exemplary in thankfulness, 373; sit at Church doors, ib.; are dogs of God's palace, 374; communicate with the great, ib.; descendants of, may he great, 374; pride cured by sight of, ib.; best guests to entertain, ib.; Christ comes in, ib.; contempt of, comes of pride, 378; dishonor to, provokes God, 395. Potiphar, unreasonable, 380. Poverty, a happiness, 191; false reasons for fearing it, 193; good or bad, according to the disposition, ib.; is good or bad, according to a man's will, 233; the procurer of heaven, ib.; distresses most men, 349; furnace of, 373; comforted in house of mourning, 384. Power of Christ, cause of men's working greater deeds than himself, 205; persons in power ever changing like dust, 290. Practice, of the commands of Christ brings us His gifts, 206. Prætorium, palace of Nero so called, 181; palace so called, 189. Praise, when rightly given and withheld, 208; men should not live dependent on it, or do praiseworthy actions for its sake, 248. Prayer, assists the dead, 197; a consolation at all times, 246; should be joined with thanksgiv- ing, ib.; not acknowledged without thanksgiving, 247; frequent, makes persons listless, therefore they must join watching with it and thanksgiving, 305; a Saint's prayer, ib.; remembering others in, 324; of others useful, if we do our part, 326; made for all men, ib.; expressed from love, 341; due to pastors, 372; houses of, 373; of arrogant, not heard, ib.; of St. Paul for Thessalonians, 390; he asks theirs, ib.; St. Chrysostom asks earnestly, and more on his own account, ib.; united, powerful, 391; for people bold in St. Chrysostom, ib.; yet he makes it in private as well as in public, ib.; seals precepts, 395; for peace, ib.; in salutation, ib. Prayer of the Faithful, Lord's Prayer so called, 306. Preachers, of strife taught as St. Paul did, against their will, as instruments of the devil, 190. Presbyters, sometimes called Bishops, 184; could not lay hands on a Bishop, ib. Pride, to be corrected by thanking God for our wisdom, 204; makes men even unlike the devil, 205; haughtiness not courage, ib.; cause of Satan's fall, 216; is worse than folly, 217; the evils that come from it in a man's temper, ib.; natural good qualities and blessings should not make men proud, ib.; makes a man lower than irrational creatures, 218; shown in thinking fine houses superfluities, etc., a gain, 232; attendant on the feasts of the heathen, 262; cure of, in seeing the poor, 374; exclaimed against, ib.; comes of not knowing God, 378; beginning of sin, ib.; of Pharisee, spoiled good works, ib.; a constant misery, 379; a sign of wanting reason, ib.; of rich at Church, 387. Priest, should be obeyed with good-will, 366; hated for reproving, ib.; authority of, sanctioned by Christ, ib.; gives up the world for his office, ib.; imparts the Holy Mysteries, 367; communicates first but equally with people, 392. Priests, grudging to support them upbraided, 226-27. 1007 Homilies on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians