Joshua commands the sun's motion, 411.
Joy, from temporal good soon ends, 451; continual under misfortune possible, 459; aim of
all, 459; in God, 460; of the world brings loss, 461.
Judge, unjust, parable of, 412; man made, of his own pardon, 477; does not question or
correct the culprit, 393; sympathy of the judges at Antioch, 427; rigour of human, 427;
shewed mercy upon the intercession of the monks, 453.
Judgment, the last, proved by the afflictions of the saints, 339; riches of no avail in, 349; alms
help us in, 351; and mercy, 355; without benefit of others' intercession, 427; rulers
threatened with, 453; harsh over others visited on ourselves, 361; rash on others without
excuse, 472; temporal, effectual, 481.
Justice, courts of, originated in the natural moral law, 423.
Kidnappers entice by pleasant things, 449.
Kings excel their subjects in wealth, 421; make unreasonable laws, 447; doff their crowns in
battle, 447; have more cause for sadness than any, 460; armour of, 467; made glorious
by mercy, 485; may easily conquer, but not win, 487.
Knives, feats performed with, 470.
Knowledge of the creation from God, 421; withheld to remove occasion of pride, 421; of
God by His works, 421; of good and evil by nature, 428; not for its own sake, 435.
Labour brings sleep, 352; our safest state, 353; spiritual reward of, 357; of life ordained by
whom, 384.
Laughter often leads to sin, 442; how to be met, 481.
Law, of Nature (see Conscience) the ground of Christ's teaching, 428; against criminal suits
in Lent, 383, n.; of God takes precedence of human laws, 398; civil, of the heathen, from
conscience, 423; of kings not to be questioned, 447.
Lazarus gained a reward, 340, 385; example of, 342, 373; truly rich, 348.
Learning, how long Pambos was learning one verse, 332, n.; without wisdom avails nothing,
465.
Lebanon for Judæa, 467.
Legerdemain, feats of, 470.
Lent, Christian's working time, 357; commencement of, 358, n., 370, n.; precepts to learn
in, 363; celebrated with daily sermons, 379, n.; covers sins of the past year, 472.
Leprosy of Miriam, 475.
Lessons, Scripture, in worship, order of, 347, n.; from Jonah's history, 378; from the irrational
animals, 420.
Letter of the monks to Theodosius, 454.
Libanius, 394, n.
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