Honor, takes place between a greater and a lesser, 209.
Horse race, 206.
Horse, soul compared to, 384.
Hospitality, to the poor, has a reward at the Judgment, 262; of Abraham, 369; to the poor,
374.
House, a, a memorial of covetousness, 369.
Houses, how to use them in serving God, 233; fallen, of the great, an admonition, 379.
Human nature, imperfect, 192.
Humility, the greatest safety for disciples against their enemies, 182; Joseph's, 204; Christ's
cause of men's working greater deeds than Himself, 205; not adulation or meanness,
ib.; shown in David, ib.; examples of, ib.; is shown when one shows respect to another,
for things pleasing to God, 206; taught by examples of Christ, ib.; must be an emptying
one's self from free choice, 213; what true humblemindedness is, 208; always a way to
be exalted, 216; the good things that spring from it, 217; arises from considering our
own failings, 229.
Hunger, should be relieved, 368; to perish by no disgrace, ib.; to make others do so, a crime,
ib.
Husband, duty of, to his wife, 304; bound to keep to his wife alone, as she to him, 345; not
to be idolized, 350; what comes of a, ib.; should teach by example, 396 (and see Wife)
; head of the wife, 397; his obligations to her, ib.; should take spiritual food, like a
swallow, to the nest, ib.
Husband and wife, make but one man, 318; what kind of one parents should seek for their
daughters, 320.
Husbandman, desires to see his land when fruitful, 341; must attend to the seed sown, 386;
natural, has to do with lifeless earth, ib.; not so spiritual, 387; he must root out thorns,
ib.
Hymns, diviner things than psalms, 301-02; that of the Angels which the faithful know, 302;
when a person is about his business, he may sing a hymn in his heart, ib.
Idleness, mischief of, 348; of Christians is an offense to heathens, ib.
If, used for because, as assuming certainty, 382.
Ignorance, often cause of sorrow, 352.
Illumination. See Baptism.
Images, set up in houses of rich, 232.
Image, the, why it is not said of an Angel, yet is of a man, 270.
Image, of God, in man, 368; of a king, not safe to insult, ib.; impressed on wax while warm,
383.
In, said of the Son as of the Father, 324; in Jesus, 353; used for through, 385, 390.
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Homilies on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians