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Two Homilies on Eutropius

St. John Chrysostom · c. 399 AD

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Post-Nicene

Two dramatic homilies delivered when the once-powerful minister Eutropius sought sanctuary in the church he had tried to strip of its right of asylum — a powerful meditation on the vanity of worldly power.

Table of Contents

1When He Had Taken Refuge in the Church2After Eutropius having been found outside the Church had been taken captive