10 WORKS OF ST. CHRYSOSTOM. [HOMILY XI. that he has brought together from all sides the grounds of trustworthiness. Ver. 8. " Whom I have sent unto you for this very purpose." Here he shows his great love, seeing that for this purpose he sent him, and this was the cause of his journey ; and so when writing to the Thessalonians, he said, "Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone, and sent Timo thy our brother." (i Thess. iii. 1,2.) And to the Ephesians he sends this very same person, and for the very same cause, " That he might know your estate, and comfort your hearts." (Eph. vi. 21, 22.) See what he saith, not " that ye might know my estate," but " that I might know yours." So in no place doth he mention what is his own. He shows that they were in trials too, by the expression, " comfort your hearts." Ver. 9. "With Onesimus, the beloved and faithful brother, who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all things that are done here." Onesimus is the one about whom, writing to Philemon, he said, " Whom I would fain have kept with me, that in thy behalf he might min ister unto me in the bonds of the Gospel : but without thy mind I would do nothing." (Philem. 13, 14.) And he adds too the praise of their city, that they might not only not 1 be ashamed, but even pride themselves on him. " Who is one of you," he saith. " They shall make known unto you all things that are done here." Ver. 10. " Aristarchus my fellow-prisoner saluteth you." Nothing can surpass this praise. This is he that was brought up from Jerusalem with him. This man hath said a greater thing than the prophets ; for they call themselves " strangers and foreigners," but this one calleth himself even a prisoner. Just like a prisoner of war he was dragged up and down, 2 and lay at every one s will to suffer evil of them, yea rather worse even than prisoners. For those indeed their enemies, after taking them, treat with much attention, having a care for them as their own property : but Paul, as though an enemy and a foe, all men dragged up and down, beating him, scourging, insulting, and maligning. This was a consolation to those also (to whom he wrote), when their master even is in such circumstances. " And Mark, the cousin of Barnabas " ; even this man he hath praised still from his relation ship, for Barnabas was a great man ; " touching whom ye received commandments ; if he come unto you, receive him." Why? would they not 1 Sav. adds oixc, but without necessity. 2 jjyero (tai e<epeTo, which is most properly said of property plundered in war. have received him? Yes, but he means, with much attention ; and this shows the man to be great. Whence they received these command ments, he does not say. Ver. ii. "And Jesus which is called Justus." This man was probably a Corinthian. Next, he bestows.a common praise on all, having al ready spoken that of each one in particular ; " who are of the circumcision : these only are my fellow-workers unto the kingdom of God, men that have been a comfort unto me." After having said, " fellow-prisoner " ; in order that he may not therewith depress the soul of his hearers, see how by this expression he rouseth them up. " Fellow-workers," he saith, " unto the kingdom of God." So that being partakers of the trials, they become partakers of the kingdom. "Who have been a comfort to me." He shows them to be great persons, see ing that to Paul they have been a comfort. But 3 let us see the wisdom of Paul. "Walk in wisdom " he saith, " towards them that are without, redeeming the time." (Ver. 5.) That is, the time is not yours, but theirs. Do not then wish to have your own way, 4 but redeem the time. And he said not simply, " Buy," but " redeem," making it yours after another man ner. For it were the part of excessive madness, to invent occasions of war and enmity. For over and above the undergoing of superfluous and profitless dangers, there is this additional harm, that the Greeks will not come over to us. For when thou art amongst the brethren, reason is thou shouldest be bold ; but when without, thou oughtest not to be so. Seest thou how everywhere he speaks of those without, the Greeks? Wherefore also when writing to Timothy, he said, " Moreover, he must have good testimony from them that are with out." (i Tim. iii. 7.) And again, "For what have I to do with judging them that are with out." (i Cor. v. 12.) "Walk in wisdom," he saith, " toward them that are without." For " without," they are, even though they live in the same world with us, seeing they are without the kingdom, and the paternal mansion. And he comforts them withal, by calling the others " without," as he said above, " Your life is hid with Christ in God." (Col. iii. 3.) Then, he saith, seek ye glory, then honors, then all those other things, but not so now, but give them up to those without. Next, lest thou think that he is speaking of money, he adds, 8 The transition here is so sudden, that one suspects the text; but it may be only that he is catching himself up, to make a longer comment on the last few verses. [There may be two sets of rough notes, prepared for different occasions, with the same general dis cussion used in both cases, and the two combined by an editor. But the suggestion of the Oxford tr. is supported by a similar practice in several of the Homilies on Acts. Comp. below, on Horn. xii. J. A. B.] 4 avOfvTftf, i.e. in the world, as men of the world.