Holy Ghost, the, speaks through the spiration, 4, & (note), 5; will and hindered others, 110; pre-
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53? the greatest, gained by almsgiving, 143; not taken by Christ for Himself, 198.
House-building extravagant, moral deduced from, 2d, "How?" the question of the weak in Jews, the, blindness of, 32; cast off 131; threat of, proves human freedom, 134.
Heralds of Christ's birth, 41.
Heretics err, by not considering the through pride, 33; their discontent unreasonable,
20.,; abused their privileges, 34; needed a man for a teacher, 45; nominally sons of God, really servants, 48; were under Grace, but less than we, 49; their envy of the Baptist, 54; why preferred him to Christ, 55; why questioned Him, 22.; from their faith in John, ought to have believed in 203; objects of the speakers in Holy Scripture, 144; must be refuted from Holy Scripture, 149; an objection of, to Christ's answer to the Jews, 198; barred from the fold by Scripture, 213; their misinterpretation of the parable of the sheepfold, 214; denied the Resurrection on Heathen principles of the eternity of matter,
247; to be resisted by knowledge of the Scriptures, 2d.
Herod the Tetrarch, his troops defaith, as Sarah, 85; the cause of unbelief, 166.
Human nature suffered in Christ, not the Divine, 12; of Christ taught before the Godhead, 13; taken into God, 38; the Tabernacle of David, 39; repaired by Christ, 41; requires the aid of society, 67.
Human way of speaking adopted by Christ, 56; in what sense knew not Christ, 57; why believed not after the descent of the Spirit on Jesus, 60; malice of, contrasted with the candor of Nathanael, 71; were not profited by relationship to Christ, 75; provoked to hear of Christ's Equality with God, 81; their wickedness in requiring a sign in the temple, 24. ; sinned by vainglory, 98; weaned from idolatry by gradual teaching, 106; had been rejected, long before Christ, 108; their inattention contrasted with the care of the woman of Samaria, 110, Christ, 218; why, zd.
Humility, the gain of, 106; the cause of Christ's preference for John, stroyed by Aretas, 44 (note).
High Priest, the, inspired for his office's sake, 241; chosen annually through corruption, 2d.
High Priesthood, the, trafficked and 117; example of in Moses, 2d. ,; the crown of good works, 118; the truest greatness, 261; taught by Christ's behavior before Pilate, 311. made annual under Christ, 241.
Hireling, the, marks of, 215; signifies the Jewish teachers, 216.
Holiness of Christians and Jews con- "Tam," force of the expression, 199.
Idleness really condemned by Christ, trasted, 48; a relative term, 49; absolutely necessary to salvation, 58; the meat which perisheth, b
20.
Ignorance, in St. John, a proof of in106.
Holy Ghost, the, speaks through the 114; did not attend to the Word, and hindered others, 110; preferred to the Samaritans because purer in faith, 115: and their Spiritual fathers, 116; but inferior to Christians, 24., did not enquire to learn, but to mock, 117; their envy of the paralytic's cure, 130; their faith hindered by vainglory, 136, 148; really believed in John the Baptist, 144; but only for a season, 145; rejected God's witness to Christ, in rejecting that of the Scriptures, spiration, 4, & (note), 5; will be no excuse, 142; weakens the soul, 279; of some things, desirable, 281.
Impatience rebuked by the paralytic Scriptures, 2, 16, 22; not meant by the words "in Him was life,"
21; uncreated, 22; given in Baptism, 36; His descent upon Christ was to declare Him, 59; not given in John's Baptism, 60; office of, not to teach, but to recall Christ's teaching, 83; superior to soul, in giving life, 88; performs the work of God, 91; power of, shown by the comparison of wind, 2d. ; His Infinity at Bethesda, 126.
Impossibility, arising from the Essence of God, a proof of power, 135.
1iGeen a veil of the Godhead, 26, 40; believed by Patriarchs, 30; lateness of, no objection, 20., a "coming" of Christ, 36; the cause of our Regeneration, 38; changed not the Son's Essence, 39; a taking of the manhood into God, 24.,; Christ's care to prove it, 107; because a chief point in the work of Redemption, 26.; proved by Christ's weeping, 233; by the different accounts of the Passion, 2d.
Ingratitude of man towards Christ, declared by John Baptist, 105; the names of "Fire,'and "Water," used to express His operations, not His Essence, because possessing the qualities of both, 111; His grace may be increased, may be quenched by covetousness and cruelty, 183; largeness of, intended by the "Living Water," 184; spake by | the Prophets, zd. ; and triumphed in the Apostles, but not before the Crucifixion, 2d. , deserted the Jews after the Passion, 241; His power in the Apostles, 277, 278; enables us to overcome the flesh, and makes men equal to Angels, 278; is "of Truth," because of the Father, 284; speaks only the words of Christ, 288; the guide to truth, 2d., could not come before the sacrifice of the Cross,
2b., His office in Holy Baptism, 289; His dignity in prophecy, not contrary to Christ's, 72d., awfulness of His gift in Ordination, 325.
Honesty, 122.
Honor to be sought of God, not men, 146; convicted of not loving God, 148; and of excessive pride, 26., rejected Christ for Antichrist, 26., how to be accused by Moses, 149; their gluttony made them affected by the miracle of the loaves, 153, 157, 159; their ingratitude and hypocrisy in mentioning the Manna, 160; incredulous because disappointed of their lust, 161; fled from Christ's spiritual doctrine, 164; led astray by unlawful curiosity, 166; their rage against Christ was from fear, self-condemned, 95.
Injury, if unavenged, recoils on the doer, 261; forgiveness of, shown in the Old Testament, 262.
Injustice conspicuous in small acts of 176; their wickedness in wondering at, not obeying, His word, parsimony, 221.
Insults, how answered by Christ, 197, 177; subverted the Law by their conduct, 178; confuted cut of the Law itself, 24.; those who saw most of Christ's miracles hated Him most, 180; their inconsistency, 24., in what sense knew and knew not Christ, 180, 198.
Intention without acts may be sinful, 306.
Isaac, miraculous birth of, was to prepare for Christ's, 92; type of Christ, 198; bearing the wood, a type of Christ on the Cross, 317.
Isaiah's vision, a proof of the Trinity, 181; not really ignorant, 71, 110, 181; how sought Christ "in a little while," 181 ; their contempt of Gentiles, 182; their malice in pretending ignorance, 185, 188; imperfect faith of some of them, BES:
Jacob predicted a Messiah, 116.
Jacob's ladder, a type of gradual ad15; like wealth, most had when despised, 24., of men, shared with harlots and dancers, 136; 192; carried texts of Scripture on their dress, 193; erred, because they had not the fear of vance to Heaven, 312.
Jesus, how made both Lord and Christ, 12 [see Christ].
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God, 23.; their insensibility to the bondage of sin, 24.,° were in bondage repeatedly, 194 ; differed from us, as servants from sons, 26., hindered from believing, by reliance on their descent, 195; proved children of the devil, from envy and murder, 26.,; contracted unlawful marriages, 196; alien from God and from Abraham, 24.; their blasphemy, that Christ had a devil, 197, 198; trust in Abraham only, 1098; knew not the Father, 24. malice of, towards the blind man at Siloam, 205, 207; labor to depreciate the miracle, 24.,; subtlety and hypocrisy of their questions, 208; neither Moses' nor Christ's disciples, 209; asked questions of Christ, not to learn, but to silence Him, 222; their wickedness in rejecting the greater witness of His works, and demanding words, 223; provoked by Christ's claiming co- |' equality with God, 224; thought to save, but ruined themselves, by slaying Christ, 239; did not escape the Romans, 241; deserted by the Spirit after the Crucifixion, 23., their wickedness in plotting at a Passover, 242; ruined by covetousness, 243; the people believed, the rulers rejected Christ, 244; design to kill of his mission inferior to Christ's, 59; gave not the Spirit in his baptism, 60; did not know Christ at first, but before His baptism, 26., why used repetitions, 63; how brought the Bride to Christ, 26.; called the friend of the Bridegroom because present with Christ, 64; why able to preach at all hours, 24.; some disciples of, jealous of Christ, 26., why continued to baptize all his life, ually, 49; speaks most of the time before John's imprisonments, 59; most concerned with Christ's discourses, I51.
Jonas, sign of, why often given, 82.
Joseph, an example of forgiveness, 262.
Joseph of Arimathza, one of the Seventy Disciples, 320; buried Christ with cost and zeal, but as a mere man, 20.
Josephus, relates St. John Baptist's death, 4 (note).
Judas, why reproved secretly by Christ, 100; His death facilitated Christ's ministry, 2d., witnessed to Christ's superiority, 101, 102; called himself Christ's " friend " to disclaim jealousy, 101; his work finished 171; shared in the Apostles' gifts and miracles, 172; but fell by covetousness, 26.; his pretended zeal for the poor, 242; his obduracy to Christ's love, 243; cast off to Satan by giving of the sop: his hardness, 264; received a secret rebuke, 265; his wickedness after sharing the salt, and the washing, 257; was probably washed first of the disciples, 258; his insensibility, 258, 260, 262; his ingratitude, 261.
Judgment, will be according to men's as Christ's began, 102; his reserve in speaking of Christ, 105; his testimony was that of God,'
144; called a torch because his light was not his own, 145; proved trustworthy by the acts of Christ, 225.
John Evangelist, St., his intimacy with Christ, 1; manner of his appearing, 26., truthfulness, I, 36; birth and occupation, 4; unlearned, 5; instance of his plain speaking, 7; the beloved disciple, 117; does not himself relate the cause of Christ's preference, 20.) favored) by ots.) beter, (20. : his humility, 2d., his care to correct mistakes, 152; exactness of, 156; why omits many events between the Feasts, 173; Christ's love for him, enabled him to ask, 263; why indulged in great familiarity by Christ, 264; associated often with Peter, 24.,° his forbearance and exactness in relating the betrayal, 308; in relating his own conduct and Peter's at the Palace, 24., his modesty in speaking of his standing by the Cross, 318; honored by having the charge of Christ's mother, 2d.,; an eye-witness of the piercing of the side, 319; why took no part in the burial, 320; does full credit to Mary's zeal and to Peter's, 320, 321; the first to recognize Christ on the lake, as St. Peter to hasten to Him, 329; his modesty in correcting the mistake of the disciples concerning himself, 332; his reason for writing his Gospel, 333; his veracity argued by his choice of subjects, his confidence in himself, his friendship with Christ and His mother, 2d.
John's Gospel, St., its marvelous teaching, 5; consistency of, 2d. ; translations of, 6; perspicuity of, 2b., teaching of, why outlived other philosophy, 24., style of, 26. dwells most on doctrines, 9; why begins with Christ's eternal subsistence, 16; unlike Genesis, ascends at once to the Creator, 21; heretical reading in [ch. i.
3], 26., leads us upwards graddeserts, 96; delayed to give time for repentance, 97; will reveal men's sins to one another, 121; remembrance of, a help to virtue, 137; most attracts the obstinate hearer, 139; the doctrine of, carefully propounded by Christ and St. John, 140; its inexorable strictness, 154; thought of, a check to sin, 162, 163; of the flood, and of Sodom, 163; by appearance sinful, 179; after the flesh, is judging unjustly, 188; of Christ, and of the Father, is One, Lazarus, 245; really understood Christ's meaning, 251; but misconstrued it deliberately, 720., still in darkness, 24., their unbelief foretold,
252; opposed both God and Moses, in Christ, 283; their unbelief, worldly pride, z6., absurdity of their scruple to enter Pilate's palace, 310; in what sense could not put any to death, 24.,; their madness in preferring Barabbas, 313; made to confess their own downfall, 315; why wished to slay Jesus by crucifying, 26., spoiled by success from the beginning, 316; fulfilled the prophecy unconsciously, 317; madness of, proclaimed by the Title on the Cross, 26., their obduracy to the last, 319.
John Baptist, St., spoke as sent from 189; in what sense the object of Christ's coming, 212; of others, to be made with mercy, 220; of ourselves, a cure for inhumanity, 221; only denied by these who fear it, 247; of men worthless, 281 ; the future, proved, by Christ's victory over Satan, 287.
Jurymen of Antioch, often no better than the criminals, 306.
Justice must be impartial to rich and poor, 179.
King, splendors of a, described, 41.
Kingdom of Christ, to be attained. only by zeal, 196; its spiritual nature, 311.
Knowledge, will not save without holiGod, 25; why sent to witness to Christ, 26; inferior to Christ, 2b. ; confessed his inferiority, 45; reverenced by the Jews, 44; praised by Josephus, zd.,; taught from heaven, 45; prepared the Jews for Christ by degrees, 20. , how "after" Christ, 2d., in externals superior to Christ, 55; preferred to Christ by the Jews, 2b, , why questioned by the Jews, zb., in his confessing Christ, replied to their secret thoughts,
56; and detected their treachery, 76.; his dignity compared to ours, 57; boldness of, 58; object ness, 106; real and nominal, 180, 181; exact, represented by sight, because the most perfect sense, 274.
Knowledge of one another, of the Shepherd and His sheep, 217; of the Father and the Son, 134.
Labor, imposed after the fall for discipline, 126, 127; makes virtue meritorious, 128.
Lamb of God, why said of Christ, 59; name of, implied the doctrine of communion with Christ, 165 (note).
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ance, 132; may be shown in words, 178, 180.
Miracles, revealed Christ's glory, 41; Law, the, of nature, was of God's} Luxury, the mother of diseases of the grace, 49; not greater than the sabbath or Circumcision, 179.
Law of Moses, the, a gift of Grace, body, 78; and of the soul, 79; wretchedness of, 127; folly of, 159; cured by meditation on Christ's birth, education, and life, of Christ's childhood proved false from John's ignorance, 60: and from the number and rapid fame of the true, 73; a more important testimony to Christ than John's word, 64; of turning water into wine, how evidenced, 78; Christ's care to provide sufficient testimony to, 78, 124-128; of Christ, improved on nature, 78; shown to the honest, withheld from the ill-disposed, 80 ; most attracted the grosser sort, 83; not to be demanded from God by the faithful, 84; their first object, to save souls, 124; addressed to unbelievers and the grosser sort, 124,
49; Christ's respect for, shown in cleaning the Temple, 81; the root and groundwork of the Gospel, 116; imposed for restraint of unruly passions, 127.
Law suits, full of frauds, 306.
Laying down of life, belongs only to 192; vanity and sinfulness of, 197; hinders almsgiving, 285.
Malice, the most inexcusable vice, because not from nature, 130; wounds itself and excludes from life, 142; evils of, 240; its private and public evils in the world, and in the Church, 2d.
Mammon, cannot be served with God, Christ, 218.
Lazarus, not injured by his poverty, 96; reward of, 121; suffered no actual wrong from Dives, 147.
Lazarus, of Bethany, history of, teaches resignation to sickness and death, 227; His death proved by the Jews coming, 229; by the stone, 233; by the grave clothes, and the stench, 2d., by the Jews loosing him, 239; his resurrection proved by his eating with Christ, 242; case of, attracted the people, 245.
Leah, praised for her choice of her 31; a hard master, 24., its commands contrary to Christ's, 147; service of, 215.
Man, created to serve God, 215.
Manes, 30 (note).
Manna, tauntingly mentioned by the 151; clearness of their testimony, 146; not all of them related in the Gospels, 151; of the loaves, performed by the Prophets, 152; some, witnessed by the disciples only, 155; of stilling the storm occurred more than once, 20.; of the loaves, was a warning to Capernaum, 156; of the manna, only a type, 160; their power with the people, 181; sight of, hardened the Pharisees, 186; when and why performed by material means, 202; their effect on the people, 205; the best and sufficient witness to Christ, 223; inferior to love, 266.
Mission, of the Apostles, 42.
Moses, his veil, 40; his love for Israel, Jews, 160; why mysteriously, by Christ, 161.
Marcion, 30 (note); his heresy on the Resurrection, 247; heresy of, refuted by Christ's care for His Mother, 318; his error, guarded against by Christ, 320.
Martha, rebuked not for inhospitality children's names, 68.
" Life,' why said of the Son, 7; implies His Eternity, 18; meaning of, 19; not applied to the Holy Spirit, 21; nor to created things, 22; implies providence and a resurrection, 23.
Life, the present, a seed time, 90; a but inattention, 158; unequal to her sister in faith and wisdom, 229; led on by Christ to belief in the resurrection, 2b.; had no vanity in her grief, 232; had forgotten Christ's lessons, 233.
Mary, St., the Virgin, her opinion of
. time of preparation for. a better state, I11; eternal, in Christ, underived and original, 168; imparted to men, by partaking of His Flesh, 24.,; mercifully shortened, 211; will not bear comparison with the future, 248; how far to be hated in this world, 248; desire of, natural, 249.
" Light," why said of the Son, 7, 24; q Christ, 74; her forwardness at |.
Cana owing to maternal vanity, 26. was saved by her own goodness, not her relation to Christ,
76.
Mary > Mawaaten' her zeal to see Christ's Body in the tomb, 320, 323;) 324. Rad no idea of) the resurrection, 323; reward of her perseverance, in seeing Christ risen, 324.
Mary, of Bethany, not the " Harlot"
44; compared to Christ, 49; gave only types, 50; how far saw God, 51; highly privileged in visions, 61; his prophecy of Christ, 116; will accuse the Jews for not believing in Christ who had fulfilled his prophecy, 149; , his testimony to Christ was that of God, 2d., questioned by God before a miracle, to arouse his attention to it, a name not peculiar to the Holy Spirit, 21; mot sensuous, 24 ; came unsought by men, 98; this life described as, 202; the future life, why so called, 2d.
Likeness, of the Son to the Father, mentioned by St. Matthew, 227; her gravity and earnestness, 26. ,; her faith greater than Martha's, 229; her wisdom and affectionateness, 230; her great ardor, 232; her improvement in faith, 242.
Material things only comprehended 151; at the Red Sea, compared with Christ on the lake, 156.
Moses and Prophets, witnesses to Christ, 214; the door-keeper of the fold, 2d.
Money, love of, produces uncharita14, 26, 28; of God impressed on the Baptized, 36.
Lord's day, Gospels read on, 38.
Lord's Prayer, the, its character wholly spiritual, 157.
Love, of our neighbor, the way to bleness, and many sins, 330; made for use, not hoarding, 2d.
Mourning, indecent manner of, at Antioch, 230; excess of, condemned, 231; moderate among the old Greeks, 230; wherein honorable, 231; should be for sinners, not for the dead, 2é., for the general sin, becomes Christians, 240; for the covetous, better than for the dead, 2é.; excess of, ridiculed even by the world, 322; and a sign of unbelief, 7.
Mules, white, used by kings, 41.
Multitudes, most moved by miracles, by the Jews, 213.
Matthew, St., says most of John's imlife, 15; of God, to be shown by acts, not words, 35, 72; of Christ, towards man marvelous, 97; of the Father for Christ, 217; more powerful than miracles, 266; want of, a stumbling-block to the heathen, 267; in St. Peter, 257, 332; to be shown by keeping the commandments, 275; by |
acts, not words, 280; of God and man inseparable, 282; multiplies strength, and makes men ubiquitous, 289; the best protection to rich and poor, 290; the motive of the Solitaries, 2d. ; independent of place, 2d., of enemies, taught by the Passion, 315; gives much boldness towards God, 331. prisonment, 59.
Matrimony, advantage of, 67.
Meat, that perisheth, idleness, 158; that never perisheth, almsgiving, tb.
Meekness, duty of, 92; taught by, Christ's answer to the Jews, 219; acquired by penitence, 24.,° the first of virtues, 222; of Christ not confined to words, 74., of Christ before Pilate, our pattern, SLi Merchants, activity of, 3.
Mercy, the oil of the Christian's lamp, 181; their faith imperfect, 24.
Mystery, its use in exciting attention, 46; attracts men to Christ more than power, 63; a call to repent165.