Storm, approaching, 446. Striving, lawful, what, 357, n. Substance, 362. Suffering, for Christ, our glory, 447; fellowship in, soothes, 339. Sun, transcends nature, 404; a bridegroom: not a god, 410; in constant motion, 419. Superfluous, what seems, may be full of Divine wisdom, 332. Surfeit, breaks sleep, 352. Suspiciousness from guilt, 396. Swearer, ought to reflect on martyrdom of St. John B., 432; house of, ruined, 443. Swearing, 363, 370, 379, 394, 417, 424, 443; easily overcome, 370, 379, 388, 398, 437; methods of overcoming, 370, 379; the excuse answered when imposed by another, 380, 398; no excuse that others swear, 388; insult to God shewn by, 304; substitute for, 398, 481; mode adopted to overcome, 399; the easier the worse, 411; abstaining from a Divine precept, 425; of contraries common in many relations, 432; Satan lies in wait for, 432, 433; doubling of Saul in, 437; to abstain from easier than to obey the Emperor, 437; forbidden by Christ, 444; worse in Christians than in Jews, 469; comes of negligence, 470; all, from Satan, 470; difficulty of curing, imaginary, 479; not to be cured little by little, 480. Sympathy in the joy of others, 429. Synagogue at Daphne, 457, n.   Table of spiritual food from Holy Writ, 348; of the rich not relished, 351. Talents, parable of, 348; ten thousand, parable of, 355, 478. Tarentines, drunkenness and luxury of, 400, n. Taxes, 363, 398; indignation caused by, 374. Teacher, the, a title of St. Paul, 332; to take fit seasons, 413; number of natural, 430; differs from the artificer as to consequences, shares in the merit of his scholars, 487. Temperance, naturally approves itself, 428; practice of severe, 429. Temple, the, honoured by God, dishonoured by sinners, 456. Thankfulness, in trouble rewarded, 341. Thanksgiving, contrasted with blasphemy, 342; 343, equals cross-bearing, 385; for favours procures others, 412; repeated, 412, 425, 450; in distress, 452; for evils, 489. Theatres, forbidden, 359; one opposite the church, 439; cause many evils, 442, 455. Theodosius, statues of, thrown down, 344, 362; embassy to, 354; hopes from his piety and clemency, 355, 356, 453, 457; baptized, 355; compared to Ahasuerus, 356; tax levied by, 361, n.; not present when insulted, 362; his religious character, 383, 487; opposite acts from, 383, n.; closing of the baths, 437; stopped public amusements as a punishment, 455; like a father in demeaning Antioch, 455; reverence of, for Priests, 483; reception 762 Homilies on the Statues