Deaconesses, 441; necessary and useful to the Church, ib. Death, in a monastery, 457. Demas, chose his own ease before danger, 513, 556. Desires, foolish, 469; as thorns, ib. Despisers of their brethren, despise God, 501. Devil, his rage greater against the shepherd than the flock, 409. Devils, abhor the unguent of the Spirit, 415; divinations of, condemned and defied, 508. Disputes, contagious, 467, 493. Distinctions, spiritual to be sought for, 444. Divinations, failure in, 508; sin to have recourse to, ib. Divine things not to be measured by human reason, 479. Doctrine, corrupt, engendered by an evil life, 419; orthodox, useless without a corresponding life, 429; false, a growing evil, 493. Doxology, inference of heretics from (1 Tim. i. 17) , disproved, 421. Dramas of the heathens filled with abominations, 538. Dress, finery in, gives occasion of offense, 434. Drunkenness, drowns the soul, 451. Duties, plain neglect of, a denial of the Faith, 453.   Earnestness, taught by the Epistle to Philemon, 546. Elders, bishops called, 524. Eli, perished for neglecting his children, 436. Eloquence, inferior to strength of mind, 525. Encratites, not often mentioned by St. Chrys. 444 (note) ; mentioned by Clem. Al. etc., ib. Envy of men passes on to Christ, 419. Elect, sufferings endured for the, 489. Epaphroditus, infirmity of, 515. Epimenides, 528 (note) . Epiphany, meaning of, 512. Episcopate, dangers of the, 522. Epistles, occasional, not superfluous, 545. Ephesus, false Judaizing apostles at, 410. Error, never stops, yet never advances, 506. Essence, no dissimilarity in the Divine, 409. Eucharist, Holy, always a Holy Passover, 425; the same, whether offered by common men or by Paul, &c., 483. Evangelist, the work of an, 511. Eve, bad teaching of, 436. 1021 Homilies on the Epistles to Timothy, Titus, and Philemon