HOMILIES ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS.
Abraham, how received not the prom- ises, having patiently endured, received the promise, 418; his patience, ib., and great-heart- edness, 418, 474, 477 sqq.; and intense resolve of his affection Godward, 521, 522; learn from his hospitality, 422; exceeding superiority of Melchisedek to, and thus to the Jewish polity too, 424, 427 sqq., fortitude of, mani- fested by God to all men, 478; his faith to the end, ib.; enjoyed things of the world, with afflic- tion, 482; and affliction made him bright, 500. Affliction (see Suffering, Pain, Pun- ishment), afflicting ourselves here, benefit of, 442; came to Abra- ham, and must come to every righteous person, 475, 499; great good, 483, 494, 517; wipes out sins, makes people firm and steady, 494; makes God our debtor, 517; casts out sloth, and ill desire, and collects the soul, 500; brings forth joy, 503; for a time, 512; helps to pay the penalty of our sins, 391, 517; thrusts into the narrow way, 517. Age, full, 406; how to be attained,
ib.; him of, who holds the Faith, and a right life, 409. Aid, each can others, in the way of salvation, 504, 505; and not seek for himself only, 506. Almsgiving, 412, 417; can exhaust
hell-fires, 369; saves from, 513; | of the very poor, yea, of the beggar, surpasses that of the rich, 369, 374, 375; in, God es- timates will, 369; the most es- sential ingredient in medicine, of repentance, 412; causes our prayer to be heard, 420; God looks at our purpose, 422, 513, 514; not worthiness of recipi- ents, 422; cleanses after sins, 426, 509; blessing of, 454; hand withered that is without, 480; guilt of giving, and receiving from ill-gotten gains, 481, 513; what is, 495; we ought to give
superfluities in, ib.; the oil for | Arius, 370, 371, 376. our lamps, 498; cf. 513; gives earthly, receives heavenly, 509; heaven's gates open to, 513; might of, ib.; some do it but scantly, ib.; some their all, 516 (note e); in doing, we must be intent, lest anxiety for wife and children intervene, 521; false receiving of, 516. See Poor, Poverty.
Armor, some parts of Christian, ex- plained, 393; shield of faith, 468; girdle of truth, 450. Article, definite, force of, 376. Athlete, example of an, 392, 456, 462, 470; Christ's, 478; chastisement strengthens, 503.
Alphabet, 409, 490. Angels, minister to our salvation, 377;
the Son's servants, our fellow- servants, ib.; great, the interval betwixt us and, ib.; manifold examples of, ministry of, ib.; their ministry to us an encour- agement, ib.; law given through, how, 378; entrusted with the charge of nation, ib.; with care of us, mourn over our badness, 472;
are by us in the night, 438; in Church especially, 442; and in fear when Christians pray, 490; were our enemies, recon- ciled by Christ, 447; Cherubim dwell on earth, 444; despise us their fellow-citizens, if enslaved to gold, 480; do not need at- tendants when they go through the world, 495; the theatre of Christians, 496; with, is that soul, whose lover God is, 498; angelic work, yea, Christ's work to do all for salvation of brethren, 377.
Anger, how guarded against, 393; a fire a flame, forbearance quenches it, as iron red-hot dipped in water is quenched, 468. Animals, do not readily attack their
fellows of the same species, 480. Antichrist, the Jews having rejected
Christ, will fall into hand of, 515. Apostles, received nothing in writing,
435; tombs of but four known (see Tombs), 482. Arians, 376, 407; their formula, there
was when He was not, 367; as by an instrument, 371; God needed not an helper, 376.
Babylonians, of less understanding than they of Lystra, 486. Baptism, sins forgiven in, 389;
cleanses the soul, 455; repent- ance after, is of grace, 400; after, comes repentance, 436; neces- sary, 410; one, 410 sqq., 457; if not so, how careless we should get, 411; if more than one, an endless number, ib.; a cross, 410; our death and rising, 411; gifts in, ib.; a grace once for all, ib.; the whole is grace, 410; called "the Seal," 430; enlightening, 431; peril of delay- ing to the end of life, ib., they who do so alluded to, 457, 481 (note); great loss thence even if one does not receive baptism, 431 sqq.; shame that accrues to these when they behold others' sweats and rewards, ib.; bears sons, 433; our Lord's Passion, 444; if without fruit, punishment, 457; makes brotherhood, be-
cause God then our Father, 480. Baptized, the, called Enlightened, 432. Bastards, not worth punishing, 500. Beatitudes, 403.
Begging, a disgrace, 421. Beginning, value of, 412; and hard- ness, ib.
Bitterness, root of, difference between and a bitter root, 506. Brother, in St. Paul meant not a monk but a believer, 480, 481.
Cain, what St. Chrysostom thought the fault of his sacrifice, 514. Carnal, tempers what, 452. Catechumens, 430, 432; know Christ
and the Faith, 432; not a brother in St. Paul's sense, even if he be a monk, 480.
Chance, they who all to, are not pleas-
ing to God, 467. Charity, praise of, 381; his work on,
referred to, ib.; loves not in order to be loved in turn but for God, ib.; wears itself out for Jews, heathen, heretics, ib.; pity- ing those who have done not well
but wrong, 417. Chastisement is exercise, bearing sweet fruit, 503. Children, in a passion, if they strike
us, we do but laugh, 468; if our- selves in a passion we become, ib.; intelligent, will sometimes decline playthings, longing for what is higher, 471; playthings kept back if too eagerly longed for, given freely if not so, 479. Christ, His sufferings, 389; from the
Jews, 493; from disciples, 494; in babyhood, ib.; from scorning, 493, 494; an aid to patience, 365, 494; an honor, 384; a glory, 499; far, far greater than crea- tion, 384; we are to have fellow- ship with, 515, 517; calls His Cross glory, 383; cf. 384; His Death called a taste because it held Him not long, 383; smote the devil, 385; and death, ib.; His Resurrection, 365, 373, 384, 411, 520; to prove, one aim of St. Paul in Epistle, 365, 520; known to those of old, 481; His appointment as Priest, 403; His weeping at prayer not told in Gospels, 404; sometimes spoken of from the Divine, sometimes from the Human, 368; in Spirit, and flesh, 368 init.; not avaρxos or alien from God (according to some), 370; acts of His own authority, 490; calls His own coming in the flesh Exodus, St. Paul Eisodos (coming in), 375; Apostle as sent, 391; became Priest when He took flesh, 428, 433; One Priest because undy- ing, 429; one act of, 430, 447, 448; Godhead and Manhood in, 430, 433; our One Sacrifice, 430, 434, 439 (see Sacrifice); all heavenly, 434; died once, 447; died for all even though all ac- cepted not, ib.; suffered because He willed, 493, 517; and gladly, 493; His enemies are Jews, un- believers, carnal, 452; Jews' con- tumelies to, 493; many of His words already come to pass, 463; gives His Gifts in ways contrary to natural course, 479; because nature's Maker, ib.; His Death our safeguard, 487; why He chose death of the Cross, 493; prayed, not needing prayer, but to teach us, 490; if we suffer we must look to, 493, 494; has im- planted in us of His Beauty and Comeliness, 368; we one with, 394; we read not that He laughed, 442; to be looked to as a Mas- ter, that we may learn how to do,
493; gave us the Faith, ib.; gave the beginning, will put on the end, ib.
Christ's Blood, 499; mixed up with the very substance of people's souls, rendering them vigorous and pure, 444; sprinkled in our souls, 487; we have, ib.; partake of, 517; has cleansed all, 510; purifies us, 440, 444; flowed from the Body which had been framed by the Spirit, 444; carried into Heaven, 517.
Christ's Body, framed by the Holy
Spirit 440, 444. Christ God, 372, 389, 430, 433;
though Priest sits, stands not, 373, 430, 433, 452, 454. Christian, shines out most brightly in poverty, 374; the crucified, has Charity, 381; the crucified, the mourner, 442; how to fight, bravely, not inviting war, not interfering, 392; to be ready to pour out his blood as though it were water, ib.; his constant daily warfare, 392, 393; different parts of his armor explained, 393; mercifulness his special characteristic, 513; his super- human might, 522; should arm himself with desire of Heaven, a fire which none may withstand, ib.
Christianity, danger of fulfilling as a
Chrysostom, St., rejoices that things will not always abide as they are, 376; thought that miraculous gifts were less at the date of the Epistle to the Hebrews, 379; re- fers to an already published writ- ing of his on charity, 381; speaks from necessity, would from pleas- ure too if he knew his hearers were earnest, 382; would fain have been silent lest he increase their peril, but fears to be silent, 476; will examine the careless ones, will not tell them when, 382, 383; prays and exhorts others to pray that no untimely deaths may befall, 387; threatens to punish hired mourners brought into Christian funerals and to sus- pend those who bring them, ib.; cannot preach the Resurrection while Christians thus contradict, 385, 387; calls himself a good- for-nothing, yet must use his au- thority, 387; begs them to bear with him if severe, ib., would fain only loose, yea, not need power of loosing, ib., longs to praise, 388, 472; speaks of the want of Bible knowledge among his peo- ple, 407 sqq., the discouragement in his teaching from their inatten- tion, 382, 408; and risk through repetition of making the account of some heavier at the Judgment, 409; expects that his people will bring forth fruit suddenly, 417; thought that the sky did not
move and is not spherical, 433, 490; addresses not Christians only, but even heathen, if any present, on the truth of Christ's words, 463; thought that Phari- see spake his prayer in no man's hearing, 464; elsewhere thought otherwise, 490; apologizes for what he says, as constrained to say it, 472; calls himself a father, 473; attests his inmost grief, ib.; always has to repeat same things, 476; knew not how to rebuke owing to the sin of alms out of ill-gotten gains, 481; wants his people to help him by helping each other on, 504 sqq. Church, bonds of, if any despise, put
on by authority, the Day of Judgment will teach him, 387; if any burst, he answers it to Christ, ib.; laws of (see Laws, Church, Heaven), 434. See Service.
Clergy who are over us we must obey,
518, 519; even if bad, so their faith be sound, 519; must be sober and watchful; if despised must weep, God punishes, ib.; their terrible responsibility, ib.; and account, ib.; peril in throw- ing themselves upon dignity, they ought to flee; then, if seized, to submit, 520.
Club, the, in St. Chrysostom's time, 504.
Comfort, the duty of giving, 396. Commands, easiness of God's, 432.
Compunction, God's gift, 408; to prayer, 459.
Publican filled with, when Pharisee's words came to him, 490. Confession, the Faith, 391, 400, 410; of sins, 490. See Sins, Priest, Repentance.
Conscience must be compelled to own
sins, that it may repent and escape torment, 508.
Consulate, its transitoriness, 412. Contrition an ingredient of Repent-
ance, 412; what, ib. Cornelius, the centurion, his offering,
Covenants, both of God, though not in like manner, 378.
Covetous, 505; they who overreach,
ruin themselves, not others, 480; sin of going to their entertain- ments, 480, 481; a poor man who refused to go for his own
soul's sake would shame, 481. Covetousness worse than mire, 480. Creation a less thing than preserva-
tion, 372; transfiguration of, so easy, 376; fulfills its appointed course, 489; reverenced Joshua for the name he bore, ib. Credibility, those who handed to us Gospel Truth accredited as not forgers, 379; what has already come to pass accredit those yet to come, 463. Creed. See Confession.
Cross, our Master calls glory, 383;
why He chose, 493; fruit of, how great, 383; our, 494. Crowning, time of, one; of conflict of each, manifold, 492.
Danger, to run needlessly into, tempt-
ing God, 484. Daniel, why he did not refuse the oblation and sweet odors, 485 sqq.; he was humble, 485, 486. Deacon's warning and searching cry
at Holy Communion, 449, 450; after the whole sacrifice is com- pleted, 450; meaning of, ib. Death, of Christ, smote the devil, 385;
death's death, ib.; once only, 411, 447; our purification, 444; how death undone to us, 447; its terror, 385; untimely, St. Chry- sostom prays and exhorts prelates and all to pray that no, may be- fall, 387; day of each person's, nearer than end of all things, 463; death's death, hope given of, in Enoch's translation, 467. Desire, implanted, 374; but capable
of most grievous abuse, 502; evil cast out by chastisement, 500; hides sight of God, 468. See Lust.
Despair, we may not, 396; even after
deepest wickedness, 426. Devil, smitten in Christ's death, 385;
and brought to nought, ib.; aims to make us speak against God, 459; overthrow of, hope given in Enoch's translation, 467; if he wound not, wounded, 468; wounded in his attack on Job, wounded in his attack on St. Paul, ib., his dart concupiscence, ib.; glories at our evil state, 472. Disobedience, peril of, 378. Dives received (ànéλaßes received
not as a gift, but in return) here the reward of his good deeds, 391.
Docete alluded to, 385. Doctrines which concern the soul
must be contended for, 392; cf. 519. Dress, a lady sometimes had a precious
garment inwoven with gold, 459; beautiful and costly belong to the stage, 496; by St. Paul set at nought in the very Church itself, 334. See Lady, Lace, Silk. Drunkards, we go to their houses
though St. Paul forbids us, 481. Drunkenness, sin of, 490.
Enoch not discouraged by what had
befallen Abel, 466; and knew that he had received a recom- pense, 467. Envy, no one envies himself, 456; Hebrews obnoxious to, 466; we give way to, 490. Eucharist, 468; the Sacrifice, 430;
daily, 449; therein the purifying Blood entereth the soul, springing up like a fountain in our souls, 444; many partake once or twice
a year, many often, the solitaries yearly or after two years, 449; Lent the preparation for the Easter-Eucharist, 449; frequent receiving right if prepared, sel- dom receiving too frequent if unprepared, ib.; peril of un- worthy receiving, 449, 458; the Deacon's warning cry at, 449, 450; the beauty of ornament that fits to approach, 450; the beauty of Eunuchs who stand by the Majesty, ib.; may be a cause of disease, even as food when the system is disordered, 449; a Royal Table, sweet Ointment, ib.; forty days' preparation, one week's care after, ib., in, a per- son becomes the Body of Christ, 458; unworthy partaking of, 490. Eunuchs, spiritual, to stand before King, 450.
Evil-speaking, earns praise to the receiver if he requite it not, more abundant disgrace to the giver, 368; terrible harm we do by, 464; rife, 473; vain prayer uttered by one while repeating gossip, 464; if Pharisees condemned though he spake truth, what we when we utter lies, ib.
Eyes, what we see with, more readily
retained than what we hear, 434; sometimes injured from a bad habit of body, 449; of the soul, how to make beautiful and keen of sight, 450; evil desires, pas- sions, affairs of this life darken, 468.
Ezra, gathered the scattered Scrip- tures, 407.
515; makes all things pure, ib.; mutual aid from, 465; accused by some as being without proof, and defended by St. Paul, ib.; knowledge concerning God, be- longs to, 465, 466; of Abel, 466; of Enoch, 469; of them of old, 482; of Joseph, ib.; manifoldly, ib.; in retribution necessary, 467; holds nothing more to be relied on than God's words, 469. Father, his desire to remit punish-
ment, seen in God also, 467; as he lets approved children wait for the others, so God orders that the saints wait for us, 492; sends away from a son an evil companion, if the son persist after he is warned, 518. Filth, like a host who gives a splen
did entertainment, and sits down with his hands smeared with the veriest, such is the covetous host, 480.
Fire, no longer consumes but bears
to heaven Christian sacrifices, 420; of spirit to burn up desire of wealth, ib., the ardent desire for heaven, the Christian's, 522. Flesh, taken of us, sits on high, and
is worshiped by angels, arch- angels, cherubim, seraphim, 388. Food, mischief of immoderate eaters,
501, 502; what can be digested nourishes, 502; repletion worse than famine, ib. Forerunner, implies them who follow,
Forgiveness of others ingredient of repentance, 412.
Form of a slave, man; form of God, God, 372.
reality, ib., it is aided by God, 425, 520. Friends, favor of, must be risked to
Faintheartedness, 463, 465; some-Freewill, its proneness to ill, 425; its times produces unbelief, 416; springs from unbelief, 455; hin- ders a promise of its fruit, 418; makes one no ready hearer, 423; loss from at the last, 476; at last came on the Hebrews, 483; dan- ger of, to soul in tribulation, 516. Faith, the, 391, 398, 400, 409, 410,
419, 432, 462; handed down that we may not have to engage with every heresy, 407; known to Catechumens, 432; Christ gave, 493; imparts holiness, 504; the, and right life make of full age, 409; we are to endure so long as the, is not touched, 504; cf. 392; who misteach, we must shun, 519; cf. on Galatians, p. 16. Faith, to need absolute proof of God's
Providence or care, want of, 396; insufficient without a right life, 398; necessary to salvation, ib.; cf. 455, 516; must be very sure, 455; in it we trust the Holy Ghost, ib., contrary to reasoning, 516; the very essence of things of hope, 462, 463; comes of a sincere will, 522; needs a gen- erous soul, 465; saves, ib.; its might, 487, 488; can do all, 487; is all, 516; a pure life, springs of,
obtain his salvation, 472; real. help one another's souls, 505. Funerals, hymns and psalmody at,
proclaim triumph, 386; un- seemly grief at, ib., those who tear their hair and behave un- seemly ought to be long while shut out of Church, ib.; the part of madmen, ib., harmful, ib.; a scandal and makes Resurrec- tion disbelieved, 385, 387; Psalms cxvi, xxiii, xxxii, sung at, 386; hired mourners if admitted to Christian funeral shall be pun- ished, those who admit them treated as idolaters, 387; daily, hourly, 426.
Garden, untilled part of, 501. Garments, precious, laid among per-
fume and spices to preserve them from moths, 459. Gifts, some receive not because of
impure life, some lest it should harm their souls, 379, 380; diver- sity of, 380; if householder knows to whom to entrust, God more, ib.; how to comfort ourselves
that we have not, 380, 381; must use thankfully the little ones we have, 380; the greatest, Charity, offered to all, 381.
Glory, from men we must account as nothing, 493; obtained by sim- plicity, 497. Glutton, overreaching, 506. God, His Peace surpasses mind, much
more does He, 370; reverence and faith needed to hear or speak of, 370; when our human lan- guage fails, then we must praise Him for His greatness, ib.; of, we know somewhat yet under- stand not, ib.; or conceive and cannot utter, ib.; not enclosed by space, 373; spoken of as though man, 391; wonderful in His works, in His love to man more wonderful, 381; through uncer- tainty would keep us watchful, 382; teaches patience, 418; His condescension in swearing, who ought to be believed without, 419; cf. 429; everywhere present, 432; by remembering we forget wickedness, 437; we must remem- ber specially at night and at day- break, ib., and so have Him our helper, ib.; remembrance of Him uplifts us to endure and be brave, 484; and makes hard things easy, ib.; several results of His remem- bering us, and we Him, ib.; com- mands nothing impossible, 446; what philosophers knew of His Being, belonged to Faith, not to reason, 465, 466; Being of, Faith assures; truths of His Essence neither Faith nor reasoning may attain, 467; inflicted punishment of death, as He threatened, as a Parent showed mercy at once in translating Enoch undying, ib.; they who attribute all to chance are not pleasing to, ib., a Re- warder, 467, 468; how to be sought, 468; evil desires, pas- sions, cares, obstruct sight, ib.; how to lift ourselves toward, ib.; His manifold gifts at creation, 471; His Gift of His Son, ib.; the God and Friend of holy peo- ple, 475; will be ours if we will be strangers to the world, 476; obedience makes us friends of, ib.; gives not full rest here but some refreshment, 470; wished to seem a Debtor even in giving up His own Son, 478; a glory to, to be called God of the good; a shame to, to be called God of the wicked, 475, 476; gives earthly things if our hearts be not set on them, 479; with fear of Him bit- ter things not painful, 485; the friend of, besought God his Friend and the creatures yielded, 489; if we hold fast to, we shall stand against the foe and temp- tation, 494; the Lover of holy souls, 498; chastens as sons ten- derly loved, 500; gave Law, gives
too the Gospel, 512; our example in mercifulness, 513; if our friend, temporal things matter not, 516; alone knows what is good for us, 517.
God the Father, angry for dishonor done to His Son, 377; and the Son, each subsist, 370; God the Son, God the Holy Ghost, unity
God the Son, from the Father, 370, 371; absolutely equal to the Father, 370, 377; has absolute Power, 371; equal Honor, 517; gift of Redemption enhanced by being through, 373; what means sitting, ib., who disdained not to become Man, neither disdained He the lowly expressions ib.; teaches us thereby lowliness, ib.; marked off from creatures, 376; sent, i.e. made flesh, 377; no min- ister, ib.; assumed what is of us and united it to Himself, 382; suffered though God is incapable of suffering, 389; why called a sword, 398; passes through inner heart, to judge, ib.; severity of, 399; tender aid given by, 400; sympathy of, 389, 400; appointed Priest, 403; His obedience, 404; His learning it, 419; prayed yet raised Himself from the dead, 404; prayed for us, ib.; emptied Himself and glorified Himself, ib.; mediated by an oath, 419; and all the power of the Spirit dwell in His flesh, 440. God the Son God, 372; who is wor- shiped, 375; who beholds all, 400; who stands not as High Priest but is on the Throne, ib.; who in the Gospels swears by Himself, 418. See also Christ God.
God the Holy Ghost, 420; argument against objectors to His God- head, 366; God who reveals, 469; grace of, shows Its might as It will, 367; mighty, 468, 487, 521. See Grace. His inspira- tion of and care for preservation of Scriptures, 407; received in Baptism, 410; St. Paul's words words of, 413; might of in Body of the Word, 440; whose Body of (ek), ib.; framed by, 444; His presence hallows men, 450; we trust to in matters of faith, 455; somewhat that St. Chrysostom said, the words of, 449; waters us, Christ having planted us, 457; we know not how to pray save by, 517.
Gold is but dirt, 480. Gold-embroidered linen, 480; orna-
ments, 496, 497; we must part with for others' need that we may enjoy His Beauty, 498. Gossip, grievous sins of, 464; idle excuse that it was another that told us, ib., if we must, to speak of our sins to God and our friends, ib.
Grace, Throne of, now will then be throne of Doom, 400; Repent- ance after Baptism is of, ib., of the Spirit, 468, 487, 500, 521, 522; compared to wind filling sails and wafting ship, 521; even of old time wrought through the unworthy, 476; prevents, our dil- igence follows, ib.; fills up our work, 520; poured on Moses in his babyhood, wrought in Pha- raoh's daughter, 483; surpasses the Law in that it can bring to Heaven, 489.
Hair, see Temple. Hand, withered that doth not alms, 480; filthy that grasps beyond its due, ib. Heaven, 396, 397; not to be reached
negligently, 398; we lose by seeking first things of time, 408; the glory beyond words, 413; through hope we there, 419; offerings presented by Christians borne unconsumed to, 420; who wishes may be in, may be heaven, 444, 445; as St. Paul and others did, 445; there calm, ib.; there good things abide, 512, 513; the Patriarchs alive to, dead to the world, we alive to the world, dead to, 473, 474; Theater of, 496; Beauty of, how much more His Beauty, 498; the homes that are there the Poor build us, 513. Hebrews, Epistle to, written to Jews
(he thought) in Palestine and Jerusalem, 364; mode in, com- pared to that in Epistle to Ro- mans, 403, 405, 424, 462; Gala- tians, 405,406,415; 1 Corinthians, 406, 511; 2 Corinthians, 514; Thessalonians, 515, others, 520; and his discourse at Athens, 405; had been Christians long time, 365, 405; babes, 406; had been better once, 405, 406, 483; their Faith and Patience, 483; St. Paul apologizes to them, 520; place of his prayer here at end, in other Epistles at beginning, ib. Hell, 396, 403, 421, 431, 456, 457,
461, 469, 471, 476, 481, 490; terror of, 368, 369; none afraid of, 472; some believe not that there is, 507; we must often think of lest we suffer it, 369; almsgiv- ing will quench, ib., everlasting, 396, 450, 495; terrible beyond thought, 495, 509; due punish- ment for evil speaking, 464; we must hinder in friends what leads to, 505; there none may aid, 509. Heretics, 404, 406, 428; the faith
handed down to us our preserva- tive against, 407. See Arius, Manichæus, Marcellus, Marcion, Paul, Novatians, etc. Highmindedness to no purpose, 373; danger of, 379, 380, 425, 426; St. Peter's special danger of, as know- ing that he loved Christ more
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