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Prophetic meaning of Patriarchs' care for burial, [2419]541.

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Prophetic meaning of Patriarchs' care for burial, [2419]541.

Prophets, effect of their teaching on multitudes, [2420]364; in time of, women served God by marriage: God's ancient people a prophet, [2421]444; marriages of, attacked by Faustus, [2422]448; knew only what God thought fit, [2423]548.

Providence, not excluding our exertions, [2424]520, [2425]521.

Provision, for the morrow, how forbidden, [2426]470; to be made for the future, [2427]518.

Psalmody, a spiritual delight, [2428]452; no hindrance to work, [2429]514.

Psalms, to be learnt by heart, [2430]514.

Publican and Pharisee, [2431]428.

Punishment, eternal, [2432]341; for sin inevitable, [2433]385; less for schismatics who suffer for Christ, [2434]535.

Punishments, future, eternity of, [2435]273; threatened to correct the foolish, [2436]351.

Purgatorial fire, possible, [2437]260.

Purification, why ordered under the Law, [2438]409.

Quick, the, and the dead, Christ shall judge, expounded, [2439]255, [2440]373.

Rahab, not approved for lying, [2441]495; how she might have avoided it, [2442]496.

Reading, three kinds of error in, [2443]351, [2444]352; spiritual delight in, [2445]452 [2446]453; pursued to the neglect of doing what is read, [2447]514.

Reality of Christ's flesh, [2448]389.

Reason, Manichees would prove all by, [2449]348, [2450]354; not enough to keep men from sin, [2451]351; why not to be followed before faith, [2452]357; unable to master religion, [2453]360.

Refuge, is one seeking, to be saved by a lie? [2454]460, [2455]462, [2456]468.

Regeneration, effects of, [2457]275; prayer for, for Catechumens, [2458]375; in Baptism, [2459]386; had we no other birth we should not sin, [2460]500.

Relics of martyrs (pretended ones), hawked about, [2461]521.

Religion, search after true, [2462]354; search for true, presupposes belief in God, [2463]361.

Repentance, true, [2464]264; of God without error, [2465]527.

Report, good, duty of keeping, [2466]453.

Resurrection, the, of the body, [2467]264 sq.; of the saints, [2468]266; of the lost, [2469]266; derided by some, [2470]313; is certain, [2471]332; of Christ, prophesied, [2472]341.

Retreat of monks, for prayer, [2473]517, [2474]518.

Revelations, by visions, [2475]546; to Prophets partial, [2476]548.

Reward, of Christian soldier, [2477]453; of evangelizing, [2478]509.

Rhadamanthus, fable of, [2479]352.

Rhetoric, learned from the few whom the many acknowledge, [2480]354.

Rhyming terminations, [2481]527.

Rich, the, humbled before the Church, [2482]340; healed of pride, in becoming poor, [2483]518; men, become monks, [2484]519.

Riches, desire of, condemned in widows, [2485]452; what men will suffer to gain, [2486]528; of God, [2487]531.

Right Hand of God, what meant by, [2488]327, [2489]373.

Rising with Christ, what, [2490]392.

Robbers, lying in wait, [2491]458, [2492]459.

Rome, the usage of, in respect of divorce, [2493]402; love of the commonwealth, [2494]519.

Root-virtue, continence, [2495]412.

Ruffinus, translated Eusebius' Ecel. Hist., [2496]543.

Rule of Faith, the Creed, [2497]369 sq.

Ruth, blessed, though Anna more so, [2498]443; continent widows may not set themselves above: married again to be an ancestor of Christ, [2499]444.

Sacraments, of New Law, supersede the old, [2500]461; truth intimated in, [2501]475.

Sacrifice, for sin, called sin, [2502]495.

Sacrifices, legal, not for Christians,. [2503]351.

Sadducees, our Lord's answer to, [2504]447.

Saints, the, resurrection of, [2505]266; shall know at the resurrection the benefits they have received by grace, [2506]267; Church daily renewed in the, [2507]340; general effect of their examples, [2508]364; in heaven cannot sin, [2509]385, [2510]387; differ in merits: in glory: and joy, [2511]426; number of the, to be completed, [2512]453; of Old Testament saved by grace through faith, [2513]533. [2514]534; intercession of: prayers to, [2515]549; prayers to: patrons, [2516]539, [2517]542 sq.; memorial chapels. of, [2518]539, [2519]542.

Sallust, referred to, [2520]528.

Samuel, apparition to Saul, opinions on, [2521]548.

Sanctity, treated of, [2522]437; higher, sought in separation from the world, [2523]514.

Sarah, her example cited, [2524]411; an example to wives, [2525]444; denied her laughing, [2526]460; truly called Abraham's sister, [2527]491.

Satan, as an angel of light, [2528]257; tempted Job, as Adam, by woman, [2529]372, [2530]530; brought low, after his pride, [2531]522; tempts. through or without instruments, [2532]530; hurt not Job, but by God's power, [2533]530; fell by his own will, [2534]534; exorcised from children, 569.

Saul (King), those who buried him praised, [2535]544; seeing Samuel, [2536]548.

Schism, a breach of charity, [2537]535.

School, tempting discussions in, [2538]348.

Schoolmaster, the Law a, [2539]351.

Scipio Africanus, his daughter portioned by the state, [2540]519.

Scripture Holy, creed scattered about in, [2541]347; statements all true, [2542]422, [2543]423; forbids being overwise, [2544]442; wrested, [2545]508; to. be learnt by memory, [2546]514; cannot deceive, [2547]534.

Scriptures, copies of, in hands of Jews, [2548]342; of the Old Testament often figurative, [2549]460; why contain examples as well as precepts, [2550]470; forbid every lie, [2551]476; no mincing of, [2552]477; knowledge of, praised, [2553]481; true interpretation of, to be urged, [2554]492; three methods to be used with, [2555]493; of Old Testament attacked by Manichees, [2556]349, [2557]350; why hard to defend, [2558]349; fourfold sense of, [2559]349; partial use of, [2560]351; how to deal with, [2561]351, [2562]353; three suppositions about, [2563]352; Church's belief about, [2564]353; falsely charged with absurdity, [2565]355; believed on Church's testimony, [2566]362.

Secular judgments imposed on Bishops by Apostolical injunction, [2567]521.

Sedes, dwellings called, [2568]373.

Senators, became Monks, [2569]519.

Septivira, [2570]447.

Sermon on the mount, [2571]428.

Sickness of the soul, what, [2572]386.

Signacula; [2573]475.

Signs; intelligible, [2574]283; employed at the formal admission of a catechumen, [2575]312; not known, without the thing, [2576]361.

Similes, easy weapons to find, [2577]348.

Simon, his example cited, [2578]433.

Sin and Sins, results of Adams, [2579]246; often put one for the other, [2580]252; of progenitors, [2581]253; guilt of the first, can be washed away only in the blood of Christ, [2582]253; pardon of, extends over the whole mortal life of the saints, [2583]258; trivial, [2584]260, [2585]263; relative magnitude of sins, [2586]262 sq.; two causes of, ignorance and weakness, [2587]264; remission of, [2588]331; impossible to God: original in children, [2589]347; law made to restrain fools from, [2590]351; every action not rightly done is, [2591]360; forgiveness of, in Baptism, [2592]375; none too heinous: some are venial, some remitted by prayers, some, by penance, [2593]374; Catechumens still under, [2594]375; remitted to the faithful in Baptism, [2595]386; spiritual men not exempt from, [2596]390; venial and deadly, [2597]402, [2598]403; none are free from, 439; confession of, [2599]447; not to be committed to save life, [2600]462 sq.; confession of, required, [2601]473; wrongly estimated by carnal men, [2602]474; of others, not to be prevented by our own, [2603]476, [2604]486; not to be done to detect sin, [2605]481; against conscience, [2606]484; not justified by motive, [2607]488; yet made less, [2608]488, [2609]496; venial not allowed, [2610]489; alternatives of, [2611]489, [2612]491; of ignorance or infirmity, [2613]490, [2614]496, [2615]510; forgiven for subsequent good works, [2616]496; comes of our earthly birth: is the sting of death. [2617]500.

Singing at work, [2618]514.

Sinner, to protect a, is not to aid sin, [2619]468; not to be despaired of, [2620]468.

Sitting, at the right hand of God, what? [2621]523.

Sixtyfold fruits of widowed life, [2622]434.

Slaves, many, but one master, [2623]408; freed to become Monks, [2624]516; trusted by masters, [2625]358.

Sleep, abstinence from, [2626]528.

Society, founded on faith, [2627]339.

Sodom, justified in comparison of Israel, [2628]461; Lot's conduct in, [2629]463, [2630]467. [2631]468; men of, smitten with blindness, [2632]497.

Soldiers of Christ, mark of, not repeated after desertion, [2633]375; Monks so called, [2634]521.

Solomon, commanded to build God a temple, [2635]374.

Son, The, anointed by the Father, [2636]339; said to suffer because His humanity suffered: of God is God: of man is man: of God is Almighty: why Only Son, [2637]370; doth what He will: One God with the Father, [2638]370; of God suffered and died: begotten before all times, [2639]371.

Song of the Three Holy Children, [2640]438.

Soul, made to know truth, [2641]356; may be defiled, [2642]380; meaning of, in Scripture, [2643]383; purity of, more than that of the body, [2644]463, [2645]475, [2646]476; Priscillianists in error about, [2647]484.

Souls pure, God dwells in, [2648]353; of the faithful departed, at rest, [2649]541, [2650]543; obtain the resurrection of the body, [2651]542; rest of, not affected by the condition of the body, [2652]540-[2653]543; nor by the events of the world, [2654]547, [2655]548; some free from all suffering, [2656]547.

Speech, inward, heard by God, [2657]471.

Spirit Holy, signified by finger of God, [2658]305; the Apostles filled with, [2659]342; continence the gift of God's, [2660]354; signified by men's actions, [2661]460; God, as dwelling in Temple, [2662]350; consubstantial and coequal: called "Love," [2663]374; heareth all things, [2664]471; the fire of Divine Love, [2665]532; hence the source of patience, [2666]532, [2667]534.

Spiritual, desire of the old Fathers, [2668]407, [2669]408, [2670]413.

Spy, supposed practice of, [2671]483.

Steward of the Church must have one wife, [2672]408.

Stewards, trusted though slaves, [2673]358.

Stoics, wrong in making all sins equal, [2674]495.

Studiousness, matter of praise, [2675]356, [2676]357.

Subtance, none but what God begot or created, [2677]365.

Succession, Apostolic, [2678]365.

Suffering, for faith and humanity, praiseworthy, [2679]469.

Sufferings, endured for worldly objects, [2680]528.

Suicide, threat of, may not move us to sin, [2681]462 sq.; false claim of martyrdom by, [2682]531.

Supererogation, [2683]427.

Susanna and Anna, [2684]403, [2685]413, [2686]423.

Swearing, instances of, in New Testament, [2687]470; all "cometh of evil," [2688]474; rash, of David, [2689]490; false, excused by some, [2690]498.

Talking, lust of, leads to lying, [2691]466, [2692]467.

Tamar, falsehood of, not to be imitated, [2693]495.

Tares, borne with till the harvest, [2694]529.

Teaching, all implies some faith, [2695]354; multitude may show where to find, [2696]355, [2697]362; Catholic, origin of, [2698]356; ordinary way of, uses belief, [2699]359; all requires a master, [2700]365.

Tediousness, in catechising causes and remedies of, [2701]293 sq.

Temple, Christian heart a, [2702]374.

Temptation, counsel against, from the aged, [2703]451; hope of gratification a, [2704]452.

Tempting God by not avoiding danger, [2705]508.

Terentianus Maurus, not to be read without expositors, [2706]355.

Tertullian, unwisely attacks second marriage, [2707]443.

Testament, Old, food for infant souls, [2708]349; agrees with New, [2709]349. passages that seem to condemn it, [2710]351; veil of removed, [2711]351; what the charge against, [2712]353; St. Augustin's belief about, [2713]353; St. Ambrose's exposition of, [2714]356; charges brought against, [2715]365; two, signified by Abraham's sons, [2716]470.

Testimony, parents known by, [2717]339; of the multitude how useful, [2718]354, [2719]355.

Theatre, applause of, courted by poets, [2720]355.

Thecla, mentioned, [2721]434.

Theft, from rich not lawful, [2722]467; is "from the mouth" of the heart, [2723]472; some think too much of, as compared with sins of luxury, [2724]474; though to feed the poor, [2725]488; is less sin than lewdness: one worse than another, [2726]488, [2727]489.

Thigh, signification of putting the hand under, [2728]409.

Thirtyfold fruit of marriage, [2729]434.

Thought, sins of, [2730]379, [2731]380; goes before works, [2732]381; of intention, [2733]380; cannot go unpunished, [2734]385; a mystery, [2735]385.

Time, shifting course of, [2736]452.

Times, change of, [2737]349.

Timothy, St., his example cited, [2738]409; circumcised by St. Paul, [2739]461.

Titus, St., not circumcised, and why, [2740]461.

Tobias, commended for burying the dead, [2741]541.

Tongue, the, [2742]487; not to be yielded to sin, [2743]488.

Torture, to obtain testimony, [2744]468, [2745]528; question of lying, to escape, [2746]468; to be borne with love, [2747]470.

Trades, honest, practised by St. Paul, [2748]511; manual, suitable to preachers, [2749]512.

Travel, in search of instruction: to Holy Land, [2750]355.

Tribulation, attends marriage, [2751]422, [2752]424.

Trinity, Holy, the, doctrine of, [2753]327 sq., [2754]374.

Truth, St. Augustin's early love of, [2755]347; belief prepares for beholding, [2756]348, [2757]349; search after, [2758]354 sq.; lovers of, believe authority: why, made hard to discover, [2759]361; God is, [2760]363; state of mind needful for seeking, [2761]365; of every statement in Scripture, [2762]422; may be spoken in order to deceive, [2763]459; comprises every eternal good, [2764]463; eternal, distinguished from ordinary, [2765]467, [2766]474, [2767]475; notion of keeping "in the heart," [2768]471, [2769]486; love of, allows not false witness, [2770]473; may be preferred to everything external, [2771]475, [2772]498; not to be wronged in defending it, [2773]481; every lie contrary to, [2774]483; to be kept with those without: some to be concealed from aliens, [2775]487; nothing against it "just," [2776]495; defended by examples of chastity, [2777]499, [2778]500.

Type, woman, of what [2779]425; application of the Three Holy Children, [2780]438.

Typical, meaning of many wives, [2781]408; view of impurity, [2782]409.

Uncircumcision, not to be feigned, [2783]509.

Understanding, distinguished from belief and opinion: is by reason, [2784]359; now known by multitudes to be the way of knowing God, [2785]364; quick, God's gift, [2786]370; faith goes before, [2787]370.

Unions, three spoken of by the Apostle, [2788]388.

Unity, in Godhead illustrated by that of souls united: but imperfectly, [2789]370.

Unmarried, may mean widows, [2790]442; persons, "think of things of the Lord," [2791]443; should give Christ what they reserve from a consort, [2792]451; exhorted to forbear marriage, [2793]453.

Unwilling continence estimated, [2794]429.

Veil, of Scripture, done away in Christ, [2795]351; of Moses, of the Nazarite, [2796]523.

Veils, men not to wear: why, [2797]524.

Vengeance, less kingly than forbearance, [2798]529.

Ventilare, [2799]351.

Vice, can use the instruments of virtue, [2800]528.

Vine, the Church in its likeness to Christ compared to, [2801]309.

Violence, not consented to, corrupts not, [2802]463, [2803]490; lying to escape, wrong, [2804]463; not to be evaded by sin, [2805]464.

Virgil, quoted, [2806]239, [2807]242, [2808]352, [2809]355, [2810]540.

Virgin, (see Mary,) God most fitly born of a, [2811]339; the Blessed, [2812]403; the blessed, a type and pattern, [2813]417; what was her highest blessedness, [2814]418, [2815]419; had vowed virginity, [2816]418; was born of Christ: how both a Mother and a Virgin, [2817]418.

Virginal chastity above marriage, [2818]422.

Virginity, preferred to marriage, [2819]397, [2820]411, [2821]422; is angelic, [2822]403, [2823]420; the greater of two goods, [2824]411; to be guarded by humility, [2825]413; that of the blessed Virgin, [2826]418; a good, for the sake of the future life, [2827]420, [2828]421, [2829]423, [2830]424; its joys in heaven, [2831]426; the gift of God, [2832]432; its fruits hundredfold, [2833]434; inferior to martyrdom, [2834]435; preferred by St. Paul to conjugal faith, [2835]442; goodness of, makes not marriage evil, [2836]442; of children, a compensation to parents, [2837]445, [2838]448; forsaking, after profession is sinful, [2839]445; of the Church, [2840]446.

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