this displays the bright aspect of the Church: that having received her enemy as a captive, she spares him, and when all have despised him in his desolation, she alone like an affectionate mother has concealed him under her cloak, opposing both the wrath of the emperor and the rage of the people and their overwhelming hatred.

Saint John Chrysostom
HOMILY ONE, On Eutropios the eunuch, patrician, and consul
On the Vanity of Riches