DOCTRINAL AND MORAL TREATISES. INDEX OF SUBJECTS. Abortive conceptions, question regarding resurrection of, 265 . Abraham, Christ the promised Seed of, 339 , 340 ; His example cited, 408 , 409 , 412 ; actions of, figurative, 470 ; told no lie, 491 ; knew the state of the world from Lazarus, 548 . Abstinence, practice of, a benefit due to authority, 364 ; easier than moderation, 405 , 410 ; from food, etc. for ill ends, 528 . Academics, St. Augustin once inclined to, 356 . Action, unless rightly done, sin, 360 ; whether implied in permission, 464 , 475 ; always conceived in the heart, 487 ; indifferent, takes its character from motive, 488 ; some unconsciously prophetic, 495 ; character determined by the intention, 519 . Adam, sin of, the results to his posterity, 246 , 254 ; involved many kinds of sin, 252 ; Job, how unlike, 530 . Address, different methods of, to different classes of hearers, catechumens, 298 sq. Admonition, desired by St. Augustin, 522 . Adultery, what? 400 , 402 ; compared with fornication, 403 ; is evil, while even second marriage is good, 443 ; might be justified on same grounds as lying, 487 , 488 ; some guilty of, fear perjury, 500 ; penance done for, 575. Æsop, Fables of, 494 . Ætiology, explanation by, 349 . Age, qualifies to give counsel, 451 ; flower of, brief, 452 . Aged, marriage, 400 . Ages, seven; the last to be an age of rest, 301 . Ages of the world, the six, 307 . Alexis, of Plato and Virgil thought allegorical, 355 . All things gathered together in one in Christ, expounded, 257 . Allegory, explanation by, 349 ; instances of, 350 , 351 ; in real events, 460 , 470 , 492 ; no lie if the thing figured is true, 460 ; Jacob’s deceit was, 491 ; use of, 492 . Almighty, what He Who is, cannot do, 569. Alms, means of, not to be gotten by sin, 488 ; a means of pardon, 496 ; given to Christ, 519 ; to be done for a heavenly reward, 520 . Almsgiving, will not, without change of life, atone for sin, 260 ; the greatest, is forgiveness of debtors and love of enemies, 261 ; the first, is to pity our own souls, 262 ; advanced by Christianity, 364 . Altar, prayers at the, 434 ; ministers of, Christian Priests, 515 ; prayers offered at the, 540 . Alternatives, 464 , 466 , 468 , 469 . Ambrose, St., Bp. of Milan, heard by St. Augustin, 356 . Analogy, explanation by, 349 . Ananias, appearance to St. Paul, 550 . Angel, Temple may not be built to an, 374 . Angels, the fallen, God’s judgment on, 246 ; who fell not, 246 ; nothing certainly known of their social organization, 256 ; bodies assumed by, 256 ; what Christ did for man was in a sense done for them, 257 ; may communicate the events of time to the dead, 359 ; cannot sin, 385 ; entertained by Lot, 463 ; ministry of, to Lazarus, 541 ; free of both worlds, 548 . Anger, darkens the mind’s eye, 490 . Angry, in what sense God is said to be, 248 , 527 . Anima, animus, mens, 475 . Anna, and Susanna, 403 , 413 ; more blessed than Ruth, 443 ; unless Ruth knew what was to follow; probably knew Christ should be born of a Virgin, 444 ; her long and early widowhood, 447 ; her piety, 448 ; recognized Christ with His Virgin Mother, 444 , 448 . Antiphrasis, is no lie, 491 ; instances of, 492 . Antiquity, testimony of, to Religion, 363 . Apocrypha, books of, 548 ; quoted, 540 . Apostle, God spoke in him, 521 . Apostles, common men chosen to show Christ’s power, 342 ; prophesied of, 343 ; use the four-fold exposition, 349 , 350 ; Acts of, rejected by Manichees, inconsistently, 350 ; teaching handed down from, 356 ; effect of their labors on nations, 364 ; whether bound to live of the Gospel, 471 , 522 ; Acts of the, a place to find examples, 476 , 493 ; example of, no obligation not to labor, 505 – 508 ; maintained by holy women and those among whom they preached, 506 – 508 ; words not to be derided, 508 ; divided their provinces, 516 ; had power not to work: to speak with authority, 522 ; once of the world, 532 ; chosen not just but justified: else had first chosen Christ, 533 . Apostolic chair, succession from, and note, 365 . Apparitions, in dreams, 544 – 550 ; of the dead without their consciousness, 545 sq.; as of the living, unconscious, 545 . 546 , 549 ; images only, not of souls themselves, 545 ; produced by the ministry of Angels, 545 , 547 , 549 ; asking for burial, 545 ; use of: pointing out places of burial, 545 ; foretelling things future, 545 ; not to be denied, 545 ; instances of, in sleep, 545 ; pointing out where things should be found, 545 ; seen when awake, 546 ; in trances, 546 ; doctrines taught by: of Samuel to Saul, 548 ; of St. Felix, 548 ; of saints whether themselves or angelic appearances, doubtful, 549 , 550 ; of John the Monk, 549 ; of Ananias to St. Paul: John would have solved St. Augustin’s difficulties, 550 . Aptus, 464 . Archimedes, not to be explained by Epicurus, 353 . Arena, matches of the, 372 . Aristotle, not to be explained by an enemy, 353 . Army, of the virtues and vices, 382 . Artisans, singing at work, 514 . Ascension of Christ foretold, 341 ; witnessed by Apostles, 342 ; of our Lord, 373 , 374 , 375 ; how our Lord prefigured, 494 . Ashes, of martyrs, thrown into the Rhone, 543 ; not scattered, 544 . Asper, a grammarian, 355 . Atoms, soul not formed of, 352 . Augustin, St., when ordained Priest or Presbyter, 347 ; his early love of truth, 347 , 349 ; his prayer for Honoratus, 348 ; how led into Manicheism (nine years in it), tempted by discussions, 348 ; only a “Hearer:” a worldling: contrast later, 348 ; his eyes weak from past delusions, 349 ; his book “ De Spiritu et Litera ,” note, 351 ; his belief about the Old Testament, 353 ; young when led into error, 353 ; his way of search for true religion, 356 , 357 ; disappointed in Faustus, 356 ; tended at times toward Academics: his prayers for help: becomes Catechumen, 356 ; his purpose of writing further to Honoratus, 365 ; expresses doubt on a point connected with marriage, 407 ; not at variance with Council of Carthage, 441 ; his many engagements, 441 ; his books on marriage and virginity, 448 , 454 ; wrote against Faustus, 448 ; works of, on Divine grace, 450 ; his works on Lying of different dates, 457 ; uses a homely style in practical matters, 458 ; his avocations, 481 ; life laborious, (bodily infirmity), 521 , 522 ; did what he exhorted others to do, 522 ; found a Bishop’s life more laborious than a Monk’s, 521 ; not submitting to man’s judgment, 522 ; desired to be admonished, 523 ; never completed his Retractations , 527 ; visited nightly by his mother while she lived, 547 ; not after her death, 547 . Aurelius, Bp. of Carthage, desired St. Augustin to write on the work of Monks, 503 , 522 . Authority, necessity of in religion, 356 , 357 ; source of what we believe, 359 ; lovers of truth believe, 360 ; for doctrine same as for belief in Christ, 362 ; some probable a priori , 363 ; shown by miracles on multitudes, 364 ; brought to bear on life through numbers, 364 ; seat of, in Catholic Church, 365 ; of doctrine to be strictly guarded, 466 , 483 , 484 .   Babylon, represents the world, 496 . Ball, pleasure of playing with, 453 . Baptism, indicates our death to sin and resurrection to life, 252 , 254 ; open to all, both infants and adults, 252 ; “Come, ye blessed of My Father, receive the kingdom,” 374 ; makes men temples of the Holy Spirit, 374 ; remission of all things in, 374 ; received, to be guarded by good life: washes once for all: why not repeated, 375 ; of heretics, “a form of Godliness:” is of the Church only: remits original sin, 386 ; puts away all sin, 408 ; of children, 419 ; remits from all sin, 435 ; supposed case of lying in order to give, 499 ; necessary for admission to Paradise, 546 . Baptized persons pray, 435 . Barnabas, simulation of corrected, 461 , 493 . Barrenness, does not make divorce lawful, 402 , 406 , 412 . Beauty, inward is what Christ loves, 451 ; false, lawful to none, 451 ; spiritual, decays not, 451 ; of truth, 498 . Bees, have progeny without intercourse, 399 . Begging Monks, 515 . Beginners, lying, well meant, excused in,. 460 , 473 , 495 , 497 . Beginning, The Father is, of Christ: The Son also the, 328 ; Godhead has none, 372 . Belief, See Faith; implies objects unseen, 337 . 338 ; of historical facts, 359 ; different from opinion, 458 ; needed before understanding, 463 ; of a lie, not always hurtful, 466 , 483 ; of false doctrine, a real misery, 483 ; in the heart, not enough without confession, 486 . Bene-dictio , better than bona dictio , 292 . Betrayal, sin of, 467 , 468 , 496 ; by silence, 468 , 469 . Bill of divorcement, 402 . Birds, their habits alluded to, 409 ; who? 436 ; image of the proud, 516 ; not to be imitated in all points, 517 , 518 sq.; in cages, 517 ; not imitated in picking food or flies, 518 ; caught by want of water, 348 . Bishop, empowered to relax certain excommunications, 441 ; addresses another Bishop’s flock by permission, 521 , 524 . Bishops, Catholic, overthrew Priscillianism, 485 ; called to act in secular affairs, 517 ; by Apostolic injunction, to be obeyed, 522 ; succession of from Apostles, 565. Bishop’s life, laborious, 521 , 522 ; recent increase of occupation, 521 . Blasphemy, worst in one who knows it such, 444 , 495 , 499 ; none can be allowable, 499 ; suggested by Job’s wife, 500 . Blessedness, called Right Hand of God, 373 . Blessing, put for cursing, 491 . Blood, of Christ, given the pardoned to drink, 374 . Bodies of the married are holy, 405 . Body, the death of, man’s peculiar punishment, 246 ; resurrection of, 264 , 332 , 375 , 540 , 541 ; in the resurrection, spiritual, 266 ; material of, never perishes, 265 , 529 ; a creature of God, 374 ; Temple of the Holy Spirit, 374 , 444 , 474 , not our object in religion, 354 ; its peaceful members made the soul’s pattern, 389 ; may be holy in marriage, 443 , 444 ; of all the Faithful is “members of Christ,” 444 ; soul to be preferred to, 463 , purity of, depends on soul, 463 , 499 ; Priscillianists erred concerning, 484 ; real good of, in the life to come, 528 , 529 ; to be restored entire, 529 ; patience of Martyrs concerning their, 530 ; motions of, affect the mind, 542 ; an interest felt in, by us while living, 543 , 544 ; overcome by the Martyrs, 544 ; hurt only by the pain of dying, 543 , 544 ; faith in resurrection of, confirmed by care for the dead, 541 , 550 ; obtained by the spirit, 543 ; not affected by the treatment of the corpse, 540 , 541 , 543 , 544 . Boyhood, good and bad reasons for preferring, 352 ; rashness incident to, 353 . Bread, daily breaking of, at Troas, the Eucharist, 514 . Bridegroom, Christ the, 343 . Burial, in the memorials of Martyrs, 539 , 542 , 549 , 550 ; place provided for, 539 ; want of, does not affect the dead, 540 , 541 , 543 , 544 , 545 ; a grief to the living, 544 ; external rites of, for the comfort of the living, 540 , 544 , 550 ; no benefit to the wicked, 540 , 544 ; care for, a duty, 541 ; why? 544 ; by the Patriarchs and their children, 541 ; significative, 541 ; commended in Scripture, 541 ; rewarded, 541 ; want of, and place of, does not hinder the resurrection, 540 , 541 ; or rest, 541 , 543 , 545 ; place of, a benefit only as occasioning prayer, 542 , 543 , 550 ; to slight, irreligious, 545 ; place of, naturally, a subject of interest, 543 , 544 ; loss of, how a punishment; how a kindness, 544 . Business distracting the mind unsuitable to preachers, 405 . Butler, Analogy, 337 .   Calling, each to remain in, 509 . Candidianus, bearer of St. Augustin’s book on “Care for the Dead,” 551 . Canticles, prophecy of Christ and the Church, 343 . Care for the Dead, book on, occasion of writing, 539 , 551 . Caring for temporal things forbidden, 504 . Caring not, by some limited to spiritual wants, 503 . Carnally-minded like grass, 516 . Carthage, fourth Council of, 441 ; introduction of monasteries into, 503 . Cassiodorus, his book, De Inst. Div. Lit. , 347 . Catechetical instruction, 282 sq.; way to commence it, 288 sq.; of the educated, 290 sq.; of grammarians and professional speakers, 291 ; causes and remedies of tediousness in, 292 sq. Catechumen, examination of, as to his views, 288 ; specimen of address to ( 1 ) one of worthy views, (2) one of false aims, 299 ; formal admission of, 312 ; St. Augustin becomes one, 356 ; learned and repeated the Creed, 369 ; still under sins, 375 ; having a second wife, case of, 408 . Catholic, title of, whose by consent, 356 . Cataline, his powers of endurance, 528 . Cato, cited, 408 . Causes, essential to man’s happiness to know the; of good and evil, 242 ; the secondary, of evil, are ignorance and lust, 245 , 264 ; of common things obscure. Centurion, ready faith of, praised, 363 ; case of the, 428 . Chalcedon, Council of, excommunicates (Church) widows who marry, 441 . Character, care of, a point of charity, 453 . Characterem, (of Baptism), 375 . Charity, the Church abides in, 374 ; of the married state, 400 ; shown in communicating any good to others, 441 ; in keeping good repute, 453 ; unity of the Church belongs to, 535 ; a mark of the free-born, 535 . Chase, simile of, 457 . Chastity, advanced by Christianity, 364 ; of continence, better than married chastity, 411 ; wedded, is a good, 443 , 445 ; wedded, is God’s gift, 450 ; complete ( integritas ), of virgins and widows, 450 ; spiritual delights in, 452 ; not to be broken to save a life, 463 ; or a soul, 499 ; not lost by violence, 463 , 475 ; of mind what, 475 , 499 ; of mind to be preserved for detecting heresy, 487 ; is of the truth, 498 , 499 ; cannot teach adultery, 499 . Children, probably involved in the guilt, not only of our first parents, but also of their own immediate parents, 252 ; know their parents by faith, 338 , 360 ; exorcised, 369 ; loss of, 372 , 530 ; why baptized, 419 ; the Three Holy, Song of, 438 ; having, a reason for not marrying again, 445 ; spiritual, may serve instead of natural, 445 , 450 ; virginity of, a compensation to parents, 445 , 448 ; desire of, lawful, but not praiseworthy, 445 ; having, a blessing, not a merit, 447 , 448 ; bringing up well, is of good will, 448 ; spiritual fruits in place of, 451 , 452 ; lawfully begetting, for God a good work, 488 ; power of a parent over, 490 . Childhood, why a grown man may prefer, 352 . Christ, birth of, 249 , 371 ; being the only Son of God, is at the same time man, 249 ; grace of God in His birth, 250 , 251 ; made sin for us, 251 ; not regenerated in the baptism of John, 253 ; took away original sin and all other sins, 253 ; His life typical of the Christian life, 254 ; second coming of, 255 ; advent of, why foretold, 286 ; shows God’s love to us, 287 ; generation of, as Son of God and the Word, 322 sq.; neither made by nor less than the Father, 323 ; born through the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, 325 ; as God, has no mother, 325 ; Passion, Burial and Resurrection of, 326 ; Ascension of, 326 ; Session at the Father’s Right Hand and Coming to Judgment, 326 , 327 ; relation of, as Son to the Father, 328 sq.; the Seed of Abraham, 339 ; nations blessed in, 339 ; so honored though crucified, a miracle, 340 ; witnessed to by Jewish prophecy, 342 ; sufferings of, contrasted with His Victory, 342 ; name of, honored even by heretics, 343 ; the Bridegroom, 343 ; used the four ways of exposition, 349 , 350 ; veil of Law done away by, 351 ; teaching handed down from, 356 ; even heretics bid us believe in, 361 ; on whose testimony we do so, 362 ; planted His religion by the way of faith, 363 ; Death and Resurrection of, shut out fear, 363 ; various miracles of, their use, 364 ; effects of His Incarnation and Teaching, 365 ; God in true Man, 364 ; without sin, restores from sin, 369 , 370 ; what He teaches of Himself, 371 ; His lowly Birth, Passion and Death: born perfect as Son of God, 371 , 372 ; born of the Virgin in the fullness of time: God and Man: death of, a pattern to martyrs; Resurrection of, 372 , 375 ; sets a prize as in the arena, 372 ; arose to die no more, 372 ; example of, exceeds Job’s, 373 ; His Sufferings and Ascension, 373 ; shall come to judge the quick and the dead: the Church abides in, as branches in a Vine, 374 ; the Root: sin of killing, not unpardonable: members of, shall follow Him, 375 ; our pattern: condescends to our slowness, 380 ; and the Church, their union, 388 ; heretical notion concerning, 389 ; came in real flesh, 389 ; took a human body and a human soul, 390 , 364 ; really hungered and thirsted: saw fit not to abstain like the Baptist, 410 ; the object of love, 437 , 452 ; taught humility when near His Passion, 429 ; Himself the model for virgins, 429 , 431 ; the object of virgin love, 437 ; crucified, to be gazed on with the inward eyes, 437 ; may not be loved a little, 444 ; recognized by Anna as a child, 444 , 448 ; conceived in chastity, can make virginity fruitful, 446 ; loves an inward beauty, 446 ; a Husband, in the Spirit, to the married as to the Church, 446 ; shown to be the worthiest object of love, 452 ; did and commanded all for our salvation, 462 ; no lie to be told about, 466 ; patience of, perfect, 470 ; yet did not literally turn the other cheek, 470 ; sayings of, that seem false, are figurative, 476 , 494 ; denied before men in pretending heresy, 485 ; few deny sincerely, 486 ; kept back some truth, 491 ; called a “Rock,” “Lion,” 491 ; under our sins figured by Jacob, 492 ; Himself a Prophet, 494 ; assumed show of ignorance, 494 ; His feigning, 494 ; exhorts Martyrs to patience, 529 ; forbearance of, to Judas, 529 ; chose and justified the Apostles, 533 ; faith of, saved the old Saints, 533 ; made poor for our sakes, 535 ; poor of, to be made rich 539 . Christianity, derided as credulous, 337 ; is not without evidence, 339 ; testimony of mankind to, 355 ; profession of, its effect on the masses, 364 , 365 . Christians, nominal, described, 311 ; more numerous than Jews and Pagans united [in the Roman empire,] 356 ; they are not, who forbid faith before reason, 362 , 363 ; misrepresented, 365 ; work and prize of, 372 ; all in one commonwealth, 519 ; state of, as longing for inheritance, 535 . Christian life, four stages of, 275 . Church, is the Temple of God, 255 ; condition of, in heaven, 256 ; redeemed by blood, 257 ; history of, in four stages, 275 ; in its likeness to a Vine, 309 ; the Catholic, 331 ; quotes herself as fulfillment of prophecy, 339 , 341 ; called the “Queen,” 339 ; visible as such, 340 ; is herself an evidence, 341 ; witness of past and future, 342 ; spread abroad by suffering, 342 ; Bride of Christ, 343 ; milk from the teats of, 348 ; with what error charged by Manichees, 353 , 357 ; Catholic, prima facie claims of, 355 ; her teaching from Christ and the Apostles, 356 ; witnessed to by people and nations, 362 ; testimony of mankind leads us to, 364 ; doctrines of, concerning God, 365 ; mother of God’s children, 369 ; named in the Creed after the Holy Trinity: victorious over heresies, abides in charity, 374 ; Body of Christ: He the Head, 375 ; an heretical notion concerning, 389 ; Christ and the, 388 , 389 ; not yet perfect, 390 ; made subject to Christ, 390 ; her daily cry, 391 ; the, a Mother and a Virgin, 417 , 418 ; a holy Virgin, 420 ; sometimes called the kingdom of heaven, 425 ; the, a virgin and spouse of Christ, 446 , 451 , 452 ; includes the departed, 454 ; in a household, 454 ; authority of its practices though not in Scripture, 541 ; disunion with, breaks charity, 535 . Churches, seats in (apparently an exception), 296 ; of withdrawing from, during service; by whom filled on Festival days, 311 ; building of, 488 . Cicero, his rule for argument, 348 ; studied because acknowledged by all, 354 ; conspirators put to death by, 359 ; lectured on, 545 . Circumcision, a seal: is not for Christians, 351 ; made uncircumcision by leaving the law, 461 , 462 ; for whom lawful, 461 . City of God, St. Augustin on, 317 . Clean, who are, in God’s sight, 465 . Clergy, not bound to labor, 506 – 508 ; may claim maintenance from their people, 506 , 507 ; all, as well as Apostles, 508 , 510 ; employments fitted for, 511 ; receive support, not as mendicants, that they may escape distracting occupations, 512 ; injunctions to support, 511 , 513 ; for the good of the people, 513 ; have same right to maintenance as the Apostles, 515 , 516 : ministers of His Sacrament unto righteousness, 519 , 520 ; not to be careful, 521 . Cæcilius, not studied instead of Cicero, 354 . Coeval, image of the Coeternal, 371 . Colors, divers, signify what, 339 . Command, of the Lord, why St. Paul had none, 421 . Commands, clear, to be obeyed at all risks, 469 , 470 ; explained by examples, 470 , 471 . Community of goods at Jerusalem, 512 ; of goods, benefit of, 520 ; all Christians one, 519 . Compacts, sexual, how far sinful, 400 , 401 . Competentes, a step beyond other Catechumens, 547 . Concealment, of many things lawful, 352 ; not itself lying, 491 . Conceptaculum 471 . Concubinage, for offspring’s sake unlawful, 406 ; was lawful among the ancient fathers, 406 ; lawfulness of a certain kind of, doubtful, 407 . Concupiscence, gradually weakened, 524 ; patience not to minister to, 528 . Confession, of sins, 436 ; medicine of, 473 ; remedy for lies, 500 . Confinis, 351 . Conflict. of virtues and vices in the soul, 381 ; of the Christian, 382 , 387 . Conscience, moves all good minds to seek God, 363 ; good, excuses not carelessness of repute, 453 ; solace of, in evil report, 453 ; sinning against, 484 . Consent, in thought constitutes sin, 380 , 381 ; yielded and withheld, 387 , 388 ; withheld is mortification of the members, 392 ; what constitutes, 464 , 465 ; when it justifies doing a man wrong, 466 ; chastity not lost without, 475 . Consentius, his inquiries about Priscillianists, 457 , 482 ; praise of, 481 ; advised to write against Priscillianism, 486 , 492 . Constancy, in the faith of the Resurrection, 310 sq. Continence, praised by Epicurus, 352 ; door of, 380 , 381 ; why mentioned last by St. Paul, 383 ; God’s gift, 379 , 391 ; the gift of God’s Spirit, 384 ; difficult to treat of, 379 ; marriage, glorious, not to be attained in our own strength, 383 ; forbears excuses, 384 , sought of God by David, 384 ; required against all sin, 385 ; peace the prize of, 386 ; a healthful chastisement of our nature, 390 ; falsely claimed, considered, 391 ; its office, 391 ; is refusing the consent of the mind, 392 ; must watch the thoughts, 393 ; glory of perseverance in, due to the Lord, 393 ; the greater of two goods, 402 , 411 423 ; and marriage, two goods, 403 ; compared to fasting, 403 ; how, is not on a level with the marriage of the old Fathers, 408 , 409 ; a virtue of the soul, 409 ; in habit and act, 410 ; praise of the state of, 411 ; the root-virtue, 412 ; profitable for the life to come, 420 , 421 , 422 , 424 ; when unwillingly professed, 429 ; of widows: its rank, 434 ; widowed, better than nuptial chastity, 443 ; best for those who “receive” it, 445 ; strength of, measures merit of widowhood, 447 ; of heretics not to persuade us, 448 ; all is God’s gift, 449 ; though willing, 450 ; term properly used of virgins and widows, 450 ; universal, supposed danger of, 460 . Contraries, instances of, 483 . Conversion, not to be brought about by lying, 476 , 484 . Cornutus, a grammarian, 355 . Corruption, all things not perfectly good are liable to, 240 . Councils, weight of, against heretics, 365 . Creation, of man, what is to be believed concerning the, 302 ; all good, the whole better than each part, 444 . Creature, visible and invisible, 369 ; gives pleasure by approach to that which it loves, 534 . Credulousness, distinguished from faith, 357 . Creed, the Apostles’, 238 ; current in 4th century, 318 ; expounded, 321 sq.; the rule of faith or symbol, 369 sq.; not written, repeated by Catechumens: scattered through Scripture, 369 ; calls, not the Son Almighty, yet implies this, 370 . Crimes, penance for, 575. Crispina, mentioned, 434 . Critics, destructive, 448 . Cross, why Christ chose, 372 . Crown, for those who strive, 372 ; is not for the impatient, 531 . Curia, of Tullium, 546 . Curiosity, what it means, 356 , 357 ; idle, danger of, in reading, 398 ; forbidden, 573. Curma, vision of, 546 . Custom, binding power of, 263 sq. Cynegius, buried in the Basilica of St. Felix, 539 . Cyprian, St., on the unity of the Church, note, 365 .   Danger, seeking, tempting God, 520 . Daniel and St. Paul, 423 . Darius Comes, Ep. to, 337 ; St. Augustin’s letter to, 527 . David, a great saint, 384 ; spake rashly, 393 ; rash oath of, no example, 490 ; his feigned madness, 491 ; patient forbearance of, 529 . Day, the first and the Lord’s, 515 . Dead, souls of the, benefitted by the sacraments and alms of living friends, 272 , 550 ; care for, 539 – 551 ; pagan opinions of, 539 , 544 , 545 : at rest, 541 , 543 , 544 , 545 ; sacrifice for, in Maccabees, 540 ; not affected by the condition of the body, 540 sq.; unconscious when seen in visions, 545 sq.; do not know what happens in this world, 547 – 549 ; or their happiness would be affected, 547 ; except in special cases, 548 ; perhaps by information from other spirits, 548 ; from Angels, 548 ; by dispensation of the Holy Spirit: interpose not ordinarily, 547 sq., 549 ; not as they please, 549 ; sometimes, 548 , 549 ; a blessing thereby, 547 ; by extraordinary Divine permission, 549 ; we care and pray for, without knowing their state, 548 , 549 . Death, of the body is man’s peculiar punishment, 246 ; the first and the second, consequences of, 267 ; eternal, 273 ; cannot injure the regenerate, 275 ; question of lying to prevent, 497 , 498 ; sin worse than, 462 ; wrongly thought of as worst evil, 474 ; for mercy and truth, a gain, 497 ; sin the sting of, 500 . Deceit, purpose of, implied in lying, 458 ; may be by means of truth, 458 ; safest to avoid, entirely, 459 ; turns on itself, 495 . Defamation, question of, to prevent crime, 466 ; especially condemned, 472 . Degrees of glory in Heaven, 426 , 435 . Dei fica , 532 . Demetrias, consecrated a Nun, 441 ; her choice of virginity praised, and note, 443 , 448 ; became like Virgin Mary was, 449 ; before her mother in the kingdom, 451 ; grandmother of, 451 ; care needed for, being young, and a book recommended, 454 . Demons, served, 391 ; confess themselves tormented by Martyrs, 550 ; by living Saints, 550 . Deogratias, the book on Catechising the Uninstructed, written for, 282. Deserter, mark of, not changed, 375 . Desires, earthly, lead to endurance, 528 . Devil, the, how he tempts, 314 ; the, called a lion, 491 . Dictinius, reformed from his error, 483 ; his book called the “Pound,” 484 , 497 , 500 . Diet, what St. Augustin used, 348 . Difficulties, to be borne with, 550 . Discourse, a, often pleasant to the hearer and distasteful to the speaker, and probable explanation of the fact, 282 sq. Disease, of nature, what, 386 . Dives, care for his brethren did not imply that he knew of their state, 548 . Divorce, why permitted the Jews, 349 ; rebuked by Christ, 402 ; may not take place for barrenness, 402 , 406 , 412 ; does not dissolve marriage, 402 , 406 , 412 ; dissolves marriage in the world’s opinion, 402 . Donatists, suicides of, 530 ; not martyrdoms, 531 . Donatus, the grammarian, 355 . Dreams, See Apparitions, 545 sq. Drunkenness, a fault in act or habit, 357 . Duty, of marriage among the early people of God, 403 , 406 , 408 , 419 ; higher, supersede lower, 474 ; cannot require a sin, 489 . Duumvir, 546 . Dwelling called “sitting,” 373   Earth, creation of the, 369 . Ecclesiasticus, said to be written by Solomon, not canonical, 548 . Economy, some, used toward aliens without lying, 487 ; practiced by our Lord, 491 . Educated, the, how to catechise, 290 sq. Egypt, represents the world, 496 . Election, God’s sovereign grace in, 268 ; Divine, is grace, 532 , 533 ; precedes faith, 533 ; examples of, 534 . Eligere, 534 . Eloquence, few attain, yet masters of, known, 354 . Emperor, heathen, grants pardon to the courage of Firmus, 468 . End of the Lord, our example, 373 . Endurance, not patience, 426 ; of sufferings for worldly objects, 527 ; of men for temporal objects praised, 528 ; practised for wicked ends, 528 , 529 ; not patience, but an example, 528 ; in surgical cases, worldly, 532 , 534 ; this is animal and devilish, 532 ; like stupor of disease, 534 ; frantic, of misguided lust, 534 . Enemies, love of, 261 . Epicurus, sometimes praises continence, 352 ; his error about pleasure 352 ; not fit to explain Archimedes, 353 . Epistles, of St. Paul, said by Manichees to be interpolated, 350 ; written for men’s salvation, 470 , 477 ; truth clearly put forth in, 493 . Erasmus, his opinion of the “ De Patientia ,” 527 . Error, the nature of, 242 ; always an evil, 243 , 245 ; not always a sin, 244 ; easy to talk against, 348 ; three kinds of, in reading, 351 ; hurts not unless believed: charitable, no evil, 352 ; truth frees from, falsehood involves in 457 , 458 ; of fact does little harm, 483 . Erucius, Orations of, 354 . Esau, birthright of, what it signified, 492 . Eternal life, the penny in the parable, 426 . Eternity, no space of, between the Father and the Son, 371 . Eucharist, Blood of Christ given to drink in, 374 . Eulogius, sees St. Augustin in a dream, 545 . Eunuchs, for the kingdom of Heaven, 424 , monks preferred to be as, 523 . Eusebius, Eccl. Hist. translated by Ruffinus, 543 . Evanescere , 486 . Eve, Adam tempted by, 372 ; a help to the tempter, 530 . Every, used for “any,” 472 . Evidence, of prophecy, 339 , 340 sq.; of the Jews, 342 . Evil, in the universe is but the absence of good, 240 ; there can be no evil where there is no good, 241 ; good and evil are exceptions to the rule that contrary attributes cannot be predicated of the same subject, 241 ; permission of, 267 , 269 , 385 ; turned into good by God, 269 , 385 , 495 ; man created able to choose good or evil,—choice of evil impossible in the future life, 271 ; co-existence of, with good, in the Church, and their final separation, 303 sq.; God not the author of, 365 ; not self-existent, 385 ; Manichæan errors concerning, 385 , 386 , 388 ; uses of, 385 , 386 ; lusts, what, 387 ; perfected hereafter, not a substance, 387 , 388 ; its nature explained, 464 ; question of doing less, to avoid greater, 465 , 467 ; wrongly measured through earthly affections, 474 ; comparison of evils, 476 ; not to be done that good may come, 488 . Evil fruit, good tree cannot bring forth, expounded, 241 . Examples (see Saints), how to be judged of, 495 . Excommunication, needed for crimes, 373 ; may be incurred by a valid marriage, 441 . Excuses, shunned by continence, 384 ; useless before God, 384 . Exhortation, needful to spur us to action, 442 , 449 ; use of, implies acting on others’ will, 450 . Exorcism of children shows original sin, 369 . Experience, of friendship leaves room for faith, 338 . Exsufflation of Children, 369 . Eye, inward and outward, 337 . Eyes, weak from darkness cannot bear light, 361 ; fools use more readily than the mind, 363 ; their honorable place in the body, 444 ; want of, supplied by hearing, etc., 452 .   Fables, are no lies, 494 . Fairness of Christ, the love of virgins, 436 , 437 . Faith, is the gift of God, 247 ; without works, is dead, 259 ; of things unseen derided, 337 ; defended by analogy, 338 ; even after trial, 338 ; if due to human things, more so to divine, 339 ; prophesied of, a ground of faith, 343 ; on authority, blamed by the Manichees, 348 , 356 ; distinguished from credulity, 357 ; question if still a fault, 357 , 358 ; necessary for friendship, 357 , 358 , 338 ; teacher uses, towards learner, 357 ; no harm in, though reason might be used, 358 ; distinguished from knowledge and opinion, 359 ; faulty only when rash or wrong, 359 ; of historical facts, needful, 360 ; parents known by, 359 , 360 ; most needful of all in religion, and why, 360 , 361 ; before reason, no rashness, 362 ; they are not Christians who forbid faith in Christ before reason, 362 ; miracles lead to, 363 ; prepares way to wisdom, 365 ; before understanding, 370 ; is in order to eternal life, 374 ; and works, 392 ; without putting down lust, is dead, 393 ; in wedlock, 401 ; conjugal, less worthy than virginity, 442 ; of profession to be kept, 445 ; whence named, 476 ; of Christ, none justified without, 533 ; Faith, Hope and Love, God to be worshipped through, 238 ; their mutual dependence, 239 ; distinction between faith and hope, 239 ; love is the greatest of the three, 274 . Fall of man, through pride, 371 . Falling, danger of, 432 . Falsehood, not all, is a lie, 458 ; leads to error, 459 . Faltonia, Proba, mother of Juliana, 448 . Fame, endurance from desire of, 528 . Famine, provided against, 471 . Fasting, continuous for several days, 364 ; compared to continence, 403 ; adds to the merit of widowhood, 448 ; time of, how to be used, 452 ; before receiving the Eucharist, 514 . Fatalism, its excuses blasphemous, 384 . Fate, inconsistency of those who speak of it, 384 . Father, The, how greater than the son, 249 ; Himself God, 327 ; the Beginning of The Son, 328 ; hath not His Being from The Son, 329 ; nor from any other, 329 ; The Son anointed by, 339 ; One God with The Son, 370 ; coeternal with Son imaged by coeval, 371 ; doth what he will, never without The Son, 371 . Father, human, supposed death of, inciting to lying, 464 ; power of, over children, 490 ; why greater than sons, 370 . Fathers, Catholic, remarks on their writings, 291 ; the Old, how they married, 403 , 406 , 407 , 466 ; typical in their marriage of many wives, 408 . Faustus, the Manichee, attacked Patriarchs’ marriages: his pretensions and failure, 448 . Fear, to displease God entertained by love, 431 ; spoken of by St. Paul, 432 ; likely to mislead, 489 ; of God, His gift, 534 ; patience founded on, 535 . Feast, conversation at a, 357 . Feigning, in our Lord no falsehood, 494 . Felix, St., burial in his Basilica, 539 ; appeared at Nola, 548 . Fellowship, attainable without marriage, 403 . Female, contrasted with male, 408 . Fides, from fieri , 476 . Figure, of speech, 392 , 393 ; in speech, no lie, 491 , 494 . Filth of soul, love of any thing but God and the soul, 364 . Final goods, 403 . “Finger of God,” means the Holy Spirit, 305 . Fire, saved by, expounded, 259 ; coeval father of light, 371 . Firmus, Bishop, courage of, 468 , 469 . Flames of the world, 438 . Fleeing iniquity, the greatest of all alms, 262 . Flesh and blood, shall not inherit the kingdom of God, expounded, 317 ; living after what? 383 ; meaning of, in Scripture, 383 , 384 ; how saved, 387 ; Manichæan error concerning, 388 , 389 ; as created, spoken well of by St. Paul, 388 ; Christ’s was true, 389 ; not evil: likened to the Church, 389 , 390 ; its works, may be sins of the soul, 391 . Flood, the, a sacramental sign, 303 . Flora, a pious widow, 539 . Food, strong, not for the diseased, 357 , 361 ; preserves man, 407 ; uncooked, needs exercise to digest, 518 ; stores of, necessary, 518 . Fools, all who are not wise, and note, 360 ; do best to follow the wise, 361 , 363 ; cannot know wisdom surely, 361 ; incapable of reason concerning God, 363 ; easiest led by means of sense, 363 , 364 . Foreknowledge, of God, 271 , 302 . Forgery of wills, 488 . Forgiveness, of debtors, 261 ; of sins, realized in baptism, 374 sq.; asked by all, shows all sinful, 443 . Fortitude, spirit of, 535 . Fowlers, why the, cover up waters, 348 . Foxes, who? 436 . Free, why man is left, 385 . Free-born, love is of, 535 . Free-will, lost by sin, 247 . Freedom of the will, See Will, is the gift of God, 248 ; man created with, 271 . Friendship, founded on faith, 337 ; exists before fully proved, 338 ; none without faith, 358 ; attainable without marriage, 403 . Fronto, informant of Consentius, 483 . Fruitfulness, not to be compared to virginity, 419 . Fruits, thirty, sixty, and hundred fold, 434 . Future life, continence profitable for, 420 , 421 , 423 , 424 .   Games, illustrate the Christian conflict, 372 ; what men will suffer for, 528 . Gaul, martyrs of, 542 . Generation, preserves mankind, as food man, 407 ; of mortal creatures is by corruption, 370 . Generation, of The Son from eternity, 371 . Genius, finds not truth without God’s help, 358 . Gentiles, not to use Jewish customs, 461 , 462 , 493 ; typified by the woman with issue of blood, 494 ; idolatrous, called Pagans, 509 , 511 ; debtors to Jews, 516 . Gift, The Holy Ghost called, 339 . Gifts, are all from God, 432 ; prayed for, are not of ourselves, 433 ; of different kinds, 434 ; spiritual, one person may have many, 549 . Girding the loins, what? 386 . Glory, different degrees of, 426 , 435 . God, to be worshipped through faith, hope and love, 238 ; in what sense said to be angry, 248 ; Grace of, displayed in Christ, 249 ; in election, 268 , 533 ; Peace of, 257 ; pardons sin, but on condition of penitence, 258 ; alone decides what sins are trivial and what not, 262 ; does well even in the permission of evil, 267 ; Will of, never defeated, though much is done contrary to His will, 269 ; always good, but sometimes fulfilled through the evil will of man, 269 ; Grace necessary to salvation before the fall, 271 ; foreknew the sin of the first man, and ordered His own purpose. accordingly, 271 ; is Love, 275 sq.; severity of, 287 ; finger of, signifies the Holy Spirit, 305 ; exclusive eternity and omnipotence of, 322 ; blessed Abraham, 339 ; most fitly born of a Virgin, 339 ; is not in any special place, 341 ; the True, now invoked by all, 342 ; if Almighty created matter, 322 ; just in binding men by law, 351 ; frees from the Law, but condemns it not, 351 ; dwells in pure souls, 353 ; reasons concerning, understood by few, 358 ; helps those who go humbly and charitably, 358 ; knowledge of, true wisdom, 360 ; search for true religion presupposes faith in, 361 ; cannot be displeased with our believing, 361 ; demands faith, 362 ; the wise most near to, 363 ; mercy of,. shown in Christ, 363 ; now known by nations not to be of earth or fire, 364 ; Old Testament charged with false doctrine about, 365 ; providence of, points out the Church, 364 ; no substance but is of Him, 365 ; Father of those to whom the Church is Mother, 369 ; The Almighty Father, cannot lie or will wrong, 369 ; Author of Incorruptibility: One Will of Father and Son, 370 ; not lost by misfortunes, 372 , 373 ; a Temple is for Him: He creates, Who clothes, 374 ; permits evil, why? 385 ; brings good out of evil, 385 ; Manichæan heresy concerning, 385 , 386 ; His nature, 386 ; a Physician, 386 ; not wanting under the law, 449 ; destroys not free will, 449 , 450 ; favor of, gives continence, 449 ;. gifts of, no blessings unless owned, 449 ; all good comes from, 452 ; labors to win, pleasant, 453 ; “hates” sinners, “destroys” liars, 462 , 481 ; who unclean in sight of, 465 ; hears our inward speech, 471 ; wronged, though not hurt, by sins of luxury, 474 ; to be honored outwardly as well as inwardly, 482 ; Priscillianists erred concerning, 484 ; sin against, worse than against man, 485 ; sometimes heals secretly, 486 ; we must depend on, after all means, 497 ; will provide where we cannot rightly, 500 ; impassible: passions attributed to: patience His Gift, 527 , 536 ; Himself long-suffering, though not suffering, 527 , 528 ; His wrath, jealousy: His “repentance” implies no error, 527 ; cares for our body, 529 ; not lost by will, 530 ; riches of, 531 , 536 ; patience likens to, 532 ; assists the just, and justifies the ungodly. 533 ; free mercy of, to old Saints, 533 ; how first loves sinners, works in us good will, 534 , 536 ; never lies, 565. “God will have all men to be saved,” expounded, 267 , 270 . Gold, may be known and not had, 361 . Goliath and Zaccheus compared, 411 . Good, all things made, 240 ; but not perfectly good, hence liable to corruption, 240 ; there can be no evil where there is no good, 241 ;. highest, not attained without loving it, 363 ; brought out of evil, 385 ; all nature is, 386 ; in what degree attainable, 387 ; man so created, 388 ; the substance of the flesh is, 390 ; superior, makes not lesser good an evil: some, implied in “better,” 443 , 446 ; more honored by having a good below it than an evil, 444 , 446 ; fall from a higher, is an evil, 445 , 446 ; all, comes from God, 452 ; sin aims at some, in this life, 474 ; temporal, may be given up without sin, 474 , 475 ; three things to be kept, for sanctity’s sake, 475 ; luminous, of truth, 498 ; impassible, 532 . Goods, final and instrumental, 403 ; when abused, become sin, 403 ; of marriage are offspring, faith, sacrament, 412 . Good works, men not saved by, 247 ; follow faith, 247 ; rewarded by eternal life, the gift of God, 272 . Gospel, not to seem sold, 508 – 510 . Gospels, said by Manichees to be interpolated, 350 . Government, of mankind, 385 . Grammarians, expected to find good sense in Virgil, 353 ; several named, 355 . Gratitude, due from virgins to God, 433 . Greek, words borrowed from, 349 . Greeks, philosophers, shoemakers, 511 . Guests, duty of protecting, 489 , 490 . Guilt, transmitted from progenitors, 252 , 253 .   Habits, hard to change, 364 . Hair, bosses of, 429 ; worn long by some monks: long, thought a sign of sanctity, 522 ; St. Paul’s rule against long, 523 ; every, in God’s keeping. 529 . Happiness, knowledge of the causes of good and evil necessary to man’s, 242 ; of perfect knowledge not yet ours, 359 . Head dress of women, 429 . Health and immortality, two goods, 403 . Hearers, order of, among the Manichees, 348 ; what said of, when they left them, 348 . Hearing, studiousness of, 357 . Heart, its mouth, 379 – 381 : continence must be seated there, 379 ; its consent, 380 , 381 ; its language, 379 ; picture of purity, 392 . Heaven, the Church in, 256 , 257 ; degrees of glory in, 426 , 435 . Heresies, fight in vain against the Church, 374 . Heresy, pretence of, may cause real, 483 , 484 ; how to be exposed: sometimes healed secretly, 486 . Heretic, not every one a, who believes heretics, 347 ; what makes a, 348 ; silence to be kept to a: each claims name of Catholic, 355 , 356 ; spoils that claim by pretending to reason, 357 , 363 ; cannot claim authority, or do without it, 362 ; that on which we believe Christ is against them, 363 . Heretics, or schismatics compared to twigs lopped off the vine, 310 sq.; all, would have us believe in Christ, 362 ; many ways condemned, 365 ; yet in their sins, 375 ; continence of, should not persuade us, 448 ; widows and virgins of, inferior to Catholic wives, 448 ; not to be tracked out by lying, 482 ; sin less in speaking heresy than Catholics would, 483 , 485 ; little harm in believing, when they pretend Catholicism, 483 ; converted, may take comfort in their former ignorance, 485 ; converted, will correct others, 486 . Hidden life with Christ, 392 . History, explanation by, 349 ; of the Exodus allegorical, though true, 350 . Holy Spirit, the birth of Christ is of The, 250 ; is not the Father of Christ, 250 ; Holy Spirit and the Church, 255 ; is not a creature, 256 ; sin against The, 264 ; signified by the expression, finger of God, 305 ; mission of, on Pentecost, 308 ; The third Person of the Trinity, 327 ; His individuality and offices, 329 ; body of any Christian, a temple of, 444 ; speaking in St. Paul, 513 . Homicide, lying to screen from punishment, 468 ; justifiable, 469 . Honoratus, several of the name, 347 ; one a companion of St. Augustin, a lover of truth, 347 ; prayed for, 348 , 349 ; how led astray, 348 ; not then a Christian, 348 ; his friendship with St. Augustin, 351 ; will wonder at the Old Testament being called pure, 353 ; called on to take more pains, 355 ; a sincere and earnest inquirer, 365 . Honorius, laws of, against idols, 337 . Hope, everything pertaining to, embraced in the Lord’s Prayer, 273 ; worldly, its objects, 348 ; of discovery implied in search, 361 ; of Christians in the Judgment, 374 . Horace, fable quoted, 494 . House, temporal and eternal, 496 . Humility, most needful for virgins, 428 , 437 ; who would follow Christ, 436 ; its praise, 428 ; instances of, 428 , 429 ; commended by our Lord, 428 , 430 . Humility, taught by Christ, near his Passion, 429 ; learnt of Christ, 430 ; unfeigned, needed, 434 ; treated of fully by St. Augustin, 436 ; of Saints, 438 ; and holiness: need of in pious widows, 448 . Hundredfold fruits of virginity, 434 . Hunting, pleasure of, 452 . Husband, and wife, their union, 388 ; relative duties, 389 , 391 ; might once have many wives, 406 , 407 ; must have but one, 408 .   I AM, meaning of the Name, 324 . Idleness leads to vain talking, 516 . Idolaters, a minority, 355 . Idolatry conforming to, to avoid violence, 464 ; might be done to save life, if lying lawful, 482 ; conformity to, nowhere allowed, 493 . Idols, laws of Honorius against, 337 ; some still believe in, 341 ; rejection of, prophesied, 342 . Ignorance, sometimes better than knowledge, 242 ; result of evil, 245 , 264 ; to be borne patiently, 550 . Image, of God, in the mind, 524 . Images, of persons and things seen in visions, 545 sq. Imitation of Christ, 427 . Immanuel, 340 . Immortality, the penny in the parable, 426 . Impatience, evil of, 527 . Impurity, legal, not always sin, 409 . Incest, compared with adultery and fornication, 402 . Incorruptible, begets Incorruptible, 370 . Incorruption, future gain of, 529 . Infirmity, a reason for not working, 515 ; pleaded as an excuse, 516 . Injury, not to be done to one man to save another, 466 , 467 . Instrumental, goods, 403 . Integritas, said of virgins and widows, 450 . Intention, determines the character of an action, 520 . Intercourse of the sexes venial in marriage state, 263 ; when right, when wrong, 487 . Interpolations supposed in Holy Scripture, 350 . Involuntary continence estimated, 429 . Isaac, son of Abraham: told no lie, 491 ; inherited otherwise than his brothers, 535 . Israel, prefigured the future Church, 304 ; history of, and its significance, 304 sq.; compared with Sodom, 461 ; history of, figurative, 470 . Israelites, whole people as it were a prophet, 444 . Israelitess, without guile, Rahab became, 497 .   Jacob, his birth as typical of Christ’s Incarnation, 286 ; an ancestor of Christ, 339 ; his example quoted for lying, 460 ; his deceit was a mystery, 491 ; acted in the figure of Christ, 492 . Jealousy, attributed to God, 527 . Jehu, falsehood of, no safe example, 482 . Jericho, represents the world, 496 . Jerome, St. opinion of, about St. Peter’s simulation, and note, 461 . Jerusalem, heavenly and earthly contrasted, 496 ; Christian’s living in common at, 512 ; the heavenly, what gifts her sons have, 535 . Jesus, supported by pious women, 506 . Jewish Christians, kept the Law, 509 . Jews, named from Judah, 339 ; our witnesses to prophecy, 342 ; permitted to ill-treat our Lord, 373 ; many of, murderers of Christ, forgiven, 374 ; and heathens, out numbered by Christians, 355 ; their notions of defilements, 469 ; priesthood of, become vile, 470 ; heart of, called “stony,” 491 ; rites of, culled “sacramenta,” 493 . Job, his example cited, 409 ; patience of, in various temptations, 530 ; was thought to worship God, for temporal things: compared with Adam, 530 ; trials of, extreme, 372 ; tempted by his wife: stood fast in God, 373 ; restored to prosperity for our example, 373 . John, St. beautifully alluded to, 390 ; his example cited, 410 ; alluded to, 426 . John, the Monk, 539 ; he had the gift of prophecy: consulted by Theodosius: appeared to one in sleep, 550 . Joke, a, not a lie, 458 . Joseph, St. chosen to evidence the perpetual virginity of St. Mary, 511 . Joseph, temptation of, 487 ; his concealment no lie, 491 . Josiah, sparing the Prophet’s bones, 544 ; spared the knowledge of the afflictions which followed after his death, 547 . Jotham, parable of, 494 . Joy, different degrees of, in Heaven, 426 ; godly, given to us, 534 . Judah, Jews named from, 339 . Judah, fornication of, no example, 495 . Judaism, how far St. Paul allowed, 460 . 461 , 493 . Judas prophesied of, 341 ; an example of evil tolerated, 506 ; our Lord’s patience with, 529 . Judge, seems required for “false witness,” 467 , 468 , 473 ; information to, no betrayal, 468 ; tortures inflicted by, 528 . Judgment, reason for believing, 341 ; will separate good and evil, 343 ; of the just and the unjust, 374 . Judgments of God, on fallen men and angels 246 ; will be explained at the Resurrection, 267 ; are just, 268 sq. Juliana, thanks St. Augustin for a warning: asked him to write, 441 ; not to take all as written for herself, 441 , 448 ; had children when left a widow, 445 , 448 ; highest achievements open to, 448 ; is to communicate the book to others, 450 ; household of, a Church, 454 .   Kids, skins of, meant sins, 492 . Kindred, spiritual, preferable to human, 418 . Kingdoms, two distinct, after the resurrection; Christ’s and the Devil’s, 273 . Kiss, not refused to Judas, 529 . Knowledge, different ways of desiring, 357 ; distinguished from opinion and belief, 359 ; of evil, no misery, 359 ; matter of belief may be called, 360 ; and charity, two goods, 403 ; all who know, partake of, 528 ; of difficult questions, a divine gift, 549 .   Labor, pleasure in, 453 ; those able to, happier, 515 ; a duty of monks, 514 ; practised in good monasteries, 516 ; humbling effects of, on the wealthy, 518 ; for the common store, 519 ;. in the rich more charitable than alms-giving, 535 . Lamb, The, followed by virgins, and married persons, 426 , 432 . Lamps, burning, what, 386 . Laurentius, the Enchiridion addressed to, 237 . Law, counsel given beyond, 461 , 462 ; of God unmoved by circumstances, 489 ; of nature, 407 ; under , in , without distinguished, 509 ; Jewish, permitted eating in the fields, 517 ; supposed wish to combine, with the Gospel, 351 ; Ceremonial, mysteries of, 351 ; in the letter, killeth; wants an expounder, 353 . Laws, of man, in some sort Christian, 356 . Laying out more, St. Paul, 515 . Lazarus, buried, what signified in, 494 ; borne by Angels, 541 ; told Abraham the state of the Jews, 548 . Lectures of Rhetoricians, 545 . Leeches, 529 . Left-hand, what means, 374 . Legal purification shows not marriage sinful, 409 ; was for the type of sin, 409 . Leisure, what, had St. Paul, 466 . Leonas, messenger of Consentius, 481 . Lewdness, worse than theft, 488 489 . Liar, not every is a, who lies, 466 . Liberty, Christian, 461 , 462 , 493 . Lie, never allowable, but differs much in guilt, 243 ; not allowable to save another from injury, 245 ; question if ever lawful, 457 sq.; a joke is not a, 458 ; nor a mistake, 458 ; definition of, 458 , 459 , 494 ; how to be safe from, 460 ; question if ever useful, 460 , 491 ; examples quoted in favor of, 460 , 495 , 500 ; cases of danger requiring, 460 , 462 , 490 ; condemned as false witness, 460 ; condemned more generally, and note, 460 , . 468 , 476 ; allegory is not, 460 , 491 ; sometimes allowed in imperfect state, 461 ; New Testament never favors, 461 , 493 ; God hates, even to destroying, 462 , 482 ; corrupts the soul, 463 ; any sin as easily justified, 463 , 495 ; good men lose authority by telling, 464 ; about Christ, 466 ; several cases of, 466 ; none lawful in doctrine, 466 , 490 ; not to be told to give pleasure, 467 ; useful, question of, 467 , 472 , 474 , 495 ; if not to defend crime, 467 ; how to escape, when questioned, 468 ; how to escape, when silence betrays, 469 ; five kinds of, condemned: three still questioned, 469 ; wish to use, forbidden, 472 ; what, threatened with destruction, 473 ; Deceit is, even if not “false witness,” 473 ; a harmless one, to save pudicity of body, allowed, 475 ; eight sorts of, all shown to be evil, 476 ; which sorts less culpable: none is good, 481 , 482 ; examples of, quoted from Scripture, 482 , 491 ; every, contrary to truth, 482 ; pretending heresy worse kind of, 483 ; metaphor or antiphrasis, is not, 491 ; none is “just,” 495 , 484 ; no holy person glories in, 496 ; one, leads to another, 498 ; about religion worst, 498 , 500 ; not to be told to save a soul, 499 ; rather trust God, 500 ; put for sin in general, 500 ; not less than lewdness, 500 . Life, eternal, through the reward of good works, is itself the gift of God, 272 ; eternal, not to be given for temporal, 462 , 474 ; good here, eternal hereafter, worth patience, 528 . Light, real and pretended, 348 ; strong, not born at once, 361 ; beauty of, a standing miracle, 364 ; coeval offspring of fire, 371 . Lips, have spoken if the heart has consented, 338 . Literal sense, the usual one of the Epistles, 504 . Liturgy, quoted, 449 . Living after man, is living after the flesh, 383 . Lot, entertained Angels, 463 ; his example discussed, 463 , 489 , 490 ; excused by perturbation, 490 ; knew not his guests to be Angels, 497 . Love, greater than faith and hope, 274 ; is the end of all the commandments, 275 ; action of, 286 sq.; “perfect, casteth out fear,” 330 ; act of, invisible, 338 ; only way to attain the highest good, 363 ; submits without hope of temporal rewards, 373 ; of husband for wife, Apostolical argument for, 388 ; fears to displease God, 431 ; owed to God by virgins, 433 ; of Christ, on the part of virgins, 437 ; the remedy for pride, 437 ; of neighbor as self, 462 ; misdirected, makes false estimates, 474 ; rectitude of, the soul’s chastity, 475 , 476 ; of God, is His gift, 532 ; the ground of patience, 532 , 534 ; kindled by The Holy Spirit, 532 ; of creature: already in creature loving, 534 ; of God, not in creature unless given, 534 . Lucan, quoted, 239 , 541 . Lucretius, error of, about the soul, 352 . Lucus quod non luceat , 491 . Lust, what is chiefly so called, 380 , 381 ; our enemy, to be resisted, 381 ; its resistance the business of man, 382 ; proved to be of the soul as much as of the body, 391 ; how put down, 393 ; sexual, its sinfulness, 401 ; definition of, 463 .   Maccabees, book of, referred to, 540 . Madmen, strength of, not healthy, 448 . Magic arts, 391 ; in bringing up Samuel, 548 . Male and female, contrasted, 407 . Malefici , 500 . Man, knowledge concerning, a part of wisdom, 306 ; nature of, assumed by God, 363 ; image of God in, 369 ; begins in imperfection, 372 ; living after, what, 383 . Manhood, assumed by The Son, 329 ; perfect in Christ, 249 . Manichees, object to believing on authority, 348 ; their pretence of reasons and learned discussions, 348 ; refute rather than prove, 348 ; their contemptuous phrases: attack the Old Testament, 349 ; think Scripture interpolated, and how, 350 ; of what error they accuse the Church, 353 ; worship the sun, 353 ; boasted of Faustus, 356 ; inquire origin of evil, 365 ; charges of, against Scripture: of bloodless bodies, but coarse minds, 365 , 366 ; their heresy, 385 , 386 , 388 , 389 ; refuted: dismissed, 388 , 390 ; their saying, 410 ; their heretical opinion, 413 ; said the law was not of God, 509 . Manichæans, place claimed for among the Apostles, 350 . Mankind, how they might have multiplied had Adam not sinned, 399 , 400 . Mansions, many in heaven, 426 . Marriage, fools should consult the wise about 361 ; many have learned to despise, 364 ; its end, 391 ; not regarded as unholy by the Fathers, 398 ; a lower state than virginity: first bond of society: that of our first parents, holy, 399 ; Christ went to one, 400 ; how a good, 400 , 402 , 412 ; intended as well for fellowship, 400 ; of aged persons, 400 ; continence in, praise-worthy, 400 ; brings good out of evil: its uses, 400 , 401 402 ; its grave joy, 400 ; how far certain compacts deserve the name of, 401 ; its abuse, not the sin of marriage, 401 ; Sacramental, 402 , 406 , 408 ; the lesser of two goods, 403 , 411 , 422 , 423 ; of the just, better than the virginity of the impious, 403 ; not evil, but good, 402 , 403 , 409 ; in what sense it is “better” not to marry, 403 , 407 ; was once a duty: St. Paul’s view of, 404 ; not sinful, 404 , 408 ; to be not sinful must be without excess, 404 ; holy, though the partner is unholy, 405 ; that looks only to pleasing God, rare, 405 ; how piously contracted by the old Fathers, 406 , 407 , 408 , 413 ; cannot be dissolved, except by death, 402 , 411 , 412 ; of many wives, allowable once, 406 ; compared to the taking of food, 407 ; was once contracted with spiritual desire, 407 ; hard, to use it like Abraham, 413 ; compared to ordination, 411 ; goods of, three, 413 ; of the old Fathers, holier than virginity now, 413 ; summary of St. Augustin’s book on, 417 ; how that of the old Fathers must be regarded, 422 , 423 ; not even indirectly condemned by St. Paul, 422 423 , 424 ; its fruits thirty-fold only, 434 ; of (professed) widows wrong but valid, 441 ; ends with the life of either party, 442 ; good of, shown, in that the bodies of married Christians are members of Christ, 442 ; due of, not to be withheld for fear of temptation, 442 ; the chastity in, God’s gift, 442 , 450 ; evil of excess in, not of marriage, but venial through it, 442 ; ends of: that of Sacrament: second, allowable, 443 ; second attacked by Montanists, etc., 443 ; body as well as spirit, holy in, 443 , 444 ; more desirable in Old Covenant, 444 ; of Patriarchs, was for offspring, 444 ; provides against temptation, 445 ; not needed when we may have spiritual children, 445 , 453 ; better than unstable purpose of widowhood, 441 ; still good under the Gospel, 446 ; desire of, wrong after vows, 446 ; argument from “marriage to Christ” refuted, 446 ; third or fourth, lawful, though less worthy, 446 ; seventh, allowed by our Lord to be marriage, 447 ; hard questions about, 448 , 449 ; ranks below continence: holiness of, inferior by reason of cares, 451 ; less needful since the world is perishing, 452 . Married, faithful women are mothers of Christ, 419 ; fruitfulness may not vie with virgin chastity, 419 , 420 ; persons may follow the Lamb, 427 , 436 ; persons in one respect cannot follow the Lamb, 427 ; may be fitter than virgins for Martyrdom, 434 . Martha and Mary, 403 . Martyr, supposed terms put to a, 464 ; no place for, if doctrine may be denied, 482 ; makes real gain, 497 . Martyrs, effect of their sufferings on mankind, 464 ; not prayed for at the Altar, 489 ; patience of, in scorn and pain, 529 ; true, do not kill themselves, 530 ; who suffer out of the Church, 535 ; memorials of, 542 , 549 , 550 ; prayers to, 542 ; care for others, the living, 542 , 544 sq.; ashes and bodies dispersed, of Gaul, and elsewhere, 542 , 544 ; overcame natural regard for the fate of their bodies, 544 ; removed from knowledge of earthly things, 549 ; tormenting demons, 550 . Martyrdom, often a hidden gift: common among Christians, 364 ; higher than virginity, 435 . Mary (see Virgin), the Blessed Virgin of the Jewish race, 339 ; Virgin after Christ’s birth, 339 , 511 ; Christ born of, 371 ; suspected: conceived Christ in chastity, 486 ; holy virgins become like, 449 . Mary and Martha, 403 , 413 , 423 . Master, opposed to “schoolmaster,” 351 ; of grammar, 353 ; one, to many slaves, 408 ; power of, over slaves, 490 . Mechanics, became Monks, 516 . Mediator, a, needed by fallen men, 248 , 253 , 257 ; must be God in order to redeem us, 272 . Medicine, taking, implies hope of recovery, 361 . Meditation, in the Law of God, 452 ; consistent with work, 514 . Members of sin, how mortified, 392 ; all members, though differing in honor, 444 . Memorials of Martyrs, 539 542 ; prayers offered there, obtain special blessings, 539 , 540 , 542 ; buried, 550 . Men, fallen, God’s judgments on, 246 ; restored through the mercy of God, 246 ; the restored part succeeds to the place lost by the rebellious angels, 247 ; not saved by good works, but by grace through faith, 247 ; needed a mediator, 248 ; all born of Adam are under condemnation, 246 , 254 ; Christians truly so, 523 ; figure the ruling principle of the mind, 524 . Mercy of God, free and abounding, 264 , 268 , 271 ; how far an excuse for wrong actions, 496 . Metaphor, is no lie, 491 . Midwives, believed, as to parents, 360 ; Hebrew, quoted for lying, 460 , 495 ; were not prophesying, 460 , 496 ; temporarily rewarded, 460 ; excused as beginners, 470 , 495 . Mind, things in, perceived without sight, 337 ; of others, not directly perceived, etc., 337 sq.; prepared for truth by believing, 358 , 362 ; of the wise brought in contact with God, 363 ; sovereign power of, disgraced by body’s sin, 487 ; parts of the, how figured, 524 ; patience a virtue of, 529 ; wounds of, 529 ; incomprehensible to itself, 569. Miracle, spread of the Gospel a, 340 . Miracles, meant to produce faith, 363 ; what are, 364 ; better than reasons to impress fools, 363 ; point out authority, 364 ; some more gracious, some more wonderful: why less frequent, and note, 364 ; witness of, against heretics, 365 . Mistrust of self, our security, 383 . Monachism, a holy purpose, 521 . Monasteries, introduction of, into Carthage, 503 ; good, practise manual labor, 516 ; indifferent to which one’s property has been given, 519 ; time divided for labor and devotion and study, 521 . Monastery, some may labor, others instruct, 514 ; owes a maintenance to those who have surrendered their property to it, 519 ; division of works in, 519 . Monica, St., failed not to visit St. Augustin every night, 547 . Monks, not laboring for their own support, 503 ; the work of, occasion of writing, 504 ; honest trades for men; a holy society, 511 ; laziness of, a trap, 515 ; cause scandals, 516 ; to avoid giving offense, to labor and be obedient, 514 ; ecclesiastical occupations and teaching of, 514 , 515 ; life holy and praiseworthy, 514 ; their many religious offices, 515 ; who have been delicately brought up, to be borne with, 516 ; not Evangelists nor Priests: supporters of the Monastery, 519 ; persons admitted without signs of amendment, 516 ; a heavy sin not to admit as, slaves, peasants, mechanics: some became exemplars, 516 ; kept stores of provisions, 517 ; might have dressed provisions, 517 , 518 ; who have been rich not compelled to bodily labor, 519 ; none to be idle: disentangled from secular affairs, 520 , 521 ; trusting for support in labor if able, without, if unable: called servants of God, 521 ; poor of Christ, 519 ; objects of the Bishop’s care, 521 ; hypocritical and vagrant, pretended ones, 521 ; a device of Satan to discredit that life by scandal, 521 ; accused of wishing to be maintained in idleness: of hawking: costuming: lying stories: begging, 521 ; wearing long hair, 522 ; life preferred to Bishop’s, 521 ; good ones accused and unsettled by the idle, 522 ; idle ones regarded as more holy, 523 . Monstrous births, and the resurrection, 265 . Montanists, attacked second marriages, 443 . Moral government of the world, 385 . Mortification of the members, what? 392 . Moses, veil of, 523 ; appeared after death, 548 . Mothers, of Christ, who? 418 , 419 . Mouth of the heart as well as the body, 380 , 381 ; not to be always literally taken in Scripture, 380 ; of the heart, 471 , 472 ; confession with the mouth required, 486 . Multitude, testimony of followed in common life, 355 ; must be led by steps to religion, 358 : is believed regarding Christ, 362 ; gathered by Him in the way of faith, 363 ; led by faith to approve many good things, 364 , 365 ; witness of, against heretics, 365 . Mysteries, holy, words used in celebrating, 449 . Mystery, defense of, not popular, 349 ; to be borne with, 534 .   Nabal, David right in sparing, 490 . Naboth, charge against, 491 . Name, eternal, promised to the eunuchs, 425 . Narration, to be employed in catechising, 285 sq., 289 . Nations blessed in Christ, 339 ; come to God, by believing, 341 . Nativity, Eternal, of the Son, 371 ; of Christ in time, 374 . Nature, the Christian knows little of, except that the goodness of the Creator is the cause of all things, 239 ; knowledge of the causes of, unessential to happiness, 242 ; wonders of, familiar, 364 ; all, is good, 386 ; lust is a disease of, 386 . Nazarites, long hair a figure of the veil of the Law, 523 . Neighbor, even an alien is, 487 . Net, of the Gospel, takes bad and good, 343 . Novations, against second marriages, 443 . Nuns, holy, deceased, 434 . Nurses, believed as to parents, 360 .   Obedience, the Christian’s work, 372 ; above continence, 411 ; implies chastity, 412 ; unmurmuring, duty of Monks, 514 . Old persons, why they marry, 400 . Olibrius, husband of Juliana, 452 . Omnipotence of God, 322 . Opinatio , 360 . Opinion, distinguished from knowledge and belief, 359 ; different from belief, 458 . Ordination, to be withheld from a husband who had a second wife, 408 ; a sacrament, 412 . Original sin, remitted by Baptism, 386 .   Pagans, soldiers: poets: yet in their sins, 375 ; idolatrous heathen so called, 509 , 511 ; opinions of burial, 540 ; philosophers, 540 . Paint, not to be used by women, 451 . Parables, are no lies, 494 . Paradise, man deceived in, 372 ; Adam careless in, 530 ; how man forfeited, 531 ; vision of, also baptism necessary for admission to, 546 . Parcae quad non parcant , 491 . Pardon, granted implies sin, 404 ; to what granted by St. Paul, 404 . Pardon of sin conditioned by penitence, and has reference chiefly to the Judgment, 258 ; not given to those who forgive not others, 261 . Parents, not to be recognized when they hinder our ministry, 325 ; known by testimony, 339 ; known to children by faith: yet love due to, 360 . Parricide, Cataline, of his country, 528 ; why worst homicide, 530 . Passion, foretold by same writers as things now seen fulfilled, 341 ; in Jewish Scriptures, 342 . Passions, how attributed to God, 527 . Patience, of Christ, 372 ; of Job, 372 ; is not to be for temporal hopes, 372 , 373 ; differs from endurance, 391 ; a great gift of God, 527 ; attributed to God: in what sense, 527 ; of God, without passion, 527 , 528 ; in man, what, 527 , 528 ; waits for good, 527 , 529 ; compared with worldly endurance, 528 , 531 ; for ill ends is no patience, 528 ; truth of, is in the cause, 528 ; not like science: both in mind and body, 529 ; shown without bodily pain: of our Lord toward Judas, 529 ; greatest against Satan’s assaults, 530 ; is God’s gift, 531 ; being from love of God, is from grace, 532 ; likens to God, 532 ; her words by St. Paul, 535 ; is it God’s gift? 535 , 536 . Patriarchs, had several wives for offspring, 444 ; marriages of, attacked by Faustus, 448 ; fed cattle, 511 ; ignorant of what befell the Jews, 547 . Paul, his speaking by permission not of commandment, expounded, 262 sq.; once a persecutor, 309 ; his counsels and commands concerning marriage and virginity, 421 ; what “he spared,” 422 ; the Teacher: “vessel of election,” 442 . chose the unmarried state as higher good, 442 ; rightly allows second marriage, 443 ; cared not for men’s praise, 453 ; St. Peter corrected by, 461 , 462 ; kept good repute with care, 461 ; his answer to the high priest, 470 ; his oaths, 470 , 474 , 477 ; right in not “living of the Gospel,” 470 ; used sympathy, not falsehood, 476 ; charged by some with a lie, 477 ; not compelled by want to preach, 509 ; not using his liberty, 506 509 , 510 ; bearing with the weak, 509 ; condescending, not of craft, 509 , 510 ; becoming all things to all men: “becoming weak,” 509 ; relieved by distant Churches, 510 ; declined gifts to avoid suspicion of venal motives, 510 , 511 ; labored in temporal as well as spiritual works, 511 ; avoiding suspicion of dishonesty, 513 ; rejoicing in the liberality of believers, 513 ; had special times for labor and teaching, at Troas: at Athens, 513 , 514 ; could work by day and night, 515 ; not receiving support was to avoid offense, 515 , 517 ; because his ministry was among the Gentiles, 515 ; not contrary to his Lord, 518 ; used means for self-preservation, 520 ; rapt into Paradise, 548 . Paulinus, St., of Nola, inquires about burial: his opinion, 569. Peace, on earth, 257 ; the prize of continence, 386 . Peasants, became Monks, 516 , 519 . Pelagianism, noted by St. Augustin in his book on widowhood, 441 , 449 . 450 ; dangerous approaches to 450 . Pelagians, think patience man’s attainment, 531 ; argument of, for free-will, 531 , 532 . Penance, done openly in Church: way of remission for the baptized, 375 ; refusal of, condemned, 473 . Penitence, needful for pardon of sins, 258 . Penitents, order of, 375 . Penny, in the parable, 426 . Pentecost, 308 . Peoples, and nations, our witnesses to Christ, 362 . Perfect, are not even to wish to lie, 472 . Perfecting, good and evil, 387 . Perjury, strangely justified by some, 498 ; none can be allowable, 499 ; real though not of truth, 499 ; feared even by the adulterous, 500 . Permission, not same as consent, 475 . Persecution, flight from, 520 , 521 . Perseverance, need of grace for, 453 , 454 . Persian fable of Manichees, 365 . Peter, St., his example cited, 410 ; simulation of, corrected, 461 , 493 ; his denial, 462 ; justifying him makes St. Paul a liar, 477 ; denied only with the mouth, yet sinned, 486 . Pharisee and Publican, 428 . Physician, best judge for the sick, 373 ; hates sickness, loves the sick, 534 . Pity, how attributed to God, 527 . Plato, hidden meanings of, in amorous writing, 355 . Pleasure, thought chief good by Epicurus, 352 ; in holy labor, 452 ; of earthly things a known motive to natural will, 534 . Pontius Pilate, named to mark the date, 371 . Poor, feeding, for man’s praise not good, 487 ; of Christ, monks so called, 519 ; patience of the, 531 ; long for the inheritance, 535 ; of Christ to be made rich, 536 . Posture, in prayer increases fervor, 542 . Powers that be, subjection to the, illustrated, 306 . Prayer, the Lord’s, 238 , 274 ; called “The Prayer,” 375 ; needed against temptation, 449 . Prayer, the daily, of the believer makes satisfaction for daily trivial sins, 260 ; remission of lighter sins by, 375 ; does more than exhortation, 450 ; spiritual delight in, 452 , 453 ; helped by alms, 452 ; of the obedient heard, 514 ; interrupted for necessary labors, 518 ; posture at, increases fervency: yet is not necessary to it, 542 . Prayer, for the dead, 434 ; an universal practice, 539 ; at the Altar, 540 ; authority for, though not in Scripture: also profit of, 539 , 540 ; do not profit all, 539 , 542 , 550 ; for all the faithful departed, 542 , 543 ; for our departed friends, especially, 550 . Preaching, the Gospel, reward of, 509 ; the Gospel for support might offend the weak, 510 , 511 ; for the sake of a maintenance wrong, 519 . Predestination, to eternal life is wholly of God’s free grace, 268 . Pride, and envying, 428 ; to be guarded against, 531 ; ground of false patience, 531 . Priesthood, of the Jews become vile, 470 . Priscillian, artful praise of, 483 ; himself detected without lies, 485 . Priscillianists, exposed by Consentius, 450 ; inquiries of Consentius about, 457 ; thought it lawful to deny doctrines, 481 , 486 , 492 ; some of their notions, 484 ; sin less than Catholics in blaspheming, 484 , 485 ; heresy of, overthrown by Catholic Bishops, 485 ; anathematize Priscillian in pretence, 485 . Proba Faltonia, mother-in-law of Juliana, and note, 448 , 454 ; grandmother of Demetrias, 451 . Property, management of, 361 ; question of lying to save, 467 , 476 ; giving up of, a pattern to us, 518 . Prophecy, evidence of, conclusive, 339 , 340 ; even for Gospel records, 340 , 341 ; of things we see proves things unseen: Passion foretold in, 341 , 342 . Prophecies, Old Testament, fulfillment of, pointed out, 313 . Prophetic meaning of Patriarchs’ care for burial, 541 . Prophets, effect of their teaching on multitudes, 364 ; in time of, women served God by marriage: God’s ancient people a prophet, 444 ; marriages of, attacked by Faustus, 448 ; knew only what God thought fit, 548 . Providence, not excluding our exertions, 520 , 521 . Provision, for the morrow, how forbidden, 470 ; to be made for the future, 518 . Psalmody, a spiritual delight, 452 ; no hindrance to work, 514 . Psalms, to be learnt by heart, 514 . Publican and Pharisee, 428 . Punishment, eternal, 341 ; for sin inevitable, 385 ; less for schismatics who suffer for Christ, 535 . Punishments, future, eternity of, 273 ; threatened to correct the foolish, 351 . Purgatorial fire, possible, 260 . Purification, why ordered under the Law, 409 .   Quick, the, and the dead, Christ shall judge, expounded, 255 , 373 .   Rahab, not approved for lying, 495 ; how she might have avoided it, 496 . Reading, three kinds of error in, 351 , 352 ; spiritual delight in, 452 453 ; pursued to the neglect of doing what is read, 514 . Reality of Christ’s flesh, 389 . Reason, Manichees would prove all by, 348 , 354 ; not enough to keep men from sin, 351 ; why not to be followed before faith, 357 ; unable to master religion, 360 . Refuge, is one seeking, to be saved by a lie? 460 , 462 , 468 . Regeneration, effects of, 275 ; prayer for, for Catechumens, 375 ; in Baptism, 386 ; had we no other birth we should not sin, 500 . Relics of martyrs (pretended ones), hawked about, 521 . Religion, search after true, 354 ; search for true, presupposes belief in God, 361 . Repentance, true, 264 ; of God without error, 527 . Report, good, duty of keeping, 453 . Resurrection, the, of the body, 264 sq.; of the saints, 266 ; of the lost, 266 ; derided by some, 313 ; is certain, 332 ; of Christ, prophesied, 341 . Retreat of monks, for prayer, 517 , 518 . Revelations, by visions, 546 ; to Prophets partial, 548 . Reward, of Christian soldier, 453 ; of evangelizing, 509 . Rhadamanthus, fable of, 352 . Rhetoric, learned from the few whom the many acknowledge, 354 . Rhyming terminations, 527 . Rich, the, humbled before the Church, 340 ; healed of pride, in becoming poor, 518 ; men, become monks, 519 . Riches, desire of, condemned in widows, 452 ; what men will suffer to gain, 528 ; of God, 531 . Right Hand of God, what meant by, 327 , 373 . Rising with Christ, what, 392 . Robbers, lying in wait, 458 , 459 . Rome, the usage of, in respect of divorce, 402 ; love of the commonwealth, 519 . Root-virtue, continence, 412 . Ruffinus, translated Eusebius’ Ecel. Hist., 543 . Rule of Faith, the Creed, 369 sq. Ruth, blessed, though Anna more so, 443 ; continent widows may not set themselves above: married again to be an ancestor of Christ, 444 .   Sacraments, of New Law, supersede the old, 461 ; truth intimated in, 475 . Sacrifice, for sin, called sin, 495 . Sacrifices, legal, not for Christians,. 351 . Sadducees, our Lord’s answer to, 447 . Saints, the, resurrection of, 266 ; shall know at the resurrection the benefits they have received by grace, 267 ; Church daily renewed in the, 340 ; general effect of their examples, 364 ; in heaven cannot sin, 385 , 387 ; differ in merits: in glory: and joy, 426 ; number of the, to be completed, 453 ; of Old Testament saved by grace through faith, 533 . 534 ; intercession of: prayers to, 549 ; prayers to: patrons, 539 , 542 sq.; memorial chapels. of, 539 , 542 . Sallust, referred to, 528 . Samuel, apparition to Saul, opinions on, 548 . Sanctity, treated of, 437 ; higher, sought in separation from the world, 514 . Sarah, her example cited, 411 ; an example to wives, 444 ; denied her laughing, 460 ; truly called Abraham’s sister, 491 . Satan, as an angel of light, 257 ; tempted Job, as Adam, by woman, 372 , 530 ; brought low, after his pride, 522 ; tempts. through or without instruments, 530 ; hurt not Job, but by God’s power, 530 ; fell by his own will, 534 ; exorcised from children, 569. Saul (King), those who buried him praised, 544 ; seeing Samuel, 548 . Schism, a breach of charity, 535 . School, tempting discussions in, 348 . Schoolmaster, the Law a, 351 . Scipio Africanus, his daughter portioned by the state, 519 . Scripture Holy, creed scattered about in, 347 ; statements all true, 422 , 423 ; forbids being overwise, 442 ; wrested, 508 ; to. be learnt by memory, 514 ; cannot deceive, 534 . Scriptures, copies of, in hands of Jews, 342 ; of the Old Testament often figurative, 460 ; why contain examples as well as pre­cepts, 470 ; forbid every lie, 476 ; no mincing of, 477 ; knowledge of, praised, 481 ; true interpretation of, to be urged, 492 ; three methods to be used with, 493 ; of Old Testament attacked by Manichees, 349 , 350 ; why hard to defend, 349 ; fourfold sense of, 349 ; partial use of, 351 ; how to deal with, 351 , 353 ; three suppositions about, 352 ; Church’s belief about, 353 ; falsely charged with absurdity, 355 ; believed on Church’s testimony, 362 . Secular judgments imposed on Bishops by Apostolical injunction, 521 . Sedes , dwellings called, 373 . Senators, became Monks, 519 . Septivira , 447 . Sermon on the mount, 428 . Sickness of the soul, what, 386 . Signacula ; 475 . Signs; intelligible, 283 ; employed at the formal admission of a catechumen, 312 ; not known, without the thing, 361 . Similes, easy weapons to find, 348 . Simon, his example cited, 433 . Sin and Sins, results of Adams, 246 ; often put one for the other, 252 ; of progenitors, 253 ; guilt of the first, can be washed away only in the blood of Christ, 253 ; pardon of, extends over the whole mortal life of the saints, 258 ; trivial, 260 , 263 ; relative magnitude of sins, 262 sq.; two causes of, ignorance and weakness, 264 ; remission of, 331 ; impossible to God: original in children, 347 ; law made to restrain fools from, 351 ; every action not rightly done is, 360 ; forgiveness of, in Baptism, 375 ; none too heinous: some are venial, some remitted by prayers, some, by penance, 374 ; Catechumens still under, 375 ; remitted to the faithful in Baptism, 386 ; spiritual men not exempt from, 390 ; venial and deadly, 402 , 403 ; none are free from, 439; confession of, 447 ; not to be committed to save life, 462 sq.; confession of, required, 473 ; wrongly estimated by carnal men, 474 ; of others, not to be prevented by our own, 476 , 486 ; not to be done to detect sin, 481 ; against conscience, 484 ; not justified by motive, 488 ; yet made less, 488 , 496 ; venial not allowed, 489 ; alternatives of, 489 , 491 ; of ignorance or infirmity, 490 , 496 , 510 ; forgiven for subsequent good works, 496 ; comes of our earthly birth: is the sting of death. 500 . Singing at work, 514 . Sinner, to protect a, is not to aid sin, 468 ; not to be despaired of, 468 . Sitting, at the right hand of God, what? 523 . Sixtyfold fruits of widowed life, 434 . Slaves, many, but one master, 408 ; freed to become Monks, 516 ; trusted by masters, 358 . Sleep, abstinence from, 528 . Society, founded on faith, 339 . Sodom, justified in comparison of Israel, 461 ; Lot’s conduct in, 463 , 467 . 468 ; men of, smitten with blindness, 497 . Soldiers of Christ, mark of, not repeated after desertion, 375 ; Monks so called, 521 . Solomon, commanded to build God a temple, 374 . Son, The, anointed by the Father, 339 ; said to suffer because His humanity suffered: of God is God: of man is man: of God is Almighty: why Only Son, 370 ; doth what He will: One God with the Father, 370 ; of God suffered and died: begotten before all times, 371 . Song of the Three Holy Children, 438 . Soul, made to know truth, 356 ; may be defiled, 380 ; meaning of, in Scripture, 383 ; purity of, more than that of the body, 463 , 475 , 476 ; Priscillianists in error about, 484 . Souls pure, God dwells in, 353 ; of the faithful departed, at rest, 541 , 543 ; obtain the resurrection of the body, 542 ; rest of, not affected by the condition of the body, 540 – 543 ; nor by the events of the world, 547 , 548 ; some free from all suffering, 547 . Speech, inward, heard by God, 471 . Spirit Holy, signified by finger of God, 305 ; the Apostles filled with, 342 ; continence the gift of God’s, 354 ; signified by men’s actions, 460 ; God, as dwelling in Temple, 350 ; consubstantial and coequal: called “Love,” 374 ; heareth all things, 471 ; the fire of Divine Love, 532 ; hence the source of patience, 532 , 534 . Spiritual, desire of the old Fathers, 407 , 408 , 413 . Spy, supposed practice of, 483 . Steward of the Church must have one wife, 408 . Stewards, trusted though slaves, 358 . Stoics, wrong in making all sins equal, 495 . Studiousness, matter of praise, 356 , 357 . Subtance, none but what God begot or created, 365 . Succession, Apostolic, 365 . Suffering, for faith and humanity, praiseworthy, 469 . Sufferings, endured for worldly objects, 528 . Suicide, threat of, may not move us to sin, 462 sq.; false claim of martyrdom by, 531 . Supererogation, 427 . Susanna and Anna, 403 , 413 , 423 . Swearing, instances of, in New Testament, 470 ; all “cometh of evil,” 474 ; rash, of David, 490 ; false, excused by some, 498 .   Talking, lust of, leads to lying, 466 , 467 . Tamar, falsehood of, not to be imitated, 495 . Tares, borne with till the harvest, 529 . Teaching, all implies some faith, 354 ; multitude may show where to find, 355 , 362 ; Catholic, origin of, 356 ; ordinary way of, uses belief, 359 ; all requires a master, 365 . Tediousness, in catechising causes and remedies of, 293 sq. Temple, Christian heart a, 374 . Temptation, counsel against, from the aged, 451 ; hope of gratification a, 452 . Tempting God by not avoiding danger, 508 . Terentianus Maurus, not to be read without expositors, 355 . Tertullian, unwisely attacks second marriage, 443 . Testament, Old, food for infant souls, 349 ; agrees with New, 349 . passages that seem to condemn it, 351 ; veil of removed, 351 ; what the charge against, 353 ; St. Augustin’s belief about, 353 ; St. Ambrose’s exposition of, 356 ; charges brought against, 365 ; two, signified by Abraham’s sons, 470 . Testimony, parents known by, 339 ; of the multitude how useful, 354 , 355 . Theatre, applause of, courted by poets, 355 . Thecla, mentioned, 434 . Theft, from rich not lawful, 467 ; is “from the mouth” of the heart, 472 ; some think too much of, as compared with sins of luxury, 474 ; though to feed the poor, 488 ; is less sin than lewdness: one worse than another, 488 , 489 . Thigh, signification of putting the hand under, 409 . Thirtyfold fruit of marriage, 434 . Thought, sins of, 379 , 380 ; goes before works, 381 ; of intention, 380 ; cannot go unpunished, 385 ; a mystery, 385 . Time, shifting course of, 452 . Times, change of, 349 . Timothy, St., his example cited, 409 ; circumcised by St. Paul, 461 . Titus, St., not circumcised, and why, 461 . Tobias, commended for burying the dead, 541 . Tongue, the, 487 ; not to be yielded to sin, 488 . Torture, to obtain testimony, 468 , 528 ; question of lying, to escape, 468 ; to be borne with love, 470 . Trades, honest, practised by St. Paul, 511 ; manual, suitable to preachers, 512 . Travel, in search of instruction: to Holy Land, 355 . Tribulation, attends marriage, 422 , 424 . Trinity, Holy, the, doctrine of, 327 sq., 374 . Truth, St. Augustin’s early love of, 347 ; belief prepares for beholding, 348 , 349 ; search after, 354 sq.; lovers of, believe authority: why, made hard to discover, 361 ; God is, 363 ; state of mind needful for seeking, 365 ; of every statement in Scripture, 422 ; may be spoken in order to deceive, 459 ; comprises every eternal good, 463 ; eternal, distinguished from ordinary, 467 , 474 , 475 ; notion of keeping “in the heart,” 471 , 486 ; love of, allows not false witness, 473 ; may be preferred to everything external, 475 , 498 ; not to be wronged in defending it, 481 ; every lie contrary to, 483 ; to be kept with those without: some to be concealed from aliens, 487 ; nothing against it “just,” 495 ; defended by examples of chastity, 499 , 500 . Type, woman, of what 425 ; application of the Three Holy Children, 438 . Typical, meaning of many wives, 408 ; view of impurity, 409 .   Uncircumcision, not to be feigned, 509 . Understanding, distinguished from belief and opinion: is by reason, 359 ; now known by multitudes to be the way of knowing God, 364 ; quick, God’s gift, 370 ; faith goes before, 370 . Unions, three spoken of by the Apostle, 388 . Unity, in Godhead illustrated by that of souls united: but imperfectly, 370 . Unmarried, may mean widows, 442 ; persons, “think of things of the Lord,” 443 ; should give Christ what they reserve from a consort, 451 ; exhorted to forbear marriage, 453 . Unwilling continence estimated, 429 .   Veil, of Scripture, done away in Christ, 351 ; of Moses, of the Nazarite, 523 . Veils, men not to wear: why, 524 . Vengeance, less kingly than forbearance, 529 . Ventilare , 351 . Vice, can use the instruments of virtue, 528 . Vine, the Church in its likeness to Christ compared to, 309 . Violence, not consented to, corrupts not, 463 , 490 ; lying to escape, wrong, 463 ; not to be evaded by sin, 464 . Virgil, quoted, 239 , 242 , 352 , 355 , 540 . Virgin, (see Mary,) God most fitly born of a, 339 ; the Blessed, 403 ; the blessed, a type and pattern, 417 ; what was her highest blessedness, 418 , 419 ; had vowed virginity, 418 ; was born of Christ: how both a Mother and a Virgin, 418 . Virginal chastity above marriage, 422 . Virginity, preferred to marriage, 397 , 411 , 422 ; is angelic, 403 , 420 ; the greater of two goods, 411 ; to be guarded by humility, 413 ; that of the blessed Virgin, 418 ; a good, for the sake of the future life, 420 , 421 , 423 , 424 ; its joys in heaven, 426 ; the gift of God, 432 ; its fruits hundredfold, 434 ; inferior to martyrdom, 435 ; preferred by St. Paul to conjugal faith, 442 ; goodness of, makes not marriage evil, 442 ; of children, a compensation to parents, 445 , 448 ; forsaking, after profession is sinful, 445 ; of the Church, 446 . Virgins, brought to Christ everywhere, 340 ; all holy ones are Mothers of Christ, 418 ; rich, how they may give birth to members of Christ, 419 ; distinguished from sacred Virgins, 420 ; no “command” concerning, 421 ; have peculiar joys in heaven, 426 ; follow the Lamb, 427 ; need humility, 428 ; their grounds for loving God, 432 ; may be less fit than married women for martyrdom, 434 , 435 ; encouragement to, 437 ; should love the fairness of Christ, 437 ; distinguished from the “unmarried,” 442 ; before widows in the kingdom, 451 ; special song of, 451 . Virtue, what patience is a, 527 ; instruments of, not to be yielded to, 528 . Virtues of the soul may exist unseen in habit, 409 , 410 . Visible and invisible creation, 369 . Visions, of the unseen world, 546 . Vows, freely made, makes what was lawful unlawful. 443 ; wrong to desire to revoke, 445 ; marriage after, is not adultery, 446 ; but yet is worse, 446 ; of continence recommended, 450 ; a protection, 452 ; marriage to Christ by, 446 ; more laudable because not required, 446 . Vows of continence, 427 .   Warfare, of the Christian life, 382 , 387 . Washing, once for all in Baptism: daily, in prayer, 375 . Watchings, use of, 452 . Water, changed into wine, 363 . Whirling, about false doctrine, 523 . Wicked, the death of, eternal in the same sense as the life of the Saints, 273 . Widowed, chastity, above marriage, 423 . Widowed, continence, its rank, 434 . Widowhood, forsaking, after profession is a sin, 445 ; this is not adultery, but worse, 446 ; long and early, greater test of continence, 447 ; prayer and fasting make better, 448 ; hard questions about, 448 . Widows, their continence, 434 ; Fourth Council forbade (professed widows) to marry again, 441 ; may be called unmarried: better among the members of Christ than married women, 442 ; may marry again, as Ruth, 443 ; more blessed if not, as Anna, 443 , 447 ; not therefore better than Ruth herself, 444 ; do better in not marrying now that Christ is come, 444 ; having family, have no good reason to marry, 445 ; what they should do according to their ability, 445 ; merits of, in different cases compared, 447 ; luxurious living of, condemned, 452 ; humility an ornament to, 448 ; alms help their prayers, 452 ; to draw others to like profession, 453 . Wife (see Husband), why created out of husband, 399 ; many allowed once, why, 407 , 408 ; only one belongs to a steward of the Church, 408 ; and woman, Greek word ambiguous, 506 . Will (see Freedom of), of God, invariable, 369 ; true submission of, to God, 373 ; of man, admonished and healed by grace, 449 ; free, made too much of, by some, 450 ; if man works on, much more God helps, 450 ; God not lost but by, 530 ; free, of man, gets not patience by itself, 531 ; why it produces hardness, yet not true patience, 531 , 532 ; evil, made frantic by devilish incitements: the devil became devil by his own, 534 ; has not love of God, but by His gift, 534 . Wills, forgery of, 488 . Wisdom, man’s true, is the fear of God, 237 ; to be found in true religion, 354 ; implies knowledge concerning God and man, 360 ; he who has not, knows not, 361 ; prayer to God for, 363 ; is God’s gift, 433 , 450 ; patience handmaid of, 528 ; true and false, true from God, 531 . Wise, who are, 360 ; how are fools to find them, 361 ; are brought near to God, 363 . Witchcraft, not to be detected by witchcraft; 500 . Witness, false forbidden, 460 , 467 , 469 ; question if lawful to save life, 464 ; about God or Christ, 464 , 467 ; definition of, 467 , 468 ; incompatible with love of truth, 473 ; false, might seem expedient at times, 488 . Wolves, in sheep’s clothing, 485 ; sheep not to wear theirs, 486 . Woman, insult offered to the sun by a, 353 . Women, now, compared to the holy women of old, 406 , 412 ; accompanied and supported the Apostles: and our Lord, 506 ; figure the concupiscential part of the mind, 524 . Words, use of Greek, 349 ; are the beginning of works, 400 ; are deeds, 487 . Work, evil, not made good by motive, 488 ; to refuse, as wrong an error, 415. Working, understood of laboring in spiritual things enjoined by the Apostle, 503 . Works, are preceded by thoughts, 380 , 381 ; and Faith, 392 ; good, a better portion than children, 451 , 452 ; precede not election, 533 , 534 . World, spirit of this, puffs up, 449 ; cares of, lower married holiness, 451 ; passing away, a reason against marrying, 452 ; waits for the number of Saints, 453 ; trials of, require patience, 529 ; love of, produces worldly endurance, 532 , 534 ; lust comes of, but also of man’s will, 532 sq. Wounds of Christ, 437 . Wrath, in God no passion, 527 . Writers, three was to err in using, 351 ; sense of, often hard to see clearly, 352 .   Zaccheus and Goliath compared, 411 , 430 .