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

NPNF (V1-14)St. ChrysostomLuxury, the mother of diseases of the body, 78; and of the soul, 79; wretchedness of, 127; folly of,159; cured by meditation on Christ's birth, education, and life, 192; vanity and sinfulness of,197; hinders almsgiving, 285.Malice, the most inexcusable vice, because not from nature, 130; wounds itself and excludes fromlife, 142; evils of, 240; its private and public evils in the world, and in the Church, ib.Mammon, cannot be served with God, 31; a hard master, ib.; its commands contrary to Christ's,147; service of, 215.Man, created to serve God, 215.Manes, 30 (note).Manna, tauntingly mentioned by the Jews, 160; why mysteriously, by Christ, 161.Marcion, 30 (note); his heresy on the Resurrection, 247; heresy of, refuted by Christ's care for HisMother, 318; his error, guarded against by Christ, 320.Martha, rebuked not for inhospitality but inattention, 158; unequal to her sister in faith and wisdom,229; led on by Christ to belief in the resurrection, ib.; had no vanity in her grief, 232; hadforgotten Christ's lessons, 233.Mary, St., the Virgin, her opinion of Christ, 74; her forwardness at Cana owing to maternal vanity,ib.; was saved by her own goodness, not her relation to Christ, 75.Mary Magdalene, her zeal to see Christ's Body in the tomb, 320, 323, 324; had no idea of theresurrection, 323; reward of her perseverance, in seeing Christ risen, 324.Mary, of Bethany, not the "Harlot" mentioned by St. Matthew, 227; her gravity and earnestness,ib.; her faith greater than Martha's, 229; her wisdom and affectionateness, 230; her great ardor,232; her improvement in faith, 242.Material things only comprehended by the Jews, 213.Matthew, St., says most of John's imprisonment, 59.Matrimony, advantage of, 67.Meat, that perisheth, idleness, 158; that never perisheth, almsgiving, ib.Meekness, duty of, 92; taught by, Christ's answer to the Jews, 219; acquired by penitence, ib.; thefirst of virtues, 222; of Christ not confined to words, ib.; of Christ before Pilate, our pattern,311.Merchants, activity of, 3.Mercy, the oil of the Christian's lamp, 46; attracts men to Christ more than power, 63; a call torepentance, 132; may be shown in words, 178, 180.Miracles, revealed Christ's glory, 41; of Christ's childhood proved false from John's ignorance, 60;and from the number and rapid fame of the true, 73; a more important testimony to Christ thanJohn's word, 64; of turning water into wine, how evidenced, 78; Christ's care to providesufficient testimony to, 78, 124-128; of Christ, improved on nature, 78; shown to the honest,withheld from the ill-disposed, 80; most attracted the grosser sort, 83; not to be demandedfrom God by the faithful, 84; their first object, to save souls, 124; addressed to unbelieversand the grosser sort, 124, 151; clearness of their testimony, 146; not all of them related in theGospels, 151; of the loaves, performed by the Prophets, 152; some, witnessed by the disciplesonly, 155; of stilling the storm occurred more than once, ib.; of the loaves, was a warning toCapernaum, 156; of the manna, only a type, 160; their power with the people, 181; sight of,776