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

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 out"? Let those who echo these things tell me: "Was the almighty wisdom of God at a loss (as I said before) to stop by invisible power John, who was unworthy, or to persuade those who dispute him, without much compulsion from rulers, to bear the matter dispassionately? For if it is the same God who cooperated with Moses for the freedom and obedience of Israel, while Pharaoh openly cried out: "I do not know God, and I will not send Israel away," how then did He need the help of earthly rulers in the case of John, as if He had grown old or weak or was at a loss? Then He who made public the adulteries of some and the pederasties of others and the sorceries of others, was He still at a loss to refute John? Or on the contrary, He who caused this one's tongue to swell with quinsy with a written confession, and allowed another to fall into a deadly climacteric, or who mummified this one with an infestation of worms, speechless on his bed for nearly a whole year, or who brought the forbidden terrors upon another with his companion gout, or who swelled the legs of whomever He wished, or who snatched this one away more quickly with a foul-smelling death, whom all know, was He powerless in the case of John (as you say), who was a temple-robber, to effect any one of these things, but needed so-and-so, in order to dishonor and cast out John, thereby glorifying him even more?" They are deceived, therefore, not <knowing> the command of the word. For a temple-robber in the proper sense is not one who has distributed gold or silver or threads of silk, food for moths, to the poor 147, but one who sells for silver and flattery and a banquet the doctrines and ordinances of the Savior; then he who defiles a holy man, adorned in life and word, through whom the Savior, as through a mixing-bowl or a treasure, poured out for the lovers of the word the things conducive to salvation. Let these therefore be called temple-robbers, who have plundered the apostolic church, depriving it of such teachers and selling ordinations for silver, whom the divine justice will already pursue for the correction of their evildoing. For if those who adulterated the law of Moses through excessive carelessness were cast out of the temple by the Savior with a whip, and that of rope, as selling the doves within, what then will they suffer who make a trade of the priesthood of the New Testament, or to be broken "with a rod of iron" by the chief shepherd? -as the apostle says: "Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses. How much worse punishment, do you think, will he deserve who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace? For we know him who said, ""Vengeance is mine; I will repay," says the Lord." It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God." But may God, who glorified this devout and holy shepherd and luminary of righteousness, grant us to find a part and a lot with him on His fearful day of just judgment; to whom is due glory, honor, majesty, and magnificence, to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.

πεζικαὶ μηχαναὶ εἰς ἐμποδισμὸν τῶν διὰ τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐκδημούν των). πῶς τοίνυν τολμῶσι λέγειν· "Θεοῦ οἰκονομίᾳ ἐκβέβληται ὁ Ἰωάννης"; εἰπάτωσαν δέ μοι οἱ ἐξηχοῦντες ταῦτα· "Ἠπόρει ἡ παντοδύναμος τοῦ Θεοῦ σοφία (ὡς προέφην) ἀοράτῳ δυνάμει παῦσαι τὸν Ἰωάννην ἀνάξιον ὄντα ἢ πεῖσαι τοὺς ἀμφισβητοῦντας αὐτοῦ δίχα πολλῆς ἀνάγκης ἀρχόντων ἀπαθῶς φέρειν τὸ πρᾶγμα; εἰ γὰρ ὁ αὐτὸς Θεός ἐστιν ὁ τῷ Μωϋσεῖ συνεργήσας εἰς ἐλευθερίαν τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ καὶ ὑπακοήν, τοῦ Φαραὼ ἀναφανδὸν βοῶντος· "Οὐκ οἶδα τὸν Θεόν, καὶ τὸν Ἰσραὴλ οὐκ ἐξαποστελῶ," πῶς τοίνυν βοηθείας δεδέηται ἐπὶ Ἰωάννου τῆς τῶν ἐπιγείων ἀρχόντων, ὡς γηράσας ἢ ὡς ἀτονήσας ἢ ὡς ἀπορήσας; εἶτα ὁ τὰς μοιχείας τινῶν καὶ τὰς παιδεραστίας ἑτέρων καὶ γοητείας ἄλλων δημοσιεύσας, ἠπόρησεν ἔτι διελέγξαι τὸν Ἰωάννην; ἢ ἀνάπαλιν, ὁ τοῦδε τὴν γλῶσσαν συνάγχῃ ὀγκώσας μετ' ἐξομολογήσεως ἐγγράφου καὶ τὸν ἄλλον κλιμακτῆρι περιπεσεῖν συγχωρήσας θανατηφόρῳ ἢ ταριχεύσας τόνδε μετὰ γενέσεως σκωλήκων ἄφωνον ἐπὶ κλίνης ἐνιαυτὸν παρ' ὀλίγον ὅλον ἢ ὁ τὰς ἀπηρημένας ἐκδειματώσεις ἐπαγαγὼν ἑτέρῳ μετὰ τῆς συντρόφου ποδάγρας ἢ ὁ τὰ σκέλη πρήσας οὗ ἐβουλήθη ἢ ὁ τόνδε δυσώδει θανάτῳ ἀναρπάσας θᾶττον, ὃν ἴσασι πάντες, ἠτόνησεν ἐπὶ Ἰωάννου (ὥς φατε), ἱεροσύλου ὄντος, ἕν τι τούτων ἐνεργῆσαι, ἀλλ' ἐδεήθη τοῦ καὶ τοῦ, ἵνα ἀτιμάσας ἐξώσῃ τὸν Ἰωάννην, πλέον αὐτὸν ἐκ τούτου δοξάσας;" ἀπατῶνται τοίνυν μὴ τὴν ἐντολὴν τοῦ λόγου <εἰδότες>. ἱερόσυλος γὰρ κυρίως οὐχ ὁ χρυσὸν ἢ ἄργυρον ἢ τὰ σηρῶν νήματα, σητῶν βρώματα, πτωχοῖς 147 διανείμας, ἀλλ' ὁ ἀργυρίῳ καὶ κολακείᾳ καὶ τραπέζῃ ἀπεμπολῶν τὰ δόγματα καὶ τοὺς θεσμοὺς τοῦ Σωτῆρος· ἔπειτα ὁ λυμαινόμενος ἱερὸν ἄνδρα, βίῳ καὶ λόγῳ κεκοσμημένον, δι' οὗ ὁ Σωτήρ, ὡς διὰ κρατῆρος ἢ κειμηλίου, ἐλογοπότει τοῖς ἐρασταῖς τοῦ λόγου τὰ πρόσφορα τῆς σωτηρίας. λεγέσθωσαν τοίνυν ἱερόσυλοι οὗτοι, οἱ συλαγωγήσαντες τὴν ἀποστολικὴν ἐκκλησίαν, τοιούτων στερήσαντες διδασκάλων καὶ πωλοῦντες ἀργυρίῳ τὰς χειροτονίας, οὓς ἤδη μετελεύσεται ἡ θεία δίκη εἰς ἐπανόρθωσιν τῆς αὐτῶν κακοπραγίας. εἰ γὰρ οἱ τὸν Μωϋσέως παραχαράξαντες νόμον διὰ τῆς ἄγαν ἀπροσεξίας φραγελλίῳ ἐκβέβληνται τοῦ νεὼ ὑπὸ τοῦ Σωτῆρος, καὶ τοῦτο σχοινίου, ὡς ἔνδον τὰς περιστερὰς πωλοῦντες, τί πείσονται ἄρα οἱ καπηλεύοντες τῆς Νέας ∆ιαθήκης τὴν ἱερατείαν, ἢ τὸ "ῥάβδῳ σιδηρᾷ" συντριβῆναι ὑπὸ τοῦ ἀρχιποίμενος; -καθὼς ὁ ἀπόστολος λέγει· " ̓Αθετήσας τις νόμον Μωϋσέως χωρὶς οἰκτιρμῶν ἐπὶ δυσὶν ἢ τρισὶ μάρτυσιν ἀποθνήσκει· πόσῳ, δοκεῖτε, χείρονος ἀξιωθήσεται τιμωρίας ὁ τὸν Υἱὸν τοῦ Θεοῦ καταπατήσας, καὶ τὸ αἷμα τῆς διαθήκης κοινὸν ἡγησάμενος ἐν ᾧ ἡγιάσθη, καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα τῆς χάριτος ἐνυβρίσας; οἴδαμεν γὰρ τὸν εἰπόντα· ""Ἐμοὶ ἐκδίκησις, ἐγὼ ἀνταποδώσω," λέγει Κύριος." φοβερὸν τὸ ἐμπεσεῖν εἰς χεῖρας Θεοῦ ζῶντος." ὁ δὲ τὸν ὅσιον τοῦτον καὶ ἅγιον ποιμένα καὶ τῆς δικαιοσύνης φωστῆρα δοξάσας Θεός, δῴη ἡμῖν μέρος καὶ κλῆρον εὑρεῖν σὺν αὐτῷ ἐν τῇ φοβερᾷ αὐτοῦ τῆς δικαιοκρισίας ἡμέρᾳ· ᾧ πρέπει δόξα, τιμή, μεγαλωσύνη, καὶ μεγαλοπρέπεια τῷ Πατρὶ καὶ τῷ Υἱῷ καὶ τῷ Ἁγίῳ Πνεύματι, νῦν καὶ ἀεί, καὶ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. ἀμήν.