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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE PROOF OF \nCHRIST’S DIVINE POWER \nFrom a treatise by St John Chrysostom \n◊◊◊ \n[The success of the Church in to have converted so many nations\, to have \nwon over so many peoples\,] is a great thing\, truly a great thing. Rather\, it \nsurpasses greatness and provides a proof of [Christ’s] divine power. Let us \nsuppose that many men were disposed to work together\, and no one was \ninclined to oppose them. Even under such ideal circumstances\, it would have \nbeen a great thing that a world as large as this could suddenly be set free from \nthe wicked ways which had preoccupied it for so long a time; it would have been \nmiraculous that it could change over to another and far more difficult way of life. \nFor two tyrannical factors opposed this change: habit and pleasure. For \nmany years their fathers\, grandfathers\, great grandfathers\, their ancestors\, \ntheir philosophers\, and public speakers had given them a certain way of life. Yet \npeople were persuaded to reject this\, even though it was a difficult thing to do. \nThey were also persuaded to accept a strange and very hard way of life which \nwas introduced to replace their old ways. And this was a still more difficult \nthing to do. \nThe new way drove them from luxurious living and led them to fasting; it \ndrove them from the love of money and led them to poverty; it drove them from \nwanton ways and led them to temperance; it drove them away from anger and \nled them to mildness; it drove them away from envy and led them to kindliness; \nit drove them from the broad way and the wide street and led them onto a way \nwhich was narrow\, strait\, and steep\, despite the fact that they were used to the \nwide road. \nFor the Church did not take a different kind of human being who lived \noutside this world and its ways. It took those very men who had grown rotten \nhere and who had become softer than mud; it told them to travel on the strait \nand narrow\, the rough road of austerity. And it won them over to this way of life. \nHow many did the Church win over? Not two\, or ten\, or twenty\, or a \nhundred\, but almost every man living under the sun. With whose help did it win \nthem over? With the help of eleven men. And these men are unlettered\, \nignorant\, ineloquent\, undistinguished\, and poor. They could not rely on the \nfame of their homelands\, on any abundance of wealth\, or strength of body\, or \nglorious reputation\, or illustrious ancestry. They were neither forceful nor \nclever in speech; they could make no parade of knowledge. They were \nfishermen and tentmakers\, men of a foreign tongue. They did not speak the \nsame language as those whom they won over to the faith. Their speech – I mean \nHebrew – was strange and different from all others. But it was with the help of \nthese men that Christ founded this Church which reaches from one end of the \nworld to the other.
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