Body and Blood received in, our meat and drink, and saying hard to the hard, but not
to faith, 501; in it we eat and drink life, 501; never faileth, 501; faith in, gift of God, who
draws us by love, 501; to be received with thought, 504; Catechumens hide themselves
from, 504; hidden from them by veil, which Baptism removes, 504; care necessary in
preparing faithful for, 505; chastity required in recipients of, 505 sq.; believing Jews
received very Blood which they had shed, 343, 351, 378, 388.
Eunomians confess not Trinity properly, 320.
Eunuch, the: to whom St. Philip preached, received the Holy Spirit without confirmation,
419; that God's power might not seem limited to man's ministry, 419.
Evil, abounds because we are evil, 352; disposed by God for good, 478; this disposal illustrated
by things on earth, 478.
Eye, the: cannot comprehend God, 459; that of mind may reach to Him, 459.
Faith, the gift of God, 431, 502; denied to proud, 312, 313; a garment and breastplate, 288;
like grain of mustard seed, small but intense, 346; apt to waver because God does not
give at once, 411; strengthened by prayer, 454, although itself fountain of prayer, 454;
figured in the "fish," 432; to be genuine, must contain both hope and love, 269, 538;
worketh by love, and thus distinguished from faith of devils and of the wicked, 269,
323, 395; believes Christ unseen, through Holy Ghost, 536; leads on to perfect vision
of Christ, 400, and purifies heart to see God, 269, 380; well to know our deficiency in,
and where to ask, 349; so far as gives way, temptation advances: greatness of, if perfect,
454; waking typified by Christ awake, sleeping by Christ asleep, 356; simple, therefore
in difficulties sees mysteries, 247; precedes understanding, 465, 481, 535; that by which
we abide in unseen truths, 467, 481 sq., and believe them, though not seeing, 486; the
step of the understanding, 481; with obedience, resurrection of soul, 489; want of,
spoken of as only sin, as retaining all others, 536, 538; casteth out Satan, 537 sq.; "the
Catholic," gathered by witness of Scripture, and grounded on Apostolic truth, 259; first
founded on visible miracles, but now more blessed without them, 379; The Creed, rule
of, 288.
Families, heads of, as bishops in, 406.
Fear, and sorrow, alternate tormentors of soul, 474; of God, excludes all other fears, 306,
307.
Feasts, two: one here, other hereafter, 392, 394; He that invites us all, will separate unworthy
from it, 406.
Fideles, 277 (note).
Fifty, the number of the reward, i.e., the denarius added to the accomplishment of righteous-
ness, 480.
1145
Sermons on Selected Lessons of the Gospels