“I do not think there are many among Bishops that will be saved, but many more that…”
I do not think there are many among Bishops that will be saved, but many more that perish: and the reason is, that it is an affair that requires a great mind.
John Chrysostom · Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles · NPNF1 XI, Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles, Homily III (on Acts I. 12)
In the same homily, and said from the throne: the higher the office, the more of it there is to fail at. It is the sentence of Chrysostom's that his enemies would have remembered longest.
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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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