curing the sick by the touch of his scarfs, &c. He desires to feast his
heart by dwelling still longer on the chains of this apostle, being
himself fettered with a chain from which he would not be separated: for
he declares himself to be closer and faster linked to St. Paul's chains
by desire, than that apostle was in prison. In the like strain he speaks
of the chains of St. Peter, and of St. John Baptist. In the next Homily,
(9,) he returns in equal raptures to St. Paul in chains for Christ; in
which state he calls him a spectacle of glory far beyond all the
triumphs of emperors and conquerors. Our saint gives excellent
instructions on the duties of married persons, Hom. 20; on the education
of children in the practice and spirit of obedience and piety, Hom. 21;
and on the duties of servants, Hom. 22.

The eighteen homilies On the First Epistle to Timothy, and ten On the
Second, seem also to have been preached at Antioch, (t. 11, p. 146.)
They are not equally polished, but contain excellent instructions
against covetousness, and the love of the world; on alms, on the duties
of bishops, and those of widows, &c.; on the education of children, Hom.
10, p. 596. The six, On the Epistle to Titus, are more elaborate: also
three On the Epistle to Philemon, which seem all to have been finished
at Antioch.

In the eleventh tome we have also eleven sermons, which St. Chrysostom
preached at Constantinople about the end of the year 398. Tile second
was spoken upon the following occasion, (ib. p. 332:) The empress
Eudoxia procured a solemn procession and translation of the relics of
certain martyrs, to be made from the great church in Constantinople to
the church of St. Thomas the apostle in Drypia, on the sea-shore, nine
miles out of town. The princes without any retinue, priests, monks,
nuns, ladies, and the people, attended the procession in such
multitudes, that from the light of the burning tapers which they carried
in their hands the sea seemed as it were on fire. The empress walked all
the way behind, touching the shrine and the veil which covered it. The
procession set out in the beginning of the night, passed through the
market-place, and arrived at Drypia about break of day. There St.
Chrysostom made an extemporary sermon, in which he described the pomp of
this ceremony, commended the piety of the empress, and proved that if
the clothes, handkerchiefs, and even shadow of saints on earth had
wrought many miracles, a bless