Perils, use of, [1489]280.
Persecution, not needed for our trial, [1490]76; for Christ's sake, a token of God's favor, [1491]72; causes triumph, [1492]301.
Persians, incest among, [1493]316; John's murder known among, [1494]410.
Persons, the, of the Trinity, not confounded by Chrysostom, [1495]419.
Peter, confounded with Paul, [1496]29, [1497]56; the Coryphaeus, [1498]120; why allowed to see Christ first after the resurrection, [1499]230; his very shadow mighty, [1500]314; had been lost if God punished in sin, [1501]324; his sorrow, [1502]351; loosed by the church's prayer, [1503]365; ordained Matthias, [1504]366.
Pharisee, the, suffered shipwreck in harbor, [1505]394.
Philetus, [1506]400.
Philip's daughters, prophetesses, [1507]152, [1508]186; a fulfilment of Joel's prophecy, [1509]152.
Philosophers, let their hair and beard grow as a token of study, [1510]149 (note.)
Pilate, [1511]324; his report to Tiberius, [1512]402 (note.)
Plants, variety of disposition in, [1513]354; like men, have their death, life, etc., [1514]354; God's providence shown in respect to them, [1515]354.
Plato, wrongly compared with Paul, [1516]14; persecuted by Dionysius, [1517]20, (note;) comparative uselessness of his speculations, [1518]19; unable to prevail against custom, [1519]40; his testimony respecting soothsayers, [1520]169.
Plenary effusion of the spirit in baptism, [1521]34.
Pleasure, of virtue and vice compared, [1522]130; of this world short-lived, [1523]174; of beholding God in his works, [1524]136; of covetousness a poor one, [1525]137; of love, [1526]192; of a right use of riches, [1527]207; present pleasure of chastity more than uncleanness, [1528]224; of gluttony only momentary, [1529]242. See [1530]Luxury, [1531]Virtue, [1532]Vice.
Poor, not to be despised, [1533]116; to be entertained, [1534]117; where placed in the church to receive alms, [1535]179, (note;) intercessors for the rich, [1536]179; tokens of this world's frailty, [1537]179; indignities to them done against the church, [1538]159; have most enjoyment of the sun, the air, etc., [1539]340; reap the advantage of rich men's outlays, [1540]340; have the advantage in spiritual things, [1541]340; useful to the salvation of the rich, [1542]361, [1543]362; more independent than the rich, [1544]362; how to be received when they come to beg, [1545]362; liable to envy, [1546]373; are Christ's body and altar, [1547]374; to be reverenced not repelled, [1548]374.
Post mortem probation, denied by Chrysostom, [1549]330 (note).
Potiphar's wife, her words those of a dead soul, [1550]309.
Porphyry, a witness to the Scripture, [1551]32; his remarks upon magical verses, [1552]169, (note).
Portraiture of Paul, in his imitation of Christ, [1553]74, [1554]75.
Praise, a smoke that reached God's throne, [1555]374.
Praise of others, to be added to, not envied, [1556]408.
Prayer, in an unknown tongue inexpedient, [1557]211; for others efficacious, [1558]280; of a multitude efficacious, [1559]281; for the Catechumens, [1560]281, (note;) comment on do., [1561]281, [1562]285; inattention at, [1563]285; persevered in worketh forgiveness, [1564]300; worldly thoughts to be shut out in, [1565]303; viz. by bearing in mind with whom we are conversing, etc., [1566]303; answers to sacrifice, [1567]304; distractions in, [1568]304; against enemies to be rejected, [1569]304; for enemies obtains forgiveness, [1570]304, [1571]305.
Prayers of the Catechumens, [1572]284, [1573]285; of the faithful, [1574]285.
Prayer for the dead, why used, [1575]253; inconsistent with Purgatory, [1576]253 (note;) in all the ancient liturgies, [1577]253; offered up at the time of the eucharist, [1578]253.
Preaching, the, no uncertainty in, [1579]289; nor in its promises, [1580]289; its power, [1581]301; not of man, nor needing aid from beneath, [1582]376; external wisdom contributed nothing to, [1583]385; rivalry in, [1584]408; compared with baptism, [1585]12.
Prepositions, implying agency, (en, dia, etc., ) why used in speaking of God the Father, [1586]8.
Pride, of knowledge, its danger, [1587]135; of life, to be trodden under foot, [1588]143; pride the mother of evils, [1589]346; made the devil a devil, [1590]346; a sin of the rich, [1591]346.
Priests, to give thanks for others, their part, [1592]281; where no difference between, and the people, [1593]365, [1594]366.
Profit, our own how to be sought, [1595]147, [1596]197; our neighbors the canon of Christianity, [1597]146; no high virtue without this, [1598]146; how men made by Providence to seek it, [1599]147, [1600]197, [1601]205; examples of those who sought their own, but found it not, [1602]146; and of those who sought others' and found their own, [1603]147; excuses for selfishness answered, [1604]147, [1605]148; even martyrdom nothing without it, [1606]148.
Profuseness, on lusts, common, [1607]369, [1608]370.
Promise, the, used of Canaan, [1609]333. (note.)
Promises of God, sure, [1610]289.
Prophets, knew not all things, [1611]288, [1612]292; wrought life in bodies, could not in souls, [1613]307.
Prophecy, fulfilled, a kind of miracle, [1614]31; double sense of, [1615]36. See [1616]Gifts of Prophecy.
Propagation of the Gospel, a kind of sign, [1617]32; why now at a stand, [1618]32; why attended with miracles, [1619]30, [1620]31; why effected by the unlearned, [1621]23, [1622]24; against the tyranny of ancient custom, [1623]40; a proof of the divine nature of the Gospel, [1624]20, [1625]21, [1626]25, [1627]40, [1628]43; of the power of the cross, [1629]19. See [1630]Evidence.
Punishments, human, their analogy with the threats of Scripture, [1631]49, [1632]50; Apostolic and miraculous, [1633]79. See [1634]Eternal, [1635]Hell fire.
Punishment, temporal, of sin, [1636]324; not universal, [1637]324; we should even wish for and inflict on ourselves, [1638]334; as men do who have injured friends, [1639]335.
Punishment, eternal, compared with temporal punishments, [1640]325; fear of, avails more, [1641]328; irremissible, [1642]329; thought of, applied to different sins, [1643]330; may be made impossible by each man for himself, [1644]330.
Pythian Priestess, her madness, [1645]170.
Pulse, the exclusive use of, recommended, [1646]370.
Race course terms, used by scoffers at heavenly things, [1647]323.
Rationalizing, a source of early heresy, [1648]2; foolishness of it in things human and divine, [1649]16; compared to a smith using the tongs with his hand, [1650]23; exemplified in Adam, [1651]24; excludes stability in doctrine, [1652]24, [1653]25; compared to a pilot without a ship, [1654]33.
Reading the Scriptures, in public, a motive to reverence, [1655]220, (note).
Reasoning from analogy, proper for infidels, [1656]249.
Rebecca, her charity to Jacob, [1657]196, note; her conduct, why vindicated by the Fathers generally, [1658]196.
Rebuke, pain of, brief; good of, perpetual, [1659]350; danger of withholding, [1660]351.
Regeneration, at baptism, [1661]176, [1662]284; a greater thing than the resurrection, [1663]307.
Relations, cannot succor in hell, [1664]329; nor will wish to, [1665]330.
Repentance, tokens of, [1666]47; produced by severe censure, [1667]60; never too late in this world, nor to be obtained in the next, [1668]136; how made use of by Satan, [1669]298; ashes and fastings are not of themselves, [1670]299; in what its efficacy consists, [1671]299; shown in humbleness, [1672]299, [1673]300; to be perpetual, [1674]300; future, vain, [1675]325; here always possible, [1676]381; danger and sin of delaying, [1677]382; able to right transgressions, [1678]410; hinders an Apostle even from punishing, [1679]417; how the way to joy, [1680]418.
Reproach, harder to bear than affliction, [1681]338; many fall by it, [1682]339.
Reproof, of a brother, how to be practised, [1683]266; an example of, [1684]266.
Reserve, necessary in teaching, [1685]34; how consistent with full preaching, [1686]35; St. Paul's practice of in declaring pardon to the incestuous person, [1687]87; necessary in speaking of the sacraments, [1688]244, [1689]245.
Resurrection, a work ascribed both to the Father and the Son, [1690]97; its credibility proved by analogies from nature and art, [1691]98; objections of rationalists not to be listened to, [1692]98; an evil conscience, the ground of man's unbelief of, [1693]98; creation a type of, [1694]99; its importance as a doctrine of Christianity, [1695]226; two opposite errors concerning it, [1696]226; design of Satan in attacking it, [1697]226; course of St. Paul's argument for it, [1698]227; Manichaean notion of, confuted, [1699]228, (note,) [1700]235, (note;) reality of Christ's resurrection proved by his death, [1701]228; and burial, [1702]228; and by eyewitnesses, [1703]229; five-fold proof of it, [1704]234; mutual relation between Christ's and our own, [1705]234; implied in the hope of salvation, [1706]235; and in Christ's final triumph, [1707]240; in our baptism, [1708]245; and in the Apostle's sufferings, [1709]246; and in our death, [1710]250; how far the same body raised, [1711]250; heretical objection as to the identity of body refuted, [1712]250; the doctrine does not hinder degrees of glory, [1713]251; how far the body changed, [1714]256; our deliverance from sin and the law proves the doctrine, [1715]257; seen in daily deliverances, [1716]279; Christ's shown in the Apostles, [1717]321, [1718]342; took place for our sakes, [1719]322; doctrine of established by the way, [1720]326; common to all, but its glory not, [1721]327; of body, objections of heretics to, [1722]329; shown in plants, [1723]354.
Restitution, required by the heathen, [1724]87; if neglected visited upon posterity, [1725]87; Zacchaeus, a notable example of, [1726]87; certain in the last day, [1727]88.
Reverence, more paid to men than to God, [1728]67, [1729]220.
Reward, not to be impatiently expected, [1730]261; increased by our sufferings, [1731]262.
Rhetorical skill, its worthlessness, [1732]79.
Rich, the, their contempt of the poor, [1733]157; their misery, [1734]173, [1735]174; ignorant of the perishable nature of their riches, [1736]174; need the poor as much as the poor need them, [1737]205, [1738]206; enjoy the sun and air less than the poor, [1739]340; spend for the poor, [1740]340; their diet causes disease, [1741]340; their bellies furnaces, lit with corpses, [1742]341; sewers, [1743]ib.; few of, saved, [1744]346; stand near to love of money, vain glory, pride, [1745]ib.; have no hope if they use not much wisdom, [1746]ib.; fill but one belly, [1747]341, [1748]361; gain not by their abundance, [1749]361; dependent in proportion to their wealth, [1750]362, to be warned by the sight of death, [1751]390. See [1752]Poor.
Riches, abused make men poor, [1753]76; not evil in themselves, [1754]76; the evils which accompany them befall men living and dead, [1755]214; those that thirst after them like dreamers, [1756]221; the unseemliness of this passion, [1757]224; in what sense from God, in what not, [1758]173, [1759]206, [1760]207; grow by distribution, [1761]247; manna a warning against hoarding, [1762]248. See [1763]Covetousness, [1764]Wealth.
Righteousness, cannot dwell with covetousness, [1765]371; a queen, [1766]ib.; of slaves makes freemen, [1767]ib.
"Rock that followed them," [1768]133.
Romans ix. 5, applied to Christ, [1769]114.
Rule, ecclesiastical, its superiority to civil, [1770]353; concerned with souls, [1771]353; deals with secret sins, [1772]354, and with less offences, [1773]354; weldeth our life together, [1774]354; lendeth aid, [1775]354; discourseth of high things, [1776]354; its mildness, [1777]355; cures, not cuts off, the sinner, [1778]355; effects of on the world, [1779]355; without pride, [1780]366.
Rulers, shown by love to the ruled, [1781]352; why likened to vine dressers, [1782]353; spiritual, higher than temporal, [1783]354; a paternity in spiritual, [1784]354; the mode of electing these better, [1785]354, [1786]355.
Ruling, an art of the highest, [1787]352; over states, [1788]353; over a man's self, [1789]353; over the church, [1790]354; agriculture a kind of, [1791]355.
"Rulers of this world," whom St. Paul calls such, [1792]34.
Sabellianism, Chrysostom's caution against, [1793]24.
Sacrifice, the Lord's Supper, [1794]305; a kind of in prayer, confession, repentance, [1795]303; different kinds of in the law, [1796]304.
Saints, how they will judge the world, [1797]91; their intercession of no avail for unholy persons, [1798]258; addressed by St. Paul, [1799]272; cannot possibly be punished, [1800]381; weak as well as glorious, [1801]401, [1802]403; why they were so, [1803]403; their tombs glorious, [1804]404; pilgrimages to, [1805]404; their days, festivals, [1806]404; their prayers asked, [1807]404; their bones expel demons, [1808]404; have power when dead, [1809]404.
Salt, partaking of, held a sacred bond even by robbers, [1810]407.
Salvation, wrought by suffering, [1811]277.
Samuel, his care for the people, [1812]352; why he seemed to boast, [1813]394.
Sanctification, baptismal, [1814]1.
Sanctuaries, of heaven, apsides, what, [1815]142. (note.)
Sapphire, [1816]89.
Sarah, a pattern for wives, [1817]155; her advice to Abraham to take Hagar, then allowable, not now, [1818]155.
Satan, means simply an adversary, [1819]401.
Saul, his reproaches to Jonathan meekly borne, [1820]196; an example of envy, [1821]395.
"Saved by fire," what, [1822]51.
Scandal, how given, [1823]123, [1824]124; sin of giving it, [1825]123, [1826]124; St. Paul's care to avoid it, [1827]118.
Schism, its formal nature, [1828]10; may originate in mind or judgment, [1829]11; Corinthians guilty of it, [1830]158.
Schismatical teachers, their rapacious and mercenary spirit, [1831]121.
Scriptures, their rule of life, [1832]346.
Scylla, a heathen image of sin, [1833]52.
Seal of the cross, in baptism, [1834]71, (and note.)
Self-indulgent, have no fellowship with Christ, [1835]274.
Self-love, if true, leads to same conduct as love, [1836]197.
Self-praise, sometimes useful, [1837]381, and to be commended, [1838]395, yet to be cut short, [1839]406.
Senate, the Roman, deified Alexander the Great, [1840]402; refused this to Christ, [1841]402.
Separation, without mutual consent unlawful, [1842]106.
Servants, our care of their souls, [1843]71.
Sexes, their relation a bond of charity, [1844]204.
Shame, at being dependent, low-minded, [1845]361.
Shimei, his cursing David, [1846]299, [1847]388.
Shoes, not worn by many, as servants and laborers, [1848]353.
Sign of the cross, [1849]118.
Simon Magus, an instance of vainglory, [1850]212.
Sin, makes men in some respects worse than devils, [1851]53; its effect in blinding the soul, [1852]61; original destroyed in baptism, [1853]240; some punished in this world, some in the next, [1854]164; best checked in its beginning, [1855]62; danger of little sins, [1856]52; medicines for, [1857]300, [1858]351; even after baptism, [1859]300; its end here and hereafter to be considered, [1860]330; sin, not punishment to be lamented, [1861]300; and dreaded, [1862]334; before baptism, effaced in it, [1863]381; yet still remembered by St. Paul, [1864]381; danger of dying in, [1865]382; its uncleanness, [1866]411; even sinners being witnesses, [1867]411.
Slavery, not degrading to a good man, [1868]108; what kind is degrading, [1869]108; not possible for a good man to be a slave, [1870]109.
Slander, a common evil, [1871]267; hurts the slanderer more than the slandered, [1872]268; its threefold evil, [1873]268; when we forgive it, a proof of our innocence, [1874]269.