IO2 WORKS OF ST. CHRYSOSTOM. [HOMILY XI. Ye know how terrible a disaster is this, for lately has this very warning happened to us, not that any prophet uttered a voice, for we are not worthy to hear such a voice, but the warning crying aloud from on high more dis tinctly than any trumpet. 1 However, as I was saying, " Yet three days," said the prophet, "and Nineveh shall be overthrown." A terrible warn ing indeed, but now we have nothing even like that ; no, there are no longer "three days," 2 nor is there a Nineveh to be overthrown, but many days are already past since the Church through out all the world has been overthrown, and leveled with the ground, and all alike are over whelmed in the evil ; nay more, of those that are in high places the stress is so much the greater. Wonder not therefore if I should ex hort you to do greater things than the Ninevites ; and why? nay more, I do not now proclaim a fast only, but I suggest to you the remedy which raised up that city also when falling. And what was that? "God saw their works," saith the! prophet, " that they turned from their evil way, and God repented of the evil which He said He would do unto them." (Jonah iii. 10.) This let us do, both we and you. Let us renounce the passion for riches, the lust for glory, beseech ing God to stretch forth His hand, and to raise up our fallen members. And well may we, for our fear is not for the same objects as theirs ; for then indeed it was only stones and timbers that were to fall, and bodies that were to perish ; but now it is none of these ; no, but souls are about to be delivered over to hell fire. Let us implore, let us confess unto Him, let us give thanks unto Him for what is past, let us entreat Him for what is to come, thatwe may be counted worthy to be delivered from this fierce and most terrible monster, and to lift up our thanksgivings to the loving God and Father with whom, to the Son, together with the Holy Ghost, be glory, might, and honor, now, henceforth, and for ever and ever. Amen. HOMILY XI. EPHESIANS iv. 4-7. "There is one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all. But unto each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ." THE love Paul requires of us is no common love, but that which cements us together, and makes us cleave inseparably to one another, and effects as great and as perfect a union as though it were between limb and limb. For this is that love which produces great and glorious fruits. Hence he saith, there is " one body " ; one, both by sympathy, and by not opposing the good of others, and by sharing their joy, having expressed all at once by this figure. He then beautifully adds, "and one Spirit," showing 3 that from the one body there will be one Spirit : or, that it is possible that there may be indeed 1 Antioch was exposed to earthquakes. One happened A.D. 395, which might be about the date of these Homilies. In A.D. 458 it was almost overthrown from this cause. 2 [See note on preceding page. G. A.] ^ [" The eV o-w^a means the totality of Christians as the corpus (Chrtsti) mysticum; comp. Eph. ii. 16; Ro. xii. 5; i Cor. x. 17. The ev nvciina is the Holy Spirit, the spirit of the corpus mysticum; comp. Eph. ii. 18; i Cor. xii. 13. The explanation, one body and one soul, is excluded, as at variance with the context bythe specifically Christian character of the other elements, and ren dered impossible by the correct supplying of ecrri (and not ye ought ti be )-" Meyer. G. A.] one body, and yet not one Spirit ; as, for in stance, if any member of it should be a friend of heretics : or else he is, by this expression, shaming them into unanimity, saying, as it were, " Ye who have received one Spirit, and have been made to drink at one fountain, ought not to be divided in mind" ; or else by spirit here he means their zeal. Then he adds, " Even as ye were called in one hope of your calling," that is, God hath called you all on the same terms. He hath bestowed nothing upon one more than upon another. To all He hath freely given immor tality, to all eternal life, to all immortal glory, to all brotherhood, to all inheritance. He is the common Head of all ; " He hath raised all " up, "and made them sit with Him." 2 (Eph. ii. 6.) Ye then who in the spiritual world have so great equality of privileges, whence is it that ye are high-minded? Is it that one is wealthy and another strong? How ridiculous must this be? For tell me, if the emperor some day were to take ten persons, and to array them all in purple, and seat them on the royal throne, and to be stow upon all the same honor, would any one of these, think ye, venture to reproach another, as being more wealthy or more illustrious than he? Surely never. And I have not yet said all ; for the difference is not so great in heaven as here