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

NPNF (V1-14)St. Chrysostomhardened the Pharisees, 186; when and why performed by material means, 202; their effecton the people, 205; the best and sufficient witness to Christ, 223; inferior to love, 266.Mission, of the Apostles, 42.Moses, his veil, 40; his love for Israel, 44; compared to Christ, 49; gave only types, 50; how farsaw God, 51; highly privileged in visions, 61; his prophecy of Christ, 116; will accuse theJews for not believing in Christ who had fulfilled his prophecy, 149; his testimony to Christwas that of God, ib.; questioned by God before a miracle, to arouse his attention to it, 151; atthe Red Sea, compared with Christ on the lake, 156.Moses and Prophets, witnesses to Christ, 214; the door-keeper of the fold, ib.Money, love of, produces uncharitableness, and many sins, 330; made for use, not hoarding, ib.Mourning, indecent manner of, at Antioch, 230; excess of, condemned, 231; moderate among theold Greeks, 230; wherein honorable, 231; should be for sinners, not for the dead, ib.; for thegeneral sin, becomes Christians, 240; for the covetous, better than for the dead, ib.; excess of,ridiculed even by the world, 322; and a sign of unbelief, ib.Mules, white, used by kings, 41.Multitudes most moved by miracles, 181; their faith imperfect, ib.Mystery, its use in exciting attention, 165.Mysteries, the, awfulness of, 167; danger of approaching of, in sin, ib.Names of God, why, many, 7; of men, anciently taken from things, 68; why given and sometimeschanged by Christ, ib.; dignity and responsibility of the Christian, ib.Nathanael, his exactness and candor, 70; contrasted with the Jews, 71; showed his joy in Christ byconfessing Him, ib.; his confession, why inferior to Peter's, 72; less zealous and less timidthan Nicodemus, 98; a lover of truth, and learned, 185.Nazareth, why profited not by Christ's being born there, 75.Necessary things made easy by God, 87.Necessity, Christ not subject to, 76.New Commandment, how a comfort to the disciples, 266.Nicodemus, well disposed but fearful, 84, 91; received graciously by Christ, 84; and led on toenquiry, 85; desirous of instruction, ib.; perplexed by his attempts to reason, ib.; could notperceive things spiritual, 86; more zealous and more fearful than Nathanael, 98.Night, futurity described as, 202; this life, why so called, 203.Nobleman, the, in John iv. different from the centurion in Matthew, 123; an example of faith, 124;but imperfect, ib.Number, not admissible in the Deity, 7.Obedience, Christ's blessing on, 261.Obscurity, used to rivet attention, 214.Officers, the, of the Pharisees, an example of candor, and of its reward, 186, 187.Offenses, danger of causing, 206.Oil, in the lamps, said of mercy, 46 (note); of almsgiving, 82.Omnipotence, includes not the power of ceasing to be God, 39.Oracles of the heathen, not really prophetic, 68.777