42. As I am 'almost' a stranger to the voluminous sermons of
Chrysostom, I have given my confidence to the two most
judicious and moderate of the ecclesiastical critics,
Erasmus (tom. iii. p. 1344) and Dupin (Bibliotheque
Ecclesiastique tom. iii. p. 38); yet the good taste of the
former is sometimes vitiated by an excessive love of
antiquity, and the good sense of the latter is always
restrained by prudential considerations.