578 HOMILIES ON PHIL1PPIANS, COLOSSIANS, THESSALONIANS. vice, 233; door ofour lamp, 370; keep shut when insulted, il>. Murmuring, an art of Satan s to take awayreward of virtue, 220; occa sions stains, ib.; to be avoided at all times, 223. Mysteries, Apostles ordered aremem brance to be made of the dead in them, 197; the mystery of God is to be brought to Him by His Son, 280; priest makes par takers of, 367. Mystery, must be confessed some where, 354. Name, does not mean glory, 215. "Name of our Lord Jesus," every thing done in it prospers, 302. Name of God, the great power of the, 303. Nature, human, may be looked on as one continued life from the first to the present time, 277. Necessity, notion of, from Satan, 269-70. Nero, emperor when Epistle to Phil- ippians was written, 186; a type of Antichrist, 389. Night, compared to a caravan of many fountains, 192; children of, 362. Ninevites, escaped because they feared, 383. Noah, type of the Resurrection, 283; a just man, 326; could not have saved the Jews, ib. ; his sons conduct, 342; days of, like the last, 357; men in time of, per ished from not fearing, 383. Number, change of, in speaking, 372 (note 2). Obedience to others does not make us inferior to them, 215; cause of exaltation, 216; the duty of the wife to her husband, 304. Oil, a type of God s love to man, 201 ; hence kings and priests anointed with it, ib. ; type of mercy as be ing the cause of light, ib. ; want of, quenches lamp, 371. Ointment, the Saints are like, 327. Oneness of mind, the force of it, 203. Onesimus, sent by St. Paul to the Colossians, 310. Oppressors, more cruel than robbers, 369; poor as bad as rich, 370. Ornaments, gold, are a loss to the users, 232; earthly chains to bind sin on, and strip Christ off, 308; love of, incites vainglory, and is the cause of many evils, ib. Orators, record vanity of human things, 379. Oratories, 373. Ornament, danger of, 338; none like gravity, 350; spiritual, 351. Palaces, splendid, no cause for pride, 217; none like heaven, 351; way to, borne with, though nar row, 364; one who admits to, loved for it, 367; great men of the world found at, 373; churches the real, ib. Palaestra, place in which runners in a race were trained, 239. Palestine, travelers in, called to wit nessonoverthrow ofSodom, 35 7 ; sufferings of the Jews in, 358. Paradise, plain of Jordan like, 357, 369- Passions, tempt us as pagans did mar tyrs, 336; insatiable in their na ture, 379. Patience, a high praise, 325; of Job, 337; toward all men, 367; puts the impudent to shame, ib. ; proved in time, 381 ; of Christ, 393- Patriarchs, examples how people should suffer the loss of children, 299. Patronage, change of religion for, 381, Paul, St., scourged at Philippi, 181, see Philippi; gives high testimony to Philippians, ib. ; in bonds when wrote Epistle to Philippians, ib.; let go afterwards, ib. ; wrote it in his first imprisonment, ib. ; con soles Philippians about his bonds, and exhorts to unanimity and hu mility, 182; writes to encour age, not to rebuke, Philippians throughout, ib. ; praises them for their well-doing, ib. ; his great love for them, ib. ; why he calls himself " servant " in writing to the Philippians, 184; reason for his writing to the clergy of Philippi, ib. ; his joy at their vir tues, and constant readiness to assist him, 185; to be loved by him, sign of being great, 186; imprisoned under Emperor Nero, ib. ; in what sense he calls God to witness, 188; his bonds use ful, 189; cause of confidence to himself, ib. ; did not mind griev ous things of this life, 193; re joices though he has many en emies, ib. ; his humble-minded- ness and trust in God, 194; would glorify Christ by life or death, ib. ; not to die at this imprisonment, ib. ; how dead as this present life, 195; because he did not care for it, ib. ; it would be by God s dispensation, not of man s sin, 196; though in the midst of suffering chooses to live, 198; in what way like the sun, 199; why willing to stay on earth, ib. ; not a flatterer, 205; how he was humble and courageous, ib. ; ex horts to humility by example of Christ, 206; by awe at presence of the Holy Spirit, ib., and note 2; one text of his lays low many heresies at once, 206 ; takes away fear of being debased because of humility by example of the In carnation, 212; his discretion in admonishing, 219; his death like a drink-offering, and cause of re joicingtothe Philippians, 222-23; frees the Philippians from suspi cion of his giving comfort merely by sending Timothy, 223; does all for Christ, ib. ; tidings of the Philippians would give him cour age, 224; did notknow all things absent by revelation, ib. ; his de pendence on God in everything, ib. : had not neglected them be cause he sent so late, 225; his soul never free from sorrow, ib. ; careful to teach Philippians hu mility, 226; had more than one cloak, and lived the life of faith, 228; provided his proper cloth ing, ib. ; does not give exhorta tion without first commending, 230; his high state as a Jew in birth and way of life, 231; died to his body while alive, 236; not confident of attaining to the res urrection that leads to Christ, ib. ; his life one of contest to the end, 237 ; taught by deeds as well as words, 240; an example of the constancy of virtue under all cir cumstances, 241 ; his care to rec ommend laborious persons, and the benefit of this, 244; is re freshed at the advancement of his disciples, 249; probable rea son of his receiving at one time, and not at another, 250; partly excuses the negligence of the Philippians, ib. ; how he put down proud thoughts from well doing and yet did not check it, ib. ; his way of encouraging lib erality and keeping independ ence, 251-52; his grieffor sinners remarkable, 255; those of his epistles most holy which were written while he was in bonds, 257; had not seen Colossians when he wrote to them, ib. ; his presence everywhere a great thing, 258; everywhere couplts conduct with faith, 264; first praises, then blames, 265; his striving for his disciples, 281 ; in all his epistles he tries to show that Christians are partakers with Christ, 290; his lowliness of mind, 306; his work prospered much more when he in bonds than out of them, ib. ; reasons for his not putting everything into his epistles, 309; his behav ior to Agrippa, an instance of Christian wisdom, 309; treated worse than the prophets were, 310; the considerate way in which he spoke of persons, ib. ; his warnings how to deal with persons he calls "without," 310- 1 1 ; his wisdom instanced in his discourse to the Athenians, 311: and in treatment of Elymas, ib. ; his reminding the Colossians of his bonds a great support to them in trials, 314-15; meaning of his wish to be accursed from Christ, 317; hishumility in placing others with himself, 323; his thanksgiv-