HOMILIES ON THE STATUES.   Abel, beloved of God, yet slain, 342; more blessed in his death than Cain, 374; died the first to instruct Adam, 414; his sacrifice good, 422. Abraham, rich but not covetous: entertaining angels, 349; tent of, stronger than Sodom, 456. Absolution, 356; at the altar, 443. Accused at Antioch, tortured, 474. Acrobats, 470. Actions, few, for their own sake, 379; end of, 459, n.; the proof of philosophy, 465. Adam, fell when idle, 353, 369; wretchedness of his fall, 393; what he merited, 392; fitted, by humiliation, to appear before God, 396; pride of, cast down, 413; his hiding was due to his sense of guilt, 422; his being made to confess, a mercy, 422. Admonition, repeated, a shame, 379; obligation and advantage of, 425, 437; to be repeated, 452; not like seeing, 467; of others a duty, 481. Adultery, self-condemned, 429; in desire, 443. Advantages of nature and art not the dignity of a city, 457. Alms, given at martyrs' shrines, 340; of less worth than thankfulness, 341; recompensed at the Judgment, 350; riches given for, 351; means of pardon, 351. Altars, raised by the heathen to men, 338; by Christians only to God, though in memory of men, 338, n.; Christian, for remission of sin, 443. Ambrose, St., obliged Theodosius to do penance, 383, n.; on invocation of Saints and Angels, 390. Angels, applauded Job's victory, 339; invocation of, 390, n.; visited Jerusalem, 467. Animals, wild, uses of, 395, 417; their fear of man lessened at the fall, 395; the vilest wor- shipped, 409; man dreads from sin, 417; their excellences not of free-will, and invariable, 420; sacrifice of, discussed, 422, n.; refugees of Antioch, destroyed by, 487. Art, a pattern of industry, 420. Antioch, old church of, 331, n.; blasphemy prevailing in, 343; hopes of reforming, 344; state of after sedition, 344, 425, 453; compared to Job, 344; disgraced and deserted, 345, 364, 454, 463; a mother of cities, 345, 355; shaken as with an earthquake, 345; fears of the inhabitants, 346, 412, 419, 453; character of, 347, 355; schism at, 354, n.; Christians first so named there, 345, n., 355, 438; amended by danger, 382, 383, 418, 439, 455; dealt with tenderly, 383, 419; deliverance from danger, 412, 452; spared on repentance, 418; inhabitants had recourse to God, 427, 439, 482; confiscation and disruption at, 427; again disturbed, 431; submission of the people to the Emperor, 437; cowardice in, 445; distinguished in virtue, 456; exhortation before calamities, 463; accused tortured, Homilies on the Statues 738 Homilies on the Statues