consider how many men...
wished to introduce their teachings among the Greeks, and to establish a new commonwealth and way of life. Think of such men as Zeno, Plato, Socrates, Diagoras, Pythagoras, and countless others. Yet they fell so far short of success that many people do not even now know them by name.
But Christ not only wrote a constitution...
but even brought a new way of life to the whole world.
How many miracles do they say that Apollonius of Tyana worked? But all his deeds were a fraud! A vain show! And devoid of truth! And you may learn this from the fact that, in an instant, they vanished and disappeared.
~chrysostomos~
against the jews
homily
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