Christians, must be taught first what to believe, then what to ask, [786]280; must turn all hindrances into their cross, [787]409, [788]410; dignity of, compared with unregenerate man, [789]500; are sons of God, [790]355; by grace, [791]527, [792]530; not mere men, [793]355; joined on to righteousness of Christ, [794]539; are vessels of Christ, cleansed by Him from bitterness and made sweet, [795]499 sq.; not to be despised, [796]500; must love what is higher, not look back to what is lower, [797]411; are renewed by cleaving to Christ, [798]356; the true, hindered by the lukewarm from crying to Christ in deed, [799]383, [800]384, [801]385, [802]409; their duty to cry and not faint, [803]384 sq.; if they persevere, will be blessed by those who now hinder them, [804]385; as infants they look for the promises to come, [805]486; keep not Jewish festivals, as figured by our Lord's not going up to feast, [806]509.
Church, the: the throne of God, [807]285; Christ's Body, [808]299, [809]302, [810]497, [811]517; seen by us who believe the Head, [812]457; testified of in Old Testament, [813]497; the Bride of Christ, [814]394, [815]400, [816]402 sq., [817]525, and one flesh with Him, and therefore speaketh to her children in His words, [818]496; our Mother, [819]281; the corner, as calling Jews from one side, and Gentiles from the other, [820]391; in intimate union with the Head, [821]399 sq., [822]539; the raiment of Christ, illumined by Himself, The Sun, [823]347; the ship tossed on the sea, [824]304, [825]337; founded on faith, [826]247; how faith is grafted in, [827]383 sq.; is Christ as shown by Christ's words to St. Paul at his conversion, [828]509; held together by unity, [829]517; this unity shown in the gift of tongues, [830]376, and figured in the one seed of Abraham, [831]539; charity the health of, [832]517; in St. Peter formed singly, [833]518; prays for evil as for Saul, [834]275; comprehends all ranks and classes, [835]247, the weak and strong, [836]341, the good and evil, [837]334; wicked clerics exist in, [838]520; built in the blood of Martyrs, [839]458; our Lord and the Martyrs the spectacles of, [840]245; the cavils of heretics work the development of the mysteries of the faith of, [841]249; the spiritual in, heaven, the carnal, earth, [842]276; which latter, as the crowd our Blessed Lord, press the truth, the former touch it, [843]299, [844]300, [845]301, [846]302; sins not forgiven out of, [847]328, [848]329, [849]331; forgiven in it by Holy Spirit, [850]330, [851]331; they who separate from, have not Holy Spirit, [852]328, [853]329 sq.; sacraments without, have "form" but not "power of godliness," [854]329; penitence sure of forgiveness in, [855]331; St. Peter walking on sea, a type of it when in danger from man's praise, [856]339; Christ's ascending, the dedication of the foundation of, [857]438; the inn of the good Samaritan, [858]503; loveth Christ for His own sake, [859]524 sq.; like in spirit to St. Mary in body, at once Virgin and Mother, [860]526; different gifts to different members of, [861]535; toucheth Christ ascended through faith, [862]537.
Circumcelliones, [863]303, [864]438.
Clerics, evil, represented by Scribes and Pharisees sitting in Moses' seat, [865]519; our Lord's words about these latter perverted by, [866]520; existence of, in Church, [867]520.
Coeval, in temporal things analogous to coeternal, [868]461; substance and image coeval, instances of, [869]463.
Competentes, who they were, 241, [870]274.
Comprehension, faith, adoration, and growth, successive steps to, [871]488.
Confession, of sin, is praise of God by the sinner or the godly, [872]311; analogy between, and raising of Lazarus, [873]311; beating of breast with, [874]310; protects against spiritual enemies, [875]311; of the penitent thief, [876]312.
Constantinople, [877]434.
Couch, sick man carrying his, typifies mastering the pleasures of the flesh, [878]481.
Covetous, he is, whom God sufficeth not, [879]438.
Covetousness, deceits of, [880]348; bids us consult for a future which is not, [881]371; Christ overthrows by bidding us consult for "another" future, [882]371; the pleas for, as on behalf of children, inexcusable, [883]371, [884]372; consists in a greedy seeking of our own, [885]437; fair pleas of the man in the Gospel who was warned against it, [886]436 sq.; thoughts of Christ's poverty for us, cure of, [887]439; of many kinds, [888]438, but all must be shunned, [889]438, even that of life, [890]440.
Creator, nativity of, not to be judged by that of creature, [891]461.
Creature, good in, image of God, [892]463; imperfect and sin in, its own, [893]463 sq.
Creed, taught before Lord's Prayer, [894]274, [895]280, [896]284, [897]288; our mirror, to be repeated morning and evening: the rule of faith, [898]288; repeated by those to be baptized on Easter eve, [899]284 (note), [900]288.
Cross, the: the brightest jewel in the diadem of kings, [901]246; our deliverance from the tempests of the world, [902]337; what it is to take up, [903]409, [904]410; each as he has attained, takes up, [905]411; the honour afterwards paid to, [906]381; interpretation of the parts of, [907]370 sq.; signed on our foreheads in baptism, [908]337.
Crown of righteousness, God's free gift, out of mercy and pity, [909]503.
Cyprian, St., good shepherd, [910]523.
Darkness, he who thinks himself in, is enlightened, [911]313.
Day, The Last: unknown to angels, but known to Son in the Father, [912]411; kept in store for Devil at end, [913]412; must watch in good lives that we be not unprepared for, [914]412; to each individual, as the day of his death, [915]411.
Dead, the: wherefore said to sleep, [916]403; the raising of the dead in heart a greater miracle than of the dead in body, but seen only by those themselves raised in heart, [917]413; the Three, raised by our Lord, types of Divine Truth, [918]413, [919]414; they who are required to bury the dead, unbelievers, [920]421.
Death, certainty of, from our birth, [921]346; Christ by His death destroyed, [922]355; our subjection to, teaches humility, [923]412; all good and evil uncertain except, [924]412; what death good, and what evil, discerned not by eyes, but by Christ in heart, [925]426; an evil, avoided by living well, [926]426 sq.; soul can and cannot undergo, [927]307; how that of soul and body, each known, [928]308; everlasting punishment that of body, absence of God that of soul, [929]308; incipient desire, consent, act, habit, four degrees of spiritual, [930]415; none of these beyond repentance, [931]415, [932]416.
Debtor, God longs to be our, [933]414; all are God's, [934]362 sq., and all have brethren, theirs, [935]362 sq.
Debts. See [936]Forgiveness, [937]Sins.
Decalogue, the, reference of "ten thousand talents" to, [938]364.
Deceit, to be avoided, [939]442; instances of, [940]442.
Delay, only practised by him who thinks he has longer to live, [941]361; peril of, in good, [942]362.
Denarius, the: the reward of righteousness, [943]480.
Despair, the death of soul, [944]376; whilst life lasts, to be entertained of no one, [945]325.
Devil, the: subdued by praise of God, [946]312; accuser of the saints, [947]398; corrupter of Church's virginity, [948]402; the wolf of the Church, [949]531; as invisible, must be subdued by invisible means: our self-praise makes victorious, [950]312.
Disciples, doubt of, represents after errors of heretics, [951]338, [952]339; unbelief of, reproved by our Lord, [953]349; incredulity of, concerning Christ's resurrection, [954]379; Christ preserved His scars to heal wounds in hearts of, [955]304, [956]448.
Discipline, not to be omitted, [957]357; though severe, tenderness when needed, [958]365.
Dogs, heathen called, by Canaanitish woman, [959]469.
Donatists, [960]304, [961]319, [962]386, [963]449 (notes); false assertion of, concerning diminution of righteous, [964]386; false accusations made by, [965]388 (note); received Maximianists whom they had formerly condemned, [966]388; made efficacy of sacraments to depend upon holiness of minister, [967]418 (note), [968]497, [969]498, [970]525, and therefore Antichrists as looking to themselves for Christ's gifts, [971]497 sq., and claiming them as their own, [972]523; folly and inconsistency of, in their separation, [973]418 (note); conduct of Pharisee more enlightened than theirs, [974]418; pride of, [975]498, [976]521; in disbelieving Church, disbelieve Christ, [977]498; despise Him, like Jews, [978]498; "go up" by another way, [979]521; pervert Scripture (their perversions refuted), [980]526 sq.
Doves, how to be imitated, [981]306; even strife of, peaceful, [982]306.
Duties, "salute not by the way" teaches earnestness in fulfilling, [983]425; those present to us, our test, [984]514.
Egypt, glory of Church in, [985]526.
Elect, the: chosen according to grace, [986]421; owe all to grace, [987]421 sq.; chosen by Christ as He made them, not as He found them, [988]410; why the poor and ignorant, not the great, first chosen, [989]377.
Eleven, mystical meaning of, [990]258 sq., [991]364 sq.
Elisha, in recovering the dead child, a type of our Lord's humiliation, [992]517.
Enemies, in destroying our body only release soul, [993]307; by not loving them, hurt ourselves more than they us, [994]278 sq.; love of, commended, [995]278, [996]280, [997]396, by St. Stephen's example, [998]396; attained by few, but still by all to be prayed for, and sought in action, [999]279; sin of, only to be hated, [1000]278 sq., and its destruction to be prayed for, not theirs, [1001]395, [1002]396; all have, [1003]278; are our brethren, [1004]278; have no power against faithful except so far as to try and prove them, [1005]303.
Equality, perfect likeness in every way, [1006]463.
Eucharist, The: our daily bread, [1007]277, [1008]282, [1009]285, [1010]289; received by both good and bad, [1011]277, [1012]392, [1013]408; received by the faithful, [1014]277, [1015]285, [1016]394; the Body of Christ received by disciples from His Hands, The Same received by us through faith, [1017]448; the virtue of it, unity, that we may become what we receive, [1018]282; reserve of ancient Church in speaking of, [1019]277 (note), [1020]392; hypocrites, as Judas, eat to damnation, [1021]323, [1022]448; sin separates from, [1023]285, [1024]289; Christ by seeming to "go further" teaches us to hold Him fast in, [1025]391 sq.; important for each to see how approaches, [1026]391 sq.; all who come to, must have love, [1027]394; Body and Blood received in, our meat and drink, and saying hard to the hard, but not to faith, [1028]501; in it we eat and drink life, [1029]501; never faileth, [1030]501; faith in, gift of God, who draws us by love, [1031]501; to be received with thought, [1032]504; Catechumens hide themselves from, [1033]504; hidden from them by veil, which Baptism removes, [1034]504; care necessary in preparing faithful for, [1035]505; chastity required in recipients of, [1036]505 sq.; believing Jews received very Blood which they had shed, [1037]343, [1038]351, [1039]378, [1040]388.
Eunomians confess not Trinity properly, [1041]320.
Eunuch, the: to whom St. Philip preached, received the Holy Spirit without confirmation, [1042]419; that God's power might not seem limited to man's ministry, [1043]419.
Evil, abounds because we are evil, [1044]352; disposed by God for good, [1045]478; this disposal illustrated by things on earth, [1046]478.
Eye, the: cannot comprehend God, [1047]459; that of mind may reach to Him, [1048]459.
Faith, the gift of God, [1049]431, [1050]502; denied to proud, [1051]312, [1052]313; a garment and breastplate, [1053]288; like grain of mustard seed, small but intense, [1054]346; apt to waver because God does not give at once, [1055]411; strengthened by prayer, [1056]454, although itself fountain of prayer, [1057]454; figured in the "fish," [1058]432; to be genuine, must contain both hope and love, [1059]269, [1060]538; worketh by love, and thus distinguished from faith of devils and of the wicked, [1061]269, [1062]323, [1063]395; believes Christ unseen, through Holy Ghost, [1064]536; leads on to perfect vision of Christ, [1065]400, and purifies heart to see God, [1066]269, [1067]380; well to know our deficiency in, and where to ask, [1068]349; so far as gives way, temptation advances: greatness of, if perfect, [1069]454; waking typified by Christ awake, sleeping by Christ asleep, [1070]356; simple, therefore in difficulties sees mysteries, [1071]247; precedes understanding, [1072]465, [1073]481, [1074]535; that by which we abide in unseen truths, [1075]467, [1076]481 sq., and believe them, though not seeing, [1077]486; the step of the understanding, [1078]481; with obedience, resurrection of soul, [1079]489; want of, spoken of as only sin, as retaining all others, [1080]536, [1081]538; casteth out Satan, [1082]537 sq.; "the Catholic," gathered by witness of Scripture, and grounded on Apostolic truth, [1083]259; first founded on visible miracles, but now more blessed without them, [1084]379; The Creed, rule of, [1085]288.
Families, heads of, as bishops in, [1086]406.
Fear, and sorrow, alternate tormentors of soul, [1087]474; of God, excludes all other fears, [1088]306, [1089]307.
Feasts, two: one here, other hereafter, [1090]392, [1091]394; He that invites us all, will separate unworthy from it, [1092]406.
Fideles, [1093]277 (note).
Fifty, the number of the reward, i.e., the denarius added to the accomplishment of righteousness, [1094]480.
Fig tree, the barren in parable, the human race under sin, [1095]443 sq.; miracle on, out of season, shows peril of not having fruit when Christ seeks, [1096]389, [1097]390; seeking fruit on, out of season, explained, [1098]390; the reprobate of the Jews who believed not, [1099]389; withered, when Apostles turned to Gentiles, [1100]389; figure of those who talk but do not act, [1101]344; in the vineyard, [1102]332, [1103]443, [1104]444.
Fire and light, instance of coeval generation, [1105]462, [1106]464.
Flesh, the: like a current, [1107]466; must be fought against and subdued, [1108]492; the Spirit bears witness against, [1109]493; this Spirit, that of God within us fighting against ourselves, [1110]494; not to be gratified on plea of necessity, [1111]493; lusteth against spirit, only where spirit is, i.e., in good, [1112]493; this lusting consequence of our loss of integrity through fall, [1113]493; no peace from, but by victory over, [1114]494; overcome by resistance, [1115]495; quelled by ineffectual risings, [1116]495; lusts of, done in us, but not fulfilled except by us, [1117]495.