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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