Homilies on the Gospel of St. John and the Epistle to the Hebrews

NPNF (V1-14)St. ChrysostomINDEXES OF SUBJECTS.HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN.Abraham, supposed by the Samaritans to have offered Isaac on mount Gerizim, 113; Christ talkedwith, 116; who the real seed of, 194; wrongly compared with Christ, 198; how he saw Christ'sday, 198.Adam, said to die from the moment of the Fall, because under sentence, 97.Adulterers, salvation of, impossible, 234.Adultery, the woman taken in, not mentioned by St. Chrysostom, 187.Advice, to be welcomed from any, by Christ's example, 174.Affliction, the best trial of faith, 125.Affronts here, to be borne, from thought of heaven, 291, 293; from thought of our Christianmembership, 294; of imperious women often borne by their lovers, 294.Age, adds dignity to virtue, 332.Agony, the, expressed the weakness of nature, 318.Agreement, not always good, 206.Alms, win praise of God and Angels, 256.Almsgiving, wins forgiving, 29, 47; a pure sacrifice, 46; must not come from dishonest gain, 47;indispensable to our entering the kingdom, 83; a seal to the charitable, 86; will win treasurein heaven, 89; the way to true honor, 118, 143; to gain present delight and the future crown,147; the meat that perisheth not, 158; to be practiced throughout life, 219; the measure ofGod's mercy to us, ib.; necessary to life, yet easy, and sobering, 220; brings contentment, 244;cleanses from sin, 270; better none, than with covetousness, ib.; duty of, enjoined, 284; neglectof, leads to hell, 285; due to Christ, 285; blessing of here and hereafter, 286; cleanses andheals the soul, 302; the best winding sheet for the dead, 321; profits both the dying and thedead, 322; raised Dorcas to life, ib.Altar, awfulness of the Christian, 167; danger of approaching in sin, ib.; danger of profaning it withgifts from unjust gains, 270.I Am, implies absolute being, 53.Ancestry, nobility of, no protection to the bad, 75, 108; availed not the Jews, 108.Andrew, St., praise of his zeal and modesty in coming to Christ, 64, 65; of his zeal in his brother'sconversion, 67; his faith in the miracle of the loaves, 152.Angel of counsel, a title of Christ, 53 (note).Angels, learn from revelations given to the Church, 2; worshiped Christ in His human nature, 39;have appeared in brightness, 40; act under command, 41; have a well-ordered polity, 42; howmen become like them, ib.; are holy, 49; have not seen God in His Essence, but only in Christ,52; their ministry to Christ a proof of His Deity, 73; behold but understand not the mystery758