Hymn, the Angelic Hymn, "Holy, Holy, Holy," sung in the Eucharistic service, [336]64 (and note) , [337]121, [338]165.
Idolatry of Christians is covetousness, [339]134; its origin, [340]135.
Ignorance, to profess it more wise than to profess knowledge, [341]141.
Incarnation, effects of, [342]30.
Inheritance, by lot, according to a purpose, [343]55.
Israelites, how they kept the Passover, [344]164; how they fell, [345]165; their history is a mystery or type, [346]ib.
Jailer at Philippi, conversion of, [347]87.
James the Less, not the Lord's brother, though so called, [348]13.
Jeremiah in prison, [349]94.
Jericho, [350]166.
Jerusalem, earthly and heavenly, [351]166.
Jesting, forbidden to Christians, [352]130; the character of one given to it, [353]131; enormous when extended to Scripture, [354]131-32.
Jesus, the Son of Nave, the type of Jesus the Son of God, [355]166.
Jews, the hindrance to their conversion, [356]4; their blessings earthly, [357]50; how of old chosen by God, [358]51; their privileges how stated by St. Paul, [359]71; how Jews and Gentiles are made one, [360]71.
Job, an example of protracted suffering, [361]172.
John Baptist in prison, [362]94.
Joseph in prison, [363]94.
Judaizers opposed St. Paul, [364]2; their ambition, [365]42; in St. Chrysostom's day, [366]8, [367]21; heresy of, [368]11.
Judgments, temporal, a call to repentance, [369]79.
Julian, St., a recluse, his character, [370]156.
Laver, of Baptism. See [371]Baptism.
Law the, not evil, but weak and dangerous, [372]20; death to, different meanings of, [373]22; causes faith not to avail, [374]25; curse of removed by the Cross, [375]27; partially restrains sin, [376]28; provided for self-knowledge and self-restraint, [377]29; once led to, now leads from Christ, [378]29; sometimes means Genesis, often the Old Testament, [379]33; obedience to part of, subjects to the whole, [380]36; abolished to make room for a higher rule of life, [381]39, [382]42; fulfilled by the various gifts of the faithful, [383]43; the ceremonies of, abolished in Christ, [384]72.
Lent-season, [385]63.
Light, detects darkness by its own shining, [386]133, [387]136.
Lot, inheritance by lot implies that we are not chosen by merit, [388]55 (and note) .
Love, God's love the cause of our being chosen, [389]52; how to understand its extent, [390]82; its effects and obligations upon man, [391]98; always combined with faith, [392]60, [393]171; towards enemies enforced, [394]82, [395]127-129; its fruit unity and mutual confidence, [396]97-98; is the condition of our receiving the Spirit, [397]105; love between husband and wife, [398]149.
Lowliness, the ground of all graces, [399]96.
Man, the wonderful exaltation of his nature in Christ, [400]61; his littleness and greatness, [401]62; a fourfold consideration of him, [402]114.
Manichees, considered the world essentially evil, [403]5 (note) ; and the body, [404]39; paid divine honors to the heavenly bodies, [405]5.
Manichees, [406]139 (and note) .
Marcionites, allowed one Gospel only, [407]7, [408]139 (and note) .
Marks of the Cross, [409]47.
Marriage, &c., some heretics forbade it, [410]147; rules for, [411]151.
Masters, their duties, [412]158.
Mildness in correcting enjoined, [413]43.
Minister, in what sense not applied to the Son, [414]54 (and note) .
Ministers of the Gospel to be obeyed though wicked, [415]8; unless they vitiate the faith, [416]8; maintained by their disciples, [417]44; mutual benefits of this, [418]45; contrast in the case of Heathen teachers, [419]45 (note) .
Monks, [420]165 (note) ; their self-denial, [421]248.
Moses, an example of love to enemies, [422]83.
Murder, an instance of voluntary sin, [423]57.
Mystery, "of His will," [424]53; the calling of the Gentiles so called, [425]77; of the Gospel made known to angels by the Church, [426]80; the union of Christ and the Church so called, [427]146.
Natural, what acts are so called, [428]73.
Nature, does not force man to sin, [429]57.
Necessity, not to be pleaded in excuse for sin, [430]57.
Nineveh, its repentance an example to us, [431]101-2.
Novatians, denied repentance to the lapsed, [432]25 (note) .
Oaths, not necessary to beget confidence, [433]62.
Obedience, slight breach of, punishable, [434]7.
Passover, its historical and mystical meaning, [435]165; how kept by Israelites, how to be kept by Christians, [436]165.
Paul, St., followed Christ's example in his mode of preaching, [437]1; his divine calling and commission, [438]2; suddenness of his conversion a proof of its being divine, [439]10; sincerity of his motives, [440]10; his opposition to Christianity on religious motives, [441]ib.; called on account of his capacity, [442]10; reason of his first journey from Antioch to Jerusalem, [443]11; reason of his second journey, [444]14; his fervency and humility, [445]12; equal in dignity to St. Peter, [446]12; his humility shown in his visit to St. Peter, [447]12; his doctrine approved by the Apostles, [448]17; his tenderness and skill, [449]31-2; observed, but did not preach, circumcision, [450]38; usual arrangement of his Epistles, [451]39; why he wrote that to the Galatians with his own hand, [452]46; a proof of God's love and power, [453]52; had a foretaste of heavenly blessings, [454]56; his sympathy and affectionateness, [455]59; his gentleness, [456]65; bound for the Gentiles' sake, [457]76; saved by grace, [458]76; had special revelation of the calling of the Gentiles, [459]77; his zeal, endurance, and wisdom, [460]77; attributed all to grace, [461]ib.; an example to teachers, [462]ib.; his great humility, [463]79; his earnest supplication, [464]81; example of love to enemies, [465]84; glories in bonds, [466]85; but not before Agrippa, and why, [467]95; his skill as a spiritual physician, [468]118; his simplicity and condescension in admonishing children, [469]153; overcame Satan, [470]161; the intensity of his love to Christ, [471]161; asks his brethren's prayers, [472]168.
Paul of Samosata, heretic, [473]104 (note) , [474]164.
Peter, St., boldness of his character, [475]18; did not really dissemble at Antioch, [476]ib.; reasons why he appeared to do so, [477]19; instructed not to spurn the Gentiles, [478]77; his deliverance from prison by the Angel, [479]86, [480]89-90.
Poverty the lot of the Christian, [481]46.
Prayer, the Lord's Prayer, how it should affect us, [482]120-21; prayer unceasing required in Christians, and watchfulness, [483]169; exemplified in the Canaanitish woman, the importunate widow, [484]ib.; and in Hannah, [485]170.
Presence, real, of Christ in the Eucharist, [486]63-64.
Priests, may be understood under the term "Angels," [487]8, [488]28.
Prison, the blessedness of it for Christ's sake, [489]85 et seqq.; instanced in St. Paul, St. Peter, Three Holy Children, [490]93; Jeremiah, Joseph, St. John the Baptist, [491]94.
Privileges, Jewish and Christian compared, [492]51; present privileges but an earnest, [493]56; how enhanced in being bestowed through Christ, [494]52; the consideration of them very awful, [495]62.
Providence, instanced in mercies upon some, and judgments upon others, [496]90; implied in the circumstances of men, [497]139; in the order of nature, [498]140; proved by analogy, [499]140; yet wholly mysterious, [500]140-41.
Psalms, the expression of Christian cheerfulness, [501]138.
Punishment, degrees of it in hell, [502]69.
Rationalizing, its absurdity and shallowness, [503]139-40.
"Redeeming the time" explained, [504]137.
Redemption, absolute redemption will be in the next world, [505]56.
Regeneration, another needed by Galatians, [506]32; effected by the Divine Words in baptism, [507]35.
Repentance, possible after lapsing, [508]25.
Reproof, is charitable, and to be given at any hazard, [509]136.
Resurrection of Christ, effected by His own power, [510]3.
Resurrection, more miraculous to persuade souls than raise the dead, [511]61, [512]65.
Reviling, shameful in Christians, [513]163.
Riches. See [514]Covetousness.
Righteousness, Jewish and Christian compared, [515]114; is in respect of God, or man, [516]114; is a garment, [517]115.
Rites of the law, connected with each other, [518]37.
Sabbath, strictness of under the Law, [519]7; Judaic observance of excludes from grace, [520]21.
Sacrifice, the Christian, [521]63-64; preparation for it, [522]63; see [523]Eucharist.
Saints, a common name for Christians in all conditions, [524]50; what a saint ought to be, [525]131.
Salvation, is entirely of free grace, yet not exclusive of our virtue, [526]52.
Samuel, the child of a good mother, [527]154.
Sarah, [528]148.
Satan, seduces gradually and secretly, [529]7.
Schism, cuts off from the Spirit, [530]105; implies want of love and of holiness, [531]106; especially provokes God's anger--like the sin of those who mangled Christ's Body, [532]ib.; inexpiable by martyrdom, [533]106 (and note) , [534]108.
Schismatics, to be avoided, [535]106.
Scripture, supreme authority of, [536]8; sense of, not the words must be considered, [537]11; profane use of, [538]131; understatements of, [539]132.
Seal, of the Spirit. See [540]Spirit.
Self-indulgence, in Christian teachers impairs their power of converting and keeping in the fold, [541]77.
Servants, to be taken care of, [542]148, [543]159; as brethren, [544]157; their duties to serve with good will, [545]157-58; taken to the theater, but not to church, [546]159.
Sin, is evil, not the world, [547]5; not to be excused by nature or necessity, [548]57; its voluntariness instanced by various cases, with reference to the Commandments, murder, adultery, theft, perjury, assault, rapine, [549]57 et seqq.; would not be punished if of necessity, [550]ib.; the ground of discord, [551]97; blinds the understanding, [552]112-13; is self-destructive, [553]113; is in omission as well as commission, [554]126; is the only real evil, [555]140; the source of corruption both of body and soul, [556]171; should be put away by acts of mercy, [557]172.
Slaves, how to be treated, [558]123-24.
Slavery, how mitigated by the Gospel, [559]142; is but a name, [560]157; loses its meaning when it is made volluntary, [561]158; its origin, it is the punishment of the sin of rebellion against parents, [562]159.
Solitaries, Christians induced to be so by evil times, [563]78.
Son and Spirit, oneness of Their power, [564]2; sons of God we become through baptism, [565]4; by the Word, [566]35; in putting on Christ, [567]29-30; in receiving the Spirit, [568]30; out of the course of nature, as Isaac, [569]33.
Soul, its relation to the Flesh and Spirit, [570]42; should govern the body, yet requires the guidance of the Spirit, [571]73; the death of, [572]134.
Spirit, Holy, imparts righteousness, [573]37; gift of not by Law, but faith, not by circumcision, but grace, [574]47; Christians sealed by Him, [575]56, [576]120; the earnest of our inheritance, [577]56, [578]166; alone reveals mysteries, [579]60; and the true knowledge of God, [580]ib.; the calling of the Gentiles, [581]80; alone can strengthen against trial, [582]81; His indwelling necessary to teach the love of God, [583]82; binds the faithful in one body, [584]96; His gifts manifold, [585]104; yet have all one office to build up each and all in one faith, [586]105; communicates life from the Head to the whole Church, as natural life is conveyed through the body, [587]105-06; how grieved, especially by sins of the tongue, [588]120; by bitterness, [589]121; His grace typified by the pillar of fire, [590]165; the sword of the Spirit, [591]169.
Submission, mutual, is mutual service, [592]142.
Suicide worse, and punished worse by God than murder, [593]5.
Sunworship, [594]110.
Superstitions, [595]8, [596]79, [597]111.
Synagogue, the, represented by Agar, [598]34.
Teachers, degeneracy of, their powerlessness to convert and guide, [599]77-78.
Teachers of error, to be cut off, their followers to be spared, [600]38.
Thanksgiving, universally a duty in Christians, [601]138-39.
Theft, an instance of voluntary sin, [602]58.
Times, how called evil, [603]137.
Tithes, the danger of omitting them, [604]69.
Tongue, its proper use, [605]119, [606]131; and discipline, [607]121.
Trisagion, the Hymn so called. See [608]Hymn.
Types, in the Old Testament, explained, [609]166.
Unity of the Spirit, binds all together, [610]97; its perfectness, [611]ib.; promotes virtue, [612]97; kept by love, [613]98; binds in one body the faithful of all ages, [614]99; meant by St. Paul's expression, "a perfect man," [615]105; unity is the condition of our receiving life from the Spirit, [616]106; is founded on the Divine Unity, [617]146.
Unpopularity the lot of Christians, [618]46.
Uzzah, [619]7.
Valentinus, heretic, [620]164.
Vanity, not in the works of God but those of man, [621]109.
Vice, against nature, [622]58.
Vigils, of the Church, [623]170 (and note) .
Virtue, universal, required in Christians, [624]68, [625]125; promotes unity, [626]97; must be active, [627]126; and positive, [628]127.
Wall, "middle wall of partition," explained, [629]72.
Water with the Word regenerates, [630]35.
Wealth, ill-gotten has no security, [631]58; desires of it bounded by man's physical frame, [632]ib.
Will, in the Almighty precedent and consequent illustrated, [633]52.
Will, evil, the cause of evil, [634]5.
Will, unity of, between Father and Son, [635]4.
Wisdom, not curious but submissive, [636]141.
Wives, to submit themselves to their husbands in the Lord, [637]143; in what their excellence consists, [638]145; not to be chosen for beauty, [639]ib.; nor for riches, [640]145, [641]151; to reverence their husbands, [642]146; not to be treated as slaves, [643]147; marry for richer for poorer, [644]149; to be formed by the husband and weaned from the world, [645]149-50; and treated with love and honor, [646]152. See [647]Women.
Women, their self-denial and endurance, [648]115-16; a pattern to men, [649]116; their faults common to men, their excellencies their own, [650]116; warned against clamor, [651]123; especially in the treatment of their slaves, [652]124; leniency of laws towards them, [653]124.
Works, good, the fruit of the Spirit, [654]42.
World, not essentially evil, [655]5.
Wrath, "children of," explained, [656]66 (and note) .