LIFE OF JOHN
CHRYSOSTOM

FREDERIC M. PERTHES

LIFE OF JOHN CHRYSOSTOM, BASED ON THE INVESTIGATIONS OF NEANDER, BÖHRINGER, AND OTHERS BY FREDERIC M. PERTHES TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY ALVAH HOVEY AND DAVID B. FORD

BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY JOHN P. JEWETT AND COMPANY CLEVELAND, OHIO: JEWETT, PROCTOR, AND WORTHINGTON NEW YORK: SHELDON, LAMPORT AND BLAKEMAN 1854

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by JOHN P. JEWETT & CO. in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

CONTENTS

Title Page: LIFE OF JOHN CHRYSOSTOM

LIFE OF JOHN CHRYSOSTOM

PREFACE

JOHN CHRYSOSTOM

I
NAME AND TIME

II
EDUCATION AND CULTURE

III
CHRYSOSTOM AS PRESBYTER AT ANTIOCH

IV
CALL TO THE CAPITOL

V
THE RESIDENCE

VI
CHRYSOSTOM AS PATRIARCH

VII
CHRYSOSTOM AS PREACHER IN CONSTANTINOPLE

VIII
CHRYSOSTOM AND OLYMPIAS

IX
CHRYSOSTOM AND EUTROPIUS

X
CHRYSOSTOM’S SOLICITUDE FOR THE CONVERSION OF THE HEATHEN

XI
CHRYSOSTOM AND THE SECTS

XII
PROCEDURE OF CHRYSOSTOM TOWARDS THE UNWORTHY CLERGY

XIII
CHRYSOSTOM AND THE EMPRESS EUDOXIA

XIV
ORIGEN

XV
THE ORIGENISTIC CONTROVERSIES

XVI
THEOPHILUS AGAINST CHRYSOSTOM

XVII
THE ADHERENTS OF CHRYSOSTOM IN CONSTANTINOPLE

XVIII
THE EXILE

1. RESIDENCE IN NICÆA

2. JOURNEY TO CÆSAREA AND BEYOND

3. RESIDENCE IN CUCUSUS

4. FLIGHT TO ARABISSUS

5. THEODOTUS AND CONSTANTIUS

6. THE LAST WRITINGS OF CHRYSOSTOM

7. BANISHMENT TO PITYUS, AND DEATH OF CHRYSOSTOM

XIX
CHRYSOSTOM AS A PULPIT ORATOR