Zenobia, [2377]30 (note).
HOMILIES ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS.
Abraham, how received not the promises, having patiently endured, received the promise, [2378]418; his patience, [2379]ib.; and great-heartedness, [2380]418, [2381]474, [2382]477 sqq.; and intense resolve of his affection Godward, [2383]521, [2384]522; learn from his hospitality, [2385]422; exceeding superiority of Melchisedek to, and thus to the Jewish polity too, [2386]424, [2387]427 sqq.; fortitude of, manifested by God to all men, [2388]478; his faith to the end, [2389]ib.; enjoyed things of the world, with affliction, [2390]482; and affliction made him bright, [2391]500.
Affliction (see Suffering, Pain, Punishment), afflicting ourselves here, benefit of, [2392]442; came to Abraham, and must come to every righteous person, [2393]475, [2394]499; a great good, [2395]483, [2396]494, [2397]517; wipes out sins, makes people firm and steady, [2398]494; makes God our debtor, [2399]517; casts out sloth, and ill desire, and collects the soul, [2400]500; brings forth joy, [2401]503; for a time, [2402]512; helps to pay the penalty of our sins, [2403]391, [2404]517; thrusts into the narrow way, [2405]517.
Age, full, [2406]406; how to be attained, [2407]ib.; him of, who holds the Faith, and a right life, [2408]409.
Aid, each can others, in the way of salvation, [2409]504, [2410]505; and not seek for himself only, [2411]506.
Almsgiving, [2412]412, [2413]417; can exhaust hell-fires, [2414]369; saves from, [2415]513; of the very poor, yea, of the beggar, surpasses that of the rich, [2416]369, [2417]374, [2418]375; in, God estimates will, [2419]369; the most essential ingredient in medicine, of repentance, [2420]412; causes our prayer to be heard, [2421]420; God looks at our purpose, [2422]422, [2423]513, [2424]514; not worthiness of recipients, [2425]422; cleanses after sins, [2426]426, [2427]509; blessing of, [2428]454; hand withered that is without, [2429]480; guilt of giving, and receiving from ill-gotten gains, [2430]481, [2431]513; what is, [2432]495; we ought to give superfluities in, [2433]ib.; the oil for our lamps, [2434]498; cf. [2435]513; gives earthly, receives heavenly, [2436]509; heaven's gates open to, [2437]513; might of, [2438]ib.; some do it but scantly, [2439]ib.; some their all, [2440]516 (note e); in doing, we must be intent, lest anxiety for wife and children intervene, [2441]521; false receiving of, [2442]516. See Poor, Poverty.
Alphabet, [2443]409, [2444]490.
Angels, minister to our salvation, [2445]377; the Son's servants, our fellow-servants, [2446]ib.; great, the interval betwixt us and, [2447]ib.; manifold examples of, ministry of, [2448]ib.; their ministry to us an encouragement, [2449]ib.; law given through, how, [2450]378; entrusted with the charge of nation, [2451]ib.; with care of us, mourn over our badness, [2452]472; are by us in the night, [2453]438; in Church especially, [2454]442; and in fear when Christians pray, [2455]490; were our enemies, reconciled by Christ, [2456]447; Cherubim dwell on earth, [2457]444; despise us their fellow-citizens, if enslaved to gold, [2458]480; do not need attendants when they go through the world, [2459]495; the theatre of Christians, [2460]496; with, is that soul, whose lover God is, [2461]498; angelic work, yea, Christ's work to do all for salvation of brethren, [2462]377.
Anger, how guarded against, [2463]393; a fire a flame, forbearance quenches it, as iron red-hot dipped in water is quenched, [2464]468.
Animals, do not readily attack their fellows of the same species, [2465]480.
Antichrist, the Jews having rejected Christ, will fall into hand of, [2466]515.
Apostles, received nothing in writing, [2467]435; tombs of but four known (see Tombs), [2468]482.
Arians, [2469]376, [2470]407; their formula, there was when He was not, [2471]367; as by an instrument, [2472]371; God needed not an helper, [2473]376.
Arius, [2474]370, [2475]371, [2476]376.
Armor, some parts of Christian, explained, [2477]393; shield of faith, [2478]468; girdle of truth, [2479]450.
Article, definite, force of, [2480]376.
Athlete, example of an, [2481]392, [2482]456, [2483]462, [2484]470; Christ's, [2485]478; chastisement strengthens, [2486]503.
Babylonians, of less understanding than they of Lystra, [2487]486.
Baptism, sins forgiven in, [2488]389; cleanses the soul, [2489]455; repentance after, is of grace, [2490]400; after, comes repentance, [2491]436; necessary, [2492]410; one, [2493]410 sqq., [2494]457; if not so, how careless we should get, [2495]411; if more than one, an endless number, [2496]ib.; a cross, [2497]410; our death and rising, [2498]411; gifts in, [2499]ib.; a grace once for all, [2500]ib.; the whole is grace, [2501]410; called "the Seal," [2502]430; enlightening, [2503]431; peril of delaying to the end of life, [2504]ib.; they who do so alluded to, [2505]457, [2506]481 (note); great loss thence even if one does not receive baptism, [2507]431 sqq.; shame that accrues to these when they behold others' sweats and rewards, [2508]431 sqq.; bears sons, [2509]433; our Lord's Passion, [2510]444; if without fruit, punishment, [2511]457; makes brotherhood, because God then our Father, [2512]480.
Baptized, the, called Enlightened, [2513]432.
Bastards, not worth punishing, [2514]500.
Beatitudes, [2515]403.
Begging, a disgrace, [2516]421,
Beginning, value of, [2517]412; and hardness, [2518]ib.
Bitterness, root of, difference between and a bitter root, [2519]506.
Brother, in St. Paul meant not a monk but a believer, [2520]480, [2521]481.
Cain, what St. Chrysostom thought the fault of his sacrifice, [2522]514.
Carnal, tempers what, [2523]452.
Catechumens, [2524]430, [2525]432; know Christ and the Faith, [2526]432; not a brother in St. Paul's sense, even if he be a monk, [2527]480.
Chance, they who all to, are not pleasing to God, [2528]467.
Charity, praise of, [2529]381; his work on, referred to, [2530]ib.; loves not in order to be loved in turn but for God, [2531]ib.; wears itself out for Jews, heathen, heretics, [2532]ib.; pitying those who have done not well but wrong, [2533]417.
Chastisement is exercise, bearing sweet fruit, [2534]503.
Children, in a passion, if they strike us, we do but laugh, [2535]468; if ourselves in a passion we become, [2536]ib.; intelligent, will sometimes decline playthings, longing for what is higher, [2537]471; playthings kept back if too eagerly longed for, given freely if not so, [2538]479.
Christ, His sufferings, [2539]389; from the Jews, [2540]493; from disciples, [2541]494; in babyhood, [2542]ib.; from scorning, [2543]493, [2544]494; an aid to patience, [2545]365, [2546]494; an honor, [2547]384; a glory, [2548]499; far, far greater than creation, [2549]384; we are to have fellowship with, [2550]515, [2551]517; calls His Cross glory, [2552]383; cf. [2553]384; His Death called a taste because it held Him not long, [2554]383; smote the devil, [2555]385; and death, [2556]ib.; His Resurrection, [2557]365, [2558]373, [2559]384, [2560]411, [2561]520; to prove, one aim of St. Paul in Epistle, [2562]365, [2563]520; known to those of old, [2564]481; His appointment as Priest, [2565]403; His weeping at prayer not told in Gospels, [2566]404; sometimes spoken of from the Divine, sometimes from the Human, [2567]368; in Spirit, and flesh, [2568]368 init.; not ?narchos or alien from God (according to some), [2569]370; acts of His own authority, [2570]490; calls His own coming in the flesh Exodus, St. Paul Eisodos (coming in), [2571]375; Apostle as sent, [2572]391; became Priest when He took flesh, [2573]428, [2574]433; One Priest because undying, [2575]429; one act of, [2576]430, [2577]447, [2578]448; Godhead and Manhood in, [2579]430, [2580]433; our One Sacrifice, [2581]430, [2582]434, [2583]439 (see Sacrifice); all heavenly, [2584]434; died once, [2585]447; died for all even though all accepted not, [2586]ib.; suffered because He willed, [2587]493, [2588]517; and gladly, [2589]493; His enemies are Jews, unbelievers, carnal, [2590]452; Jews' contumelies to, [2591]493; many of His words already come to pass, [2592]463; gives His Gifts in ways contrary to natural course [2593]479; because nature's Maker, [2594]ib.; His Death our safeguard, [2595]487; why He chose death of the Cross, [2596]493; prayed, not needing prayer, but to teach us, [2597]490; if we suffer we must look to, [2598]493, [2599]494; has implanted in us of His Beauty and Comeliness, [2600]368; we one with, [2601]394; we read not that He laughed, [2602]442; to be looked to as a Master, that we may learn how to do, [2603]493; gave us the Faith, [2604]ib.; gave the beginning, will put on the end, [2605]ib.
Christ's Blood, [2606]499; mixed up with the very substance of people's souls, rendering them vigorous and pure, [2607]444; sprinkled in our souls, [2608]487; we have, [2609]ib.; partake of, [2610]517; has cleansed all, [2611]510; purifies us, [2612]440, [2613]444; flowed from the Body which had been framed by the Spirit, [2614]444; carried into Heaven, [2615]517.
Christ's Body, framed by the Holy Spirit [2616]440, [2617]444.
Christ God, [2618]372, [2619]389, [2620]430, [2621]433; though Priest sits, stands not, [2622]373, [2623]430, [2624]433, [2625]452, [2626]454.
Christian, shines out most brightly in poverty, [2627]374; the crucified, has Charity, [2628]381; the crucified, the mourner, [2629]442; how to fight, bravely, not inviting war, not interfering, [2630]392; to be ready to pour out his blood as though it were water, [2631]ib.; his constant daily warfare, [2632]392, [2633]393; different parts of his armor explained, [2634]393; mercifulness his special characteristic, [2635]513; his superhuman might, [2636]522; should arm himself with desire of Heaven, a fire which none may withstand, [2637]ib.
Christianity, danger of fulfilling as a custom, [2638]414.
Chrysostom, St., rejoices that things will not always abide as they are, [2639]376; thought that miraculous gifts were less at the date of the Epistle to the Hebrews, [2640]379; refers to an already published writing of his on charity, [2641]381; speaks from necessity, would from pleasure too if he knew his hearers were earnest, [2642]382; would fain have been silent lest he increase their peril, but fears to be silent, [2643]476; will examine the careless ones, will not tell them when, [2644]382, [2645]383; prays and exhorts others to pray that no untimely deaths may befall, [2646]387; threatens to punish hired mourners brought into Christian funerals and to suspend those who bring them, [2647]ib.; cannot preach the Resurrection while Christians thus contradict, [2648]385, [2649]387; calls himself a good-for-nothing, yet must use his authority, [2650]387; begs them to bear with him if severe, [2651]ib.; would fain only loose, yea, not need power of loosing, [2652]ib.; longs to praise, [2653]388, [2654]472; speaks of the want of Bible knowledge among his people, [2655]407 sqq.; the discouragement in his teaching from their inattention, [2656]382, [2657]408; and risk through repetition of making the account of some heavier at the Judgment, [2658]409; expects that his people will bring forth fruit suddenly, [2659]417; thought that the sky did not move and is not spherical, [2660]433, [2661]490; addresses not Christians only, but even heathen, if any present, on the truth of Christ's words, [2662]463; thought that Pharisee spake his prayer in no man's hearing, [2663]464; elsewhere thought otherwise, [2664]490; apologizes for what he says, as constrained to say it, [2665]472; calls himself a father, [2666]473; attests his inmost grief, [2667]ib.; always has to repeat same things, [2668]476; knew not how to rebuke owing to the sin of alms out of ill-gotten gains, [2669]481; wants his people to help him by helping each other on, [2670]504 sqq.
Church, bonds of, if any despise, put on by authority, the Day of Judgment will teach him, [2671]387; if any burst, he answers it to Christ, [2672]ib.; laws of (see Laws, Church, Heaven), [2673]434. See Service.
Clergy who are over us we must obey, [2674]518, [2675]519; even if bad, so their faith be sound, [2676]519; must be sober and watchful; if despised must weep, God punishes, [2677]ib.; their terrible responsibility, [2678]ib.; and account, [2679]ib.; peril in throwing themselves upon dignity, they ought to flee; then, if seized, to submit, [2680]520.
Club, the, in St. Chrysostom's time, [2681]504.
Comfort, the duty of giving, [2682]396.
Commands, easiness of God's, [2683]432. See Will.
Compunction, God's gift, [2684]408; to prayer, [2685]459; Publican filled with, when Pharisee's words came to him, [2686]490.
Confession, the Faith, [2687]391, [2688]400, [2689]410; of sins, [2690]490. See Sins, Priest, [2691]Repentance.
Conscience must be compelled to own sins, that it may repent and escape torment, [2692]508.
Consulate, its transitoriness, [2693]412.
Contrition an ingredient of Repentance, [2694]412; what, [2695]ib.
Cornelius, the centurion, his offering, [2696]420.
Covenants, both of God, though not in like manner, [2697]378.
Covetous, [2698]505; they who overreach, ruin themselves, not others, [2699]480; sin of going to their entertainments, [2700]480, [2701]481; a poor man who refused to go for his own soul's sake would shame, [2702]481.
Covetousness worse than mire, [2703]480.
Creation a less thing than preservation, [2704]372; transfiguration of, so easy, [2705]376; fulfills its appointed course, [2706]489; reverenced Joshua for the name he bore, [2707]ib.
Credibility, those who handed to us Gospel Truth accredited as not forgers, [2708]379; what has already come to pass accredit those yet to come, [2709]463.