A Brighter Day Begins with His Word.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series • VOL 1 • SECTION 371

pen of the, [1214]114 (note)

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pen of the, [1214]114 (note)

leadings of the, [1215]153

gifts of the, [1216]197

Spiritual body, the, [1217]112 (note)

Stage-plays,

Augustin's love of, [1218]60

reprobated by the Fathers, those who went to them being excluded from baptism, [1219]60 (note)

Stars, knowledge of the, etc., [1220]80, [1221]81

Manichean teaching as to the, false, [1222]82

the catechumen to be content with the light of the moon and the, [1223]197, [1224]198

Stereoma the firmament, [1225]199 (note)

Stoics, the great year of the, [1226]202 (note)

Study,

Augustin's distaste for, in boyhood, [1227]50

Ambrose in his, [1228]91

Substance, corporeal, Augustin's idea of God as a, [1229]102 and note, [1230]103

God's substance incorruptible, [1231]104

evil not a, [1232]110

the two substances, [1233]111

Augustin thinks of God as an incorruptible, 116

matter not created out of God's, [1234]177

sins have not, [1235]192 (note)

Subverters, Augustin delighted in their friendship, although he abhorred their acts, [1236]61

the name of a pestilent and licentious set of persons, also termed Eversores, [1237]61 and note

Sun, the Christian should always aspire to look at the, [1238]108

when able to do so, [1239]198

Christ the central, [1240]198 (note)

Sun and moon,

Manichean belief as to the, [1241]63,

proved false, [1242]82, [1243]83 and note

influence of the, [1244]103 (note)

Sustinentia and continentia, difference between, [1245]153 (note)

Sylvester, bishop of Rome, before Constantine, 69 (note)

Symbols, use of, [1246]91 (note)

God's goodness in conveying His truth by, 189

Symmachus the prefect sends Augustin to Milan, 87, [1247]88

Sympathy, real and false, [1248]51, [1249]60, [1250]61

Christ's perfect human, [1251]71 (note)

Syria, Hierius a native of, [1252]74, [1253]75

Tablets, matrimonial, [1254]136 and note

Talmud, illustrations of God's majesty, in, [1255]46 (note)

of His mercy and justice in, [1256]133 (note)

Tears, why sweet to the unhappy, [1257]71

Technites, or artificer, God a, [1258]72 (note)

Te Deum, the song of Ambrose and Augustin, [1259]134 (note)

Telemachus the monk sacrificed his life to put an end to the circus fights, [1260]96 (note)

Temptation, the winds and waves of, stilled by Christ, [1261]144 (note)

life a, [1262]153

as a testing, [1263]153 (note)

we should not court, [1264]156 (note)

Christ's, typical, [1265]80 (note), [1266]153 (note)

Terence, Eunuchus of, [1267]53

Testament, the Old and New, [1268]76 (note), [1269]180

Thagaste, Augustin's father a poor freeman of, 56

Augustin taught rhetoric there, [1270]68

it was there Augustin met Nebridius, [1271]70

Augustin leaves to go to Carthage, [1272]72

the birthplace of Alypius, [1273]94

Thebes, Antony a native of

Paul the hermit of, [1274]122 (note)

Theft, Augustin commits, from his parents' table, [1275]54

and later, he steals not from poverty, but the love of wrong-doing, [1276]57-59

innocent Alypius is apprehended for, [1277]96

Theophilus of Antioch's opinion concerning Adam's immortality, [1278]73 (note)

Theraputæ of Philo, the, [1279]122 (note)

Thorwaldsen, the Danish sculptor, dream of, 153 (note)

Time,

effect of, on grief, [1280]72

God speaks to us in, [1281]166

has no relation to eternity, [1282]167

itself a creature, therefore not before creation, [1283]167, [1284]168

what is, [1285]168, [1286]169

present, not long, [1287]168, [1288]169

cannot be measured, [1289]169,172,173 and note

nevertheless, there is past and future, 196

motions of the heavenly bodies not, [1290]172

of what is it the protraction? [1291]172

the impression of things on the mind, [1292]173

regarded as an agent, [1293]174 (note)

Augustin argues that it and the world had one beginning, [1294]175

begins from the creation, not the creation from it, [1295]188 (note)

has no relation to God and His Word, [1296]205

Titus, amphitheatre of, [1297]95 (note)

Tobias, the light seen by, [1298]157

Toothache, Augustin suffers from, [1299]133

De Quincey on, [1300]133 (note)

Tradition, Rabbinical, concerning the children of Israel, [1301]64 (note)

belief in, [1302]93 (note)

Tree of life, able to avert death from Adam, 73

Triad, man a, [1303]111

Trichotomy of man, doctrine of the, [1304]111 (note), [1305]113 (note)

Triers, the monastery at, [1306]122

Trinity, the Manichean notion of the, [1307]62 (note)

doctrine of the, conveyed in creation, [1308]191

types of, in man, [1309]193 and note

mystery of the doctrine of the, [1310]193 (note)

illustrations of the, [1311]193 (note)

Trouble, why sent to us, [1312]72 (note)

effect of time on, [1313]72

Truth, Augustin's desire and longing for, [1314]62, 63

the Manichæans abused the word truth, [1315]62

God is, [1316]62, [1317]72, [1318]81, [1319]151, [1320]152, [1321]186 and note

Augustin's despair of finding the, [1322]86

is God's alone, [1323]109 (note)

heresies confirm, [1324]113

Licentius' and Trygetius' notions concerning

the search after, and the finding, [1325]123 (note)

joy in the, [1326]152

he who finds, finds God, [1327]152

Augustin begs that God will lead him to the, through the Scriptures, [1328]163-164

wisdom and, [1329]166

the discovery of, difficult, [1330]176

to be seen in Scripture, but not by all, 183

Trygetius' notion concerning truth, [1331]123 (note)

Tully,

Augustin at one time thought the Holy Scriptures not to be compared in dignity to, [1332]62

his contrary opinion, [1333]81 (note)

orations of, [1334]83

Types in Scripture, [1335]92 (note)

of the Trinity in man, [1336]193

Universe, beauty of the, [1337]79 (note)

Victorinus, conversion of, [1338]117

Wax, writing on, [1339]133 and note

Way, Christ the, [1340]114 (note), [1341]116

Weeping, why sweet to the unhappy, [1342]71

West, custom of turning to the, [1343]113 (note)

Wife, Monica fears that a, would prove an encumbrance to her son, [1344]57

but afterwards seeks for one for him, [1345]99

Will, evil a perversion of the, [1346]111

feebleness of, [1347]125

conflict in the, [1348]125, [1349]126

of God is eternal, [1350]180

Wine-bibbing,

Ambrose forbids it at oratories, [1351]90

Monica's, in her youth, [1352]135

how cured, [1353]136

Wisdom, Augustin's love of, [1354]62, [1355]98

the love of, called philosophy in Greek, 62

God enjoins man to behold, [1356]81

Augustin stimulated to the love of, by Cicero's Hortensius, [1357]107 (note)

and truth, [1358]166

of God eternal, [1359]180, [1360]181

the word of, given by the Spirit, [1361]197 and note

Wit, [1362]45 (note)

Augustin's, a snare to him [1363]77

Wizards, Augustin's opinion of, [1364]68 (note)

Woman, creation of, [1365]206 and note

Wood, the cross called a ship of, [1366]52, [1367]53 (note), [1368]114 (note)

Word,

wit and eloquence baits to draw man to the, [1369]45 (note)

the written, likened to the swaddling-clothes of the child Jesus, [1370]64 (note)

made flesh, [1371]107, [1372]108

and note, [1373]112, [1374]113, [1375]162

God the, [1376]108

Christ the, [1377]112

God created the world by His, [1378]165

God speaks to us eternally in His, [1379]166

the beginning of all things, [1380]166

happiness of the spiritual creature to be found only in the, [1381]190

the firmament the type of the, [1382]195, [1383]196

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

Word of God, eternal, [1384]73

a fount of happiness, [1385]81 (note)

incorruptible, [1386]103 and note

Words and ideas, [1387]49

World,

the things of this, are fleeting, [1388]73

love of the, [1389]79

the sea ened to the wicked, [1390]196 and notes

the Manichæan, and Gnostic opinion as to the origin of the, [1391]205

the, was created out of nothing, [1392]206

Zeno and Aristotle prepared the way for Neo-Platonism, [1393]86 (note)

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