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No One Can Harm the Man Who Does Not Injure Himself
St. John Chrysostom · image, public domain
St. John Chrysostom wrote this short treatise from exile, sick and far from his flock, near the end of his life. Poverty, slander, exile and death cannot touch the soul, he says. Only our own sin can harm us.
It is short and strong, and many people keep it close in hard times.
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About this edition
From the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, first series, vol. 9 (1889), 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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