# Catecheses ad illuminandos 1-8 (series tertia) 5.14

Joannes Chrysostomus Scr. Eccl. John Chrysostom, Catecheses ad illuminandos 1-8 (series tertia), Catechesis 5. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/joannes-chrysostomus-scr-eccl-john-chrysostom/catecheses-ad-illuminandos-1-8-series-tertia/5.14

Διὸ πολλὴν ὑμᾶς προσήκει ποιεῖσθαι τὴν φροντίδα, ἀγαπητοί, ὥστε τοὺς πλησίον διορθοῦν καὶ ἐξαρπάζειν τοῦ κλυδωνίου τούτου, ἵνα μὴ μόνον ὑπὲρ τῶν καθ' ἑαυτοὺς ἀλλὰ καὶ τῆς ἑτέρων σωτηρίας πολὺν κομίσησθε τὸν μισθόν. Οὕτω καὶ Παῦλος ἔλεγε· «Μηδεὶς τὸ ἑαυτοῦ ζητείτω ἀλλὰ τὸ τοῦ πλησίον συμφέρον.» Καὶ πάλιν· «Οἰκοδομεῖτε εἷς τὸν ἕνα.» Μὴ τοίνυν τοῦτο ἴδῃς ὅτι αὐτὸς ὑγιαίνεις καὶ ἀπήλλαξαι τῆς νόσου, ἀλλὰ πολλὴν ποιοῦ τὴν φροντίδα καὶ τὴν μέριμναν ὥστε καὶ τὸ μέλος τὸ σὸν ἐλευθερωθῆναι τῆς ἐντεῦθεν βλάβης καὶ τὴν νόσον διαφυγεῖν. «Μέλη γάρ ἐσμεν ἀλλήλων καὶ εἴτε πάσχει ἓν μέλος συμπάσχειν χρὴ πάντα τὰ μέλη καὶ εἴτε δοξάζεται ἓν μέλος συγχαίρειν δεῖ πάντα τὰ μέλη.»

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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/.