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  ON CARE TO BE HAD FOR THE DEAD
  by St. Augustine
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Augustine's response to questions about whether it benefits the deceased for
their bodies to be buried near the memorials of saints, discussing the Church's
practice of praying for the departed and providing honorable burial for the
faithful.

  Chapters: 22

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  TABLE OF CONTENTS
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    0. On Care To Be Had For The Dead 
    1. On Care to Be Had for the Dead.
    2. 1. Long time, my venerable fellow-bishop Paulinus, have I been thy Holiness's debtor for an
    3. 2. But this being the case, how to this opinion that should not be contrary
    4. 3. Possibly thy inquiry is satisfied by this my brief reply.
    5. 4. |But| say I |in such a slaughter-heap of dead bodies
    6. 5. Yet it follows not that the bodies of the departed are to be despised
    7. 6. If this be true, doubtless also the providing for the interment of bodies a
    8. 7. When therefore the faithful mother of a faithful son departed desired to have his
    9. 9. And yet, by reason of that affection of the human heart
   10. 10. This affection the Martyrs of Christ contending for the truth did overcome
   11. 12. Stories are told of certain appearances or visions
   12. 13. Such, however, is human infirmity, that when in a dream a person shall see
   13. 14. Like dreams, moreover, are also some visions of persons awake
   14. 16. Why should we not believe these to be angelic operations through dispensation of the
   15. 17. Some man may say: |If there be not in the dead any care for
   16. 18. So then we must confess that the dead indeed do not know what is
   17. 19. Hence too is solved that question, how is it that the Martyrs
   18. 21. Such, we may believe, was that John the Monk
   19. 22. Which things being so, let us not think that to the dead for whom
   20. 23. Here, to the things thou hast thought meet to inquire of me
   21. DOCTRINAL AND MORAL TREATISES. INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

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  CHAPTER 1: ON CARE TO BE HAD FOR THE DEAD.
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[De Cura Pro Mortuis.] Translated by Rev. H. Browne, M.A. Of Corpus Christi
College, Cambridge; Late Principal of the Diocesan College, Chichester. From the
Retractations, Book ii From the Retractations, Book ii. Chap.64. The book, On
care to be had for the dead, I wrote, having been asked by letter whether it
profits any person after death that his body shall be buried at the memorial of
any Saint. [2707] The book begins thus: Long time unto your Holiness, my
venerable fellow-bishop Paulinus.


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1. Long time, my venerable fellow-bishop Paulinus, have I been thy Holiness's
debtor for an answer; even since thou wrotest to me by them of the household
[2708] of our most religious daughter Flora, asking of me whether it profit any
man after death that his body is buried at the memorial of some Saint. This,
namely, had the said widow begged of thee for her son deceased in those parts,
and thou hadst written her an answer, consoling her, and announcing to her
concerning the body of the faithful young man Cynegius, that the thing which she
with motherly and pious affection desired was done, to wit, by placing it in the
basilica of most blessed Felix the Confessor. Upon which occasion it came to
pass, that by the same bearers of thy letter thou didst write also to me,
raising the like question, and craving that I would answer what I thought of
this matter, at the same time not forbearing to say what are thine own
sentiments. For thou sayest that to thy thinking these be no empty motions of
religious and faithful minds, which take this care for their deceased friends.
Thou addest, moreover, that it cannot be void of effect [2709] that the whole
Church is wont to supplicate for the departed: so that hence it may be further
conjectured that it doth profit a person after death, if by the faith of his
friends for the interment of his body such a spot be provided wherein may be
apparent the aid, likewise in this way sought, of the Saints. Footnotes:[2708]
Homines [2709] Vacare


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2. But this being the case, how to this opinion that should not be contrary
which the Apostle says, "For we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of
Christ, that each may receive according to the things he hath done by the body,
[2710] whether good or bad;" [2711] this, thou signifiest, thou dost not well
see. For this apostolic sentence doth before death admonish to be done, that
which may profit after death; not then, first, when there is to be now a
receiving of that which a person shall have done before death. True, but this
question is thus solved, namely, that there is a certain kind of life by which
is acquired, while one lives in this body, that it should be possible for these
things to be of some help to the departed; and, consequently, it is "according
to the things done by the body," that they are aided by the things which shall,
after they have left the body, be religiously done on their behalf. For there
are whom these things aid nothing at all, namely, when they are done either for
persons whose merits are so evil, that neither by such things are they worthy to
be aided; or for persons whose merits are so good, that of such things they have
no need as aids. Of the kind of life, therefore, which each hath led by the
body, doth it come, that these things profit or profit not, whatever are piously
done on his behalf when he has left the body. For touching merit whereby these
things profit, if none have been gotten in this life, it is in vain sought after
this life. So it comes to pass as well that not unmeaningly [2712] doth the
Church, or care of friends, bestow upon the departed whatever of religion it
shall be able; as also that, nevertheless, each receiveth "according to the
things which he hath done by the body, whether it be good or bad," the Lord
rendering unto each according to his works. For, that this which is bestowed
should be capable of profiting him after the body, this was acquired in that
life which he hath led in the body. Footnotes:[2710] Per corpus [2711] 2 Cor.
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3. Possibly thy inquiry is satisfied by this my brief reply. But what other
considerations move me, to which I think meet to answer, do thou for a short
space attend. In the books of the Maccabees we read of sacrifice offered for the
dead. [2713] Howbeit even if it were no where at all read in the Old Scriptures,
not small is the authority, which in this usage is clear, of the whole Church,
namely, that in the prayers of the priest which are offered to the Lord God at
His altar, the Commendation of the dead hath also its place. But then, whether
there be some profit accruing unto the soul of the dead from the place of its
body, requires a more careful inquiry. And first, whether it make any difference
in causing or increasing of misery after this life to the spirits of men if
their bodies be not buried, this must be looked into, not in the light of
opinion however commonly received, but rather of the holy writ of our religion.
For we are not to credit that, as is read in Maro, the unburied are prohibited
from navigating and crossing the infernal stream: because forsooth "To none is
giv'n to pass the hideous banks And waters hoarse, ere in their meet abode The
bones have sunk to rest." [2714] Who can incline a Christian heart to these
poetical and fabulous figments, when the Lord Jesus, to the intent that under
the hands of their enemies, who should have their bodies in their power,
Christians might lie down without a fear, asserts that not a hair of their head
shall perish, exhorting that they should not fear them which when they have
killed the body have nothing more that they can do? [2715] Of which in the first
book "On the City of God," I have methinks enough spoken, to break the teeth in
their mouths who, in imputing to Christian times the barbarous devastation,
especially that which Rome has lately suffered, do cast up to us this also, that
Christ did not there come to the succor of His own. To whom when it is answered
that the souls of the faithful were, according to the merits of their faith, by
Him taken into protection, they insult over us with talking of their corpses
left unburied. All this matter, then, concerning burial I have in such words as
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4. "But" (say I) "in such a slaughter-heap of dead bodies, could they not even
be buried? not this, either, doth pious faith too greatly dread, holding that
which is foretold that not even consuming beasts will be an hindrance to the
rising again of bodies of which not a hair of the head shall perish. [2716] Nor
in any wise would Truth say, "Fear not them which kill the body, but cannot kill
the soul;" if it could at all hinder the life to come whatever enemies might
choose to do with the bodies of the slain. Unless haply any is so absurd as to
contend that they ought not to be feared before death, lest they kill the body,
but ought to be feared after death, lest, having killed the body, they suffer it
not to be buried. Is that then false which Christ says, "Who kill the body, and
afterwards have no more that they can do," if they have so great things that
they can do on dead bodies? Far be the thought, that that should be false which
Truth hath said. For the thing said is, that they do somewhat when they kill,
because in the body there is feeling while it is in killing, but afterward they
have nothing more that they can do because there is no feeling in the body when
killed. Many bodies, then, of Christians the earth hath not covered: but none of
them hath any separated from heaven and earth, the whole of which He filleth
with presence of Himself, Who knoweth whence to resuscitate that which He
created. It is said indeed in the Psalm, "The dead bodies of thy servants have
they given for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto
the beasts of the earth: they have shed their blood like water round about
Jerusalem, and there was no man to bury them:" [2717] but more to heighten the
cruelty of them who did these things, not to the infelicity of them who suffered
them. For, however, in sight of men these things may seem hard and dire, yet
"precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints." [2718] So, then,
all these things, care of funeral, bestowal in sepulture, pomp of obsequies, are
more for comfort of the living, than for help to the dead. If it at all profit
the ungodly to have costly sepulture, it shall harm the godly to have vile
sepulture or none. Right handsome obsequies in sight of men did that rich man
who was clad in purple receive of the crowd of his housefolk; but far more
handsome did that poor man who was full of sores obtain of the ministry of
Angels; who bore him not out into a marble tomb, but into Abraham's bosom bore
him on high. [2719] All this they laugh at, against whom we have undertaken to
defend the City of God: but for all that their own philosophers, even, held care
of sepulture in contempt; and often whole armies, while dying for their earthly
country, cared not where they should after lie, or to what beasts they should
become meat; and the poets had leave to say of this matter with applause "though
all unurn'd he lie, His cov'ring is the overarching sky." [2720] How much less
ought they to make a vaunting about unburied bodies of Christians, to whom the
flesh itself with all its members, re-fashioned, not only from the earth, but
even from the other elements, yea, from their most secret windings, whereinto
these evanished corpses have retired, is assured to be in an instant of time
rendered back and made entire as at the first, according to His promise?


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5. Yet it follows not that the bodies of the departed are to be despised and
flung aside, and above all of just and faithful men, which bodies as organs and
vessels to all good works their spirit hath holily used. For if a father's
garment and ring, and whatever such like, is the more dear to those whom they
leave behind, the greater their affection is towards their parents, in no wise
are the bodies themselves to be spurned, which truly we wear in more familiar
and close conjunction than any of our putting on. For these pertain not to
ornament or aid which is applied from without, but to the very nature of man.
Whence also the funerals of the just men of old were with dutiful piety cared
for, and their obsequies celebrated, and sepulture provided: [2721] and
themselves while living did touching burial or even translation of their bodies
give charge to their sons. Tobias also, to have by burying of the dead obtained
favor with God, is by witness of an Angel commended. [2722] The Lord Himself
also, about to rise on the third day, both preaches, and commends to be
preached, the good work of a religious woman, that she poured out a precious
ointment over His limbs, and did it for His burial: [2723] and they are with
praise commemorated in the Gospel, who having received His Body from the cross
did carefully and with reverend honor see it wound and laid in the sepulchre.
[2724] These authorities however do not put us upon thinking that there is in
dead bodies any feeling; but rather, that the Providence of God (Who is moreover
pleased with such offices of piety) doth charge itself with the bodies also of
the dead, this they betoken, to the intent our faith of resurrection might be
stayed up thereby. Where also is wholesomely learned, how great may be the
reward for alms which we do unto the living and feeling, if not even that be
lost before God, whatever of duty and of diligence is paid to the lifeless
members of men. There are indeed also other things, which in speaking of the
bestowal or removal of their bodies the holy Patriarchs willed to be understood
as spoken by the prophetic Spirit: but this is not the place to treat thoroughly
of these things, seeing that sufficeth which we have said. But if the lack of
those things which are necessary for sustentation of the living, as food and
clothing, however heavy affliction attend the lacking, do not break in good men
the manly courage of bearing and enduring, nor eradicate piety from the mind,
but by exercising make it more fruitful; how much more doth lack of those things
which are wont to be applied for care of funerals and bestowal of bodies of the
departed, not make them wretched, now that in the hidden abodes of the pious
they are at rest! And therefore, when these things have to dead bodies of
Christians in that devastation of the great City or of other towns also been
lacking, there is neither fault of the living, who could not afford these
things, nor pain of the dead who could not feel the same. [2725] This is my
opinion concerning the ground and reason of sepulture. Which I have therefore
from another book of mine transferred to this, because it was easier to rehearse
this, than to express the same matter in another way. Footnotes:[2721] Gen.
xxiii.; xxv.9, 10; xlvii.30 [2722] Tobit ii.7; xii.12 [2723] Matt. xxvi.7-13
[2724] John xix.38, 39 [2725] On the City of God, book i. chap. xii.13. Vol. ii.
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6. If this be true, doubtless also the providing for the interment of bodies a
place at the Memorials of Saints, is a mark of a good human affection towards
the remains of one's friends: since if there be religion in the burying, there
cannot but be religion in taking thought where the burying shall be. But while
it is desirable there should be such like solaces of survivors, for the showing
forth of their pious mind towards their beloved, I do not see what helps they be
to the dead save in this way: that upon recollection of the place in which are
deposited the bodies of those whom they love, they should by prayer commend them
to those same Saints, who have as patrons taken them into their charge to aid
them before the Lord. Which indeed they would be still able to do, even though
they were not able to inter them in such places. But then the only reason why
the name Memorials or Monuments is given to those sepulchres of the dead which
become specially distinguished, is that they recall to memory, and by putting in
mind cause us to think of, them who by death are withdrawn from the eyes of the
living, that they may not by forgetfulness be also withdrawn from men's hearts.
For both the term Memorial [2726] most plainly shews this, and Monument is so
named from monishing, that is, putting in mind. For which reason the Greeks also
call that mnemeion which we call a Memorial or Monument: because in their tongue
the memory itself, by which we remember, is called mneme. When therefore the
mind recollects where the body of a very dear friend lies buried, and thereupon
there occurs to the thoughts a place rendered venerable by the name of a Martyr,
to that same Martyr doth it commend the soul in affection of heartfelt
recollection [2727] and prayer. And when this affection is exhibited to the
departed by faithful men who were most dear to them, there is no doubt that it
profits them who while living in the body merited that such things should profit
them after this life. But even if some necessity should through absence of all
facility not allow bodies to be interred, or in such places interred, yet should
there be no pretermitting of supplications for the spirits of the dead: which
supplications, that they should be made for all in Christian and catholic
fellowship departed, even without mentioning of their names, under a general
commemoration, the Church hath charged herself withal; to the intent that they
which lack, for these offices, parents or sons or whatever kindred or friends,
may have the same afforded unto them by the one pious mother which is common to
all. But if there were lack of these supplications, which are made with right
faith and piety for the dead, I account that it should not a whit profit their
spirits, howsoever in holy places the lifeless bodies should be deposited.
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7. When therefore the faithful mother of a faithful son departed desired to have
his body deposited in the basilica of a Martyr, forasmuch as she believed that
his soul would be aided by the merits of the Martyr, the very believing of this
was a sort of supplication, and this profited, if aught profited. And in that
she recurs in her thoughts to this same sepulchre, and in her prayers more and
more commends her son, the spirit of the departed is aided, not by the place of
its dead body, but by that which springs from memory of the place, the living
affection of the mother. For at once the thought, who is commended and to whom,
doth touch, and that with no unprofitable emotion, the religious mind of her who
prays. For also in prayer to God, [2728] men do with the members of their bodies
that which becometh suppliants, when they bend their knees, when they stretch
forth their hands, or even prostrate themselves on the ground, and whatever else
they visibly do, albeit their invisible will and heart's intention be known unto
God, and He needs not these tokens that any man's mind should be opened unto
Him: only hereby one more excites himself to pray and groan more humbly and more
fervently. And I know not how it is, that, while these motions of the body
cannot be made but by a motion of the mind preceding, yet by the same being
outwardly in visible sort made, that inward invisible one which made them is
increased: and thereby the heart's affection which preceded that they might be
made, groweth because they are made. But still if any be in that way held, or
even bound, that he is not able to do these things with his limbs, it does not
follow that the inner man does not pray, and before the eyes of God in its most
secret chamber, where it hath compunction, cast itself on the ground. So
likewise, while it makes very much difference, where a person deposits the body
of his dead, while he supplicates for his spirit unto God, because both the
affection preceding chose a spot which was holy, and after the body is there
deposited the recalling to mind of that holy spot renews and increases the
affection which had preceded; yet, though he may not be able in that place which
his religious mind did choose to lay in the ground him whom he loves, in no wise
ought he to cease from necessary supplications in commending of the same. For
wheresoever the flesh of the departed may lie or not lie, the spirit requires
rest and must get it: for the spirit in its departing from thence took with it
the consciousness without which it could make no odds how one exists, whether in
a good estate or a bad: and it does not look for aiding of its life from that
flesh to which it did itself afford the life which it withdrew in its departing,
and is to render back in its returning; since not flesh to spirit, but spirit
unto flesh procureth merit even of very resurrection, whether it be unto
punishment or unto glory that it is to come to life again. Footnotes:[2728]
Orantes c8. We read in the Ecclesiastical History which Eusebius wrote in Greek,
and Ruffinus turned into the Latin tongue, of Martyr's bodies in Gaul exposed to
dogs, and how the leavings of those dogs and bones of the dead were, even to
uttermost consumption, by fire burned up; and the ashes of the same scattered on
the river Rhone, lest any thing should be left for any sort whatever of
memorial. [2729] Which thing must be believed to have been to no other end
divinely permitted, but that Christians should learn in confessing Christ, while
they despise this life, much more to despise sepulture. For this thing, which
with savage rage was done to the bodies of Martyrs, if it could any whit hurt
them, to impair the blessed resting of their most victorious spirits, would
assuredly not have been suffered to be done. In very deed therefore it was
declared, that the Lord in saying, "Fear not them which kill the body, and
afterward have no more that they can do," [2730] did not mean that He would not
permit them to do any thing to the bodies of His followers when dead; but that
whatever they might be permitted to do, nothing should be done that could lessen
the Christian felicity of the departed, nothing thereof reach to their
consciousness while yet living after death; nothing avail to the detriment, no,
not even of the bodies themselves, to diminish aught of their integrity when
they should rise again. Footnotes:[2729] Eusebius, H. E. book v. chap. i.
relates, that the bodies of these martyrs of Lyons lay exposed in the open air
for six days successively, and were then burned and cast into the Rhone. -- Ben.
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9. And yet, by reason of that affection of the human heart, whereby "no man ever
hateth his own flesh," [2731] if men have reason to know that after their death
their bodies will lack any thing which in each man's nation or country the
wonted order of sepulture demandeth, it makes them sorrowful as men; and that
which after death reacheth not unto them, they do before death fear for their
bodies: so that we find in the Books of Kings, God by one prophet threatening
another prophet who had transgressed His word, that his carcase should not be
brought into the sepulchre of his fathers. Which the Scripture hath on this
wise: "Thus saith the Lord, Because thou hast been disobedient to the mouth of
the Lord, and hast not kept the charge which the Lord thy God commanded thee,
and hast returned and eaten bread and drunk water in the place in which He
commanded thee not to eat bread, nor drink water, thy carcase shall not be
brought into the sepulchre of thy fathers." [2732] Now if in considering what
account is to be made of this punishment, we go by the Gospel, where we have
learned that after the slaying of the body there is no cause to fear lest the
lifeless members should suffer any thing, it is not even to be called a
punishment. But if we consider a man's human affection towards his own flesh, it
was possible for him to be frightened or saddened, while living, by that of
which he would have no sense when dead: and this was a punishment, because the
mind was pained by that thing about to happen to its body, howsoever when it did
happen it would feel no pain. To this intent, namely, it pleased the Lord to
punish His servant, who not of his own contumacy had spurned to fulfill His
command, but by deceit of another's falsehood thought himself to be obeying when
he obeyed not. For it is not to be thought that he was killed by the teeth of
the beast as one whose soul should be thence snatched away to the torments of
hell: seeing that over his very body the same lion which had killed it did keep
watch, while moreover the beast on which he rode was left unhurt, and along with
that fierce beast did with intrepid presence stand there beside his master's
corpse. By which marvellous sign it appeareth, that the man of God was, say
rather, checked temporally even unto death, than punished after death. Of which
matter, the Apostle when on account of certain offenses he had mentioned the
sicknesses and deaths of many, says, "For if we would judge ourselves, we should
not be judged of the Lord. But when we are judged we are chastened of the Lord,
that we may not be condemned with the world." [2733] That Prophet, truly, the
very man who had beguiled him, did with much respect bury in his own tomb, and
took order for his own burying beside his bones: in hope that thereby his own
bones might be spared, when, according to the prophecy of that man of God,
Josiah king of Judah did in that land disinter the bones of many dead, and with
the same bones defile the sacrilegious altars which had been set up for the
graven images. For he spared that tomb in which lay the prophet who more than
three hundred years before predicted those things, and for his sake neither was
the sepulture of him who had seduced him violated. By that affection namely,
which causes that no man ever hateth his own flesh, this man had taken
forethought for his carcase, who had slain with a lie his own soul. By reason
then of this, the natural love which every man hath for his own flesh, it was
both to the one a punishment to learn that he should not be in the sepulchre of
his fathers, and to the other a care to take order beforehand that his own bones
should be spared, if he should lie beside him whose sepulchre no man should
violate. Footnotes:[2731] Eph. v.29 [2732] 1 Kings xiii.21, 22 [2733] 1 Cor.
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10. This affection the Martyrs of Christ contending for the truth did overcome:
and it is no marvel that they despised that whereof they should, when death was
overpast, have no feeling, when they could not by those tortures, which while
alive they did feel, be overcome. God was able, no doubt, (even as He permitted
not the lion when it had slain the Prophet, to touch his body further, and of a
slayer made it to be a keeper): He was able, I say, to have kept the slain
bodies of His own from the dogs to which they had been flung; He was able in
innumerable ways to have deterred the rage of the men themselves, that to burn
the carcases, to scatter the ashes, they should not dare: but it was fit that
this experience also should not be lacking to manifold variety of temptations,
lest the fortitude of confession which would not for the saving of the life of
the body give way to the savageness of persecution, should be tremblingly
anxious for the honor of a sepulchre: in a word, lest faith of resurrection
should dread the consuming of the body. It was fit then, that even these things
should be permitted, in order that, even after these examples of so great
horror, the Martyrs, fervent in confession of Christ, should become witnesses of
this truth also, in which they had learned that they by whom their bodies should
be slain had after that no more that they could do. [2734] Because, whatever
they should do to dead bodies, they would after all do nothing, seeing that in
flesh devoid of all life, neither was it possible for him to feel aught who had
thence departed, nor for Him to lose aught thereof, Who created the same. But
while these things were doing to the bodies of the slain, albeit the Martyrs,
not frightened by them, did with great fortitude suffer, yet among the brethren
was there exceeding sorrow, because there was given them no means of paying the
last honors to the remains of the Saints, neither secretly to withdraw any part
thereof, (as the same history testifies,) did the watchings of cruel sentinels
permit. So, while those which had been slain, in the tearing asunder of their
limbs, in the burning up of their bones, in the dispersion of their ashes, could
feel no misery; yet these who had nothing of them that they could bury, did
suffer torture of exceeding grief in pitying them; because what those did in no
sort feel, these in some sort did feel for them, and where was henceforth for
those no more suffering, yet these did in woful compassion suffer for them.
Footnotes:[2734] Matt. x.28 c11. In regard to that woful compassion which I have
mentioned, are those praised, and by king David blessed, who to the dry bones of
Saul and Jonathan afforded mercy of sepulture. [2735] But yet what mercy is
that, which is afforded to them that have feeling of nothing? Or haply is this
to be challenged back to that conceit of an infernal river which men unburied
were not able to pass over? Far be this from the faith of Christians: else hath
it gone most ill with so great a multitude of Martyrs, for whom there could be
no burying of their bodies, and Truth did cheat them when It said, "Fear not
them which kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do," [2736]
if these have been able to do to them so great evils, by which they were
hindered to pass over to the places which they longed for. But, because this
without all doubt is most false, and it neither any whit hurts the faithful to
have their bodies denied sepulture, nor any whit the giving of sepulture unto
infidels advantageth them; why then are those who buried Saul and his son said
to have done mercy, and for this are blessed by that godly king, but because it
is a good affection with which the hearts of the pitiful are touched, when they
grieve for that in the dead bodies of other men, which, by that affection
through which no man ever hateth his own flesh, they would not have done after
their own death to their own bodies; and what they would have done by them when
they shall have no more feeling, that they take care to do by others now having
no feeling while themselves have yet feeling? Footnotes:[2735] 2 Sam. ii.5
[2736] Luke xii.4


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12. Stories are told of certain appearances or visions, [2737] which may seem to
bring into this discussion a question which should not be slighted. It is said,
namely, that dead men have at times either in dreams or in some other way
appeared to the living who knew not where their bodies lay unburied, and have
pointed out to them the place, and admonished that the sepulture which was
lacking should be afforded them. These things if we shall answer to be false, we
shall be thought impudently to contradict the writings of certain faithful men,
and the senses of them who assure us that such things have happened to
themselves. But it is to be answered, that it does not follow that we are to
account the dead to have sense of these things, because they appear in dreams to
say or indicate or ask this. For living men do also appear ofttimes to the
living as they sleep, while they themselves know not that they do appear; and
they are told by them, what they dreamed, namely, that in their dream the
speakers saw them doing or saying something. Then if it may be that a person in
a dream should see me indicating to him something that has happened or even
foretelling something about to happen, while I am perfectly unwitting of the
thing and altogether regardless not only what he dreams, but whether he is awake
while I am asleep, or he asleep while I am awake, or whether at one and the same
time we are both awake or asleep, at what time he has the dream in which he sees
me: what marvel if the dead be unconscious and insensible of these things, and,
for all that, are seen by the living in their dreams, and say something which
those on awaking find to be true? By angelical operations, then, I should think
it is effected, whether permitted from above, or commanded, that they seem in
dreams to say something about burying of their bodies, when they whose the
bodies are are utterly unconscious of it. Now this is sometimes serviceably
done; whether for some sort of solace to the survivors, to whom pertain those
dead whose likenesses [2738] appear to them as they dream; or whether that by
these admonitions the human race may be made to have regard to humanity of
sepulture, which, allow that it be no help to the departed, yet is there
culpable irreligiousness in slighting of it. Sometimes however, by fallacious
visions, [2739] men are cast into great errors, who deserve to suffer this. As,
if one should see in a dream, what Æneas by poetic falsity is told to have seen
in the world beneath: and there should appear to him the likeness of some
unburied man, which should speak such words as Palinurus is said to have spoken
to him; and when he awakes, he should find the body in that place where he heard
say while dreaming, that it lay unburied, and was admonished and asked to bury
it when found; and because he finds this to be true, should believe that the
dead are buried on purpose that their souls may pass to places from which he
dreamed that the souls of men unburied are by an infernal law prohibited: does
he not, in believing all this, exceedingly swerve from the path of truth?
Footnotes:[2737] Visa [2738] Imagines [2739] Visis


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13. Such, however, is human infirmity, that when in a dream a person shall see a
dead man, he thinks it is the soul that he sees: but when he shall in like
manner dream of a living man, he has no doubt that it is not a soul nor a body,
but the likeness of a man that has appeared to him: just as if it were not
possible in regard of dead men, in the same sort unconscious of it, that it
should not be their souls, but their likenesses that appear to the sleepers. Of
a surety, when we were at Milan, we heard tell of a certain person of whom was
demanded payment of a debt, with production of his deceased father's
acknowledgment, [2740] which debt unknown to the son the father had paid,
whereupon the man began to be very sorrowful, and to marvel that his father
while dying did not tell him what he owed when he also made his will. Then in
this exceeding anxiousness of his, his said father appeared to him in a dream,
and made known to him where was the counter [2741] acknowledgment by which that
acknowledgment was cancelled. Which when the young man had found and showed, he
not only rebutted the wrongful claim of a false debt, but also got back his
father's note [2742] of hand which the father had not got back when the money
was paid. Here then the soul of a man is supposed to have had care for his son,
and to have come to him in his sleep, that, teaching him what he did not know,
he might relieve him of a great trouble. But about the very same time as we
heard this, it chanced at Carthage that the rhetorician Eulogius, who had been
my disciple in that art, being (as he himself, after our return to Africa, told
us the story) in course of lecturing to his disciples on Cicero's rhetorical
books, as he looked over the portion of reading which he was to deliver on the
following day, fell upon a certain passage, and not being able to understand it,
was scarce able to sleep for the trouble of his mind: in which night, as he
dreamed, I expounded to him that which he did not understand; nay, not I, but my
likeness, while I was unconscious of the thing, and far away beyond the sea, it
might be, doing, or it might be dreaming, some other thing, and not in the least
caring for his cares. In what way these things come about, I know not: but in
what way soever they come, why do we not believe it comes in the same way for a
person in a dream to see a dead man, as it comes that he sees a living man?
both, no doubt, neither knowing nor caring who, or where, or when, dreams of
their images. Footnotes:[2740] Cautio [2741] Recautum [2742] Chirographum


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14. Like dreams, moreover, are also some visions of persons awake, who have had
their senses troubled, such as phrenetic persons, or those who are mad in any
way: for they too talk to themselves just as though they were speaking to people
verily present, and as well with absent as with present, whose images they
perceive, whether persons living or dead. But just as they which live, are
unconscious that they are seen of them and talk with them; for indeed they are
not really themselves present, or themselves make speeches, but through troubled
senses, these persons are wrought upon by such-like imaginary visions; just so
they also who have departed this life, to persons thus affected appear as
present, while they be absent, and whether any man sees them in regard of their
image, [2743] are themselves utterly unconscious. Footnotes:[2743] Imaginaliter
c15. Similar to this is also that condition when persons, with their senses more
profoundedly in abeyance than is the case in sleep, are occupied with the like
visions. For to them also appear images of quick and dead; but then, when they
return to their senses, whatever dead they say they have seen are thought to
have been verily with them: and they who hear these things pay no heed to the
circumstance that there were seen in like manner the images of certain living
persons, absent and unconscious. A certain man by name Curma, of the municipal
town of Tullium, which is hard by Hippo, a poor member of the Curia, [2744]
scarcely competent to serve the office of a duumvir [2745] of that place, and a
mere rustic, being ill, and all his senses entranced, lay all but dead for
several days: a very slight breathing in his nostrils, which on applying the
hand was just felt, and barely betokened that he lived, was all that kept him
from being buried for dead. Not a limb did he stir, nothing did he take in the
way of sustenance, neither in the eyes nor in any other bodily sense was he
sensible of any annoyance that impinged upon them. Yet he was seeing many things
like as in a dream, which, when at last after a great many days he woke up, he
told that he had seen. And first, presently after he opened his eyes, Let some
one go, said he, to the house of Curma the smith, and see what is doing there.
And when some one had gone thither, the smith was found to have died in that
moment that the other had come back to his senses, and, it might almost be said,
revived from death. Then, as those who stood by eagerly listened, he told them
how the other had been ordered to be had up, when he himself was dismissed; and
that he had heard it said in that place from which he had returned, that it was
not Curma of the Curia, but Curma the smith who had been ordered to be fetched
to that place of the dead. Well, in these dream-like visions of his, among those
deceased persons whom he saw handled according to the diversity of their merits,
he recognized also some whom he had known when alive. That they were the very
persons themselves I might perchance have believed, had he not in the course of
this seeming dream of his seen also some who are alive even to this present
time, namely, some clerks of his district, by whose presbyter there he was told
to be baptized at Hippo by me, which thing he said had also taken place. So then
he had seen a presbyter, clerks, myself, persons, to wit, not yet dead, in this
vision in which he afterwards also saw dead persons. Why may he not be thought
to have seen these last in the same way as he saw us? that is, both the one
sort, and the other, absent and unconscious, and consequently not the persons
themselves, but similitudes of them just as of the places? He saw, namely, both
a plot of ground where was that presbyter with the clerks, and Hippo where he
was by me seemingly baptized: in which spots assuredly he was not, when he
seemed to himself to be there. For what was at that time going on there, he knew
not: which, without doubt, he would have known if he had verily been there. The
sights beheld, therefore, were those which are not presented in the things
themselves as they are, but shadowed forth in a sort of images of the things. In
fine, after much that he saw, he narrated how he had, moreover, been led into
Paradise, and how it was there said to him, when he was thence dismissed to
return to his own family, "Go, be baptized, if thou wilt be in this place of the
blessed." Thereupon, being admonished to be baptized by me, he said it was done
already. He who was talking with him replied, "Go, be truly baptized; for that
thou didst but see in the vision." After this he recovered, went his way to
Hippo. Easter was now approaching, he gave his name among the other Competents,
alike with very many unknown to us; nor did he care to make known the vision to
me or to any of our people. He was baptized, at the close of the holy days he
returned to his own place. After the space of two years or more, I learned the
whole matter; first, through a certain friend of mine and his at my own table,
while we were talking about some such matters: then I took it up, and made the
man in his own person tell me the story, in the presence of some honest townsmen
of his attesting the same, both concerning his marvellous illness, how he lay
all but dead for many days, and about that other Curma the smith, what I have
mentioned above, and about all these matters; which, while he was telling me,
they recalled to mind, and assured me, that they had also at that time heard
them from his lips. Wherefore, just as he saw his own baptism, and myself, and
Hippo, and the basilica, and the baptistery, not in the very realities, but in a
sort of similitudes of the things; and so likewise certain other living persons,
without consciousness on the part of the same living persons: then why not just
so those dead persons also, without consciousness on the part of the same dead
persons? Footnotes:[2744] Curialis [2745] Duumviralitius


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16. Why should we not believe these to be angelic operations through
dispensation of the providence of God, Who maketh good use of both good things
and evil, according to the unsearchable depth of His judgments? whether thereby
the minds of mortals be instructed, or whether deceived; whether consoled, or
whether terrified: according as unto each one there is to be either a showing of
mercy, or a taking of vengeance, by Him to Whom, not without a meaning, the
Church doth sing "of mercy and of judgment." [2746] Let each, as it shall please
him, take what I say. If the souls of the dead took part in the affairs of the
living, and if it were their very selves that, when we see them, speak to us in
sleep; to say nothing of others, there is my own self, whom my pious mother
would no night fail to visit, that mother who by land and sea followed me that
she might live with me. Far be the thought that she should, by a life more
happy, have been made cruel, to that degree that when any thing vexes my heart
she should not even console in his sadness the son whom she loved with an only
love, whom she never wished to see mournful. But assuredly that which the sacred
Psalm sings in our ears, is true; "Because my father and my mother have forsaken
me, but the Lord hath taken me up." [2747] Then if our parents have forsaken us,
how take they part in our cares and affairs? But if parents do not, who else are
there of the dead who should know what we are doing, or what we suffer? Isaiah
the Prophet says, "For Thou art our Father: because Abraham hath not known us,
and Israel is not cognizant of us." [2748] If so great Patriarchs were ignorant
what was doing towards the People of them begotten, they to whom, believing God,
the People itself to spring from their stock was promised; how are the dead
mixed up with affairs and doings of the living, either for cognizance or help?
How say we that those were favored who deceased ere the evils came which
followed hard upon the decease, if also after death they feel whatever things
befall in the calamitousness of human life? Or haply do we err in saying this,
and in accounting them to be quietly at rest whom the unquiet life of the living
makes solicitous? What then is that which to the most godly king Josias God
promised as a great benefit, that he should first die, that he might not see the
evils which He threatened should come to that place and People? Which words of
God are these: "Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: concerning My words which
thou hast heard, and didst fear before My face when thou didst hear what I have
spoken concerning this place and them which dwell therein, that it should be
forsaken and under a curse; and hast rent thy garments, and wept before Me, and
I have heard thee, saith the Lord of Sabaoth: not so; behold, I will add thee
unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be added unto them in peace; and thine eyes
shall not see all the evils which I am bringing upon this place and upon them
that dwell therein." [2749] He, frightened by God's comminations, had wept, and
rent his garments, and is made, by hastening on of his death, to be without care
of all future evils, because he should so rest in peace, that all those things
he should not see. There then are the spirits of the departed, where they see
not whatever things are doing, or events happening, in this life to men. Then
how do they see their own graves, or their own bodies, whether they lie cast
away, or buried? How do they take part in the misery of the living, when they
are either suffering their own evils, if they have contracted such merits; or do
rest in peace, as was promised to this Josiah, where they undergo no evils,
either by suffering themselves, or by compassionate suffering with others, freed
from all evils which by suffering themselves or with others while they lived
here they did undergo? Footnotes:[2746] Ps. ci.1 [2747] Ps. xxvii.10 [2748] Is.
lxiii.16 [2749] 2 Kings xxii.18-20


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17. Some man may say: "If there be not in the dead any care for the living, how
is it that the rich man, who was tormented in hell, asked father Abraham to send
Lazarus to his five brothers not as yet dead, and to take course with them, that
they should not come themselves also into the same place of torments?" [2750]
But does it follow, that because the rich man said this, he knew what his
brethren were doing, or what they were suffering at that time? Just in that same
way had he care for the living, albeit what they were doing he wist not at all,
as we have care for the dead, albeit what they do we confessedly wot not. For if
we cared not for the dead, we should not, as we do, supplicate God on their
behalf. In fine, Abraham did not send Lazarus, and also answered, that they have
here Moses and the Prophets, whom they ought to hear that they might not come to
those torments. Where again it occurs to ask, how it was that what was doing
here, father Abraham himself wist not, while he knew that Moses and the Prophets
are here, that is, their books, by obeying which men should escape the torments
of hell: and knew, in short, that rich man to have lived in delights, but the
poor man Lazarus to have lived in labors and sorrows? For this also he says to
him; "Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime hast received good things, but
Lazarus evil things." He knew then these things which had taken place of course
among the living, not among the dead. True, but it may be that, not while the
things were doing in their lifetime, but after their death, he learned these
things, by information of Lazarus: that it be not false which the Prophet saith,
"Abraham hath not known us." [2751] Footnotes:[2750] Luke xvi.24-29 [2751] Is.
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18. So then we must confess that the dead indeed do not know what is doing here,
but while it is in doing here: afterwards, however, they hear it from those who
from hence go to them at their death; not indeed every thing, but what things
those are allowed to make known who are suffered also to remember these things;
and which it is meet for those to hear, whom they inform of the same. It may be
also, that from the Angels, who are present in the things which are doing here,
the dead do hear somewhat, which for each one of them to hear He judgeth right
to Whom all things are subject. For were there not Angels, who could be present
in places both of quick and dead, the Lord Jesus had not said, "It came to pass
also that the poor man died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's
bosom." [2752] Therefore, now here, now there, were they able to be, who from
hence bore thither whom God willed. It may be also, that the spirits of the dead
do learn some things which are doing here, what things it is necessary that they
should know, and what persons it is necessary should know the same, not only
things past or present, but even future, by the Spirit of God revealing them:
like as not all men, but the Prophets while they lived here did know, nor even
they all things, but only what things to be revealed to them the providence of
God judged meet. Moreover, that some from the dead are sent to the living, as,
on the other hand, Paul from the living was rapt into Paradise, divine Scripture
doth testify. [2753] For Samuel the Prophet, appearing to Saul when living,
predicted even what should befall the king: [2754] although some think it was
not Samuel himself, that could have been by magical arts evoked, but that some
spirit, meet for so evil works, did figure his semblance: [2755] though the book
Ecclesiasticus, which Jesus, son of Sirach, is reputed to have written, and
which on account of some resemblance of style is pronounced to be Solomon's,
[2756] contains in the praise of the Fathers, that Samuel even when dead did
prophesy. But if this book be spoken against from the canon of the Hebrews,
[2757] (because it is not contained therein,) what shall we say of Moses, whom
certainly we read both in Deuteronomy to have died, [2758] and in the Gospel to
have, together with Elias who died not, appeared unto the living? [2759]
Footnotes:[2752] Luke xvi.22 [2753] 2 Cor. xii.4 [2754] 1 Sam. xxviii.11-19
[2755] Quæst. ad Simplicianum, lib. ii. qu.4. [2756] Retract. ii.4, and "On
Christian Doctrine," book ii. chap. viii., vol. ii. p.539. Ben. ed. [2757]
Ecclus. xlvi.20 [2758] Deut. xxxiv.5 [2759] Matt. xvii.3


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19. Hence too is solved that question, how is it that the Martyrs, by the very
benefits which are given to them that pray, indicate that they take an interest
in the affairs of men, if the dead know not what the quick are doing. For not
only by effects of benefits, but in the very beholding of men, it is certain,
[2760] that the Confessor Felix (whose denizenship among you thou piously
lovest) appeared when the barbarians were attacking Nola, as we have heard not
by uncertain rumors, but by sure witnesses. But such things are of God
exhibited, far otherwise than as the usual order hath itself, unto each kind of
creatures apportioned. For it does not follow because water was, when it pleased
the Lord, in a moment changed into wine, that we are not to regard the worth and
efficacy of water in the proper order of the elements, as distinct from the
rarity, or rather singularity, of that divine work: nor because Lazarus rose
again, therefore that every dead man rises when he will; or that a lifeless man
is raised up by a living, in the same way as a sleeping man by one who is awake.
Other be the limits of human things, other the signs of divine virtues: other
they be that are naturally, other that be miraculously done: albeit both unto
nature God is present that it may be, and unto miracles nature is not lacking.
We are not to think then, that to be interested in the affairs of the living is
in the power of any departed who please, only because to some men's healing or
help the Martyrs be present: but rather we are to understand that it must needs
be by a Divine power that the Martyrs are interested in affairs of the living,
from the very fact that for the departed to be by their proper nature interested
in affairs of the living is impossible. Footnotes:[2760] Inquilinatum c20.
Howbeit it is a question which surpasses the strength of my understanding, after
what manner the Martyrs aid them who by them, it is certain, are helped; whether
themselves by themselves be present at the same time in so different places, and
by so great distance lying apart one from another, either where their Memorials
are, or beside their Memorials, wheresoever they are felt to be present: or
whether, while they themselves, in a place congruous with their merits, are
removed from all converse with mortals, and yet do in a general sort pray for
the needs of their suppliants, (like as we pray for the dead, to whom however we
are not present, nor know where they be or what they be doing,) God Almighty,
Who is every where present, neither bounded in [2761] with us nor remote from
us, hearing and granting the Martyrs' prayers, doth by angelic ministries every
where diffused afford to men those solaces, to whom in the misery of this life
He seeth meet to afford the same, and, touching His Martyrs, doth where He will,
when He will, how He will, and chiefest through their Memorials, because this He
knoweth to be expedient for us unto edifying of the faith of Christ for Whose
confession they suffered, by marvellous and ineffable power and goodness cause
their merits to be had in honor. A matter is this, too high that I should have
power to attain unto it, too abstruse that I should be able to search it out;
and therefore which of these two be the case, or whether perchance both one and
the other be the case, that sometimes these things be done by very presence of
the Martyrs, sometimes by Angels taking upon them the person of the Martyrs, I
dare not define; rather would I seek this at them who know it. For it is not to
be thought that no man knows these things: (not indeed he who thinks he knows,
and knows not,) for there be gifts of God, Who bestows on these some one, on
those some other, according to the Apostle who says, that "to each one is given
the manifestation of the Spirit to profit withal; to one [2762] indeed," saith
he, "is given by the Spirit discourse of wisdom; to another [2763] discourse of
science according to the same Spirit; while to another [2764] faith in the same
Spirit; to another [2765] the gift of healings in one Spirit; to one [2766]
workings of miracles; to one [2767] prophecy; to one [2768] discerning of
spirits; to one [2769] kinds of tongues; to one [2770] interpretation of
discourses. But all these worketh one and the same spirit, dividing to every man
severally as He will." [2771] Of all these spiritual gifts, which the Apostle
hath rehearsed, to whomsoever is given discerning of spirits, the same knoweth
these things as they are meet to be known. Footnotes:[2761] Concretus [2762]
Alii, allo [2763] Alii, allo [2764] Alteri, hetero [2765] Alteri, hetero [2766]
Alii, allo [2767] Alii, allo [2768] Alii, allo [2769] Alii, allo [2770] Alii,
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21. Such, we may believe, was that John the Monk, whom the elder Theodosius, the
Emperor, consulted concerning the issue of the civil war: seeing he had also the
gift of prophecy. For that not each several person has a several one of those
gifts, but that one man may have more gifts than one, I make no question. This
John, then, when once a certain most religious woman desired to see him, and to
obtain this did through her husband make vehement entreaty, refused indeed this
request because he had never allowed this to women, but "Go," said he, "tell thy
wife, she shall see me this night, but in her sleep." And so it came to pass:
and he gave her advice, whatever was meet to be given to a wedded believing
woman. And she, on her awaking, made known to her husband that she had seen a
man of God, such as he knew him to be, and what she had been told by him. The
person who learned this from them, reported it to me, a grave man and a noble,
and most worthy to be believed. But if I myself had seen that holy monk, because
(it is said) he was most patient in hearing questions and most wise in
answering, I would have sought of him, as touching our question, whether he
himself came to that woman in sleep, that is to say, his spirit in the form of
his body, just as we dream that we see ourselves in the form of our own body; or
whether, while he himself was doing something else, or, if asleep, was dreaming
of something else, it was either by an Angel or in some other way that such
vision took place in the woman's dream; and that it would so be, as he promised,
he himself foreknew by the Spirit of prophecy revealing the same. For if he was
himself present to her in her dream, of course it was by miraculous grace that
he was enabled so to do, not by nature; and by God's gift, not by faculty of his
own. But if, while he was doing some other thing or sleeping and occupied with
other sights, the woman saw him in her sleep, then doubtless some such thing
took place, as that is which we read in the Acts of the Apostles, where the Lord
Jesus speaks to Ananias concerning Saul, [2772] and informs him that Saul has
seen Ananias coming unto him, while Ananias himself wist not of it. The man of
God would make answer to me of these things as the case might be, and then about
the Martyrs I should go on to ask of him, whether they be themselves present in
dreams, or in whatever other way to those who see them in what shape they will;
and above all when the demons in men confess themselves tormented by the
Martyrs, and ask them to spare them; or whether these things be wrought through
angelic powers, to the honor and commendation of the Saints for men's profit,
while those are in supreme rest, and wholly free for other far better sights,
apart from us, and praying for us. For it chanced at Milan at (the tomb of) the
holy Martyrs Protasius and Gervasius, that Ambrose the bishop, at that time
living, being expressly named, in like manner as were the dead whose names they
were rehearsing, the demons confessed him and besought him to spare them, he
being the while otherwise engaged, and when this was taking place, altogether
unwitting of it. Or whether indeed these things are wrought, somewhiles by very
presence of the Martyrs, otherwhiles by that of Angels; and whether it be
possible, or by what tokens possible, for us to discriminate these two cases; or
whether to perceive and to judge of these things none be able, but he which hath
that gift through God's Spirit, "dividing unto every man severally as He will:"
[2773] the same John, methinks, would discourse to me of all these matters, as I
should wish; that either by his teaching I might learn, and what I should be
told should know to be true and certain; or I should believe what I knew not,
upon his telling me what things he knew. But if peradventure he should make
answer out of holy Scripture, and say, "Things higher than thou, seek thou not;
and things stronger than thou, search thou not; but what the Lord hath commanded
thee, of those things bethink thee alway:" [2774] this also I should thankfully
accept. For it is no small gain if, when any things are obscure and uncertain to
us, and we not able to comprehend them, it be at any rate clear and certain that
we are not to seek them; and what thing each one wishes to learn, accounting it
to be profitable that he should know it, he should learn that it is no harm that
he know it not. Footnotes:[2772] Acts ix.12 [2773] 1 Cor. xii.11 [2774] Ecclus.
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22. Which things being so, let us not think that to the dead for whom we have a
care, any thing reaches save what by sacrifices either of the altar, or of
prayers, or of alms, we solemnly supplicate: although not to all for whom they
are done be they profitable, but to them only by whom while they live it is
obtained that they should be profitable. But forasmuch as we discern not who
these be, it is meet to do them for all regenerate persons, that none of them
may be passed by to whom these benefits may and ought to reach. For better it is
that these things shall be superfluously done to them whom they neither hinder
nor help, than lacking to them whom they help. More diligently however doth each
man these things for his own near and dear friends, in order that they may be
likewise done unto him by his. But as for the burying of the body, whatever is
bestowed on that, is no aid of salvation, but an office of humanity, according
to that affection by which "no man ever hateth his own flesh." [2775] Whence it
is fitting that he take [2776] what care he is able for the flesh of his
neighbor, when he is gone that bare [2777] it. And if they do these things who
believe not the resurrection of the flesh, how much more are they beholden to do
the same who do believe; that so, an office of this kind bestowed upon a body,
dead but yet to rise again and to remain to eternity, may also be in some sort a
testimony of the same faith? But, that a person is buried at the memorials of
the Martyrs, this, I think, so far profits the departed, that while commending
him also to the Martyrs' patronage, the affection of supplication on his behalf
is increased. Footnotes:[2775] Eph. v.29 [2776] Gerat [2777] Gerebat.


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23. Here, to the things thou hast thought meet to inquire of me, thou hast such
reply as I have been able to render: which if it be more than enough prolix,
thou must excuse this, for it was done through love of holding longer talk with
thee. For this book, then, how thy charity shall receive it, let me, I pray
thee, know by a second letter: though doubtless it will be more welcome for its
bearer's sake, to wit our brother and fellow-presbyter Candidianus, whom, having
been by thy letter made acquainted with him, I have welcomed with all my heart,
and am loath to let him depart. For greatly in the charity of Christ hath he by
his presence consoled us, and, to say truth, it was at his instance that I have
done thy bidding. For with so great businesses is my heart distraught, that had
not he by ever and anon putting me in mind not suffered me to forget it,
assuredly to thy questioning reply of mind had not been forthcoming. cON THE
TRINITY. INDEX OF SUBJECTS. Abraham, appearance of God to, [1]46 sq., [2]66 sq.
Academic philosophy, the, criticised, [3]210 sq. Adam, the appearing of God to,
and how he spoke to, [4]45 sq.; on account of his sin we are delivered into the
power of the devil, [5]175. Angels, how they work miracles, [6]60; have their
power from God only, [7]63; appearing of, [8]64-[9]66; how the law was given by,
[10]67. Anthropomorphism, [11]18. Arians, the arguments of, derived from the
words "begotten" and "unbegotten," refuted, [12]88 sq. Back parts, the, of God,
[13]50-[14]52. "Beginning," the word, spoken relatively in regard to the
Trinity, [15]85, [16]94, [17]95. "Begotten" and "unbegotten," the words, [18]91,
[19]225; reply to cavils of heretics respecting, [20]89. Blessedness, desired by
all, [21]170; perfect only in the life to come, [22]171; cannot exist without
immortality, [23]172. Christ, the mediation and intercession of, shall cease,
[24]26-[25]28; the sending of, at His incarnation, [26]40; the death and
resurrection of, and their bearing on us, [27]71 sq.; the Mediator gathers the
many into one, [28]75 sq.; the ignorance of, [29]30; the death of, voluntary,
[30]77 sq.; the most perfect victim for cleansing guilt, [31]79, [32]80. Cicero
says all men will be blessed, [33]170; commends contemplative wisdom,
[34]197.Creation, all, a manifestation of God, [35]58.Daniel, the appearance of
God to, [36]53.Death, the, of soul and body, and the bearing of Christ's one
death on, [37]71?[38]73.Degradation, the lowest, reached by degrees,
[39]160.Demons, miracles wrought by, to be spurned, [40]76.Devil, the, the
mediator of death, [41]76; how he leads his own to despise the death of Christ,
[42]79; overcome not by might but by righteousness, [43]176-[44]178.Dove, the,
Holy Spirit manifested by a, [45]42, [46]224.Essence, and substance, [47]21
(note), [48]92, [49]109-[50]114, [51]139 (note).Eunomius, his error in saying
that the Son of God is the son not of His nature but of His will, [52]220.Faith,
a thing of the heart, [53]168; necessary to blessedness, [54]171.Father, the,
not alone immortal, [55]44, etc.; what is said of, and the Son together; and
what not, [56]98, etc.; is Himself power and wisdom, [57]104, etc.; and the Son,
together one wisdom as one essence, [58]107, etc.Generation, eternal, [59]225,
[60]226 (notes).Glass, seeing through darkly, explained, [61]206, etc.God, how
the Scriptures speak of, [62]18; why immortality ascribed exclusively to,
[63]18; the substance of, how to know, [64]18; uses of the term, [65]22 (note);
whether God the Trinity, or one person of the Trinity, appeared to the fathers,
[66]45; how He spake to Adam, [67]45; His appearance to Abraham, [68]46, etc.,
[69]66, etc.; to Lot, [70]47; to Moses, [71]48; in the pillar of cloud and fire,
[72]49; at Sinai, [73]50; to Daniel, [74]53; the will of, the higher cause of
all corporeal changes, [75]57; uses all His creatures as He will for His glory,
[76]58; the essence of, never appeared, [77]65; the appearances of, wrought by
angels, [78]66; the knowledge of, to be sought from Himself, [79]69, etc.; not
corporeal nor changeable, [80]87; the only unchangeable essence, [81]88; what is
spoken of according to essence, is spoken of each person severally, and together
of the Trinity itself, [82]91; of those things which belong absolutely to His
essence, [83]92; what is said of, in respect to time, said relatively, [84]95;
how a substance, simple and manifold, [85]100; is a Trinity, but not triple,
[86]101; whether one person, or the three together, called the one God, [87]102;
substance is spoken of improperly, essence properly, [88]111; nothing greater
in, than one person [89]116; corporeal conceptions of, to be rejected, [90]116;
to be known by faith, that He may be loved, [91]118, etc.; worship of, is the
love of Him, [92]163; what His wrath is, [93]179.Head, mystical meaning of
covering the, [94]159.Hilary quoted respecting the persons of the Trinity,
[95]102, [96]201.Holy Spirit, the, is very God, [97]23; why so called, [98]93;
relation to the Son, [99]26; relation to the Son and the Father, [100]39; the
sending of, [101]40, [102]85; not incarnate in the dove, [103]42; the sensible
showing of, [104]85; the Father and the Son the only beginning of, [105]94;
whether He was a gift before as well as after He was given, [106]95; equal to
the Father and the Son in all things, [107]100, etc.; is together with the
Father and the Holy Spirit one wisdom, [108]107; is properly called in Scripture
by the name of love, [109]215, etc.; is God, and also the gift of God, [110]217;
of the procession of the, [111]224, etc.Hypostasis and person, how these words
came into use in reference to the Trinity, the former among the Greeks, the
latter among the Latins, [112]23 (note), [113]92, [114]109, etc.Image of God,
how man is the, [115]113; turning aside from, 160; to be found in the rational
soul, [116]185; how formed anew in man, [117]195.Image of the beast in man,
[118]161.Imagination, the power of [119]153.Incarnation of the Word, benefits
of, [120]174, [121]179.Infants, minds of, [122]186.Infinite, the, not the All,
[123]101 (note).Kingdom, the, delivered by Christ to the Father. [124]26, etc.,
[125]28.Knowledge of God, the, to be sought from God, [126]69, etc.Law, the,
given by angels, [127]67.Love, the true, by which we arrive at a knowledge of
the Trinity, [128]122.Magic, great miracles wrought by, [129]60; how far it
extends, [130]61.Man, is both after the image of God and is the image of God,
[131]113; rescued not by might but by righteousness, [132]176.Mediatorship of
Christ, the cessation of, [133]28 (note), [134]29.Merits, our, are the gifts of
God, [135]174.Mind, the Trinity in, [136]125; knows itself not in part but in
whole, [137]137; its opinion of itself deceitful, [138]138; what it knows of
itself, [139]140, etc.; an image of the Trinity, [140]143; in what part of,
alone, is the Trinity the image of God, [141]156; how it thinks of itself,
[142]187;loves God in rightly loving itself, [143]192, etc.; infirmity of the
human, [144]223.Miracles, why not usual works, [145]59; diversity lone makes,
[146]60; great, wrought by magicians, [147]60; how angels work, [148]61; signs,
[149]63 wrought by demons, to be spurned, [150]76.Moses, in what manner he saw
God, [151]50; his rod changed into a serpent, its sign, [152]64. Nature, what it
teaches us regarding God, [153]202.Numbers, the senary and ternary, [154]73,
etc., [155]74, etc.Perfection, how God brings us to, [156]70.Persons, the three,
in the Godhead, [157]23 (note), [158]92; and Hypostases, how the word came into
use, etc., [159]109-[160]111; the Scriptures never formally speak of three, in
one God, [161]110.Pharaoh, the miracles wrought by the wise men of,
[162]59.Philosophers, not to be consulted respecting the resurrection, [163]80;
their blessedness ridiculous, [164]171; origin of the name, [165]183.Plato's
doctrine of reminiscences, [166]164.Procession, [167]225, [168]226
(notes).Pythagoras, story regarding, [169]164.Resurrection of Christ, the, the
faith of, saves, [170]51.Righteous man, how the man not yet righteous can know
the, [171]120.Sabellianism, [172]7, [173]92.Scripture, Holy, the adaptation of,
even to the simplest, [174]18; has more meanings than one, [175]36; a double
rule for understanding the various modes of speech used in, respecting the Son,
[176]37.Sheol, [177]192.Son of man, the, [178]33 (note).Son of God, the, is very
God, [179]21; in what respects less than the Father, [180]24, etc.; the
subjection of, to the Father, and delivers up the kingdom to the Father,
[181]24-[182]28; relation of, to the Holy Spirit, [183]26; how equal to, and how
less than the Father, [184]29; how said not to know the day nor the hour,
[185]30, etc.; how to sit on His right hand and His left, not His to give,
[186]31; the two natures of, lays a foundation for opposite things being said
of, [187]33, etc.; judgment committed to, [188]33, etc.; double rule for
understanding the phraseology of Scripture respecting, [189]37, etc.;
glorification of, by the Father, [190]39; the sending of, [191]40; object of the
incarnation of, [192]81; how sent and proclaimed beforehand, [193]82; how in His
incarnation He was made less without detriment to His equality with the Father,
[194]83; what the sending of, means, [195]84; the wisdom and power of the
Father, [196]97; what is said of the Father and, together, and what not,
[197]98; and the Father, how one, [198]99; and the Father, one wisdom as one
essence, [199]107, etc.; why He is chiefly intimated by the word wisdom, when
both the Father and the Holy Spirit are wisdom, [200]107; the love by which we
arrive at a knowledge of, [201]122; how we are justified by His blood, [202]175;
why He took upon Himself man from the race of Adam and from a virgin, [203]180;
we are to be like Him, [204]196.Soul, opinions of philosophers regarding its
substance, [205]139; whence comes its error concerning itself, [206]140; its
power over the body, [207]148.Species, mental, produced by species in
succession, [208]153.Spirit, the Holy, why so called, [209]93 (note).Spirit, a
word of many meanings, [210]195.Spiration, [211]93, [212]225, [213]226
(notes).Subordination, [214]4, [215]38-[216]40.Ternary number, the, in Christ's
resurrection, [217]118, [218]119.Theophanies, the, [219]43-[220]54,
[221]65-[222]68.Trinity, for what purpose the dissertation on, was written,
[223]17; the Catholic faith respecting, [224]20; the difficulties concerning,
[225]21, etc.; all three sometimes understood in one person, [226]27, [227]28
(note); the entire invisible, [228]43; whether the, spoke at Sinai, or some one
person specially, [229]49, [230]53; the co-eternity of, [231]85, [232]86; the
three persons of, and one essence, [233]92, [234]93; the word "beginning" how
spoken relatively in regard to the Trinity, [235]94; God is a, but not triple,
[236]101; whether one, or the three persons together, is called the one God,
[237]102; Hilary quoted respecting the persons of the, [238]102; whether each
person of, is of itself wisdom, [239]104, etc.; the use of the words hypostasis
and person, in relation to, [240]109-[241]114; why we do not speak of one person
and three essences in, [242]111; how the, may be loved though unknown, [243]119;
difficult to be demonstrated by natural reason, [244]202, etc.; disparity
between the trinity which is in man and that which is in God, [245]111,
[246]129, [247]133, [248]143 (notes), [249]222.Trinity in man, three things in
love, as it were a trace of, [250]124; a kind of, exists in mind, knowledge, and
love, [251]125; another, in memory, understanding, and will, [252]134-[253]143;
a trace of, in the outer man, [254]144, etc.; man made after the image of the,
[255]5, [256]157., etc., [257]190.Unity of the Father and the Son, [258]99;
numerical not specific, [259]20 (note).Vision, how produced, [260]145.Word, the
Incarnate, dispels our darkness, [261]70; man apt for the perception of truth
through, [262]71; incarnation of, suitable for freeing man from mortality,
[263]174; knowledge and wisdom of, [264]180, etc.; of God, and word of man,
[265]209; of God, equal to the Father, [266]213.


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Abortive conceptions, question regarding resurrection of, [267]265. Abraham,
Christ the promised Seed of, [268]339, [269]340; His example cited, [270]408,
[271]409, [272]412; actions of, figurative, [273]470; told no lie, [274]491;
knew the state of the world from Lazarus, [275]548. Abstinence, practice of, a
benefit due to authority, [276]364; easier than moderation, [277]405, [278]410;
from food, etc. for ill ends, [279]528. Academics, St. Augustin once inclined
to, [280]356. Action, unless rightly done, sin, [281]360; whether implied in
permission, [282]464, [283]475; always conceived in the heart, [284]487;
indifferent, takes its character from motive, [285]488; some unconsciously
prophetic, [286]495; character determined by the intention, [287]519. Adam, sin
of, the results to his posterity, [288]246, [289]254; involved many kinds of
sin, [290]252; Job, how unlike, [291]530. Address, different methods of, to
different classes of hearers, catechumens, [292]298 sq. Admonition, desired by
St. Augustin, [293]522. Adultery, what? [294]400, [295]402; compared with
fornication, [296]403; is evil, while even second marriage is good, [297]443;
might be justified on same grounds as lying, [298]487, [299]488; some guilty of,
fear perjury, [300]500; penance done for, 575. Æsop, Fables of, [301]494.
Ætiology, explanation by, [302]349. Age, qualifies to give counsel, [303]451;
flower of, brief, [304]452.Aged, marriage, [305]400.Ages, seven; the last to be
an age of rest, [306]301.Ages of the world, the six, [307]307.Alexis, of Plato
and Virgil thought allegorical, [308]355.All things gathered together in one in
Christ, expounded, [309]257.Allegory, explanation by, [310]349; instances of,
[311]350, [312]351; in real events, [313]460, [314]470, [315]492; no lie if the
thing figured is true, [316]460; Jacob's deceit was, [317]491; use of,
[318]492.Almighty, what He Who is, cannot do, 569.Alms, means of, not to be
gotten by sin, [319]488; a means of pardon, [320]496; given to Christ, [321]519;
to be done for a heavenly reward, [322]520.Almsgiving, will not, without change
of life, atone for sin, [323]260; the greatest, is forgiveness of debtors and
love of enemies, [324]261; the first, is to pity our own souls, [325]262;
advanced by Christianity, [326]364.Altar, prayers at the, [327]434; ministers
of, Christian Priests, [328]515; prayers offered at the, [329]540.Alternatives,
[330]464, [331]466, [332]468, [333]469.Ambrose, St., Bp. of Milan, heard by St.
Augustin, [334]356.Analogy, explanation by, [335]349.Ananias, appearance to St.
Paul, [336]550.Angel, Temple may not be built to an, [337]374.Angels, the
fallen, God's judgment on, [338]246; who fell not, [339]246; nothing certainly
known of their social organization, [340]256; bodies assumed by, [341]256; what
Christ did for man was in a sense done for them, [342]257; may communicate the
events of time to the dead, [343]359; cannot sin, [344]385; entertained by Lot,
[345]463; ministry of, to Lazarus, [346]541; free of both worlds,
[347]548.Anger, darkens the mind's eye, [348]490.Angry, in what sense God is
said to be, [349]248, [350]527.Anima, animus, mens, [351]475.Anna, and Susanna,
[352]403, [353]413; more blessed than Ruth, [354]443; unless Ruth knew what was
to follow; probably knew Christ should be born of a Virgin, [355]444; her long
and early widowhood, [356]447; her piety, [357]448; recognized Christ with His
Virgin Mother, [358]444, [359]448.Antiphrasis, is no lie, [360]491; instances
of, [361]492.Antiquity, testimony of, to Religion, [362]363.Apocrypha, books of,
[363]548; quoted, [364]540.Apostle, God spoke in him, [365]521.Apostles, common
men chosen to show Christ's power, [366]342; prophesied of, [367]343; use the
four-fold exposition, [368]349, [369]350; Acts of, rejected by Manichees,
inconsistently, [370]350; teaching handed down from, [371]356; effect of their
labors on nations, [372]364; whether bound to live of the Gospel, [373]471,
[374]522; Acts of the, a place to find examples, [375]476, [376]493; example of,
no obligation not to labor, [377]505-[378]508; maintained by holy women and
those among whom they preached, [379]506-[380]508; words not to be derided,
[381]508; divided their provinces, [382]516; had power not to work: to speak
with authority, [383]522; once of the world, [384]532; chosen not just but
justified: else had first chosen Christ, [385]533.Apostolic chair, succession
from, and note, [386]365.Apparitions, in dreams, [387]544-[388]550; of the dead
without their consciousness, [389]545 sq.; as of the living, unconscious,
[390]545. [391]546, [392]549; images only, not of souls themselves, [393]545;
produced by the ministry of Angels, [394]545, [395]547, [396]549; asking for
burial, [397]545; use of: pointing out places of burial, [398]545; foretelling
things future, [399]545; not to be denied, [400]545; instances of, in sleep,
[401]545; pointing out where things should be found, [402]545; seen when awake,
[403]546; in trances, [404]546; doctrines taught by: of Samuel to Saul,
[405]548; of St. Felix, [406]548; of saints whether themselves or angelic
appearances, doubtful, [407]549, [408]550; of John the Monk, [409]549; of
Ananias to St. Paul: John would have solved St. Augustin's difficulties,
[410]550.Aptus, [411]464.Archimedes, not to be explained by Epicurus,
[412]353.Arena, matches of the, [413]372.Aristotle, not to be explained by an
enemy, [414]353.Army, of the virtues and vices, [415]382.Artisans, singing at
work, [416]514.Ascension of Christ foretold, [417]341; witnessed by Apostles,
[418]342; of our Lord, [419]373, [420]374, [421]375; how our Lord prefigured,
[422]494.Ashes, of martyrs, thrown into the Rhone, [423]543; not scattered,
[424]544.Asper, a grammarian, [425]355.Atoms, soul not formed of,
[426]352.Augustin, St., when ordained Priest or Presbyter, [427]347; his early
love of truth, [428]347, [429]349; his prayer for Honoratus, [430]348; how led
into Manicheism (nine years in it), tempted by discussions, [431]348; only a
"Hearer:" a worldling: contrast later, [432]348; his eyes weak from past
delusions, [433]349; his book "De Spiritu et Litera," note, [434]351; his belief
about the Old Testament, [435]353; young when led into error, [436]353; his way
of search for true religion, [437]356, [438]357; disappointed in Faustus,
[439]356; tended at times toward Academics: his prayers for help: becomes
Catechumen, [440]356; his purpose of writing further to Honoratus, [441]365;
expresses doubt on a point connected with marriage, [442]407; not at variance
with Council of Carthage, [443]441; his many engagements, [444]441; his books on
marriage and virginity, [445]448, [446]454; wrote against Faustus, [447]448;
works of, on Divine grace, [448]450; his works on Lying of different dates,
[449]457; uses a homely style in practical matters, [450]458; his avocations,
[451]481; life laborious, (bodily infirmity), [452]521, [453]522; did what he
exhorted others to do, [454]522; found a Bishop's life more laborious than a
Monk's, [455]521; not submitting to man's judgment, [456]522; desired to be
admonished, [457]523; never completed his Retractations, [458]527; visited
nightly by his mother while she lived, [459]547; not after her death, [460]547.
Aurelius, Bp. of Carthage, desired St. Augustin to write on the work of Monks,
[461]503, [462]522.Authority, necessity of in religion,[463]356, [464]357;
source of what we believe, [465]359; lovers of truth believe, [466]360; for
doctrine same as for belief in Christ, [467]362; some probable a priori,
[468]363; shown by miracles on multitudes, [469]364; brought to bear on life
through numbers, [470]364; seat of, in Catholic Church, [471]365; of doctrine to
be strictly guarded, [472]466, [473]483, [474]484.Babylon, represents the world,
[475]496.Ball, pleasure of playing with, [476]453.Baptism, indicates our death
to sin and resurrection to life, [477]252, [478]254; open to all, both infants
and adults, [479]252; "Come, ye blessed of My Father, receive the kingdom,"
[480]374; makes men temples of the Holy Spirit, [481]374; remission of all
things in, [482]374; received, to be guarded by good life: washes once for all:
why not repeated, [483]375; of heretics, "a form of Godliness:" is of the Church
only: remits original sin, [484]386; puts away all sin, [485]408; of children,
[486]419; remits from all sin, [487]435; supposed case of lying in order to
give, [488]499; necessary for admission to Paradise, [489]546.Baptized persons
pray, [490]435.Barnabas, simulation of corrected, [491]461, [492]493.Barrenness,
does not make divorce lawful, [493]402, [494]406, [495]412.Beauty, inward is
what Christ loves, [496]451; false, lawful to none, [497]451; spiritual, decays
not, [498]451; of truth, [499]498.Bees, have progeny without intercourse,
[500]399.Begging Monks, [501]515.Beginners, lying, well meant, excused
in,.[502]460, [503]473, [504]495, [505]497.Beginning, The Father is, of Christ:
The Son also the, [506]328; Godhead has none, [507]372.Belief, See Faith;
implies objects unseen, [508]337. [509]338; of historical facts, [510]359;
different from opinion, [511]458; needed before understanding, [512]463; of a
lie, not always hurtful, [513]466, [514]483; of false doctrine, a real misery,
[515]483; in the heart, not enough without confession, [516]486.Bene-dictio,
better than bona dictio, [517]292.Betrayal, sin of, [518]467, [519]468,
[520]496; by silence, [521]468, [522]469.Bill of divorcement, [523]402.Birds,
their habits alluded to, [524]409; who? [525]436; image of the proud, [526]516;
not to be imitated in all points, [527]517, [528]518 sq.; in cages, [529]517;
not imitated in picking food or flies, [530]518; caught by want of water,
[531]348.Bishop, empowered to relax certain excommunications, [532]441;
addresses another Bishop's flock by permission, [533]521, [534]524.Bishops,
Catholic, overthrew Priscillianism, [535]485; called to act in secular affairs,
[536]517; by Apostolic injunction, to be obeyed, [537]522; succession of from
Apostles, 565.Bishop's life, laborious, [538]521, [539]522; recent increase of
occupation, [540]521.Blasphemy, worst in one who knows it such, [541]444,
[542]495, [543]499; none can be allowable, [544]499; suggested by Job's wife,
[545]500.Blessedness, called Right Hand of God, [546]373.Blessing, put for
cursing, [547]491.Blood, of Christ, given the pardoned to drink, [548]374.Bodies
of the married are holy, [549]405.Body, the death of, man's peculiar punishment,
[550]246; resurrection of, [551]264, [552]332, [553]375, [554]540, [555]541; in
the resurrection, spiritual, [556]266; material of, never perishes, [557]265,
[558]529; a creature of God, [559]374; Temple of the Holy Spirit, [560]374,
[561]444, [562]474, not our object in religion, [563]354; its peaceful members
made the soul's pattern, [564]389; may be holy in marriage, [565]443, [566]444;
of all the Faithful is "members of Christ," [567]444; soul to be preferred to,
[568]463, purity of, depends on soul, [569]463, [570]499; Priscillianists erred
concerning, [571]484; real good of, in the life to come, [572]528, [573]529; to
be restored entire, [574]529; patience of Martyrs concerning their, [575]530;
motions of, affect the mind, [576]542; an interest felt in, by us while living,
[577]543, [578]544; overcome by the Martyrs, [579]544; hurt only by the pain of
dying, [580]543, [581]544; faith in resurrection of, confirmed by care for the
dead, [582]541, [583]550; obtained by the spirit, [584]543; not affected by the
treatment of the corpse, [585]540, [586]541, [587]543, [588]544.Boyhood, good
and bad reasons for preferring, [589]352; rashness incident to, [590]353.Bread,
daily breaking of, at Troas, the Eucharist, [591]514.Bridegroom, Christ the,
[592]343.Burial, in the memorials of Martyrs, [593]539, [594]542, [595]549,
[596]550; place provided for, [597]539; want of, does not affect the dead,
[598]540, [599]541, [600]543, [601]544, [602]545; a grief to the living,
[603]544; external rites of, for the comfort of the living, [604]540, [605]544,
[606]550; no benefit to the wicked, [607]540, [608]544; care for, a duty,
[609]541; why? [610]544; by the Patriarchs and their children, [611]541;
significative, [612]541; commended in Scripture, [613]541; rewarded, [614]541;
want of, and place of, does not hinder the resurrection, [615]540, [616]541; or
rest, [617]541, [618]543, [619]545; place of, a benefit only as occasioning
prayer, [620]542, [621]543, [622]550; to slight, irreligious, [623]545; place
of, naturally, a subject of interest, [624]543, [625]544; loss of, how a
punishment; how a kindness, [626]544. Business distracting the mind unsuitable
to preachers, [627]405.Butler, Analogy, [628]337.Calling, each to remain in,
[629]509.Candidianus, bearer of St. Augustin's book on "Care for the Dead,"
[630]551.Canticles, prophecy of Christ and the Church, [631]343.Care for the
Dead, book on, occasion of writing, [632]539, [633]551.Caring for temporal
things forbidden, [634]504.Caring not, by some limited to spiritual wants,
[635]503.Carnally-minded like grass, [636]516.Carthage, fourth Council of,
[637]441; introduction of monasteries into, [638]503.Cassiodorus, his book, De
Inst. Div. Lit., [639]347.Catechetical instruction, 282 sq.; way to commence it,
[640]288 sq.; of the educated,[641]290 sq.; of grammarians and professional
speakers, [642]291; causes and remedies of tediousness in, [643]292
sq.Catechumen, examination of, as to his views, [644]288; specimen of address to
([645]1) one of worthy views, (2) one of false aims, [646]299; formal admission
of, [647]312; St. Augustin becomes one, [648]356; learned and repeated the
Creed, [649]369; still under sins, [650]375; having a second wife, case of,
[651]408.Catholic, title of, whose by consent, [652]356.Cataline, his powers of
endurance, [653]528.Cato, cited, [654]408.Causes, essential to man's happiness
to know the; of good and evil, [655]242; the secondary, of evil, are ignorance
and lust, [656]245, [657]264; of common things obscure.Centurion, ready faith
of, praised, [658]363; case of the, [659]428.Chalcedon, Council of,
excommunicates (Church) widows who marry, [660]441.Character, care of, a point
of charity, [661]453.Characterem, (of Baptism), [662]375.Charity, the Church
abides in, [663]374; of the married state, [664]400; shown in communicating any
good to others, [665]441; in keeping good repute, [666]453; unity of the Church
belongs to, [667]535; a mark of the free-born, [668]535.Chase, simile of,
[669]457.Chastity, advanced by Christianity, [670]364; of continence, better
than married chastity, [671]411; wedded, is a good, [672]443, [673]445; wedded,
is God's gift, [674]450; complete (integritas), of virgins and widows, [675]450;
spiritual delights in, [676]452; not to be broken to save a life, [677]463; or a
soul, [678]499; not lost by violence, [679]463, [680]475; of mind what,
[681]475, [682]499; of mind to be preserved for detecting heresy, [683]487; is
of the truth, [684]498, [685]499; cannot teach adultery, [686]499.Children,
probably involved in the guilt, not only of our first parents, but also of their
own immediate parents, [687]252; know their parents by faith, [688]338,
[689]360; exorcised, [690]369; loss of, [691]372, [692]530; why baptized,
[693]419; the Three Holy, Song of, [694]438; having, a reason for not marrying
again, [695]445; spiritual, may serve instead of natural, [696]445, [697]450;
virginity of, a compensation to parents, [698]445, [699]448; desire of, lawful,
but not praiseworthy, [700]445; having, a blessing, not a merit, [701]447,
[702]448; bringing up well, is of good will, [703]448; spiritual fruits in place
of, [704]451, [705]452; lawfully begetting, for God a good work, [706]488; power
of a parent over, [707]490.Childhood, why a grown man may prefer,
[708]352.Christ, birth of, [709]249, [710]371; being the only Son of God, is at
the same time man, [711]249; grace of God in His birth, [712]250, [713]251; made
sin for us, [714]251; not regenerated in the baptism of John, [715]253; took
away original sin and all other sins, [716]253; His life typical of the
Christian life, [717]254; second coming of, [718]255; advent of, why foretold,
[719]286; shows God's love to us, [720]287; generation of, as Son of God and the
Word, [721]322 sq.; neither made by nor less than the Father, [722]323; born
through the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, [723]325; as God, has no mother,
[724]325; Passion, Burial and Resurrection of, [725]326; Ascension of, [726]326;
Session at the Father's Right Hand and Coming to Judgment, [727]326, [728]327;
relation of, as Son to the Father, [729]328 sq.; the Seed of Abraham, [730]339;
nations blessed in, [731]339; so honored though crucified, a miracle, [732]340;
witnessed to by Jewish prophecy, [733]342; sufferings of, contrasted with His
Victory, [734]342; name of, honored even by heretics, [735]343; the Bridegroom,
[736]343; used the four ways of exposition, [737]349, [738]350; veil of Law done
away by, [739]351; teaching handed down from, [740]356; even heretics bid us
believe in, [741]361; on whose testimony we do so, [742]362; planted His
religion by the way of faith, [743]363; Death and Resurrection of, shut out
fear, [744]363; various miracles of, their use, [745]364; effects of His
Incarnation and Teaching, [746]365; God in true Man, [747]364; without sin,
restores from sin, [748]369, [749]370; what He teaches of Himself, [750]371; His
lowly Birth, Passion and Death: born perfect as Son of God, [751]371, [752]372;
born of the Virgin in the fullness of time: God and Man: death of, a pattern to
martyrs; Resurrection of, [753]372, [754]375; sets a prize as in the arena,
[755]372; arose to die no more, [756]372; example of, exceeds Job's, [757]373;
His Sufferings and Ascension, [758]373; shall come to judge the quick and the
dead: the Church abides in, as branches in a Vine, [759]374; the Root: sin of
killing, not unpardonable: members of, shall follow Him, [760]375; our pattern:
condescends to our slowness, [761]380; and the Church, their union, [762]388;
heretical notion concerning, [763]389; came in real flesh, [764]389; took a
human body and a human soul, [765]390, [766]364; really hungered and thirsted:
saw fit not to abstain like the Baptist, [767]410; the object of love, [768]437,
[769]452; taught humility when near His Passion, [770]429; Himself the model for
virgins, [771]429, [772]431; the object of virgin love, [773]437; crucified, to
be gazed on with the inward eyes, [774]437; may not be loved a little, [775]444;
recognized by Anna as a child, [776]444, [777]448; conceived in chastity, can
make virginity fruitful, [778]446; loves an inward beauty, [779]446; a Husband,
in the Spirit, to the married as to the Church, [780]446; shown to be the
worthiest object of love, [781]452; did and commanded all for our salvation,
[782]462; no lie to be told about, [783]466; patience of, perfect, [784]470; yet
did not literally turn the other cheek, [785]470; sayings of, that seem false,
are figurative, [786]476, [787]494; denied before men in pretending heresy,
[788]485; few deny sincerely, [789]486; kept back some truth, [790]491; called a
"Rock," "Lion," [791]491; under our sins figured by Jacob, [792]492; Himself a
Prophet, [793]494; assumed show of ignorance, [794]494; His feigning, [795]494;
exhorts Martyrs to patience, [796]529; forbearance of, to Judas, [797]529; chose
and justified the Apostles, [798]533; faith of, saved the old Saints, [799]533;
made poor for our sakes, [800]535; poor of, to be made rich [801]539.
Christianity, derided as credulous, [802]337; is not without evidence, [803]339;
testimony of mankind to, [804]355; profession of, its effect on the masses,
[805]364, [806]365.Christians, nominal, described, [807]311; more numerous than
Jews and Pagans united [in the Roman empire,] [808]356; they are not, who forbid
faith before reason, [809]362, [810]363; misrepresented, [811]365; work and
prize of, [812]372; all in one commonwealth, [813]519; state of, as longing for
inheritance, [814]535.Christian life, four stages of, [815]275.Church, is the
Temple of God, [816]255; condition of, in heaven, [817]256; redeemed by blood,
[818]257; history of, in four stages, [819]275; in its likeness to a Vine,
[820]309; the Catholic, [821]331; quotes herself as fulfillment of prophecy,
[822]339, [823]341; called the "Queen," [824]339; visible as such, [825]340; is
herself an evidence, [826]341; witness of past and future, [827]342; spread
abroad by suffering, [828]342; Bride of Christ, [829]343; milk from the teats
of, [830]348; with what error charged by Manichees, [831]353, [832]357;
Catholic, prima facie claims of, [833]355; her teaching from Christ and the
Apostles, [834]356; witnessed to by people and nations, [835]362; testimony of
mankind leads us to, [836]364; doctrines of, concerning God, [837]365; mother of
God's children, [838]369; named in the Creed after the Holy Trinity: victorious
over heresies, abides in charity, [839]374; Body of Christ: He the Head,
[840]375; an heretical notion concerning, [841]389; Christ and the, [842]388,
[843]389; not yet perfect, [844]390; made subject to Christ, [845]390; her daily
cry, [846]391; the, a Mother and a Virgin, [847]417, [848]418; a holy Virgin,
[849]420; sometimes called the kingdom of heaven, [850]425; the, a virgin and
spouse of Christ, [851]446, [852]451, [853]452; includes the departed, [854]454;
in a household, [855]454; authority of its practices though not in Scripture,
[856]541; disunion with, breaks charity, [857]535.Churches, seats in (apparently
an exception), [858]296; of withdrawing from, during service; by whom filled on
Festival days, [859]311; building of, [860]488.Cicero, his rule for argument,
[861]348; studied because acknowledged by all, [862]354; conspirators put to
death by, [863]359; lectured on, [864]545.Circumcision, a seal: is not for
Christians, [865]351; made uncircumcision by leaving the law, [866]461,
[867]462; for whom lawful, [868]461.City of God, St. Augustin on,
[869]317.Clean, who are, in God's sight, [870]465.Clergy, not bound to labor,
[871]506-[872]508; may claim maintenance from their people, [873]506, [874]507;
all, as well as Apostles, [875]508, [876]510; employments fitted for, [877]511;
receive support, not as mendicants, that they may escape distracting
occupations, [878]512; injunctions to support, [879]511, [880]513; for the good
of the people, [881]513; have same right to maintenance as the Apostles,
[882]515, [883]516: ministers of His Sacrament unto righteousness, [884]519,
[885]520; not to be careful, [886]521.Cæcilius, not studied instead of Cicero,
[887]354.Coeval, image of the Coeternal, [888]371.Colors, divers, signify what,
[889]339.Command, of the Lord, why St. Paul had none, [890]421.Commands, clear,
to be obeyed at all risks, [891]469, [892]470; explained by examples, [893]470,
[894]471.Community of goods at Jerusalem, [895]512; of goods, benefit of,
[896]520; all Christians one, [897]519.Compacts, sexual, how far sinful,
[898]400, [899]401.Competentes, a step beyond other Catechumens,
[900]547.Concealment, of many things lawful, [901]352; not itself lying,
[902]491.Conceptaculum [903]471.Concubinage, for offspring's sake unlawful,
[904]406; was lawful among the ancient fathers, [905]406; lawfulness of a
certain kind of, doubtful, [906]407.Concupiscence, gradually weakened, [907]524;
patience not to minister to, [908]528.Confession, of sins, [909]436; medicine
of, [910]473; remedy for lies, [911]500.Confinis, [912]351.Conflict. of virtues
and vices in the soul, [913]381; of the Christian, [914]382,
[915]387.Conscience, moves all good minds to seek God, [916]363; good, excuses
not carelessness of repute, [917]453; solace of, in evil report, [918]453;
sinning against, [919]484.Consent, in thought constitutes sin, [920]380,
[921]381; yielded and withheld, [922]387, [923]388; withheld is mortification of
the members, [924]392; what constitutes, [925]464, [926]465; when it justifies
doing a man wrong, [927]466; chastity not lost without, [928]475.Consentius, his
inquiries about Priscillianists, [929]457, [930]482; praise of, [931]481;
advised to write against Priscillianism, [932]486, [933]492.Constancy, in the
faith of the Resurrection, [934]310 sq.Continence, praised by Epicurus,
[935]352; door of, [936]380, [937]381; why mentioned last by St. Paul, [938]383;
God's gift, [939]379, [940]391; the gift of God's Spirit, [941]384; difficult to
treat of, [942]379; marriage, glorious, not to be attained in our own strength,
[943]383; forbears excuses, [944]384, sought of God by David, [945]384; required
against all sin, [946]385; peace the prize of, [947]386; a healthful
chastisement of our nature, [948]390; falsely claimed, considered, [949]391; its
office, [950]391; is refusing the consent of the mind, [951]392; must watch the
thoughts, [952]393; glory of perseverance in, due to the Lord, [953]393; the
greater of two goods, [954]402, [955]411 [956]423; and marriage, two goods,
[957]403; compared to fasting, [958]403; how, is not on a level with the
marriage of the old Fathers, [959]408, [960]409; a virtue of the soul, [961]409;
in habit and act, [962]410; praise of the state of, [963]411; the root-virtue,
[964]412; profitable for the life to come, [965]420, [966]421, [967]422,
[968]424; when unwillingly professed, [969]429; of widows: its rank, [970]434;
widowed, better than nuptial chastity, [971]443; best for those who "receive"
it, [972]445; strength of, measures merit of widowhood, [973]447; of heretics
not to persuade us, [974]448; all is God's gift, [975]449; though willing,
[976]450; term properly used of virgins and widows, [977]450; universal,
supposed danger of, [978]460. Contraries, instances of, [979]483.Conversion, not
to be brought about by lying, [980]476, [981]484.Cornutus, a grammarian,
[982]355.Corruption, all things not perfectly good are liable to,
[983]240.Councils, weight of, against heretics, [984]365.Creation, of man, what
is to be believed concerning the, [985]302; all good, the whole better than each
part, [986]444.Creature, visible and invisible, [987]369; gives pleasure by
approach to that which it loves, [988]534.Credulousness, distinguished from
faith, [989]357.Creed, the Apostles', [990]238; current in 4th century,
[991]318; expounded, [992]321 sq.; the rule of faith or symbol, [993]369 sq.;
not written, repeated by Catechumens: scattered through Scripture, [994]369;
calls, not the Son Almighty, yet implies this, [995]370.Crimes, penance for,
575.Crispina, mentioned, [996]434.Critics, destructive, [997]448.Cross, why
Christ chose, [998]372.Crown, for those who strive, [999]372; is not for the
impatient, [1000]531.Curia, of Tullium, [1001]546.Curiosity, what it means,
[1002]356, [1003]357; idle, danger of, in reading, [1004]398; forbidden,
573.Curma, vision of, [1005]546.Custom, binding power of, [1006]263 sq.Cynegius,
buried in the Basilica of St. Felix, [1007]539.Cyprian, St., on the unity of the
Church, note, [1008]365.Danger, seeking, tempting God, [1009]520.Daniel and St.
Paul, [1010]423.Darius Comes, Ep. to, [1011]337; St. Augustin's letter to,
[1012]527.David, a great saint, [1013]384; spake rashly, [1014]393; rash oath
of, no example, [1015]490; his feigned madness, [1016]491; patient forbearance
of, [1017]529.Day, the first and the Lord's, [1018]515.Dead, souls of the,
benefitted by the sacraments and alms of living friends, [1019]272, [1020]550;
care for, [1021]539-[1022]551; pagan opinions of, [1023]539, [1024]544,
[1025]545: at rest, [1026]541, [1027]543, [1028]544, [1029]545; sacrifice for,
in Maccabees, [1030]540; not affected by the condition of the body, [1031]540
sq.; unconscious when seen in visions, [1032]545 sq.; do not know what happens
in this world, [1033]547-[1034]549; or their happiness would be affected,
[1035]547; except in special cases, [1036]548; perhaps by information from other
spirits, [1037]548; from Angels, [1038]548; by dispensation of the Holy Spirit:
interpose not ordinarily, [1039]547 sq., [1040]549; not as they please,
[1041]549; sometimes, [1042]548, [1043]549; a blessing thereby, [1044]547; by
extraordinary Divine permission, [1045]549; we care and pray for, without
knowing their state, [1046]548, [1047]549.Death, of the body is man's peculiar
punishment, [1048]246; the first and the second, consequences of, [1049]267;
eternal, [1050]273; cannot injure the regenerate, [1051]275; question of lying
to prevent, [1052]497, [1053]498; sin worse than, [1054]462; wrongly thought of
as worst evil, [1055]474; for mercy and truth, a gain, [1056]497; sin the sting
of, [1057]500.Deceit, purpose of, implied in lying, [1058]458; may be by means
of truth, [1059]458; safest to avoid, entirely, [1060]459; turns on itself,
[1061]495.Defamation, question of, to prevent crime, [1062]466; especially
condemned, [1063]472.Degrees of glory in Heaven, [1064]426, [1065]435.Dei fica,
[1066]532.Demetrias, consecrated a Nun, [1067]441; her choice of virginity
praised, and note, [1068]443, [1069]448; became like Virgin Mary was, [1070]449;
before her mother in the kingdom, [1071]451; grandmother of, [1072]451; care
needed for, being young, and a book recommended, [1073]454.Demons, served,
[1074]391; confess themselves tormented by Martyrs, [1075]550; by living Saints,
[1076]550.Deogratias, the book on Catechising the Uninstructed, written for,
282.Deserter, mark of, not changed, [1077]375.Desires, earthly, lead to
endurance, [1078]528.Devil, the, how he tempts, [1079]314; the, called a lion,
[1080]491.Dictinius, reformed from his error, [1081]483; his book called the
"Pound," [1082]484, [1083]497, [1084]500.Diet, what St. Augustin used,
[1085]348.Difficulties, to be borne with, [1086]550.Discourse, a, often pleasant
to the hearer and distasteful to the speaker, and probable explanation of the
fact, 282 sq.Disease, of nature, what, [1087]386.Dives, care for his brethren
did not imply that he knew of their state, [1088]548.Divorce, why permitted the
Jews, [1089]349; rebuked by Christ, [1090]402; may not take place for
barrenness, [1091]402, [1092]406, [1093]412; does not dissolve marriage,
[1094]402, [1095]406, [1096]412; dissolves marriage in the world's opinion,
[1097]402.Donatists, suicides of, [1098]530; not martyrdoms, [1099]531.Donatus,
the grammarian, [1100]355.Dreams, See Apparitions, [1101]545 sq.Drunkenness, a
fault in act or habit, [1102]357.Duty, of marriage among the early people of
God, [1103]403, [1104]406, [1105]408, [1106]419; higher, supersede lower,
[1107]474; cannot require a sin, [1108]489.Duumvir, [1109]546.Dwelling called
"sitting," [1110]373Earth, creation of the, [1111]369.Ecclesiasticus, said to be
written by Solomon, not canonical, [1112]548.Economy, some, used toward aliens
without lying, [1113]487; practiced by our Lord, [1114]491. Educated, the, how
to catechise, [1115]290 sq.Egypt, represents the world, [1116]496.Election,
God's sovereign grace in, [1117]268; Divine, is grace, [1118]532, [1119]533;
precedes faith, [1120]533; examples of, [1121]534.Eligere, [1122]534.Eloquence,
few attain, yet masters of, known, [1123]354.Emperor, heathen, grants pardon to
the courage of Firmus, [1124]468.End of the Lord, our example,
[1125]373.Endurance, not patience, [1126]426; of sufferings for worldly objects,
[1127]527; of men for temporal objects praised, [1128]528; practised for wicked
ends, [1129]528, [1130]529; not patience, but an example, [1131]528; in surgical
cases, worldly, [1132]532, [1133]534; this is animal and devilish, [1134]532;
like stupor of disease, [1135]534; frantic, of misguided lust,
[1136]534.Enemies, love of, [1137]261.Epicurus, sometimes praises continence,
[1138]352; his error about pleasure [1139]352; not fit to explain Archimedes,
[1140]353.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.Heresy, pretence of, may cause real, [1541]483, [1542]484; how to be
exposed: sometimes healed secretly, [1543]486.Heretic, not every one a, who
believes heretics, [1544]347; what makes a, [1545]348; silence to be kept to a:
each claims name of Catholic, [1546]355, [1547]356; spoils that claim by
pretending to reason, [1548]357, [1549]363; cannot claim authority, or do
without it, [1550]362; that on which we believe Christ is against them,
[1551]363.Heretics, or schismatics compared to twigs lopped off the vine,
[1552]310 sq.; all, would have us believe in Christ, [1553]362; many ways
condemned, [1554]365; yet in their sins, [1555]375; continence of, should not
persuade us, [1556]448; widows and virgins of, inferior to Catholic wives,
[1557]448; not to be tracked out by lying, [1558]482; sin less in speaking
heresy than Catholics would, [1559]483, [1560]485; little harm in believing,
when they pretend Catholicism, [1561]483; converted, may take comfort in their
former ignorance, [1562]485; converted, will correct others, [1563]486.Hidden
life with Christ, [1564]392.History, explanation by, [1565]349; of the Exodus
allegorical, though true, [1566]350.Holy Spirit, the birth of Christ is of The,
[1567]250; is not the Father of Christ, [1568]250; Holy Spirit and the Church,
[1569]255; is not a creature, [1570]256; sin against The, [1571]264; signified
by the expression, finger of God, [1572]305; mission of, on Pentecost,
[1573]308; The third Person of the Trinity, [1574]327; His individuality and
offices, [1575]329; body of any Christian, a temple of, [1576]444; speaking in
St. Paul, [1577]513.Homicide, lying to screen from punishment, [1578]468;
justifiable, [1579]469.Honoratus, several of the name, [1580]347; one a
companion of St. Augustin, a lover of truth, [1581]347; prayed for, [1582]348,
[1583]349; how led astray, [1584]348; not then a Christian, [1585]348; his
friendship with St. Augustin, [1586]351; will wonder at the Old Testament being
called pure, [1587]353; called on to take more pains, [1588]355; a sincere and
earnest inquirer, [1589]365.Honorius, laws of, against idols, [1590]337.Hope,
everything pertaining to, embraced in the Lord's Prayer, [1591]273; worldly, its
objects, [1592]348; of discovery implied in search, [1593]361; of Christians in
the Judgment, [1594]374.Horace, fable quoted, [1595]494.House, temporal and
eternal, [1596]496.Humility, most needful for virgins, [1597]428, [1598]437; who
would follow Christ, [1599]436; its praise, [1600]428; instances of, [1601]428,
[1602]429; commended by our Lord, [1603]428, [1604]430. Humility, taught by
Christ, near his Passion, [1605]429; learnt of Christ, [1606]430; unfeigned,
needed, [1607]434; treated of fully by St. Augustin, [1608]436; of Saints,
[1609]438; and holiness: need of in pious widows, [1610]448.Hundredfold fruits
of virginity, [1611]434.Hunting, pleasure of, [1612]452.Husband, and wife, their
union, [1613]388; relative duties, [1614]389, [1615]391; might once have many
wives, [1616]406, [1617]407; must have but one, [1618]408.I AM, meaning of the
Name, [1619]324.Idleness leads to vain talking, [1620]516.Idolaters, a minority,
[1621]355.Idolatry conforming to, to avoid violence, [1622]464; might be done to
save life, if lying lawful, [1623]482; conformity to, nowhere allowed,
[1624]493.Idols, laws of Honorius against, [1625]337; some still believe in,
[1626]341; rejection of, prophesied, [1627]342.Ignorance, sometimes better than
knowledge, [1628]242; result of evil, [1629]245, [1630]264; to be borne
patiently, [1631]550.Image, of God, in the mind, [1632]524.Images, of persons
and things seen in visions, [1633]545 sq.Imitation of Christ,
[1634]427.Immanuel, [1635]340.Immortality, the penny in the parable,
[1636]426.Impatience, evil of, [1637]527.Impurity, legal, not always sin,
[1638]409.Incest, compared with adultery and fornication,
[1639]402.Incorruptible, begets Incorruptible, [1640]370.Incorruption, future
gain of, [1641]529.Infirmity, a reason for not working, [1642]515; pleaded as an
excuse, [1643]516.Injury, not to be done to one man to save another, [1644]466,
[1645]467.Instrumental, goods, [1646]403.Integritas, said of virgins and widows,
[1647]450.Intention, determines the character of an action,
[1648]520.Intercourse of the sexes venial in marriage state, [1649]263; when
right, when wrong, [1650]487.Interpolations supposed in Holy Scripture,
[1651]350.Involuntary continence estimated, [1652]429.Isaac, son of Abraham:
told no lie, [1653]491; inherited otherwise than his brothers, [1654]535.Israel,
prefigured the future Church, [1655]304; history of, and its significance,
[1656]304 sq.; compared with Sodom, [1657]461; history of, figurative,
[1658]470.Israelites, whole people as it were a prophet, [1659]444.Israelitess,
without guile, Rahab became, [1660]497.Jacob, his birth as typical of Christ's
Incarnation, [1661]286; an ancestor of Christ, [1662]339; his example quoted for
lying, [1663]460; his deceit was a mystery, [1664]491; acted in the figure of
Christ, [1665]492.Jealousy, attributed to God, [1666]527.Jehu, falsehood of, no
safe example, [1667]482.Jericho, represents the world, [1668]496.Jerome, St.
opinion of, about St. Peter's simulation, and note, [1669]461.Jerusalem,
heavenly and earthly contrasted, [1670]496; Christian's living in common at,
[1671]512; the heavenly, what gifts her sons have, [1672]535.Jesus, supported by
pious women, [1673]506.Jewish Christians, kept the Law, [1674]509.Jews, named
from Judah, [1675]339; our witnesses to prophecy, [1676]342; permitted to
ill-treat our Lord, [1677]373; many of, murderers of Christ, forgiven,
[1678]374; and heathens, out numbered by Christians, [1679]355; their notions of
defilements, [1680]469; priesthood of, become vile, [1681]470; heart of, called
"stony," [1682]491; rites of, culled "sacramenta," [1683]493.Job, his example
cited, [1684]409; patience of, in various temptations, [1685]530; was thought to
worship God, for temporal things: compared with Adam, [1686]530; trials of,
extreme, [1687]372; tempted by his wife: stood fast in God, [1688]373; restored
to prosperity for our example, [1689]373.John, St. beautifully alluded to,
[1690]390; his example cited, [1691]410; alluded to, [1692]426.John, the Monk,
[1693]539; he had the gift of prophecy: consulted by Theodosius: appeared to one
in sleep, [1694]550.Joke, a, not a lie, [1695]458.Joseph, St. chosen to evidence
the perpetual virginity of St. Mary, [1696]511.Joseph, temptation of, [1697]487;
his concealment no lie, [1698]491.Josiah, sparing the Prophet's bones,
[1699]544; spared the knowledge of the afflictions which followed after his
death, [1700]547.Jotham, parable of, [1701]494.Joy, different degrees of, in
Heaven, [1702]426; godly, given to us, [1703]534.Judah, Jews named from,
[1704]339.Judah, fornication of, no example, [1705]495.Judaism, how far St. Paul
allowed, [1706]460. [1707]461, [1708]493.Judas prophesied of, [1709]341; an
example of evil tolerated, [1710]506; our Lord's patience with, [1711]529.Judge,
seems required for "false witness," [1712]467, [1713]468, [1714]473; information
to, no betrayal, [1715]468; tortures inflicted by, [1716]528.Judgment, reason
for believing, [1717]341; will separate good and evil, [1718]343; of the just
and the unjust, [1719]374.Judgments of God, on fallen men and angels [1720]246;
will be explained at the Resurrection, [1721]267; are just, [1722]268
sq.Juliana, thanks St. Augustin for a warning: asked him to write, [1723]441;
not to take all as written for herself, [1724]441, [1725]448; had children when
left a widow, [1726]445, [1727]448; highest achievements open to, [1728]448; is
to communicate the book to others, [1729]450; household of, a Church, [1730]454.
Kids, skins of, meant sins, [1731]492.Kindred, spiritual, preferable to human,
[1732]418.Kingdoms, two distinct, after the resurrection; Christ's and the
Devil's, [1733]273.Kiss, not refused to Judas, [1734]529.Knowledge, different
ways of desiring, [1735]357; distinguished from opinion and belief, [1736]359;
of evil, no misery, [1737]359; matter of belief may be called, [1738]360; and
charity, two goods, [1739]403; all who know, partake of, [1740]528; of difficult
questions, a divine gift, [1741]549.Labor, pleasure in, [1742]453; those able
to, happier, [1743]515; a duty of monks, [1744]514; practised in good
monasteries, [1745]516; humbling effects of, on the wealthy, [1746]518; for the
common store, [1747]519;. in the rich more charitable than alms-giving,
[1748]535.Lamb, The, followed by virgins, and married persons, [1749]426,
[1750]432.Lamps, burning, what, [1751]386.Laurentius, the Enchiridion addressed
to, [1752]237.Law, counsel given beyond, [1753]461, [1754]462; of God unmoved by
circumstances, [1755]489; of nature, [1756]407; under, in, without
distinguished, [1757]509; Jewish, permitted eating in the fields, [1758]517;
supposed wish to combine, with the Gospel, [1759]351; Ceremonial, mysteries of,
[1760]351; in the letter, killeth; wants an expounder, [1761]353.Laws, of man,
in some sort Christian, [1762]356.Laying out more, St. Paul, [1763]515.Lazarus,
buried, what signified in, [1764]494; borne by Angels, [1765]541; told Abraham
the state of the Jews, [1766]548.Lectures of Rhetoricians, [1767]545.Leeches,
[1768]529.Left-hand, what means, [1769]374.Legal purification shows not marriage
sinful, [1770]409; was for the type of sin, [1771]409.Leisure, what, had St.
Paul, [1772]466.Leonas, messenger of Consentius, [1773]481.Lewdness, worse than
theft, [1774]488 [1775]489.Liar, not every is a, who lies, [1776]466.Liberty,
Christian, [1777]461, [1778]462, [1779]493.Lie, never allowable, but differs
much in guilt, [1780]243; not allowable to save another from injury, [1781]245;
question if ever lawful, [1782]457 sq.; a joke is not a, [1783]458; nor a
mistake, [1784]458; definition of, [1785]458, [1786]459, [1787]494; how to be
safe from, [1788]460; question if ever useful, [1789]460, [1790]491; examples
quoted in favor of, [1791]460, [1792]495, [1793]500; cases of danger requiring,
[1794]460, [1795]462, [1796]490; condemned as false witness, [1797]460;
condemned more generally, and note, [1798]460, .[1799]468, [1800]476; allegory
is not, [1801]460, [1802]491; sometimes allowed in imperfect state, [1803]461;
New Testament never favors, [1804]461, [1805]493; God hates, even to destroying,
[1806]462, [1807]482; corrupts the soul, [1808]463; any sin as easily justified,
[1809]463, [1810]495; good men lose authority by telling, [1811]464; about
Christ, [1812]466; several cases of, [1813]466; none lawful in doctrine,
[1814]466, [1815]490; not to be told to give pleasure, [1816]467; useful,
question of, [1817]467, [1818]472, [1819]474, [1820]495; if not to defend crime,
[1821]467; how to escape, when questioned, [1822]468; how to escape, when
silence betrays, [1823]469; five kinds of, condemned: three still questioned,
[1824]469; wish to use, forbidden, [1825]472; what, threatened with destruction,
[1826]473; Deceit is, even if not "false witness," [1827]473; a harmless one, to
save pudicity of body, allowed, [1828]475; eight sorts of, all shown to be evil,
[1829]476; which sorts less culpable: none is good, [1830]481, [1831]482;
examples of, quoted from Scripture, [1832]482, [1833]491; every, contrary to
truth, [1834]482; pretending heresy worse kind of, [1835]483; metaphor or
antiphrasis, is not, [1836]491; none is "just," [1837]495, [1838]484; no holy
person glories in, [1839]496; one, leads to another, [1840]498; about religion
worst, [1841]498, [1842]500; not to be told to save a soul, [1843]499; rather
trust God, [1844]500; put for sin in general, [1845]500; not less than lewdness,
[1846]500.Life, eternal, through the reward of good works, is itself the gift of
God, [1847]272; eternal, not to be given for temporal, [1848]462, [1849]474;
good here, eternal hereafter, worth patience, [1850]528.Light, real and
pretended, [1851]348; strong, not born at once, [1852]361; beauty of, a standing
miracle, [1853]364; coeval offspring of fire, [1854]371.Lips, have spoken if the
heart has consented, [1855]338.Literal sense, the usual one of the Epistles,
[1856]504.Liturgy, quoted, [1857]449.Living after man, is living after the
flesh, [1858]383.Lot, entertained Angels, [1859]463; his example discussed,
[1860]463, [1861]489, [1862]490; excused by perturbation, [1863]490; knew not
his guests to be Angels, [1864]497.Love, greater than faith and hope, [1865]274;
is the end of all the commandments, [1866]275; action of, [1867]286 sq.;
"perfect, casteth out fear," [1868]330; act of, invisible, [1869]338; only way
to attain the highest good, [1870]363; submits without hope of temporal rewards,
[1871]373; of husband for wife, Apostolical argument for, [1872]388; fears to
displease God, [1873]431; owed to God by virgins, [1874]433; of Christ, on the
part of virgins, [1875]437; the remedy for pride, [1876]437; of neighbor as
self, [1877]462; misdirected, makes false estimates, [1878]474; rectitude of,
the soul's chastity, [1879]475, [1880]476; of God, is His gift, [1881]532; the
ground of patience, [1882]532, [1883]534; kindled by The Holy Spirit, [1884]532;
of creature: already in creature loving, [1885]534; of God, not in creature
unless given, [1886]534. Lucan, quoted, [1887]239, [1888]541.Lucretius, error
of, about the soul, [1889]352.Lucus quod non luceat, [1890]491.Lust, what is
chiefly so called, [1891]380, [1892]381; our enemy, to be resisted, [1893]381;
its resistance the business of man, [1894]382; proved to be of the soul as much
as of the body, [1895]391; how put down, [1896]393; sexual, its sinfulness,
[1897]401; definition of, [1898]463.Maccabees, book of, referred to,
[1899]540.Madmen, strength of, not healthy, [1900]448.Magic arts, [1901]391; in
bringing up Samuel, [1902]548.Male and female, contrasted, [1903]407.Malefici,
[1904]500.Man, knowledge concerning, a part of wisdom, [1905]306; nature of,
assumed by God, [1906]363; image of God in, [1907]369; begins in imperfection,
[1908]372; living after, what, [1909]383.Manhood, assumed by The Son, [1910]329;
perfect in Christ, [1911]249.Manichees, object to believing on authority,
[1912]348; their pretence of reasons and learned discussions, [1913]348; refute
rather than prove, [1914]348; their contemptuous phrases: attack the Old
Testament, [1915]349; think Scripture interpolated, and how, [1916]350; of what
error they accuse the Church, [1917]353; worship the sun, [1918]353; boasted of
Faustus, [1919]356; inquire origin of evil, [1920]365; charges of, against
Scripture: of bloodless bodies, but coarse minds, [1921]365, [1922]366; their
heresy, [1923]385, [1924]386, [1925]388, [1926]389; refuted: dismissed,
[1927]388, [1928]390; their saying, [1929]410; their heretical opinion,
[1930]413; said the law was not of God, [1931]509.Manichæans, place claimed for
among the Apostles, [1932]350.Mankind, how they might have multiplied had Adam
not sinned, [1933]399, [1934]400.Mansions, many in heaven, [1935]426.Marriage,
fools should consult the wise about [1936]361; many have learned to despise,
[1937]364; its end, [1938]391; not regarded as unholy by the Fathers, [1939]398;
a lower state than virginity: first bond of society: that of our first parents,
holy, [1940]399; Christ went to one, [1941]400; how a good, [1942]400,
[1943]402, [1944]412; intended as well for fellowship, [1945]400; of aged
persons, [1946]400; continence in, praise-worthy, [1947]400; brings good out of
evil: its uses, [1948]400, [1949]401 [1950]402; its grave joy, [1951]400; how
far certain compacts deserve the name of, [1952]401; its abuse, not the sin of
marriage, [1953]401; Sacramental, [1954]402, [1955]406, [1956]408; the lesser of
two goods, [1957]403, [1958]411, [1959]422, [1960]423; of the just, better than
the virginity of the impious, [1961]403; not evil, but good, [1962]402,
[1963]403, [1964]409; in what sense it is "better" not to marry, [1965]403,
[1966]407; was once a duty: St. Paul's view of, [1967]404; not sinful,
[1968]404, [1969]408; to be not sinful must be without excess, [1970]404; holy,
though the partner is unholy, [1971]405; that looks only to pleasing God, rare,
[1972]405; how piously contracted by the old Fathers, [1973]406, [1974]407,
[1975]408, [1976]413; cannot be dissolved, except by death, [1977]402,
[1978]411, [1979]412; of many wives, allowable once, [1980]406; compared to the
taking of food, [1981]407; was once contracted with spiritual desire, [1982]407;
hard, to use it like Abraham, [1983]413; compared to ordination, [1984]411;
goods of, three, [1985]413; of the old Fathers, holier than virginity now,
[1986]413; summary of St. Augustin's book on, [1987]417; how that of the old
Fathers must be regarded, [1988]422, [1989]423; not even indirectly condemned by
St. Paul, [1990]422 [1991]423, [1992]424; its fruits thirty-fold only,
[1993]434; of (professed) widows wrong but valid, [1994]441; ends with the life
of either party, [1995]442; good of, shown, in that the bodies of married
Christians are members of Christ, [1996]442; due of, not to be withheld for fear
of temptation, [1997]442; the chastity in, God's gift, [1998]442, [1999]450;
evil of excess in, not of marriage, but venial through it, [2000]442; ends of:
that of Sacrament: second, allowable, [2001]443; second attacked by Montanists,
etc., [2002]443; body as well as spirit, holy in, [2003]443, [2004]444; more
desirable in Old Covenant, [2005]444; of Patriarchs, was for offspring,
[2006]444; provides against temptation, [2007]445; not needed when we may have
spiritual children, [2008]445, [2009]453; better than unstable purpose of
widowhood, [2010]441; still good under the Gospel, [2011]446; desire of, wrong
after vows, [2012]446; argument from "marriage to Christ" refuted, [2013]446;
third or fourth, lawful, though less worthy, [2014]446; seventh, allowed by our
Lord to be marriage, [2015]447; hard questions about, [2016]448, [2017]449;
ranks below continence: holiness of, inferior by reason of cares, [2018]451;
less needful since the world is perishing, [2019]452.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.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.Virgins, brought to Christ everywhere, [2841]340; all
holy ones are Mothers of Christ, [2842]418; rich, how they may give birth to
members of Christ, [2843]419; distinguished from sacred Virgins, [2844]420; no
"command" concerning, [2845]421; have peculiar joys in heaven, [2846]426; follow
the Lamb, [2847]427; need humility, [2848]428; their grounds for loving God,
[2849]432; may be less fit than married women for martyrdom, [2850]434,
[2851]435; encouragement to, [2852]437; should love the fairness of Christ,
[2853]437; distinguished from the "unmarried," [2854]442; before widows in the
kingdom, [2855]451; special song of, [2856]451. Virtue, what patience is a,
[2857]527; instruments of, not to be yielded to, [2858]528.Virtues of the soul
may exist unseen in habit, [2859]409, [2860]410.Visible and invisible creation,
[2861]369.Visions, of the unseen world, [2862]546.Vows, freely made, makes what
was lawful unlawful. [2863]443; wrong to desire to revoke, [2864]445; marriage
after, is not adultery, [2865]446; but yet is worse, [2866]446; of continence
recommended, [2867]450; a protection, [2868]452; marriage to Christ by,
[2869]446; more laudable because not required, [2870]446.Vows of continence,
[2871]427.Warfare, of the Christian life, [2872]382, [2873]387.Washing, once for
all in Baptism: daily, in prayer, [2874]375.Watchings, use of, [2875]452.Water,
changed into wine, [2876]363.Whirling, about false doctrine, [2877]523.Wicked,
the death of, eternal in the same sense as the life of the Saints,
[2878]273.Widowed, chastity, above marriage, [2879]423.Widowed, continence, its
rank, [2880]434.Widowhood, forsaking, after profession is a sin, [2881]445; this
is not adultery, but worse, [2882]446; long and early, greater test of
continence, [2883]447; prayer and fasting make better, [2884]448; hard questions
about, [2885]448.Widows, their continence, [2886]434; Fourth Council forbade
(professed widows) to marry again, [2887]441; may be called unmarried: better
among the members of Christ than married women, [2888]442; may marry again, as
Ruth, [2889]443; more blessed if not, as Anna, [2890]443, [2891]447; not
therefore better than Ruth herself, [2892]444; do better in not marrying now
that Christ is come, [2893]444; having family, have no good reason to marry,
[2894]445; what they should do according to their ability, [2895]445; merits of,
in different cases compared, [2896]447; luxurious living of, condemned,
[2897]452; humility an ornament to, [2898]448; alms help their prayers,
[2899]452; to draw others to like profession, [2900]453.Wife (see Husband), why
created out of husband, [2901]399; many allowed once, why, [2902]407, [2903]408;
only one belongs to a steward of the Church, [2904]408; and woman, Greek word
ambiguous, [2905]506.Will (see Freedom of), of God, invariable, [2906]369; true
submission of, to God, [2907]373; of man, admonished and healed by grace,
[2908]449; free, made too much of, by some, [2909]450; if man works on, much
more God helps, [2910]450; God not lost but by, [2911]530; free, of man, gets
not patience by itself, [2912]531; why it produces hardness, yet not true
patience, [2913]531, [2914]532; evil, made frantic by devilish incitements: the
devil became devil by his own, [2915]534; has not love of God, but by His gift,
[2916]534.Wills, forgery of, [2917]488.Wisdom, man's true, is the fear of God,
[2918]237; to be found in true religion, [2919]354; implies knowledge concerning
God and man, [2920]360; he who has not, knows not, [2921]361; prayer to God for,
[2922]363; is God's gift, [2923]433, [2924]450; patience handmaid of, [2925]528;
true and false, true from God, [2926]531.Wise, who are, [2927]360; how are fools
to find them, [2928]361; are brought near to God, [2929]363.Witchcraft, not to
be detected by witchcraft; [2930]500.Witness, false forbidden, [2931]460,
[2932]467, [2933]469; question if lawful to save life, [2934]464; about God or
Christ, [2935]464, [2936]467; definition of, [2937]467, [2938]468; incompatible
with love of truth, [2939]473; false, might seem expedient at times,
[2940]488.Wolves, in sheep's clothing, [2941]485; sheep not to wear theirs,
[2942]486.Woman, insult offered to the sun by a, [2943]353.Women, now, compared
to the holy women of old, [2944]406, [2945]412; accompanied and supported the
Apostles: and our Lord, [2946]506; figure the concupiscential part of the mind,
[2947]524.Words, use of Greek, [2948]349; are the beginning of works, [2949]400;
are deeds, [2950]487.Work, evil, not made good by motive, [2951]488; to refuse,
as wrong an error, 415.Working, understood of laboring in spiritual things
enjoined by the Apostle, [2952]503.Works, are preceded by thoughts, [2953]380,
[2954]381; and Faith, [2955]392; good, a better portion than children,
[2956]451, [2957]452; precede not election, [2958]533, [2959]534.World, spirit
of this, puffs up, [2960]449; cares of, lower married holiness, [2961]451;
passing away, a reason against marrying, [2962]452; waits for the number of
Saints, [2963]453; trials of, require patience, [2964]529; love of, produces
worldly endurance, [2965]532, [2966]534; lust comes of, but also of man's will,
[2967]532 sq.Wounds of Christ, [2968]437.Wrath, in God no passion,
[2969]527.Writers, three was to err in using, [2970]351; sense of, often hard to
see clearly, [2971]352.Zaccheus and Goliath compared, [2972]411, [2973]430.


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