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

NPNF (V1-14)St. ChrysostomIndolence the reason why the bad become not better, 474; why we imitate not the Saints, 456.Injure, they who, injure themselves, 479.Injuries, remembrance of, a great sin, 412, 490; will go if we ever remember our sins, 508; bearingwill help us and the injuring party too, 504.Insult, who, insult themselves, 479, 480.Isaac, only-begotten in respect to the promise, 478; praise of, 474, 482; his toils and gain therefrom,500.Jacob, faith of, 474, 482; gain through affliction, 500, 501.Jesus, in the form of Man, 489.Jews, had power in their own land to act independently of their rulers, 365; their priests ceasing tobe priests, 403; St. Paul proves that far superior to, and to their polity is the uncircumcisedMelchizedek, 424; times of, under Ezra and Malachi referred to, 436; their law, old, ib.; Jewishcaptives glorious even in captivity, 484; having deprived themselves of Christ will fall intohands of Antichrist, 515; heathens, heretics, true charity wears itself out for, 381.Jews Christian, how well-nigh worn out when St. Paul wrote to them, 365, 366; cf. 514; had longbelieved and borne, 365; compared to Elijah in their troubles, 491; exhorted to perseverancein that whereunto they had attained, 514; their enemies Christ's enemies, 377.Joshua, reverenced as a very special type of Christ, 489; availed more than did Moses, ib.; evenwhile Moses was living, 490.Joy, never unmixed here, 442; the true, how to be attained, ib.; endurance with, Apostolical, 462;fruit of grief, of chastisement, 503.Judge, the Judge of words as well as of actions, 438; propitiated if we accuse ourselves for our sins,508; confess to, ib.Judgment, 401; the Throne of grace now, becomes then Throne of, 400; day of, 420, 472; near,463; the Judge will be there, 509; sins of all publicly displayed then except we do them awayby continual remembrance of them, 508, 509; in that day the poor man will deliver thee, 421;proof that end of world is nigh, 463; end of all at hand, day of each one's death yet nearer, ib.;we shudder at end, as if going to, 475; special account then taken of purity, 476; Judgmentsmentioned in his day, 472; common, of all indisputable, 503.Jugglers' sleights, 445.Lace, a superfluity, 496.Lady, walking with few attendants attracts less notice, 495, 496; to dress simply, 496 sqq.; such anone has her husband's respect, 497.Lamb, paschal, type of our deliverance, 487.Laughing, evil habit of, in Church and at prayers, 442; Sarah rebuked for, ib.; her denial of it wasfrom her faith, 471; right use of and misuse of, 442; women do not laugh, save in times ofrelaxation, in presence of their husbands, ib.; we laugh at children who strike us in a passion,468; when we ought to mourn bitterly, 471, 472.Law, has less might than has grace, 489; superiority of Christian things over those of, 511; the samewho gave the Gospel, 512; Laws Ecclesiastical, 387; written in hearts belong not to Jews butto Christians, 435.Lent, forty days' preparation for Easter Communion, 449; loss if insufficient, 450.794