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John Chrysostom — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 14:7-11

Patristic A.D. 407
John Chrysostom · A.D. 347–407
“(non occ.) And so the seeker of honour obtained not that which he coveted, but suffered a defeat, and busying himself how he might be loaded with honours, is treated with dishonour. And because nothing is of so much worth as modesty, He leads His hearer to the opposite of this seeking; not only forbidding him to seek the highest place, but bidding him search for the lowest. As it follows; But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 14:7-11 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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