Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. By evil here He means, not wickedness, far from it, but affliction, and trouble, and calamities; much as in another place also He says, Is there evil in a city, which the Lord has not done? nor any thing like these, but the scourges which are borne from above. And again, I, says He, make peace, and create evils: Isaiah 45:7 For neither in this place does He speak of wickedness, but of famines, and pestilences, things accounted evil by most men: the generality being wont to call these things evil. -- St. John Chrysostom, Homily 22 on Matthew
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The “other place” is Amos 3:6. One of the verses which, years ago, started me on the idea that God conducts history for the benefit of His Kingdom, the Church.
Peace and Joy!
George A. Marquart
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