THE WORKS OF OUR HOLY FATHER JOHN CHRYSOSTOM, ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE

Volume XI

Book 1

COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS

PREFACE

DISCOURSE 1 on Eph. 1:1-2. What is required for holiness. - Goodness is the source of grace.

DISCOURSE 2 on Eph. 1:11-14. Why preaching is called the gospel of salvation. - Sin is not a matter of necessity. "Virtue is in accord with nature, and vice is contrary to nature. "You don't need oaths. "Greed is useless.

DISCOURSE 3 on Eph. 1:15-20. To what height the Lord raised man. - The deprivation of the kingdom of heaven is worse than hell. - How and at what time one should approach the Communion of the Body of Christ.

DISCOURSE 4 on Eph. 2:1-3. Refutation of the Manichaeans. - Without mercy it is impossible to enter the kingdom of heaven.

DISCOURSE 5 on Eph. 2:11-12. What is the meaning of carnal wisdom.

DISCOURSE 6 on Eph. 2:17-22. On the valor of Ap. Paul.

DISCOURSE 7 on Eph. 3:8-11. The abundance of humility of Ap. Paul. - How one should love one's enemies.

DISCOURSE 8 on Eph. 4:1. To be a prisoner for Christ is more glorious than to sit at His right hand. - Suffering for Christ is above all connections. - Of the guard of the prison in which Paul was imprisoned. - Why did God allow those who guarded Peter in prison to perish? - Fetters and sufferings served to glorify Paul. - Against those possessed by greed and covetousness. - About the Three Youths.

DISCOURSE 9 on Eph. 4:1-4. The high dignity of Paul coming out of prison. - What does it mean to walk worthy of the title. - About love. - Mystery is a consequence of the cooling of love.

DISCOURSE 10 on Eph. 4:4. The destructiveness of vanity.

DISCOURSE 11 on Eph. 4:4-7. Why in the church one receives more and the other less. - Humility is necessary for the unity of the body of the church. - The bishop was ordained to be taught by the word. - To make divisions in the church is no less evil than to fall into heresy.

DISCOURSE 12 on Eph. 4:17. Money is vain when it is squandered on pleasure. - Against fire-worshippers. - Against faith in fate and in the transmigration of souls.

DISCOURSE 13 on Ephesus. 4:17-19 What is meant by uncleanness. - Who can be considered righteous. - Of monks and Virgins who dedicate themselves to Christ. - Virtues and vices of women.

DISCOURSE 14 on Eph. 4:25-27. The evil consequences of enmity and the way to curb it. - How to raise one's tongue. - Harm from backbiting.

DISCOURSE 15 on Eph. 4:31. One should refrain from shouting, swearing, and beating.