things, since it has its roots from above in the heavens421 and its recompense. And what says he? “Now I desire that ye should know, brethren.”422 Seest thou solicitude for his scholars? seest thou a teacher’s carefulness? Hear too of loving affection of scholars towards their teacher, that thou mayest know that this was what made them strong and unconquer- able—the being bound together with one another. For if “Brother helped by brother is as a strong city;”423 far more so many bound together by the bonds of love would have entirely repulsed the plotting of the wicked demon. That indeed then Paul was bound up with the disciples, requires not even any demonstration further nor argument for us, since in truth even when in bonds he anxiously cared for them, and each day, he was also dying for them, burning with his longing. 6. And that the disciples too were bound up with Paul with all perfectness;424 and that not men only, but women also, hear what he says about Phœbe. “Now I commend425 to you Phœbe the sister, being a deaconess of the Church which is in Cenchreæ; that ye may receive her in the Lord worthily of the saints, and stand by her, in whatever matter she may require you, since426 she has proved a helper427 of many; and of me myself.”428 But in this instance he bore witness to her of her zeal so far as help went (only:)429 but Priscilla and Aquilla went as far even as death for Paul’s sake; and about them he thus writes, saying, “Aquila and Priscilla salute you, who for my life’s sake laid down their own neck;”430 for death clearly. And about another again writing to these very persons he says, “Because he went as far as death; having counselled ill for his life, in order that he might supply your deficiency in your service towards me.”431 Seest thou how they loved their teacher? how they regarded his rest432 before their own life? On this account no one surpassed them then. 421 'Εκ τῶν οὐρανῶν. Chrysostom seems to use ἐκ and not ἐν, in reference to ˆνωθεν preceding. This is the Greek idiom; ‡υτου ἐνὶ Τροίη, Il. B. 237, but ˆυτόθεν ἐξ œδρης, T. 77. 422 Philip. i. 12. 423 Prov. xviii. 19. In our version it stands, “A brother offended is (harder to be won than) a strong city.” Chrysostom quotes exactly from the LXX. On the other hand, Βοηθ™ω, as governing a dative, has no passive voice, at least in classical Greek. Βοηθόυμενος may, as here, be used by the Alexandrians. 424 'Ακριβ™ιας. As a chain accurately and closely linked so as not to be severed asunder. 425 Συνίστημι. Lit. establish, vouch for her. 426 ῞Ητις, answering to Lat. quæ with subjunctive, expressing the cause. 427 Προστ€τις, patroness: a relation well-known in Greece. 428 Rom. xvi. 1, 2. 429 i.e., μόνον; a common ellipsis in Chrysostom. 430 Rom. xvi. 3, 4. 431 Philip. ii. 30. 432 From trouble, “ˆνεσιν.” Comp. 2 Cor. vii. 5. 207 Concerning Lowliness of Mind.