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

NPNF (V1-14)St. ChrysostomSinfulness, in what sense attributed to the blind man and his parents, 200.Sloth, its danger, 29; is of willfulness, 62.Society, a remedy for human weakness, 67.Son of God, Christ and man differently so called, 11; not greater than the Father, 13; declared equalwith the Father, 14, 52, 53; not "younger" than the Father, 17; of the same Essence 18, 53;Infinite, 18; has attributes of Godhead ascribed to Him, 18, 24; personality of, 28; begotten,ib.; left not heaven to be made man, 36; alone of all hath seen God in His Essence, 52; coeternalwith the Father, 53; addressed in the words, "Let us make man," 116; independence of, 189;to be glorified by works, not words only, ib.; His identity of Power and Essence with theFather, 224; only different in being a Son, ib.; seeing and believing on Him is seeing andbelieving on the Father, 254; the True God equally with the Father, 297; why called theMessenger, 299; His agreement with the Father, 299, 300; His glory from the EternalGeneration, 304, 311; His agreement with the Father proved by His pre-existence, 305.Sonship, of Christians real, of Jews nominal, 44; of Christ implied in the word "Sent," 138; and in"hath given," 139.Sophists, their rhetorical displays, 1; their inflated style condemned by Socrates, 6.Sorrow, its use in calming the passions, 219; immoderate, brings death, 286.Soul, weakened by earthly passions, 8, 31; being one cannot contain many desires at once, 8, 31;when unmoved by externals, 11; its own mistress, 42; healed by Christ, ib.; culture of, moredifficult than of the earth, 62; how may recover its appetite of spiritual food, 66; its diseasesproduced by luxury, 79; is invisible, yet most exposed to attack, ib.; real though invisible, 88,91; how inferior to spirit, 88; chastised through the body, 131; but secured by the fear of God,193; darkened by grief, 230; how best adorned, 256.Sowing, the, was done by the Prophets, 120; harder than the reaping, ib.Spectacle of the spiritual combat to be seen in Holy Scripture, 114; of heathen theaters to be avoided,ib.Spirit, the Holy [see Holy Ghost].Spiritual life, its pleasures, 295.Spiritual sight is within the mind, 170.Spiritual things, superior to worldly, 8; should occupy part of our time, 10; objects of faith, notreason, 27, 87; perfection of, immediate, 90; real though invisible, 91; the substance and endof things temporal, 156; folly of losing them for things temporal, 159.Spoilers of the flock, either active or passive, 217.State, love of, makes men depend on their slaves, 298.Stoning, why avoided rather than prevented by Christ, 199.Success, its intoxicating effect upon the careless, 316.Suffering for Christ's sake rewarded, 212; the clearest witness of Christ's truth, 217; and of St.Paul's, ib.; an offense, but wrongly, to weak Christians, 227; for Christ's sake enjoined, 284.Tabernacle of David, Christ's human nature, 39.Teachers should speak with certainty, 7; and a little at a time, 16; like builders, 27.Temporal blessings given us as we can bear them, 15.Testimony, facts the best, 49."Testimony of two," how applicable to God, 188; of man, when credible, 189.783