1 Corinthians 6:8 Douay-Rheims

But you do wrong and defraud, and that to your brethren.

John Chrysostom

A.D. 347–407 Patristic

"Nay, ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren."

Again, it is a twofold crime, perhaps even threefold or fourfold. One, not to know how to bear being wronged. Another, actually to do wrong. A third, to commit the settlement of these matters even unto the unjust. And yet a fourth, that it should be so done to a brother. For men's offences are not judged by the same rule, when they are committed against any chance person, and towards one's own member. For it must be a greater degree of recklessness to venture upon that. In the other case, the nature of the thing is alone trampled on; but in this, the quality of the person also.

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A.D. 407 · on 1Cor 6:8 (Homily on 1 Corinthians 16)

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