429; pulling at a rotten cord, 432; murder of, prevented by not vowing, 434; fond of
sweets, severe training for, 449; virtue of, proved, 453; wrestling at the top of a pole,
470; fear their fathers more than we fear God, 471.
Christ, teaching of, 348; scorned in the poor, 349; keeps for us what we give them, 350; left
us His flesh and blood, 354; instructed after feeding, 400; instructs from irrational
creatures, 420; taught the law of conscience, 428; instructs us to fear, 440; forbids oaths,
444; set against Himself by swearing on the Gospel, 444, 446; gave warning of sorrow
before reward, 449; judgment of, on cities, 457; teaches reconciliation by His Sacrifice,
470.
Christianity, not universal, 401, n.; a stricter law than the Mosaic, 469.
Christians, the saviors of Antioch, 343; bear trials cheerfully, 346; soldiers and wrestlers,
357; all reproached for sins of any, 359; should admonish each other, 425, 451; name
diffused worldwide, 438; instructors and comforters of unbelievers, 445; under training
like heirs: with heaven in view like the merchant, 450; are citizens of heaven, 456.
Chrysostom, St., requests the people to check blasphemy, 343; silent for seven days: as Job's
friends, 344; bewails Antioch, 345; hopes to cheer the people, 346; speaks at length,
and warns, 347; applauded, 347, 379; made bishop, 354, n.; proposes three precepts for
memory, 363; blesses God for comforting, 364; love and anxiety for his people, 380,
399, 443; like a mother for a sick child, 430; watchfulness over his flock, 399; regrets
the absence of some, 400; repeats admonitions, 424, 443; rewarded through their
obedience, 380, 389, 399; confidence for Antioch's rescue, 382; interpretation of 1 Cor.
iii. 15, 387, n.; intercourse with his people, 389, 481; mode of dealing with the unre-
formed, 389; success of special preaching, 438; testimony of, as to relics, 396; opinion
concerning the earth, 403; shape and motion of the heavens, 419; on the Sabbath, 422;
notions about sacrifice, 422; admonitions about theatres ineffectual, 439; on remission
in Eucharist, 443, n., 444; indignation over the people's irreverence, 445, 446; teaching,
practical not doctrinal, 447; welcome to the country clergy, 465; forbids all oaths, 470,
n.; offers to cure the swearer, 480; threatens, 481; gives thanks for Flavian's return, 482;
his praises of city, Bishop, Emperor, etc., 482.
Church (building), old at Antioch, 331; not a place of amusement, 347; full in time of distress,
364; then resorted to by the wicked, 366; to be absent from sinful, disgraceful, 400, 406;
no other place so good, 406; the fittest place for thanksgiving after deliverance, 419; a
place of prayer, 443; feelings in, are not religious attainments, 446; part of, reserved for
clergy, 465, n.; common talk in, 473; exclusion from, 481.
Church (community), prayers of, 356; injured by evil speaking, 359; Greek, its lenten observ-
ances, 359, n.; mother of the afflicted, 364, 386; influences all ranks, 481; censure of,
for familiarity, 481.
Citizens of heaven, none without virtue, 457.
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