Heaven, and rose from the dead to ascend into Heaven in the peacefulness of evening, and who will return again on the clouds of Heaven. He is still present in the world which He meant to free. He is still attentive to our words, if they truly come from the depths of our hearts, to our tears if they are tears of blood in our hearts before being salt drops in our eyes. He is with us, an invisible, benignant guest, never more to leave us, because by His wish our earthly life is an anticipation of the Kingdom of Heaven, and is a part of Heaven from this day on. Christ has taken to Himself as His eternal possession that rough foster-mother of us all, that sphere which is but a point in the infinite and yet contains hope for the infinite; and to-day He is closer to us than when He ate the bread of our fields. No divine promise can be blotted out: the May cloud which hid Him from sight, still hovers near the earth, and every day we raise our weary and mortal eyes to that same Heaven from which He will descend in the terrible splendor of His glory.
Centurion, 352, 355, 356
Cerinthus, 268
Chaldea, 24 Charity, 173, 265 Chastity, 211, 212 Children,
216; Bethlehem, 28; Jesus' love of, 217; Moses and, 215; old law and its reversal by Jesus, 218
Christ, Jesus declares himself, 247; living to-day, 6, 408; memory, 5; modern opinion of, 19; second coming, 259, 262; Thou art the Christ, 235. See also Jesus; Sec- ond coming Christian era, 6, 71 Christian martyrs, 269 Christianity, precedents for, 119 Christs, false, 260, 267
Church, 396; Catholic, 12; Peter and, 237
Claudia Procula, 333, 376
Cleopas, 384, 385, 387
Cloud, Jesus' glorification, 405
Clovis, 369
Cock crow, 315, 317
Commerce, 250
Communion with God, 295 Confucius, 113
Conversion, 73; in Jesus' life, 58
Converted sinner, 59
Corinthians, letter to the, 397 Cost, counting, 153 Country, 39
Court of the Gentiles, 248
Courtesy, 113
Covenants, 40 Crates, 198, 199 Criticism, 8, 12
Cross, 304, 305, 352; Jesus and the
two thieves carrying, 353; Jesus nailed to, 360; superscription, 351. See also Crucifixion Crown of thorns, 346 Crucifixion, 359, 367
Crucify him!, 338, 340, 343, 347
Cyrenian, 353, 355
Daniel, 271
Darkness, at the crucifixion, 367, 370; Jesus' hour of, 310 David, 43, 116
Day of the Lord, 262 Dead, raising, 138
Death, 133; Egypt's obsession, 31; Jewish views, 399
Death of Jesus, authors and accom- plices, 242, 243; foreknowledge, 241; His prayer, Abba, Father, 302. See also Crucifixion Deborah, 43
Debts, forgiving, 171, 230 Defilement, 104 Demons, 137, 175 Desert, 61, 68, 69 Devil. See Satan Didymus, 392
Disciples, 176; duty, 189; earliest, 75; first four, 82; foretold of Jesus' death, 242; instructions to, 188; mystic identity with Jesus, 192; persecutions, 268; reappear- ance of Jesus to, after the resur- rection, 403; at resurrection of Jesus, 388, 389; speaking in the light, 190; warnings to, 180 Discord, 206
Dismas, 363, 367 Divinity, 123
Divorce, 210
Doing versus hearing, 158 Dositheus, 268
Doubt of Thomas, 392
Earthly kingdoms, 63, 65, 67, 72 Earthquakes, 270 Easter, 243, 295 Edification, 14
Education of the human race, 98 Egypt, character, 31; death and mud, 31; exile in, 32; flight into. 30; Jews in, 42 Egyptians, 114 Elder son, 167, 169 Elders, 242 Elias, 240, 373 Eloquence, 16
End of the world, 262, 266
Jairus' daughter, 139 James, 83, 183, 184 Jericho. 172
Jerusalem, desolation, 261; destruc- tion, 44, 45, 271, 272; last journey to, 244; Passover 32; worldly, 69
Jesus, attempts on his life, 241; baptism of, 57, 60; birth, 21; blindfolded, 325; as the Christ, 233; condemnation, 322; crucifix- ion, 359, 367; deeds, 130; fore- knowledge, 49; foreknowledge of death, 241; friendliness. 75; hatred and condemnation for, 275; healer, 138; Herod Antipas and, 334; liberator, 299, 384; nailed to the cross, 360; nature, 233; Pilate and, 329, 338; Pilate's question, 330, 332; poverty, 193; prosecution, 315; resurrection, 381; road to Emmaus, 384; sec- ond crucifixion, 3; sinlessness, 58; spat on and struck, 324; un- der the cross, 353; the wanderer, 75, 76; what men said of him, 233, 235. See also Christ Jewish State, reëstablishment, 274 Jews, dispersal, 44, 272; history, 40; in Egypt, 42; wanderings, 43 Job, 116
John, 83, 183, 184, 185, 315, 318; at
the crucifixion, 371; at the sepul- cher, 383
John the Baptist, 54; beheading of, 336; imprisonment and death, 69; Jesus' answer to him in pri- son, 137, 138
Jordan and John the Baptist, 54 Joseph, 34, 286
Joseph of Arimathea, 318, 377 Joshua, 43
Judas, 186, 202, 243; Jesus' under- standing of, 284; kiss of, 311; at the Last Supper, 290, 301; mys-
tery of, 281; sinning woman and, 229; wasted ointment and, 232 Judea, outbreak, 270
Judging others, 110 Judgment Day, 263, 265
Justice, 118, 122, 124, 155; hunger for, 90
King of the Jews, 330, 346, 351 Kingdom of Heaven (of God), 66, 68, 71, 93; chief places in, 157, 184; children-of such is the Kingdom, 217; definition, 72; force and, 205; like mustard seed, 151 Kingdom of Satan, 72, 196
Kingdoms of the earth, 63, 65, 67,
Kings, at the birth of Jesus, 25; of the nations, 204
Kiss of Judas, 311 Knowledge, 25
Lama sabachthani, 372 Lamps, 156
Land of Promise, 42 Lao-Tse, 113
Last and first, 180 Last judgment, 263, 265 Last Supper, 288 Last things, 259
Law, 122, 124; old and new, 99 Lazarus, 140, 220
Lazarus, the beggar, 173 Legs, breaking, 366, 375 Leopardi, Giacomo, 95 Lepers, 135
Liberator, 299, 384
Life, 5; eternal, 264, 400; Jesus' knowledge of, 60; revaluation of, 93; true, 110
Light, Jesus' Transfiguration, 239 Lives of Christ, kind we need, 10; two kinds, 7 Logia, 12, 186 Longinus, 375
Lord's Prayer, exposition, 128 Losing one's soul, 196 Lost found, 32
Lost sheep, 170
Love, antiquity and, III-121: Christ's command, 121; Christ's for sinners, 59; experiment of, 125; filial, 103; mutual and uni- versal, 113; for one another, 294; perfect, 37; self, 111, 125; woman who loved much, 229
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