The first virtue, yea the whole of virtue, is to be a stranger to this world, and a sojourner, and to have nothing in common with things here, but to hang loose from them, as from things strange to us; As those blessed disciples did, of whom he says, ‘They wandered about in sheep-skins, and in goat-skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented of whom the world was not worthy’ (11:37-37).

John Chrysostom| Homilies on the Gospel of St. John and the Epistle to the Hebrews (NPNF, 14; Edinburgh and Grand Rapids: T&T Clark and Eerdmans, 1996 reprint ed.), 473 (Hom. 24.1).

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  The Rev. Dr. S. M. Baugh is Professor Emeritus of New Testament at Westminster Seminary California, where he taught Greek and New Testament from 1983–2021. He is author of two grammars of New Testament Greek, a contributor to the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary, the commentary on Ephesians in the Evangelical Exegetical Commentary series, The Majesty of High (on the Kingdom of God), and numerous articles. He is a minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.

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