Analytical Index

ANALYTICAL INDEX ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED OF THE PRESENT BOOK, VERY USEFUL, COMPILED BY THE MOST LEARNED LORD IOANNES MOLYBDOS, FROM HERACLEA.

(The numbers indicate the pages of the Tergobist edition, the series of which we have expressed in the Greek text in thicker type.)

^A Demons dwell in the souls of the unbaptized, 78. What *Abba* signifies, 58. That Abraham preached the Tri-hypostatic nature of God, 9. When love fails, the end shall be, 341. Concerning love, 370. Which and how many are the angelic orders, 208. Why the monastic habit is called angelic, and is one of repentance, 139. Angels preach the Trinity within themselves, 12. Angels received greater sanctification through the incarnation of God the Word, 64. Why angels are so named, 209. How angels are formed in various shapes, 324. In what manner angels stand before God, and how they learn His will, 326. That angels do not see God according to essence, 327. What *angel* signifies, 189. In what manner an angel often appears as a man, 324. Why an angel is depicted in this way, 338. That it is necessary to call upon angels and put them forward as mediators, 241. Why Moses made molten images of angels, 26. What the mandylion depicted on the icons of angels signifies, and what the light (pheggion), and what the cloud-like circular shape in their hands, 358. Why the Holy Gifts are honored at the Great Entrance, 285. Why the Holy Gifts are shown to the people, 289. When the Holy Gifts are perfected, 285. If it happens that the Holy Gifts are spilled in the entrance, or eaten by some animal, what must be done, 367. Why the holy martyrs are sung at the ordination of a deacon, and of a priest, and of a bishop, and in the rite of marriage, 142 and 147. That it is necessary to call upon the saints and put them forward as mediators, whom we invoke in the liturgy, 279. What "Holy, Holy, Holy," and the rest signifies, 41 and 222. Concerning Adam's transgression, 351. Why the remembrance of Adam's exile is before Lent, 352. Why they hold the *aer* above the precious gifts while the holy Symbol (Creed) is being read, 281. Why angels appeared like eagles, 324. What the eagle depicted on the floor signifies at the ordination of a bishop, 156. That unleavened bread (azymes) must not be offered, 30. A refutation of those who offer unleavened bread, 99. What "unleavened bread of sincerity" the Apostle means, 99. Why there was unleavened bread under the Law, but leavened bread under grace, 100. That the Lord did not deliver the mysteries to the apostles using unleavened bread, 100. What the air signifies, 107. That atheism is equal to polytheism, 14. Who are the atheists, 14. How to convince an atheist that God exists, 5. Against the atheists, 2. Why the prophet-king exhorts the angels to praise God, 207 and 208. The seven praises of the Church, besides the liturgy, 212 and 364. Why the *Ainoi* (Lauds) are so called, 385. Concerning the *Ainoi*, 221. Which heresy is worse, 14. That heresies are also worse, and intermediate, and lesser, 14. Why heretics are eager in their prayers, 366. That there is only one cause in the Trinity, the Father, 163. The redemption of captives is to be preferred to every other beneficence, 362. Whether the end will come in the seventh aeon or in the eighth, 341. Concerning the seven aeons, 357. Why the "Eternal Memory" is sung for the dead, 266. Why there are so many offices (akolouthiai) of the Church, 212. That all offices were appointed to be performed at three times, and why, 230. That some sing the office while sitting; while others perform the whole of it in the evening; if this is good, 356. Who is a boaster, 367. Why the one of Alexandria performs the liturgy with his head covered, 278 and 339. What Alleluia signifies, 82 and 118, 237, 244, 266, 381. That Alleluia is sung on fast days, 257. Why Alleluia is in the *Amomos* (Psalm 118), 265. Why Alleluia is before the Gospel, 281. Why we sometimes sing Alleluia instead of "God is the Lord," 384. The irrational does not move the rational, 5. Through what things we sin, 186. Which sins are deadly, 343. How sins are shown before the face in the judgment, 357. That sin is the sting of death, 80. How many and what are the sins through the tripartite part of the soul, 186. That for every sin, even the least, man is punished, 346. If someone dies without sin, 346. That Ambrose expelled the great Theodosius from the temple and the sanctuary, 272. What the *ambo* signifies, 131 and 274. That for the unrepentant the condemnation is greatest, 185. What *Amen* signifies, 219. Why *Amen* is at the end of the Symbol, 312. Whether one ought to kiss the vestments of the priests at the entrance, 342. What need is there for sacred vestments, if the one being ordained is just a man, 337. Concerning the *Amomos* (Psalm 118) psalms, 216 and 382. Why an *anabolos* (stole/omophorion) is on the one being baptized, 84. Why some pay attention to what is read by the lectors during their rite, 139. Why there is a reading at the table, 238. Why the bishop ordains several lectors and subdeacons at once, but not deacons and priests, 345.

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What sort of person a lector ought to be, and how he is perfected by the Hierarch, 138. What things a lector is bound to perform, 159. Why a lector does not perform the functions of a deacon, 60. What the tonsure of a lector signifies, 539. That one must have an Orthodox sponsor for the baptized, 76. Regarding the sponsor in marriage, 197. What one must do if he has cursed himself, 345. What the analavos is, and why monks put it on, 192 and 355. That grace also works through the unworthy, 152. How the fetus breathes in the womb, 326. How breathing takes place in us, 395. Regarding the Resurrection, 23, 63, 311. Why many bodies of the departed were raised at the Resurrection of Christ, 18. What kind of gifts the Resurrection of Christ bestowed upon us, 302. Why we worship toward the east, 379. That Andrew was baptized by Peter, 17. What the human form of the angels signifies, 324. That man testifies to God within himself, 5. That man is the most beautiful of visible things, and that he is not for the world, but the world for him, 13. And that the Trinity is known from him, 12. Why man was not made from other matter, 299. Why repentance was given to men alone, and not to the demons, 348 and 372. To what condemnation those who perform priestly functions without ordination are liable, 335. What the antidoron is, and why it is given to the people, 113. Why antiminsia are made of linen, 126. Regarding the antiminsia, 118. The rite of holy antiminsia, 125. Why the antiphons precede the entrance, and why there are such, 109. Regarding the small antiphons in the choral vespers, 245. Regarding the antiphons, 390. That the Gentiles are ministers of the Antichrist, 20. Why "Axios" is sung during ordinations, 149 and 162. That officials receive a prayer from the Church, 134. That there are many bloods and others, whose names will be revealed to us in the age to come, 294. Why it is necessary to perform the sacred rites openly, 278. Why unbelievers and infants are brought to the faithful, 331. What the apodipnon is, 214 and 365. Regarding the apodipnon, 388. The order of the apodipnon, 240. What is a sure proof in matters concerning the faith, 46. Why the Forty Days are called a tithe, 318. What it signifies for the one being baptized to take off and put on clothes, 77. One dies without sin, 346. That one who answers regarding some good through the advice of the inquirer is benefited, 323. The heresy of Apollinarius, 18. Regarding the prayer of dismissal, 228. Why the apostichon is so called, 259. That the Apostles were ecumenical teachers, 152. Why the Epistle is read before the Gospel, 281. Why at the reading of the Epistle the rest of the high priests keep silence, but at the Gospel the first alone does so, 110. That at the reading of the Epistle the one from Heraclea keeps silence at the ordination of the patriarch, after having first received a blessing from him, 17. Why high priests and priests sit down during the reading of the Epistle, 281. When Christ ordained the Apostles, 176. Whence is the fast of the holy Apostles, and who handed it down from the beginning, 349. Regarding carelessness—the works of the tripartite soul, 187. What "Lift up your gates" signifies, 109. ^A Why "Lift up your gates" is chanted, and the doors of the temple are closed when the holy relics are being brought in, 121. That Argyros and Dexios are reconciled with Barlaam, 52. That Arius derived the foundations of his heresy from Origen, 24. The heresy of Arius, 18. The heresy of Arius and the anathema, 39. How many and what are the virtues through the tripartite soul, 186. How many covering virtues there are, and how many kinds of each, 322. Through what things we perform virtue, 186. How many and what are the articles of the faith, 319. Why the articles of the faith are so called, and why twelve, 319. That the articles of the faith are contained in the Symbol of the faith, 320. The heresy of the Armenians, 21. Against the Armenians, who propagate the dogma of one nature in Christ, 105. Against the Armenians, who perform the sacred rites with wine alone, 102. Against the Armenians, who add to the Trisagion "Who was crucified for us," 225. Regarding those who denied Christ, 540. If any priest or other believer denies Christ in anger, what must be done, 366. Those who deny the faith have no apology, 333. That male and female belong to the bodies, 5. How one ought to give communion to the sick, 568. Regarding the artoklasia, 259. What it signifies to elevate the holy bread, 288. Why the priest breaks the holy bread into four parts, 288. That it is ^B still beneficial to elevate the bread of the All-Holy [Theotokos], 259. Why the bread offered for sacrifice is square, 98. Of how many parts the leavened bread is composed, and what each signifies, 98. Why the bread for the sacred service is taken from the middle of the loaf, 102. That the holy bread is given as a deposit to the priest who is being ordained, 149. How the bread of the All-Holy is elevated, 258 and 387. Regarding the elevating of the bread, 27. What the elevation of the holy bread signifies, 112. Regarding the holy bread of the All-Holy that is elevated, 257 and 387. Why archangels are so called, 209. Why the archbishop is not present at the votes, 155. What it signifies for the hierarch to put on his archiepiscopal vestments, 278. Why we say, "Master, holy," to the high priest, 160. What it is for a high priest to ascend and enter the bema, 280. It is not good for a high priest to be angry, 342. Whether a high priest ought to perform the sacred rites alone, 344. That he who wishes to be ordained a high priest must first become a monk, 373. Whom the high priests typify, 69. Where high priests who have died are placed in the parts of the temple, 263. Where one must bury high priests, 263. That the high priest is enlightening, 95. Whom the high priest and those with him typify, 109. What it signifies for the high priest to go down toward the west, ^C dressed in his archiepiscopal vestments, 109. Why the high priest is wrapped in a cloth and girded when he consecrates the temple, 116. Why the high priest kneels outside when the holy relics are being brought into the temple, 122. Whom the high priest typifies when he enters the sanctuary, 274. Whom the high priest typifies, 275. What the high priest, standing outside and below the bema, ^D typifies, and what those with him do, 279. Why the high priest washes his hands before the entrance of the Holy Things, 289. Why the high priest asks for a prayer from all, 284. Why the ancient high priest had a miter on his head and was barefoot, while ours is bareheaded and wearing footwear on his feet, 339. The rank of high priests, 163. Regarding the funeral of high priests and priests, 262. Regarding the high priest, 151. What the acclamation of the high priest at the entrance signifies, 279. Why those entering, who are priests, pray for the high priest, remembering the kingdom of God, 283. The high-priestly office must be highly honored, 166. Regarding the ruler, 209. What the aromatics in the myron signify, 88.

regarding why they are burned during the consecration of a church, 117.

Regarding the impious, why they are zealous in prayers, 366. Regarding the impious, that it is difficult to persuade them, 13. That God considers it a lesser thing to be dishonored by the impious, 335.

Why are those who are "uncovered" (not wearing head coverings) performing liturgical service, 278. Why are other high priests "uncovered" (not wearing head coverings) when serving, though not the ones of Rome and Alexandria, 339.

Ascetic practices, hardships, and the rest: who handed them down, and what is the benefit from these, 366.

The *Asmatikos* (Sung) Office: that it preserves the sevenfold praise within itself, 257. That the *Asmatikos* Office should be kept, 215. A sketch of the *Asmatikos* Office, regarding matins, 247.

That the newly ordained high priest performs the kiss three times, 167. How the kiss takes place during the ordination of a patriarch, 174. What the kiss given over the dead signifies, 266. What the kiss in the Creed of the high priests signifies, 284.

That the stars are not rational, nor even alive at all, and do not act upon our free will, 6. What the energies of the stars are, 6. What the asterisk signifies, 98 and 107.

That astrology is useless, 50. That one who lingers on astrology is not a Christian, 7. Regarding astrology and genethlialogy (horoscopy), 5. A mocking of astrology, 49. That the refutations of astrologers from Scripture are easily proven, 50.

Why the parable of the Prodigal Son is read before the Great Fast, 351. Regarding those acting in a disorderly and confused manner, 261. That disorder is yoked to pride, 263.

The fast of Augustus: whence it originates, and who handed it down from the beginning, 349.

That free will is not moved by an inanimate object, 5. What "Leave the dead to bury their own dead" signifies, 71. Whence the apostles received the grounds for forgiveness and repentance, 358. Whether everyone who confesses receives forgiveness, and within three hours, 358. That there is no forgiveness in the world to come, 363.

What one who has excommunicated himself ought to do, 345. What must be done if one is unjustly excommunicated, 342. Regarding the excommunicated, how he will be disposed, 342. Whether an excommunication made with anger takes effect or not, 342.

**B** What the steps (of the bema) signify, 110, 131, 273. Whether one ought to baptize during the Great Fast, 340. That each of the infants is baptized in his own name, and not all "John" and "Mary," 75. Whether "the servant of God is baptized" differs from "I baptize the servant of God," 83. Why the one being baptized approaches naked, looking toward the east, 77. Whom the one being baptized typifies, 77. That the one baptized will not be perfect unless he is also anointed with myron, 66. That every baptized person possesses within himself by virtue all the gifts, except for the priesthood, 84. Baptism. What we receive in baptism, 60. What baptism provides, 62, 272, 310. That baptism is one, 341. Baptism: a partial manifestation of what is done before baptism, during baptism, and after baptism, 14. Why baptism is not given a second time, 300. What baptism is, 80. In baptism, the contemplation of what is performed during baptism, 76. That without baptism it is not possible to be saved, 17. That there is no fixed time for baptism, but it is given at every time, 76. That the end of baptism is communion, 83. That the water of baptism must be kept by the priest, 86. Against Barlaam and Akindynos, 47. Who wrote against Barlaam and Akindynos and those of like mind with them, 43. What kind of heresy Barlaam's is, 48. Who are in agreement with Barlaam, 52. What the kingdom of God is, 233 and 541. Why the kingdom of the pious has been humbled, 332. How the newly ordained emperor gives a blessing, 165. Where emperors are buried, 263. "Heavenly King," why it is at the beginning of the offices, 216. That Christ is King of the faithful, not of the unbelievers, 305. When the emperor communicates inside the bema, 133 and 135. That the emperor communicates after the deacons, 133. How the emperor is proclaimed, 133. How the emperor is crowned by the Church, 154. Why the emperor is anointed with myron, 134. By whom the emperor is anointed when he is brought forward, 134. Why the emperor enters into the Holy [Place], 135. Why the emperor is called holy, 160. That the emperor deems the one elected to the patriarchate worthy to receive it himself, 168. That the emperor serves the affairs of the synod, 169. That the emperor does not make the patriarch alone, 169. Why the emperor sends the mandyas and the enkolpion to the candidate for patriarch, but gives the dikanikion into his hand, 170. Why the acclamations for the emperors are after the entrance, 110. That the high priests must not kiss the emperor's hand, 166. That the son of the emperor follows on horseback while the candidate for patriarch is being escorted, 170. What the veil-doors (belythyra) of the narthex signify, 274. What the holy bema signifies, 100. Why the bema is in the shape of a semicircle, 132. That not everyone may enter the bema, 264. Regarding those entering the bema in a disorderly manner, 264. Who communicate from the bema, 113. What those of the bema typify, 174. Violence: that things done under duress are neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy, 7. How there will be no forgiveness for one who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, neither now nor in the world to come; look: is there forgiveness in the world to come? Or is the Spirit of the Father and of the Son greater, 363. Where the Bogomils, who are also called Koudougeroi, obtained the roots of their heresy, 15. What the heresy of the Bogomils is, 15. Against the Bogomils, 25. Why infants are handed over to the impious, 330 and 331. That infants ought to be communicated, 86. Infant: why a prayer is made by the priest at the birth of the infant, 74. Why the infant's forehead, heart, and mouth are sealed while he is being baptized, 75. Why the infant is brought into the church on the fortieth day after birth, and that if he is baptized, he is also brought into the sanctuary, 75. That the infant also is not without sin, 181. How an infant breathes in the womb, 326. If it happens that the Holy Things are eaten by any animal, what must be done, 367. Byzantium under the emperor Severus, under Heracleia, 174.

**Γ** Marriage: that those being joined in marriage must be pure, and be blessed in the holy church, and partake of the mysteries, 198. Whether one ought to perform marriages during the holy Great Fast, 340. Why marriage was allowed, 62 and 536. That virginity is the marriage of Christ, 63. That marriage is not a primary work for Christians, 196. Regarding marriage, 195 and 197. That the marriage rite is the peculiar work of a high priest, 197. Why the high priest does not mention anyone from among the grace-gifted in the prayers at the wedding, 196. Regarding genethlialogy (horoscopy), 5. Why the birth of Christ according to the flesh was at night, 219. That "begotten" does not signify nature, 55. Things that come to be: some come to be by the will of God, some by his good pleasure, and some by his permission, 6. That each one shall know the transgressions of each at the future judgment, 357. Why there are fifteen prostrations during the fasting days, 390.

^A It is necessary for us to kneel when praying, 380. Gregory: that he is a partaker in the glory of Barlaam and Akindynos, 48. Gregory of Thessalonica the Wonderworker (concerning), 48. A priest must abstain from his wife both before the liturgy and after the liturgy, 336. Demons, how they change their forms, 329. Why repentance was not granted to the demons, 348 and 572. Why a demon envies Christians, 51. How a demon transforms itself into an angel of light, 525. Why a demon obeys incantations, 35. A demon has no power over us, 377. Why iron and gold rings are used in marriage, 196. The exchange of rings in marriage, what it signifies, 196. John Damascene renewed the Typikon, 215. Daniel still prayed to God three times a day, 230. What the kissing of the archbishop's right hand by the priests signifies at the time of communion, 289. The ordination of a despot is not performed nowadays, 138. "Come, let us worship," what it signifies when chanted at the entrance, 279. Why we say "Come, let us worship," 382. That all creation proclaims the Creator, and how, 12. That the devil confesses God, 5. Why the devil is permitted in the world, 305. How the devil is in the midst of the angels, and in what manner he stands before God, 236. Whom the deacons represent, 35 and 96. That deacons are appointed as judges and stewards of the greatest ministries, 141. A deacon should not make the oblation, 108. Whether it is permissible for a deacon to commune anyone, if a priest is not present, 60. Why the deacon who is to be ordained is witnessed by priests and not by deacons, 141. Why the deacon is held by the deacons, 142. Why a deacon, once ordained, kisses the altar, the hand, and the cheek of the archbishop, and the (other) deacons, 146. A deacon recently ordained, why he communes before the other deacons, and functions incessantly, 147. Why a deacon and a presbyter recently ordained, the one says the final petitions and the other the prayer of the ambo: that the bishop had to ordain more [deacons], 345. Concerning deacons, 141. From where it is safer to converse, 2. With whom one should converse, 13. And if one is unable, what should be done, 14. To converse and to argue is alien to the Church, 40. What kind of person one who is conversing should be, 2. Why there are intercolumnar screens in the church, 151. And what they signify, 273. A digamist who has children, having passed the fortieth year, does not enter into a third marriage, 195. One should not neglect teaching, 185. "Through the prayers of our holy fathers," why it is said at the beginnings of the services when a priest is absent, 215 and 381. Why the king gives the dikanikion into the hand of the candidate for patriarch, 170. What dikerion signifies, 110. What the dikerion denotes, and why he seals the Gospel with it, 280. Dioscorus and those with him were subjected to anathema at the fourth council, 4. The heresy of Dioscorus, 21. What the holy diskos signifies, 98. "Glory to You, Christ God," why it is sung at the ordination of the deacon, the presbyter, and the bishop, ^B and at the celebration of marriage, 162 and 117. Why we say "Glory to the Father" continuously at the beginnings and at the ends of hymns, 218. And by whom it was composed, 221. Concerning the Great Doxology, and whence it was taken, 231 and 385. Dramatizations, which are held among the fervent divine ones in the Church of the Latins, 34. Why the Powers are so called, 208. What the stench and darkness with St. Maccarius are, 358. Why there are twelve-light candelabras in the church, 132. Why the divine gifts are covered on the table after the entrance, 285. That it is necessary for the dedication to be performed in every divine church, 122. The order of the dedication, 123. What the hierarchical engolpion signifies, 95. And why the king sends this to the candidate for patriarch, 170. Whether the nations are punished, 331. Who is the cause of the unbelief of the nations, 331. From whom the Gentiles received the principles of their atheism, 19 and 20. And who deceived them, 20. The Gentiles are so called because they were previously servants of the Antichrist, 18. How the protector of the Gentiles accepted the filthy teachings of Nestorius, 20. "Blessed be the name of the Lord," why it is sung at the antidoron, 257. That one must venerate the icons, 25. That Moses also erected icons, 26. Why we bring forth holy icons in processions, 254. That one must paint icons according to the given tradition, 34. Against the iconoclasts, 25. The honor of icons, 12 and 16. Concerning the veil depicted in the icons of angels, and what the radiance and the cloud-like circular figure in the hands of the angels signify, 338. Why a holy icon is placed above the corpse of the deceased, 262. Icon: what "according to the image" signifies, 3. What the eileton is, 119. And what it signifies, 278 and 339. Refutation of those who hold the doctrine of fate, 5. What "to make peace" in the Apostle signifies, 163. The peace given by the archbishop and returned as much as possible, 170 and 230. Interpretation of the Eirenika, 232. Why the heirmoi are so called, 389. "One is holy, one is Lord," what it signifies, 288. What the great entrance signifies, 110. What the entrance of the vespers signifies, and why it happens thus, 255 and 215. Why the entrance of the vespers is more splendid on Saturday and the other dominical feasts, 235. What the entrance at Matins signifies, 236. What the entrance at Matins on Sundays signifies, and what it signifies with the Gospel of the archbishop, 282. And what it signifies, 283. Concerning the entrance at Matins, 249. That at the entrance of the Presanctified we must bow down more, 256. At the great entrance, why the faithful fall before the priests, 283. At the great entrance, why the priests carry the empty holy vessels, 283. At the entrance, why the vestments of the priests are kissed, 312. If it should happen that the Holy Gifts are spilled at the entrance, what one should do, 367. Why we say, "For many years, Master," 109. That the Church is raised in the Trinity, 46. How the Church imitates the heavenly things, 48. That every believer must hasten to the Church, and why. The manner of the procession is unknowable, 505. That "procession" does not signify nature, 53. Concerning the extensive supplication, and its petitions, 257.

^A Sixth hour (concerning the), 213, 229, 365, 386. Exclamations, concerning those of the priest, 389. Holy oil: that it should be given not only to the sick, but much more to those who repent, 73. Holy oil: that it is given not only to those who are dying, but also to those who have the hope of life, 73. Oil: why it is in the holy myron and in the oil of prayer, 73. Oil: what it signifies spiritually, 73, 81. Oil: what should be done with that which remained from baptism, 86. Oil: what that which is in the myron signifies, 88. Oil: that from the church lamp is poured upon deceased monks, 201. Oil: that of the oil of prayer is one thing, and that which is used to anoint the newly enlightened is another, 201. Holy oil: how much power it has; that having been used for the anointing it ought to be kept, 205. Holy oil: the greatness of its power, 200. Oil: why the person being baptized is anointed with it, 82. Oil: why the dead are anointed with it, 201. Alms: those performed on behalf of the departed are of the greatest benefit, 269. Alms: that it is beneficial to perform them, 560. Alms: which is better, 65. Alms: how one ought to perform them, by oneself or through a spiritual Father, 563. Mercy: why we ask for it in all prayers and before every prayer, 226. Greeks: that a demon deceived them into calling created things gods, 5. Concerning the polytheistic Greeks, 5. Embryo: how it breathes in the womb, 326. Insufflation: what it signifies in the one being baptized, 77. Enphotios: what it is and why it is so called, 85. "In the beginning was the Word" and what follows: interpretation of, 8. Sacred vestments: that they are seven, and why there are so many, and what each of these signifies, 94. Sacred vestments: why the priest blesses and kisses them, 97. Priest’s vestments: why there are five, 97. Vestments: why the holy table has them, covering it, 274. Monk’s vestments: what kind they ought to be, 355. Monk’s vestments: what meaning they possess, and if one should always be clothed in them, and to whom among deacons and presbyters they belong, 151. Energies of the Trinity: that they are not created things, 54. Leavened bread: that the Lord performed the priestly rite with it at Easter, 102. Leavened bread (bread): why it is offered, 98. Enthroned: how the one who has been ordained is, 104. Enthronement of a patriarch: how it takes place, 170, 171. Anniversaries: why we celebrate them for the departed, 268. Ninth day: why we celebrate it for the departed, 268. Ninth hour (concerning the), 213, 365, 387. Ninth hour’s: psalms, 229, 387. Indwelling: how the Comforter is said to be present everywhere, 177. Injunction: why it is given to those who have received the spiritual ministry, 180. Union: if it should happen that it is not performed by the priest, and the chalice is found empty, what must be done, 369. Confession (Exagoreusis): how it ought to be done, 185. Exapostilaria (concerning), 221, 385. Confess (Exomologesthai): if one should confess again what one has already confessed, 340. Confession (Exomologesis): that it is necessary for everyone, 188. Confessing (Exomologoumenos): how one should sit and be disposed, and how the one receiving the confession should be, 340. Confessing (Exomologoumenos): if one receives forgiveness, and in three hours, 358. Exile of Adam: remembrance of, why before the Great Lent, 352. Powers (concerning), 208. ^B Epigonation: what it signifies, 93, 277. Epigonation: who wears it, 97. Epigonation: why the candidate receives it, 158. Indwelling (Epidechein): how the Comforter is said to be, present everywhere, 177. Concupiscible (concerning the), and whatever we sin through it or perform rightly, 186. Epimanikia: what they signify, 96, 277. Perjury: how it is corrected, 361. Bishops: whom they represent, 35. Bishops: why they first become monks, 189. Bishops: why they do not wear the sakkos or the polystaurion, 338. Bishop: that he possesses seven rites within himself, 92. And that he alone performs both the myron and the ordinations, 92. Bishop: that he alone performs all things of the Church, 138. And that no one is performed without votes; if likewise archbishops, what is the difference among them, and how one excels another, 345. Bishop and priest: what is the difference, 344. Bishop: concerning one about to be voted for, while present at the synod, 154. Bishop: concerning ordinations of, 156. Bishop: ordination of, it is not proper to ordain many at once, 345. Bishops: it is theirs to bind and to loose, but by their exhortation it is given also to priests, 335. One who has returned from denial: why he is not baptized again, but anointed with myron, 540. Epitrachelion: what it signifies, 95, 149, 276. Epitrachelion: if it is not found, what must be done, 337. Epitrachelion: if it is possible to perform a rite without it, 337. Seven praises: which ones, 364. Seven times a day: "I have praised thee," what it signifies, 364, 380. Seven-branched lampstand: why in the temple, 132. Incantations: why the demon seeks them, 323. Handiwork: if one should engage in, and chant, 357. Eating: one should not eat what has not been handed down, 32. Evening: why we initiate from the evening the hymns unto the saints and the holy feasts, 214. Vespers (concerning), 213, 231, 565, 388. Sung Vespers (concerning), 212. Vespers: why lights at, 235. Banquet of the brethren (concerning the), and order therein, and prayers, 258. Ready: that we ought to be, 280. Gospel: why it is placed upon the head of the archpriest being ordained, 159. Gospel: why it is elevated at the introit, 252, 279. Gospel: why it lies upon the holy table, 274. Gospel: why the archpriest seals with a tri-candelabrum, 200. Gospel: reading of, what it signifies, 110, 281. Gospel: why at the reading of the Gospel the first of the archpriests speaks peace, but at that of the Apostle, the others also, 110. Evangelists: names of, why on the cloths of the holy table, 273. "I will bless the Lord": why it is chanted at the breaking of bread, 240. Blessing: receiving from the first archpriest, what it signifies for those after him, 98. Eunomius’ heresy, 18. Pious ones: why they are negligent in prayers, 566. Eutyches (concerning) and his heresy, 21. Prayers: upon the completion of monks, 191. Prayers: why twofold in all the mysteries, 202. Oil of prayer (Euchelaion): to perform it is most beneficial, 204. Oil of prayer: why it has been handed down, 65. Oil of prayer: that it is given by Christ, 72. Oil of prayer: that Latins do not chant it for those sick having hope of health, but for those who are dying, 200. Oil of prayer: if it is possible for one priest to perform it, 502. Oil of prayer (concerning), 199. Oil of prayer: the greatness of its power, 200. Oil of prayer (rite), 202. Prayer of the myron: theory of, 89. Last prayer of the litany (concerning), 238. Prayers: of those in baptism, what is their power, 78.

Z** Boiling water: why it is brought into the mysteries, 288. Boiling water: why it is introduced even into the Presanctified [Liturgy], 289. How the pious man ought to live, 188. Darkness and stench: what is it in [the life of] Saint Macarius, 358. Leaven: what is it [mentioned] by the Apostle, 99. Leaven: what is the meaning of the [parable] "the kingdom of heaven is like leaven," 100. Girdle: what does it signify, 95, 277. Monk’s girdle, 192, 355. Life-giving: why is the Spirit called this, 305.

**H** Governors: that they receive a blessing from the Church, 134. Who are our leaders, whom we must obey according to Paul, 47. Divine grace: in how many and what kind of ordinations is it said to be [present], 179. Elias and the Baptist: the leaders of the eremitic life, 193, 555. Elias: that he was a virgin, 555. Heraclea: when it ruled Byzantium, 176. Heraclea: why it ordains the patriarch, and that if he is absent, the first of the others ordains, 174. Heraclea: that in the ordination of the patriarch, it brings peace, the Apostle being read, having first received a blessing from him, 175. "Wisdom has built herself a house," and the rest: an interpretation, 255.

**Θ** Deadly sins: what they are, 345. No one ought to trust in himself, 188. Miracles: why they happened, and that they happen even now, 7. Human will: was subordinated to the divine [will] in Christ, 23. Will: what it is—"nevertheless, not my will, but yours," 25. Theodosius the Great: that Ambrose drove him from the temple and from the sanctuary, 272. Theodosius the Great: convened the second council, 40. Theology: whose [business] it is, 325. Gods: proof that they are not many, 5. Not confessing God: far from all impiety, 5. God: that even the devil confesses Him, 5. God being moved in His own contemplation: what this means; [and that] they do not see Him in essence, 327. God: that there is a first proof that He exists from the Holy Scriptures, 5. A second [proof]: from the human mind itself, 5. A third [proof]: from created things, 4. God: that He is the cause of all things that are, and that [they] endure, 4. God: that He is one, tri-hypostatic, 8. God: that He is not participated in by us in essence; and a refute of those saying otherwise, 59. God the Lord: why it is sung in the article [i.e., the *Theos Kyrios*], 219, 584. God’s nature: we do not partake of it, but of [His] gifts, 45. God: what [is] His Name, 281. Theotokos: who is the one imitating [her], 56. Theotokos: [concerning] the fast [of the Dormition], whence it is, and who handed it down from the beginning, 349. Female and male: that these are [properties] of bodies, 5. Incense: what it signifies, 80, 107, 124, 150, 242, 274. Incense: why it is sealed by the archpriest, and he is the first to be censed, 108. Incense: why [it is] throughout the whole temple by the archpriest, 119. Incense: why [it is used] at Matins, 217. Incense: why it is at Vespers, [and] what it signifies, 242. Incense: why at the [Great] Entrance, 244. Incense: why for the deceased, 266. Incense: why we offer it, 275. Incense: why before the Gospel, 281. To incense after the Holy [Gifts] and to add "Be exalted, O God": what this signifies, 290.

To incense around the holy table: what it signifies, 280. Censer: why, 130. Concerning the irascible [faculty]: and how many things we sin or correct through it, 186. Archpriests should not be given to anger, 342. Doors: why they are closed after the Great Entrance, 141. Holy doors: why they are closed and opened when the archpriest enters, 280. Holy doors: why they are closed after signing the archpriest with the trikerion, 284. Holy sacrifice: profitable above all for the departed, 267. Altar: what it signifies, 110. Altar: that it is a treasury of gifts, 148. Altar: that three rites begin from the altar and end in it, and which, 231. Concerning sacrifices, 26.

**I** Jacobite heresy, 21. Concerning Ignatius the patriarch, 210. Sacred things: rulers of the world ought not to take possession of them, 166. Hierarch: what kind he ought to be, 373. Hierarch: what the descent from the throne signifies, 94. Priest: he must not be idle from the Hierurgy, 334, 366; to be ordained if possible, 348. Priest: what kind he ought to be, 370. Priest: he is bound to perform the liturgy daily, 377. Priests: whom they represent, 56, 109, 275. Priests: are perfected by ordination, 91. Priests: do not conduct a marriage ceremony without the instruction of the archpriest, 197. Priests: where they should baptize, 263. And in what part of the temple, 263. Priests: finding themselves with their wives, if they ought to perform the liturgy. And on the day of the liturgy, if he ought to speak with his wife, 336. Priest: why he does not perform the [tasks] of the archpriest, 60. Priest: he does not perform the mysteries, but God through him, 64. Priest: that he ought to celebrate on the occasion of his ordination, even if he performs the liturgy on that very day, 123. Priest: just ordained, why he performs the liturgy for seven days without ceasing, 150. Priest: how he is invoked, and whom he represents, 275. Priest: why he does not ordain, since he performs the liturgy and baptizes, 346. Priest: denying [Christ] in anger by word, if he ought to perform the liturgy, 346. Priest: receiving the liturgy and not performing it, what he causes the one giving [the offering], and [that] he is liable for this, 363. Priest: what he is, 370. Priest: even if he performs the liturgy four times a week, or at least twice, 377. Priests: of the Latins, unbridled fornication, 31. Priests: faults of, ought to be regulated by the archpriest, 206. Priests: concerning those who seize sacred things, 333. Priest: what the tonsure signifies, 339. Priest and bishop: difference, 344. Priest: if someone condemns him for something and has unbelief to be sanctified by him, what he should do, 347. Priest: titles of, 370. Hierurgy: that Christ first performed it, 67. Concerning the Hierurgy, 17. Hierurgy: to be negligent [in it] is dangerous, 149. Hierurgist: if he does so unworthily, is the sacrifice acceptable, and baptism, and the rest, 354. Concerning the Jerusalem Typikon, 215. Hierurgists: it is necessary for them to know the meanings of the divine rites among us, 137. Priesthood: if it is greater than the monastic habit, 343. Priesthood: that the source of the divine mission is Christ, 375. Priesthood: the Savior worked out all things of each degree through Himself, 375. Priesthood: concerning, and what kind of man the priest ought to be, 370. "Why did the nations rage": interpretation, 252. [Concerning] the Jews, 8. Interpretation: Isaac: that [the mystery] of the Trinity and of the incarnation of the...

Word was known and delineated, 9. Why mention is made of Isaac and Rebecca in the marriage [service], and not others, 196. Why Christians are the new Israel, 54. Concerning the need to abstain from fish during the Holy Lenten fast, 348. Concerning the fact that the Apostle John was baptized by Peter, 17.

K Nicolaus Cabasilas and Theophanes of Nicaea wrote together against the heresy of Barlaam, 48. Why there is a throne in the bema, 151. The king or ruler must not appoint leaders [of the clergy] contrary to the will of the Church, 166. Concerning the consecration of a temple, 114. The dedication of each temple must be performed on its proper day, 123. Concerning seats [kathismata], 221, 384. Who the Catholic Church is, 44, 510. That wickedness has no existence, but is rather a discovery of the evil one, 6. How many comprehensive categories of wickedness there are, and how much the species of each [amounts to], 322. Concerning the patriarchs Kallistos and Ignatius, 210. What the beauty of a temple signifies, 275. What the veils signify, 98, 107. Why the divine gifts are covered upon the table, 283. Who depicted the furnace of the three children, 35. What kind of garment the reader's kamision is, 151. Why a candle is placed in the foundations of a temple, 115. That it is beneficial to be regulated by a spiritual Father, 188. Concerning the canon, 390. That it is fitting to observe the canons of both the Apostles and the Fathers, 183. Concerning the katavasiai, 390. What the descent [katabasis] of God to us is, 298. What the three immersions signify, 83. What the veil [katapetasma] signifies, 129, 132, 273. What is called "according to the flesh," and what it signifies, 119, 273. Why the catechumens are in the temple, 130. Why the catechumens are cast out, 136 and 282. That the catechumens are even now in the Church, 282. How we say the catechumens are to depart when there are none now present, 282. What the departure of the catechumens signifies, 110. The standing of the catechumens, 135. Sin is the sting of death, 80. Concerning our funeral rites, 260. Why there is an offering of candles at the enthronement of a patriarch, 172, 173. Why wax-mastic and aromatics are used in the consecration of a temple, 117. Why we bring wax [candles] into the Church, 130, 275. What the ciborium is, 129. Why the high priest of old used to wear a tiara [kidaris] upon his head, 278, 339. What it means for God to be moved by his own contemplation, 11. Why all living things are brought out during the consecration of a temple, 117. Whom the clergy represent, 275. Concerning the clergy, 179. What Jacob’s ladder typified, 10. What it signifies to bow down and rise up during worship, 148. That it is beneficial to perform the rite for the departed over oil, 201. Concerning cemeteries, 203. That one must sometimes make use of common notions in discourses concerning God, 2. That infants must partake [of communion], 86. That one must partake of the awesome mysteries frequently, 261. Who partakes, and of what others do so first, 111, 115. How the high priests and the priests partake, 289. How one must commune with those who are unknown, 368. What communion provides, 62. Communion is the end of baptism, 85. What communion is, 94. That communion is the end of every rite, 194. What communion performs, 271. Man is punished for every sin, 346. Why those who have offended are punished so abruptly and eternally, 358. That there is no end to punishment, 23. That punishment is endless, 311. Why we offer kollyva during the memories of the saints, 208. Concerning the kollyva offered for the sake of the departed, 267. What the baptismal font typifies, 80, 85. Concerning the kontakia, 221, 390. Who the "cosmeter" is, and what he signifies, 131. That earth from the censer is put upon the secular dead, 201. That the world is created, 4. That the world is for the sake of man, 12. That the world will be destroyed, 49. Why the world was created, 64. Whether the world has an end, 357. When the end of the world will be, 341, 357. Whence the "Koudougeroi," also known as Bogomils, received the principles of their heresy, 15. Why there is a cowl [koukoulion] in baptism, 84. What kind of cowl this is, and why monks wear it, 192, 355. Why the tonsure occurs in baptism, 84. What the tonsure upon the head of the priests signifies, 278. What the word "judgment" [krima] signifies when it says, "His judgment shall be from Him," 10. Why the Son shall judge the world, 303. That those who are ordained receive the Gospel in their hands, 179. All creation bears witness to the Creator, and how it was subjected to vanity, 49. Whether all creation will be altered, 341. Why creatures were made, 11. That the contemplation and knowledge of creatures is not very profitable, 49. What the circular, cloud-like shape portrayed in the hands of the angels, in the middle of which the letter X is inscribed, signifies, 538. Why the Lord's Prayer is read at a marriage, 197. What the Lord’s Prayer teaches, 287. Why "Lord, have mercy" is said twelve times, 216, 229, 382. Why forty times, 21, 228, 383. Interpretation of "O Lord, why are they multiplied?", 252. How the Lord will come in His second coming, 341. Concerning the Dominations, 208. How one must understand "Do not give what is holy to the dogs," 185. The comedies [play-acting] of the Latins are to be rejected, 54. Constantine gathered the first council, 59. The patriarch of Constantinople has equal power to the one of Rome, 37. Praise of Constantinople, 40. Praise of the Church of Constantinople, 103. Why Constantinople was the place for the second council, 40.

Λ How "Receive the Holy Spirit" is to be understood, 42. Concerning the tongs [labis]. Why the laity partake of the mysteries by means of the tongs, 112. Why the laity are sent out during the consecration of a temple, 116. Why the laity receive the mysteries from without and by means of the tongs, 289. Where the laity are to be buried, 263. What it signifies that a lit lamp goes before the high priest, 95. Why there are lamps at a marriage, 197. Why lamps go before the processions, 239. That the brightness in God and in the saints is different, even the body itself, and who have seen this, 56. What the faithful people typify, 275. The standing of the people in the temple, 133. That the Latins make their temples passable to all, and...

to the ungodly, 39. That they eat strangled meat contrary to tradition, 33. That by receiving absolution from the Pope, they perform many things illegally, 53. That they do not shave the beard properly, 54. That they seem to glorify a goal of punishment, 36. That they do not possess perfect baptism, and are unsealed, as though they were not anointed with chrism, 66. That they anoint those being ordained with chrism contrary to the canons, 92. That they do not act rightly in offering round bread, 98. That they are rebuked for breaking the fast on the first two days of the Great Fast, contrary to the canon, and furthermore for not fasting during the Saving Passion, 349. That one ought not to communicate with them, 37. Against the Latins, 28. Latin innovations, 29. The licentious fornication of Latin priests, 31. Latin innovation in the sacrament of repentance, 32. Latin innovation in the holy icons, 32. Who have written against the Latins, 37. Latin discussions, 45. Against the Latins, who say that one ought not to give holy oil to those who have hope of life, but to those who are dying, 73. Against the Latins, saying "I baptize the servant of God," and not "The servant of God is baptized," 85. Against the Latins, who depart from the communion, 86. Against the Latins, offering unleavened and circular bread, 99. Against the Latins, who anoint their presbyters according to the Law, 150. Against the Latins, that the Father is the only cause in the Trinity, 163. Latin innovation in the oil of prayer, 200. Against the Latins, claiming that the Holy Mysteries are perfected by the words of the Lord alone, and [regarding how] they too boldly added [the "Filioque"] to the Son, 305. A refutation on the subjects proposed concerning the Spirit, 307. That one ought not to speak beyond one's strength, 2. The Liturgy is the work of priests alone, and not counted among the other prayers, 214, 265. The Liturgy is given as more beneficial than everything for the departed, 272. Liturgies performed for the departed are of the greatest benefit, 269. Let Liturgies be performed for one who has sinned, after he has ceased from the sin, 362. That the order of the Liturgy alone remains according to the ancient arrangement, 213. [Regarding] the one who receives the Liturgy, what it procures for the one who gives it, and if he is held fast in this, 363. The priest must not neglect the Liturgy, 366, 376. What is the liturgical ordination, 138. One who is liturgical, 275, 344. Why the relics of martyrs are placed under the altar, 120, 174. Why relics are transferred from an old temple to a new one, 123. Why chrism is poured onto relics, and why they are placed under the altar, 125, 201. The wonder-working of holy relics, 12. A letter of Pope Leo is accepted by the synod, 57. What the likeness of Leo signifies when placed upon the angels, 201, 324. Who the Levites are, 141. What the word *lemma* signifies, 10. And what is the *lemma* of a word, 10. What a litany is, 238. Why litanies take place outside, and why we carry crosses and holy icons in them, 254. Regarding litanies taking place outside the sanctuary, 238. Regarding the *lite* in the narthex, 258. Why the human soul is called rational, 550. That a rational being is not led by an irrational one, 5. That everything rational is self-governing, 6. Regarding the faculty of reason, and all that we sin or get right through it, 186. That all the prophets preached the Word of God, and the Holy Spirit, 10. That the Word is a demonstration in God, 9, 11. And that it is one. Why the Word of God was not united to the nature of angels, but to that of humans, 64. That the Word of God is united not only to human nature, but also to angelic nature, and how, 64. How the indwelling Word is named, ^A for the spoken word is fittingly so called, as it is uttered, and in what manner it leads, being immaterial, 330. The indwelling Word depicts the incarnation of Christ, 330. Regarding the Word: all that we accomplish through the word, or do wrong, along with the tripartite soul, 187. What the spear signifies, 97. The martyr Lucian used his chest instead of an altar, 337. Why God commanded in the Old Testament for many to loose their sandals, 339. Why there is a lampstand in the temple, 119. What the lampstand typifies, 130.

M Blessed is the man: interpretation, 252. A concise interpretation of the Beatitudes of the Savior, 230. The heresy of Macedonius, 48, 40. What the rivers and beverages on the *mandya* signify, 276. Why the King sends the *mandya* to the patriarch-elect, 170. Why the monk is invested with the *mandya*, 193, 355. What the *mandya* signifies, 94, 195, 135. Why the relics of martyrs are under the holy table, 274. The heresy of the Messalians and Bogomils, 59. Whether one ought to place a portion of the Theotokos where those of the saints are, 104, 105. That one ought not to offer portions for the heterodox or the unrepentant, 106. For whom one ought to offer portions, 28, 291. Whether one ought to offer portions for women living with heretics or the godless, 347. That portions are not transformed into the body of the Master, or into the bodies of the saints, 105. What account the portions have when offered, and what they profit, 290. What the portions are, and what they can do, 104. Regarding portions: that the priest ought not to communicate those who approach from the portions, 106. That the one who has communicated from the portions has also communicated of the body and blood of the Savior, 106. What it signifies to divide the bread, 289. A portion offered for one performing sin shall be for his condemnation, 362. Why the Midnight Office, 213, 365, 380. What is the purpose of the Midnight Office-hour, 217. Regarding the Midnight Office, 215, 380. Why the midnight hymn is varied, 385. Regarding the Transfiguration of the Savior, 55. That all clergy and laity must repent, receiving some and testing others, 185. What repentance effects, 62. What repentance is, 181. Repentance taught by the Lord, 182. Why repentance was not given to the demons, but only to humans, 348, 372. That Christ showed repentance through Himself, 68. Whose work it is to preach repentance; it is true preaching, 183. Christ accomplished the works of repentance for us, 69. Regarding repentance, 181. Whence the apostles received the occasions for repentance and forgiveness, 358. Why the Savior showed many ways of repentance here, but there He punishes strictly and eternally, 358. Regarding acts of repentance, 390. How a *minyma* is made, 155. How a patriarch’s *minyma* is made, 169. That one who is not a priest does not receive the *minyma* unless he first becomes a priest, 169. That there is prayer, incense, and lights in the *minyma*, 155. In what the metropolitan, patriarch, and bishop differ, 343. That the high priest of the Law wore a miter, 378. What it signifies to wear a miter, and whence the Pope of Rome and [the patriarch] of Alexandria received this, 338. Why we keep the memorial of the departed annually, 269. Regarding the *mnestra*, 196.

^A

Monastic habit, that it is included in repentance, and why it is called the angelic habit and the garment of repentance, and what is its power, 70. That the Savior demonstrated the monastic habit through Himself, 70. That the ceremony of monastic perfection is ancient, 72. Regarding monastic perfection, 189. Why the monastic habit is [divided into] small and great, 31. Why the monastic habit is black, 70, 355. Why the monastic habit is said to have been revealed by an angel to the holy Pachomius, whether it is called angelic from the beginning, and why it is handed down, 354. Why the monastic habit is such as it is, 355. Regarding the monastic habit, 373. That monks are necessarily called [to account] for their thoughts, and how this ought to be done, 335. Whether it is permitted to give monks leave to receive [confession of] thoughts, 835. Why the monk approaches naked, barefoot, and uncovered, 189. That the monk imitates the death of Christ through the habit, 193, 355. What the clothes of a monk are, and why seven, 72. Why the promises of a monk are in question and answer, 190. Why the clothes of a monk are made of hair, 355. What significance the clothes of a monk possess, and whether he must always wear them, 356. That secular monks ought not to be appointed spiritual [fathers], 180. Where deceased monks are to be buried, 263. Whether monks ought to commune alone in deserts, and how, 345. That there are very many habits of monks among the Latins, 31. Why the habit of monks is called angelic, 189. What the vestments of monks are, and what each denotes, 192, 355. Monothelites (against), 21. ^B What the likeness of a calf upon the angels denotes, 324. Myron, that it is the seal of Christ, and he who does not receive it is unsealed, 66. That we do not pour Myron into the font, and what sort of Myron the holy Dionysius says should be poured into it, 82. What Myron represents, 82. That Myron existed from the beginning and has been handed down to us by the apostles, 87. When holy Myron must be boiled, 88. That Myron is in a sense more necessary than communion, 89. That Myron is instead of the laying on of hands for those who are baptized, 66. How much holy Myron avails, 89. That Myron is celebrated only by a bishop, 92. And why, 93. That holy Myron is applied to the martyric relics placed under the altar, 201. What holy Myron effects, 971. The service of Myron, and its boiling, 87. The ceremony of Myron, 88. The power of holy Myron, 205. Why we do not anoint the baptized with the Myron from the holy relics, 66. Who those are who are not anointed with Myron, 90. Why the holy table is anointed with Myron, 274. How the Mysteries ought to be taught, 35. How many and what the Mysteries of the Church are, 61. Why the Mysteries are twofold, 63, 205. That Christ Himself also received the Mysteries, 65. That the Mysteries are held together and completed by one another, 91. Why the prayers for all the Mysteries are twofold, 202, 203. If by chance mice or some other animal should eat the Holy Things, what must be done, 367. That Moses preached that God is tri-hypostatic, 26. Why Moses made images, 26.

N ^C Temples are not accessible to all, 59. Temples are to be held in reverence, 109, 128. Why the entire temple is anointed with Myron, 119. What the temple is, and what it typifies, 128, 193. That the temple typifies Paradise, 247. What a divine temple is, [what] its gate denotes, 274. Regarding the temple, and its consecration, 115. Regarding the construction of a temple, and the prayer for the foundation, 115. What the beauty of a temple denotes, 132. Why we stand outside the temple during the prayers of prooemia, 136. That those who despise temples and other holy things perish, 128. What the narthexes denote, 109. What the narthexes are, and why, 136. What the doors of the narthexes denote, 274. Neilos of Constantinople wrote against Barlaam, 48. Neilos of Thessalonica wrote against the Latins and the heresy of Barlaam and Akindynos, 48. Why the dead are anointed with oil, 201. Nestorius is anathematized by the third council, 44. The heresy of Nestorius the Christ-fighter, 18, 22. That the cloud on Tabor denoted the Holy Spirit, 67. That fasting is apostolic, 31. What the fast of the Lord is, 348. Why there are so many fasts, and whence the forty-day fast, and that of the holy apostles, and of the Theotokos [originate], and who delivered these from the beginning, 349. That to fast is very profitable, 350. Nicaea, the place of the first council, 40. That the washing from the hands of the priest is taken for healing, 368. Regarding the *nipterion*, 368. The likeness of the human mind with God, 3. Concerning the mind, all that we stumble in or succeed in through the mind with the tripartite soul, 186. That the mind is more honorable than all creatures, 49. That the human mind is differently varied, 325. Why the "Now let depart" (*Nunc dimittis*) is said at the end of Vespers, 239.

Ξ The wood which Isaac carried on his shoulders, being led to be sacrificed, what it typified, 9. What it signifies to strike wood at the midnight office, 215.

O That the eighth council anathematized those who say that the Spirit proceeds also from the Son, 98. Why we perform processions of litanies along the roads, 254. "In every time"; what the power of this prayer is, 229. Regarding arrogance, 24. Why those who are about to build a temple are first blessed and prayed over by the bishop, 113. Regarding the *oikonomos*, 178. Regarding the house, 221, 390. That wine with water must be introduced into the chalice, 105. Through whom the Monogenes Son was composed, 266. That the Trinity was proven co-essential at the first council, 40. That a name is given to the one being baptized, whichever the parents wish, 75. Why infants receive a name on the eighth day, 75. Regarding the names of those offering. Whether the priest ought to take notice and take portions for them, 347. That beings have their existence and persistence from God, 4. Pope Honorius was a Monothelite, 21. Pope Honorius was subjected to anathema in the sixth council, 45. That the prayer behind the ambon also necessitates that the bishop mystically refers [it] to God within the sanctuary, 113. Why the prayer behind the ambon is read by the priest who has just been ordained, 150. Why the prayer behind the ambon in the Liturgy of the Presanctified is at the end, 256. Why the Orthodox are negligent in their prayers, 360. An Orthodox man must not be joined to a heterodox one, 196. Why Orthros [is], 215, 365. Regarding Orthros, 117, 384. Regarding the spiritual Orthros, 247.

^A Nobody. What is "nobody"? Having put one's hand to the plow, 71. Why do we say that God dwells in the heavens, 24. Heaven, according to the Holy Scripture, and air, 330. That it is impossible for the substance of God to be received by human nature, 160. Those who pray ought to lift their eyes upward, 380. How offices are given, 179. And that ordained persons ought to exercise the offices of the Church, 180.

Π (P) All things of grace are old: a type of the new, 127. That one ought to perform ancient traditions spiritually, 83. That it is unbecoming for Christians to keep a concubine, 34. The pallium is the vestment of a monk, 192, 355. What the All-Holy Trinity teaches, 218, 224. The Bread of the All-Holy [Theotokos], 257, 387. Regarding the Pannychis of the first week of Holy Lent, 256. No one concelebrates with the Pope except a deacon, 31. That the Pope being first among the others does not restrict them, if he is Orthodox, 37. And that we do not turn away from the Pope, unless he were a schismatic, 58. Who is the cause of Adam's transgression, 339. Will Paradise itself also be altered, 341. How the Comforter is said to be present, being everywhere, 177. On Friday and Wednesday of Cheesefare week the Pre-sanctified [Liturgy] is celebrated, 351. Why the Liturgy is not celebrated on Great Friday, and that even on this day the Pre-sanctified used to be celebrated, and why it is not celebrated now, [352]. Why the cheek of the high priest is kissed by the one being ordained, 162. What it signifies to kiss the cheek of the high priest when the priests partake in communion, 289. That virginity is the marriage of Christ, 68. That virginity is the perfect goal of the Gospel, 196. That Christ preferred virginity to marriage, 68. We are sojourners here, 19. What a proverb teaches, 255. Why [lamps/lights] for a proverb, 255. How Christ will come in the second coming, 302, 341. Why there is a remembrance of the second coming before Lent, 352. Which Passover Christ gave to the disciples, 100. The Lord's Prayer, a concise interpretation, 224. Whatever the Fathers decreed must be kept, 241. Proof that the Father has a Son and a Spirit, 11. That the Father is the only source of Divinity, 41. That the Father alone is untransferred in the Trinity, 163. God is our Father by grace, 294. That the Patriarch is under the canons, and when he is to be ordained, he gives his confession to the Church, 173. That the Patriarch used to celebrate the Pre-sanctified, and when, 352. How the kissing of the Patriarch's ordination occurs, 163. Patriarch's ordination, 168. How the procession of the candidate for Patriarch happens, 170. How the ordination of a Patriarch occurs, if there is not a bishop beforehand, 193. How Pachomius received the monastic habit from an angel, if it was from the beginning, 72. It is not necessary to persuade everyone, 2. Concerning the fiftieth Psalm, 216, 251. The power of the fiftieth Psalm, 582. Why there are veils in the temple, 153. What the dove upon Noah, and the olive twig which it carried in its mouth, signified, 73, 82. Why we receive circumcision, 75. Christ called the confession of Peter "the rock," 310. ^B Regarding Peter of Alexandria, 171. Against Peter the Fuller, 325. That Peter was baptized by Christ, 17. That Peter is not an apostle of Christ, having denied Him, 38. Who are perfected by faith, 58. The foundation of faith and what the stones are, 44. Twelve chapters containing the faith, 319. That one ought to proclaim the faith before all, 2. Faith. How one ought to draw the unbelieving toward faith, 2. That one must not dare to set forth an alternative faith beside that of the Fathers, 58. Proof that our faith is true, 332. That the faithful are perfected by the chrism, 91. Fullness. How it is understood, "And of His fullness we have all received," 45. Spirit. That all the prophets preached the word of God, and the Holy Spirit, 10. That the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father, 8. That the Holy Spirit is God, 11, 40. That the Holy Spirit is Lord, life-giving, and proceeding from the Father, and co-worshipped with the Father and the Son, 11. That the Holy Spirit is from the Father alone, 55, 305. How the Holy Spirit having descended, remained in Christ, without being incarnate, 307. That the Holy Spirit is not given hypostatically, 308. That the Holy Spirit has been dimly revealed to the prophets, 309. That the Spirit was not given hypostatically to the apostles at Pentecost, 309. Spirit. Why the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is not forgiven, neither now, nor in the age to come, 363. What are the testimonies from Scripture concerning the Holy Spirit, and that they are common to the three persons, 54. In what manner some spiritualities are substantial, others formless, 529. Certain spirituals, through greed, impose canons upon those approaching to give alms, and they seek the gift; but they hinder the anointing with oil, and the performing of liturgies, on account of the loss of the priests, or in some other way. Whether this is good, 360. If spirituals ought to demand alms, so that they themselves might give [them], and if they hold back what they receive, what [follows] from this, 362. How a spiritual Father ought to sit, and how he ought to be disposed when hearing confession, and how to deal with the one confessing, 186. What punishment is one liable to who performs a spiritual ministry without the command and exhortation of the high priest, 335. What kind of [a person] a spiritual [father] ought to be, and how he ought to regulate the one confessing concerning each transgression, 360. Spirituals ought not to act against the canons, 183. Spirituals ought not to appoint laymen as monks, 180. To eat food from strangled animals is against the canons, 51. When the breath is held, how the soul goes out, 526. Why the Lord appeared first to the shepherds, 177. The purpose of the Polyeleos, in which there is also a mystical contemplation, 240. Polytheism is equal to atheism, 14. Against polytheists, 5. Why the Cherubim are called many-eyed, 908. A city depicted on the ground at the ordination of a bishop, what it signifies, 156. What the Polystaurion signifies, 90. Why bishops do not wear a Polystaurion, 538. Why there are many lights in the temple, 152. What the rivers on the archieratic sticharion signify, 94, 276. What the rivers depicted on the ground signify at the ordination of a bishop, 156. What the rivers and the lids of the mantle signify, 276. What the chalice signifies, 98. What is the common cup in marriage, 196. If the priest covers the empty chalice, without having performed the union, and later learns of it, what will he do, [is sung] at the feasts of the Theotokos. And what it means, 590. Purgatory is an opinion of Origen, 56. Regarding Purgatory, 328. Regarding the so-called act of the bishop, 168. Whom the presbyters typify, 55. Presbyters why...

they are ordained at thirty years of age, 147. Presbyters and deacons why they are ordained, 147. Presbyters why one says the final petitions and another the prayer behind the ambo, 150. A presbyter alone cannot perform the blessing of oil, 200. On the presbyter, 147. Ordination of a presbyter, 147. Presbyters must not be anointed according to the law, 150. Presbyter: whether the bishop must ordain several at once, 345. Whatever is elective moves by its own will, 6. What a projection is, 169. Presanctified [Liturgy] why it is not celebrated also on other fast days, 354. When the patriarch used to celebrate the Presanctified, 352. The Presanctified why it is not celebrated now on the two days of Cheesefare [week], namely Wednesday and Friday, 352. Whether they receive anything through the prayers of the Presanctified, 353. The Presanctified why it is not celebrated on other days of the year, 356. On the Liturgy of the Presanctified, 252. Whence the tradition of the Liturgy of the Presanctified [came], and why it is celebrated in Lent only, 351. That we must prostrate ourselves further at the entrance of the Presanctified, 256. Whether one ought to offer even a portion of the divine Bread in the Liturgy of the Presanctified, 354. Of what the Prothesis is a type, 98, 107. The Prothesis why it is in a niche, and what it signifies, 151. On the Prokeimena, 236, 590. We must pay heed even to what seem to be small things, 32. That all, both ordained and laity, ought to pray, 211. And ceaselessly, 379. Prayers for the departed, that they provide great relief, 36. How many and what kind [of prayers], that through them [many] were saved, 15. Mental prayer is rejected by Barlaam the Calabrian, 51. Prayer is an unceasing work of angels, 209. What is the most excellent prayer of all, 209. What prayer is, 210, 304. That prayer is better than any other work, 564. And that through it we are united to God, 212. On sacred prayer, 207. Time, place, and bodily posture for prayer, 379. The addition in the Creed of the Latins, how much it wrought, 305. Proskomide: regarding what is performed in the Proskomide, 97, 102. Why there are twelve prostrations for the departed, 267. Why we worship thus, bowing down evidently, and rising, 380. What assumption is, 22. That this divine assumption alone was united to the hypostasis of the Word of God, 57. Works of attention through the tripartite nature of the soul, 187. What the things offered in the temple signify, 274. Whether it is necessary to offer sacrifices from all those who approach the priest, 347. What the "Holy things to the holy" signifies, 112. What "Let us attend" signifies, 227. That all the prophets proclaimed the Word of God and the Holy Spirit, 10. That the prophets saw the divine in images, 25. That the prophets possessed the Holy Spirit, 309. On the Protodikos, 178. On the First Hour, and what its purpose is, 213, 228, 365, 386. What faults priests do not absolve, 335. Ptolemy who interpreted the divine Scripture, that he himself also wrote the Tetrabiblos, 50. Why the doors of the temple are closed, and [the cry] "Lift up your gates" shall be [used], when the relics of the martyrs are brought in, 121. Why there is fire in the temple, 130. Refutation of purgatorial fire, 36. The heresy of Pyrrhus, 21. What the ornaments on the episcopal sticharion signify, 94. What the ornaments on the episcopal sandals and the rivers signify, 276.

P ^D What the episcopal staff signifies, and why it is such, 95. That the staff is given to the emperor at his proclamation, 135. How the staff is given by the emperor to the candidate for patriarch, 169. Why the prayer at the wedding mentions Rebecca and Isaac, and not others, 196. What are called fans, and what they signify, 88. Why the deacons hold fans, 141. That the throne of Rome is apostolic, 37.

Σ That Sabbas wrote the Typikon, 215. Why we do not fast on Saturday, 30. And why we make the commemoration of the departed on that day, 30. Why the entrance on Saturday evening is more splendid, 235. Against Sabellius the Libyan, 8, 9. The heresy of Sabellius, 18. On the Sakellarios, 178. On the Sakellion, 178. Why bishops do not wear sackcloth, 338. What sackcloth signifies, 96, 277. Sandals of a monk, 192, 355. Why the Lord took human flesh, 299. Proof of the Incarnation of Christ, 297. How the Incarnation of Christ was foreshadowed, 9. That the Incarnation of Christ sanctified the whole earth, 64. Why the Word was incarnate for men only, 298. That the Seraphim are six-winged, 88. What Seraphim signifies, 208. The heresy of Sergius, 21. The sign of the Son of man is the cross, 15. Against Simon Magus, and Manes, and also against Cerinthus and Carpocrates, 14. Why the bishop is vested in a sindon when he consecrates the temple, 116. Why the fruit of grain is offered for the departed, 207. On the Skeuophylax, 178. That the tabernacle was made of skins, 127. And that it was divided into three parts, 128. Who wear skiadia, 151. What "Wisdom, stand aright" signifies, 109, 227, 279. What Wisdom signifies, 227. Against those who live in luxury, 367. Why the relics of the departed are wiped with a sponge, 267. On the station of the faithful, 135. What it means for the hierarch to descend from his throne, 278. It is not fitting to make a cross on the ground, 342. The cross is to be honored, 15. Why the cross is placed on the holy table, 274. Theory of the cross, 129. Why we carry crosses in processions, 254. What the crucifixion of Christ accomplished, 300. Why there are crowns at a wedding, 195. What light Stephen the protomartyr beheld, 55. What the sticharion signifies, and what the rivers upon it [are]. And that the episcopal [vestment] alone possesses these, 94. What the sticharion signifies, 95, 276. Why the subdeacon is vested in a white sticharion, 140. Why stichera are so called, 239. Why verses are sometimes eight, sometimes ten, and often six in an ode, 235. On verses, 590. Who is the mouth of God, 183. Syllogisms rejected in matters concerning the faith, 46. By whom the Creed was composed, and why it is so called, 40, 292. Why the Creed of the faith is said in the morning and evening, 216. Why the Creed is read in the Liturgy, 284. That the Creed is also ethical, and to what it exhorts us, and from what it deters us, 322. Why the Creed is read at Compline and the Midnight Office, 382.

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Symboulon (Creed): What it is and when it was gathered, and against whom it was written, 313. Those who dare to add to the Creed are subject to anathema, 45. Synapte (Litany): What it is called, 232. And why it is so called, 233. Synthronon (Bishop’s throne): What it signifies, 5, 273. And what it means for the bishop to ascend it, 110. Of the Synthronon: What the descent of the bishop from the synthronon signifies, 110, 281. What it means for the bishop to ascend the synthronon and from there bless the people with the trikerion, 280. Why the bishop sits on the synthronon, 280. Synod: First, 39. Second, 40. The Second Synod subjects those who dare to propose another faith to anathema, 44. Third, 44. Fourth, at Chalcedon, 45. Fifth, 45. Sixth and Seventh, 45. That it is apostolic to hold synods, 104. Synoulosis (Healing together): What Gregory the Theologian means by this, 358. Saved: That there are three orders of the saved, 100. Solea: What we call this, 151. Body of Christ: That it is one, even though myriads of ministers offer it at the same time, 64. That the human body suffers together and changes in sympathy with the elements, as it is composed of them, 326. Sophronios of Jerusalem: That he set forth the Typikon after St. Sabas, when it had been lost through labor, 215.

T Treasury: What is to be understood by the "inner room" in which Christ says to enter and pray, 279. Rug: Why it is spread out for the bishop when he sits, 117. Order: Of patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops, 165. That order must be kept well in the Church, 264. That order holds all things together, 264. Tombs of the dead: To light lamps and burn incense at them, 202. For deceased monks: Oil and dust from the censer are laid upon them, 201. That it is necessary to remember the dead, especially at the Midnight Office, 217. Teletic (Perfecting) Ordination: What it is, 138. Teletic (Perfecting) function: Why the priest is called this, 147. What it means to be called this, 275, 344. Teletai (Sacraments/Rites): How many rites begin from the altar and end there, and what they are, 231. Of the sacred rites, 61. End of the world: When it shall be, 341, 357. Of our end, 260. Publican and Pharisee: Why this parable is read before Lent, 351. Forty-day Fast: Whence it originated and who handed it down from the beginning, 349. Forty-day Memorials: Why they are held, 268. ^B Why Lent is so called, though it has more than forty days, and how it is a tithe, 348. Lent: Whether husbands and wives should abstain from one another during Lent, and especially those who wish to partake of the mysteries, 337. Whether one ought to baptize, perform a marriage, or perform an ordination during Great Lent, 340. Wednesday and Friday: That it is an apostolic tradition to fast on them, 52. Why we fast on Wednesday and Friday, 349. Why the Presanctified Liturgy is celebrated on the Wednesday and Friday of Cheese-fare [week], 351. That the things decreed by the Fathers must be kept, 341. Topaka: What the Bogomils call the devil, and what this name signifies, 18. Table (Altar): What it is for the priest to kiss the holy table, 97. What the holy table signifies, 109, 273. Why the table is cleansed with wine and rose water, 273. Why Alleluia is sung, 118. Why the table is rinsed with water when about to be consecrated, 118. What the table and the things upon it signify, 128. Why the table is made of stone, 273. Why the table is anointed with myrrh, 274. Why the table has coverings, 274. Why the table is stood up before, 274. Trapezophorion: What it is, 119. And what it signifies, 273. Trinity: Proof of the Holy Trinity, 5, 12. Confession of the Trinity, 59. That the Trinity is the only God, 7. That the Trinity is consubstantial; scriptural proof, 40. That the Trinity is glorified together, 41. Three-day: Why the resurrection is, 302. Trikerion (Triple-candle): What it signifies, 110. Why the deacon holds the trikerion in his hand and goes before the holy things, 280. Why the Gospel is signed with the trikerion by the bishop, 280. Why the bishop, having descended from the synthronon, signs the people with the trikerion, 281. Tripartite Soul: What is meant by this, and how many things we accomplish or fail in through it, 186. By which articles of the faith the tripartite soul is sanctified, 321. Trisagion Hymn: Who composed it, 381. Why the Trisagion hymn is sung more frequently, 224. Why the Trisagion hymn is sung when the deceased are brought into the church, 263. What the Trisagion hymn teaches, 284. Why it is sung at the altar, 284. Of the Trisagion hymn, 218, 222, 223. What is the meaning of the Trisagion, 222. The miracle of the Trisagion, 223, 381. On the addition in the Trisagion by Peter the Fuller, 223. Thirds: Why we celebrate them for the departed, 268. Third Hour: Of the Third Hour, and what is its purpose, 213, 365, 386. Psalms of the Third Hour, 229. Terce-Sext (about): and how it is celebrated, 252. Three-lights: Why they are in the church, 139. Cutting of hair: That it is dishonorable, 34. Hair: That it is as an exhalation of the whole body, 84. Why the cutting of hair occurs in some rites, 139. What the tonsure of hair signifies among monks, 190. Troparia (about), 589. Typikon: By whom it was set forth, 215, 330. Of the Jerusalem Typikon, 215. That the order of the Typika is not conjoined to the seven praises, 250. That the incursions of the nations dissolved the Typikon of the Great Church, 216, 352. The sequence of the Typika, 230. Cheese-fare Week: Why it is ordained, 351. On those who glorify fate, 5.

Υ Waters above the heavens: What is to be understood by this, 530. If there are other systems of water in the heaven above, in comparison to those below, and how they stand, 530. Water for Baptism: What it is to do, 86. That one ought to put water and wine into the cup, 105. Hydroparastatai (Water-offerers) Heresy, 102. Son of God: That He was truly incarnate, 19. Why the Son was incarnate and not the Father or the Spirit, 299. That the Son is not later-born than the Father, 296. Scriptural testimonies concerning the Son, the Word, 10. Proof concerning the Son, 11. Entire matter: That it has been hallowed, 197. Pride: The leader of heresies, 20. Of pride and conceit, 24. Against the proud, 567. Shoes: Why they were commanded to be taken off in the Old Testament, 359. Subdeacons: Whom they typify, 35. That subdeacons do not go to marriage, 140. What subdeacons do, 140. That a subdeacon ought to be twenty years old, 140. Why the subdeacon puts on a white sticharion and is girded, 140. Ordination of a Subdeacon: The bishop, 345. Of subdeacons, 140.

^A Why the recorder is among the archpriests during the voting, 154. That no human being has received the substance of God, 43. That Christ is in one hypostasis from two natures, 43. ^B That the candidate is a betrother of the Church, 157. ^C Why the candidate is invested with an epigonation and does not depart at the first entrance, 158. Why the candidate is carried by priests up to the holy doors, 158. Why cloths are placed at the four corners of the holy table, 119. On the cloths on the holy table, 118. “Be thou exalted, O God,” how it is to be understood, 290. On the elevation of the bread of the Panagia, 258. ^D What the phelonion signifies, 96, 277. Why the phelonion is such, and what it signifies, 148. Why at the time of the sacred acts it is lifted by the hands from the side, 148. The fantasy that the Lord was not incarnate, but [that it was] in truth, 298. Why the parable of the Pharisee and the Publican is read before Great Lent, 351. Why some are terrified by [visions of] phantoms, 76. What the small light in the icons of the angels and the saints signifies, 338. Why the "phēmi" of the emperor and the patriarch is said, 172. That Philotheos, Patriarch of Constantinople, wrote against Barlaam, 48. That being contentious is foreign to the Church, 2. That one ought not to dispute with the contentious, 15. That loving to be first is an evil thing, 45. What the flame in which the rich man suffers is to be understood as, 328. That it is impossible for anyone to take the nature of God, but [only] grace, 54. That the light of God as it is, is not seen, 55. What the light of Christ shining to all signifies, 255. What the unsetting light is to be understood as, 541. By whom the “O Gladsome Light” was composed, 388. On the light that was on Tabor, 55. That the Son and the Spirit are the light of the Father, 61. Why lights are [used] in sacred ceremonies, 138. Why lights are lit at every ordination, 140. That it is good to light lamps at the graves of the dead, 202. Why lights [are used] at Vespers and at the reading of the prophecy, 255. What the lights signify, 274. Why they are called "light-bringers," 388. What the illumination and knowledge of God according to Barlaam is, 19. Why the bishop is [called] illuminating, 138, 541. Who is called illuminating, 275.

X. That the grace of God is given to men, not nature and essence, 14. That we partake of divine grace, not essence, 59. On the chartophylax, 178. How the chartophylax sits in the midst of those voting, yet does not join in the vote, 154. How the chartophylax sits as the representative of the first archpriest during the voting, 154. If it should happen that something is spilled at the entrance to the Holy Place, what must be done, 367. What the kissing of the priests by the archpriest during the Communion signifies, 289. That those praying ought to lift their hands upward, 580. Whether one ought to ordain during the Great Lent, and at what time of the liturgy each person is to be ordained, 340. How the ordained [cleric] has precedence in the Communion, 104. Why the ordained bishop is escorted in the city and blesses [the people], 165. What it is for the ordained [cleric] to stand up and to put on the sacred vestments, 145. That we receive not nature, but divine grace from those who are ordaining, 60. That those praying for the one being ordained must pray over him, 144. That the one being ordained must be of the perfect age, 141. That the one being ordained is perfected by being sealed three times, 145. If the one ordained unworthily receives grace, and if what is done by him is to be accepted, 534. That the divine bread is given to the priest being ordained as a deposit, 149. What are the ranks of those being ordained in the bema, 275. That ordination among us is not a creature, 55. What ordination provides, 62. That the ordination of a bishop is a spiritual marriage, 157, 167. That ordinations are performed only by the bishop, 92. How many ordinations are [performed] inside the bema, and how many outside, 138, 178. That the cherubim according to some have four wings, 88. What cherubim signifies, 208. That they are four-faced, 324. The monk’s tunic, 192, 355. Why earth is given to the emperor when he is proclaimed, in a mantle, 135. That the dust from the censer is cast upon deceased laymen, 201. Which members of the human body are anointed with the oil of prayer, and why, 204. What the holy chrism provides, 62. What the chrism provides to the one being baptized, 83. Why we invoke Christ in the liturgy after the Theotokos and the saints, 279. Why Christ was baptized, 17, 65. That Christ is man of nature and body, 18. That Christ is the Word of God, and that through Him all things were made, 20. That Christ is of two natures in one hypostasis, 21. That Christ is perfect immediately in the womb, 229. How Christ dwells in us with the Father and the Spirit, 57. Why Christ became man, 63. And that it was not possible for our renewal and salvation to take place through any other creature, and why, 63. That Christ accepted the mysteries even for Himself, 65. When Christ was anointed, 65. That Christ performed the liturgy, 67. How Christ has been ordained priest and archpriest, and when, 67, 175. That Christ blessed marriage, and in Himself through the Church worked in the Holy Spirit, 67. That Christ through Himself showed the things of repentance, 68. And that [it was] for our sake, 69. That Christ through Himself showed the holy habit, 70. That Christ also delivered the rite of oil, 73. That Christ is the source of the priesthood, 93. That Christ achieved all things of the priesthood of every degree through Himself, 175. That Christ was obedient to the Father, 188. That Christ is of two natures, as possessing two wills in Himself, 188. How Christ suffered in the flesh, 223. Why Christ fasted, 549. Why Christ is not with us corporally, 372. That the marriage of Christ is virginity, 68. Why Christians are the new Israel, 54. Why we are called Christians, 2. Why Orthodox Christians were enslaved, 332. Why they sat John Chrysostom on the throne even after his death, 171.

Ψ. To whom the shears are given in the manner of [tonsuring] the priest when he tonsures the monk, 192. Whether one ought to chant while sitting, 556. If it is necessary to chant and to work with one's hands, 357. That the first three psalms of the psalter are especially...

referred to the Lord, 231. Why psalms are chanted in the Liturgy, 279. Whom do chanters represent, 109. Those who have been elected should be appointed as they were elected, and not according to rank or the office, 154. That votes are taken for others, if those elected are unwilling, 155. That all bishops must be present at the voting, and especially three, 152. Votes. That prayer is made during the voting, 155. Without votes, no one is ordained bishop, 152. Order of the voting, 153. That souls of sinners are seized by demons, 328. Whither do souls go, 328. Whether one angel or many take the souls that are departing, and if they depart without an angel, 327. How the soul departs when the breath is constrained, 326. If the soul is in the seed, 326. How the soul is taken by an angel, being incorporeal, 327. If the soul can be held by fire, like that of the rich man, 327. Being incorporeal, how is the soul under bonds and pain, 329. Proof that Christ took a rational soul with a body, 18, 300.

Oasis, the place where Nestorius was exiled, 20. Why there are nine odes, what they contain, and by whom they were made, 220, 385. Why the omophorion has such a form, that it must be of wool, and what it signifies, 96, 278, 281. Why the omophorion is removed while the Gospel is being read, 110, 162. Why the omophorion precedes the holy gifts during the Great Entrance, 110, 281, 282. What the omophorion signifies, 138, 161. Why the omophorion is put on again by the high priest when he is about to elevate the holy bread, 288. What the orarion is, and why the deacon wears it on his left side, 145. Why the orarion is so called, 146. Why the deacons are girded with the orarion, 146. Why the priest receives an orarion, 148. What the orarion signifies, 276. Why the deacon girds himself with the orarion when he is about to receive communion, 23. Regarding the Hours, 229.

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