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Grace, the fulfilment of love, [578]183 (note)

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Grace, the fulfilment of love, [578]183 (note)

Grammar, the Christians forbidden by Julian to teach, [579]120

Grammar schools entrances of, covered with veils, [580]51 and note

Great,

joy in the conversion of the, [581]120 and note

influence of the, [582]120 (note)

Greek,

Augustin's dislike to, [583]51

the reason of his dislike, [584]51, [585]52

his knowledge of, [586]107 (note)

eloquence, Hierius' knowledge of, [587]74, [588]75

Greeks, led to Christ by philosophy, [589]107 (note)

Grief, Augustin's,

at the death of his friend, [590]70-71

at his mother's death, [591]139, [592]140

effect of time on, [593]72

silence a good consoler in, [594]127 (note)

at the death of friends natural, [595]139 (note)

Habits, evil, bind like iron, [596]120 and note

conviction powerless against, [597]121

Happiness,

Christianity gives the golden key to, [598]75 (note)

knowledge of God the highest, [599]81

the Word of God a fount of, [600]81 (note)

whence comes true, [601]124

consummation of, in heaven only, [602]131 (note)

not joy merely, but joy in God, [603]152

Happy life,

longings after the, [604]160-161

to be found in God only, [605]151

Harts of the forests, [606]164 and note

"Hearers" or catechumens,

privileges of the, [607]66 (note)

why Augustin never went beyond the rank of a, 68 (note)

did not practise abstinence, [608]155 (note)

Heart, the law written on the, [609]74 (note)

humility exalts the, [610]74 (note)

lifting up of the, [611]192 (note)

of man, Augustin interprets the "deep" to mean, [612]194 (note)

Heaven,

rest in, [613]45 (note), [614]207

the double, [615]176

the third, [616]176

the felicity of, [617]45 (note)

fulness of reward in, [618]76 (note)

consummation of happiness only in, [619]131 (note)

a prepared place for prepared people, [620]192 (note)

and earth shall pass away, but not the Word, 196

the peace of, [621]207

Heaven and earth, different interpretations of, [622]182, [623]183

Heavenly bodies, motions of the, not time, 171, [624]172

Hebrew, Augustin had no knowledge of, [625]164, [626]165 and note

Hedonism and Epicureanism, [627]100 (note)

Hedonists, their "good" is their own pleasure, 75 (note)

Helpidius, disputes with the Manichæans, 87

Heresies confirm the truth, [628]113

Hierius,

a native of Syria, an orator of Rome, [629]74

Augustin dedicates his books on the " Fair and Fit " to, [630]74

Hippocrates, Vindicianus early understood, 70

Holy City, light, life, and joy of the, is in God, [631]191 (note)

Holy Spirit,

why spoken of in Genesis as "borne over," [632]191, 192

brings us to God, [633]192

Homer,

distasteful to Augustin because it was Greek, 51

fictions of, [634]52

Honoratus, a friend of Augustin, at one time a Manichæan [635]88 (note)

Hope,

we are saved and made happy by, [636]76 (note)

all, is in the mercy of God, [637]153

Hope and joy in God alone, [638]142

Horace, quotation from, [639]71

Horoscope-casters, Vindicianus begs Augustin to throw away the books of the, [640]69

Hortensius, Cicero's, [641]52

Augustin's study of, [642]61

he is stimulated to wisdom thereby, [643]107 (note), [644]123, [645]124

Hour-glasses of Augustin's time, [646]163

Human life a distraction, [647]174

Humanity of Christ, [648]71 (note), [649]85 (note), [650]113 (note)

Augustin thinks it profane to believe in the, 87

Manichæans' belief as to the, [651]87 (note)

Humiliation of Christ for us, [652]74

to draw us to Himself, [653]74 (note)

Humility,

childhood the emblem of, [654]54

exalts the heart, [655]74 (note)

the holy, of Scripture, [656]93

Hyle, or matter, the evil principle of the Manichæans [657]76 (note)

Ichthus emblem of the, [658]200 (note)

Ignorance, danger of, [659]47 (note)

Illumination, the washing of baptism, [660]118 (note), [661]194 (note), [662]198 (note)

Image of God, man created in the, [663]91 (note)

Importunity, Monica's, to the bishop, [664]67

Incarnation of Christ,

Manichæans, notion of the, [665]87 (note)

a mystery to Porphyry, [666]161 (note)

Infancy,

sin in, [667]47 (note)

waywardness in, [668]47, [669]48

prone to sin, [670]48, [671]49

its innocence is not in its will, but in its weakness, [672]48

Injury man does himself by sin, [673]79 (notes)

Intuitionists, their "good" lies in following the dictates of conscience, [674]75 (note)

Jacob and Esau, illustration concerning, 166

Jerome, his knowledge of Hebrew, [675]165 (note)

Jerusalem,

Augustin longs for the heavenly, [676]182 and note

the mother of us all, [677]192 (note)

Jews, the,

their influence on Neo-Platonism, [678]118 (note)

Julian the Apostate favoured the, and encouraged them to rebuild the temple, [679]120 (note)

Jove, [680]52

Joy,

true, to be found in the Creator only, [681]58

true and false, [682]94

source of true, [683]94, [684]151,

in proportion to past fear, [685]119

in the conversion of the great, [686]120 (note)

and hope, in God alone, [687]142

Julian, the Emperor,

forbade the Christians to teach grammar and oratory, [688]120

he favoured Paganism, the Donatists, and the Jews, [689]120

Justice and mercy, illustration of God's, [690]133 (note)

Justin Martyr, [691]107 (note)

how converts were received in his time, [692]118 (note)

Justina, persecution of Ambrose by, [693]134 and note

qn' and br' distinguished, [694]115 (note)

Knowledge of God, [695]45

the highest happiness, [696]81

Augustin's great aim was to attain, [697]158 (note)

wonderful, [698]174, [699]175

Knowledge, human,

more sought than divine, [700]53, [701]54

curiosity affects a desire for, [702]58

Augustin's desire for, made him join the Manichæans, [703]64 (note)

has to do with action, [704]197 (note)

not to be an end, [705]158

received by sight, [706]201

difference between that and divine, [707]207

Latin, Augustin's love of, [708]51, [709]52

Law of God,

the same in itself, but different in application, [710]64

of development in Scripture, [711]64

of death, [712]73 (note)

written on the heart (lex occults), [713]74 (note)

and custom, [714]84

Levitical, concerning the division of beasts into clean and unclean, [715]91 (note)

natural and moral, [716]196 (note)

Laws, human, to be obeyed, [717]65

God to be obeyed in, or contrary to laws, [718]65, 66 and note

Learning,

rudiments of, distasteful to Augustin, [719]51

curiosity a help to, [720]52

vanity of, [721]53

knowledge of God to be appreciated above secular, [722]81

to be preferred to money, and God to it, 87

Lentile, the Egyptian food, [723]108 (note)

Liberal arts and sciences, [724]68, [725]77, [726]80

Faustus had no knowledge of the, [727]82

Augustin sees that a knowledge of, does not lead to God, [728]158 (note)

Licentius' notion concerning truth, [729]123 (note)

Life,

seeking for the blessed, [730]74

Christ our very, [731]74

longing after the blessed, [732]150-152

the misery of human, [733]153

Light, the Manichæans held God to be an unmeasured, [734]68 (note)

God the true, [735]76 and note, [736]157

and darkness, [737]103 (note)

God the unchangeable, [738]109 and note, [739]112

God the source of, [740]112 (note)

that seen by Tobias, [741]157

that seen by Isaac and by Jacob, [742]157

the fountain of, [743]161

what Augustin understood by the Word in Genesis i. 3, [744]191

Likeness to God, our, [745]91 (note)

Little things, the power of, [746]135 (note), 136

Logos, the, [747]107 (note), [748]113, [749]166

Lord's Supper. See Eucharist

Love,

pure, [750]69 (note)

God should be our highest, [751]72

love not to be condemned, but love in God is to be preferred, [752]73

of the beautiful, [753]74

of the world, [754]79

what it is to love God, [755]144

of praise, [756]159, [757]160 (note)

grace the fulfilment of, [758]182 (note)

supremacy of the law of, [759]188 (note)

Loving God purely, [760]69 and note

Lust of the flesh, the,

continency from, [761]153

analogy between, and one of our Lord's temptations, [762]153 (note)

eating and drinking a, [763]154, [764]155

of the eyes, curiosity stimulated by the, [765]157, 158

difference between it and love, [766]153 (note)

Luther's Bible in Little, [767]131 (note)

Madaura, formerly an episcopal city, now a village--Augustin learnt grammar and rhetoric there, [768]56

Man,

moved by God to delight in praising Him, 45

his existence from God, [769]45, [770]46

imperfect, cannot comprehend the perfect, [771]46 (note)

made in God's image, [772]64, [773]91 (note)

a great deep, [774]75

injures himself, not God, by sin, [775]79 (notes)

Christ as, [776]108

a triad, [777]111

the trichotomy of, [778]111 (note), [779]113 (note)

the Mediator between God and, [780]112

Christ a perfect, [781]113, [782]114 (note)

knoweth not himself, [783]144

God does not need, although He created him, 190, [784]191 and note

faint signs of the Trinity in, [785]193 and note

how Augustin interprets the dominion of, over the beasts, [786]200

is renewed in the knowledge of God after His image, [787]201

knoweth nothing but by the Spirit of God, 205

on the creation of, [788]205

difference between his knowledge and God's, 207

Manichæans, their materialistic views of God, 46 (note), [789]68 (note), [790]76, [791]86

Augustin falls into the errors of the, [792]62

the Scriptures obscured to their mocking spirit, [793]62 (note), [794]67 (note), [795]88 (note)

Augustin later on accused them of professing to believe in the New Testament to entrap the unwary, [796]62 (note), [797]83 (note)

their system peculiarly enthralling to an ardent mind like Augustin's, [798]63 (note)

kindred in many ways to modern Rationalism, [799]63 (note)

Augustin attacks their notions concerning evil, [800]63

cavillings of the, [801]64, [802]87, [803]93, [804]167, [805]174

their doctrine concerning good and evil, [806]64 (note), [807]76 (note), [808]83 (note)

their delusions concerning the fig-tree, 66

their reason for refusing to give bread to any but their own sect, [809]66 and note, [810]68

they held that God was an unmeasured light, [811]68 (note)

their notion concerning the soul, [812]76 (note)

when opposed, they pretended the Scriptures had been corrupted, [813]81 (note), [814]87 and note

their belief as to the humanity of Christ, [815]87 (note)

their false and seducing continency, [816]95 and note

Romanianus falls into the errors of, [817]100 (note)

delusions of the, [818]103 (note)

Augustin's anger against the, [819]132

Augustin refutes they opinions as to the origin of the world, [820]205

Manichæanism,

cannot satisfy, [821]63

a strange mixture of the pensive philosophy of Persia with Gnosticism and Christianity, [822]64 (note)

Manichæus

asserted that the Holy Ghost was personally resident in him, [823]81

asceticism of his followers, [824]122 (note)

Manna, meaning of, [825]48 and note

Marriage, Augustin desires, but his parents oppose it, [826]57

Mars, [827]117

Martyrdom, reason for exalting, [828]90 (note)

described as a second baptism, [829]90 (note)

Martyrs,

honour done to the, [830]90 and notes

two of the, buried in the Ambrosian Basilica, 134 and note

Materialists, the, seek the common "good" of all, [831]75 (note)

Mathematicians

used no sacrifices in their divinations [832]69

they drew their figures in dust or sand, [833]77 (note), [834]106 (note)

Matter, or Hyle, the evil principle according to Faustus, [835]76 (note)

the Platonic theory concerning, [836]76 (note)

God did not create the world from but by His word, [837]165

the world not created out of, but by God's word, [838]165

Augustin's old notion as to, [839]177

not created out of God's substance, [840]177

Augustin discusses whether it was from eternity or was made by God, [841]184

Medea, [842]63

Mediator,

Christ the, [843]112, [844]114 (note)

God and man, [845]162 and note

or medius, [846]162

Memory,

nature and power of, [847]145, [848]149

privation of, is forgetfulness, [849]149

God cannot be attained unto by the power of, 149

possessed, by beasts and birds, [850]149

manifoldness of, [851]149, [852]150, [853]161

God dwells in the, [854]152

Mercy,

and misery, [855]47 (note), [856]60

of God, all hope is in the, [857]153

Milan,

Augustin is sent to teach rhetoric at, [858]87, 88

he recites his panegyric to the Emperor at, [859]94 (note)

Church hymns and psalms first introduced at, 134

Mind,

Augustin turns his attention to the nature of the, [860]75

commands the body, [861]125

Augustin refutes the Manichæan notion of two kinds of, [862]125

four perturbations of the, [863]148

time the impression of things on the future and past things in relation to the, [864]173

Minerva, [865]117

Ministers, how they should work, [866]200

Miracles,

the cessation of, and its probable result, [867]69 (note), [868]106 (note)

wrought in behalf of Ambrose, [869]134 and note

necessary to some ignorant men, [870]200

cessation of, [871]204 (note)

Misery of the angels and their former excellence, [872]192

Moderation in eating and drinking, [873]154

Monachism, Antony the founder of, [874]122 and note

Monad and Duad, [875]76 and notes

Money, learning to be preferred to, [876]87

Monica,

the mother of Augustin, her obedience to her husband, [877]50

her dream concerning her son's conversion, 66

the wooden rule therein symbolical of the rule of faith, [878]66

her anxiety about her son, [879]67

she goes to consult a certain bishop, [880]67

how her prayers for her son were answered, [881]67, 84

her son deceives her, [882]84

her sorrow at his deception, [883]84

she never failed to make oblations at God's altar twice a day, [884]85

object of her prayers, [885]85

her visions, [886]67, [887]85, [888]89

she follows her son over sea and land, and encourages the sailors in danger, [889]89

her confidence that she could not die without seeing her son a Catholic Christian, [890]89

her love for and her obedience to Ambrose, [891]89, 90

she gives up making offerings at the oratories, [892]90

she urges her son to marry, and chooses a wife for him, [893]99

early training and life of, [894]135, [895]136

her youthful love of wine, [896]135

how cured of it, [897]136

her conduct as a wife, [898]136

her peace-making and endurance, [899]137

she gains her husband to God, [900]137

her death draws near, [901]137

her last conversation with her son, [902]137, 138

her death at Ostia, [903]138

Monophysites, still turn to the west in renouncing Satan, [904]118 (note)

Montanus, the pretensions of, similar to that of the Manichæans, [905]82 (note)

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