The ideal Christian household, according to one of John Chrysostom’s best-known dictums, is a little church (ἐκκλησία μικρὰ). With this identification, he places the personal virtuous regimens of Chapter 2 in a spatial framework that shapes the lay Christian experience just as significantly as do the medico-philosophical and economic frameworks we saw there. This, too, is a metaphor, in the sense that it structures one thing (the Christian household) in terms of another (the church) but, like the medical metaphors of Chapter 2, it has such tangible real-world entailments that it practically functions as a nonfigurative statement. In addition, it is a metaphor that involves the transference of meaning between two places. To understand what he means by it, we must look at the meaning-making power of place, and the place-making power of accumulated meaning.