Chase, simile of, [669]457.
Chastity, advanced by Christianity, [670]364; of continence, better than married chastity, [671]411; wedded, is a good, [672]443, [673]445; wedded, is God's gift, [674]450; complete (integritas), of virgins and widows, [675]450; spiritual delights in, [676]452; not to be broken to save a life, [677]463; or a soul, [678]499; not lost by violence, [679]463, [680]475; of mind what, [681]475, [682]499; of mind to be preserved for detecting heresy, [683]487; is of the truth, [684]498, [685]499; cannot teach adultery, [686]499.
Children, probably involved in the guilt, not only of our first parents, but also of their own immediate parents, [687]252; know their parents by faith, [688]338, [689]360; exorcised, [690]369; loss of, [691]372, [692]530; why baptized, [693]419; the Three Holy, Song of, [694]438; having, a reason for not marrying again, [695]445; spiritual, may serve instead of natural, [696]445, [697]450; virginity of, a compensation to parents, [698]445, [699]448; desire of, lawful, but not praiseworthy, [700]445; having, a blessing, not a merit, [701]447, [702]448; bringing up well, is of good will, [703]448; spiritual fruits in place of, [704]451, [705]452; lawfully begetting, for God a good work, [706]488; power of a parent over, [707]490.
Childhood, why a grown man may prefer, [708]352.
Christ, birth of, [709]249, [710]371; being the only Son of God, is at the same time man, [711]249; grace of God in His birth, [712]250, [713]251; made sin for us, [714]251; not regenerated in the baptism of John, [715]253; took away original sin and all other sins, [716]253; His life typical of the Christian life, [717]254; second coming of, [718]255; advent of, why foretold, [719]286; shows God's love to us, [720]287; generation of, as Son of God and the Word, [721]322 sq.; neither made by nor less than the Father, [722]323; born through the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, [723]325; as God, has no mother, [724]325; Passion, Burial and Resurrection of, [725]326; Ascension of, [726]326; Session at the Father's Right Hand and Coming to Judgment, [727]326, [728]327; relation of, as Son to the Father, [729]328 sq.; the Seed of Abraham, [730]339; nations blessed in, [731]339; so honored though crucified, a miracle, [732]340; witnessed to by Jewish prophecy, [733]342; sufferings of, contrasted with His Victory, [734]342; name of, honored even by heretics, [735]343; the Bridegroom, [736]343; used the four ways of exposition, [737]349, [738]350; veil of Law done away by, [739]351; teaching handed down from, [740]356; even heretics bid us believe in, [741]361; on whose testimony we do so, [742]362; planted His religion by the way of faith, [743]363; Death and Resurrection of, shut out fear, [744]363; various miracles of, their use, [745]364; effects of His Incarnation and Teaching, [746]365; God in true Man, [747]364; without sin, restores from sin, [748]369, [749]370; what He teaches of Himself, [750]371; His lowly Birth, Passion and Death: born perfect as Son of God, [751]371, [752]372; born of the Virgin in the fullness of time: God and Man: death of, a pattern to martyrs; Resurrection of, [753]372, [754]375; sets a prize as in the arena, [755]372; arose to die no more, [756]372; example of, exceeds Job's, [757]373; His Sufferings and Ascension, [758]373; shall come to judge the quick and the dead: the Church abides in, as branches in a Vine, [759]374; the Root: sin of killing, not unpardonable: members of, shall follow Him, [760]375; our pattern: condescends to our slowness, [761]380; and the Church, their union, [762]388; heretical notion concerning, [763]389; came in real flesh, [764]389; took a human body and a human soul, [765]390, [766]364; really hungered and thirsted: saw fit not to abstain like the Baptist, [767]410; the object of love, [768]437, [769]452; taught humility when near His Passion, [770]429; Himself the model for virgins, [771]429, [772]431; the object of virgin love, [773]437; crucified, to be gazed on with the inward eyes, [774]437; may not be loved a little, [775]444; recognized by Anna as a child, [776]444, [777]448; conceived in chastity, can make virginity fruitful, [778]446; loves an inward beauty, [779]446; a Husband, in the Spirit, to the married as to the Church, [780]446; shown to be the worthiest object of love, [781]452; did and commanded all for our salvation, [782]462; no lie to be told about, [783]466; patience of, perfect, [784]470; yet did not literally turn the other cheek, [785]470; sayings of, that seem false, are figurative, [786]476, [787]494; denied before men in pretending heresy, [788]485; few deny sincerely, [789]486; kept back some truth, [790]491; called a "Rock," "Lion," [791]491; under our sins figured by Jacob, [792]492; Himself a Prophet, [793]494; assumed show of ignorance, [794]494; His feigning, [795]494; exhorts Martyrs to patience, [796]529; forbearance of, to Judas, [797]529; chose and justified the Apostles, [798]533; faith of, saved the old Saints, [799]533; made poor for our sakes, [800]535; poor of, to be made rich [801]539.
Christianity, derided as credulous, [802]337; is not without evidence, [803]339; testimony of mankind to, [804]355; profession of, its effect on the masses, [805]364, [806]365.
Christians, nominal, described, [807]311; more numerous than Jews and Pagans united [in the Roman empire,] [808]356; they are not, who forbid faith before reason, [809]362, [810]363; misrepresented, [811]365; work and prize of, [812]372; all in one commonwealth, [813]519; state of, as longing for inheritance, [814]535.
Christian life, four stages of, [815]275.
Church, is the Temple of God, [816]255; condition of, in heaven, [817]256; redeemed by blood, [818]257; history of, in four stages, [819]275; in its likeness to a Vine, [820]309; the Catholic, [821]331; quotes herself as fulfillment of prophecy, [822]339, [823]341; called the "Queen," [824]339; visible as such, [825]340; is herself an evidence, [826]341; witness of past and future, [827]342; spread abroad by suffering, [828]342; Bride of Christ, [829]343; milk from the teats of, [830]348; with what error charged by Manichees, [831]353, [832]357; Catholic, prima facie claims of, [833]355; her teaching from Christ and the Apostles, [834]356; witnessed to by people and nations, [835]362; testimony of mankind leads us to, [836]364; doctrines of, concerning God, [837]365; mother of God's children, [838]369; named in the Creed after the Holy Trinity: victorious over heresies, abides in charity, [839]374; Body of Christ: He the Head, [840]375; an heretical notion concerning, [841]389; Christ and the, [842]388, [843]389; not yet perfect, [844]390; made subject to Christ, [845]390; her daily cry, [846]391; the, a Mother and a Virgin, [847]417, [848]418; a holy Virgin, [849]420; sometimes called the kingdom of heaven, [850]425; the, a virgin and spouse of Christ, [851]446, [852]451, [853]452; includes the departed, [854]454; in a household, [855]454; authority of its practices though not in Scripture, [856]541; disunion with, breaks charity, [857]535.
Churches, seats in (apparently an exception), [858]296; of withdrawing from, during service; by whom filled on Festival days, [859]311; building of, [860]488.
Cicero, his rule for argument, [861]348; studied because acknowledged by all, [862]354; conspirators put to death by, [863]359; lectured on, [864]545.
Circumcision, a seal: is not for Christians, [865]351; made uncircumcision by leaving the law, [866]461, [867]462; for whom lawful, [868]461.
City of God, St. Augustin on, [869]317.
Clean, who are, in God's sight, [870]465.
Clergy, not bound to labor, [871]506-[872]508; may claim maintenance from their people, [873]506, [874]507; all, as well as Apostles, [875]508, [876]510; employments fitted for, [877]511; receive support, not as mendicants, that they may escape distracting occupations, [878]512; injunctions to support, [879]511, [880]513; for the good of the people, [881]513; have same right to maintenance as the Apostles, [882]515, [883]516: ministers of His Sacrament unto righteousness, [884]519, [885]520; not to be careful, [886]521.
Cæcilius, not studied instead of Cicero, [887]354.
Coeval, image of the Coeternal, [888]371.
Colors, divers, signify what, [889]339.
Command, of the Lord, why St. Paul had none, [890]421.
Commands, clear, to be obeyed at all risks, [891]469, [892]470; explained by examples, [893]470, [894]471.
Community of goods at Jerusalem, [895]512; of goods, benefit of, [896]520; all Christians one, [897]519.
Compacts, sexual, how far sinful, [898]400, [899]401.
Competentes, a step beyond other Catechumens, [900]547.
Concealment, of many things lawful, [901]352; not itself lying, [902]491.
Conceptaculum [903]471.
Concubinage, for offspring's sake unlawful, [904]406; was lawful among the ancient fathers, [905]406; lawfulness of a certain kind of, doubtful, [906]407.
Concupiscence, gradually weakened, [907]524; patience not to minister to, [908]528.
Confession, of sins, [909]436; medicine of, [910]473; remedy for lies, [911]500.
Confinis, [912]351.
Conflict. of virtues and vices in the soul, [913]381; of the Christian, [914]382, [915]387.
Conscience, moves all good minds to seek God, [916]363; good, excuses not carelessness of repute, [917]453; solace of, in evil report, [918]453; sinning against, [919]484.
Consent, in thought constitutes sin, [920]380, [921]381; yielded and withheld, [922]387, [923]388; withheld is mortification of the members, [924]392; what constitutes, [925]464, [926]465; when it justifies doing a man wrong, [927]466; chastity not lost without, [928]475.
Consentius, his inquiries about Priscillianists, [929]457, [930]482; praise of, [931]481; advised to write against Priscillianism, [932]486, [933]492.
Constancy, in the faith of the Resurrection, [934]310 sq.
Continence, praised by Epicurus, [935]352; door of, [936]380, [937]381; why mentioned last by St. Paul, [938]383; God's gift, [939]379, [940]391; the gift of God's Spirit, [941]384; difficult to treat of, [942]379; marriage, glorious, not to be attained in our own strength, [943]383; forbears excuses, [944]384, sought of God by David, [945]384; required against all sin, [946]385; peace the prize of, [947]386; a healthful chastisement of our nature, [948]390; falsely claimed, considered, [949]391; its office, [950]391; is refusing the consent of the mind, [951]392; must watch the thoughts, [952]393; glory of perseverance in, due to the Lord, [953]393; the greater of two goods, [954]402, [955]411 [956]423; and marriage, two goods, [957]403; compared to fasting, [958]403; how, is not on a level with the marriage of the old Fathers, [959]408, [960]409; a virtue of the soul, [961]409; in habit and act, [962]410; praise of the state of, [963]411; the root-virtue, [964]412; profitable for the life to come, [965]420, [966]421, [967]422, [968]424; when unwillingly professed, [969]429; of widows: its rank, [970]434; widowed, better than nuptial chastity, [971]443; best for those who "receive" it, [972]445; strength of, measures merit of widowhood, [973]447; of heretics not to persuade us, [974]448; all is God's gift, [975]449; though willing, [976]450; term properly used of virgins and widows, [977]450; universal, supposed danger of, [978]460.
Contraries, instances of, [979]483.
Conversion, not to be brought about by lying, [980]476, [981]484.
Cornutus, a grammarian, [982]355.
Corruption, all things not perfectly good are liable to, [983]240.