# Catecheses ad illuminandos 1-8 (series tertia) 4.28

Joannes Chrysostomus Scr. Eccl. John Chrysostom, Catecheses ad illuminandos 1-8 (series tertia), Catechesis 4. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/joannes-chrysostomus-scr-eccl-john-chrysostom/catecheses-ad-illuminandos-1-8-series-tertia/4.28

Εἶτα τὸν καρπὸν τοῦ Πνεύματος ἡμῖν διελθὼν ἐπήγαγεν· «Οἱ δὲ τοῦ Χριστοῦ τὴν σάρκα ἐσταύρωσαν σὺν τοῖς παθήμασι καὶ ταῖς ἐπιθυμίαις», ὡς ἂν εἴποι τις ἀνενέργητον αὐτὴν πρὸς τὴν τῶν κακῶν ἐργασίαν ἀπέδειξαν, ἄπρακτον αὐτὴν κατέστησαν, οὕτως αὐτὴν κατηγωνίσαντο ὡς ἀνωτέραν εἶναι καὶ τῶν παθῶν καὶ τῶν ἐπιθυμιῶν. Τοῦτο γὰρ ᾐνίξατο εἰπών «ἐσταύρωσαν». Καθάπερ γὰρ ὁ ἐπὶ τοῦ σταυροῦ προσηλωμένος καὶ τοῖς ἥλοις ἐκείνοις προσπεπαρμένος ὑπὸ τῶν ὀδυνῶν διακοπτόμενος καὶ ἐντεῦθεν κἀκεῖθεν ὡς εἰπεῖν κεντούμενος, οὐκ ἂν δυνηθείη ποτὲ ὑπὸ σαρκικῆς ἐπιθυμίας ἐνοχληθῆναι ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰ πάθη πάντα καὶ ἐπιθυμία πᾶσα πονηρὰ φυγαδεύεται, τῆς ὀδύνης οὐδεμίαν χώραν ἐκείνοις τοῖς πάθεσι παρεχούσης, τὸν αὐτὸν δὴ τρόπον καὶ οἱ τῷ Χριστῷ ἑαυτοὺς ἀναθέντες οὕτως αὐτῷ προσηλώθησαν καὶ κατεγέλασαν τῶν σωματικῶν ἀναγκῶν ὡσανεὶ σταυρώσαντες ἑαυτοὺς μετὰ τῶν παθῶν καὶ τῶν ἐπιθυμιῶν.

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Joannes Chrysostomus Scr. Eccl. John Chrysostom, Catecheses ad illuminandos 1-8 (series tertia). Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg2062.tlg382.local001/.