“For we ought to smart not when we are punished, but when we sin.”
For we ought to smart not when we are punished, but when we sin.
John Chrysostom · Homilies on the Epistle to the Romans · NPNF1 XI, Homilies on the Epistle to the Romans, Homily V (on Rom. I. 28)
Chrysostom's rule for reading a conscience: the pain that means something arrives with the act, not with its consequences.
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Verbatim in the volume this project holds, checked against its bytes at Homily V on Romans, which Chrysostom wrote out carefully and which carries no reporter's caveat.
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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