“Thus too they that furnish a life to be wondered at, even though they hold their peace…”
Thus too they that furnish a life to be wondered at, even though they hold their peace, yet glorify God, when others through them glorify Him. For He is not so much reverenced because of the heaven, as of a spotless life.
John Chrysostom · Homilies on the Epistle to the Romans · NPNF1 XI, Homilies on the Epistle to the Romans, Homily XVIII (on Rom. X. 14, 15)
Arguing with Gentiles, Chrysostom says, point at people rather than at the sky: the heavens have declared God's glory for ages and persuaded few, while Paul preached a short time and drew the world.
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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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