INJURY TO SELF

John Chrysostom, from a little town in the Taurus Mountains

named Cucusus, to which he had been banished by Arcadius,

addrest a treatise to Olympias entitled, “None Can Hurt a Man

Who Will Not Hurt Himself.” Later, dying from cruel exposure,

the last moments of this holy man were spent in praising God and

admonishing his companions, and his last words were, “I have

never been hurt, because I have not hurt myself.” (Text.)

(1622)

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