Excommunication, a proof of the Apostles' power, 425.
Exercise, bodily, spoken of by St. Paul, not fasting, 445; spiritual, ib. (note) , 446; spiritual,
rewarded, 447.
Fables, what St. Paul means by, 410; Jewish traditions such, 445.
Faith, excludes questioning, 410; sets reasoning at rest, ib.; excludes not prayer for knowledge,
ib.; objects of being divine to be revered not questioned, ib.; adherence to the, safeguard
against false opinions, 411; earthly things depend on, ib.; exacted by heathens, ib.;
produces love, 412; a safe ship, 424; without a good life unavailing, ib.; apostates from
the, have no stay, ib.; an unshaken rock, 472; dead, 505; common to all, 522.
Faithful, should assist each other, 485.
Family, the, a model for all government, 535.
Fasting, cleanses in vain if we return to sin, 426; useless without alms, 498.
Fate, doctrine of, excludes responsibility, 411; arguments against doctrine of, ib.
Father, a bad, unfit to be a bishop, 524.
Fear, prevents quarrels, 427; utility of, 462; love opposed to, 477; of God, a firm foundation,
513.
Fight, the Christian, 511.
Flesh, those called, whose souls are dead, 452.
Food, spiritual, 445.
Forgiveness of injuries, 427, 428; peculiar to Christians, 427; brings gain here, 549.
Form, used in a good and in a bad sense, 505.
Free will, not taken away by grace, 418.
Friendship, benefits of, 412; of David and Jonathan, 503; among the wicked, 412.
Freedom, Christian, causes greater faithfulness in serving, 465.
Funeral, in a monastery, 457.
Gamaliel, appears free from ambition, 417.
Garlands, worn by bridegrooms, why, 437.
Garments, vanity of worldly, 414.
Gentiles, tenets of, human, and so to be examined, 410.
Gentleness, comes from thinking what we once were, 537.
Gift, given to Timothy for working miracles, etc., 477.
Glory of the world useless, 414; of the saints internal, ib.; real, described, 490; a hard task-
master, 527.
Gluttony, disgusting effects of, 452; unnatural to the body, ib.; nausea succeeds, 453; evils
of, 451.
Gnostics, the name of assumed by pretenders to great knowledge, 472.
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