Annotation CCXLVII

”He asketh for the saints according to God.” — Romans 8:27

The privation of eternal glory.

Chrysostom, not far from the end of homily 14 on the epistle to the Romans, [coming] to a

—recurring to a sentence peculiar to himself, says: the privation of the DIVINE glory [to be] graver than any gehenna, and the alienation from the eternal rest [to be] worse than any punishments whatsoever. See above, Annotation 41 of this book.