The answer
St. John Chrysostom says, “What then? Has not he been injured who has been exposed to slander, and suffered confiscation of his property, having been deprived of all his goods, and is thrown out of his patrimony, and struggles with extreme poverty? No! he has not been injured, but has even profited, if he be sober. For, tell me, what harm did this do the apostles? Were they not continually struggling with hunger, and thirst and nakedness? And this was the very reason why they were so illustrious, and distinguished, and won for themselves much help from God.”658
Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty
Notes
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).