INDEXES OF SUBJECTS.
HOMILIES ON GALATIANS AND EPHESIANS.
Abraham, justified by faith, [1]25; his household a pattern of harmony and good government, [2]148; his hospitality and contempt of riches, [3]156.
Absalom, [4]122.
Achan, his sin brought calamities upon all, [5]79.
Adam, the parent stock of mankind, [6]143.
Adultery, an instance of the willfulness of sin, [7]57.
Agar, interpretation of, [8]34 (note) .
Allegory, what, [9]34.
Almsgiving, duty of, [10]45; the danger of omitting the duty, [11]69; enforced, [12]172.
Altar, Christian, [13]64.
Amattari, the family of, mentioned 1 Sam. x. 21; the text quoted in illustration of God's Paternal Government over the families of heaven and earth, [14]82 (and note) .
Ambition of those who wished to introduce circumcision, [15]42.
Angels, men become in the Gospel, [16]6; Priests called, [17]8-28; St. Paul received as, [18]32; their life a pattern for Christians, [19]55; cannot confer spiritual gifts, [20]60; are taught the mystery of the Gospel by the Church, [21]80; their knowledge limited, [22]80; orders of them alluded to, [23]81; as implied in the word "family," [24]82 (and note) ; surround Elisha and encamp unseen as guardians of God's saints, [25]95; keep unity, [26]99; are a pattern of love and unity to us, [27]100; are present at the Christian mysteries, [28]120; represented as girded like soldiers, [29]165.
Anger, to be directed against the devil and against ourselves, [30]58, [31]163; forbidden against our brethren, [32]118; its cure, [33]118; it is giving place to the devil, [34]ib.; of momentary anger, [35]128.
Anomoeans, [36]28 (note) .
Apostles, &c., Eph. iv. 11, 12; the subordination of the Christian ministry not defined in this text, [37]104.
Apostolic vocation, prerogative of, [38]2.
Argument, not the way to attain spiritual wisdom, [39]60.
Arius, the heretic, [40]164.
Armor, of the Christian, [41]167.
Atonement, [42]4, [43]22, [44]23, [45]27; the marvelousness of it and its effects, [46]53.
Babylas, St., buried in his fetters, [47]96.
Baptism, not the Law, makes us sons, [48]4; a crucifixion with Christ, [49]22; regenerating with the Word, [50]35; a confession of faith before and after it, [51]53 (and note) ; no second Baptism, [52]57, [53]73; raises Christians to sit together with Christ, [54]67; washes away sin, [55]69; the beginning of righteousness, [56]114; the danger of sin after it, [57]171.
Bitterness, taints the whole character, [58]122; is powerless, [59]122; must be entirely eradicated, [60]125.
Boasting in self ultimately leads to humility, [61]44.
Body, not sinful, but the instrument of sin, [62]39; not necessarily evil, [63]41; nor opposed to the spirit, [64]41; not evil in substance, [65]42.
Body, not sinful in itself, but sins, when left to itself, [66]73; should be in subjection to the soul, [67]74; the compactness and sympathy of its members a type of those of the Church, [68]106, [69]117; its limits forbid covetousness, [70]58; and excess, [71]138; the Church is Christ's body, [72]62; receives life from Him as the body from the head, [73]106; as such must not be torn by schism, [74]ib.
Body and blood of Christ, partaken in the Eucharist, [75]63.
Bonds, their great power, [76]85 et seqq.; a type of bondage by sin, [77]88; see [78]Prison.
Carnal, what acts are so called, [79]73.
Cathari, a name indirectly assumed by the Novatians, [80]119 (and note) .
Catholics, accused of being through ambition contentious against heretics, [81]7.
Charity, can only be exercised in this life, [82]46; to be extended to all, [83]ib.
Children, the Three Holy Children, [84]92, [85]93.
Children, admonished, [86]153; their duty obedience, [87]153; need not be made monks, but must be brought up as Christians, [88]154; to be taught self-discipline and trained for immortality, [89]154; require this training more for courts than for monastic life, [90]155; they who train them are forming statues to Christ, [91]156.
Chosen, how Christians are chosen, [92]55; are made manifest by sealing, [93]56.
Christ, His sufferings voluntary, [94]4; the cause both of our hidden and of our visible life, [95]22; was sacrificed for all men, [96]23; yet loved each enough to die for him alone, [97]ib.; awful mysteriousness of His death, [98]23; took on Him the curse of the Cross, [99]27; in the baptized, [100]29, [101]30; Christians fulfill the Law one with and for another, [102]43; our Mediator and Judge, [103]51; above all principality and power, [104]61; our Head, [105]62, [106]105; made man's nature His garment, [107]62; His deep humiliation and high exaltation, [108]62; specially present in the Eucharist, [109]65; how He broke down the middle wall, [110]71; and abolished the enmity, [111]72; became a Jew by circumcision, [112]73; a Gentile by being a curse, [113]ib.; united both Jews and Gentiles and slew the enmity by His Cross, [114]73; the chief corner-stone, [115]75; brought us to Himself, [116]75; dwells in the faithful, [117]81; His glory in the Church, [118]82; the exemplar of love to enemies, [119]84; and of forgiveness of injuries, [120]129; led captivity captive, [121]104; is the Head of the Church, and the Saviour of the Body, [122]144; the Bridegroom of the Church, [123]144; His love to the Church a pattern for husbands, [124]142-145.
Christians, in all conditions called saints and faithful, [125]49; their blessings spiritual, [126]50; how chosen in Christ, [127]51; in order to be unblamable, [128]51; ought to be like Angels, [129]55, [130]62, [131]100; how sealed by the Spirit, [132]56, [133]120; their privilege in having Christ for their head, [134]62; are members of His body, [135]62; partakers of His body in the Eucharist, [136]63; are made to sit in heavenly places, [137]67; are created unto good works, [138]68; may not live in the flesh, but in heaven, [139]74; are given what elder saints toiled after, [140]75; are collectively and severally the temple of God, [141]75; are bound as one body by mutual ties, [142]102; all equal in Christ, [143]102; alike in grace, differ in gifts, [144]103; how light in the Lord, [145]133; cannot serve God and mammon, [146]135; must walk circumspectly and not give offense, [147]137; must put on the whole armor of God, [148]160; their conflict with the devil, [149]161; must stand well and be braced up for the fight, [150]163; how they are to keep the Passover, [151]165; their warfare ceases in the land of promise, [152]166; are here in a pilgrimage or campaign, [153]166.
Chrysostom, St., did not preach to please, [154]79; calls to public humiliation, [155]102; offers to resign his dignity for the sake of unity, [156]108; his times, manifold vices of, [157]78, [158]79 (and note) ; neglect of Communion, [159]64; degeneracy of teachers, [160]78; Church offices salable, [161]ib.; the Church in conflagration through pride, [162]100; treatment of slaves, [163]123.
Church, name of, implies unity, [164]4; divided into a thousand parties, [165]8; represented by Sarah, [166]34; its exaltation as the body of Christ, [167]62; is Christ's fullness, [168]62; shall continue till He comes, [169]76, [170]82; is one body in Him, [171]99; binds all together by mutual good offices, [172]ib.; is like a house built of men's souls, [173]100, [174]101; set on fire by pride, [175]ib.; ought not to seek the support of bad men, [176]107; is the spouse of Christ, [177]144; her condition when He took her, [178]ib.
Circumcision, brings us under the Law, [179]37; observed by St. Paul, not preached, [180]38.
Clamor, forbidden, [181]123; is the vehicle of anger, a special fault of women, [182]ib.
Commandments, the Ten, the order of them, [183]153.
Communicants, unworthy, [184]79; careless and formal, [185]108; must refrain from reviling, and why, [186]120.
Communion, Church, not to be expanded to take in bad men, [187]107.
Concession, and command, difference between, [188]15; condescension of the Apostles to the Judaists, [189]1-15.
Corner-stone. See [190]Christ.
Corruption, various meanings of the word, [191]171.
Courtezans, [192]151.
Covenants, old and new proceeded both from the Father and the Son, [193]6.
Covetousness is idolatry in Christians, [194]133-34; leads to the death of the soul, [195]134.
Cross, destroys the need of the Law, [196]3; removes the curse, [197]27; the boast of Christians, [198]46; raises them above the old Dispensation as well as above the world, [199]46.
Curiosity, generally misdirected and misplaced, [200]141.
Damsels, devoted to monastic life, [201]115-16.
David, a guileless character, [202]123.
Deacon, his office in dismissing the congregation, [203]64 (and note) .
Death, of the soul, what it is, [204]134; the second death, [205]172.
Devil, why called the prince of this world, [206]66; why of the power of the air, [207]ib.; takes advantage of men's quarrels, [208]119; and of their covetousness, [209]162; his wiles, [210]159; his forces, [211]160; maybe overcome, [212]160; but is not to be wrestled with so much as trampled on, [213]162; his fiery darts are doubts, [214]169; and evil desires and sharp sorrows, [215]169; to be slain by keeping the commandments, [216]169.
Dispensation of grace, [217]76.
Drunkenness, excludes from Heaven, [218]69; its temporal ill effects, [219]138.
Earnest, the meaning of the word explained, [220]56; see [221]Spirit.
Economy, of the Apostles about the Law, [222]15; to be beneficial to the objects of it, must be concealed from them, [223]16; of St. Paul in circumcising Timothy, [224]16.
Education in Scripture remedies that in the Classics, [225]154; consists in nurture, see [226]Children.
Eli, [227]154.
Elisha, [228]95.
Ephesus, the metropolis of [Proconsular] Asia, [229]49; the abode of St. John and of Timothy, and a great resort of philosophers, [230]ib.; its inhabitants advanced in knowledge, [231]49.
Epiphany, the great festival of the Greek Church in remembrance of our Lord's Baptism and Birth, [232]63 (note) ; a season for Communicating, [233]ib.
Equality of ranks, inconsistent with peace, [234]147; Christian equality, [235]102; civil slavery not inconsistent with it, [236]142; mutual service, [237]158.
Eucharist, called the flesh of Christ, [238]41; Christ's body and blood partaken in it, [239]63; the preparation for it, [240]63; profanation of it, [241]64; neglect of it, [242]ib.; formalism of Communicating only at the seasons, danger of unworthy Communicating, [243]63; inconsistency of coming to Service and not Communicating, [244]64; unfitness not the fault of nature but of indolence, [245]65; Christ specially present in the Eucharist, [246]65; allusions to the Eucharistic Service, [247]120-21; see [248]Sacrifice.
Evidences, of the Gospel, [249]9.
Evil, not necessarily connected with this life, [250]5; not in our bodily substance but our will, [251]42.
Faith, vitiated by a slight adulteration, [252]7; to be defended in slight matters, [253]8; slight perversion of, invalidates the ministerial authority, [254]8; anterior to the Law, [255]26-27; justifies without the Law, [256]26; but not without love, [257]37; ever sees Christ, [258]24; gains miraculous and spiritual powers, [259]25; as no force if the Law be added, [260]25; makes us sons of God, [261]30; always joined with love by St. Paul, [262]60; will not save without works, [263]67; a shield to protect ready believers, [264]169.
Faithful, the, bear about the form of Christ, [265]30; the body of Christ, [266]41.
Falsehood, an instance of willful sin, [267]58.
Fasting, a means of intercession, [268]101.
Father and Son, one in will, [269]4; one in act, [270]6; reveal each other, [271]11, [272]146.
Fathers, their duties in the nurture of their children, [273]154.
Faults, to be mildly corrected, [274]43.
Fetters and bonds, gloried in by St. Paul, [275]84, &c.
Fireworshipers, [276]110.
Flesh, means not the body, but the depraved will, [277]41.
Forgiveness, motives for it, [278]128-29.
Foundation, katabole, a beautiful allusion contained in the word, [279]51; Christ the foundation, [280]75.
"Fullness of the times" was Christ's coming, [281]54.
"Fullness of Christ" is the Church, [282]62.
"Fullness of God" explained, [283]82.
Galatians, nature of their error, [284]2; feared to forsake the Law, [285]6; justly called "foolish," [286]23; sons of Abraham as Isaac was, [287]34; misled by party spirit, [288]40.
"Gather together into one," the meaning of the expression, [289]54.
Gentile customs, [290]8.
Gentiles, raised above the privileges of the Jews, [291]71; their calling a mystery, [292]80; the vanity of their worship as directed to the creatures, [293]110; it flattered men's evil passions, [294]111.
God, loves us for His own Name's sake, [295]56; a just apprehension of Him forbids us to doubt or rationalize, [296]60; the knowledge of Him derived from His Spirit, [297]ib.; His goodness not to be presumed upon, [298]69; kind to the unthankful, [299]139; no respecter of persons, [300]159.
Good-pleasure, the meaning of the word, [301]52.
Government, in its origin paternal, [302]82; must be centered in one, [303]146; exemplified in a household, [304]159.
Gospels, one in substance, though fourfold in form, [305]7; easily perverted, [306]7.
Gospel, no afterthought, [307]51, [308]55; may be in itself an offense, in the manner of preaching it should not be, [309]137.
Grace, sets us free, makes us new, heirs and sons, [310]30; the great change it produces in Christians, [311]52; arrays the soul in spiritual beauty, [312]53.
Guilelessness, [313]123.
Habit, one sinful one may ruin us, [314]68; evil ones must be cured by cultivating their opposites, [315]125-26.
Hagar, [316]149.
Hannah, an example to mothers, [317]154; of watchfulness and prayer, [318]170; her reverence and contrition, [319]170.
Harlots, their treatment of their lovers, [320]83.
Heretics, denied the Co-equality of the Father and the Son, [321]4; considered this life essentially evil, [322]5.
Herod, judgment upon, [323]90.
Holiness in teachers more influential than miracles, [324]77.
Holy children, as examples of triumph over affliction, [325]93.
Hospitality, to he shown to the poor, [326]151.
Household, the mistress's duty in the conduct of, [327]124; when well ordered sheds a fragrance around, [328]143; is a little city and its head a prince, [329]159.
Husbands, to love their wives as Christ loved the Church, [330]144-45; the husband the head of the family, [331]146; the importance of him to the household, [332]148; character of a good one, [333]149; must show all forbearance, [334]150; and wean his wife from the world, [335]ib.