Can death harm us?

St. John Chrysostom says, “And why do I speak of removal into a foreign land, and poverty, and evil report, and bondage? For what harm did death itself inflict on Abel,

658 St. John Chrysostom, A Treatise to Prove That No One Can Harm the Man Who Does Not Injure Himself 4 (NPNF I/9:273).

659 St. John Chrysostom, A Treatise to Prove That No One Can Harm the Man Who Does Not Injure Himself 5 (NPNF I/9:274–275) amended.

660 St. John Chrysostom, A Treatise to Prove That No One Can Harm the Man Who Does Not Injure Himself 10 (NPNF I/9:278).

although it was a violent and untimely death, and perpetrated by a brother’s hand? Is not this the reason why his praise is sounded throughout the whole world?”⁶⁶¹