How could their ridiculous...
and disgraceful synagogues frighten you?
Our churches are not like that.
They are trúly frightening and filled with fear.
God's presence makes a place frightening, because he has power over life and death. In our churches we hear countless homilies on eternal punishments, on rivers of fire, on the venomous worm, on bonds that cannot be burst, or exterior darkness.
But the Jews neither know nor dream of these things. They live for their bellies, they gape for the things of this world, their condition is not better than that of pigs or goats, because of their wanton [wellustig] ways and excessive gluttony. They know but one thing: to fill their bellies and be drunk, to get all cut and bruised, to be hurt and wounded, while fighting for their favorite charioteers.
~chrysostomus~
against the jews
homily 1
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