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HOMILIES ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS.

INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

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,

a

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.

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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

custom, 414.

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.

See Will.

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,

420.

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,

419.

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

of, 371.

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

now

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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