Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn everyone night and day with tears.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
See how many strong expressions are here: with tears, and night and day, and every one. For it was not that if he saw many, then he came in (to the work), but even were it for a single soul, he was capable of doing everything (for that one soul). So it was, in fact, that he compacted them together (συνεκρότησεν) (so firmly as he did). Enough done on my part: three years have I remained: they had establishing enough, he says; enough of roofing. With tears, he says. Do you see that the tears were on this account? The bad man grieves not: grieve thou: perhaps he will grieve also. As, when the sick man sees his physician partaking of food, he also is incited to do the same: so likewise here, when he sees you weeping, he is softened: he will be a good and great man.
