Meats, typical, 446; prohibited, to restrain luxury, ib.
Mediator, nature and office of a, 430; our Lord as, must have two natures, ib.
Medicine, spiritual, 495.
Men, of flesh, 452.
Mercy, all else vain without, 498; of God, men chiefly attracted by, ib.; of God, requires
mercy in us, 556; implies ill desert, 417; the work of God, 498; by it men resemble God,
ib.
Miracles, not wrought on all occasions, and why, 515.
Monastery, death and sickness in a, 457.
Monasteries, house of mourning, in what sense, 455; as lights to mariners, 456; calm and
peace of, ib.; manner of life passed in, ib.; morning, in, ib.
Money, loved before God, 502; difficulties undergone to gain, ib.; lovers of, really mad, 469;
love of, seizes all classes, 470; love of, the worse as not a natural passion, 536; love of,
the root of all evils, 469; given for relief of the poor, ib.; to make amends for past sins,
ib.; miseries caused by, ib.
Monks, sleep not naked, 456; psalmody of, ib.; industry, meals, and sleep of, 457; devotions
of the, ib.
Mortification, for the sake of future blessings, 446.
Mothers, advice to, 437.
Mystery, of the Incarnation, 442; not to be treated irreverently, ib.
Mysteries, dignity of those who are entrusted with, 442.
Nature, chief blessings of, common to all, 448.
Nero, compared with St. Paul in the Resurrection, 491; called a lion, 514; cupbearer of,
converted by St. Paul, ib.; compared with St. Paul, 490; worshiped as a God, ib.; tomb
of, unknown, 491.
Nicopolis, Titus bid to come to, and why, 541; which, here meant, ib. (note) .
Nineveh, saved through fear, 462.
Novelties, to be avoided, 493.
Novices, not to be promoted to the episcopate, 439.
Obedience, follows our election, 520.
Oil, in the parable of virgins taken for almsgiving, 498; for good works generally by St.
Jerome, and St. Augustin, ib. (note) .
Onesiphorus, St. Paul's prayer for, 485; his kindness to St. Paul, ib.
Onesimus, a true and not a true son, 521; a son begotten in bonds, 551; his fault overruled
to good, 552; came to St. Paul at Rome, 545; was baptized there, ib.
Oppositions, certain, not to be answered, 472.
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