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

NPNF (V1-14)St. ChrysostomSoul, punished, 398, 459; suffers, 396; in its vigor when a person is aged, 401; when one is youngit is subject to fevers, ib.; purified by Blood of Christ, 440; its eye, how to make quick andbeautiful, 450; mingled with soul increases love, 455; might of a great, 456; in calamity aptto be impatient, 459; reproach a sore trial of the, 461; and scorning and jests, 493; covetousnessdegrades, 480; eating at banquets of the overreaching destroys, ib.; and defiles, 481; strivingin prayer to God, 490; wrestles in theater of Heaven, 496; the well-adorned, has God for itsLover, and place with the choirs of angels, 498; virgin if pure, even though married, 496, 498;it the Lord seeks after, 498; exhausted, how refreshed, 499; made collected through affliction,500; enervated through luxury, 501; shares it if body be effeminate, ib.; must be forced toremember its sins, 508; in tribulation liable to despond, 516; must be braced to receive theimpulses of the Spirit, 521, 522.Spirit, Holy, see God the Holy Ghost.Starvation, no one dies of, except by his own will, 422.Strangers, Patriarchs, to this world, 471, 473 sqq.; King David 475; we to our own country, 473,475; to the world if we, God to be called our God, 475, 476.Substance, no word will express, even of angel, far less of God, 372.Suffering, perfects, 384, 392, 404; is a cause of salvation, 384; cf. 404; we are to rejoice in ourown, as paying the penalty of sins, 391; helps to wipe them out, 494; use of, 426, 494; it isonly our own which moves us, 426; amid, we may be calm within, as the sky when overclouded,445; of Abel preaches beyond all speech, 466; of them of old during their whole lives we haveno idea of, 491, 494; all can be borne if we be approved of Heaven, 494, 495.Suicide, some long for death, and only the fear of God withholds them, 512.Surgeons, their mingled gentleness and firmness, 505.Suspect, we are apt to, 422.Swearing, 477.Talents, teacher has five, learner one, 504; earth wherein single talent is buried, the bad heart, ib.Teacher, of grammar, must make boy master the things to be learnt, 409; if he repeat the alphabet,it is not to teach himself, 490; has five talents, learner one, 504; if he teach a child heedless,one is called who punishes the child, 519.Tears, help wash away sins, 442, 509; one ingredient in medicine of repentance, 412, 426; of wailingand mourning, they worthy who choose to fail of the things to come, 471; St. Chrysostomcalls for, 472; of Christ, 442.Temple, its magnificence, 446; its wonders, 510; its being One, 446; as the Jewish was for wholeworld, so is Christ our Priest in the temple of Heaven, 447; offering even of hair accepted for,514.Temporal things, we seek first, and lose both them and Heaven, 408; God gives, when He sees usprefer spiritual things, 460, 479; given as a refreshment, 470; often possessed, not as His gift,but by fraud, 460; Patriarchs of old loved their Home, cared not for these, 471; so magnificent,ib.; who seek, lose them and Divine things; who prefer Divine obtain both, 486; soon go, 512;when we mind, the grace of the Spirit leaves, 521. See Human things.Temptation, different kinds of conduct under, 392; terrible attack of, on young men met by asceticpractices, 403; the noblest had to pass through, 416; stronger in time of calamity, 459; shallbe trifling, if we hold fast to God, 494.802