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Thank you, Richard, for your rebuttal of the material which was posted in defense of the alleged antisemitism of St. John Chrysostom. I was afraid that it would be left uncriticized. I thought of doing something myself, but I'm happy to have waited until someone as knowledgeable as yourself responded. I found the material quite unsettling. It had an air to me of antisemitism itself. I should point out, I suppose, that I am not Jewish. Nor am I Christian, or a member of any other religion, although, mirabile dictu (I suppose), I 'm not an atheist either. My ancestry is largely, as far back as the 17th century, Puritan, by way of 17th century New England in what is now the USA, but my parents practiced no religion that I detected, and though my mother tried sending me to a Congregational (Protestant) Sunday school and church when I was a child, it didn't take. I say all this so I can suggest to you that I can, as it were, evaluate, to some extent, material of this sort without a commit to defend some particular sort of religious faith. I suppose, if classify me you must, I'm an agnostic, to use Thomas Huxley's term. I simply don't know the answers to most of the major questions of the sort that religions address. It may be that when I die some of my questions will be answered. Or maybe not. I just don't know. I expect that numerous adherents of most any religious faith will find this position incomprehensible, or reprehensible, or worse. Gordon Fisher [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%