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

NPNF (V1-14)St. ChrysostomThat, expresses the consequence, not the final cause, 227.Theaters, indecency of, 3; to be avoided, 4; corrupting tendency of, 66; corrupt their inmates morethan prisons, 220.Thomas, St., his fear before, exceeded by his courage after, the Crucifixion, 228; condemned forvain curiosity, 327; his doubt was from unbelief, ib.; after receiving the Gift, perfect in faith,ib.Thieves, the, did not obscure the Glory of the Cross, 317.Threatenings of God, their use, 37.Time disregarded in prophecies, 46; waste of, in idle talkers condemned, 66; "fullness of," in whatsense said of the age of St. Paul, 121; shortness of, urged, 172; waste of, a sin and folly, 211.Title on the Cross, a shame to the Jews, 317.Titles of Christ (Shepherd, Door, &c.), their significance, 214.Tradition, to be kept, 28.Transmigration of souls asserted by the ancients, 5; by Plato, 7.Trinity, the, the same expressions applied to each Person, 23; proved by Isaiah's vision, 252; ThreePersons of, distinct, yet equal, 289; Baptism, the common work of, ib.; Will of, one, ib.;Equality of the Three Persons, 325; concurred in the call of the Apostles, 326.Truth, seen in Christ's fulfillment of the types, 50; boldness of, 99; rewards honest enquirers, 122;its power with candid hearers, 186; made illustrious by opposition, 207; the kindness ofspeaking it in season, 287.Twelve, the, how detained by Christ, 170; their affection for Him, 171; they admit the Resurrection,ib.Types of the Law, their relation to realities, 48; how fulfilled in Christ's acts, 50; became clearerand nobler as the Antitypes approached, 126.Unbelief, a transgression of God's Will, 120; arises from unlawful curiosity, 166.Unbelievers, condemned already, because under sentence, 97; punishment of, certain, ib.; to bejudged by God's word, 255.Uncharitable, the, shamed by infidels, 305; their manifold extravagancies, ib.Union, of the Father and the Son, essential: of Christ and Christians, spiritual, 275.Universal, warnings most acceptable, 106.Universality, of Gospel offers, 24, 29, 36.Vainglory, tyranny of, 14, 30; meanness of, 14; evil effects of, 15; worse than fornication, 98;ruined the Jews, ib.; the source of avarice and passion, ib.; of John's disciples, 102; its evils,and examples of, ib.; hard to tame, ib.; hindered belief in the Jews, 136; folly and danger of,103, 136; hinders faith, 254, 255; leads to domestic show and expense, 256.Valentinus, 30 (note); his heresy on the Resurrection, 247.Vinegar, offered to Christ in mockery, as to a criminal, 319.Virgin, the study of her history profitable, 192; rebuked by Christ at Cana, cared for on the Cross,318; why entrusted to the beloved disciple, ib.Virtue, has no merit without labor, 127; the true wisdom, 150; hated by the world as reflecting onitself, 302.Vision, the beatific, 43; of the Divine Presence, not granted to all, 61.784