Quote of the day - St. John Chrysostom. "Wild beasts oftentimes lay down their lives and scorn their own safety to protect their young. No necessity forced the Jews when they slew their own children …More
Quote of the day - St. John Chrysostom.
"Wild beasts oftentimes lay down their lives and scorn their own safety to protect their young. No necessity forced the Jews when they slew their own children with their own hands to pay honor to the avenging demons, the foes of our life.
What deed of theirs should strike us with greater astonishment?
Their ungodliness or their cruelty or their inhumanity? That they sacrificed their children or that they sacrificed them to demons?
Because of their licentiousness, did they not show a lust beyond that of irrational animals? Hear what the prophet says of their excesses.
"They are become as amorous stallions. Every one neighed after his neighbor's wife". He did not say: "Everyone lusted after his neighbor's wife", but he expressed the madness which came from their licentiousness with the greatest clarity by speaking of it as the neighing of brute beasts."
St. John Chrysostom Against the Jews Homily 1, Chapter 6, Paragraph 8.
"Wild beasts oftentimes lay down their lives and scorn their own safety to protect their young. No necessity forced the Jews when they slew their own children with their own hands to pay honor to the avenging demons, the foes of our life.
What deed of theirs should strike us with greater astonishment?
Their ungodliness or their cruelty or their inhumanity? That they sacrificed their children or that they sacrificed them to demons?
Because of their licentiousness, did they not show a lust beyond that of irrational animals? Hear what the prophet says of their excesses.
"They are become as amorous stallions. Every one neighed after his neighbor's wife". He did not say: "Everyone lusted after his neighbor's wife", but he expressed the madness which came from their licentiousness with the greatest clarity by speaking of it as the neighing of brute beasts."
St. John Chrysostom Against the Jews Homily 1, Chapter 6, Paragraph 8.