Hell, [3058]396, [3059]403, [3060]421, [3061]431, [3062]456, [3063]457, [3064]461, [3065]469, [3066]471, [3067]476, [3068]481, [3069]490; terror of, [3070]368, [3071]369; none afraid of, [3072]472; some believe not that there is, [3073]507; we must often think of lest we suffer it, [3074]369; almsgiving will quench, [3075]ib.; everlasting, [3076]396, [3077]450, [3078]495; terrible beyond thought, [3079]495, [3080]509; due punishment for evil speaking, [3081]464; we must hinder in friends what leads to, [3082]505; there none may aid, [3083]509.
Heretics, [3084]404, [3085]406, [3086]428; the faith handed down to us our preservative against, [3087]407. See Arius, Manichæus, Marcellus, Marcion, Paul, Novatians, etc.
Highmindedness to no purpose, [3088]373; danger of, [3089]379, [3090]380, [3091]425, [3092]426; St. Peter's special danger of, as knowing that he loved Christ more than all, [3093]507; prosperity sometimes produces, [3094]517; constant memory of our sins does away with, [3095]508.
Hope, its stay, [3096]391, [3097]393, [3098]415, [3099]419, [3100]429; that of each covenant contrasted, [3101]434; of future bears through despondency, [3102]503.
Human things, their transitoriness, [3103]412; a shadow, [3104]484; nought if God our friend, [3105]516; hope a help even in, [3106]419; the whole of virtue to be loose from, [3107]473. See Temporal things.
Humility, aid from listening to our Lord's words on, [3108]409; not true, to call ourselves sinners and be angry when so called, [3109]490; what, [3110]ib.
Ill, we are apt to suspect, good not so, [3111]422; our will readily inclines to side of, [3112]425; we often abstain from, out of respect to men, [3113]516.
Image and Express Image contrasted, [3114]372.
Indolence the reason why the bad become not better, [3115]474; why we imitate not the Saints, [3116]456.
Injure, they who, injure themselves, [3117]479.
Injuries, remembrance of, a great sin, [3118]412, [3119]490; will go if we ever remember our sins, [3120]508; bearing will help us and the injuring party too, [3121]504.
Insult, who, insult themselves, [3122]479, [3123]480.
Isaac, only-begotten in respect to the promise, [3124]478; praise of, [3125]474, [3126]482; his toils and gain therefrom, [3127]500.
Jacob, faith of, [3128]474, [3129]482; gain through affliction, [3130]500, [3131]501.
Jesus, in the form of Man, [3132]489.
Jews, had power in their own land to act independently of their rulers, [3133]365; their priests ceasing to be priests, [3134]403; St. Paul proves that far superior to, and to their polity is the uncircumcised Melchizedek, [3135]424; times of, under Ezra and Malachi referred to, [3136]436; their law, old, [3137]ib.; Jewish captives glorious even in captivity, [3138]484; having deprived themselves of Christ will fall into hands of Antichrist, [3139]515; heathens, heretics, true charity wears itself out for, [3140]381.
Jews Christian, how well-nigh worn out when St. Paul wrote to them, [3141]365, [3142]366; cf. [3143]514; had long believed and borne, [3144]365; compared to Elijah in their troubles, [3145]491; exhorted to perseverance in that whereunto they had attained, [3146]514; their enemies Christ's enemies, [3147]377.
Joshua, reverenced as a very special type of Christ, [3148]489; availed more than did Moses, [3149]ib.; even while Moses was living, [3150]490.
Joy, never unmixed here, [3151]442; the true, how to be attained, [3152]ib.; endurance with, Apostolical, [3153]462; fruit of grief, of chastisement, [3154]503.
Judge, the Judge of words as well as of actions, [3155]438; propitiated if we accuse ourselves for our sins, [3156]508; confess to, [3157]ib.
Judgment, [3158]401; the Throne of grace now, becomes then Throne of, [3159]400; day of, [3160]420, [3161]472; near, [3162]463; the Judge will be there, [3163]509; sins of all publicly displayed then except we do them away by continual remembrance of them, [3164]508, [3165]509; in that day the poor man will deliver thee, [3166]421; proof that end of world is nigh, [3167]463; end of all at hand, day of each one's death yet nearer, [3168]ib.; we shudder at end, as if going to, [3169]475; special account then taken of purity, [3170]476; Judgments mentioned in his day, [3171]472; common, of all indisputable, [3172]503.
Jugglers' sleights, [3173]445.
Lace, a superfluity, [3174]496.
Lady, walking with few attendants attracts less notice, [3175]495, [3176]496; to dress simply, [3177]496 sqq.; such an one has her husband's respect, [3178]497.
Lamb, paschal, type of our deliverance, [3179]487.
Laughing, evil habit of, in Church and at prayers, [3180]442; Sarah rebuked for, [3181]ib.; her denial of it was from her faith, [3182]471; right use of and misuse of, [3183]442; women do not laugh, save in times of relaxation, in presence of their husbands, [3184]ib.; we laugh at children who strike us in a passion, [3185]468; when we ought to mourn bitterly, [3186]471, [3187]472.
Law, has less might than has grace, [3188]489; superiority of Christian things over those of, [3189]511; the same who gave the Gospel, [3190]512; Laws Ecclesiastical, [3191]387; written in hearts belong not to Jews but to Christians, [3192]435.
Lent, forty days' preparation for Easter Communion, [3193]449; loss if insufficient, [3194]450.
Long-suffering tames anger, [3195]468.
Lose, not to, of less toil than afterward to recover it, [3196]462.
Lost, a thing, with what earnestness sought, [3197]468.
Love, the perfect thing, [3198]455; from, all good things, [3199]456; nought good which is not from, [3200]ib.; assembling ourselves increases, [3201]455, [3202]456; a natural path leading to virtue, [3203]456; as self what, [3204]ib.; of enemies and the bad, praise of, [3205]ib.
Lungs, reason given why they be placed under the heart, [3206]393.
Lust, not pleasure, a mere shadow of pleasure, [3207]393; he who is possessed by, worse than one in a fever, [3208]441; evil desire hinders our seeing when we would find God, [3209]468; generated by overeating, [3210]502.
Luxury, brings to an ill end, [3211]501; enfeebles body and soul, [3212]ib.; produces low spirits, [3213]ib.; food for lusts, [3214]502.
Man, spoken of sometimes from the lower, sometimes the higher part, so Christ, [3215]368; Image of God, [3216]372; young, old; see Young, Old.
Manichæans, [3217]406, [3218]409; the modernest heresy, [3219]407.
Marcellus, [3220]370, [3221]371, [3222]376; taught as did Labellius, [3223]407.
Marcion, [3224]371, [3225]376, [3226]409; the first heresy, [3227]407.
Marriage, [3228]516; not it, but want of moderation in, hurts, [3229]402.
Martyrs, whole burnt-offerings, body and soul, [3230]420.
Mary, Virgin, some deemed that God the Son had His beginning from, [3231]407 [see St. Cyril Alex. de recta fide 11 a, 20 fin., 21 a, 44 e; Quod Unus est Christus 717 b, contra Nest. i. 4 (p. 21, O.T.); Apol. contra Theod. cap. i. 206 e]; the heresy of Paul of Samosata, [3232]407.
Matter, self-existent, some people say that it is, [3233]467.
Mediator, not the owner of that in regard to which he mediates, [3234]443.
Medicine, of Repentance, what its ingredients, [3235]411; a, if removes disease utterly at once, has strength; if needed continually, is weak, [3236]448; not needed where no stroke, [3237]449; bitter, gives first unpleasantness, then benefits, [3238]503.
Mercifulness, untold beauty of, [3239]513; might of, [3240]ib.; specially belongs to a Christian, [3241]ib.; God first showed forth, [3242]ib. See Almsgiving.
Milk, the lowlier doctrines, [3243]404, [3244]406; cf. [3245]398.
Mind, how the grace of the Spirit gives it wings, [3246]468; winged, it soars above the devil's darts, [3247]ib.
Miracles, they who wrought, and prophesied, and were denied; it was probably the want of perseverance, [3248]476; perhaps, too, they were wicked while they wrought, [3249]ib.
Money, the degradation of those who give themselves to, [3250]441; peril of love of, [3251]459, [3252]460, [3253]476; and slavery to care of choice treasures, [3254]459; address to Mammon, [3255]442; value for, a worse than Egyptian bondage, [3256]459; gold mere dirt, [3257]480; angels would despise them who love, [3258]ib.
Monks, or solitaries, not for them alone Christ's precepts, but for people living in the world, [3259]386, [3260]403; saints in life and in faith, [3261]416; might of their life, [3262]522; some wanted to aid only, [3263]417; when beggars, called impostors, [3264]422; sometimes communicate yearly or after two years, [3265]449.
Moses, compared with Christ, [3266]389, [3267]390; a part of the house, [3268]390; his faithfulness, [3269]391; grace poured on in his very babyhood, [3270]483; cared not for Palace of Egypt when Heaven is before him, [3271]ib.; his flight was of faith, [3272]484; less than Joshua, [3273]489, [3274]490; fled from dignity yet imperilled in discharge of it, [3275]520.
Mourners, hired, forbidden even to come to a Christian funeral and threatened, [3276]387. See Funerals.
Night, some spend in prayer, some in deeds of evil, [3277]438; prayer at, [3278]490.
Novatians alluded to, [3279]457.
Obedience, makes friends of God, [3280]476; aids others too, [3281]481; lack of, worse than anarchy, [3282]518; punishment follows, [3283]519.
Of (ex) the Father, [3284]370, [3285]371, [3286]373, [3287]385.
Oil, for lamps, is kindness, [3288]498; cf. [3289]513.
Old age, exceeding disgrace of a wicked, [3290]401; depends not on years, but on virtue, [3291]402; of sin, repentance frees from, [3292]410, [3293]436; impairs not beauty of soul, [3294]498; man, an emperor if he have all his in subjection, [3295]402.
Olympic games, interest excited by, [3296]437; herald's cry at, [3297]450; to homoion kata panta (similarity in all respects), [3298]371.
Oppression, deeds of, and of defrauding so great that many would gladly have parted with life, [3299]471; see [3300]480.
Orator, his special pains at the end of his speech, [3301]476.
Pain, here, [3302]392, [3303]477, [3304]478, [3305]508.
Painting, the outline a shadow, with the colors an image, [3306]447, [3307]448.
Passion, patience disarms, [3308]468; if in a, we become very children, [3309]ib.
Passions, some are useful, [3310]374.
Patience, [3311]416, [3312]419 note, [3313]459; Christ's sufferings an aid to, [3314]365, [3315]383; needed while things are still in process of being subjected to our King, [3316]383; of fisherman and husbandman, [3317]417; of Abraham, [3318]418; why God teaches it us, [3319]ib.; lost at very end when combat even over, [3320]462, [3321]463; disarms passion, [3322]468; of the Hebrews, [3323]483; need of much, [3324]490.
Patriarchs, strangers to the whole world, [3325]471, [3326]473, [3327]474; and lived as foreigners, [3328]474; their faith very persevering, [3329]483.
Paul, St., Apostle of Gentiles, [3330]363; Jews ill-disposed to, [3331]ib.; why not sent to Jews, [3332]ib.; once a Jew himself, and holding with them, has greater force thereby, [3333]364; why he wrote to them, [3334]364, [3335]365; his love for them, [3336]364, [3337]365; for each, [3338]416; his history after close of Acts, [3339]364; his trade alluded to, [3340]367; (like his Master) leads up by little steps, then down, [3341]367, [3342]370; cf. [3343]174, [3344]365; his way of speaking of the Son compared with St. John's, [3345]372, [3346]373; (like his Master) does not utter all, but leaves to conscience of hearers, [3347]378; is not particular in use of phrases, [3348]ib.; cites holy Scripture anonymously to those who were familiar with it, [3349]382; his example as an athlete, [3350]392; transposes his thoughts, [3351]394 [cf. St. Irenæus, iii. 7, 2, p. 217, O.T.]; his mode and in the Epistle to the Romans compared, [3352]403, [3353]405, [3354]424, [3355]462; here and in Epistle to the Galatians, [3356]405, [3357]406, [3358]415, [3359]462; and in Epistles to Corinthians, [3360]406, [3361]511, [3362]514; to Thessalonians, [3363]515; and discourse to Athenians, [3364]405; leads his hearers on even to the very hard, [3365]405; by little and little, [3366]423, [3367]429; mixes praise and blame, [3368]415, [3369]416, [3370]418, [3371]461; his praise of them, [3372]416; passes not away, [3373]413; words of, words of the Holy Ghost, of Christ, [3374]413; his fear of failing, [3375]414; mixes lowly and lofty, [3376]433; expands Prophet Jeremiah, [3377]436; and others lived in Heaven while here, [3378]445; praises of, [3379]456; his travail-pangs, [3380]472; did not call himself a stranger only, but dead to the world, [3381]473; allows not to eat with the covetous, [3382]480, [3383]481; nor drunkards, yet we disobey, [3384]481; his use of term brother, [3385]480, [3386]481; not a trace of monastic life in his time, [3387]481; his great wealth of thought, [3388]487; his triumph over troubles when now in twentieth year of preaching, [3389]494; commanding simplicity of attire utterly disobeyed in the very Church, [3390]497; ever gave thanks in all his afflictions, [3391]ib.; his apology to the Hebrews, [3392]520; his deep love for them and prayers and asking their prayers, [3393]ib.; we must imitate in his overcoming all affliction for Heaven's love, [3394]522.
Paul of Samosata, [3395]371, [3396]376, [3397]407; taught that God the Son has His beginning from the holy Virgin, [3398]407; his followers called Jews, [3399]376 and note.
Peacock, beauty of, [3400]513.
Perseverance, need of, when near the goal, [3401]398, [3402]399; need of, [3403]398, [3404]476, [3405]490; from examples, [3406]476; want of, probably cost those who had prophesied and cast out devils their crown, [3407]476.
Peter, St., a common person may be as, [3408]453; praise of, [3409]456; his tomb known, [3410]482; his penitence perfect, [3411]507; God left, that he might learn not to contradict the Master, [3412]ib.; his special temptation to be highminded, [3413]ib.; his courage afterward, [3414]ib.
Photinus, [3415]370; taught same as Sabellius, [3416]407.
Physicians, taste food first for the sick man, [3417]384; why they say the lungs are under the heart, [3418]393; parts of bodies that are grown callous yield not to hands of, [3419]394; mix medicines of many ingredients, one the essence of the medicine, [3420]411; after deep incisions use gentle remedies, [3421]461; if he go not forward to the end, his early success but loss, [3422]476; if despised cannot avenge himself on his patient, [3423]519.
Playthings, sometimes offered to an intelligent child, to show how he cares for higher things, [3424]471; withheld if too eagerly desired, [3425]479.
Pleasure, less if disappointment be expected to follow, [3426]503; that brings despondency no pleasure, [3427]ib.
Poor, the, a fellow-freeman, [3428]421; will stand by thee in the day of Doom, thy Advocate, [3429]ib.; neglected while a dead body is richly adorned, [3430]ib.; if he beg, called impostor, [3431]421, [3432]422; ought to be helped, for we always eat, our children beg of us, [3433]421; ought to be helped without enquiry, for we, too, say, remember not my sins, [3434]421, [3435]422; the Saints of old poor, yet very mighty, [3436]452, [3437]453; who feed, feed Christ, [3438]454; many of, bitterly defrauded and oppressed, [3439]471, [3440]480; the rich most truly, [3441]480; if a poor man asked to an entertainment by a defrauder therefore refused, the other would he shamed, [3442]481; none too, to give the cup of water, the two mites, to visit sick, prisoners, [3443]509; build our houses in Heaven, [3444]513; offerings of, accepted equally with gold, [3445]514; yea, of ten thousand talents, [3446]378.