It appears by this that St. Chrysostom did not consider Nathanael to be the same with St. Bartholomew.
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Homily 30
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English translation and editorial credits: Sir George Prevost, M. B. Riddle.
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And wherefore can it be, one may say, that he hath not told us of the others also, how and in what manner they were called; but only of Peter and James, and John and Philip, and nowhere of the others?
κεχρσθαι το πομνοι, “to treat their followers.” The last editor thinks there is a designed play upon the words, by way of rhetorical turn, here.
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5. Then what He had done before, this He doth here again. I mean, that as He, when they were attempting to prove Him blameable for eating with sinners, proved to them on the contrary, that His proceeding was not only no blame, but an absolute praise to Him: so here too, when they wanted to show of Him, that He knows not how to manage His disciples, He signifies that such language was the part of men not knowing how to manage their inferences,but finding fault at random.
Matt. ix. 17: [R.V., “wine-skins.” Comp. the next paragraph.]
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“Neither do men put new wine into old bottles.”
[῾Ελλνων; see note on Homily XII. 5, p. 79.—R.]
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Together with these things remind her also of the women of old, of Sarah, of Rebecca, both of the fair and of them that were not so, and point out how all equally practised modesty. For even Leah, the wife of the patriarch, not being fair, was not constrained to devise any such thing, but although she were uncomely, and not very much beloved by her husband, she neither devised any such thing, nor marred her countenance, but continued to preserve the lineaments thereof undisfigured, and this though brought up by Gentiles.