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)