Judas, betrayal of, of Christ, world saved through, God using designs of its evil, [1466]249; ate the Body and Blood to damnation, [1467]323.
Judgment, Day of, [1468]293; good works without purity of no avail at, [1469]293; value then to be given to alms an amazement to us, [1470]293, [1471]294; "midnight" signifies secrecy of, [1472]403; groundless calculation concerning period of, [1473]403; even good consciences tremble at, [1474]404; gate of repentance will be shut at, [1475]405; completion of former prophecies pledge of completion of those about this, [1476]445.
Kingdom of God, promised if certain conditions fulfilled, [1477]445; as prayed for in Lord's Prayer, not yet come, [1478]276, [1479]281, [1480]285, [1481]289; will come to us if we are His, and good, [1482]276, [1483]281, [1484]285, [1485]289; will come when resurrection of dead shall have taken place, [1486]281; not diminished by increasing number of those who possess, because not divided, [1487]385; men try to divide this heritage through the Blood of Christ, [1488]319.
Labour, man's: arises from his mortality, [1489]315; all in, through sin, therefore invitation of Christ to rest addressed to all, [1490]385.
Labourers, hired into vineyard at different hours, represent Patriarchs and Prophets called early, and Christians at the last, [1491]374 sq., or persons made Christians at different periods of their lives, [1492]375; all came when called, [1493]375; had they delayed, no future call promised, [1494]375.
Law, eternal, in the heart, [1495]353.
Law, the: given to discover sin, not to cure it, [1496]476, [1497]542; Grace only enables to fulfil, [1498]476; without Grace makes more guilty, because not kept, [1499]516; he fulfils who abstains from world, [1500]479; Prophets and Gospel one with, proved by the fasts of Moses, Elias, and our Blessed Lord, [1501]480; ten strings of (Ps. cxliv. 9), ten precepts of, figured in the staff sent from Elisha by Gehazi's hands, [1502]517; causes fear by reason of trust in self, [1503]540; in this opposed to Grace, [1504]540; those under, led captive, [1505]542.
Lazarus, buried, figure of those buried in habits of sin, raised, of those raised from sin by cry of Christ, [1506]414, [1507]415; sin entangles, confession frees, example in, [1508]311.
Lie, slays soul, [1509]308, [1510]355; all saying what is not done, not a, [1511]506; difference between being deceived and telling a, [1512]507, because we may be deceived and yet not lie, [1513]507, as saying what we "think" to be true, and so not erring in will, [1514]507.
Life, brief, [1515]440, [1516]441; one of toil, [1517]290; one long sickness, [1518]346, [1519]351; one long death, [1520]346; not to be coveted, lest it bring death, [1521]439; exposed to storms and calamities, [1522]337; a struggle, [1523]492, [1524]494; a war, must hope for triumph till the end, [1525]494; a long, long torture, [1526]366; long, should be good also, [1527]362; good, and "good days," where to be sought and where not, [1528]440, [1529]441 sq.; reckoned among things superfluous by Martyrs, [1530]302, [1531]303; to be amended immediately because of uncertainty of morrow, [1532]361; years of, decrease, not increase, [1533]366, [1534]443; all wish for long and prosperous, Scripture only teaches where to find such, [1535]441; though full of evil, no man willing to end it, [1536]366, yet he who lives long is only running to the end, [1537]440 sq.; true, to rise and reign with Christ, [1538]366; men wish for everything good but good life, [1539]362; man's love of, should teach love of the True Life, [1540]365 sq., [1541]487, should be one end of, [1542]427; they who live in, after manner of men, called men after God, "gods," [1543]411.
Life eternal, the reward of labour, [1544]303, [1545]366; the denarius given to labourers in vineyard, [1546]375; given alike to all the good, [1547]375, but has different degrees of Glory, [1548]375; to be in some degree estimated by this life without its evils, the price of, ourselves, [1549]487; not to be explained in words, [1550]488; the Life of, Christ's, [1551]489; to see God is, [1552]490.
Light, extinguished by pride, [1553]313; who thinks himself light, darkness, [1554]313.
Loaves, the "three," asked for by the "friend," signify the Holy Trinity, [1555]431; also Faith, Hope, and Charity, [1556]431, [1557]432; mystery of feeding "four thousand" with "seven," [1558]406.
Love (Charity), the gift of God, [1559]404, [1560]432, [1561]541 sq.; for if all gifts from Him, so this the greatest, [1562]542; must increase as desire decreases, [1563]394; the good distinguished by, from wicked who have other gifts in common with them, [1564]394, [1565]407, [1566]408; nothing of use without, [1567]394; "loaf" asked for from a father figure of, [1568]432; white raiment hereafter gained by labour of, [1569]348; its province to "do," [1570]269; active love may be shown by all, [1571]400; divine, wins to God, [1572]396; handle of Soul, by which it holds things offered to it, must cease to hold world, that it may have fast hold of The Eternal, [1573]478 sq.; fulfilling of, the Law, [1574]480; with meditation, sees mysteries, [1575]486; to fulfil commandment of, the struggle of life, [1576]492; necessary to true martyrdom, [1577]523; how magnified in New Testament, [1578]523, [1579]535, [1580]541 sq.; fear of no avail without, [1581]540; keepeth from sin, not under fear, but from hatred of sin itself, [1582]541; of God and man, the two commandments to salvation, [1583]480; of God, sustains, of the world, sinks, [1584]342; of earthly things, bird-lime of spirit's wings, [1585]448; not to be limited to wives or children, [1586]396; makes hard things easy, [1587]317 sq., [1588]408; sin forgiven and sin prevented both causes for, [1589]417; difficulty concerning much or little of, for much or little sin forgiven, [1590]416, [1591]417; only care of life to choose proper object of, [1592]408; of self, first cause of man's ruin, [1593]408, [1594]409; self-love cannot love God, nor abide in self, [1595]408, [1596]409.
Maccabees, example of mother of, [1597]421.
Macedonians say Holy Ghost is a creature, [1598]320.
Magicians, Egyptian, wrought miracles, but not therefore better than children of Israel who wrought them not, [1599]394.
Mammon, derivation of word, [1600]450; its signification in Latin, [1601]450; of iniquity, wrongly assumed by some to mean plunder and oppressive gains, [1602]450; may also mean all worldly riches whatsoever, [1603]451.
Man, frailer than glass, [1604]442; faint image of the Holy Trinity, like, yet unlike, [1605]263, [1606]264; made after Image of God, which he disfigured by transgression, [1607]290; created good by The Good: became evil by free-will, [1608]295; must be loved, because God made: but his sin hated, which God made not, [1609]396; tames all, but himself, [1610]273; earthward disposition of, figured by woman "bowed down," [1611]444; through unrighteousness not listening to Teacher, will find Avenger in Righteousness, [1612]333; by effacing what he has made himself, becomes well-pleasing to Him who made him, [1613]409, [1614]410; has no good but of God, [1615]443, [1616]450; must part with his own fulness, that he may be filled with God, [1617]266 sq.; won to God by Divine Love, [1618]396; fear of, irrational, [1619]306, for his power extends only to body, [1620]306, [1621]307; this fear overcome by trust in God made Man, [1622]313; whole race of, from one common father, [1623]395; memory, understanding, will of, in their exhibition separate, yet in operation inseparable, [1624]264, [1625]265; deeper analogies of these to be sought in peace and humility, [1626]265; end of, not to understand the creation, but to love the Creator, [1627]314; how all men liars, [1628]355.
Manichæans, deny Incarnation, [1629]401, [1630]457, and "reality" of Christ's Body, [1631]338, [1632]339, [1633]456.
Mappalia, [1634]303 (note).
Marriage, true union of, oneness of heart in, coheirs of Grace, [1635]253; things in, allowed of permission, not of right, [1636]253; object of Ancient Fathers in contracting, [1637]253 sq.; chastity in, [1638]252 sq., [1639]402; superiority of continence over, [1640]402, [1641]505; human honour in, [1642]520.
Martha. See [1643]Mary.
Martyrdom, seems to be an exhortation to, in words, "Let him take up his cross," etc., [1644]409.
Martyrs, fear not man, because they fear God, [1645]306, [1646]307; mercies of God through, rehearsed in Church, [1647]349; festivals of, to be observed with sobriety: excesses at these festivals, [1648]306 (note); witnesses of Christ: Christ witness in, [1649]492; without Whom nothing, [1650]492; none without love, [1651]523.
Mary, St., the Virgin Mother, [1652]251, [1653]315; a mother without carnal desire, [1654]256; humility of, in preferring St. Joseph to herself, [1655]251.
Mary (and Martha), parts of each good, but Mary's better, [1656]427, [1657]428, [1658]429 sq.; Mary's endures for ever, [1659]430; two sisters figures of life present of holy toil, and of life future of Endless Rest begun here, [1660]430; the toil of Martha in hope of the Rest of Mary, [1661]430; Martha, type of those who do works of mercy, [1662]429; Mary listening, Martha ministering, [1663]429 sq.
Maximianists, the, [1664]527; divided against Donatists, [1665]319 (and note); though first condemned by Donatists, afterwards received by them, [1666]388.
Maximinus, [1667]530 (note).
Meal, three measures of, the human race, [1668]445.
Mediator, Christ our, because "in the middle," man, and yet without sin, [1669]470.
Meek, the: character of, [1670]266, [1671]353, [1672]354, [1673]355; good which God works in themselves pleasing to, [1674]354, [1675]355; evils He sends not displeasing to, [1676]355; meekness necessary in this life, [1677]353.
Mercy, precedes Judgment, [1678]332; time of, so long as we are spared, [1679]442; vessels of, of God, all once vessels of wrath, [1680]319; mercy in "man" is true alms, [1681]436.
Milevis, Council of, [1682]504 (note).
Ministers, of God; to be heard for their office' sake, [1683]479, [1684]483, and must not be despised lest the wrong reach to Christ, [1685]423 sq.; give not their own, but Christ's, as dispensers of what is given to them, [1686]423, [1687]479, [1688]484; good works of flock delightful to, [1689]422: mutual love between, and flock, [1690]423; evil, out of their hearts bring evil, out of Scripture good, [1691]336, and bring good words out of Scripture, as grapes around thorns, [1692]425; if seeking something else, yet preach The Word, [1693]425.
Miracles, performed by bad as well as good, [1694]394; Church first founded on visible, but its faith more laudable now without, [1695]379; Christ's, on bodies and souls had different effect on different persons, [1696]413; had divine and mystical meaning, [1697]414, [1698]498 sq.; happen every day as marvellous as extraordinary ones, [1699]482, [1700]498; man himself a miracle, [1701]482; power of working not so high a gift as humility, [1702]535, and given under the elder dispensation, [1703]534; the miracle of "the seven loaves" explained, [1704]406.
Moses, tender prayer of, [1705]387; a witness of Christ in Book of Genesis, [1706]498.
Mourners, true and false consolation of, [1707]266.
Mysteries, not possession, but love of eminence prevents understanding of, [1708]389 sq.
Name, of God: hallowed in us by making us holy, [1709]275, [1710]281, [1711]285, [1712]289; hallowed in us when baptized, [1713]289.
Nathanael, under fig tree, type of man under sin, [1714]470; this interpretation connected with apron of fig leaves, [1715]470; the "greater things" promised to, to see God face to face, [1716]472.
Neighbour, who truly loves himself, loves his, [1717]395; every man our, [1718]395.
Numbers, mystical meaning of, [1719]257, [1720]258 sq., [1721]363, [1722]364, [1723]365, [1724]406, [1725]452.
Obedience, only road to knowledge, [1726]464, [1727]486; its presence Life, its absence death, [1728]488; with Faith the Resurrection of the soul, [1729]489.
Offences, against a brother, against Christ, [1730]301; to be "cut off," [1731]355, [1732]356; love of God's Law the safeguard against, [1733]353; what constitutes, [1734]355; outward troubles not, but to be turned to our profit, [1735]353, [1736]356; St. Peter rebuked, that he may teach us how to refuse them, [1737]354.
Oil, in the lamps of the true virgins, charity, [1738]402, [1739]403; what meant by selling, [1740]404; lamps without, works done for man, not for love of God, [1741]403 sq.
Olive tree, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob roots of, [1742]347; natural branches cut off for pride: wild grafted in for humility, [1743]347; we all became from good, wild olive tree, [1744]395.
Parable, of unforgiving servant, explained, [1745]362-365; of sower who went forth to sow, [1746]334, [1747]335, [1748]423; of tares, enforces the duty of bearing with evil, [1749]334, [1750]335, and corrects all schism under plea of evil in the Church, [1751]386; of fig tree planted in vineyard, a warning to us to be fruitful, [1752]332, [1753]443, [1754]444; of husbandman who planted a vineyard and let it out to husbandmen, explained, [1755]373, [1756]374; of hiring into vineyard, explained, [1757]374, [1758]375; of King who made a marriage for His Son, teaches that all, good and bad, are invited, but only good received, [1759]392-394; of the ten virgins, relates not to religious orders only, but to whole Church, [1760]401 sq.; same explained, [1761]402-405; of two debtors, comfort to the penitent, and lesson for the Pharisee, [1762]416 sq.; of certain man who made a great supper, and of the guests who excused themselves, [1763]447, [1764]448; of rich man "whose ground had turned out well," examples of covetousness and its punishment in, [1765]437, [1766]438, and of luxuriousness, [1767]372, [1768]373; of rich man and Lazarus, example of luxuriousness in, [1769]373, [1770]426 sq.
Pardon promised to penitent, but not "to-morrow" to him who delays, [1771]361, [1772]362.
Parents must be honoured, but God obeyed and preferred, [1773]421.
Passion, the, of our Blessed Lord, troubling waters of Pool of Bethesda, [1774]476 sq.
Patience, of Almighty God, [1775]332; of Christ, [1776]338.
Patripassians, the error of, [1777]260.
Paul, St., the border as it were of Christ's Garment, the least and last, [1778]300, [1779]345, [1780]347; weak in himself, strong in Christ, [1781]341; changed from persecutor to preacher, [1782]457, [1783]458; Saul the proud, laid low, to be raised up Paul the humble, [1784]343, [1785]422; his former name Saul derived from Saül, [1786]343; peculiar nature of his office, [1787]422; witness of Christ, [1788]492; good shepherd, [1789]523.