Wicked, the: mingled with the good, but must be tolerated, 334, 352 sq., 385, 386, 393; sep-
aration from, understood by Donatists corporally, spiritually by Catholics, 387; com-
municating with, makes us not answerable for their evil, 385; prophets rebuked, but
joined in Divine rites with, 387; are known, not to men, but to angels, 335; may become
good, 334 sq.; all men found so, at coming of Christ, 332; all so, in a certain sense (even
Apostles), 392; malice of, like a razor, touching only what is superfluous in us, 302.
Widow, the: son of, dead and raised, type of those reclaimed after overt acts of sin, 414.
Will of God, done by victory of Saints, and conversion of sinners, 285; the prayer that it
may "be done," a prayer for perfection, 276.
Wisdom, the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, 327, 459; God takes away His, when we
claim it as our own, 315.
Wise, they only who profess themselves "fools" before God and men, 313.
Witness, Christ's, of Himself, how not true, 491.
Woman, sin came "by," salvation "through," 246; the word in Hebrew equivalent to female,
252 (and note), 261.
Woman, penitent, the, devotion of, 416; comfort to, of our Lord's Parable, 416; as she owed
more, loved more, 417; knew Christ, who forgave her "as God," 418.
Woman, the, with an issue of blood, healed, a type of those who touch Christ's hem by faith,
and are healed, 299 sq., 344.
Woman, Canaanitish, the: perseverance of, in prayer, 345; figure of Church from among
Gentiles, to whom Christ was not sent, 345; an example of humility, 342, through which
she was changed, 345, 347.
Woman, of Samaria, the, knew of Christ's coming from the Prophets, 422.
Word, The: hidden that He might redeem: has arisen to judge, 445; Christ, the, above us:
the Flesh, among us: the Word-Flesh, between God and man, 445 (and note); without
price as surpassing all things, 458; must buy, with ourselves, 459; they who would
procure, must have godly will, 459; peace in, 459; they that buy, give themselves, yet
gain themselves, 459; comprehends all, but comprehended by none, 459, 466; they who
would understand, must not follow flesh, 466; to be comprehended through obedience,
486; the Form, Foundation, Head-Stone, of all things: all things in and under, 459; In-
comprehensibleness of, our sorrow, and duty of aspiring to comprehension of, 459;
can receive no addition from us, Perfect, Unlimited by space or time, 459; unlike bodies
which we see, not less in Parts than in Whole, 460; born of God, but incorporeally, in-
violably, unchangeably, and without temporal nativity, 460; made man, that we might
attain to God, 464, and thus might hear in Him what else we could not have borne,
464; thus made as "milk" to us, 464; the Creator of all things, 465-467; God, 465-467;
not made, but born, 465, 466; changed that which It was Itself made, 466; became less,
that we might be more, 467; descended that we might ascend: accepted our death, and
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