And love the uppermost places at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Everything he accused them of was small and trifling. Yet he was dealing with the cause of all the evils: ambition, the violent seizing of the teacher’s chair, and so on. These he brings forward and corrects with diligence, confronting this strongly and earnestly charging them. His own disciples needed to be warned about these matters. The Gospel of Matthew, Homily
