than all, 507; prosperity some- times produces, 517; constant memory of our sins does away with, 508.
Hope, its stay, 391, 393, 415, 419,
429; that of each covenant con- trasted, 434; of future bears through despondency, 503. Human things, their transitoriness,
412; a shadow, 484; nought if God our friend, 516; hope a help even in, 419; the whole of virtue to be loose from, 473. See Tem- poral things. Humility, aid from listening to our
Lord's words on, 409; not true, to call ourselves sinners and be angry when so called, 490; what, ib.
Ill, we are apt to suspect, good not so, 422; our will readily inclines to side of, 425; we often abstain from, out of respect to men, 516. Image and Express Image contrasted, 372. Indolence the reason why the bad become not better, 474; why we imitate not the Saints, 456. Injure, they who, injure themselves,
479. Injuries, remembrance of, a great sin,
412, 490; will go if we ever re- member our sins, 508; bearing will help us and the injuring party too, 504. Insult, who, insult themselves, 479, 480.
Isaac, only-begotten in respect to the promise, 478; praise of, 474, 482;
his toils and gain therefrom, 500.
Jacob, faith of, 474, 482; gain through affliction, 500, 501. Jesus, in the form of Man, 489. Jews, had power in their own land
to act independently of their rulers, 365; their priests ceasing to be priests, 403; St. Paul proves that far superior to, and to their polity is the uncircumcised Mel- chizedek, 424; times of, under Ezra and Malachi referred to, 436; their law, old, ib.; Jewish captives glorious even in cap- tivity, 484; having deprived them- selves of Christ will fall into hands of Antichrist, 515; heath- ens, heretics, true charity wears itself out for, 381.
Jews Christian, how well-nigh worn
out when St. Paul wrote to them, 365, 366; cf. 514; had long be- lieved and borne, 365; compared to Elijah in their troubles, 491; exhorted to perseverance in that whereunto they had attained, 514; their enemies Christ's enemies, 377. Joshua, reverenced as a very special type of Christ, 489; availed more than did Moses, ib.; even while Moses was living, 490. Joy, never unmixed here, 442; the
true, how to be attained, ib.; en- durance with, Apostolical, 462; fruit of grief, of chastisement, 503. Judge, the Judge of words as well as of actions, 438; propitiated if we accuse ourselves for our sins, 508; confess to, ib.
Judgment, 401; the Throne of grace
now, becomes then Throne of, 400; day of, 420, 472; near, 463; the Judge will be there, 509; sins of all publicly displayed then except we do them away by con- tinual remembrance of them, 508, 509; in that day the poor man will deliver thee, 421; proof that end of world is nigh, 463; end of all at hand, day of each one's death yet nearer, ib.; we shud- der at end, as if going to, 475; special account then taken of purity, 476; Judgments men- tioned in his day, 472; com- mon, of all indisputable, 503. Jugglers' sleights, 445.
Lace, a superfluity, 496. Lady, walking with few attendants attracts less notice, 495, 496; to dress simply, 496 sqq.; such an one has her husband's respect, 497.
Lamb, paschal, type of our deliver- ance, 487.
Laughing, evil habit of, in Church
and at prayers, 442; Sarah re-
buked for, ib.; her denial of it was from her faith, 471; right use of and misuse of, 442; women do not laugh, save in times of relaxation, in presence of their husbands, ib.; we laugh at chil- dren who strike us in a passion, 468; when we ought to mourn bitterly, 471, 472.
Law, has less might than has grace,
489; superiority of Christian things over those of, 511; the same who gave the Gospel, 512; Laws Ecclesiastical, 387; written in hearts belong not to Jews but to Christians, 435. Lent, forty days' preparation for
Easter Communion, 449; loss if insufficient, 450. Long-suffering tames anger, 468. Lose, not to, of less toil than after-
ward to recover it, 462. Lost, a thing, with what earnestness sought, 468.
Love, the perfect thing, 455; from,
all good things, 456; nought good which is not from, ib.; assembling ourselves increases, 455, 456; a natural path leading to virtue, 456; as self what, ib., of enemies and the bad, praise of, ib. Lungs, reason given why they be
placed under the heart, 393. Lust, not pleasure, a mere shadow of
pleasure, 393; he who is pos- sessed by, worse than one in a fever, 441; evil desire hinders
Manichæans, 406, 409; the modernest heresy, 407.
Marcellus, 370, 371, 376; taught as did Labellius, 407.
Marcion, 371, 376, 409; the first heresy, 407.
Marriage, 516; not it, but want of moderation in, hurts, 402. Martyrs, whole burnt-offerings, body and soul, 420. Mary, Virgin, some deemed that God the Son had His beginning from, 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, 407. Matter, self-existent, some people say that it is, 467.
Mediator, not the owner of that in
regard to which he mediates, 443- Medicine, of Repentance, what its in-
gredients, 411; a, if removes dis- ease utterly at once, has strength; if needed continually, is weak, 448; not needed where no stroke, 449; bitter, gives first unpleas- antness, then benefits, 503. Mercifulness, untold beauty of, 513;
might of, ib.; specially belongs to a Christian, ib.; God first showed forth, ib. See Almsgiv ing.
Milk, the lowlier doctrines, 404, 406; cf. 398.
Mind, how the grace of the Spirit
gives it wings, 468; winged, it soars above the devil's darts, ib. Miracles, they who wrought, and
prophesied, and were denied; it was probably the want of perse- verance, 476; perhaps, too, they were wicked while they wrought, ib. Money, the degradation of those who give themselves to, 441; peril of love of, 459, 460, 476; and slav- ery to care of choice treasures, 459; address to Mammon, 442; value for, a worse than Egyptian bondage, 459; gold mere dirt, 480; angels would despise them who love, ib. Monks, or solitaries, not for them
alone Christ's precepts, but for people living in the world, 386, 403; saints in life and in faith, 416; might of their life, 522; some wanted to aid only, 417; when beggars, called impostors,
422; sometimes communicate yearly or after two years, 449. Moses, compared with Christ, 389, 390; a part of the house, 390; his faithfulness, 391; grace poured on in his very babyhood, 483; cared not for Palace of Egypt when Heaven is before him, ib.; his flight was of faith, 484; less than Joshua, 489, 490; fled from dignity yet imperilled in discharge of it, 520. Mourners, hired, forbidden even to come to a Christian funeral and threatened, 387. See Funerals.
Night, some spend in prayer, some in deeds of evil, 438; prayer at, 490.
Novatians alluded to, 457.
Obedience, makes friends of God,
476; aids others too, 481; lack of, worse than anarchy, 518; pun- ishment follows, 519.
Of (2) the Father, 370, 371, 373, 385. Oil, for lamps, is kindness, 498; cf. 513.
Old age, exceeding disgrace of a
wicked, 401; depends not on years, but on virtue, 402; of sin, repentance frees from, 410, 436; impairs not beauty of soul, 498; man, an emperor if he have all his in subjection, 402. Olympic games, interest excited by,
437; herald's cry at, 450; TO ὅμοιον κατὰ πάντα (similarity in all respects), 371. Oppression, deeds of, and of defraud-
ing so great that many would gladly have parted with life, 471; see 480.
Orator, his special pains at the end of his speech, 476.
Pain, here, 392, 477, 478, 508. Painting, the outline a shadow, with
the colors an image, 447, 448. Passion, patience disarms, 468; if in a, we become very children, ib. Passions, some are useful, 374. Patience, 416, 419 note, 459; Christ's
sufferings an aid to, 365, 383; needed while things are still in process of being subjected to our King, 383; of fisherman and husbandman, 417; of Abraham, 418; why God teaches it us, ib.; lost at very end when combat even over, 462, 463; disarms passion, 468; of the Hebrews, 483; need of much, 490. Patriarchs, strangers to the whole world, 471, 473, 474; and lived as foreigners, 474; their faith very persevering, 483. Paul, St., Apostle of Gentiles, 363;
Jews ill-disposed to, ib.; why not sent to Jews, ib.; once a Jew himself, and holding with them, has greater force thereby, 364; why he wrote to them, 364, 365; his love for them, ib.; for each,
416; his history after close of Acts, 364; his trade alluded to, 367; (like his Master) leads up by little steps, then down, 367, 370; cf. 174, 365; his way of speak- ing of the Son compared with St. John's, 372, 373; (like his Master) does not utter all, but leaves to conscience of hearers, 378; is not particular in use of phrases, ib.; cites holy Scripture anonymously to those who were familiar with it, 382; his example as an athlete, 392; transposes his thoughts, 394 [cf. St. Irenæus, iii. 7, 2, p. 217, O. T.]; his mode and in the Epistle to the Romans compared, 403, 405, 424, 462; here and in Epistle to the Gala- tians, 405, 406, 415, 462; and in Epistles to Corinthians, 406, 511, 514; to Thessalonians, 515; and discourse to Athenians, 405; leads his hearers on even to the very hard, 405; by little and little, 423, 429; mixes praise and blame, 415, 416, 418, 461; his praise of them, 416; passes not away, 413; words of, words of the Holy Ghost, of Christ, 413; his fear of failing, 414; mixes lowly and lofty, 433; expands Prophet Jeremiah, 436; and others lived in Heaven while here, 445; praises of, 456; his travail-pangs, 472; did not call himself a stranger only, but dead to the world, 473; allows not to eat with the covetous, 480, 481; nor drunkards, yet we disobey, 481; his use of term brother, 480, 481; not a trace of monastic life in his time, 481; his great wealth of thought, 487; his triumph over troubles when now in twen- tieth year of preaching, 494; commanding simplicity of attire utterly disobeyed in the very Church, 497; ever gave thanks in all his afflictions, ib.; his apol- ogy to the Hebrews, 520; his deep love for them and prayers and asking their prayers, ib., we must imitate in his overcoming all affliction for Heaven's love, 522.
Paul of Samosata, 371, 376, 407;
taught that God the Son has His beginning from the holy Virgin, 407; his followers called Jews, 376 and note.
Peacock, beauty of, 513. Perseverance, need of, when near the
goal, 398, 399; need of, 398, 476, 490; from examples, 476; want of, probably cost those who had prophesied and cast out devils their crown, 476.
Peter, St., a common person may be
as, 453; praise of, 456; his tomb known, 482; his penitence per- fect, 507; God left, that he might learn not to contradict the Mas- ter, ib.; his special temptation
to be highminded, ib.; his cour-
age afterward, ib. Photinus, 370; taught same as Sabel- lius, 407.
Physicians, taste food first for the sick man, 384; why they say the lungs are under the heart, 393; parts of bodies that are grown callous yield not to hands of, 394; mix medicines of many ingredients, one the essence of the medicine, 411; after deep incisions use gentle remedies, 461; if he go not forward to the end, his early success but loss, 476; if despised cannot avenge himself on his patient, 519. Playthings, sometimes offered to an intelligent child, to show how he cares for higher things, 471; withheld if too eagerly desired, 479.
Pleasure, less if disappointment be
expected to follow, 503; that brings despondency no pleasure,
Poor, the, a fellow-freeman, 421; will
stand by thee in the day of Doom, thy Advocate, ib.; neglected while a dead body is richly adorned, ib., if he beg, called impostor, 421, 422; ought to be helped, for we always eat, our children beg of us, 421; ought to be helped without enquiry, for we, too, say, remember not my sins, 421, 422; the Saints of old poor, yet very mighty, 452, 453; who feed, feed Christ, 454; many of, bitterly defrauded and op- pressed, 471, 480; the rich most truly, 480; if a poor man asked to an entertainment by a de- frauder therefore refused, the other would be shamed, 481; none too, to give the cup of water, the two mites, to visit sick, prisoners, 509; build our houses in Heaven, 513; offerings of, ac- cepted equally with gold, 514; yea, of ten thousand talents, 378. Poverty, not, but caring to be despised
for, makes us despicable, 374; the Christian shines out more in, than in riches, 374; it affords, too, more pleasure, ib.; we may not be impatient of, 375; many blessings of, 452, 459; makes bold, 453; leads by the hand to Heaven, ib.; great independence of, ib.; Christ called perfection of virtue, ib.; an ill-omened thing, ib.; if voluntary, gives great might, 453, 454; and trust toward God, 454; every one afraid of, 472; not painful with the fear of God, 485; luxurious habits make hated, 497; to be sought, 518.
Praise, to repudiate, one form of pride, 490. Prayer, intense, one ingredient of re- pentance, 412; heard through alms, 420; no marvel if not
heard when we neglect those who beg of us, 421; night-long (Tavvuxis), 438; a great weapon, 437; special need of night and morning, 437, 468; a certain, ut- tered in act of tale-telling, 464; intense, 468, 490, 521; we sin- stained, if not heard at our first, draw back, 485; watching in, what, 490; a mighty weapon, ib.; made worthy one unworthy, ib.; some yawn and scratch themselves at, ib.; laugh during, 442; prevents sins, heals mis- deeds, 490; cf. 509; need of, 490; usually asked of them who love us, 520. Priest, our, not visible, under old Covenant not visible, 455; in of- ferings of Christians, each his own, 420. Priests, their aid toward forgiveness, 412; the, offer up the prayer of all, 442; if a man call himself a, enquire as not giving but receiv- ing from him, 422; wicked, grace works through, for sake of their flock, themselves condemned, 476; may not be silent, ib.; grave responsibility of, 519. See Clergy.
Promises, in what respect they of old
received them not, 470, 481, 482; received by trusting thoroughly, 471; Christ's, not that we shall have power to stay the sun and moon, but that He and the Father will dwell in us, 490. Proof, continued after a person is sat- isfied, wearies him, 488. Proverb, a, 480.
Psalm, xxiii., xxxii., cxvi., sung at fu- nerals, 386; vi., said every day, 442. Punishments, 403; there not here, 391, 458, 473; given with bless- ing here, that there may be no account, 391; instances, ib.; evil of being without, alluded to, 374; in store for the wicked, 396; to the soul, too, 398 (see Soul); much spared us, 412; use of, 426; we must exact from our- selves, 508; greater to those who have enjoyed good things here without becoming better, 460; will come, 463; as in dread of, we grieve at leaving this life, 475; if we deny our sins, 508; if clergy are disobeyed and weep, we incur, 519.
Purity, of itself admits to the king- dom, its absence takes to de- struction, 476.
Race, foot, St. Paul uses for a simile, as
being easiest of the contests, 493. Reasoning, faith opposed to, 465, 516; our reasonings like spider- webs, 522; reasoning power given to each is a talent, 504. Repentance, 412; after Baptism, yet
remains to us, 457; a propitia- tion, ib.; after Baptism, is of
grace, 400; sets free from old age of sin, and makes strong, re- news not the former brightness, 410; if used aright, will blot out all sins, 412; in deepest peril can deliver, ib., medicine of, con- tains about nine ingredients, almsgiving the most essential, ib.; necessity of strict, 426, 490; its might, 426; restores lost beauty, so as even the King may desire it, 436, 437; even from worst deformity, 436; ours a weak, 450; here of use, there of no avail, 463, 464; why unavail- ing Esau's, 506, 507; Cain's, 506; Judas', 507; sins too great for, ib.; St. Peter's, ib.; King David's, 507, 508; does not for- get sins, ib. See Sins. Repetition, use of, 409, 509. Reproach, apt to pervert the soul and
Sacrifice, the Cross the One, 439, 449;
cf. 430, 434, 444, 452, 457, 487, 507; ours the memorial of that One, 449; our, 517; Deacon's cry, Holy things for the holy, uttered after completion of, 450.
See Eucharist. Sacrifices, showed weakness by need-
ing repetition, 448, 451; the weakness of, shown, and they abolished ere Christ came, 451; of Christians, 420; all their rites heavenly, 434; their own souls, 420; shadowed out in Old Testa- ment too, ib., the martyr's body and soul, ib., voluntary poverty is also a whole burnt-offering, ib.; those of Cornelius, ib. Saint, every Christian a, in faith, 416.
Saints, if weighed against whole world,
avail more, 475, 489; some say we cannot be as the, 487; friends of God, 475, 476, 489; how great their virtue, 490; gladly wait for us, 491, 492; made to shine by affliction, 500, 501.
darken the judgment, 461; sore trial of, when in presence of many, ib., Christ endured, 484; we must accept, thus we put away, 490; makes our sins lighter for us, ib., St. Paul does not al-Salvation, each can aid others in the low the clergy, if despised, to use, but to weep, 519. Reproof, profitable to endure, 387;
bitterer than fire and knife; we must learn from surgeon in us- ing, 505; patience in giving, ib.; looking to the reward in store, ib.; not always immediate, 507. Rest, God gives not full here, 470; not here, 512. Resurrection, preaching to heathen of no avail while Christians by unseemly grief at funerals con- tradict, 385, 387; they believe it not who give way to mad grief at loss of friends, 386; some be- lieve that some rise and others do not, 455; aids to those who believe not, 391; deceit not to believe, 396; disbelief of, 407; that there is, a part of our Con- fession, 400; though not yet here, hope realizes it in our soul, 463; at the doors, ib.; Abel and those of his time knew not of a, 467; yet of old the hope of it
given, 478; of all together, 509; Christ's, 365, 373, 383, 411, 520. Rewards, there, 391, 459, 463, 489;
cf. 484; to receive here an in- sult, 489; if we are virtuous only for, shall never be so, 431; dif- ferences of, 432; given to thank- fulness, 459, 460; who believe not in, please not God, 467; we may not despond of, 503.
Sabbath-day, meet occupations for, what, 396.
Sabbath-rests, three, 393; the first
God's, the second Palestine, ib.; the third Heaven, 394, 396, 400; the proof of this, 395, 396. Sabellius, 370, 371; taught that Father, Son, Spirit, are but one, 407.
way of, 504, 505; can aid even more than teacher can, 504. Saul, declined the Kingdom, yet scaped not peril for managing it ill, 520. Scripture, Holy, Old and New Testa-
ments of one and the same, 366; uses human expressions of God, 391; food, 406; experience of, makes of full age, 406, 407; no one attends to, 407; some do not know existence of, ib., Holy Ghost provided for preservation of, ib.; Scripture testimonies to, ib.; may not be known without learning, 407, 408; people's ig- norance of, 408; what the reader in Church gives out when at the desk to read, ib.; when dis- persed, God inspired Ezra to col- lect them, 407; to be heard with fear, 413; Old Testament prefig- ures Christian sacrifices, 420; say no more than needed, 467; texts commented on or explained: Ps. vi. 7
lxviii. 13 lxxvii. 2 ciii. 5 Prov. xiv. 29
xxiv. II Isa. i. 16-18 Mal. i. 14
St. Matt. v. 42
Sepulchres, see Tombs. Sermons, applause at, 409. Servants, two are enough, 495; lady
walking out should not be at- tended by many, ib., angels do not have, ib.
Service in church, every day, 450;
increases love, 455, 456; benefit of being together in, 504, 516. Seventy, the, translated (ordered of the Holy Ghost) Scriptures into Greek, 407. Shame, in the wicked their own wit- ness against themselves, 474; be- fore men, not before God, 508. Sheep, treatment of the sickly, 450. Silence, peril of, to ministers of the Word, 476.
Silk, a superfluity, 496. Sin, a very plague, 441; in Heb. xi.
25, holding back from affliction, 483; to, belongs ease, 484; its bitterness causes some to pine away, 506; easily overcome if we will, 493; the sole disgrace, though none think so, 496; the sole evil, 518; it is a duty to keep others from sin even if by force, after in other ways and by beg- ging his help for one's self, 505; King David long bewailed his, 507; may be hindered even from a lower motive, by degrees lead- ing to a higher, 505; abstaining from, a due observance, 516. Sins, the lesser not a spot or wrinkle,
but far worse, 368; not small, 490; recoil on the doer, 368; parent of unbelief, 394; notwith- standing, hope remains, while to-day lasts, 396; we may not de- spair after, 396, 426; he who seeks pardon for sins of youth must not sin when old, 401; they who are old in, repentance frees, 410; all can be blotted out by right repentance, 412; must be
confessed one by one, 412, 508; affliction wipes out, 494; confes- sion lessens, 508; we must re- member our, 412, 437, 507 sqq., if we remember, God for- gets, 508; remembering, helps cure, ib.; great help of remem- bering, 473, 508, 509; punish- ment if we deny, 508; pity if we confess, ib.; called thorns, 414, 415; not enough to remove, treatment also needed, 414; if we cut out, may enjoy the good things innumerable, 415; diffi- culty of cleansing away, 426;·| almsgiving and defending the wronged do it, ib.; cf. 412; if we begin, God cleanses, 426; of ig- norance none is free from, 439; we should mourn over others', 442; and keep silence as to them, 464; to tell our own to God and our friends, ib.; prevented or healed by prayer, 490; enough to cast us out of the king- dom, and they are many, ib.; to confess, not humility but candor, ib.; some too great for repent- ance, 507; remembering always our own, we forget wrongs from others, 508; we must offer to God, 447, 508; penitence, prayer, deeds of mercy, wash away, 509; by mourning our, we draw God to us, 519; putting away, what, 448.
Sinners, if others call us, we must not be angry, 491; cf. 507. Slave-dealers, 495.
Slaves, esteemed, the Master some-
times called after, 475, 476; two suffice for a family willing to part with superfluities, 495. Sleep, some indulge in by day, we spiritually, 474.
Son, force of the word, 367, 368, 373,
375, 385, 390, 430; the Son and sons contrasted, 384, 385. Soul, punished, 398, 459; suffers, 396;
in its vigor when a person is aged, 401; when one is young it is subject to fevers, ib.; purified by Blood of Christ, 440; its eye, how to make quick and beauti- ful, 450; mingled with soul in- creases love, 455; might of a great, 456; in calamity apt to be impatient, 459; reproach a sore trial of the, 461; and scorning and jests, 493; covetousness de- grades, 480; eating at banquets of the overreaching destroys, ib.; and defiles, 481; striving in prayer to God, 490; wrestles in theater of Heaven, 496; the well- adorned, has God for its Lover, and place with the choirs of an- gels, 498; virgin if pure, even though married, 496, 498; it the Lord seeks after, 498; exhausted, how refreshed, 499; made col- lected through affliction, 500; enervated through luxury, 501; shares it if body be effeminate,
ib.; must be forced to remember its sins, 508; in tribulation liable to despond, 516; must be braced to receive the impulses of the Spirit, 521, 522.
Spirit, Holy, see God the Holy Ghost. Starvation, no one dies of, except by his own will, 422.
Strangers, Patriarchs, to this world, 471, 473 sqq.; King David 475; we to our own country, 473, 475; to the world if we, God to be called our God, 475, 476. Substance, no word will express, even of angel, far less of God, 372. Suffering, perfects, 384, 392, 404; is a cause of salvation, 384; cf. 404; we are to rejoice in our own, as paying the penalty of sins, 391; helps to wipe them out, 494; use of, 426, 494; it is only our own which moves us, 426; amid, we may be calm within, as the sky when overclouded, 445; of Abel preaches beyond all speech, 466; of them of old during their whole lives we have no idea of, 491, 494; all can be borne if we be approved of Heaven, 494, 495. Suicide, some long for death, and only the fear of God withholds them, 512. Surgeons, their mingled gentleness and firmness, 505. Suspect, we are apt to, 422. Swearing, 477.
Talents, teacher has five, learner one, 504; earth wherein single talent is buried, the bad heart, ib. Teacher, of grammar, must make boy
master the things to be learnt, 409; if he repeat the alphabet, it is not to teach himself, 490; has five talents, learner one, 504; if he teach a child heedless, one is called who punishes the child, 519. Tears, help wash away sins, 442, 509;
one ingredient in medicine of repentance, 412, 426; of wailing and mourning, they worthy who choose to fail of the things to come, 471; St. Chrysostom calls for, 472; of Christ, 442. Temple, its magnificence, 446; its
wonders, 510; its being One, 446; as the Jewish was for whole world, so is Christ our Priest in the temple of Heaven, 447; of- fering even of hair accepted for, 514. Temporal things, we seek first, and
lose both them and Heaven, 408; God gives, when He sees us prefer spiritual things, 460, 479; given as a refreshment, 470; often possessed, not as His gift, but by fraud, 460; Patriarchs of old loved their Home, cared not for these, 471; so magnificent, ib.; who seek, lose them and Divine things; who prefer Divine obtain both, 486; soon go, 512; when
we mind, the grace of the Spirit leaves, 521. See Human things. Temptation, different kinds of con- duct under, 392; terrible attack of, on young men met by ascetic practices, 403; the noblest had to pass through, 416; stronger in time of calamity, 459; shall be trifling, if we hold fast to God, 494. Thanksgiving, we must bear all with, to attain the true joy, 442, 517; as St. Paul did, 517; to God, both for comfort and afflictions, 518; brings untold blessings, 459, 460; without, we serve God, 514; our offering, 517; offered with a contrite mind, ib.; due to God the Son, ib. Thoughts, some beyond power of ex- pression, 370, 372. Through or by (Sià), not limited to
the Son, but used of the Father, too, 384; cf. on Galatians, pp. 4, 5.
To-day, 373, 394 sqq., 399, 515. Tombs, why they of old cared for
their, 482; of Sts. Peter, Paul, John, Thomas, known, of rest un- known, ib., where any one's may be, the earth is the Lord's, ib. Tongue, why given us, 368. Trial, without, we cannot know our-
selves, 380; life full of those who cause, and thus strengthen us, 456; God exercises His athletes with, 478; in, bearing with evil a great weapon, 504. Trinity, see God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost. Truth our girdle, 450.
Unbelief, 469, 471; arises sometimes
from faint heart, 416.
Vainglory, source of evils, 490; we act for, 496.
Virgin souls, pure even though mar-
ried, 496, 498; literal virginity a mere shadow of, 498; the true, ib.
Virtue, like bitter medicine, 503. Virtues, to practice one by one, care-
ful in learning one not to lose another, 476, 477.
Wants, who has few, preferred, 374, 495 sqq. Water, taken, lessens not fountain; so works remain to doer, 368; fevered person drinking much, not high-minded, 373; quenches hot iron, so forbearance anger, 468.
Wealth, peril of love of, 476; peril of,
518. See Money, Poor, Poverty, Covetous. Wicked, sometimes has here the re- ward of a few good deeds, there utter punishment, 391; instances of, ib.; God wills that His chil- dren show compassion for the, 417; deride and condemn their like, 474; thereby judge them- selves, ib.
Wickedness, by remembering God we forget, 437; of alms from ill- gotten gains, 481.
Wife, a great good and great evil, 459.
Will, with, nothing difficult, 432; not
even to overcome sin, 493; in- clines readily to ill, 425; great
power of, not apart from action, 445, 446; two kinds of, 451, 452; alone needed, 477; of it comes faith, 522.
Wine, need of moderation in, 402. Women, breed of, in towns weak through delicate habits, 501; in the country stronger than men in towns, ib. Words, human, fail to express God,
Him must we praise, 370; thoughts not to be expressed by, 370, 372; our, bare, God's not So, 372. Works, good or ill, the doer first reaps
the fruit of, 368; who holds the Faith and does right, of full age, 409; dead, a grievous of- fense, 441; our work and God's act combine, 455; God's grace preceding, our work following, 476; good, need of, 457; aid from, 447; the wealth of, 450; of teachers, their power, 455; ill, 457. World, to be one day transfigured, 376; avails not weighed against the saints, 475, 489; nor against the soul's beauty, 498.
Yawning, at prayers, 490. Yonder, Heaven, 391, 397, 398, 408,
444, 474, 480, 490; are the Rewards, the punishments, 391; the Rewards, ib.; the Rest, 477. Young man, has excuse only in things
that need experience, not cour- age and effort, 402; ascetic hab- its his safeguard against strong temptation, 403.
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