John Chrysostom : "Choosing rather" (he says) "to suffer affliction with the people of God." For ye indeed suffer on your own account, but he "chose" to suffer for others; and voluntarily threw himself into so many dangers, when it was in his power both to live religiously, and to enjoy good things. "Than" (he says) "to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season." He called unwillingness "to suffer affliction with" the rest "sin": this, he says, Moses accounted to be "sin." If then he accounted it "sin" not to be ready to "suffer affliction with" the rest, it follows that the suffering affliction must be a great good since he threw himself into it from the royal palace. — Homily on Hebrews 26 Oecumenius : "to enjoy the momentary pleasures of sin," He called it a sin, not to collaborate or to suffer together with the people of God: not to enjoy the benefits of this sin. Whose? So that he would not be afflicted with the sufferings of the people of God. — The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews Shepherd of Hermas : For luxury and deceit have no memories, on account of the folly with which they are clothed; but when punishment and torture cleave to a man for one day, he is punished and tortured for a year; for punishment and torture have powerful memories. While tortured and punished, therefore, for a whole year, he remembers at last the luxury and deceit, and knows that on their account he suffers evil. — Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 6