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

NPNF (V1-14)St. ChrysostomLong-suffering tames anger, 468.Lose, not to, of less toil than afterward to recover it, 462.Lost, a thing, with what earnestness sought, 468.Love, the perfect thing, 455; from, all good things, 456; nought good which is not from, ib.;assembling ourselves increases, 455, 456; a natural path leading to virtue, 456; as self what,ib.; of enemies and the bad, praise of, ib.Lungs, reason given why they be placed under the heart, 393.Lust, not pleasure, a mere shadow of pleasure, 393; he who is possessed by, worse than one in afever, 441; evil desire hinders our seeing when we would find God, 468; generated byovereating, 502.Luxury, brings to an ill end, 501; enfeebles body and soul, ib.; produces low spirits, ib.; food forlusts, 502.Man, spoken of sometimes from the lower, sometimes the higher part, so Christ, 368; Image ofGod, 372; young, old; see Young, Old.Manichæans, 406, 409; the modernest heresy, 407.Marcellus, 370, 371, 376; taught as did Labellius, 407.Marcion, 371, 376, 409; the first heresy, 407.Marriage, 516; not it, but want of moderation in, hurts, 402.Martyrs, whole burnt-offerings, body and soul, 420.Mary, Virgin, some deemed that God the Son had His beginning from, 407 [see St. Cyril Alex. derecta fide 11 a, 20 fin., 21 a, 44 e; Quod Unus est Christus 717 b, contra Nest. i. 4 (p. 21,O.T.); Apol. contra Theod. cap. i. 206 e]; the heresy of Paul of Samosata, 407.Matter, self-existent, some people say that it is, 467.Mediator, not the owner of that in regard to which he mediates, 443.Medicine, of Repentance, what its ingredients, 411; a, if removes disease utterly at once, hasstrength; if needed continually, is weak, 448; not needed where no stroke, 449; bitter, givesfirst unpleasantness, then benefits, 503.Mercifulness, untold beauty of, 513; might of, ib.; specially belongs to a Christian, ib.; God firstshowed forth, ib. See Almsgiving.Milk, the lowlier doctrines, 404, 406; cf. 398.Mind, how the grace of the Spirit gives it wings, 468; winged, it soars above the devil's darts, ib.Miracles, they who wrought, and prophesied, and were denied; it was probably the want ofperseverance, 476; perhaps, too, they were wicked while they wrought, ib.Money, the degradation of those who give themselves to, 441; peril of love of, 459, 460, 476; andslavery to care of choice treasures, 459; address to Mammon, 442; value for, a worse thanEgyptian bondage, 459; gold mere dirt, 480; angels would despise them who love, ib.Monks, or solitaries, not for them alone Christ's precepts, but for people living in the world, 386,403; saints in life and in faith, 416; might of their life, 522; some wanted to aid only, 417;when beggars, called impostors, 422; sometimes communicate yearly or after two years, 449.Moses, compared with Christ, 389, 390; a part of the house, 390; his faithfulness, 391; grace pouredon in his very babyhood, 483; cared not for Palace of Egypt when Heaven is before him, ib.;his flight was of faith, 484; less than Joshua, 489, 490; fled from dignity yet imperilled indischarge of it, 520.795