Slander, to be buried, 360; a snare of Satan, 360. Sleep, sweet to the weary, 352; a medicine, 395. Sloth, requires chastisement, 431; banished by fear, 439; danger of, under prosperity, 452, 463. Snares, beset us on all sides, 440; wife, children, etc., may become, 441; same, catch men again, 441. Sobriety, needful before going to church, 400; of country people, 466. Socrates, on the faculty of women for learning, 470, n.; opinions on punishment, 375, n. Sodom, its greatness no defense, 456; a perpetual witness, 466. Soldiers, Christians are, 357; Christian, incapacitated by dread, 376; employed at the trials at Antioch, 426; intemperate particularly in battle, 433; on guard prevent robbers, 439; alert for conquest, 459; reverence their officers, 472. Solomon, made trial of luxury, 352; his thoughts on mirth, 440; learned in Art and Science by God, 456. Sores, treatment of, 387. Sorrow, an occasion of joy to Saints, 461. Soul, the, to be adorned for Christ's dwelling, 350; medicine for, 358; the only proper object of concern, 397; subject to infirmity to prevent pride, 414; wounded by swearing, 438; stedfast, is proof against danger, 446; of unconverted, an old wine-skin, 449; philosophy of the even, in all events, 454; dignity of, in virtue, 457; like the body as affected from without, 462; the seat of philosophy, 465; beauty of, to be admired, 466; under the fear of God like a rusty tool in the furnace, 480; sign of greatness of, looking to God, 482. Spark, falling on the ocean, 460. Speculations, on the Universe above us, 411; folly of, 421; improper on Divine commands, 447. Speech, how precious, is certain, 332; how restrained, 397. Spider, not esteemed because he toils for himself, 420. Spirit Holy, gives matter for discourse, 332, 347; all His gifts munificent, 332; His gold needs His flame, 332; enters not where wrath is, 479. Stability, type of, 402. Stadium, 416, n. Stars, like flowers, 408. State, without Rulers, illustrated, 381; dependence of members on each other in, 417; not saved by multitude, 457. Statuary's skill on rude materials, 414. Statues, of the Emperor demolished, 344; a device of Satan, 439; Theodosius's mother and wife, dishonoured, 484, n.; for humaneness, 485; of Constantine, dishonoured, 485. Stibadium, 489, n. 761 Homilies on the Statues