[32] poss. authorities
[33] Ps 138:17 LXX. Ps 139:17 MT differs radically from this reading.
[34] i.e. swearing oaths
[35] i.e. to swear falsely
[36] ἀγᾰνακτέω, the same verb used for 'vexed' above.
[37] Mt 5:29
[38] Chrysostom's meaning seems to be 'those friends whom we hold as dear as our own eyes', which Migne's Latin also implies.
[39] N elected officials would enter office on the Kalends, which presumably explains the kind of political conversation Chrysostom has in view.
[40] Possibly with a technical or financial sense: fined, punished
[41] These two verbs continue the protasis of the conditional
[42] 2 Cor 7:10
[43] 'Mean' in the sense of cheap, frugal, vulgar.
[44] i.e. that you encounter when walking around
[45] Sirach 19:30 (LXX; KJV), 19:27 (VUL). The sense of the phrase is that they 'declare concerning him'. The Vulgate gets at it more clearly (though Migne's Latin does not match the Clementine Vulgate)
[46] Lit. 'work'
[47] A difficult phrase to translate: τὴν οὐσίαν εὐπορωτέραν ἐργαζώμεθα
[48] Acts 16:25-40
[49] Numbers 25
[50] Psalm 106:30-31, (Ps 105:30-1 LXX) both the MT and Migne have 'from generation to generation', whereas LXX, Chrys, and Vul have 'unto generation and generation.'
[51] Migne references Luke 18, by which he must mean Luke 18:9-14, concerning the Pharisee and the Tax Collector.
[52] βιωτικὸν earthly, of this world, not-spiritual
[53] Chrysostom's drift seems to be equity in mercantile dealings, especially in light of scarcity. Not driving up prices in times of need or to those in need is, in effect, a gracious sharing with them of what would otherwise be exploitive profit.
[54] Pr 11:26a. There is significant variation in this verse, as the following shows.
LXX: ὁ συνέχων σῖτον ὑπολίποιτο αὐτὸν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν;