Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew

Ninety homilies covering the entire Gospel of Matthew — the most extensive patristic commentary on any single Gospel. Chrysostom reads Matthew with the Antiochene attention to the literal sense but always drives toward moral application. His treatment of the Sermon on the Mount is particularly powerful: he insists that Christ's teaching is not an impossible ideal but a genuine command, and he holds his wealthy Constantinopolitan congregation to account with a directness that made him dangerous to the powerful.

Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew is a central text in the Christian mystical tradition, offering insight into the spiritual life, the nature of divine union, and the transformation of the soul.