God of this world, who, [771]318.
God, used in a lower sense, [772]318.
Godly mind; what, [773]283; how produced, [774]ib.
Going to law, a reproach to Christians, [775]91; such disputes to be settled within the Church, [776]92; Christian privileges a reason for not taking legal proceedings, [777]93; men led to do this by covetousness, [778]ib.; the conqueror in such matters is he who yields, [779]94; reason from our Lord's example, [780]95.
Goliath, [781]393, [782]396.
Goods, loss of, hard to bear, [783]275; kept, are lost; dispersed, abide, [784]370.
Good works, where they find not sins to atone for, make the beauty of goodness greater, [785]300.
Gospel, the, two-fold veil over, [786]283; worketh not only remission of sins, but righteousness, [787]ib.; a savor of ointment, [788]302, [789]319; like light, blinds some, [790]302; enlighteneth sinners and delivereth them by thousands, [791]307; evidence from its propagation, [792]320; its precepts and doctrines unattractive, [793]41.
Grace, profits not if the life be impure, [794]336.
Grace and peace, how united, [795]4; grace, to whom given, [796]ib.; source of all blessings, [797]6.
Grecian pride, the strongholds pulled down by the Gospel, [798]376.
Greek nation, its childishness, [799]21.
Gymnosophists, the Indian, [800]352.
Habit, its tyranny, [801]316.
Hades, the gates of, [802]279.
Hadrian, [803]402.
Hagar, why taken by Abraham, [804]155; her insulting treatment of her mistress, [805]155.
Hamaxobii, [806]352.
Hearers, apt to think of other men's duties not their own, [807]154; no excuse for their sins, [808]ib.
Heathen, compassion for, [809]16; how to be dealt with, [810]21.
Heathen philosophy, its ill effect on the Corinthians, [811]2; why the Apostles had it not, [812]13; an obstacle to faith, [813]36; not afterwards disallowed, [814]37; its proper work, [815]17; superseded by faith, [816]18; this a predicted work of the Gospel, [817]22, [818]29; in a certain sense a part of God's education of the race, [819]24.
Heaven, fear of losing, less avails, [820]328; faint conception of joy, much more the reality, [821]ib.
Hebrews, why addressed collectively by St. Paul, [822]272; included Ammonites, [823]394.
Hebrew Christians, in a better state than the Corinthians, [824]44.
Hell-fire, eternal, [825]28, [826]49, [827]50; this hinted in 1 Cor. iii. 15; doctrine of, how to be made use of, [828]63. See [829]Eternal Punishment.
Hell, the prisons of, [830]329.
Hercules, referred to, [831]30.
Heresies, what meant by the term, [832]158; must needs be, [833]ib.; do not destroy free will, [834]159; worse than mere schism, [835]ib.
Heretical teachers, profess to teach more than the church, [836]1 and note.
Herod, ashamed at the light, [837]409, which trying to put out he kindled more, [838]410; his feast a banquet of demons, [839]411; in his murder of John set up a trophy against himself, [840]ib.
Herodias, chief author of John's murder, [841]409; the procuress, yea the murderess, of her daughter, [842]410; her guilt and Herod's known to all time and place, [843]410.
Herodias's, daughter, her tongue full of poison, [844]411.
High birth, of Christians, [845]24, [846]54.
Holiness, of the first Christians a kind of sign, [847]32; the best argument against infidels, [848]39; glorifies God more than His visible works, [849]102, [850]103.
Honors, require a strong soul to bear, [851]338, a weapon of righteousness, [852]339.
Horoscope, in use among the heathen, [853]21.
Human learning and talent, a check to belief, not a disqualification for it, [854]33.
Human wisdom, its weakness, [855]37; curbed by the law, [856]ib.
Humanity, how best shown to the sick and the sinner, [857]349.
Humbleness, looseth sin, [858]300.
Humiliation, must prepare a man for penitence, [859]60.
Humility, its tokens and blessing, [860]4; its origin, [861]5; exalts to heaven, [862]249.
Husbands, not to beat their wives, [863]154; how to treat them, [864]155; Abraham a pattern of, [865]155.
Husbands and wives, hinder not the Church from being a virgin, [866]383.
Hymenaeus, [867]400.
Idol sacrifices, show contempt of God and carelessness of others' good, [868]141; St. Paul's caution, respecting them, [869]144; idol feasts a way to idolatry, [870]111.
Idolatry, began from pride, [871]25; principle of argument against it, [872]113; held by the wiser heathen in a different sense from the vulgar, [873]ib.
Ignatius, why called Theophorus, [874]101.
Ignorance, the cause of many sins, [875]35, [876]36.
Image, which Nebuchadnezzar set up, supposed to correspond to what he saw in his dream, [877]103, (note); of the heavenly, what, [878]255.
Immortality of the soul, vainly taught by Plato, [879]19.
Incarnation, the, (lit. economy), [880]413.
Incest, its foulness, [881]83.
Incestuous person, the, had been applauded by the Corinthians, [882]2; not named in either epistle, for different reasons, [883]296; Paul's mode of dealing with him and its reasons, [884]297; Paul's conduct to him the greatest love, [885]349.
Indians, early date of their Church, [886]32.
Indolent, the, open to be transfixed by any wickedness, [887]316.
Infidels, borrow the slang of the race course, [888]323; their doubts of things unseen, [889]ib.; answered, [890]324.
Injurers, lose themselves, [891]304, [892]388-9; worthy of pity not curses, [893]305.
Injuries, borne meekly most avenge themselves, [894]335; benefit those who suffer them, [895]389.
Insensibility on religious subjects, [896]381.
Insufficiency of man, to supply his desires, [897]23, [898]24.
Invocation of the Spirit, in the Eucharist, [899]374.
Isaac, his behavior before the sacrifice, [900]292; a type of Christ in his meekness, [901]293.
Isaiah, exhorts concerning reproach, [902]338. "I think I have the spirit of God," an express claim to inspiration, [903]106.
Jacob, sought not his own, [904]147; poor and in bondage, [905]173; naturally timid, [906]174; his charity overcame shame and mockery, [907]197; his contentment, [908]309, [909]353; so showed a living soul, [910]309.
James, ordained by the Lord and made bishop of Jerusalem, [911]229.
Jeremiah, excused himself for not delivering his message, [912]170; sank under reproach, [913]338.
Jericho, fall of, [914]396.
Jerusalem, [915]312.
Jewish, types of Christian sacraments, [916]133; custom of searching for leaven, [917]86.
Jews, pride, the cause of their fall, [918]4; their conduct to the prophets, a warning to the apostles, [919]27; their punishments an earnest of ours, yet ours greater, [920]134, [921]135; their sins types of ours, [922]134, [923]135; causes of their fall, [924]135; some things in their covenant not typical but apply to Christ alone, [925]86; their passover compared to ours, [926]203; their arrogance corrected, [927]310; of a grovelling spirit, [928]310; believed not even the law, [929]311; saw not its glory, [930]ib.; their carnal mind, [931]312; shall acknowledge Christ in vain hereafter, [932]325; their captivity in a manner atoned for their sins, [933]388; made war against St. Paul especially, why, [934]396; benefitted by afflictions, [935]403; crouched to vain-glory, [936]416; thence exiles, [937]418.
Job, his charity to the poor, [938]207; his great patience, [939]94, [940]166; Satan's tempting of him, [941]166; his wife's cruelty, [942]167; his example to mourners, [943]168; a martyr, [944]275; wrestled with all kinds of suffering, [945]275; that he lived before the law increased his merit, [946]ib.; accused by the devil, [947]284; his resignation showed a living soul, [948]309; moved most by his friends' reproaches, [949]339; showed brighter after affliction, [950]401.
Job's wife, her advice inspired by the devil, [951]292.
John, one of the "chiefest" apostles, [952]385.
John the Baptist, his mildness in reproving, [953]409; reproved Herod rather than Herodias, why, [954]410; was grievous even unseen to Herodias, [955]410; why his head asked for, [956]410; it cries louder now, [957]410; after death a victor, [958]411.
Jonah, sought his own profit, [959]147; fled from his duty, [960]170.
Jonathan, a pattern of charity.
Joseph, a disinterested person, [961]147; a slave yet free, [962]109; his mistress rather a slave, [963]109; a pattern of charity, [964]192; spake not bitterly of injuries, [965]305; his words those of a living soul, [966]309; well favored, [967]315; shone by suffering, [968]401.
Joseph's brethren, sinned, not having the fear of God before their eyes, [969]303.
Joy in God a defence against pain, [970]275.
Judaical observances, old things, [971]332.
Judas, his commission no plea for the sacriligious and covetous, [972]297, [973]389.
Judgment, rash, of the Corinthians, [974]58; of others' conduct allowable in respect of definite, but not indefinite duties, [975]59; in respect of their general characters impossible, and why, [976]60; false judgment of men in regard to things of the world, [977]68.
Judgment, Future, infidel doubts concerning, answered, [978]323; follows from God's justice, [979]323; conscience testifies to a, [980]324; believed in universally whatever difference in details, [981]324; its doom irreversible, [982]325; to be imagined present, [983]328; outlines and symbols of, exhibited at the martyries of the saints, [984]403.
Judgment, the day of, all things revealed in it, [985]287; none can deliver in it, [986]325.
Justification, by giving the Spirit, [987]24; means liberation from sin, [988]60; by grace, not works, [989]334, [990]335.
Kingdom of Christ, how delivered up to the Father, [991]238; twofold, [992]239.
Kiss of peace, used at the Holy Eucharist, [993]265. (note.)
Knowledge, is common property, [994]111; nothing without charity, [995]112; imperfect to the present state, [996]113; in what sense to be done away, [997]202; of God in the future state, [998]202; before and after the Gospel compared, [999]203; impiety of our claiming perfect, [1000]203; such knowledge possessed by the Spirit and the Son, [1001]203; an ointment, [1002]301; present, a savor, [1003]302.
Laity, their prayers and assent required at ordinations, [1004]365; partake of both bread and cup, [1005]366; pray with and for the priest, [1006]366; share in thanksgivings and elections, [1007]366; should not throw the whole care for the Church on the priests, [1008]367.
Law, used by St. Paul for the Old Testament, [1009]216; old law contrasted with the more perfect dispensation of the Gospel, [1010]126, [1011]155.
Law of Moses, mystical meaning of, [1012]121.
Law of Nature, harmonizes with God's law, [1013]154 "under the law, without law," what, [1014]129.
Law, the, how the strength of sin, [1015]257; spiritual, but bestowed not a spirit, [1016]307; compared with grace, [1017]ib.; how it killeth, [1018]ib.; showed and punished, not caused, sin, [1019]310; only letters, no help by it, [1020]310; fixed to one place, [1021]310; hid from the Jews, [1022]311; confessed to its own abolition, [1023]312; those who forsake it see its meaning, [1024]313.
Lazarus, stood on the summit of heavenly wisdom, [1025]308; his lot and the rich man's compared, [1026]324, [1027]346.
Liberty, what it is, [1028]145.
Life, a good, preparation for faith, [1029]44; of primitive Christians compared with those of later times, [1030]32, [1031]33.
Life in the soul, what, [1032]307; to be preserved in it by our own efforts, [1033]307; how tested, [1034]308; how shown in words, [1035]309.
Loneliness, increases trials, [1036]300.
Lord's Prayer, not permitted to Catechumens, [1037]282.
Lot, his want of generosity and disinterestedness, [1038]146, [1039]155.
Love, of Christ to us, [1040]140; of the primitive Church, greater than ours, [1041]140; to Christ casts out all sin, [1042]264; signs of in open mouth and large heart, [1043]342; in rejoicing at the good as well as grieving at the ills of friends, [1044]347; consumeth sins like a fire, [1045]369; he that is without it a useless man, [1046]405; especially to those who love him, [1047]405; to be shown in defending friends when ill-spoken of, [1048]406.
Love of Christ, will make sinners even punish themselves, [1049]335.
Love of God, to be shown in deeds, 421; best secures our salvation, 422.
Luke, by some thought "the brother whose praise, etc.," [1050]363.
Lust, how admitted; how fed, [1051]315; fiercer than avarice, [1052]315; from ourselves and not the devil only, [1053]315; gendered by idleness, [1054]316; by habit, [1055]316; its cure, [1056]316; the fear of God best quenches it, [1057]316, [1058]345; to be quenched by thought of hell-fires, [1059]316, [1060]330; more imperious than love of money, [1061]389; or anger, [1062]389; hath overcome great persons, [1063]389; not therefore excusable but to be watched against, [1064]389; permitted in a sort in marriage, [1065]389; implanted and why, [1066]389.
Luxury, examples of, [1067]124, [1068]247; how it unfits for heaven, [1069]257, [1070]258.
Lying, a sin of the poor, [1071]346.
Macedonian Controversy, alluded to, [1072]172.
Macedonians, the, compared with the Corinthians, [1073]277, [1074]386; their praises, [1075]356; had suffered loss of goods for the Gospel, [1076]356; their bountifulness had many degrees of excess, [1077]357; was accompanied by other graces, [1078]357; the assistance they gave to St. Paul, [1079]387.
Madness of the Mind, in grasping shadows, [1080]416; inexcusable, [1081]417.
Magic, the suspicion of it in miracles obviated, [1082]30; magical verses quoted, [1083]169.
Magus, [1084]415.
Magnanimity, true and false, [1085]5.
Man, first and second, why those expressions used, [1086]255; men made to depend upon each other, [1087]147, [1088]57; how superior to women, [1089]153.
Mankind, out of contentiousness take part with persons evil spoken of, [1090]407.
Manliness, the test of, [1091]371.
Manes, his system, [1092]38.
Manichees, [1093]255; dismember St. Paul's writings, [1094]378; refuted by them, [1095]378.
Manna, the, [1096]361.
Marcion, his notions, [1097]318; dismembered St. Paul's writings, [1098]378; yet refuted by them, [1099]378.
Marcionite way of perverting the phrase "baptized for the dead," [1100]244; their Dualism, [1101]318 (note.)
Marriage, heathen ceremonies at, condemned, [1102]69; mixed, rules for, [1103]106; reasons for continuance in, [1104]107; second marriages, when unlawful, [1105]111; with kindred forbidden, [1106]110; in order to lead us to charity, [1107]204; declined by some on worldly grounds, [1108]323; not accused by Chrysostom, [1109]324; concessions in respect to, [1110]420. See [1111]Husbands and Wives.
Martyrdom, always a time for, [1112]274; attained without dying, [1113]275; patience under loss of goods a kind of, [1114]275; or under loss of children, [1115]275; a name appropriate to our Lord's death, [1116]29; nothing without love, [1117]148.
Martyries, [1118]403.
Maran atha, meaning of, [1119]265 (note) why used in this place, [1120]266.
Mary, the first who saw Christ, [1121]229.