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St Chrysostom

 

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St John Chrysostom : Commentary on the Ephesians

I read some of Chrysostom's commentary on the Ephesians. I am getting tired of this commentary. Such underground dark passages before you get at anything worth standing to look at! Very eloquent sometimes: but such a monotony & lengthiness! Sunday is not a reading day with me. Driving to church, driving back again, driving to chapel, driving back again - & prayers three times at home besides! All that fills up the day, except the few interstices between the intersections.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

  

St Chrysostom : unknown

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 20-21 April 1828: 'I have been reading St Chrysostom in Greek & in your English [...] Besides this, I have been reading several parts of your translation, exactly as you desired me to do -- slowly, & out loud: and I have admired the particular cadences & the general rhythm, all the way.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

  

St Chrysostom : unknown

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 20-21 April 1828: 'I have been reading St Chrysostom in Greek & in your English [...] Besides this, I have been reading several parts of your translation, exactly as you desired me to do -- slowly, & out loud: and I have admired the particular cadences & the general rhythm, all the way.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

  

St Chrysostom : 'In Eutropium Eunuchum, Patrium et Consulem'

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Thursday Morng.', October 1829: 'You will think me very idle when I tell you that the Apologetis is not finished yet. But the Oration on Eutropius [italics]is[end italics]; I have read it twice, -- & I have besides, been reading a little of Longinus's treatise every day, of which I had previously read only own or two chapters [...] the brilliancy of his imaginative powers dazzles you so much, as almost to prevent your perceiving the roughness & cragginess [...] As to the Oration on Eutropius, it has of course delighted me extremely [...] But it has [...] weakness occasioned not merely by [italics]repetition[end italics], but by a super-abundance of supererogatory epithets.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

  

St Chrysostom : orations including (probably) Homily on 1 Corinthians

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Friday Night,' December 1829: 'I have read the seven orations on Paul, & the eighth one on the same subject [goes on briefly to cite specific passages].'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

  

St Chrysostom : 'In Epistolarum primam ad Corinthos'

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830: 'Chrysostom has been staggering me lately by his commentary on those passages of the Epistles to the Corinthians, which relate to the Lord's Supper. I have felt every now & then, that he [italics]must[end italics] hold transubstantiation, -- & then I look at your pencil marks upon those very passages, & recollect your opinion of his holding no such doctrine -- & then I am in perplexity'.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Stuart Boyd      Print: Book

  

St Chrysostom : 'In Epistolarum primam ad Corinthos'

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830: 'Chrysostom has been staggering me lately by his commentary on those passages of the Epistles to the Corinthians, which relate to the Lord's Supper. I have felt every now & then, that he [italics]must[end italics] hold transubstantiation, -- & then I look at your pencil marks upon those very passages, & recollect your opinion of his holding no such doctrine -- & then I am in perplexity'.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

 

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