Married, faithful women are mothers of Christ, [2020]419; fruitfulness may not vie with virgin chastity, [2021]419, [2022]420; persons may follow the Lamb, [2023]427, [2024]436; persons in one respect cannot follow the Lamb, [2025]427; may be fitter than virgins for Martyrdom, [2026]434.
Martha and Mary, [2027]403.
Martyr, supposed terms put to a, [2028]464; no place for, if doctrine may be denied, [2029]482; makes real gain, [2030]497.
Martyrs, effect of their sufferings on mankind, [2031]464; not prayed for at the Altar, [2032]489; patience of, in scorn and pain, [2033]529; true, do not kill themselves, [2034]530; who suffer out of the Church, [2035]535; memorials of, [2036]542, [2037]549, [2038]550; prayers to, [2039]542; care for others, the living, [2040]542, [2041]544 sq.; ashes and bodies dispersed, of Gaul, and elsewhere, [2042]542, [2043]544; overcame natural regard for the fate of their bodies, [2044]544; removed from knowledge of earthly things, [2045]549; tormenting demons, [2046]550.
Martyrdom, often a hidden gift: common among Christians, [2047]364; higher than virginity, [2048]435.
Mary (see Virgin), the Blessed Virgin of the Jewish race, [2049]339; Virgin after Christ's birth, [2050]339, [2051]511; Christ born of, [2052]371; suspected: conceived Christ in chastity, [2053]486; holy virgins become like, [2054]449.
Mary and Martha, [2055]403, [2056]413, [2057]423.
Master, opposed to "schoolmaster," [2058]351; of grammar, [2059]353; one, to many slaves, [2060]408; power of, over slaves, [2061]490.
Mechanics, became Monks, [2062]516.
Mediator, a, needed by fallen men, [2063]248, [2064]253, [2065]257; must be God in order to redeem us, [2066]272.
Medicine, taking, implies hope of recovery, [2067]361.
Meditation, in the Law of God, [2068]452; consistent with work, [2069]514.
Members of sin, how mortified, [2070]392; all members, though differing in honor, [2071]444.
Memorials of Martyrs, [2072]539 [2073]542; prayers offered there, obtain special blessings, [2074]539, [2075]540, [2076]542; buried, [2077]550.
Men, fallen, God's judgments on, [2078]246; restored through the mercy of God, [2079]246; the restored part succeeds to the place lost by the rebellious angels, [2080]247; not saved by good works, but by grace through faith, [2081]247; needed a mediator, [2082]248; all born of Adam are under condemnation, [2083]246, [2084]254; Christians truly so, [2085]523; figure the ruling principle of the mind, [2086]524.
Mercy of God, free and abounding, [2087]264, [2088]268, [2089]271; how far an excuse for wrong actions, [2090]496.
Metaphor, is no lie, [2091]491.
Midwives, believed, as to parents, [2092]360; Hebrew, quoted for lying, [2093]460, [2094]495; were not prophesying, [2095]460, [2096]496; temporarily rewarded, [2097]460; excused as beginners, [2098]470, [2099]495.
Mind, things in, perceived without sight, [2100]337; of others, not directly perceived, etc., [2101]337 sq.; prepared for truth by believing, [2102]358, [2103]362; of the wise brought in contact with God, [2104]363; sovereign power of, disgraced by body's sin, [2105]487; parts of the, how figured, [2106]524; patience a virtue of, [2107]529; wounds of, [2108]529; incomprehensible to itself, 569.
Miracle, spread of the Gospel a, [2109]340.
Miracles, meant to produce faith, [2110]363; what are, [2111]364; better than reasons to impress fools, [2112]363; point out authority, [2113]364; some more gracious, some more wonderful: why less frequent, and note, [2114]364; witness of, against heretics, [2115]365.
Mistrust of self, our security, [2116]383.
Monachism, a holy purpose, [2117]521.
Monasteries, introduction of, into Carthage, [2118]503; good, practise manual labor, [2119]516; indifferent to which one's property has been given, [2120]519; time divided for labor and devotion and study, [2121]521.
Monastery, some may labor, others instruct, [2122]514; owes a maintenance to those who have surrendered their property to it, [2123]519; division of works in, [2124]519.
Monica, St., failed not to visit St. Augustin every night, [2125]547.
Monks, not laboring for their own support, [2126]503; the work of, occasion of writing, [2127]504; honest trades for men; a holy society, [2128]511; laziness of, a trap, [2129]515; cause scandals, [2130]516; to avoid giving offense, to labor and be obedient, [2131]514; ecclesiastical occupations and teaching of, [2132]514, [2133]515; life holy and praiseworthy, [2134]514; their many religious offices, [2135]515; who have been delicately brought up, to be borne with, [2136]516; not Evangelists nor Priests: supporters of the Monastery, [2137]519; persons admitted without signs of amendment, [2138]516; a heavy sin not to admit as, slaves, peasants, mechanics: some became exemplars, [2139]516; kept stores of provisions, [2140]517; might have dressed provisions, [2141]517, [2142]518; who have been rich not compelled to bodily labor, [2143]519; none to be idle: disentangled from secular affairs, [2144]520, [2145]521; trusting for support in labor if able, without, if unable: called servants of God, [2146]521; poor of Christ, [2147]519; objects of the Bishop's care, [2148]521; hypocritical and vagrant, pretended ones, [2149]521; a device of Satan to discredit that life by scandal, [2150]521; accused of wishing to be maintained in idleness: of hawking: costuming: lying stories: begging, [2151]521; wearing long hair, [2152]522; life preferred to Bishop's, [2153]521; good ones accused and unsettled by the idle, [2154]522; idle ones regarded as more holy, [2155]523.
Monstrous births, and the resurrection, [2156]265.
Montanists, attacked second marriages, [2157]443.
Moral government of the world, [2158]385.
Mortification of the members, what? [2159]392.
Moses, veil of, [2160]523; appeared after death, [2161]548.
Mothers, of Christ, who? [2162]418, [2163]419.
Mouth of the heart as well as the body, [2164]380, [2165]381; not to be always literally taken in Scripture, [2166]380; of the heart, [2167]471, [2168]472; confession with the mouth required, [2169]486.
Multitude, testimony of followed in common life, [2170]355; must be led by steps to religion, [2171]358: is believed regarding Christ, [2172]362; gathered by Him in the way of faith, [2173]363; led by faith to approve many good things, [2174]364, [2175]365; witness of, against heretics, [2176]365.
Mysteries, holy, words used in celebrating, [2177]449.
Mystery, defense of, not popular, [2178]349; to be borne with, [2179]534.
Nabal, David right in sparing, [2180]490.
Naboth, charge against, [2181]491.
Name, eternal, promised to the eunuchs, [2182]425.
Narration, to be employed in catechising, [2183]285 sq., [2184]289.
Nations blessed in Christ, [2185]339; come to God, by believing, [2186]341.
Nativity, Eternal, of the Son, [2187]371; of Christ in time, [2188]374.
Nature, the Christian knows little of, except that the goodness of the Creator is the cause of all things, [2189]239; knowledge of the causes of, unessential to happiness, [2190]242; wonders of, familiar, [2191]364; all, is good, [2192]386; lust is a disease of, [2193]386.
Nazarites, long hair a figure of the veil of the Law, [2194]523.
Neighbor, even an alien is, [2195]487.
Net, of the Gospel, takes bad and good, [2196]343.
Novations, against second marriages, [2197]443.
Nuns, holy, deceased, [2198]434.
Nurses, believed as to parents, [2199]360.
Obedience, the Christian's work, [2200]372; above continence, [2201]411; implies chastity, [2202]412; unmurmuring, duty of Monks, [2203]514.
Old persons, why they marry, [2204]400.
Olibrius, husband of Juliana, [2205]452.
Omnipotence of God, [2206]322.
Opinatio, [2207]360.
Opinion, distinguished from knowledge and belief, [2208]359; different from belief, [2209]458.
Ordination, to be withheld from a husband who had a second wife, [2210]408; a sacrament, [2211]412.
Original sin, remitted by Baptism, [2212]386.
Pagans, soldiers: poets: yet in their sins, [2213]375; idolatrous heathen so called, [2214]509, [2215]511; opinions of burial, [2216]540; philosophers, [2217]540.
Paint, not to be used by women, [2218]451.
Parables, are no lies, [2219]494.
Paradise, man deceived in, [2220]372; Adam careless in, [2221]530; how man forfeited, [2222]531; vision of, also baptism necessary for admission to, [2223]546.
Parcae quad non parcant, [2224]491.
Pardon, granted implies sin, [2225]404; to what granted by St. Paul, [2226]404.
Pardon of sin conditioned by penitence, and has reference chiefly to the Judgment, [2227]258; not given to those who forgive not others, [2228]261.
Parents, not to be recognized when they hinder our ministry, [2229]325; known by testimony, [2230]339; known to children by faith: yet love due to, [2231]360.
Parricide, Cataline, of his country, [2232]528; why worst homicide, [2233]530.
Passion, foretold by same writers as things now seen fulfilled, [2234]341; in Jewish Scriptures, [2235]342.
Passions, how attributed to God, [2236]527.
Patience, of Christ, [2237]372; of Job, [2238]372; is not to be for temporal hopes, [2239]372, [2240]373; differs from endurance, [2241]391; a great gift of God, [2242]527; attributed to God: in what sense, [2243]527; of God, without passion, [2244]527, [2245]528; in man, what, [2246]527, [2247]528; waits for good, [2248]527, [2249]529; compared with worldly endurance, [2250]528, [2251]531; for ill ends is no patience, [2252]528; truth of, is in the cause, [2253]528; not like science: both in mind and body, [2254]529; shown without bodily pain: of our Lord toward Judas, [2255]529; greatest against Satan's assaults, [2256]530; is God's gift, [2257]531; being from love of God, is from grace, [2258]532; likens to God, [2259]532; her words by St. Paul, [2260]535; is it God's gift? [2261]535, [2262]536.
Patriarchs, had several wives for offspring, [2263]444; marriages of, attacked by Faustus, [2264]448; fed cattle, [2265]511; ignorant of what befell the Jews, [2266]547.
Paul, his speaking by permission not of commandment, expounded, [2267]262 sq.; once a persecutor, [2268]309; his counsels and commands concerning marriage and virginity, [2269]421; what "he spared," [2270]422; the Teacher: "vessel of election," [2271]442. chose the unmarried state as higher good, [2272]442; rightly allows second marriage, [2273]443; cared not for men's praise, [2274]453; St. Peter corrected by, [2275]461, [2276]462; kept good repute with care, [2277]461; his answer to the high priest, [2278]470; his oaths, [2279]470, [2280]474, [2281]477; right in not "living of the Gospel," [2282]470; used sympathy, not falsehood, [2283]476; charged by some with a lie, [2284]477; not compelled by want to preach, [2285]509; not using his liberty, [2286]506 [2287]509, [2288]510; bearing with the weak, [2289]509; condescending, not of craft, [2290]509, [2291]510; becoming all things to all men: "becoming weak," [2292]509; relieved by distant Churches, [2293]510; declined gifts to avoid suspicion of venal motives, [2294]510, [2295]511; labored in temporal as well as spiritual works, [2296]511; avoiding suspicion of dishonesty, [2297]513; rejoicing in the liberality of believers, [2298]513; had special times for labor and teaching, at Troas: at Athens, [2299]513, [2300]514; could work by day and night, [2301]515; not receiving support was to avoid offense, [2302]515, [2303]517; because his ministry was among the Gentiles, [2304]515; not contrary to his Lord, [2305]518; used means for self-preservation, [2306]520; rapt into Paradise, [2307]548.
Paulinus, St., of Nola, inquires about burial: his opinion, 569.
Peace, on earth, [2308]257; the prize of continence, [2309]386.
Peasants, became Monks, [2310]516, [2311]519.
Pelagianism, noted by St. Augustin in his book on widowhood, [2312]441, [2313]449. [2314]450; dangerous approaches to [2315]450.
Pelagians, think patience man's attainment, [2316]531; argument of, for free-will, [2317]531, [2318]532.
Penance, done openly in Church: way of remission for the baptized, [2319]375; refusal of, condemned, [2320]473.
Penitence, needful for pardon of sins, [2321]258.
Penitents, order of, [2322]375.
Penny, in the parable, [2323]426.
Pentecost, [2324]308.
Peoples, and nations, our witnesses to Christ, [2325]362.
Perfect, are not even to wish to lie, [2326]472.
Perfecting, good and evil, [2327]387.
Perjury, strangely justified by some, [2328]498; none can be allowable, [2329]499; real though not of truth, [2330]499; feared even by the adulterous, [2331]500.
Permission, not same as consent, [2332]475.
Persecution, flight from, [2333]520, [2334]521.
Perseverance, need of grace for, [2335]453, [2336]454.
Persian fable of Manichees, [2337]365.
Peter, St., his example cited, [2338]410; simulation of, corrected, [2339]461, [2340]493; his denial, [2341]462; justifying him makes St. Paul a liar, [2342]477; denied only with the mouth, yet sinned, [2343]486.
Pharisee and Publican, [2344]428.
Physician, best judge for the sick, [2345]373; hates sickness, loves the sick, [2346]534.
Pity, how attributed to God, [2347]527.
Plato, hidden meanings of, in amorous writing, [2348]355.
Pleasure, thought chief good by Epicurus, [2349]352; in holy labor, [2350]452; of earthly things a known motive to natural will, [2351]534.
Pontius Pilate, named to mark the date, [2352]371.
Poor, feeding, for man's praise not good, [2353]487; of Christ, monks so called, [2354]519; patience of the, [2355]531; long for the inheritance, [2356]535; of Christ to be made rich, [2357]536.
Posture, in prayer increases fervor, [2358]542.
Powers that be, subjection to the, illustrated, [2359]306.
Prayer, the Lord's, [2360]238, [2361]274; called "The Prayer," [2362]375; needed against temptation, [2363]449.
Prayer, the daily, of the believer makes satisfaction for daily trivial sins, [2364]260; remission of lighter sins by, [2365]375; does more than exhortation, [2366]450; spiritual delight in, [2367]452, [2368]453; helped by alms, [2369]452; of the obedient heard, [2370]514; interrupted for necessary labors, [2371]518; posture at, increases fervency: yet is not necessary to it, [2372]542.
Prayer, for the dead, [2373]434; an universal practice, [2374]539; at the Altar, [2375]540; authority for, though not in Scripture: also profit of, [2376]539, [2377]540; do not profit all, [2378]539, [2379]542, [2380]550; for all the faithful departed, [2381]542, [2382]543; for our departed friends, especially, [2383]550.
Preaching, the Gospel, reward of, [2384]509; the Gospel for support might offend the weak, [2385]510, [2386]511; for the sake of a maintenance wrong, [2387]519.
Predestination, to eternal life is wholly of God's free grace, [2388]268.
Pride, and envying, [2389]428; to be guarded against, [2390]531; ground of false patience, [2391]531.
Priesthood, of the Jews become vile, [2392]470.
Priscillian, artful praise of, [2393]483; himself detected without lies, [2394]485.
Priscillianists, exposed by Consentius, [2395]450; inquiries of Consentius about, [2396]457; thought it lawful to deny doctrines, [2397]481, [2398]486, [2399]492; some of their notions, [2400]484; sin less than Catholics in blaspheming, [2401]484, [2402]485; heresy of, overthrown by Catholic Bishops, [2403]485; anathematize Priscillian in pretence, [2404]485.
Proba Faltonia, mother-in-law of Juliana, and note, [2405]448, [2406]454; grandmother of Demetrias, [2407]451.
Property, management of, [2408]361; question of lying to save, [2409]467, [2410]476; giving up of, a pattern to us, [2411]518.
Prophecy, evidence of, conclusive, [2412]339, [2413]340; even for Gospel records, [2414]340, [2415]341; of things we see proves things unseen: Passion foretold in, [2416]341, [2417]342.
Prophecies, Old Testament, fulfillment of, pointed out, [2418]313.