Philip Schaff (ed.) · 808 of 810

Doctrinal and Moral Treatises · Part 1

INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

Abortive conceptions, question regarding resurrection of, 265.

Abraham, Christ the promised Seed of, 339, 340; His example cited, 408, 409, 412; actions of, figurative, 470; told no lie, 491; knew the state of the world from Lazarus, 548.

Abstinence, practice of, a benefit due to authority, 364; easier than moderation, 405, 410; from food, etc. for ill ends, 528.

Academics, St. Augustin once inclined to, 356.

Action, unless rightly done, sin, 360; whether implied in permission, 464, 475; always conceived in the heart, 487; indifferent, takes its character from motive, 488; some unconsciously prophetic, 495; character determined by the intention, 519.

Adam, sin of, the results to his posterity, 246, 254; involved many kinds of sin, 252; Job, how unlike, 530.

Address, different methods of, to different classes of hearers, catechumens, 298 sq.

Admonition, desired by St. Augustin, 522.

Adultery, what? 400, 402; compared with fornication, 403; is evil, while even second marriage is good, 443; might be justified on same grounds as lying, 487, 488; some guilty of, fear perjury, 500; penance done for, 575.

Æsop, Fables of, 494.

Ætiology, explanation by, 349.

Age, qualifies to give counsel, 451; flower of, brief, 452.

Aged, marriage, 400.

Ages, seven; the last to be an age of rest, 301.

Ages of the world, the six, 307.

Alexis, of Plato and Virgil thought allegorical, 355.

All things gathered together in one in Christ, expounded, 257.

Allegory, explanation by, 349; instances of, 350, 351; in real events, 460, 470, 492; no lie if the thing figured is true, 460; Jacob’s deceit was, 491; use of, 492.

Almighty, what He Who is, cannot do, 569.

Alms, means of, not to be gotten by sin, 488; a means of pardon, 496; given to Christ, 519; to be done for a heavenly reward, 520.

Almsgiving, will not, without change of life, atone for sin, 260; the greatest, is forgiveness of debtors and love of enemies, 261; the first, is to pity our own souls, 262; advanced by Christianity, 364.

Altar, prayers at the, 434; ministers of, Christian Priests, 515; prayers offered at the, 540.

Alternatives, 464, 466, 468, 469.

Ambrose, St., Bp. of Milan, heard by St. Augustin, 356.

Analogy, explanation by, 349.

Ananias, appearance to St. Paul, 550.

Angel, Temple may not be built to an, 374.

Angels, the fallen, God’s judgment on, 246; who fell not, 246; nothing certainly known of their social organization, 256; bodies assumed by, 256; what Christ did for man was in a sense done for them, 257; may communicate the events of time to the dead, 359; cannot sin, 385; entertained by Lot, 463; ministry of, to Lazarus, 541; free of both worlds, 548.

Anger, darkens the mind’s eye, 490.

Angry, in what sense God is said to be, 248, 527.

Anima, animus, mens, 475.

Anna, and Susanna, 403, 413; more blessed than Ruth, 443; unless Ruth knew what was to follow; probably knew Christ should be born of a Virgin, 444; her long and early widowhood, 447; her piety, 448; recognized Christ with His Virgin Mother, 444, 448.

Antiphrasis, is no lie, 491; instances of, 492.

Antiquity, testimony of, to Religion, 363.

Apocrypha, books of, 548; quoted, 540.

Apostle, God spoke in him, 521.

Apostles, common men chosen to show Christ’s power, 342; prophesied of, 343; use the four-fold exposition, 349, 350; Acts of, rejected by Manichees, inconsistently, 350; teaching handed down from, 356; effect of their labors on nations, 364; whether bound to live of the Gospel, 471, 522; Acts of the, a place to find examples, 476, 493; example of, no obligation not to labor, 505–508; maintained by holy women and those among whom they preached, 506–508; words not to be derided, 508; divided their provinces, 516; had power not to work: to speak with authority, 522; once of the world, 532; chosen not just but justified: else had first chosen Christ, 533.

Apostolic chair, succession from, and note, 365.

Apparitions, in dreams, 544–550; of the dead without their consciousness, 545 sq.; as of the living, unconscious, 545. 546, 549; images only, not of souls themselves, 545; produced by the ministry of Angels, 545, 547, 549; asking for burial, 545; use of: pointing out places of burial, 545; foretelling things future, 545; not to be denied, 545; instances of, in sleep, 545; pointing out where things should be found, 545; seen when awake, 546; in trances, 546; doctrines taught by: of Samuel to Saul, 548; of St. Felix, 548; of saints whether themselves or angelic appearances, doubtful, 549, 550; of John the Monk, 549; of Ananias to St. Paul: John would have solved St. Augustin’s difficulties, 550.

Aptus, 464.

Archimedes, not to be explained by Epicurus, 353.

Arena, matches of the, 372.

Aristotle, not to be explained by an enemy, 353.

Army, of the virtues and vices, 382.

Artisans, singing at work, 514.

Ascension of Christ foretold, 341; witnessed by Apostles, 342; of our Lord, 373, 374, 375; how our Lord prefigured, 494.

Ashes, of martyrs, thrown into the Rhone, 543; not scattered, 544.

Asper, a grammarian, 355.

Atoms, soul not formed of, 352.

Augustin, St., when ordained Priest or Presbyter, 347; his early love of truth, 347, 349; his prayer for Honoratus, 348; how led into Manicheism (nine years in it), tempted by discussions, 348; only a “Hearer:” a worldling: contrast later, 348; his eyes weak from past delusions, 349; his book “De Spiritu et Litera,” note, 351; his belief about the Old Testament, 353; young when led into error, 353; his way of search for true religion, 356, 357; disappointed in Faustus, 356; tended at times toward Academics: his prayers for help: becomes Catechumen, 356; his purpose of writing further to Honoratus, 365; expresses doubt on a point connected with marriage, 407; not at variance with Council of Carthage, 441; his many engagements, 441; his books on marriage and virginity, 448, 454; wrote against Faustus, 448; works of, on Divine grace, 450; his works on Lying of different dates, 457; uses a homely style in practical matters, 458; his avocations, 481; life laborious, (bodily infirmity), 521, 522; did what he exhorted others to do, 522; found a Bishop’s life more laborious than a Monk’s, 521; not submitting to man’s judgment, 522; desired to be admonished, 523; never completed his Retractations, 527; visited nightly by his mother while she lived, 547; not after her death, 547.

Aurelius, Bp. of Carthage, desired St. Augustin to write on the work of Monks, 503, 522.

Authority, necessity of in religion,356, 357; source of what we believe, 359; lovers of truth believe, 360; for doctrine same as for belief in Christ, 362; some probable a priori, 363; shown by miracles on multitudes, 364; brought to bear on life through numbers, 364; seat of, in Catholic Church, 365; of doctrine to be strictly guarded, 466, 483, 484.

Babylon, represents the world, 496.

Ball, pleasure of playing with, 453.

Baptism, indicates our death to sin and resurrection to life, 252, 254; open to all, both infants and adults, 252; “Come, ye blessed of My Father, receive the kingdom,” 374; makes men temples of the Holy Spirit, 374; remission of all things in, 374; received, to be guarded by good life: washes once for all: why not repeated, 375; of heretics, “a form of Godliness:” is of the Church only: remits original sin, 386; puts away all sin, 408; of children, 419; remits from all sin, 435; supposed case of lying in order to give, 499; necessary for admission to Paradise, 546.

Baptized persons pray, 435.

Barnabas, simulation of corrected, 461, 493.

Barrenness, does not make divorce lawful, 402, 406, 412.

Beauty, inward is what Christ loves, 451; false, lawful to none, 451; spiritual, decays not, 451; of truth, 498.

Bees, have progeny without intercourse, 399.

Begging Monks, 515.

Beginners, lying, well meant, excused in,.460, 473, 495, 497.

Beginning, The Father is, of Christ: The Son also the, 328; Godhead has none, 372.

Belief, See Faith; implies objects unseen, 337. 338; of historical facts, 359; different from opinion, 458; needed before understanding, 463; of a lie, not always hurtful, 466, 483; of false doctrine, a real misery, 483; in the heart, not enough without confession, 486.

Bene-dictio, better than bona dictio, 292.

Betrayal, sin of, 467, 468, 496; by silence, 468, 469.

Bill of divorcement, 402.

Birds, their habits alluded to, 409; who? 436; image of the proud, 516; not to be imitated in all points, 517, 518 sq.; in cages, 517; not imitated in picking food or flies, 518; caught by want of water, 348.

Bishop, empowered to relax certain excommunications, 441; addresses another Bishop’s flock by permission, 521, 524.

Bishops, Catholic, overthrew Priscillianism, 485; called to act in secular affairs, 517; by Apostolic injunction, to be obeyed, 522; succession of from Apostles, 565.

Bishop’s life, laborious, 521, 522; recent increase of occupation, 521.

Blasphemy, worst in one who knows it such, 444, 495, 499; none can be allowable, 499; suggested by Job’s wife, 500.

Blessedness, called Right Hand of God, 373.

Blessing, put for cursing, 491.

Blood, of Christ, given the pardoned to drink, 374.

Bodies of the married are holy, 405.

Body, the death of, man’s peculiar punishment, 246; resurrection of, 264, 332, 375, 540, 541; in the resurrection, spiritual, 266; material of, never perishes, 265, 529; a creature of God, 374; Temple of the Holy Spirit, 374, 444, 474, not our object in religion, 354; its peaceful members made the soul’s pattern, 389; may be holy in marriage, 443, 444; of all the Faithful is “members of Christ,” 444; soul to be preferred to, 463, purity of, depends on soul, 463, 499; Priscillianists erred concerning, 484; real good of, in the life to come, 528, 529; to be restored entire, 529; patience of Martyrs concerning their, 530; motions of, affect the mind, 542; an interest felt in, by us while living, 543, 544; overcome by the Martyrs, 544; hurt only by the pain of dying, 543, 544; faith in resurrection of, confirmed by care for the dead, 541, 550; obtained by the spirit, 543; not affected by the treatment of the corpse, 540, 541, 543, 544.

Boyhood, good and bad reasons for preferring, 352; rashness incident to, 353.

Bread, daily breaking of, at Troas, the Eucharist, 514.

Bridegroom, Christ the, 343.

Burial, in the memorials of Martyrs, 539, 542, 549, 550; place provided for, 539; want of, does not affect the dead, 540, 541, 543, 544, 545; a grief to the living, 544; external rites of, for the comfort of the living, 540, 544, 550; no benefit to the wicked, 540, 544; care for, a duty, 541; why? 544; by the Patriarchs and their children, 541; significative, 541; commended in Scripture, 541; rewarded, 541; want of, and place of, does not hinder the resurrection, 540, 541; or rest, 541, 543, 545; place of, a benefit only as occasioning prayer, 542, 543, 550; to slight, irreligious, 545; place of, naturally, a subject of interest, 543, 544; loss of, how a punishment; how a kindness, 544.

Business distracting the mind unsuitable to preachers, 405.

Butler, Analogy, 337.

Calling, each to remain in, 509.

Candidianus, bearer of St. Augustin’s book on “Care for the Dead,” 551.

Canticles, prophecy of Christ and the Church, 343.

Care for the Dead, book on, occasion of writing, 539, 551.

Caring for temporal things forbidden, 504.

Caring not, by some limited to spiritual wants, 503.

Carnally-minded like grass, 516.

Carthage, fourth Council of, 441; introduction of monasteries into, 503.

Cassiodorus, his book, De Inst. Div. Lit., 347.

Catechetical instruction, 282 sq.; way to commence it, 288 sq.; of the educated,290 sq.; of grammarians and professional speakers, 291; causes and remedies of tediousness in, 292 sq.

Catechumen, examination of, as to his views, 288; specimen of address to (1) one of worthy views, (2) one of false aims, 299; formal admission of, 312; St. Augustin becomes one, 356; learned and repeated the Creed, 369; still under sins, 375; having a second wife, case of, 408.

Catholic, title of, whose by consent, 356.

Cataline, his powers of endurance, 528.

Cato, cited, 408.

Causes, essential to man’s happiness to know the; of good and evil, 242; the secondary, of evil, are ignorance and lust, 245, 264; of common things obscure.

Centurion, ready faith of, praised, 363; case of the, 428.

Chalcedon, Council of, excommunicates (Church) widows who marry, 441.

Character, care of, a point of charity, 453.

Characterem, (of Baptism), 375.

Charity, the Church abides in, 374; of the married state, 400; shown in communicating any good to others, 441; in keeping good repute, 453; unity of the Church belongs to, 535; a mark of the free-born, 535.

Chase, simile of, 457.

Chastity, advanced by Christianity, 364; of continence, better than married chastity, 411; wedded, is a good, 443, 445; wedded, is God’s gift, 450; complete (integritas), of virgins and widows, 450; spiritual delights in, 452; not to be broken to save a life, 463; or a soul, 499; not lost by violence, 463, 475; of mind what, 475, 499; of mind to be preserved for detecting heresy, 487; is of the truth, 498, 499; cannot teach adultery, 499.

Children, probably involved in the guilt, not only of our first parents, but also of their own immediate parents, 252; know their parents by faith, 338, 360; exorcised, 369; loss of, 372, 530; why baptized, 419; the Three Holy, Song of, 438; having, a reason for not marrying again, 445; spiritual, may serve instead of natural, 445, 450; virginity of, a compensation to parents, 445, 448; desire of, lawful, but not praiseworthy, 445; having, a blessing, not a merit, 447, 448; bringing up well, is of good will, 448; spiritual fruits in place of, 451, 452; lawfully begetting, for God a good work, 488; power of a parent over, 490.

Childhood, why a grown man may prefer, 352.

Christ, birth of, 249, 371; being the only Son of God, is at the same time man, 249; grace of God in His birth, 250, 251; made sin for us, 251; not regenerated in the baptism of John, 253; took away original sin and all other sins, 253; His life typical of the Christian life, 254; second coming of, 255; advent of, why foretold, 286; shows God’s love to us, 287; generation of, as Son of God and the Word, 322 sq.; neither made by nor less than the Father, 323; born through the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, 325; as God, has no mother, 325; Passion, Burial and Resurrection of, 326; Ascension of, 326; Session at the Father’s Right Hand and Coming to Judgment, 326, 327; relation of, as Son to the Father, 328 sq.; the Seed of Abraham, 339; nations blessed in, 339; so honored though crucified, a miracle, 340; witnessed to by Jewish prophecy, 342; sufferings of, contrasted with His Victory, 342; name of, honored even by heretics, 343; the Bridegroom, 343; used the four ways of exposition, 349, 350; veil of Law done away by, 351; teaching handed down from, 356; even heretics bid us believe in, 361; on whose testimony we do so, 362; planted His religion by the way of faith, 363; Death and Resurrection of, shut out fear, 363; various miracles of, their use, 364; effects of His Incarnation and Teaching, 365; God in true Man, 364; without sin, restores from sin, 369, 370; what He teaches of Himself, 371; His lowly Birth, Passion and Death: born perfect as Son of God, 371, 372; born of the Virgin in the fullness of time: God and Man: death of, a pattern to martyrs; Resurrection of, 372, 375; sets a prize as in the arena, 372; arose to die no more, 372; example of, exceeds Job’s, 373; His Sufferings and Ascension, 373; shall come to judge the quick and the dead: the Church abides in, as branches in a Vine, 374; the Root: sin of killing, not unpardonable: members of, shall follow Him, 375; our pattern: condescends to our slowness, 380; and the Church, their union, 388; heretical notion concerning, 389; came in real flesh, 389; took a human body and a human soul, 390, 364; really hungered and thirsted: saw fit not to abstain like the Baptist, 410; the object of love, 437, 452; taught humility when near His Passion, 429; Himself the model for virgins, 429, 431; the object of virgin love, 437; crucified, to be gazed on with the inward eyes, 437; may not be loved a little, 444; recognized by Anna as a child, 444, 448; conceived in chastity, can make virginity fruitful, 446; loves an inward beauty, 446; a Husband, in the Spirit, to the married as to the Church, 446; shown to be the worthiest object of love, 452; did and commanded all for our salvation, 462; no lie to be told about, 466; patience of, perfect, 470; yet did not literally turn the other cheek, 470; sayings of, that seem false, are figurative, 476, 494; denied before men in pretending heresy, 485; few deny sincerely, 486; kept back some truth, 491; called a “Rock,” “Lion,” 491; under our sins figured by Jacob, 492; Himself a Prophet, 494; assumed show of ignorance, 494; His feigning, 494; exhorts Martyrs to patience, 529; forbearance of, to Judas, 529; chose and justified the Apostles, 533; faith of, saved the old Saints, 533; made poor for our sakes, 535; poor of, to be made rich 539.

Christianity, derided as credulous, 337; is not without evidence, 339; testimony of mankind to, 355; profession of, its effect on the masses, 364, 365.

Christians, nominal, described, 311; more numerous than Jews and Pagans united [in the Roman empire,] 356; they are not, who forbid faith before reason, 362, 363; misrepresented, 365; work and prize of, 372; all in one commonwealth, 519; state of, as longing for inheritance, 535.

Christian life, four stages of, 275.

Church, is the Temple of God, 255; condition of, in heaven, 256; redeemed by blood, 257; history of, in four stages, 275; in its likeness to a Vine, 309; the Catholic, 331; quotes herself as fulfillment of prophecy, 339, 341; called the “Queen,” 339; visible as such, 340; is herself an evidence, 341; witness of past and future, 342; spread abroad by suffering, 342; Bride of Christ, 343; milk from the teats of, 348; with what error charged by Manichees, 353, 357; Catholic, prima facie claims of, 355; her teaching from Christ and the Apostles, 356; witnessed to by people and nations, 362; testimony of mankind leads us to, 364; doctrines of, concerning God, 365; mother of God’s children, 369; named in the Creed after the Holy Trinity: victorious over heresies, abides in charity, 374; Body of Christ: He the Head, 375; an heretical notion concerning, 389; Christ and the, 388, 389; not yet perfect, 390; made subject to Christ, 390; her daily cry, 391; the, a Mother and a Virgin, 417, 418; a holy Virgin, 420; sometimes called the kingdom of heaven, 425; the, a virgin and spouse of Christ, 446, 451, 452; includes the departed, 454; in a household, 454; authority of its practices though not in Scripture, 541; disunion with, breaks charity, 535.

Churches, seats in (apparently an exception), 296; of withdrawing from, during service; by whom filled on Festival days, 311; building of, 488.

Cicero, his rule for argument, 348; studied because acknowledged by all, 354; conspirators put to death by, 359; lectured on, 545.

Circumcision, a seal: is not for Christians, 351; made uncircumcision by leaving the law, 461, 462; for whom lawful, 461.

City of God, St. Augustin on, 317.

Clean, who are, in God’s sight, 465.

Clergy, not bound to labor, 506–508; may claim maintenance from their people, 506, 507; all, as well as Apostles, 508, 510; employments fitted for, 511; receive support, not as mendicants, that they may escape distracting occupations, 512; injunctions to support, 511, 513; for the good of the people, 513; have same right to maintenance as the Apostles, 515, 516: ministers of His Sacrament unto righteousness, 519, 520; not to be careful, 521.

Cæcilius, not studied instead of Cicero, 354.

Coeval, image of the Coeternal, 371.

Colors, divers, signify what, 339.

Command, of the Lord, why St. Paul had none, 421.

Commands, clear, to be obeyed at all risks, 469, 470; explained by examples, 470, 471.

Community of goods at Jerusalem, 512; of goods, benefit of, 520; all Christians one, 519.

Compacts, sexual, how far sinful, 400, 401.

Competentes, a step beyond other Catechumens, 547.

Concealment, of many things lawful, 352; not itself lying, 491.

Conceptaculum 471.

Concubinage, for offspring’s sake unlawful, 406; was lawful among the ancient fathers, 406; lawfulness of a certain kind of, doubtful, 407.

Concupiscence, gradually weakened, 524; patience not to minister to, 528.

Confession, of sins, 436; medicine of, 473; remedy for lies, 500.

Confinis, 351.

Conflict. of virtues and vices in the soul, 381; of the Christian, 382, 387.

Conscience, moves all good minds to seek God, 363; good, excuses not carelessness of repute, 453; solace of, in evil report, 453; sinning against, 484.

Consent, in thought constitutes sin, 380, 381; yielded and withheld, 387, 388; withheld is mortification of the members, 392; what constitutes, 464, 465; when it justifies doing a man wrong, 466; chastity not lost without, 475.

Consentius, his inquiries about Priscillianists, 457, 482; praise of, 481; advised to write against Priscillianism, 486, 492.

Constancy, in the faith of the Resurrection, 310 sq.

Continence, praised by Epicurus, 352; door of, 380, 381; why mentioned last by St. Paul, 383; God’s gift, 379, 391; the gift of God’s Spirit, 384; difficult to treat of, 379; marriage, glorious, not to be attained in our own strength, 383; forbears excuses, 384, sought of God by David, 384; required against all sin, 385; peace the prize of, 386; a healthful chastisement of our nature, 390; falsely claimed, considered, 391; its office, 391; is refusing the consent of the mind, 392; must watch the thoughts, 393; glory of perseverance in, due to the Lord, 393; the greater of two goods, 402, 411 423; and marriage, two goods, 403; compared to fasting, 403; how, is not on a level with the marriage of the old Fathers, 408, 409; a virtue of the soul, 409; in habit and act, 410; praise of the state of, 411; the root-virtue, 412; profitable for the life to come, 420, 421, 422, 424; when unwillingly professed, 429; of widows: its rank, 434; widowed, better than nuptial chastity, 443; best for those who “receive” it, 445; strength of, measures merit of widowhood, 447; of heretics not to persuade us, 448; all is God’s gift, 449; though willing, 450; term properly used of virgins and widows, 450; universal, supposed danger of, 460.

Contraries, instances of, 483.

Conversion, not to be brought about by lying, 476, 484.

Cornutus, a grammarian, 355.

Corruption, all things not perfectly good are liable to, 240.

Councils, weight of, against heretics, 365.

Creation, of man, what is to be believed concerning the, 302; all good, the whole better than each part, 444.

Creature, visible and invisible, 369; gives pleasure by approach to that which it loves, 534.

Credulousness, distinguished from faith, 357.

Creed, the Apostles’, 238; current in 4th century, 318; expounded, 321 sq.; the rule of faith or symbol, 369 sq.; not written, repeated by Catechumens: scattered through Scripture, 369; calls, not the Son Almighty, yet implies this, 370.

Crimes, penance for, 575.

Crispina, mentioned, 434.

Critics, destructive, 448.

Cross, why Christ chose, 372.

Crown, for those who strive, 372; is not for the impatient, 531.

Curia, of Tullium, 546.

Curiosity, what it means, 356, 357; idle, danger of, in reading, 398; forbidden, 573.

Curma, vision of, 546.

Custom, binding power of, 263 sq.

Cynegius, buried in the Basilica of St. Felix, 539.

Cyprian, St., on the unity of the Church, note, 365.

Danger, seeking, tempting God, 520.

Daniel and St. Paul, 423.

Darius Comes, Ep. to, 337; St. Augustin’s letter to, 527.

David, a great saint, 384; spake rashly, 393; rash oath of, no example, 490; his feigned madness, 491; patient forbearance of, 529.

Day, the first and the Lord’s, 515.

Dead, souls of the, benefitted by the sacraments and alms of living friends, 272, 550; care for, 539–551; pagan opinions of, 539, 544, 545: at rest, 541, 543, 544, 545; sacrifice for, in Maccabees, 540; not affected by the condition of the body, 540 sq.; unconscious when seen in visions, 545 sq.; do not know what happens in this world, 547–549; or their happiness would be affected, 547; except in special cases, 548; perhaps by information from other spirits, 548; from Angels, 548; by dispensation of the Holy Spirit: interpose not ordinarily, 547 sq., 549; not as they please, 549; sometimes, 548, 549; a blessing thereby, 547; by extraordinary Divine permission, 549; we care and pray for, without knowing their state, 548, 549.

Death, of the body is man’s peculiar punishment, 246; the first and the second, consequences of, 267; eternal, 273; cannot injure the regenerate, 275; question of lying to prevent, 497, 498; sin worse than, 462; wrongly thought of as worst evil, 474; for mercy and truth, a gain, 497; sin the sting of, 500.

Deceit, purpose of, implied in lying, 458; may be by means of truth, 458; safest to avoid, entirely, 459; turns on itself, 495.

Defamation, question of, to prevent crime, 466; especially condemned, 472.

Degrees of glory in Heaven, 426, 435.

Dei fica, 532.

Demetrias, consecrated a Nun, 441; her choice of virginity praised, and note, 443, 448; became like Virgin Mary was, 449; before her mother in the kingdom, 451; grandmother of, 451; care needed for, being young, and a book recommended, 454.

Demons, served, 391; confess themselves tormented by Martyrs, 550; by living Saints, 550.

Deogratias, the book on Catechising the Uninstructed, written for, 282.

Deserter, mark of, not changed, 375.

Desires, earthly, lead to endurance, 528.

Devil, the, how he tempts, 314; the, called a lion, 491.

Dictinius, reformed from his error, 483; his book called the “Pound,” 484, 497, 500.

Diet, what St. Augustin used, 348.

Difficulties, to be borne with, 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, 386.

Dives, care for his brethren did not imply that he knew of their state, 548.

Divorce, why permitted the Jews, 349; rebuked by Christ, 402; may not take place for barrenness, 402, 406, 412; does not dissolve marriage, 402, 406, 412; dissolves marriage in the world’s opinion, 402.

Donatists, suicides of, 530; not martyrdoms, 531.

Donatus, the grammarian, 355.

Dreams, See Apparitions, 545 sq.

Drunkenness, a fault in act or habit, 357.

Duty, of marriage among the early people of God, 403, 406, 408, 419; higher, supersede lower, 474; cannot require a sin, 489.

Duumvir, 546.

Dwelling called “sitting,” 373

Earth, creation of the, 369.

Ecclesiasticus, said to be written by Solomon, not canonical, 548.

Economy, some, used toward aliens without lying, 487; practiced by our Lord, 491.

Educated, the, how to catechise, 290 sq.

Egypt, represents the world, 496.

Election, God’s sovereign grace in, 268; Divine, is grace, 532, 533; precedes faith, 533; examples of, 534.

Eligere, 534.

Eloquence, few attain, yet masters of, known, 354.

Emperor, heathen, grants pardon to the courage of Firmus, 468.

End of the Lord, our example, 373.

Endurance, not patience, 426; of sufferings for worldly objects, 527; of men for temporal objects praised, 528; practised for wicked ends, 528, 529; not patience, but an example, 528; in surgical cases, worldly, 532, 534; this is animal and devilish, 532; like stupor of disease, 534; frantic, of misguided lust, 534.

Enemies, love of, 261.

Epicurus, sometimes praises continence, 352; his error about pleasure 352; not fit to explain Archimedes, 353.

Epistles, of St. Paul, said by Manichees to be interpolated, 350; written for men’s salvation, 470, 477; truth clearly put forth in, 493.

Erasmus, his opinion of the “De Patientia,” 527.

Error, the nature of, 242; always an evil, 243, 245; not always a sin, 244; easy to talk against, 348; three kinds of, in reading, 351; hurts not unless believed: charitable, no evil, 352; truth frees from, falsehood involves in 457, 458; of fact does little harm, 483.

Erucius, Orations of, 354.

Esau, birthright of, what it signified, 492.

Eternal life, the penny in the parable, 426.

Eternity, no space of, between the Father and the Son, 371.

Eucharist, Blood of Christ given to drink in, 374.

Eulogius, sees St. Augustin in a dream, 545.

Eunuchs, for the kingdom of Heaven, 424, monks preferred to be as, 523.

Eusebius, Eccl. Hist. translated by Ruffinus, 543.

Evanescere, 486.

Eve, Adam tempted by, 372; a help to the tempter, 530.

Every, used for “any,” 472.

Evidence, of prophecy, 339, 340 sq.; of the Jews, 342.

Evil, in the universe is but the absence of good, 240; there can be no evil where there is no good, 241; good and evil are exceptions to the rule that contrary attributes cannot be predicated of the same subject, 241; permission of, 267, 269, 385; turned into good by God, 269, 385, 495; man created able to choose good or evil,—choice of evil impossible in the future life, 271; co-existence of, with good, in the Church, and their final separation, 303 sq.; God not the author of, 365; not self-existent, 385; Manichæan errors concerning, 385, 386, 388; uses of, 385, 386; lusts, what, 387; perfected hereafter, not a substance, 387, 388; its nature explained, 464; question of doing less, to avoid greater, 465, 467; wrongly measured through earthly affections, 474; comparison of evils, 476; not to be done that good may come, 488.

Evil fruit, good tree cannot bring forth, expounded, 241.

Examples (see Saints), how to be judged of, 495.

Excommunication, needed for crimes, 373; may be incurred by a valid marriage, 441.

Excuses, shunned by continence, 384; useless before God, 384.

Exhortation, needful to spur us to action, 442, 449; use of, implies acting on others’ will, 450.