I have found a passage in Ambrose of Cori's commentary on
the Rule of Saint Augustine that clearly depicts John
Chrysostom as a murderer, and this time the text is not, as
far as I can tell, open to a different interpretation (as
was the case with my previous query on this topic). The
passage reads:
O fratres mei, xl et ultra annos exemplum extitit
pudicitie, qui unico momento amisit gloriam castitatis, et
homicidii perpetravit delictum.
So once again I ask: had anyone heard of this tradition of
Chrysostom falling into grave sin. It is certainly very
strange . . .
Stephen A. Allen
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