INDEX OF THE PRINCIPAL SUBJECTS IN THE HOMILIES OF GREGORY PALAMAS, ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY
(Of this volume col. 9; but refer to the bolder numbers inserted in the text.)
A Abraham was called the father of many nations, 56. Works of love, what they are, 25. The true fast numbers those who fast among the angels, 58. Jesus Christ is our brother and father, 1. Imagination is the most comprehensive perception, 187. The essence of God is indivisible and incomprehensible, 199. One must keep the season of fasting free from all evil, 32. Who are the Lord Sabaoth’s vineyards, 151. The elevation of the mind to the height of the Cross, 60. What is the unbegotten work of God, 89. The faithful man must resist with the discernment of faith, and rejoice in hope, 93. What is meant by a burning coal, 132. The opposite is the manner of prayer of the Publican and the Pharisee, 6. We all possess in common the curse from our forefather, 25. What is called the first-fruits of the Spirit, 94. The conception of the Word of God and of our God-man Savior Jesus Christ is an incomprehensible mystery to angels and men, 12. From what mouths do God and His saints not accept a hymn, 130. Impiety differs from lawlessness, 165. It is a great absurdity to say that the condemned ought not to have been created by God, 231. God made man with free will, 200.
B How Bethel is interpreted, 112. The Mother of God is the burning bush and the tongs, 76. The blast on the day of Pentecost was violent, and who foretold it, 136.
Γ It was Gabriel who announced the resurrection of Christ to the Myrrh-bearing women, 105. What does he mean by marriage; why does he say marriages and not marriage, 232. Temperance is the generator of dispassion, 48. The taste of sin is the beginning of evil in the mind, 191. The soul is compared to earth, 184. What does the great Dionysius mean by darkness, 197.
Δ Those who pursue sorcery are aligned with demons, 177. What is meant by the ring and the sandals, 16. One must join temperance to fasting, 35. The sacrifice to God is accomplished for us through the Word, 59. Why does humility lead man to the height of righteousness, while pride brings him down to the abyss of sin, 5. Why the all is called a world (kosmos), 33. Why the Lord Christ becomes obedient to the law in all things, 26. Why man was created after all creation, 35, 146. Why the Son and Word of God became man, 88. Why Christ offered an offering to Himself and first-fruits to the Father on our behalf, 89. Why the Lord stood in the midst of the disciples, 192. Why the Church celebrates the memorial of all the saints, 145. Why the word “passing by” is said twice, 169. Why He compelled the disciples to get into the boat, 179. Why He says, “He will sit,” and “they will be gathered,” and “He will separate,” 202. Through sin enters impiety, and through impiety, sin, 42. By what means Christ was exalted by God, and how He will save us, 126. Teaching concerning the procession of the all-holy Spirit, 41. The love of God differs from the love of the world, 185. The prayer of the Publican is distinct, 8. Through one, Christ cured the twofold death in us, just as the deceiver caused it for us through one, 91. The kind of prayer is twofold, 7. The kind of temptations is twofold, 182. The good of almsgiving is twofold, 201. The proclamation of the energy of the Apostles is twofold, 137. The war within us is twofold, 155. Fasting is a twofold fortification and
A self-control, 44. Man is twofold, 144. Temptations are a testing of the faithful, 179. The gifts of fasting, 54.
E The night was divided into four parts, 180. Love is oil, 92. Virtue is the wedding garment, 256. One must worship God in spirit and truth, 112. B How Jerusalem is interpreted, 56, 150. What is meant by raiment, 207. Isaac was a type of the crucified Christ, 56. What the fish and the honeycomb that Jesus ate signify, 193. John the Baptist was the Forerunner of the Church of Christ also, 227. Jonah was a type of the pre-eternal Word of God, 220.
K Caesar divided the kingdom of Herod into four, 223. According to whom the world is crucified to us, 55. While the doors were shut, how did Jesus enter while clothed in a body, 102. What head and face signify in an anagogical sense, 38. To whom the Lord provides an inheritance, 22. Who is the called, 250.
The promise of the Father was the Holy Spirit, 138. What an upper garment is, 152. One must show through works someone who is responsible before God and repentant, because insult and dishonor from others is just and tolerable, 10. What things have been made ready for our salvation, 233. What is called prayer, 7. Christians are the fragrance of Christ, 181. What are called early morning things, 130. Why things are called early morning and matutinal, 151.
Z Who are the tares, 155.
H Sin drives away love, 5. Sin has brought about many catastrophes, both general and particular, 19. The kingdom of God is not created, 192. C The difference of opinion divided the one nature into two, 13. What the voice from the cloud taught, 199. The circumcision of the heart in the Spirit, 67. The building of the Temple on high was a type of the holy Church and of spiritual upbuilding, 6. We differ from ants, and they from us, 231. Fasting renews the inner man, 44. The Orthodox Church honors the saints, 145. Fornication is worthy of the greatest condemnation, 218. The resurrection and ascension of the Lord is the resurrection and ascension of human nature, 121.
Θ The type of the Cross is divine and worshipful, 91. Theology concerning Christ, 131, 137, 145, 153. Theology concerning the Holy Spirit, 136, 137. The theophany of Abraham, 55. A warmth is produced in the heart of a Christian through the study of sacred chants, 120. Who are the reapers of the spiritual harvest, 150, 152, 153. Summer among us is both sensible and logical, 147.
I Jacob was a type of the Cross, 56. The remedy for opposite things is their opposites, 129. Pride is proper to the devil, but humility toward God is proper to the angels, 9.
Λ Speech differs from a cry, 65. The letter of the evangelical preaching is white, 196. What famine is, 11. Who are called the rational turtledoves, 27. What it means to loose the strap of your sandals, 54. Each person's soul is compared to a lamp, 5.
M It does not suffice for a disciple to only perform the baptism, 214. Mary Magdalene becomes an apostle to the Apostles, 118. How Mariam is interpreted, 74. The Son and Word of God is the great remedy for sin, 19. What drunkenness is, 217. Virtue has greater strength, 5. What Meleager is, 288. He calls sorrow spiritual honey, 163. The evangelical voice is compared to a honeycomb, 161. What the Evangelists mean by the first day of the week, 105. The fornicator is a common defilement of the Church, 29. The Theotokos stood alone between God and the whole human race, 207. The fatted calf is our Lord Jesus Christ himself, 16. Who the myrrh-bearing women are, 104. The word of the Cross is a great mystery, 61. The light of the Transfiguration is a mystery of the age to come, 190. How Moses sees God, 52. Moses prefigured the type of the Cross and its form, 57.
N What true fasting is, 45. Fasting is commanded to man primarily, 55. Fasting and
intemperance are contrary to one another, as life and death, 68. The palm branches are symbols of victory, 80. What the law of liberty is, 214. The month of August is sickly, 177.
O He who is born again is in power conformed to the body of the glory of Christ, 95. He who abandons the holy gatherings on Sunday is forsaken by God, 101. What the doubling of "yes, yes" and "no, no" means, 128. What are the ways of the Lord, and which are perverted, 119. Those who set at naught the commandments of God do not receive from Him their petitions, 217. Christians are the house of God, 151, 152. What the angels sitting at the tomb signified, 117. Hatred toward one another is destructive, 2. An orthodox confession regarding the Holy Trinity, 41. The paralytic lying by the pool of Siloam who had no man, is the Church which has no shepherd, [unclear]. What our mind suffers, 226. The wicked devil gradually injects sin, 14. Where the bond of love is present, there also is Christ, 71. He made all things, visible and invisible, for the sake of man, 200. What wrath is, 89. The roof is the deliberative faculty of the soul, 51. The Cross was in those of old, and its mystery was active within them, 54. Where there is hope of return, despair has no place, 127. The light of the Lord's Transfiguration is not a created thing, 191. The holy temple resembles heaven, 203. Our innate substance and riches is our mind, 18. The spiritual serpent is deprived of life and becomes a dead spirit, 170.
Π (P) A joyless heap of passions, 187. Virtue is primeval, 13. The devil is all-contriving, 31. The demon of incontinence is an awful thing, 65. Sin is the source of all evils, 172. Let Anna the daughter of Phanuel be an example of widowhood to those who remain widows, 27. The soul of every Christian is called a paralytic, 162. By whom Shechem was inhabited, 109. What temptations are said to be, 182. Regarding the Holy Trinity, 159. The bitter penalties of fornication, 29. To believe in God is different from believing God, 39. What is the justifying faith, 40. The narrow and afflicted way is to be desired by us, 129. What vision is the destruction of sin, 135. What is godly sorrow, 164. What poverties are worthy of blessedness, 175. In whom the devil produces the intoxication of hatred, 36. The demons are citizens of the land far from God, 15. The renewal in Christ is manifold, 85. The one world is divided in various ways by different usage, 13. Luxury is the cause of many evil passions, 186. Whom he calls evil and good, and why, 234. When the Son and Word of God shall appear with great glory, 20. When Jesus took up residence in Capernaum, 48. When faith is profitable, 171. Whom he considers the elder son, 16. He calls the righteous sheep, and the sinners goats, 21. Knowledge precedes repentance, 160. Mercy and longsuffering precede divine judgment, 18. What prayer is, 6. What it is for the face of God to be seen or not seen, 57. The benefit from teaching is preferable to that of necessary needs, 114. The Theotokos was the first of all people to see the risen Lord, 104. By the winnowing fan he means the angelic powers, 155. How Jesus Christ consumed the food that he ate, 143. How one must honor the saints, 145. How God made the heaven and the earth, 32. How a man enters into divine rest, 99. How the renewal in the body is seen, 94. How Christians conceive the fear of and desire for God, 185. How the Christian receives the Father and the Son, 144. How the face of the Lord shone like the sun upon the mount Tabor, 195.
Σ (S) The Pharisee calls the week of days a Sabbath, 8. Love is the sign of our discipleship toward Jesus Christ, 81. Darkness is the opposite of sin, 170. The word of teaching is called seed, 148. What the Cross is, 59, 144. Simeon encounters Jesus Christ in the Temple, 193, 271. The evangelists John and Luke are in agreement with one another, and there is no disagreement in the six with the eight, 190.
What is a contrite word, 194.
T The evils after the transgression, 73. The graves of desire are the resurrection of divine wrath, 45. The words of the Lord to Lazarus were words of lordship and imperial power, 79. The fourth watch of the night corresponds to the second coming of Christ, 181. By justice, the devil was cast down, 63. Moses also introduced the honor of the eighth day, 100. What the bells of Aaron’s robe signified, 68. What is meant by the Forty Days, and what by the holy Pentecost, 109. What the barley loaf of those with Gideon signified, 44. What is "He was transfigured," 192. What things they looked toward for the inheritance of eternal blessedness, 21. What the good-natured Master did for the improvement of characters and our guidance toward virtue, 19. What represents true faith in the promises of Christ, 40. What life sinners will endure after the resurrection, 149. What are the works of love and care that our Master and Creator showed before we were made, 12. What are the works of repentance, 174. Who shall be caught up in the clouds, 130. Who are the hirelings, and who the sons, 15. Who became God-seers through fasting, 68. Who and how many were those renowned for virtue before the Law, 57. Who are those groaning in the coming judgment, 22. Which of the poor and rich are brothers of Christ our God, 22. In what way Christ defeated the devil, 90. Why God blessed and sanctified the seventh day, 98. Why Herod put John in prison, 224. Whose it is to teach, and what are the properties of divine grace, 213. What the person possessed by a demon suffers primarily, 64. Who makes himself worthy of divine oversight, 111. What is the true and God-pleasing fast, 69. Who walks according to the flesh, 58. What is the death of the soul, 173. Who is the one wishing to see good days according to the prophet, concerning the sound that filled the house where the disciples of Jesus were, 186. What made the Israelites unworthy of the quails, 217. What "Blessed is he who comes" and "Blessed is the coming kingdom" indicates, 80. What the pair of turtledoves and what the young pigeons signify, 27. To follow Christ means to live according to His Gospel, 58. How "the other Mary" indicates the Theotokos, 104. How those sitting upon the face of all the earth are to be interpreted, 19. He condemns those who do not give to the needy, not as thieves, but as those who do not give, 70. There are three kinds of poverty, 175. What trembling is, 176. The mode of indwelling of the hypostatic power of the Most High, 206. The prototype of the cave in which Christ was buried is the temple, 119. What the types of the mysteries were, 214.
Γ Whom the Holy Scripture called sons of God, 28, 58. Jesus Christ made us sons of God, 125, 155. Whom it calls sons of Abraham, 81. John is an example of virtue, and Herod of vice, 226. Jesus Christ justified us hypostatically, 26. By whom one who is confessing must be carried to the Lord, 51.
Φ Manifestation of the all-holy Trinity at the baptism of Jesus Christ, 87. The Pharisee prayed not to God, but to himself, 7. Fornication is to be avoided, 30. One must avoid those who do not accept the interpretations of the Fathers, 189. Friendship toward the world is formed through the love of the body, 186. Envy is the parent of murder, 218. Who are the tribes of the earth, 19. The apostles Peter and Paul are compared to luminaries, 157.
X Snow is only white, and not also shining, 196. Whom he calls swine, 15. Let the use of the world for the faithful be only as a use, and not an abuse, 115. The righteous shall reign with Christ, 150.
Ψ The Pharisees deemed Jesus Christ a mere man, 50. Soul and angel, being incorporeal, are not everywhere, 113.
Ω Hosanna, how it is interpreted, 80.