Sin, more object of dread, if we lament for it in others, 196; many things lead to our avoiding
it, 201; why called "upon earth," 294; those who walk in, are not in God, 324; frustrates
prayer for us, 326; all, defiles, 342; to shun, no praise, 344; punished temporally to teach
men, 358; instances of, punished, 358-59; different characters of, 359; leads to certain
death, 367; pride the beginning of, 378; to be cut off by talking of hell, 384.
Sinners, dying in sin without hope, 196; must be pained here that they may escape the river
of fire, 212; know they sin by their conscience, 269; think one that rebukes them austere
only, 320.
Sinai, angels at Mount, 355.
Slave, female, about to be sold with her husband, 372; may teach a master virtue, 397.
Slaves, scourged, 372; adjure their masters, ib.
Sleep, comes over the virtuous without fear, 248; spiritual, danger of, 326, 363, 393; in Jesus
not death, 352; our helplessness in, humbling, 379.
Sloth, to avoid it we must do the labors within our measure, 191.
Sodom, sin of, surpassed, 357; fruits of, full of ashes, ib.
Soil, spiritual, not inanimate, 386.
Soldier, rewarded for wounds, 335; always keeps to exercise and arms, ib.; an example to
Christians, 336; in heaven a child may be made, 351.
Son, why it is said of man, but never of Angel, 270; The, the image of God, 270; not a creature
because called Firstborn, ib.; "before all things," ib.; first in the Church, ib.; types of His
eternal generation, 283; same words applied to as to the Father, 324; given for us, 363;
generation of, above reasoning, 354; of God, he who knows, is not proud, 378; named
before the Father, 390.
Sophronius, 206; in what way heretical, 207; how his heresy falls before St. Paul's text, ib.
Sorrow, not to be without hope, 389; excuses for, ib.; comfort in, 350; often caused by ignor-
ance, 352; for sinners, ib.
Soul, Christian, noble in life or death, 194; brought into tune by hard sayings, 212; the truly
wise is disturbed by nothing, 241; the diseased is ever changing, 242; is delighted with
sweet savors, 252; that of servants, free in its service, 305; to give, hard, 330; defiled by
all sin, 342; chief object in education, 346; notion of its transmigration, 353; thought
to be consumed by fire, ib.; a vicious, dead and dry, 363; fear of hell should be seated
on, 383-84; shaken, can make no effort, 390.
Speech, heavy, good to correct the soul, 212; rules for, in dealing with people of different
estates, 311; rules for it in a teacher, ib.
Spirit, the Holy, comes through mercy, 201; man nothing but by Him, 258; gives joy in
suffering, 325; lamp of, not to be quenched, 370; flame of, what strengthens, 371; gifts
of, Satan would abuse, ib.; fire of, cures thorny land, 387; clergy fathers in, 392; unclean,
false prophets spoke by, 386.
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Homilies on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians