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

NPNF (V1-14)St. ChrysostomThanksgiving, we must bear all with, to attain the true joy, 442, 517; as St. Paul did, 517; to God,both for comfort and afflictions, 518; brings untold blessings, 459, 460; without, we cannotserve God, 514; our offering, 517; offered with a contrite mind, ib.; due to God the Son, ib.Thoughts, some beyond power of expression, 370, 372.Through or by ( ), not limited to the Son, but used of the Father, too, 384; cf. on Galatians, pp. 4,5.To-day, 373, 394 sqq., 399, 515.Tombs, why they of old cared for their, 482; of Sts. Peter, Paul, John, Thomas, known, of restunknown, ib.; where any one's may be, the earth is the Lord's, ib.Tongue, why given us, 368.Trial, without, we cannot know ourselves, 380; life full of those who cause, and thus strengthenus, 456; God exercises His athletes with, 478; in, bearing with evil a great weapon, 504.Trinity, see God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost.Truth our girdle, 450.Unbelief, 469, 471; arises sometimes from faint heart, 416.Vainglory, source of evils, 490; we act for, 496.Virgin souls, pure even though married, 496, 498; literal virginity a mere shadow of, 498; the true,ib.Virtue, like bitter medicine, 503.Virtues, to practice one by one, careful in learning one not to lose another, 476, 477.Wants, who has few, preferred, 374, 495 sqq.Water, taken, lessens not fountain; so works remain to doer, 368; fevered person drinking much,not high-minded, 373; quenches hot iron, so forbearance anger, 468.Wealth, peril of love of, 476; peril of, 518. See Money, Poor, Poverty, Covetous.Wicked, sometimes has here the reward of a few good deeds, there utter punishment, 391; instancesof, ib.; God wills that His children show compassion for the, 417; deride and condemn theirlike, 474; thereby judge themselves, ib.Wickedness, by remembering God we forget, 437; of alms from ill-gotten gains, 481.Wife, a great good and great evil, 459.Will, with, nothing difficult, 432; not even to overcome sin, 493; inclines readily to ill, 425; greatpower of, not apart from action, 445, 446; two kinds of, 451, 452; alone needed, 477; of itcomes faith, 522.Wine, need of moderation in, 402.Women, breed of, in towns weak through delicate habits, 501; in the country stronger than men intowns, ib.Words, human, fail to express God, Him must we praise, 370; thoughts not to be expressed by,370, 372; our, bare, God's not so, 372.Works, good or ill, the doer first reaps the fruit of, 368; who holds the Faith and does right, of fullage, 409; dead, a grievous offense, 441; our work and God's act combine, 455; God's gracepreceding, our work following, 476; good, need of, 457; aid from, 447; the wealth of, 450; ofteachers, their power, 455; ill, 457.803