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

NPNF (V1-14)St. Chrysostom288; the guide to truth, ib.; could not come before the sacrifice of the Cross, ib.; His office inHoly Baptism, 289; His dignity in prophecy, not contrary to Christ's, ib.; awfulness of His giftin Ordination, 325.Honesty, 122.Honor to be sought of God, not men, 15; like wealth, most had when despised, ib.; of men, sharedwith harlots and dancers, 136; the greatest, gained by almsgiving, 143; not taken by Christ forHimself, 198.House-building extravagant, 203; moral deduced from, ib."How?" the question of the weak in faith, as Sarah, 85; the cause of unbelief, 166.Human nature suffered in Christ, not the Divine, 12; of Christ taught before the Godhead, 13; takeninto God, 38; the Tabernacle of David, 39; repaired by Christ, 41; requires the aid of society,67.Human way of speaking adopted by Christ, 218; why, ib.Humility, the gain of, 106; the cause of Christ's preference for John, 117; example of in Moses,ib.; the crown of good works, 118; the truest greatness, 261; taught by Christ's behavior beforePilate, 311."I am," force of the expression, 199.Idleness really condemned by Christ, 158; the meat which perisheth, ib.Ignorance, in St. John, a proof of inspiration, 4, & (note), 5; will be no excuse, 142; weakens thesoul, 279; of some things, desirable, 281.Impatience rebuked by the paralytic at Bethesda, 126.Impossibility, arising from the Essence of God, a proof of power, 135.Incarnation, a veil of the Godhead, 26, 40; believed by Patriarchs, 30; lateness of, no objection, ib.;a "coming" of Christ, 36; the cause of our Regeneration, 38; changed not the Son's Essence,39; a taking of the manhood into God, ib.; Christ's care to prove it, 107; because a chief pointin the work of Redemption, ib.; proved by Christ's weeping, 233; by the different accounts ofthe Passion, ib.Ingratitude of man towards Christ, self-condemned, 95.Injury, if unavenged, recoils on the doer, 261; forgiveness of, shown in the Old Testament, 262.Injustice conspicuous in small acts of parsimony, 221.Insults, how answered by Christ, 197, 198.Intention without acts may be sinful, 306.Isaac, miraculous birth of, was to prepare for Christ's, 92; type of Christ, 198; bearing the wood, atype of Christ on the Cross, 317.Isaiah's vision, a proof of the Trinity, 253.Jacob predicted a Messiah, 116.Jacob's ladder, a type of gradual advance to Heaven, 312.Jesus, how made both Lord and Christ, 12 [see Christ].Jews, the, blindness of, 32; cast off through pride, 33; their discontent unreasonable, ib.; abusedtheir privileges, 34; needed a man for a teacher, 45; nominally sons of God, really servants,48; were under Grace, but less than we, 49; their envy of the Baptist, 54; why preferred himto Christ, 55; why questioned Him, ib.; from their faith in John, ought to have believed in772