WORKS OF ST. CHRYSOSTOM. [HOMILY VIII. them, in His Incarnation, I mean, He became a servant for their sakes, " He humbled Him self, He emptied Himself, He took the form of a servant." (Phil, ii : 7, 8.) And when He came unto them, He went not Himself aside "into any way of the Gentiles," (Matt, x : 5.) and gave the same charge to His disciples, and not only so, but " He went about healing all manner of disease, and all manner of sickness. (Matt, iv: 23.) And what then ? All the rest indeed were astonished, and marvelled, and said, "Whence, then, hath this man all these things?" (Matt, xiii : 56.) But these, the ob jects of His beneficence, these said, " He hath a devil," (John x: 20.) and " blasphemeth," (Johnx: 36.) and "is mad," and is a " de ceiver," (John vii : 12, and Matt, xxvii : 63.) Did he therefore cast them away ? No, in no wise, but when He heard these sayings, He even yet more signally besiowed His benefits upon them, and went straightway to them that were about to crucify Him, to the intent that He might but only save them. And after He was crucified, what were His words? " Father, forgive them, for theyknow not what they do." (Luke xxiii : 34.) Both cruelly treated before this, and cruelly treated after this, even to the very latest breath, for them Hedid everything, in their behalfHe prayed. Yea, and after the Cross itself, what did He not do for their sakes ? Did He not send Apostles ? Did He not work miracles ? Did He not shake the whole world ? Thus is it we ought to love our enemies, thus to imitate Christ. Thus did Paul. Stoned, suffering unnumbered cruelties, yet did he all things for their good. Hear his own words. " My heart s desire and my supplication to God is for them that they may be saved." (Rom. x : i, 2.) And again ; " For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God." And again; " If thou, being a wild olive tree wast grafted in, how much more shall these be grafted into their own olive tree ? ( Rom. xi : 24.) How tender, thinkest thou, must be the affection from which these expressions proceed, how vast the benevolence ? it is impossible to express it, im possible. Thus is itwe ought to love our enemies. This is to love God,Who hath enjoined it, Who hath given it as His law. To imitate Him is to love our enemy. Consider it is not thine enemy thou art benefiting, but thyself; thou art not loving him, but art obeying God. Knowing therefore these things, let us confirm our love one to another, that we may perform this duty perfectly, and attain those good things that are promised in Christ Jesus our Lord, with Whom to the Father, together with the Holy Ghost, be glory, might, and honor, now, and for ever and ever. Amen. HOMILY VIII CHAPTER iv. Verses i, 2. " I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called, with all lowliness and meekness." IT is the virtue of teachers to aim not at praise, nor at esteem from those under their authority, but at their salvation, and to do every thing with this object ; since the man who should make the other end his aim, would not be a teacher but a tyrant. Surely it is not for this that God set thee over them, that thou shouldest enjoy greater court and service, but that thine own interests should he disregarded, and every one of theirs built up. This is a teacher s duty : such an one was the blessed Paul, a man who was free from all manner of vanity, and was contented to be one of the many, nay more, to be the very least even of them. Hence he even calls himself their ser vant, and so generally speaks in a tone of sup plication. Observe him then even now writing nothing dictatorial, nothing imperious, but all chastened and subdued. " I therefore," saith he, " the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the call ing wherewith ye were called." What is it, tell me, thou art beseeching ? Is it that thou mayest gain any end for thyself ? No, saith he, in no wise ; it is that I may save others. And yet surely they who beseech, do so for things which are of importance to themselves. True ; and this, saith he, is of importance to myself, according to what he says also elsewhere in his writings, " Now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord; " (i Thess. iii : 8.) for he ever earnestly desired the salvation of those whom he was instructing. "I, the prisoner in the Lord." Great and mighty dignity ! Greater than that of king or of consul, or of any other. Hence it is the very titlehe uses in writing to Philemon, " As Paul the