Archippus, probably held some office in the Church at Colossæ 257, 314; a person to whom St. Paul would have the Colossians entirely subject, 315. Archangel, 355-56. Arians, like Greeks in making a greater and a lesser God, 207. Aristarchus, was brought up from Jerusalem fellow-prisoner with St. Paul, 310. Arius of Alexandria, 206; how his heresy falls before St. Paul's text, 207. Ark, one hundred years building, 357; resting-place of, ib. Armor, spiritual, 363. Army, the Church like an, 367. Article, the, often not placed, and yet the word God means The Father, 209. Artisans, oppress their poorer fellows, 370. Arts, knowledge of, should not make men proud, 217; to be used in God's service in serving one another, not to withdraw men from spiritual things, 233. Ascalon, country beyond, 357; men of, conquered by Samuel's prayer, 391. Assyrians, king of, conquered by Hezekiah's prayer, 391. Atoms, notion of, 353. Avarice, souls sacrificed to, 346; wickedness of, 368; vain excuses for, answered, 368-69; its bad effects, 210; consists in loving money at all, 211; hinders from seeing Christ's face, ib.; is a root of evils, ib.; hinders from being Christ's servant, ib. Audacity, examples of, 205; is shown in causeless rage, 206.   Baptism, called a seal, 197; men freed from sin by, and have the Holy Ghost given them, 237; men are delivered, as it were, from a fever and wholly diseased state by it, ib.; it gives remission of sin, grace, and wealth, 238; prodigal son an example for those that have sinned after baptism, ib.; is through the cross, 242; the way prepared for it by the things done of old in water, 283; is a circumcision of spirit, 285; not burial only, but resurrection, ib.; a death unto sin, 286; prefigured in Red Sea, 290; its destroying and new-making effects no cause for marvel from what goes on in nature, 290; called sleep by heretics, 352; too often deferred, 361; St. Greg. Naz. on this practice, 361 (note 3) ; priest has one with people, 392. Beasts, wild, do not hurt unless straitened, 368; man inferior to in bodily qualities, 379. Beauty, no cause for being proud, 217. Bee, lesson from, in that it dies in stinging, 368; commended in Scripture, ib. Beggars, adjure by Christ in vain, 373; succeed by praising ladies' beauty, ib.; driven to low jesting and juggling, ib.; and to loose music, ib.; thankful under great privations, ib.; at churches, ib.; cruel treatment of, 395. Begging, a shameful thing, 348; misery of, 368. Beginning, used for first impulse, or for grounding, 378. 982 Homilies on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians