“Since a man is more dignified than a Church: for it was not for walls that Christ died…”

Since a man is more dignified than a Church: for it was not for walls that Christ died, but for these temples.

John Chrysostom · Homilies on the Epistle to the Romans · NPNF1 XI, Homilies on the Epistle to the Romans, Homily XXVI (on Rom. XIV. 14)

Arguing that wounding a person's conscience is worse than damaging a church building, because the person is the older temple.

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Read in Morris & Simcox, NPNF series 1 vol. 11 (1889) · J. B. Morris and W. H. Simcox, revised by George B. Stevens

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