TABLE OF CONTENTS CONTENTS OF THE TWO PARTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME
Preface to the twenty-one Homilies to the people of Antioch. 5-6 OUR HOLY FATHER CHRYSOSTOM, ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE, TWENTY-ONE HOMILIES ON THE STATUES, delivered to the people of Antioch. 15-16 HOM. I, delivered at Antioch in the Old Church, while he was still a presbyter, on the Apostolic text: "Use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your frequent infirmities" (1 Tim. 5:23). — Sacred Scriptures are precious even in their smallest utterances. The virtue of Timothy. The more the saints abound in merits, the more they fear. The moderate use of wine is permitted. God's power is manifested more in the weaknesses of the saints. Why God permitted the saints to be driven out and tortured. Why God delivered Job’s body into the power of the devil. Our affairs are circumscribed by the limits of this life. He commands that blasphemers be rebuked and beaten. 15-34 [sic] HOM. II, delivered in the church called the Old Church, while he was still a presbyter, concerning the calamity which befell the city because of the riot [against the] images of the pious Emperor Theodosius the Great, and on the Apostolic saying: "Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded" (1 Tim. 6:17). — The calamity of the Antiochenes after the statues were torn down. A Christian ought to bear all things generously in the hope of things to come. Against blasphemers. Chrysostom rejects applause. What are true riches. The praise and reward of hospitality. The fruit of almsgiving. What are riches. Poverty is a great possession to those who bear it wisely. Distinguished passage on the truth of the Holy Eucharist. 33-48 HOMIL. III, on the departure of Bishop Flavian, who was setting out on an embassy to the Emperor on behalf of the city; and what true fasting is, and that to slander is worse than to eat human flesh: and concerning those who were executed on account of the sedition: and against those who were complaining that many innocent people had been arrested. — Flavian had gone to Constantinople to appease the Emperor. God vehemently desires that men should flee to Him. The fruitlessness of fasting unless we abstain from vices. Detraction to be avoided. A description of the present calamity. Frequent earthquakes at Antioch. Moral exhortation. 47-60 HOMIL. IV, Exhortation to the people concerning patience and endurance, from the examples of Job and the three youths, and concerning abstinence from oaths. — The fruits of tribulations. A good change brought about by calamity. Fire is considered a god among the Persians. Moral exhortation. 59-68 HOMIL. V, Likewise an Exhortation to the people concerning bearing imminent threats generously, since he has many examples from those things which happened to Job and the Ninevites: that one ought not to fear death, but sin: what it is to die badly, and how oaths must be shunned with every effort, and regarding the earthquake. — Those who bear tribulations patiently come out more glorious. Chrysostom rejects the applause of the audience. Death is not to be feared by those who hope for the life to come. Unjust death is less to be feared than just death. Why death is to be despised. Oaths to be avoided. 67-82 HOMIL. VI, That the fear of magistrates is useful, and a narrative of those things which happened on the way to those who were bringing the news of the sedition to the Emperor, and that he who suffers unworthily and gives thanks to God who permits it, is equal to him who suffers such things for God’s sake. Examples again from the three youths and the furnace of Babylon, and concerning abstinence from oaths. — The utility of tribulations. The messengers of the Antiochene sedition are compelled to delay on the way. The clemency of Theodosius at Easter. From maceration, a desire for heavenly things is born. Sin itself is a great punishment. He speaks against oaths according to his custom. 81-92 HOMIL. VII, That the emotion of sadness is only useful for the destruction of sin, and on the text, "In the beginning God made heaven and earth," and that the apparatus of creation is a matter of the greatest consolation: and on the text, "Adam, where art thou?" and about not swearing. — God is good not only when He benefits, but also when He chastises. The clemency of God toward the first man. A customary exhortation to avoid oaths. 91-98 HOMIL. VIII, Exhortation to virtue, and on the Genesis text, "God was walking in the cool of the day in paradise" (Gen. 3:8), and about avoiding oaths. — The utility of the night. Elisha is a double Elijah according to the interpretation of Chrysostom. The ashes of the martyrs expel demons. Moral exhortation to avoid oaths. 97-109 HOMIL. IX, A eulogy of those who had laid aside the habit of swearing: and that no one ought to be held by superstition, and that one should hear divine discourses in the church after a meal: why the divine Scriptures were handed down after a long time; and on the text, "The heavens declare the glory of God" (Ps. 18:2): a description of the natural world: and at the end, about not swearing. — The hearers quickly amended regarding oaths. Why Scripture was not given in the time of Adam nor of Noah or Abraham. The wisdom of God in the order of natural things. 105-112 HOMIL. X, Praise of those who had come to hear after eating, and a description of the natural world, also against the gentiles who worship the creature as God, and about avoiding swearing. — It is better to hear the word of God than to fast. The world cannot stand without God’s providence. It is proper to God alone not to be in need. Moral exhortation to avoid oaths. 111-120 HOMIL. XI, Thanksgiving to God on account of the liberation from the evils expected from the sedition, and a commemoration of those things which happened then: furthermore, also against those who slander our body, and in general about the creation of man, and towards the end about avoiding swearing. He speaks against the Manichaeans. The definition of man according to the philosophers. God’s wisdom in the constitution of the eyes. How man excels all animals. 119-128 HOMIL. XII, Further thanksgiving for the pardon received for offenses against the Emperor: and a natural discourse about the world: and that God, creating man, implanted a natural law in him: and about avoiding swearing with all diligence. Man is instructed by the smallest animals. Nothing in the world is useless, even if it seems otherwise to us. The knowledge of natural law implanted in man. Again about oaths. 127-136 HOMIL. XIII, Thanksgiving still to God, concerning the change of sad things: and a commemoration of those who, on account of the sedition, were snatched away and paid the penalties. Likewise again an exposition on the creation of man, and that he received a natural law, and about the habit of swearing to be rooted out. — The consternation of the Antiochenes in the inquest concerning the defaced statues. A miserable spectacle. Calamity leads to virtue. The laws of charity toward one's neighbor. Against oaths. 133-144 HOMIL. XIV, The people having been delivered from distress and established in confidence, some people again disturbed the city with invented, terrifying rumors, and were convicted; concerning this therefore,