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Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew

St. John Chrysostom · c. 390

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Preached in Antioch around 390, these ninety sermons go through St. Matthew's Gospel from the genealogy to the Great Commission. Each one explains a passage and then turns to how his listeners should live: prayer, almsgiving, anger, money and the poor.

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Translated by George Prevost, revised by M. B. Riddle, in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, first series, vol. 10 (1888), edited by Philip Schaff.

This translation is in the public domain. We took the text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and left out the editors’ footnotes.

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