Chrysostom: "Let the works lead you to marvel at their Maker."

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John Chrysostom preaching in Constantinople. John Chrysostom, c. 349 – 407. Archbishop of Constantinople. After the painting by Ambrose Dudley, (1867-1951). From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.
IN the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.​

Notice how the divine nature shines out of the very manner of creation, how he executes his creation in a way contrary to human procedures, first stretching out the heavens and then laying out the earth beneath, first the roof and then the foundation. Who has ever seen the like? Who has ever heard of it? No matter what human beings produce, this could never have happened—whereas when God decides, everything yields to his will and becomes possible. So don’t pry too closely with human reasoning into the works of God; instead, let the works lead you to marvel at their maker. Scripture says, remember, “What the eye cannot see in him has come into view from the creation of the world and are understood through the things he has made.”


John Chrysostom. Homilies on Genesis 1–17. Ed. Thomas P. Halton. Trans. Robert C. Hill. Vol. 74. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 1986. Print. The Fathers of the Church.
 
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Yes, John Chrysostom preaching from the ambo (ἄμβων), the high reading desk, near the middle of the ̔Αγία Σοφία in Constantinope as the ancient historian Socrates noted (NPNF2: Volume II, The Ecclesiastical History, by Socrates Scholasticus, Book VI, Chapter 5). It is said that he did so, rather than using the episcopal throne, on account of his small stature, so that he could be heard by all the people. Great depiction!

However, historians argue that John Chrysostom delivered this series of his sermons on Genesis while still in Antioch, and possibly while he was yet a deacon prior to being ordained a presbyter (see p. 6 of the work you cited as the source of your quote).
 
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