Patristic Quote of the Day

Therefore also at the beginning He puts nothing severe or grievous, as the other [St. John the Baptist] did, mentioning an axe, and a tree cut down; a fan, and a threshing-floor, and unquenchable fire; but His preludes are gracious: the Heavens and the kingdom there are the good tidings which he declares to His hearers. -- St. John Chrysostom, Homily 14 on Matthew