a great contest, ib.; should be an example to others, 435; the foolish, failed in almsgiving,
498 (note) .
Virginity, not enjoined, 446; a higher state, ib.
Virtue, the best inheritance we can leave to our children, 437; alone can depart with men
hence, 443; most men practice, from constraint, 461; prevails over everything, 535; bad
men overawed by, ib.
Virtues, real goods, 448.
War, three kinds of war, 429; with one's self the worst, ib.
Warfare, good and bad, 424.
Washing, bodily, clears not from guilt, 499; of the body, no great matter, ib.
Water, worldly things as, 512.
Way, the narrow, 542.
Wealth, no power of itself, 431; folly of hoarding, 432; not a possession, a loan for use, 443;
however gained, is God's, not ours, 448; not a good, ib.; trusting in, produces pride,
472.
Wicked, if rich, because they are disesteemed of God, 412; various reasons why suffered to
remain, 496.
Wickedness, has its torments here as well as hereafter, 445, 446; to prevail in the last days,
500; no one to be offended because of, 506; shall increase as the end draws near, ib.
Widowhood, better not professed than to be forsaken, 459; Christian, 503; how to bear, ib.
Widows, what makes, 450; to receive honor from the priest, ib.; domestic duty of, ib.; God
the stay of, if desolate, ib.; must renounce pleasure, 451; intemperate threatened, 453;
"list of widows" relieved by the Church, ib. (note) ; strictness required of, 454; directions
to younger, 459; marriage of, recommended to prevent evil, 460; with relations, ib.
Widows, church, age of, 454; duties of, ib.
Wine, women given to, 441; danger of, 442; those who served in the temple never tasted,
ib.
Woman, taught once and ruined all, 436.
Women, to be modest in dress, 433; to be silent and modest, 435; not to speak in Church,
ib.; in St. Chrysostom's time open to reproof, ib.; must not teach, but occupy station
of learners, ib.; why made subject to men, ib.; salvation to, through child-bearing, 436;
yet saved without children, ib.; what they may do, 516; many suffered martyrdom, ib.;
not inferior in spiritual matters, ib.; forbidden to teach, 532; those who led to war,
condemned, 539; duties of, 454.
Word, of God, not bound, 489; how rightly divided, 493.
Works, good, are to shine and be manifest, 440; to be concealed, 458.
World despised, heaven gained, 516.
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