Dialogus de vita Joannis Chrysostomi
honor, but he who is called by God. Thus 5 also Aaron, he says, did not glorify himself to become high priest. For although there were six hundred
the flight of concord, most of us who are active and eager for it have become fugitives from the country, being unable to live safely and without trou
he met with us, he did not share in words, nor in prayer, nor in communion but disembarking from the ship and running past the doors of the church, h
to share in the suffering and to do everything, so as to stop these evils. For he put a stop to none of their lawlessness here, but even after this he
and lamentations and fountains of tears in the marketplaces and the houses and in the desolate places and the whole part of the city was filled with
you are exhorted to contribute zeal from yourselves. For thus you will gratify not only us, 16 but also the community of the churches, and you will re
had fled on account of the threat contained in the imperial decree, that If anyone is not in communion with Theophilus and Arsakius and Porphyry, let
of Bishop John of the Constantinopolitans and, as it seems, it has not been accomplished. Therefore, I wrote again through the bishops and presbyters
savagery. This also the Savior God did, illuminating them with various revelations, so that also to Paul, the deacon of Saint Emilius, a most gentle
He who speaks a lie is not of God, and again from David, Because the mouth of those who speak unjust things was stopped. For he who lies truly wro
by his own choice, he was trained in the discourses for the ministry of the divine oracles. From there, being in the eighteenth year of his physical a
of those who have believed in him will be bound. {THE DEACON} But where did they recognize the presence of the Savior? {THE BISHOP} When they cried ou
of the rich, cutting away the abscesses of the soul, teaching them humility, to be of a humble mind towards other people, obeying the apostolic word,
she gives one thousand gold pieces, having made him swear by the table of the Savior that he would buy clothes and clothe the poorer women of the Alex
with his own hands on his neck, and after inflicting blows on his jaws, with clenched fingers he bloodied his nostrils, shouting 38 with a loud voice:
by an excess of conceit. But those men, driven by great necessity because they were changing places from place to place, arrive at the camp, where Bis
of the church, Dioscorus the bishop, who had grown old in the church but to the bishop John he writes: I think you are not ignorant of the decree of
of John for unlawful offenses, he took advantage of their fickleness and persuades them to submit bills of accusation against John, promising them to
Elijah was taken up did not Elisha prophesy? Paul was beheaded did he not leave behind Timothy, Titus, Apollos and ten thousand others? After these
these of the council but if as accusers, set them up for the trial, so that I may know how I should contend, whether as against adversaries or as jud
(for he is impetuous by nature, and rash and bold and exceedingly contentious—for there is nothing that appears to him by sight, <towards> which he do
brother Acacius and Antiochus whom they put forward as canons of the orthodox, because We are of the faith of those who set them forth, and our doub
reading the oracles, and others baptizing the catechumens, as was fitting because of Easter. These very things the corruptors of minds and deceivers o
a proof of the diligence of teachers, unceasingly setting right the unconquerable quality of their resolve. Theodore said: {THE DEACON} You have spoke
near him to the west), but in the western part, where the gate of the church is, the mule-team, on which he was accustomed to sit, having ordered it t
of a hierophant, a man more silent than a fish and more idle than a frog (for there are times when even action speaks, especially when the good is don
terrifying, just as bogeymen do children? Alas! Those who are clothed in worldly powers and ecclesiastical wealth with authority, with command even of
on the one hand, that he ate alone but I did not wish you, most harmonious Theodore, to ask about the things of gluttonous infants. For being a man,
he says, urging us to imitation Do not forget hospitality, he says, for by this some have entertained angels unawares. But the host must have the
fell from blessing? was it not when he served his belly, deceived by the food? When did Saul fall from the kingdom? was it not when he ate the best of
to eat bread and to put on a garment, all that you give me, I will tithe a tenth of it to you -he did not say, I will consume it at tables. That sp
to give glory to God <in> persecutions. in the refutations of error, is there any mention of a table? But again to Titus, the bishop of Crete, let us
they were seeking luxury. It was absurd to squander the food of the sick or the poor on the intemperance of the healthy. And what sort of law is this,
from seeing evil. For many of the so-called bishops, wishing to cut off the reasonable hatred directed at them on account of their own ways and their
First, that having melted down treasures he fashioned a silver object in the name of his son second, that having taken marbles from the entrance of t
love of money is a source of evils. For he who took bribes against the innocent and thought to sell the distribution of the Holy Spirit for silver,
Antoninus dies, with whom Eusebius had the lawsuit. Again a decree comes from Asia, this one from the clergy of the church of the Ephesians, and this
to buy the priesthood. They say that the ravager and falsely-named patriarch of the Jews changes the rulers of the synagogue every year, or even more
of those who deposed him and concluded the trial. <CHAPTER 19> {THE DEACON.} Forgive me, father, such things surpass drunkenness and madness and sport
ambidextrous (for even his so-called left hand was better than the right hand of others) who at first, having served in letters, was found blameles
slandering their life, waiting to have help from God. To these things Theodore, being astonished, said: {Ο ∆ΙΑΚ.} I see the facts as contrary to the n
Or is it proper at all to cast out any disciple, much less a monk? 100 {THE DEACON} Because they provoked him or spoke ill of him. {THE BISHOP} And ou
having led them back from vice to virtue, it will be clear that their persecutor deserves not to be persecuted, but to be pitied, as one who always ab
having provoked the physician and enchanter of souls and removed his interpreter from the workshop of salvation, 105 they were handed over to the phys
imitating him who, having found the one crushed by robbers, half-dead, on the way down to Jericho, placed him on his own beast of burden, having broug
did he give? And when Optimus died in Constantinople, he closed his eyes with his own hands. In addition to these things, he also refreshed in no smal
desiring to chasten the herd of men for their various desires towards the more austere part of life, he became his own judge and lawgiver, being stren
toward the north, and each man's axe in his hand and one man in the midst of them, clothed in a full-length robe, and a sapphire belt on his loins a
in many ways Who will boast that he has a pure heart? Or who will boldly claim to be pure from sin? but yet the blessed John did not know how to us
happen to us anonymously and beneficially? sifting the reasons, not obeying him who said: Eat whatever is sold in the meat-market, asking no question
two? {THE BISHOP} Especially if it is an unprofitable and charlatan crowd such as the one who said to Jesus: Teacher, I will follow you wherever you
an intemperate old man, and an old man who loves learning above an unlearned younger man, and a poor layman above an educated lover of money, and a vi
enjoying his disease nor raging with the same desires. For this is a fitting way of life for a teacher, not to linger with the crowds, but in quiet an
having subjected his body to shameful tortures by the cruelty of judges, to the point of knocking out his teeth, as the story goes, 127 they confined
knocking, they made the two-day journey into one, arriving late in the evening and departing in the dark of dawn, so that the stomach could not even k
and that these things are done and are prolonged and are strong, and that the good are afflicted and plundered, brings me to shudder at his approachin
Why shall I not be angry? looking upon me, marvel, and lay your hand upon your jaw. For if I remember, I am troubled, and pains take hold of my flesh.
when reviled, we bless when persecuted, we endure when slandered, we entreat we have become as the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all thi
sleepless or troubled in sleep, he suspects plots even from his own family, not trusting even himself, distrusting everyone as liars. Being such a per
each other, for which it was also fitting, having learned something, did you not decide to be quiet and remain still by yourselves even for the future
to his father and to his mother, I have not seen you, and his brothers he did not acknowledge he guarded your oracles, and kept your covenant. He d
foot-soldiers' machinations for the hindering of those who travel for the truth). How then do they dare to say: By God's economy John has been cast o
having subjected his body to shameful tortures by the cruelty of judges, to the point of knocking out his teeth, as the story goes, 127 they confined him to his own country. Hilarus, a holy man, grown old, was sent away to innermost Pontus after beatings, not from a judge, but from the clergy, who for the eighteenth year has not tasted bread, <but> partakes of plain vegetables or boiled wheat. Antonius exiled himself in the caves of Palestine. Timothy of Maroneia and John of Lydia are said to be in Macedonia. Rhodon of Asia went to Mytilene. Gregory of Lydia is said to be in Phrygia. And Brisson, the brother of Palladius, having willingly withdrawn from his own church, is living on his little farm, working the land with his own hands. And Lampetius—as they say—being helped by a certain Eleutherus in a place in Lydia, attends to the readings. Eugenius is in his own country. Elpidius, the great, of Laodicea in Syria, together with Pappus, for three years now have not come down the ladder of the house, devoting themselves to prayers. Heraclides the Ephesian has been shut up in the prison of Nicomedia, —it has been a period of four years. And the rest of the associated bishops, some, having lost hope, have communicated with Atticus, having been transferred to other churches of Thrace; but others are of unknown whereabouts; —and they say Anatolius is in Gaul. And of the presbyters, some were confined to Arabia and Palestine. And Tigrius was confined to Mesopotamia 128. Philip died, having fled in Pontus. Theophilus is living in Paphlagonia. John of the Aethrius founded a monastery in Caesarea. The Isaurians snatched Stephen, who had been exiled to Arabia, from the executioners, setting him free throughout the Taurus. They say Sallustius is in Crete. I heard that Philip the ascetic and presbyter of the schools is sick in Campania. Sophronius the deacon is in prison in the Thebaid. Paul the deacon, the assistant of the steward, is said to be in Africa. Another Paul, of the Anastasia, is in Jerusalem. Helladius the presbyter, of the palace, is living on his own small farm in Bithynia. And many are hiding in Constantinople, while others have gone away to their own countries. And Silvanus the holy bishop is in the Troad, fishing and living. Stephen the ascetic, who carried the letters of the Romans, in Constantinople, having been beaten for this very reason, was thrown into prison for ten months. And when communion was offered to him, since he was not persuaded, his sides and chest were severely scraped (of which I was an eyewitness), and having been saved by the care of Christ, perhaps for a second contest, after ten months of treatment he was exiled to Pelusium. A certain soldier, Provincialis, of the imperial 129 schools, having been accused as a friend of John, after manifold beatings and unsparing scraping was exiled to Petra. And a servant of Elpidius the presbyter, having been hired—so they say—for fifty nomismata, in order to assassinate Saint John, was caught at this carrying three swords, and he struck seven of those who seized him; of whom four were buried immediately, and the three were saved after being cared for for a considerable time, while the murderer was let go. The blessed Eutropius, unstained by women, a lector, having been beaten and his sides severely scraped along with his forehead, so that his eyebrows were also torn away, when at last torches dripping with oil were pressed against the bare bones of his sides on both sides, he breathed his last on the wood, having been buried at midnight by the clerics who did this, with God also bearing witness to his death by a vision of psalm-singers, because of its conformity with the saving passion. And the deacon who returned from the bishops related that the provincial officials who were conducting them oppressed them so much, on the orders of certain persons, that they prayed for death to come and renounced life. For the travel allowances in silver, which they had received for the journey, having snatched them all away at once, they divided among themselves, and having thrown them upon dry pack-animals
ὠμότητι δικαστῶν καθυβρί σαντες αἰκισμοῖς τὸ σῶμα μέχρις ἐκκοπῆς τῶν ὀδόντων, ὡς λόγος, 127 εἰς τὴν ἰδίαν πατρίδα περιώρισαν.
Ἱλάριος, ἀνὴρ ἅγιος, γεγη ρακώς, εἰς Πόντον τὴν ἐνδοτάτω ἐξαπεστάλη μετὰ πληγάς, οὐ δικαστοῦ, ἀλλὰ τοῦ κλήρου, ὃς ὀκτωκαιδέκατον
ἔτος ἔχει, μὴ γευσάμενος ἄρτου, <ἀλλὰ> ψιλῶν λαχάνων ἢ κολλύβων μετα λαμβάνων. Ἀντώνιος ἐν σπηλαίοις τῆς Παλαιστίνης ἑαυτὸν
ἐξώ ρισεν. Τιμόθεος ὁ Μαρωνείας καὶ Ἰωάννης ὁ τῆς Λυδίας λέγονται ἐν Μακεδονίᾳ. Ῥόδων ὁ τῆς Ἀσίας ἐπορεύθη ἐν Μυτιλήνῃ. Γρηγόριος
ὁ τῆς Λυδίας λέγεται ἐν Φρυγίᾳ. Βρίσσων δὲ ὁ ἀδελ φὸς Παλλαδίου, ἀποστὰς ἑκουσίως τῆς ἑαυτοῦ ἐκκλησίας, ἐν τῷ ἀγριδίῳ αὐτοῦ
διάγει, ταῖς χερσὶν ἑαυτοῦ τὴν γῆν μεταλλεύων. Λαμπέτιος δέ-ὥς φασιν-ἐν χωρίῳ Λυδίας παρά τινος Ἐλευθέρου ἐπικουρούμενος,
τοῖς ἀναγνώσμασι προσέχει. Εὐγένιός ἐστιν ἐν τῇ πατρίδι. Ἐλπίδιος, ὁ μέγας Λαοδικείας τῆς Συρίας, ἅμα Πάππῳ τρία πληροῦνται
ἔτη, τὴν κλίμακα τῆς οἰκίας οὐ κατῆλθον προσευχαῖς σχολάζοντες. Ἡρακλείδης ὁ Ἐφέσιος ἐν τῇ εἱρκτῇ τῆς Νικομηδείας ἐγκέκλεισται,
-τετραετής ἐστι χρόνος. οἱ δὲ λοιποὶ τῶν κοινωνικῶν ἐπισκόπων, οἱ μὲν ἀνέλπιστα ἐνθυ μηθέντες ἐκοινώνησαν Ἀττικῷ, εἰς ἑτέρας
μετατεθέντες ἐκκλησίας τῆς Θρᾴκης· οἱ δὲ ἄδηλοί εἰσιν· -Ἀνατόλιον δέ φασιν εἶναι ἐν Γαλλίαις. τῶν δὲ πρεσβυτέρων οἱ μὲν εἰς
Ἀραβίαν καὶ Παλαιστίνην περιωρίσθησαν. Τίγριος δὲ εἰς τὴν μέσην τῶν Ποταμῶν 128 περιωρίσθη. Φίλιππος ἐτελεύτησεν φυγὼν ἐν
Πόντῳ. Θεόφιλος διάγει ἐν Παφλαγονίᾳ. Ἰωάννης ὁ τοῦ Αἰθρίου μοναστήριον συνε κρότησεν ἐν Καισαρείᾳ. Στέφανον εἰς Ἀραβίαν ἐξορισθέντα
τῶν δημίων ἀπέσπασαν οἱ Ἴσαυροι ἀπολύσαντες ἀνὰ τὸν Ταῦρον. Σαλλούστιόν φασιν ἐν τῇ Κρήτῃ. Φίλιππον τὸν ἀσκητὴν καὶ πρεσβύτερον
τῶν σχολῶν ἤκουσα ἀῤῥωστοῦντα ἐν Καμπανίᾳ. Σωφρόνιος ὁ διάκονος ἐν φυλακῇ ἐστι τῆς Θηβαΐδος. Παῦλος ὁ διάκονος, ὁ βοηθὸς τοῦ
οἰκονόμου, λέγεται ἐν Ἀφρικῇ. ἄλλος Παῦλος, ὁ τῆς Ἀναστασίας, ἐστὶν ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις. Ἑλλάδιοὁ πρεσβύτερος, ὁ τοῦ παλατίου,
διάγει ἐν ἀγριδίῳ τῆς Βιθυνίας ἰδίῳ. πλείους δὲ κρύπτονται ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει, ἄλλοι δὲ ἀπῆλθον εἰς τὰς πατρίδας. Σιλβανὸς
δὲ ὁ ἅγιος ἐπίσκοπος ἐν Τρῳάδι ἐστίν, ἁλιεύων καὶ ζῶν. Στέφανος ὁ ἀσκητής, ὁ τὰς Ῥωμαίων ἐπιστολὰς διακομίσας, ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει,
τούτου αὐτοῦ ἕνεκεν τυπτηθείς, ἐπὶ μῆνας δέκα εἰς τὴν εἱρκτὴν ἐβλήθη. προταθείσης δ' αὐτῷ κοινωνίας, ὡς οὐκ ἐπείσθη, ξεσθεὶς
εἰσάγαν τάς τε πλευρὰς καὶ τὸ στῆθος (ὧν ἐγὼ αὐτόπτης ἐγενό μην), τῇ τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐπιμελείᾳ διασωθεὶς ἴσως εἰς δευτέρους ἀγῶνας,
μετὰ δέκα μῆνας τῆς θεραπείας ἐξωρίσθη εἰς τὸ Πη λούσιον. Προβιγκάλιός τις στρατιώτης τῶν περὶ τὸν βασιλέα 129 σχολῶν, διαβληθεὶς
ὡς φιλητὴς Ἰωάννου, μετὰ πληγὰς πολυ τρόπους καὶ ξεσμὸν ἀφειδῆ ἐξωρίσθη εἰς Πέτρας. οἰκέτης δὲ Ἐλπιδίου τοῦ πρεσβυτέρου μισθωθείς-ὥς
φασι-πεντήκοντα νομισμάτων, ἵνα τὸν ἅγιον Ἰωάννην δολοφονήσῃ, φωραθεὶς ἐπὶ τούτῳ τρεῖς ἔχων ῥομφαίας, ἔπαισεν τοὺς κατέχοντας
αὐτὸν κατὰ μέρος ἑπτά· ὧν οἱ μὲν τέσσαρες παραυτίκα ἐτάφησαν, οἱ δὲ τρεῖς ἐπὶ ἱκανὸν χρόνον ἐπιμεληθέντες ἐσώθησαν, τοῦ φονέως
ἀπολυθέντος. Εὐτρόπιος ὁ μακάριος, ἄφθορος ἀπὸ γυναικῶν, ψάλτης, τυπτηθεὶς καὶ ξεσθεὶς εἰσάγαν τὰς πλευρὰς σὺν τῷ μετώπῳ,
ὡς καὶ τὰς ὀφρῦς κατασπασθῆναι, λαμπάδων αὐτῷ τελευταῖον ταῖς πλευραῖς ἀμφοτέρωθεν γυμνοῖς ὀστέοις προσπι ληθεισῶν, ἐλαίῳ
κομουσῶν, προσεκπνέει τῷ ξύλῳ, ταφεὶς μεσονυ κτίῳ παρὰ τῶν τοῦτο δρασάντων ἱερατικῶν, συνεπιμαρτυρήσαν τος τοῦ Θεοῦ τῷ θανάτῳ
ὀπτασίᾳ ψαλλόντων διὰ τὸ σύμμορφον τοῦ σωτηρίου πάθους. διηγήσατο δὲ ὁ ἀναλύσας διάκονος ἀπὸ τῶν ἐπισκόπων, ὅτι οἱ ἐπαρχικοὶ
οἱ διάγοντες αὐτοὺς ἐπὶ τοσοῦ τον ἔθλιψαν κατ' ἐντολάς τινων, ὡς εὔχεσθαι αὐτοὺς θάνατον ἐπελθεῖν καὶ τὸ ζῆν παραιτεῖσθαι.
τὰ μὲν γὰρ ἐν ἀργυρίοις ἀναλώματα, ἃ κατὰ τὴν ὁδὸν εἰλήφεισαν, ὑφ' ἓν ἀποσπάσαντες, εἰς ἀλλήλους διεμερίσθησαν, ξηροῖς δὲ
τοῖς ὀνοζυγίοις ἐπιῤῥί
