily XLIX on Acts xxiii. 6-8.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 482
Homily L on Acts xxiii. 31-33.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 489
Homily LI on Acts xxiv. 22, 23.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 498
Homily LII on Acts xxv. 23.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 506
Homily LIII on Acts xxvi. 30-32.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 517
Homily LIV on Acts xxviii. 1.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 524
Homily LV on Acts xxviii. 17-20.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 531
The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the Romans. . . . p. 539
Preface to Homilies on Romans.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 539
The Argument. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 542
Homily I on Rom. i. 1, 2.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 547
Homily II on Rom. i. 8.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 554
Homily III on Rom. i. 18.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 565
Homily IV on Rom. i. 26, 27.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 572
Homily V on Rom. i. 28.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 578
Homily VI on Rom. ii. 17, 18.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 591
Homily VII on Rom. iii. 9-18.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 602
Homily VIII on Rom. iv. 1, 2.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 617
Homily IX on Rom. iv. 23.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 632
Homily X on Rom. v. 12.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 641
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Homily XI on Rom. vi. 5.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 652
Homily XII on Rom. vi. 19.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 664
Homily XIII on Rom. vii. 14.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 680
Homily XIV on Rom. viii. 12, 13.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 698
Homily XV on Rom. viii. 28.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 717
Homily XVI on Rom. ix. 1.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 727
Homily XVII on Rom. x. 1.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 745
Homily XVIII on Rom. x. 14, 15.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 755
Homily XIX on Rom. xi. 7.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 767
Homily XX on Rom. xii. 1.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 782
Homily XXI on Rom. xii. 4, 5.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 789
Homily XXII on Rom. xii. 14.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 797
Homily XXIII on Rom. xiii. 1.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 804
Homily XXIV on Rom. xiii. 11.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 813
Homily XXV on Rom. xiv. 1, 2.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 820
Homily XXVI on Rom. xiv. 14.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 832
Homily XXVII on Rom. xiv. 25-27.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 839
Homily XXVIII on Rom. xv. 8.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 845
Homily XXIX on Rom. xv. 14.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 850
Homily XXX on Rom. xv. 25-27.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 859
Homily XXXI on Rom. xvi. 5.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 867
Homily XXXII on Rom. xvi. 17, 18.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 877
Index of Subjects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 885
Indexes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 898
Index of Scripture References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 898
Index of Scripture Commentary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 908
Greek Words and Phrases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 908
Hebrew Words and Phrases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 1009
Index of Pages of the Print Edition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 1010
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NICENE AND
POST-NICENE FATHERS
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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 XI
SAINT CHRYSOSTOM:
HOMILIES ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES AND
THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS
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Preface to the American Edition.
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In the preparation of this volume of Chrysostom’s Homilies on Acts and Romans, the effort
has been to improve the Oxford edition by some changes and corrections, and by the addition of
critical and explanatory notes. The translation remains substantially unchanged. Frequent minor
changes have, however, been made in phraseology, where it has seemed to me that the sense could
thereby be made plainer. Archaic and obsolescent words or expressions have often been replaced
by more idiomatic modern language. In Biblical quotations where the translation was an inaccurate
rendering of the original, I have substituted either the Revised Version or a translation conformed
to the recent critical texts. A considerable number of errors in the English edition have been corrected.
The imperfect state of the original text of the Homilies on Acts is a serious embarrassment, alike
to translator and editor, in this part of the work. Often the reports of the discourses are in hopeless
confusion, and it is impossible to determine confidently the meaning of what has been reported,
much less of what the preacher originally said. Happily this remark applies to only a part of the
exposition.
The notes which I have added are intended to bring modern criticism into relation with the
statements of Chrysostom upon points of special difficulty or importance. Sometimes they are
added by way of correction to what is stated in the text. More frequently however, they are intended
to present briefly the opinions of critical interpreters upon disputed or doubtful points, and thus to
supplement for the modern reader the practical expositions of these books of the New Testament.
At other times it has seemed desirable to explain matters which are but lightly touched upon in the
text or passed over without explanation or notice. There is frequent occasion to observe how the
spiritual insight of the great preacher has led him, in the case of difficult passages, to a right
discernment of the same sense which critical exegesis discovers. I trust that these brief annotations,
touching upon a great variety of points, may contribute somewhat to the usefulness of the edition.
These notes are distinguished from those of the English editors by having appended to them
the initials, G. B. S.
The annotations of the English editors which are so copious upon the Homilies on Acts have
been, with trifling exceptions, retained and the references have been, so far as possible, adapted to
the American edition. It is obvious, however, that this adaptation could not be perfectly made
because but few of the volumes of the American edition of the Homilies had appeared when this
volume was prepared for the press. References to English editions of works not yet accessible in
an American edition were, of necessity, left unchanged. Some small-portions of the work of the
English editors which seemed to have no present value have been omitted. It is not improbable that
still other omissions might well have been made, but the editor has been slow to follow his own
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judgment in this particular in dealing with the conscientious and painstaking labors of the Oxford
editors.
It will be noticed that the English notes to the Homilies on Romans are few and brief. These
have been retained with such adaptations as could be made, and the American editor has added a
considerable number of statements of critical opinions, together with such explanations of the
course of thought and connections of ideas in difficult passages of the Epistle, as seemed desirable
and useful. In the Homilies on Romans the state of the text is such and the work of the translators
so well performed, that one is rarely at a loss to perceive the author’s meaning; the nature and
limitations of his exposition, however, seem to call for occasional supplementing and correction.
The indexes have been carefully revised. Topics which seemed unimportant and texts which
are merely quoted or alluded to, without being explained, have often been omitted. By this process
of revision the size of the indexes has been considerably reduced. It is hoped that they will be found
sufficient to guide those who consult the volume to what is said upon the main themes which find
place in it.
George B. Stevens.
Yale University, New Haven, March, 1889.
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THE HOMILIES
OF
ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM,
ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE,
ON THE
ACTS OF THE APOSTLES,
TRANSLATED, WITH NOTES AND INDICES, BY
REV. J. WALKER, M.A.,
OF BRASENOSE COLLEGE;
REV. J. SHEPPARD, M.A.,
OF ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD; AND
REV. H. BROWNE, M.A.,
OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.
REVISED, WITH NOTES, BY
REV. GEORGE B. STEVENS, Ph.D., D.D.,
PROFESSOR IN YALE UNIVERSITY.
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