15 December 2021

Patristic Quote of the Day

Do you see how terrifying death is? So then, let’s marvel at our Master in that he made what was terrifying to the prophets (1 Kings 19:2,3) contemptible to women. Elijah fled death; women fled toward death.—St. John Chrysostom, On Sts. Bernike, Prosdoke, and Domnina, par. 7.

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