Epistles, of St. Paul, said by Manichees to be interpolated, [1141]350; written for men's salvation, [1142]470, [1143]477; truth clearly put forth in, [1144]493.
Erasmus, his opinion of the "De Patientia," [1145]527.
Error, the nature of, [1146]242; always an evil, [1147]243, [1148]245; not always a sin, [1149]244; easy to talk against, [1150]348; three kinds of, in reading, [1151]351; hurts not unless believed: charitable, no evil, [1152]352; truth frees from, falsehood involves in [1153]457, [1154]458; of fact does little harm, [1155]483.
Erucius, Orations of, [1156]354.
Esau, birthright of, what it signified, [1157]492.
Eternal life, the penny in the parable, [1158]426.
Eternity, no space of, between the Father and the Son, [1159]371.
Eucharist, Blood of Christ given to drink in, [1160]374.
Eulogius, sees St. Augustin in a dream, [1161]545.
Eunuchs, for the kingdom of Heaven, [1162]424, monks preferred to be as, [1163]523.
Eusebius, Eccl. Hist. translated by Ruffinus, [1164]543.
Evanescere, [1165]486.
Eve, Adam tempted by, [1166]372; a help to the tempter, [1167]530.
Every, used for "any," [1168]472.
Evidence, of prophecy, [1169]339, [1170]340 sq.; of the Jews, [1171]342.
Evil, in the universe is but the absence of good, [1172]240; there can be no evil where there is no good, [1173]241; good and evil are exceptions to the rule that contrary attributes cannot be predicated of the same subject, [1174]241; permission of, [1175]267, [1176]269, [1177]385; turned into good by God, [1178]269, [1179]385, [1180]495; man created able to choose good or evil,--choice of evil impossible in the future life, [1181]271; co-existence of, with good, in the Church, and their final separation, [1182]303 sq.; God not the author of, [1183]365; not self-existent, [1184]385; Manichæan errors concerning, [1185]385, [1186]386, [1187]388; uses of, [1188]385, [1189]386; lusts, what, [1190]387; perfected hereafter, not a substance, [1191]387, [1192]388; its nature explained, [1193]464; question of doing less, to avoid greater, [1194]465, [1195]467; wrongly measured through earthly affections, [1196]474; comparison of evils, [1197]476; not to be done that good may come, [1198]488.
Evil fruit, good tree cannot bring forth, expounded, [1199]241.
Examples (see Saints), how to be judged of, [1200]495.
Excommunication, needed for crimes, [1201]373; may be incurred by a valid marriage, [1202]441.
Excuses, shunned by continence, [1203]384; useless before God, [1204]384.
Exhortation, needful to spur us to action, [1205]442, [1206]449; use of, implies acting on others' will, [1207]450.
Exorcism of children shows original sin, [1208]369.
Experience, of friendship leaves room for faith, [1209]338.
Exsufflation of Children, [1210]369.
Eye, inward and outward, [1211]337.
Eyes, weak from darkness cannot bear light, [1212]361; fools use more readily than the mind, [1213]363; their honorable place in the body, [1214]444; want of, supplied by hearing, etc., [1215]452.
Fables, are no lies, [1216]494.
Fairness of Christ, the love of virgins, [1217]436, [1218]437.
Faith, is the gift of God, [1219]247; without works, is dead, [1220]259; of things unseen derided, [1221]337; defended by analogy, [1222]338; even after trial, [1223]338; if due to human things, more so to divine, [1224]339; prophesied of, a ground of faith, [1225]343; on authority, blamed by the Manichees, [1226]348, [1227]356; distinguished from credulity, [1228]357; question if still a fault, [1229]357, [1230]358; necessary for friendship, [1231]357, [1232]358, [1233]338; teacher uses, towards learner, [1234]357; no harm in, though reason might be used, [1235]358; distinguished from knowledge and opinion, [1236]359; faulty only when rash or wrong, [1237]359; of historical facts, needful, [1238]360; parents known by, [1239]359, [1240]360; most needful of all in religion, and why, [1241]360, [1242]361; before reason, no rashness, [1243]362; they are not Christians who forbid faith in Christ before reason, [1244]362; miracles lead to, [1245]363; prepares way to wisdom, [1246]365; before understanding, [1247]370; is in order to eternal life, [1248]374; and works, [1249]392; without putting down lust, is dead, [1250]393; in wedlock, [1251]401; conjugal, less worthy than virginity, [1252]442; of profession to be kept, [1253]445; whence named, [1254]476; of Christ, none justified without, [1255]533; Faith, Hope and Love, God to be worshipped through, [1256]238; their mutual dependence, [1257]239; distinction between faith and hope, [1258]239; love is the greatest of the three, [1259]274.
Fall of man, through pride, [1260]371.
Falling, danger of, [1261]432.
Falsehood, not all, is a lie, [1262]458; leads to error, [1263]459.
Faltonia, Proba, mother of Juliana, [1264]448.
Fame, endurance from desire of, [1265]528.
Famine, provided against, [1266]471.
Fasting, continuous for several days, [1267]364; compared to continence, [1268]403; adds to the merit of widowhood, [1269]448; time of, how to be used, [1270]452; before receiving the Eucharist, [1271]514.
Fatalism, its excuses blasphemous, [1272]384.
Fate, inconsistency of those who speak of it, [1273]384.
Father, The, how greater than the son, [1274]249; Himself God, [1275]327; the Beginning of The Son, [1276]328; hath not His Being from The Son, [1277]329; nor from any other, [1278]329; The Son anointed by, [1279]339; One God with The Son, [1280]370; coeternal with Son imaged by coeval, [1281]371; doth what he will, never without The Son, [1282]371.
Father, human, supposed death of, inciting to lying, [1283]464; power of, over children, [1284]490; why greater than sons, [1285]370.
Fathers, Catholic, remarks on their writings, [1286]291; the Old, how they married, [1287]403, [1288]406, [1289]407, [1290]466; typical in their marriage of many wives, [1291]408.
Faustus, the Manichee, attacked Patriarchs' marriages: his pretensions and failure, [1292]448.
Fear, to displease God entertained by love, [1293]431; spoken of by St. Paul, [1294]432; likely to mislead, [1295]489; of God, His gift, [1296]534; patience founded on, [1297]535.
Feast, conversation at a, [1298]357.
Feigning, in our Lord no falsehood, [1299]494.
Felix, St., burial in his Basilica, [1300]539; appeared at Nola, [1301]548.
Fellowship, attainable without marriage, [1302]403.
Female, contrasted with male, [1303]408.
Fides, from fieri, [1304]476.
Figure, of speech, [1305]392, [1306]393; in speech, no lie, [1307]491, [1308]494.
Filth of soul, love of any thing but God and the soul, [1309]364.
Final goods, [1310]403.
"Finger of God," means the Holy Spirit, [1311]305.
Fire, saved by, expounded, [1312]259; coeval father of light, [1313]371.
Firmus, Bishop, courage of, [1314]468, [1315]469.
Flames of the world, [1316]438.
Fleeing iniquity, the greatest of all alms, [1317]262.
Flesh and blood, shall not inherit the kingdom of God, expounded, [1318]317; living after what? [1319]383; meaning of, in Scripture, [1320]383, [1321]384; how saved, [1322]387; Manichæan error concerning, [1323]388, [1324]389; as created, spoken well of by St. Paul, [1325]388; Christ's was true, [1326]389; not evil: likened to the Church, [1327]389, [1328]390; its works, may be sins of the soul, [1329]391.
Flood, the, a sacramental sign, [1330]303.
Flora, a pious widow, [1331]539.
Food, strong, not for the diseased, [1332]357, [1333]361; preserves man, [1334]407; uncooked, needs exercise to digest, [1335]518; stores of, necessary, [1336]518.
Fools, all who are not wise, and note, [1337]360; do best to follow the wise, [1338]361, [1339]363; cannot know wisdom surely, [1340]361; incapable of reason concerning God, [1341]363; easiest led by means of sense, [1342]363, [1343]364.
Foreknowledge, of God, [1344]271, [1345]302.
Forgery of wills, [1346]488.
Forgiveness, of debtors, [1347]261; of sins, realized in baptism, [1348]374 sq.; asked by all, shows all sinful, [1349]443.
Fortitude, spirit of, [1350]535.
Fowlers, why the, cover up waters, [1351]348.
Foxes, who? [1352]436.
Free, why man is left, [1353]385.
Free-born, love is of, [1354]535.
Free-will, lost by sin, [1355]247.
Freedom of the will, See Will, is the gift of God, [1356]248; man created with, [1357]271.
Friendship, founded on faith, [1358]337; exists before fully proved, [1359]338; none without faith, [1360]358; attainable without marriage, [1361]403.
Fronto, informant of Consentius, [1362]483.
Fruitfulness, not to be compared to virginity, [1363]419.
Fruits, thirty, sixty, and hundred fold, [1364]434.
Future life, continence profitable for, [1365]420, [1366]421, [1367]423, [1368]424.
Games, illustrate the Christian conflict, [1369]372; what men will suffer for, [1370]528.
Gaul, martyrs of, [1371]542.
Generation, preserves mankind, as food man, [1372]407; of mortal creatures is by corruption, [1373]370.
Generation, of The Son from eternity, [1374]371.
Genius, finds not truth without God's help, [1375]358.
Gentiles, not to use Jewish customs, [1376]461, [1377]462, [1378]493; typified by the woman with issue of blood, [1379]494; idolatrous, called Pagans, [1380]509, [1381]511; debtors to Jews, [1382]516.
Gift, The Holy Ghost called, [1383]339.
Gifts, are all from God, [1384]432; prayed for, are not of ourselves, [1385]433; of different kinds, [1386]434; spiritual, one person may have many, [1387]549.
Girding the loins, what? [1388]386.
Glory, different degrees of, [1389]426, [1390]435.
God, to be worshipped through faith, hope and love, [1391]238; in what sense said to be angry, [1392]248; Grace of, displayed in Christ, [1393]249; in election, [1394]268, [1395]533; Peace of, [1396]257; pardons sin, but on condition of penitence, [1397]258; alone decides what sins are trivial and what not, [1398]262; does well even in the permission of evil, [1399]267; Will of, never defeated, though much is done contrary to His will, [1400]269; always good, but sometimes fulfilled through the evil will of man, [1401]269; Grace necessary to salvation before the fall, [1402]271; foreknew the sin of the first man, and ordered His own purpose. accordingly, [1403]271; is Love, [1404]275 sq.; severity of, [1405]287; finger of, signifies the Holy Spirit, [1406]305; exclusive eternity and omnipotence of, [1407]322; blessed Abraham, [1408]339; most fitly born of a Virgin, [1409]339; is not in any special place, [1410]341; the True, now invoked by all, [1411]342; if Almighty created matter, [1412]322; just in binding men by law, [1413]351; frees from the Law, but condemns it not, [1414]351; dwells in pure souls, [1415]353; reasons concerning, understood by few, [1416]358; helps those who go humbly and charitably, [1417]358; knowledge of, true wisdom, [1418]360; search for true religion presupposes faith in, [1419]361; cannot be displeased with our believing, [1420]361; demands faith, [1421]362; the wise most near to, [1422]363; mercy of,. shown in Christ, [1423]363; now known by nations not to be of earth or fire, [1424]364; Old Testament charged with false doctrine about, [1425]365; providence of, points out the Church, [1426]364; no substance but is of Him, [1427]365; Father of those to whom the Church is Mother, [1428]369; The Almighty Father, cannot lie or will wrong, [1429]369; Author of Incorruptibility: One Will of Father and Son, [1430]370; not lost by misfortunes, [1431]372, [1432]373; a Temple is for Him: He creates, Who clothes, [1433]374; permits evil, why? [1434]385; brings good out of evil, [1435]385; Manichæan heresy concerning, [1436]385, [1437]386; His nature, [1438]386; a Physician, [1439]386; not wanting under the law, [1440]449; destroys not free will, [1441]449, [1442]450; favor of, gives continence, [1443]449;. gifts of, no blessings unless owned, [1444]449; all good comes from, [1445]452; labors to win, pleasant, [1446]453; "hates" sinners, "destroys" liars, [1447]462, [1448]481; who unclean in sight of, [1449]465; hears our inward speech, [1450]471; wronged, though not hurt, by sins of luxury, [1451]474; to be honored outwardly as well as inwardly, [1452]482; Priscillianists erred concerning, [1453]484; sin against, worse than against man, [1454]485; sometimes heals secretly, [1455]486; we must depend on, after all means, [1456]497; will provide where we cannot rightly, [1457]500; impassible: passions attributed to: patience His Gift, [1458]527, [1459]536; Himself long-suffering, though not suffering, [1460]527, [1461]528; His wrath, jealousy: His "repentance" implies no error, [1462]527; cares for our body, [1463]529; not lost by will, [1464]530; riches of, [1465]531, [1466]536; patience likens to, [1467]532; assists the just, and justifies the ungodly. [1468]533; free mercy of, to old Saints, [1469]533; how first loves sinners, works in us good will, [1470]534, [1471]536; never lies, 565.
"God will have all men to be saved," expounded, [1472]267, [1473]270.
Gold, may be known and not had, [1474]361.
Goliath and Zaccheus compared, [1475]411.
Good, all things made, [1476]240; but not perfectly good, hence liable to corruption, [1477]240; there can be no evil where there is no good, [1478]241;. highest, not attained without loving it, [1479]363; brought out of evil, [1480]385; all nature is, [1481]386; in what degree attainable, [1482]387; man so created, [1483]388; the substance of the flesh is, [1484]390; superior, makes not lesser good an evil: some, implied in "better," [1485]443, [1486]446; more honored by having a good below it than an evil, [1487]444, [1488]446; fall from a higher, is an evil, [1489]445, [1490]446; all, comes from God, [1491]452; sin aims at some, in this life, [1492]474; temporal, may be given up without sin, [1493]474, [1494]475; three things to be kept, for sanctity's sake, [1495]475; luminous, of truth, [1496]498; impassible, [1497]532.
Goods, final and instrumental, [1498]403; when abused, become sin, [1499]403; of marriage are offspring, faith, sacrament, [1500]412.
Good works, men not saved by, [1501]247; follow faith, [1502]247; rewarded by eternal life, the gift of God, [1503]272.
Gospel, not to seem sold, [1504]508-[1505]510.
Gospels, said by Manichees to be interpolated, [1506]350.
Government, of mankind, [1507]385.
Grammarians, expected to find good sense in Virgil, [1508]353; several named, [1509]355.
Gratitude, due from virgins to God, [1510]433.
Greek, words borrowed from, [1511]349.
Greeks, philosophers, shoemakers, [1512]511.
Guests, duty of protecting, [1513]489, [1514]490.
Guilt, transmitted from progenitors, [1515]252, [1516]253.
Habits, hard to change, [1517]364.
Hair, bosses of, [1518]429; worn long by some monks: long, thought a sign of sanctity, [1519]522; St. Paul's rule against long, [1520]523; every, in God's keeping. [1521]529.
Happiness, knowledge of the causes of good and evil necessary to man's, [1522]242; of perfect knowledge not yet ours, [1523]359.
Head dress of women, [1524]429.
Health and immortality, two goods, [1525]403.
Hearers, order of, among the Manichees, [1526]348; what said of, when they left them, [1527]348.
Hearing, studiousness of, [1528]357.
Heart, its mouth, [1529]379-[1530]381: continence must be seated there, [1531]379; its consent, [1532]380, [1533]381; its language, [1534]379; picture of purity, [1535]392.
Heaven, the Church in, [1536]256, [1537]257; degrees of glory in, [1538]426, [1539]435.
Heresies, fight in vain against the Church, [1540]374.