{"collection":"Christian Texts","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_chr_ecf_114_1140053_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_chr_ecf_114_1140053_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_chr_ecf_114_1140053_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/114/1140053.htm","summary":"This is a patristic homily \u2014 specifically one of John Chrysostom's commentaries on the Gospel of John \u2014 expounding John 7:1\u20138, in which Jesus declines to accompany his brothers to the Feast of Tabernacles in Judea. Chrysostom's central exegetical move is to resolve the apparent contradiction between the Evangelist saying Jesus \"had not power\" to walk in Judea and his obvious divine omnipotence: the phrase signals a deliberate dispensation, not incapacity, with Jesus timing his movements according to the approaching Passion rather than from fear. He reads the brothers' urging \u2014 that Jesus show himself openly to his disciples \u2014 not as friendly advice but as covert envy, possibly even an attempt to engineer his betrayal to the Jews, noting that envy among kin at a superior's success is a recurring theme from the Fall through Cain to the Jewish leaders. A notably distinctive claim is that the Evangelist's willingness to record embarrassing facts (his own brothers' unbelief) proves the Gospel writers' commitment to truth over reputation. The homily closes with an extended moral application on anger, arguing that wrath is worse than demonic possession because it is voluntary, and that the proper response to insult is silence, pity, or laughter \u2014 advice grounded in Chrysostom's characteristic fusion of Scripture, Stoic temperance, and social observation.","tags":["Epistle to the Hebrews","Gospel of John","John Chrysostom"],"text":null,"title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. XIV: The Homilies of...","tradition":"Christian Texts","translated_text":null,"word_count":2410}