“It is a great evil to be ignorant of the Scriptures: from the things we ought to get…”
It is a great evil to be ignorant of the Scriptures: from the things we ought to get good from, we get evil.
John Chrysostom · Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles · NPNF1 XI, Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles, Homily XXXIV (on Acts XV. 35)
The complaint Chrysostom returns to more than any other: not that his hearers read the Bible badly, but that they do not open it.
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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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