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SUMMARY:Conversion of St. Paul
DESCRIPTION:FROM A HOMILY ON THE PRAISE OF ST PAUL\nBy St John Chrysostom 5\n◊◊◊ \nPaul\, more than anyone else\, has shown us what humankind really is\, and\nin what our nobility consists\, and of what virtue this particular animal is\ncapable. Each day he aimed ever higher; each day he rose up with greater ardor\nand faced with new eagerness the dangers that threatened him. He summed up\nhis attitude in the words: I forget what is behind me and push on to what lies\nahead. When he saw death imminent\, he bade others share his joy: Rejoice and\nbe glad with me! And when danger\, injustice and abuse threatened\, he said: I\nam content with weakness\, mistreatment and persecution. These he called the\nweapons of righteousness\, thus telling us that he derived immense profit from\nthem. \nThus\, amid the traps set for him by his enemies\, with exultant heart he\nturned their every attack into a victory for himself; constantly beaten\, abused\nand cursed\, he boasted of it as though he were celebrating a triumphal\nprocession and taking trophies home\, and offered thanks to God for it all:\nThanks be to God who is always victorious in us! \nThe most important thing of all to him\, however\, was that he knew\nhimself to be loved by Christ. Enjoying this love\, he considered himself happier\nthan anyone else; were he without it\, it would be no satisfaction to be the friend\nof principalities and powers. He preferred to be thus loved and be the least of\nall\, or even to be among the damned\, than to be without that love and be among\nthe great and honored. \nTo be separated from that love was\, in his eyes\, the greatest and most\nextraordinary of torments; the pain of that loss would alone have been hell\, and\nendless\, unbearable torture. \nSo too\, in being loved by Christ he thought of himself as possessing life\,\nthe world\, the angels\, present and future\, the kingdom\, the promise and\ncountless blessings. Apart from that love nothing saddened or delighted him;\nfor nothing earthly did he regard as bitter or sweet. \nDeath itself and pain and whatever torments might come were but child’s\nplay to him\, provided that thereby he might bear some burden for the sake of\nChrist. \n5 Hom. 2 de laudibus sancti Pauli: PG 50\, 477-480.
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