Partners in a shop, 452. Passion, God free from, 392. Passover, a time of mercy, 355; reverenced by pardon of offences, 479. Pastor, bound to suffer for his people, 354; efficacy to his intercessions, 356; how to be re- garded by his people, 380; intercourse with each severally, 389; like a husbandman and a pilot, 399; invigorated by success, 399; good of his flock, his good, 412; to be followed trustfully, 425; concern of, for all, 430; living by husbandry: true philosophers, 465. Patience, 341; of Lazarus, praised by St. Chrysostom, 342, n.; punishes insolence, 353. Paul, St., teacher of the Gentiles, 332, n.; care for Timothy, 333; distrusted himself, 334; kept humble by affliction, 337; strong though in bonds, 337; his example, 342; hindered by Satan, 342; adapts himself to hearers, 349; his labours and reward, 353; reproved sin, 359, eagerness to die, 373, 385; advantages of Christians over St. Paul, 373; his garments, virtue of, 396; more than a lion, 397; his illustrations from nature, 407; recollection of his sins, 419; proves a natural law, 423; concern about one incestuous person, 430; dangers of, for his mending, 431; counted all things loss, 441; feels paternal anxiety, 443; glories in his sufferings for Christ, 447, 462; attempts to convert his judges, 448; recommends continual joy, 459; greatness of, in hiding good deeds, 483. Paulinus, Bishop of Antioch, 354, n. Peacock, 408. Penalty for swearing, 389, 399. Penitential acts of use, 378. Penitents, discipline of, 472, n. Pentateuch, 394, n. Perfection, precepts of, 348, 349; how attained, 370; St. Paul's height within the reach of every one, 373; of art in the temple, 456. Perfume, spiritual, 406; of flowers the best, 466. Perjury from the habit of swearing, in two ways, 432, 438; of both persons swearing the contrary, 432; who forces another to, is guilty himself, 432, 439; the object of Satan, 433; guilt of, shared by those privy to it, 434; manifold from one oath, 436. Persecutors, benefitted by the virtue of their victims, 387. Perseverance in prosperity a test of virtue, 452. Peter, St., the first to preach Christ, 356. Pharisee, fasted in vain, 357; his evil speaking, 359. Philoponus on the heavens, 419, n. Philosophers, cowardice of the heathen, 454; the simple made, 466. Philosophy of this world shrinks from danger, 454; worldly, falsified by deeds, 455; pagan, is but in the garb, 465; like a sword with a silver hilt and leaden blade, 465; heathen, taught a few only, 466. 755 Homilies on the Statues