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

NPNF (V1-14)St. Chrysostomheavier at the Judgment, 409; expects that his people will bring forth fruit suddenly, 417;thought that the sky did not move and is not spherical, 433, 490; addresses not Christians only,but even heathen, if any present, on the truth of Christ's words, 463; thought that Phariseespake his prayer in no man's hearing, 464; elsewhere thought otherwise, 490; apologizes forwhat he says, as constrained to say it, 472; calls himself a father, 473; attests his inmost grief,ib.; always has to repeat same things, 476; knew not how to rebuke owing to the sin of almsout of ill-gotten gains, 481; wants his people to help him by helping each other on, 504 sqq.Church, bonds of, if any despise, put on by authority, the Day of Judgment will teach him, 387; ifany burst, he answers it to Christ, ib.; laws of (see Laws, Church, Heaven), 434. See Service.Clergy who are over us we must obey, 518, 519; even if bad, so their faith be sound, 519; must besober and watchful; if despised must weep, God punishes, ib.; their terrible responsibility, ib.;and account, ib.; peril in throwing themselves upon dignity, they ought to flee; then, if seized,to submit, 520.Club, the, in St. Chrysostom's time, 504.Comfort, the duty of giving, 396.Commands, easiness of God's, 432. See Will.Compunction, God's gift, 408; to prayer, 459; Publican filled with, when Pharisee's words came tohim, 490.Confession, the Faith, 391, 400, 410; of sins, 490. See Sins, Priest, Repentance.Conscience must be compelled to own sins, that it may repent and escape torment, 508.Consulate, its transitoriness, 412.Contrition an ingredient of Repentance, 412; what, ib.Cornelius, the centurion, his offering, 420.Covenants, both of God, though not in like manner, 378.Covetous, 505; they who overreach, ruin themselves, not others, 480; sin of going to theirentertainments, 480, 481; a poor man who refused to go for his own soul's sake would shame,481.Covetousness worse than mire, 480.Creation a less thing than preservation, 372; transfiguration of, so easy, 376; fulfills its appointedcourse, 489; reverenced Joshua for the name he bore, ib.Credibility, those who handed to us Gospel Truth accredited as not forgers, 379; what has alreadycome to pass accredit those yet to come, 463.Creed. See Confession.Cross, our Master calls glory, 383; why He chose, 493; fruit of, how great, 383; our, 494.Crowning, time of, one; of conflict of each, manifold, 492.Danger, to run needlessly into, tempting God, 484.Daniel, why he did not refuse the oblation and sweet odors, 485 sqq.; he was humble, 485, 486.Deacon's warning and searching cry at Holy Communion, 449, 450; after the whole sacrifice iscompleted, 450; meaning of, ib.Death, of Christ, smote the devil, 385; death's death, ib.; once only, 411, 447; our purification, 444;how death undone to us, 447; its terror, 385; untimely, St. Chrysostom prays and exhortsprelates and all to pray that no, may befall, 387; day of each person's, nearer than end of allthings, 463; death's death, hope given of, in Enoch's translation, 467.789