“For just as on the stage actors enter with the masks of kings, generals, doctors, teachers, professors, and soldiers, without themselves being anything of the sort, so in the present life poverty and wealth are only masks. I would love to have heard him preach if I lived 1650 years ago. Chrysostom is brilliantly vivid in his imagery. I was struck recently by this passage from John Chrysostom (“On Wealth and Poverty” – Six sermons on Lazarus and the rich man).
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