“The soul of a Bishop is for all the world like a vessel in a storm: lashed from every…”
The soul of a Bishop is for all the world like a vessel in a storm: lashed from every side, by friends, by foes, by one's own people, by strangers.
John Chrysostom · Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles · NPNF1 XI, Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles, Homily III (on Acts I. 12)
Preaching on the choosing of Matthias, Chrysostom stops to say what the office actually costs — and describes his own from the inside, ten months after being made archbishop of a capital he had not asked for.
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Read in Walker, Sheppard & Browne, NPNF series 1 vol. 11 (1889) · J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, revised by George B. Stevens
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