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chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.02
And when day dawned all the city was migrating outside the walls under trees and groves, celebrating the festival, like scattered sheep. 4. All which happened afterwards I leave you to imagine; for as I said before it is not possible to describe each separate incident. The worst of it is that these evils, great and ser …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.02
And women from the oratories who had stripped themselves for baptism just at that time, fled unclothed, from terror at this grievous assault, not being permitted to put on the modest apparel which befits women; indeed many received wounds before they were expelled, and the baptismal pools were filled with blood, and th …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.02
For it were more fitting, most honoured brethren, that good deeds should be condemned than that things done in direct opposition to the canons should have any validity. But what are we to do against such things at the present time? A synodical decision of them is necessary, and we have long declared that a synod ought …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.02
Correspondence with Pope Innocent I From John to Innocent To my lord, the most reverend and divinely beloved bishop Innocent, John sends greeting in the Lord 1. I suppose that even before receiving our letter your Piety has heard of the iniquity which has been perpetrated here. For the magnitude of our distress has lef …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.02
Having considered therefore all these things, and having been clearly informed of all particulars by my lords, our most devout brethren the bishops, may you be induced to exert your zeal on our behalf; for in so doing you will confer a favour not upon ourselves alone but also upon the Church at large, and you will rece …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.02
Innocent, bishop, to presbyters and deacons, and to all the clergy and people of the Church of Constantinople, the brethren beloved who are subject to the bishop John, greeting From the letters of your love which you have sent by the hands of Germanus the presbyter, and Casianus the deacon, I have studied with anxious …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.01
He did not however submit to the royal mandate, but remained at home, alleging an insurrection of the people in excuse, and the unseasonable zeal of certain persons who were attached to him, as he pretended: and yet before the arrival of the imperial letters this same people had deluged him with abuse. But we do not ma …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.01
Therefore to prevent such confusion overtaking the whole earth yield to our entreaties that you will signify by writing that these lawless transactions executed in our absence, and after hearing one side only, although we did not decline a trial, are invalid, as indeed they are by the very nature of the case, and that …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.01
For as a proof that our silence has not been due to negligence, we have now at last after a long time secured our most honoured and beloved John the presbyter, and Paul the deacon, and we send a letter through them, and continue to express our gratitude to you, that you have surpassed even affectionate parents in your …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.01
Who could hear these things without tears, even if he had a heart of stone? But seeing, as I said before, that we ought not merely to lament the evils which have been done, but also to amend them, I beg your Charity to rouse yourself and have compassion, and do everything so as to put a stop to the mischief at this poi …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.01
We seeing this, were in great perplexity, not being able to discover the cause of this unjust hostility; nevertheless we discharged our part, doing what became us, and continually beseeching him to meet us and to say for what cause he hazarded so great a contest at the outset, and threw the city into such confusion. Bu …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.01
This is our wall of defense, this is our security, this our calm haven, this our treasure of infinite blessings, this our gladness, and ground of much joy. And even if we should be carried off again to some spot more desolate than this, we will carry this love away with us as no small consolation of our sufferings. Fro …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.01
For how could one who had not yet received any bills of indictment against me, and had acted from the outset in the manner described, and severed himself from the Church, from communion, and from prayer, and was training accusers, and seducing the clergy, and desolating the Church, how, I say, could he with justice mou …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.01
And this is what your chief brother, and fellow minister, John, your bishop has unjustly suffered, not having obtained any hearing: no crime is charged against him, none is heard. And what is the object of this iniquitous device? That no pretext for a trial may occur, or be sought, other men are introduced into the pla …