Saint John Chrysostom, His Life and Times / A sketch of the church and the empire in the fourth century

by W. R. W. Stephens

[225] VII. c. 6, 7.

[226] III. c. 6.

[227] III. c. 6, in fine.

[228] IV. in fine.

[229] The colours represented the seasons, and according as one or other was victorious a plentiful harvest or prosperous navigation was indicated.

[230] Contra Anom. vii. c. i.

[231] De Laz. vii. c. 1.

[232] De Anna, iv. 1.

[233] De Laz. vii. c. 1.

[234] It is a treatise, because too long for a homily, though mutilated of its proper conclusion. It must belong to the first two years of his priesthood, because it promises a more ample discussion of several points, which promise we find redeemed in the homilies against the Jews, and these homilies, again, can be proved, by internal evidence, to have been delivered not later than A.D. 387. See Montfaucon’s Monitum, vol. i. pp. 811 and 839.