Especially because I know you to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: therefore I beseech you to hear me patiently.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
And yet, had he been conscious of guilt, he should have feared at being tried in the presence of one who knew all the facts: but this is a mark of a clear conscience, not to shrink from a judge who has an accurate knowledge of the circumstances, but even to rejoice, and to call himself happy. I beseech you, he says, to hear me patiently. Since he is about to lengthen out his speech, and to say something about himself, on this account, he premises an entreaty, and (then) says: My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among my own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews: which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
