on different persons, 413; had divine and mystical meaning, 414, 498 sq.; happen every
day as marvellous as extraordinary ones, 482, 498; man himself a miracle, 482; power
of working not so high a gift as humility, 535, and given under the elder dispensation,
534; the miracle of "the seven loaves" explained, 406.
Moses, tender prayer of, 387; a witness of Christ in Book of Genesis, 498.
Mourners, true and false consolation of, 266.
Mysteries, not possession, but love of eminence prevents understanding of, 389 sq.
Name, of God: hallowed in us by making us holy, 275, 281, 285, 289; hallowed in us when
baptized, 289.
Nathanael, under fig tree, type of man under sin, 470; this interpretation connected with
apron of fig leaves, 470; the "greater things" promised to, to see God face to face, 472.
Neighbour, who truly loves himself, loves his, 395; every man our, 395.
Numbers, mystical meaning of, 257, 258 sq., 363, 364, 365, 406, 452.
Obedience, only road to knowledge, 464, 486; its presence Life, its absence death, 488; with
Faith the Resurrection of the soul, 489.
Offences, against a brother, against Christ, 301; to be "cut off," 355, 356; love of God's Law
the safeguard against, 353; what constitutes, 355; outward troubles not, but to be turned
to our profit, 353, 356; St. Peter rebuked, that he may teach us how to refuse them, 354.
Oil, in the lamps of the true virgins, charity, 402, 403; what meant by selling, 404; lamps
without, works done for man, not for love of God, 403 sq.
Olive tree, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob roots of, 347; natural branches cut off for pride: wild
grafted in for humility, 347; we all became from good, wild olive tree, 395.
Parable, of unforgiving servant, explained, 362-365; of sower who went forth to sow, 334,
335, 423; of tares, enforces the duty of bearing with evil, 334, 335, and corrects all
schism under plea of evil in the Church, 386; of fig tree planted in vineyard, a warning
to us to be fruitful, 332, 443, 444; of husbandman who planted a vineyard and let it out
to husbandmen, explained, 373, 374; of hiring into vineyard, explained, 374, 375; of
King who made a marriage for His Son, teaches that all, good and bad, are invited, but
only good received, 392-394; of the ten virgins, relates not to religious orders only, but
to whole Church, 401 sq.; same explained, 402-405; of two debtors, comfort to the
penitent, and lesson for the Pharisee, 416 sq.; of certain man who made a great supper,
and of the guests who excused themselves, 447, 448; of rich man "whose ground had
turned out well," examples of covetousness and its punishment in, 437, 438, and of
luxuriousness, 372, 373; of rich man and Lazarus, example of luxuriousness in, 373,
426 sq.
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Sermons on Selected Lessons of the Gospels