His poverty was worse than a beggar’s.
He endured physical pain.
He endured the death of his children.
He endured ridicule from men.
He endured the horrors of the night.
661 St. John Chrysostom, A Treatise to Prove That No One Can Harm the Man Who Does Not Injure Himself 4 (NPNF I/9:273).
662 St. John Chrysostom, A Treatise to Prove That No One Can Harm the Man Who Does Not Injure Himself 15–16 (NPNF I/9:281–283) amended.
663 See St. John Chrysostom, A Treatise to Prove That No One Can Harm the Man Who Does Not Injure Himself 3 (NPNF I/9:273).