Ezek. xxxiii. 6.

Compare with this chapter the first homily of Chrysostom to the people of Antioch.

Rom. viii. 28.

1 Pet. iii. 4.

1 Tim. vi. 6-10.

Job i. 21.

1 Tim. vi. 17-19.

Matt. vi. 19-21.

Paulinus was a native of Bordeaux, and both by inheritance and marriage acquired great wealth, which, after his conversion in his thirty-sixth year, he distributed to the poor. He became bishop of Nola in a.d. 409, being then in his fifty-sixth year. Nola was taken by Alaric shortly after the sack of Rome.