HOMILY X.] HOMILIES ON COLOSSIANS. 303 Either requesting or performing anything what ever. Hear how in the Name of God Abraham sent his servant ; David in the Name of God slew Goliath. Marvelous is His Name and great. Again, Jacob sending his sons saith, " My God give you favor in the sight of the man." (Gen. xliii. 14.) For he that doeth this hath for his ally, God, without whom he durst do nothing. As honored then by being called upon, He will in turn honor by making their business easy. Invoke the Son, give thanks to the Father. For when the Son is invoked, the Father is invoked, and when He is thanked, the Son has been thanked. These things let us learn, not as far as words only, but to fulfill them also by works. Nothing is equal to this Name, marvelous is it every where. "Thy Name," he saith, "is ointment poured forth." (Cant. i. 3.) He that hath uttered it is straightway filled with fragrance. " No man," it is said, " can call Jesus Lord, but by the Holy Ghost." (i Cor. xii. 3.) So great things doth this Name work. If thou have said, In 1 the Name of Father, and Son, and Holy Ghost, with faith, thou hast accomplished every thing. See, how great things thou hast done ! Thou hast created a man, and wrought all the rest (that cometh) of Baptism ! So, when used in commanding diseases, terrible is The Name. Therefore the devil introduced those 3 of the Angels, envying us the honor. Such incanta tions are for the demons. Even if it be Angel, even if it be Archangel, even if it be Cherubim, allow it not ; for neither will these Powers accept such addresses, but will even toss them away from them, when they have beheld their Master dishonored. " I have honored thee," He saith, " and have said, Call upon Me " ; and dost thou dishonor Him? If thou chant this incan tation with faith, thou wilt drive away both dis eases and demons,4 and even if thou have failed to drive away the disease, this is not from lack of power, but because it is expedient it should be so. " According to Thy greatness," he saith, "so also is Thy praise." (Ps. xlviii. 10.) By this Name hath the world been converted, the tyranny dissolved, the devil trampled on, the heavens opened. We have been regenerated by this Name. This ifwe have, we beam forth ; This maketh both martyrs and confessors ; This let us hold fast as a great gift, that we may live in glory, and be well-pleasing to God, and be counted worthy of the good things promised to them that love Him, through the grace and lov- ingkindness, &c. HOMILY X. COLOSSIANS iii. 18-25. " Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in 2 the Lord. Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged. Servants, obey in all things them that are your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord : whatsoever ye do, work heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto men; knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance : ye serve the Lord Christ. For he that doeth wrong shall receive again for the wrong that he hath done : and there is no respect of per sons with God. (Chap. iv. I.) Masters, render unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven." WHY does he not give these commands every where, and in all the Epistles, but only here, and in that to the Ephesians, and that to Timothy, and that to Titus ? Because probably there were dissensions in these cities ; or probably they 1 [He uses iv rw ovo^a-n, which in this connection amounts to substantially the same as the Evangelist s ei? TO ovona (Matt, xxviii. 19). Compare Acts viii. 16 with x. 48. J. A. B.] 2 R. t. and E. V. " unto." were correct in other respects, so that it was expedient they should hear about these things. Rather, however, what he saith to these, he saith to all. Now in these things also this Epistle bears great resemblance to that to the Ephesians, either 5 because it was not fitting to write about these things to men now 6 at peace, who needed 3 Or, " the matters of the Angels " (TO. riav <ryy<Awc). 4 Gretser de S. Cruce, 1. iv. c. 3, quotes the Emperor Leo as