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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

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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,

ib.

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

XXV. 7
xxxii. 4

xl. I

lxviii. 13
lxxvii. 2
ciii. 5
Prov. xiv. 29

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Isa. i. 16-18
Mal. i. 14

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.496, 497

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.

one

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

cannot

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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