Leaves from St. John Chrysostom

by Saint John Chrysostom

CONTENTS.

Preface.—St. John Chrysostom. page [Birth and Parentage,] 1 [Named Preacher at Antioch,] 3 [Archbishop of Constantinople,] 5 [State of Constantinople,] 7 [Enmity of Eudoxia,] 9 [Synod of the Oak,] 10 [Exile at Kucusus,] 11 [Judgment of Pope Innocent I.,] 12 [Comana,] 13 [His Death,] 14 [Translation of his Body,] 15 [Final Burial at St. Peter’s,] 16 [Summary of his Works,] 17 PART I.
THE KING’S HIGHWAY. [1. The Way, the Truth, and the Life,] 23 [2. Who is the Greater?] 26 [3. The First are Last and the Last First,] 29 [4. Variety of Human Lot,] 34 [5. Whence the Rich?] 38 [6. The Rich Young Man,] 41 [7. Different Kinds of Friendship,] 46 [8. The Buyers and Sellers in the Temple,] 49 [9. The Voice of Good Deeds,] 51 [10. The Best Controversy,] 55 [11. The Tongue a Royal Power,] 63 [12. Golden Vessels and Golden Hearts,] 66 [13. True Almsgiving,] 70 [14. I was hungry and you gave Me to eat,] 73 [15. The Archetype and the Type,] 77 [16. The Weak Things of God,] 83 [17. The Secret of our Faith,] 94 [18. The Victory of our Faith,] 100 [19. Marriages as they were and as they are,] 105 [20. ‘Use a little Wine,’] 109 [21. Possessing the Land,] 118 [22. The Word of Praise,] 125 [23. Sufferings of the Just,] 130 [24. The Folly of the Cross,] 141 [25. The Abode of the Humble,] 148 [26. The Prisoner of Jesus Christ,] 152 [27. The Seed not vivified unless it dies,] 157 [28. The Resurrection in Creation,] 163 [29. Resurrection confirmed by Signs which followed,] 169 PART II.
THE KING’S HOUSE. [1. ‘Thou art Peter,’] 183 [2. ‘Peter rose up,’] 188 [3. Built upon the Rock,] 189 [4. The Priest a Man, not an Angel,] 193 [5. The Authority of the Priest,] 198 [6. The Priest a Shepherd of Souls,] 204 [7. One Sacrifice,] 212 [8. The New Pasch,] 217 [9. The ‘Eyes of Rome,’] 221 [10. ‘This is My Body,’] 228 [11. The Union of the Holy Eucharist,] 237 [12. Bone of our Bone, Flesh of our Flesh,] 241 [13. Remembrance of the Dead,] 248 [14. The Departed at the Sacred Mysteries,] 252 [15. The Tombs of the Martyrs,] 256 [16. The Bodies of the Martyrs,] 259 [17. The Tombs of the Servants,] 266 PART III.
PERSONAL. [1. Letter to Pope Innocent, A.D. 404,] 272 [2. Letter to some Imprisoned Bishops and Priests (404),] 282 [3. To the Priests and Monks Nicholas, Theodotus, &c. (405),] 283 [4. To some Priests and Monks in Phœnicia (405),] 284 [5. To Studius the Prefect of the City, on the Death of his Brother (404),] 286 [6. To Malchus on the Death of his Daughter,] 288 [7. To Olympias. The Virginal Life,] 288 [8. To Olympias. The Blessedness of Suffering,] 290 [9. To Olympias (406),] 293 [10. To Pœanius. ‘Glory be to God in all things,’] 295 [11. Vanity of Vanities] 296