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Johannes Chrysostomos

Geburtstag: 349
Todesdatum: 15. September 407
Andere Namen:Ióannés Chrýsostomos,Johannes Chrysostomus

Johannes von Antiochia war Erzbischof von Konstantinopel und gilt als einer der größten christlichen Prediger. Im 6. Jahrhundert wurde ihm der Beiname Chrysostomos gegeben, unter dem er heute bekannt ist. In den östlich-orthodoxen Kirchen wird er seit dem 10. Jahrhundert als einer der drei heiligen Hierarchen verehrt, zusammen mit Basilius dem Großen und Gregor von Nazianz. Für das westliche Christentum ist er einer der vier Kirchenlehrer des Ostens .

Er wurde als Asket verehrt und war für seine Begabung in der öffentlichen Rede wie auch wegen seines Auftretens gegen den Missbrauch der kirchlichen und staatlichen Autorität bekannt. Umstritten sind seine massiv negativen Äußerungen über Juden in seinen frühesten erhaltenen Predigten.

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„Ein von Eifer entflammter Mensch reicht hin, ein ganzes Volk aufzurichten.“

— Johannes Chrysostomos
Säulenreden

Über Menschen

„Wer Almosen gibt, gewöhnt sich daran, Geld und Gut nicht mehr zu bewundern.“

— Johannes Chrysostomos
Homilie über den Brief an die Philipper

Über Geld

„Die Geduld ist imstande, auch den verwildersten und frechsten Menschen so umzustimmen, dass er lenksam und für edlere Regungen wieder empfänglich wird.“

— Johannes Chrysostomos
Homilie über den 1. Brief an die Tessalonicher

Über Menschen

„I do not think there are many among Bishops that will be saved, but many more that perish“

— John Chrysostom
Context: I do not think there are many among Bishops that will be saved, but many more that perish: and the reason is, that it is an affair that requires a great mind. St. John Chrysostom, Homily III on Acts 1:12

„Christ is risen, and you are overthrown! Christ is risen, and the demons are fallen! Christ is risen, and the angels rejoice! Christ is risen, and life reigns! Christ is risen, and not one dead remains in a tomb! For Christ, being raised from the dead, has become the first-fruits of them that have slept.“

— John Chrysostom
Paschal Homily

„Nothing is more miserable than those people who never failed to attack their own salvation. When there was need to observe the Law, they trampled it under foot. … On this account Stephen said: "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart, you always resist the Holy Spirit", not only by transgressing the Law but also by wishing to observe it at the wrong time.“

— John Chrysostom
Saint John Chrysostom (349–ca. 407), Eight Homilies Against the Jews http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/chrysostom-jews6.html, Homily 1

„If you are a Christian, no earthly city is yours. Of our City ‘the Builder and Maker is God.’ Though we may gain possession of the whole world, we are withal but strangers and sojourners in it all. We are enrolled in heaven: our citizenship is there! Let us not, after the manner of little children, despise things that are great, and admire those which are little! Not our city’s greatness, but virtue of soul is our ornament and defence. If you suppose dignity to belong to a city, think how many persons must partake in this dignity, who are whoremongers, effeminate, depraved and full of ten thousand evil things, and at last despise such honour! But that City above is not of this kind; for it is impossible that he can be a partaker of it, who has not exhibited every virtue.“

— John Chrysostom
Homilies on the Statues http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf109/Page_456.html, Homily XVII

„For what advantage is it, that the world enjoys profound peace, if thou art at war with thyself? This then is the peace we should keep. If we have it, nothing from without will be able to harm us. And to this end the public peace contributes no little: whence it is said, ‘That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life.’ But if any one is disturbed when there is quiet, he is a miserable creature. Seest thou that He speaks of this peace which I call the third (inner, ed.) kind? Therefore when he has said, ‘that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life,’ he does not stop there, but adds ‘in all godliness and honesty.’ But we cannot live in godliness and honesty, unless that peace be established. For when curious reasonings disturb our faith, what peace is there? or when spirits of uncleanness, what peace is there?“

— John Chrysostom
Homilies on Timothy http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf113/Page_429.html, Homily VII

„For the Master is gracious and receives the last even as the first; He gives rest to him that comes at the eleventh hour, just as to him who has labored from the first. He has mercy upon the last and cares for the first; to the one He gives, and to the other He is gracious. He both honors the work and praises the intention.“

— John Chrysostom
Paschal Homily Both English Wikipedia and English Wikisource contain the whole text of this homily. In Byzantine Rite churches, the whole homily is read out annually as part of Paschal Matins service.

„O most grateful burden, which comforts them that carry it! The burdens of earthly masters gradually wear out the strength of those who carry them; but the burden of Christ assists the bearers of it, because we carry not grace, but grace us.“

— John Chrysostom
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 98

„Where dance is, there is the devil.“

— John Chrysostom
Homily on Matt.48.3

„Yet of old the matter seemed even to be a law, and a certain law-giver among them bade the domestic slaves neither to use ointments when dry (i. e. except in bathing) nor to keep youths, giving the free this place of honor, or rather of shamefulness. Yet they, however, did not think the thing shameful, but as being a grand privilege, and one too great for slaves, the Athenian people, the wisest of people, and Solon who is so great among them, permitted it to the free alone. And sundry other books of the philosophers may one see full of this disease. But we do not therefore say that the thing was made lawful, but that they who received this law were pitiable, and objects for many tears. For these are treated in the same way as women that play the whore. Or rather their plight is more miserable. For in the case of the one the intercourse, even if lawless, is yet according to nature: but this is contrary both to law and nature. For even if there were no hell, and no punishment had been threatened, this were worse than any punishment. Yet if you say they found pleasure in it, you tell me what adds to the vengeance. For suppose I were to see a person running naked, with his body all besmeared with mire, and yet not covering himself, but exulting in it, I should not rejoice with him, but should rather bewail that he did not even perceive that he was doing shamefully.“

— John Chrysostom

„Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?“

— John Chrysostom
Homilies on the Gospel of Saint John http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/240103.htm, Homily III

„As it is not to be imagined that the fornicator and the blasphemer can partake of the sacred Table, so it is impossible that he who has an enemy, and bears malice, can enjoy the holy Communion.… I forewarn, and testify, and proclaim this with a voice that all may hear! ‘Let no one who hath an enemy draw near the sacred Table, or receive the Lord’s Body! Let no one who draws near have an enemy! Do you have an enemy? Draw not near! Do you wish to draw near? Be reconciled, and then draw near, and touch the Holy Thing!“

— John Chrysostom
Homilies on the Statues http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf109/Page_472.html, Homily XX

„You received your fortune by inheritance; so be it! Therefore, you have not sinned personally, but how know you that you may not be enjoying the fruits of theft and crime committed before you?“

— John Chrysostom
Epist. i. ad Tim., 12, as cited in Francesco Saverio Nitti, Catholic Socialism (1895), p. 67

„Do you wish to honor the Body of the Savior? Do not despise it when it is naked. Do not honor it in church with silk vestments while outside it is naked and numb with cold. He who said, “This is my body,” and made it so by his word, is the same that said, “You saw me hungry and you gave me no food. As you did it not to the least of these, you did it not to me.” Honor him then by sharing your property with the poor. For what God needs is not golden chalices but golden souls.“

— John Chrysostom
Homilies on the Gospel of Saint Matthew http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf110/Page_303.html, Homily L

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