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

NPNF (V1-14)St. ChrysostomCorinthian, the, adulterer recovered by timely rebuke, 130, 131.Covetousness, a hindrance to hearing the Word, 8; its power, 31; separates the brethren, 54; abetraying of Christ, 172; a subject for mourning, 240; examples of its evil effects in Judas andothers, 243; the worst idolatry, ib.; begins in envy, ib.; ruins the merit of almsgiving, 270;without excuse, 273; its general spread and mischiefs, 280; spoils our charity and other virtues,333.Created things, have had a beginning, 11; implied in "Earth" and "Man," 12; the Word proved notone of them; 12, 13; not to be worshiped, 19; not "the Life" nor "the Light," 24; acknowledgedChrist their Master, 41; described as willing, because independent of our will, 91; work onthe sabbath, by continuance, 133.Creation, an attribute of God, 18; lessens nothing in God, 23; was an act of grace, 49; works of,require faith as much as things spiritual, 87; superiority of the new, 88.Cross, the, a Baptism, 89; how connected with Baptism, 94; opened the door to the Gentiles, 246;God's glory in, 249; foretold by Jacob, 251; being accursed, was to prevent any futureremembrance of Jesus, 315; borne by Christ as a symbol of victory, 317; buried, and discoveredin after times, ib.Crucifixion, the, glory of, 42; why foretold obscurely, 94; virtue of, exceeded that of its type, thebrazen serpent, ib.; the fountain of life, 95; the beginning of Grace, 184; and of Glory, ib.; thetime of, ordered by Christ Himself, not the Jews, 190; the beginning of Christ's Glory, 265.Cup of the Lord's Supper, the, shown in the Blood from His Side, 319.Curiosity, in divine mysteries a device of Satan, 27; leads away from the faith without satisfying,85; may be too much and too little, 327; condemned in St. Thomas, ib.Dæmon, of the Gnostics, 30.Dancers, preferred to Christ, 61; power of, to inflame the mind, 66; encouragement of, sinful, 154.Daniel, 40, 61.Darkness, used for death and error, 24; for sin, ib.; caused by worldliness, 31; preferred to light,97; by those who willfully continue in sin, 98; signifies error and sin, 188; put for sin, 277.Day of Christ, what, 198.Dead, prayers for the, 43 (note); to be honored not by mourning, but by good imitation, 231; to beclothed in almsgiving, not rich robes, 321; memory of, a benefit to the living, 322.Death, overcome by Christ, 24; the cause of victory, 293; and immortality, ib.; its awfulness to theunprepared, 306; to be neither feared nor sought, 318; the fear of, intended for a safeguard tolife, 332.Deceit, folly of, 150."Declared," hath, implies Christ's clearness in teaching, 53.Dedication, great national Feast of the, 222.Despair, condemned, 295.Despondency, useful if leading to repentance, 286; increased by dwelling on the cause, 291;compared to childbirth, ib.Devil, the, tempts to curiosity in Divine mysteries, 28; fell by pride, 57; his versatility in attack,79; afraid of the Bible, 114; does not make war on his own kind as malicious men, 130; fliesfrom the mysteries, 167; called a wolf, a lion, a serpent, a dragon, 215; the works of Christattributed to, because more than human, 219; ruler of the wicked only in the world, 277.Devils, the authors of suicide, 332.766