Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Leviticus 15:18

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 14, page 516, footnote 4 (Image)

Chrysostom: Homilies on the Gospel of St. John and the Epistle to the Hebrews

The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Hebrews. (HTML)

Hebrews 12.28,29 (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3469 (In-Text, Margin)

But let us see in what sense “Marriage is honorable in all and the bed undefiled.” Because (he means) it preserves the believer in chastity. Here he also alludes to the Jews, because they accounted the woman after childbirth polluted: and “whosoever comes from the bed,” it is said, “is not clean.”[Leviticus 15:18] Those things are not polluted which arise from nature, O ungrateful and senseless Jew, but those which arise from choice. For if “marriage is honorable” and pure, why forsooth dost thou think that one is even polluted by it?