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

NPNF (V1-14)St. Chrysostomthe, and right life make of full age, 409; we are to endure so long as the, is not touched, 504;cf. 392; who misteach, we must shun, 519; cf. on Galatians, p. 16.Faith; to need absolute proof of God's Providence or care, want of, 396; insufficient without a rightlife, 398; necessary to salvation, ib.; cf. 455, 516; must be very sure, 455; in it we trust theHoly Ghost, ib.; contrary to reasoning, 516; the very essence of things of hope, 462, 463;comes of a sincere will, 522; needs a generous soul, 465; saves, ib.; its might, 487, 488; cando all, 487; is all, 516; a pure life, springs of, 515; makes all things pure, ib.; mutual aid from,465; accused by some as being without proof, and defended by St. Paul, ib.; knowledgeconcerning God, belongs to, 465, 466; of Abel, 466; of Enoch, 469; of them of old, 482; ofJoseph, ib.; manifoldly, ib.; in retribution necessary, 467; holds nothing more to be relied onthan God's words, 469.Father, his desire to remit punishment, seen in God also, 467; as he lets approved children wait forthe others, so God orders that the saints wait for us, 492; sends away from a son an evilcompanion, if the son persist after he is warned, 518.Filth, like a host who gives a splendid entertainment, and sits down with his hands smeared withthe veriest, such is the covetous host, 480.Fire, no longer consumes but bears to heaven Christian sacrifices, 420; of spirit to burn up desireof wealth, ib.; the ardent desire for heaven, the Christian's, 522.Flesh, taken of us, sits on high, and is worshiped by angels, archangels, cherubim, seraphim, 388.Food, mischief of immoderate eaters, 501, 502; what can be digested nourishes, 502; repletionworse than famine, ib.Forerunner, implies them who follow, 419.Forgiveness of others ingredient of repentance, 412.Form of a slave, man; form of God, God, 372.Freewill, its proneness to ill, 425; its reality, ib.; it is aided by God, 425, 520.Friends, favor of, must be risked to obtain his salvation, 472; real, help one another's souls, 505.Funerals, hymns and psalmody at, proclaim triumph, 386; unseemly grief at, ib.; those who teartheir hair and behave unseemly ought to be long while shut out of Church, ib.; the part ofmadmen, ib.; harmful, ib.; a scandal and makes Resurrection disbelieved, 385, 387; Psalmscxvi, xxiii, xxxii, sung at, 386; hired mourners if admitted to Christian funeral shall be punished,those who admit them treated as idolaters, 387; daily, hourly, 426.Garden, untilled part of, 501.Garments, precious, laid among perfume and spices to preserve them from moths, 459.Gifts, some receive not because of impure life, some lest it should harm their souls, 379, 380;diversity of, 380; if householder knows to whom to entrust, God more, ib.; how to comfortourselves that we have not, 380, 381; must use thankfully the little ones we have, 380; thegreatest, Charity, offered to all, 381.Glory, from men we must account as nothing, 493; obtained by simplicity, 497.Glutton, overreaching, 506.God, His Peace surpasses mind, much more does He, 370; reverence and faith needed to hear orspeak of, 370; when our human language fails, then we must praise Him for His greatness,ib.; of, we know somewhat yet understand not, ib.; or conceive and cannot utter, ib.; notenclosed by space, 373; spoken of as though man, 391; wonderful in His works, in His love791