Philip Schaff (ed.) · 809 of 810

Doctrinal and Moral Treatises · Part 2

Exorcism of children shows original sin, 369.

Experience, of friendship leaves room for faith, 338.

Exsufflation of Children, 369.

Eye, inward and outward, 337.

Eyes, weak from darkness cannot bear light, 361; fools use more readily than the mind, 363; their honorable place in the body, 444; want of, supplied by hearing, etc., 452.

Fables, are no lies, 494.

Fairness of Christ, the love of virgins, 436, 437.

Faith, is the gift of God, 247; without works, is dead, 259; of things unseen derided, 337; defended by analogy, 338; even after trial, 338; if due to human things, more so to divine, 339; prophesied of, a ground of faith, 343; on authority, blamed by the Manichees, 348, 356; distinguished from credulity, 357; question if still a fault, 357, 358; necessary for friendship, 357, 358, 338; teacher uses, towards learner, 357; no harm in, though reason might be used, 358; distinguished from knowledge and opinion, 359; faulty only when rash or wrong, 359; of historical facts, needful, 360; parents known by, 359, 360; most needful of all in religion, and why, 360, 361; before reason, no rashness, 362; they are not Christians who forbid faith in Christ before reason, 362; miracles lead to, 363; prepares way to wisdom, 365; before understanding, 370; is in order to eternal life, 374; and works, 392; without putting down lust, is dead, 393; in wedlock, 401; conjugal, less worthy than virginity, 442; of profession to be kept, 445; whence named, 476; of Christ, none justified without, 533; Faith, Hope and Love, God to be worshipped through, 238; their mutual dependence, 239; distinction between faith and hope, 239; love is the greatest of the three, 274.

Fall of man, through pride, 371.

Falling, danger of, 432.

Falsehood, not all, is a lie, 458; leads to error, 459.

Faltonia, Proba, mother of Juliana, 448.

Fame, endurance from desire of, 528.

Famine, provided against, 471.

Fasting, continuous for several days, 364; compared to continence, 403; adds to the merit of widowhood, 448; time of, how to be used, 452; before receiving the Eucharist, 514.

Fatalism, its excuses blasphemous, 384.

Fate, inconsistency of those who speak of it, 384.

Father, The, how greater than the son, 249; Himself God, 327; the Beginning of The Son, 328; hath not His Being from The Son, 329; nor from any other, 329; The Son anointed by, 339; One God with The Son, 370; coeternal with Son imaged by coeval, 371; doth what he will, never without The Son, 371.

Father, human, supposed death of, inciting to lying, 464; power of, over children, 490; why greater than sons, 370.

Fathers, Catholic, remarks on their writings, 291; the Old, how they married, 403, 406, 407, 466; typical in their marriage of many wives, 408.

Faustus, the Manichee, attacked Patriarchs’ marriages: his pretensions and failure, 448.

Fear, to displease God entertained by love, 431; spoken of by St. Paul, 432; likely to mislead, 489; of God, His gift, 534; patience founded on, 535.

Feast, conversation at a, 357.

Feigning, in our Lord no falsehood, 494.

Felix, St., burial in his Basilica, 539; appeared at Nola, 548.

Fellowship, attainable without marriage, 403.

Female, contrasted with male, 408.

Fides, from fieri, 476.

Figure, of speech, 392, 393; in speech, no lie, 491, 494.

Filth of soul, love of any thing but God and the soul, 364.

Final goods, 403.

“Finger of God,” means the Holy Spirit, 305.

Fire, saved by, expounded, 259; coeval father of light, 371.

Firmus, Bishop, courage of, 468, 469.

Flames of the world, 438.

Fleeing iniquity, the greatest of all alms, 262.

Flesh and blood, shall not inherit the kingdom of God, expounded, 317; living after what? 383; meaning of, in Scripture, 383, 384; how saved, 387; Manichæan error concerning, 388, 389; as created, spoken well of by St. Paul, 388; Christ’s was true, 389; not evil: likened to the Church, 389, 390; its works, may be sins of the soul, 391.

Flood, the, a sacramental sign, 303.

Flora, a pious widow, 539.

Food, strong, not for the diseased, 357, 361; preserves man, 407; uncooked, needs exercise to digest, 518; stores of, necessary, 518.

Fools, all who are not wise, and note, 360; do best to follow the wise, 361, 363; cannot know wisdom surely, 361; incapable of reason concerning God, 363; easiest led by means of sense, 363, 364.

Foreknowledge, of God, 271, 302.

Forgery of wills, 488.

Forgiveness, of debtors, 261; of sins, realized in baptism, 374 sq.; asked by all, shows all sinful, 443.

Fortitude, spirit of, 535.

Fowlers, why the, cover up waters, 348.

Foxes, who? 436.

Free, why man is left, 385.

Free-born, love is of, 535.

Free-will, lost by sin, 247.

Freedom of the will, See Will, is the gift of God, 248; man created with, 271.

Friendship, founded on faith, 337; exists before fully proved, 338; none without faith, 358; attainable without marriage, 403.

Fronto, informant of Consentius, 483.

Fruitfulness, not to be compared to virginity, 419.

Fruits, thirty, sixty, and hundred fold, 434.

Future life, continence profitable for, 420, 421, 423, 424.

Games, illustrate the Christian conflict, 372; what men will suffer for, 528.

Gaul, martyrs of, 542.

Generation, preserves mankind, as food man, 407; of mortal creatures is by corruption, 370.

Generation, of The Son from eternity, 371.

Genius, finds not truth without God’s help, 358.

Gentiles, not to use Jewish customs, 461, 462, 493; typified by the woman with issue of blood, 494; idolatrous, called Pagans, 509, 511; debtors to Jews, 516.

Gift, The Holy Ghost called, 339.

Gifts, are all from God, 432; prayed for, are not of ourselves, 433; of different kinds, 434; spiritual, one person may have many, 549.

Girding the loins, what? 386.

Glory, different degrees of, 426, 435.

God, to be worshipped through faith, hope and love, 238; in what sense said to be angry, 248; Grace of, displayed in Christ, 249; in election, 268, 533; Peace of, 257; pardons sin, but on condition of penitence, 258; alone decides what sins are trivial and what not, 262; does well even in the permission of evil, 267; Will of, never defeated, though much is done contrary to His will, 269; always good, but sometimes fulfilled through the evil will of man, 269; Grace necessary to salvation before the fall, 271; foreknew the sin of the first man, and ordered His own purpose. accordingly, 271; is Love, 275 sq.; severity of, 287; finger of, signifies the Holy Spirit, 305; exclusive eternity and omnipotence of, 322; blessed Abraham, 339; most fitly born of a Virgin, 339; is not in any special place, 341; the True, now invoked by all, 342; if Almighty created matter, 322; just in binding men by law, 351; frees from the Law, but condemns it not, 351; dwells in pure souls, 353; reasons concerning, understood by few, 358; helps those who go humbly and charitably, 358; knowledge of, true wisdom, 360; search for true religion presupposes faith in, 361; cannot be displeased with our believing, 361; demands faith, 362; the wise most near to, 363; mercy of,. shown in Christ, 363; now known by nations not to be of earth or fire, 364; Old Testament charged with false doctrine about, 365; providence of, points out the Church, 364; no substance but is of Him, 365; Father of those to whom the Church is Mother, 369; The Almighty Father, cannot lie or will wrong, 369; Author of Incorruptibility: One Will of Father and Son, 370; not lost by misfortunes, 372, 373; a Temple is for Him: He creates, Who clothes, 374; permits evil, why? 385; brings good out of evil, 385; Manichæan heresy concerning, 385, 386; His nature, 386; a Physician, 386; not wanting under the law, 449; destroys not free will, 449, 450; favor of, gives continence, 449;. gifts of, no blessings unless owned, 449; all good comes from, 452; labors to win, pleasant, 453; “hates” sinners, “destroys” liars, 462, 481; who unclean in sight of, 465; hears our inward speech, 471; wronged, though not hurt, by sins of luxury, 474; to be honored outwardly as well as inwardly, 482; Priscillianists erred concerning, 484; sin against, worse than against man, 485; sometimes heals secretly, 486; we must depend on, after all means, 497; will provide where we cannot rightly, 500; impassible: passions attributed to: patience His Gift, 527, 536; Himself long-suffering, though not suffering, 527, 528; His wrath, jealousy: His “repentance” implies no error, 527; cares for our body, 529; not lost by will, 530; riches of, 531, 536; patience likens to, 532; assists the just, and justifies the ungodly. 533; free mercy of, to old Saints, 533; how first loves sinners, works in us good will, 534, 536; never lies, 565.

“God will have all men to be saved,” expounded, 267, 270.

Gold, may be known and not had, 361.

Goliath and Zaccheus compared, 411.

Good, all things made, 240; but not perfectly good, hence liable to corruption, 240; there can be no evil where there is no good, 241;. highest, not attained without loving it, 363; brought out of evil, 385; all nature is, 386; in what degree attainable, 387; man so created, 388; the substance of the flesh is, 390; superior, makes not lesser good an evil: some, implied in “better,” 443, 446; more honored by having a good below it than an evil, 444, 446; fall from a higher, is an evil, 445, 446; all, comes from God, 452; sin aims at some, in this life, 474; temporal, may be given up without sin, 474, 475; three things to be kept, for sanctity’s sake, 475; luminous, of truth, 498; impassible, 532.

Goods, final and instrumental, 403; when abused, become sin, 403; of marriage are offspring, faith, sacrament, 412.

Good works, men not saved by, 247; follow faith, 247; rewarded by eternal life, the gift of God, 272.

Gospel, not to seem sold, 508–510.

Gospels, said by Manichees to be interpolated, 350.

Government, of mankind, 385.

Grammarians, expected to find good sense in Virgil, 353; several named, 355.

Gratitude, due from virgins to God, 433.

Greek, words borrowed from, 349.

Greeks, philosophers, shoemakers, 511.

Guests, duty of protecting, 489, 490.

Guilt, transmitted from progenitors, 252, 253.

Habits, hard to change, 364.

Hair, bosses of, 429; worn long by some monks: long, thought a sign of sanctity, 522; St. Paul’s rule against long, 523; every, in God’s keeping. 529.

Happiness, knowledge of the causes of good and evil necessary to man’s, 242; of perfect knowledge not yet ours, 359.

Head dress of women, 429.

Health and immortality, two goods, 403.

Hearers, order of, among the Manichees, 348; what said of, when they left them, 348.

Hearing, studiousness of, 357.

Heart, its mouth, 379–381: continence must be seated there, 379; its consent, 380, 381; its language, 379; picture of purity, 392.

Heaven, the Church in, 256, 257; degrees of glory in, 426, 435.

Heresies, fight in vain against the Church, 374.

Heresy, pretence of, may cause real, 483, 484; how to be exposed: sometimes healed secretly, 486.

Heretic, not every one a, who believes heretics, 347; what makes a, 348; silence to be kept to a: each claims name of Catholic, 355, 356; spoils that claim by pretending to reason, 357, 363; cannot claim authority, or do without it, 362; that on which we believe Christ is against them, 363.

Heretics, or schismatics compared to twigs lopped off the vine, 310 sq.; all, would have us believe in Christ, 362; many ways condemned, 365; yet in their sins, 375; continence of, should not persuade us, 448; widows and virgins of, inferior to Catholic wives, 448; not to be tracked out by lying, 482; sin less in speaking heresy than Catholics would, 483, 485; little harm in believing, when they pretend Catholicism, 483; converted, may take comfort in their former ignorance, 485; converted, will correct others, 486.

Hidden life with Christ, 392.

History, explanation by, 349; of the Exodus allegorical, though true, 350.

Holy Spirit, the birth of Christ is of The, 250; is not the Father of Christ, 250; Holy Spirit and the Church, 255; is not a creature, 256; sin against The, 264; signified by the expression, finger of God, 305; mission of, on Pentecost, 308; The third Person of the Trinity, 327; His individuality and offices, 329; body of any Christian, a temple of, 444; speaking in St. Paul, 513.

Homicide, lying to screen from punishment, 468; justifiable, 469.

Honoratus, several of the name, 347; one a companion of St. Augustin, a lover of truth, 347; prayed for, 348, 349; how led astray, 348; not then a Christian, 348; his friendship with St. Augustin, 351; will wonder at the Old Testament being called pure, 353; called on to take more pains, 355; a sincere and earnest inquirer, 365.

Honorius, laws of, against idols, 337.

Hope, everything pertaining to, embraced in the Lord’s Prayer, 273; worldly, its objects, 348; of discovery implied in search, 361; of Christians in the Judgment, 374.

Horace, fable quoted, 494.

House, temporal and eternal, 496.

Humility, most needful for virgins, 428, 437; who would follow Christ, 436; its praise, 428; instances of, 428, 429; commended by our Lord, 428, 430.

Humility, taught by Christ, near his Passion, 429; learnt of Christ, 430; unfeigned, needed, 434; treated of fully by St. Augustin, 436; of Saints, 438; and holiness: need of in pious widows, 448.

Hundredfold fruits of virginity, 434.

Hunting, pleasure of, 452.

Husband, and wife, their union, 388; relative duties, 389, 391; might once have many wives, 406, 407; must have but one, 408.

I AM, meaning of the Name, 324.

Idleness leads to vain talking, 516.

Idolaters, a minority, 355.

Idolatry conforming to, to avoid violence, 464; might be done to save life, if lying lawful, 482; conformity to, nowhere allowed, 493.

Idols, laws of Honorius against, 337; some still believe in, 341; rejection of, prophesied, 342.

Ignorance, sometimes better than knowledge, 242; result of evil, 245, 264; to be borne patiently, 550.

Image, of God, in the mind, 524.

Images, of persons and things seen in visions, 545 sq.

Imitation of Christ, 427.

Immanuel, 340.

Immortality, the penny in the parable, 426.

Impatience, evil of, 527.

Impurity, legal, not always sin, 409.

Incest, compared with adultery and fornication, 402.

Incorruptible, begets Incorruptible, 370.

Incorruption, future gain of, 529.

Infirmity, a reason for not working, 515; pleaded as an excuse, 516.

Injury, not to be done to one man to save another, 466, 467.

Instrumental, goods, 403.

Integritas, said of virgins and widows, 450.

Intention, determines the character of an action, 520.

Intercourse of the sexes venial in marriage state, 263; when right, when wrong, 487.

Interpolations supposed in Holy Scripture, 350.

Involuntary continence estimated, 429.

Isaac, son of Abraham: told no lie, 491; inherited otherwise than his brothers, 535.

Israel, prefigured the future Church, 304; history of, and its significance, 304 sq.; compared with Sodom, 461; history of, figurative, 470.

Israelites, whole people as it were a prophet, 444.

Israelitess, without guile, Rahab became, 497.

Jacob, his birth as typical of Christ’s Incarnation, 286; an ancestor of Christ, 339; his example quoted for lying, 460; his deceit was a mystery, 491; acted in the figure of Christ, 492.

Jealousy, attributed to God, 527.

Jehu, falsehood of, no safe example, 482.

Jericho, represents the world, 496.

Jerome, St. opinion of, about St. Peter’s simulation, and note, 461.

Jerusalem, heavenly and earthly contrasted, 496; Christian’s living in common at, 512; the heavenly, what gifts her sons have, 535.

Jesus, supported by pious women, 506.

Jewish Christians, kept the Law, 509.

Jews, named from Judah, 339; our witnesses to prophecy, 342; permitted to ill-treat our Lord, 373; many of, murderers of Christ, forgiven, 374; and heathens, out numbered by Christians, 355; their notions of defilements, 469; priesthood of, become vile, 470; heart of, called “stony,” 491; rites of, culled “sacramenta,” 493.

Job, his example cited, 409; patience of, in various temptations, 530; was thought to worship God, for temporal things: compared with Adam, 530; trials of, extreme, 372; tempted by his wife: stood fast in God, 373; restored to prosperity for our example, 373.

John, St. beautifully alluded to, 390; his example cited, 410; alluded to, 426.

John, the Monk, 539; he had the gift of prophecy: consulted by Theodosius: appeared to one in sleep, 550.

Joke, a, not a lie, 458.

Joseph, St. chosen to evidence the perpetual virginity of St. Mary, 511.

Joseph, temptation of, 487; his concealment no lie, 491.

Josiah, sparing the Prophet’s bones, 544; spared the knowledge of the afflictions which followed after his death, 547.

Jotham, parable of, 494.

Joy, different degrees of, in Heaven, 426; godly, given to us, 534.

Judah, Jews named from, 339.

Judah, fornication of, no example, 495.

Judaism, how far St. Paul allowed, 460. 461, 493.

Judas prophesied of, 341; an example of evil tolerated, 506; our Lord’s patience with, 529.

Judge, seems required for “false witness,” 467, 468, 473; information to, no betrayal, 468; tortures inflicted by, 528.

Judgment, reason for believing, 341; will separate good and evil, 343; of the just and the unjust, 374.

Judgments of God, on fallen men and angels 246; will be explained at the Resurrection, 267; are just, 268 sq.

Juliana, thanks St. Augustin for a warning: asked him to write, 441; not to take all as written for herself, 441, 448; had children when left a widow, 445, 448; highest achievements open to, 448; is to communicate the book to others, 450; household of, a Church, 454.

Kids, skins of, meant sins, 492.

Kindred, spiritual, preferable to human, 418.

Kingdoms, two distinct, after the resurrection; Christ’s and the Devil’s, 273.

Kiss, not refused to Judas, 529.

Knowledge, different ways of desiring, 357; distinguished from opinion and belief, 359; of evil, no misery, 359; matter of belief may be called, 360; and charity, two goods, 403; all who know, partake of, 528; of difficult questions, a divine gift, 549.

Labor, pleasure in, 453; those able to, happier, 515; a duty of monks, 514; practised in good monasteries, 516; humbling effects of, on the wealthy, 518; for the common store, 519;. in the rich more charitable than alms-giving, 535.

Lamb, The, followed by virgins, and married persons, 426, 432.

Lamps, burning, what, 386.

Laurentius, the Enchiridion addressed to, 237.

Law, counsel given beyond, 461, 462; of God unmoved by circumstances, 489; of nature, 407; under, in, without distinguished, 509; Jewish, permitted eating in the fields, 517; supposed wish to combine, with the Gospel, 351; Ceremonial, mysteries of, 351; in the letter, killeth; wants an expounder, 353.

Laws, of man, in some sort Christian, 356.

Laying out more, St. Paul, 515.

Lazarus, buried, what signified in, 494; borne by Angels, 541; told Abraham the state of the Jews, 548.

Lectures of Rhetoricians, 545.

Leeches, 529.

Left-hand, what means, 374.

Legal purification shows not marriage sinful, 409; was for the type of sin, 409.

Leisure, what, had St. Paul, 466.

Leonas, messenger of Consentius, 481.

Lewdness, worse than theft, 488 489.

Liar, not every is a, who lies, 466.

Liberty, Christian, 461, 462, 493.

Lie, never allowable, but differs much in guilt, 243; not allowable to save another from injury, 245; question if ever lawful, 457 sq.; a joke is not a, 458; nor a mistake, 458; definition of, 458, 459, 494; how to be safe from, 460; question if ever useful, 460, 491; examples quoted in favor of, 460, 495, 500; cases of danger requiring, 460, 462, 490; condemned as false witness, 460; condemned more generally, and note, 460, .468, 476; allegory is not, 460, 491; sometimes allowed in imperfect state, 461; New Testament never favors, 461, 493; God hates, even to destroying, 462, 482; corrupts the soul, 463; any sin as easily justified, 463, 495; good men lose authority by telling, 464; about Christ, 466; several cases of, 466; none lawful in doctrine, 466, 490; not to be told to give pleasure, 467; useful, question of, 467, 472, 474, 495; if not to defend crime, 467; how to escape, when questioned, 468; how to escape, when silence betrays, 469; five kinds of, condemned: three still questioned, 469; wish to use, forbidden, 472; what, threatened with destruction, 473; Deceit is, even if not “false witness,” 473; a harmless one, to save pudicity of body, allowed, 475; eight sorts of, all shown to be evil, 476; which sorts less culpable: none is good, 481, 482; examples of, quoted from Scripture, 482, 491; every, contrary to truth, 482; pretending heresy worse kind of, 483; metaphor or antiphrasis, is not, 491; none is “just,” 495, 484; no holy person glories in, 496; one, leads to another, 498; about religion worst, 498, 500; not to be told to save a soul, 499; rather trust God, 500; put for sin in general, 500; not less than lewdness, 500.

Life, eternal, through the reward of good works, is itself the gift of God, 272; eternal, not to be given for temporal, 462, 474; good here, eternal hereafter, worth patience, 528.

Light, real and pretended, 348; strong, not born at once, 361; beauty of, a standing miracle, 364; coeval offspring of fire, 371.

Lips, have spoken if the heart has consented, 338.

Literal sense, the usual one of the Epistles, 504.

Liturgy, quoted, 449.

Living after man, is living after the flesh, 383.

Lot, entertained Angels, 463; his example discussed, 463, 489, 490; excused by perturbation, 490; knew not his guests to be Angels, 497.

Love, greater than faith and hope, 274; is the end of all the commandments, 275; action of, 286 sq.; “perfect, casteth out fear,” 330; act of, invisible, 338; only way to attain the highest good, 363; submits without hope of temporal rewards, 373; of husband for wife, Apostolical argument for, 388; fears to displease God, 431; owed to God by virgins, 433; of Christ, on the part of virgins, 437; the remedy for pride, 437; of neighbor as self, 462; misdirected, makes false estimates, 474; rectitude of, the soul’s chastity, 475, 476; of God, is His gift, 532; the ground of patience, 532, 534; kindled by The Holy Spirit, 532; of creature: already in creature loving, 534; of God, not in creature unless given, 534.

Lucan, quoted, 239, 541.

Lucretius, error of, about the soul, 352.

Lucus quod non luceat, 491.

Lust, what is chiefly so called, 380, 381; our enemy, to be resisted, 381; its resistance the business of man, 382; proved to be of the soul as much as of the body, 391; how put down, 393; sexual, its sinfulness, 401; definition of, 463.

Maccabees, book of, referred to, 540.

Madmen, strength of, not healthy, 448.

Magic arts, 391; in bringing up Samuel, 548.

Male and female, contrasted, 407.

Malefici, 500.

Man, knowledge concerning, a part of wisdom, 306; nature of, assumed by God, 363; image of God in, 369; begins in imperfection, 372; living after, what, 383.

Manhood, assumed by The Son, 329; perfect in Christ, 249.

Manichees, object to believing on authority, 348; their pretence of reasons and learned discussions, 348; refute rather than prove, 348; their contemptuous phrases: attack the Old Testament, 349; think Scripture interpolated, and how, 350; of what error they accuse the Church, 353; worship the sun, 353; boasted of Faustus, 356; inquire origin of evil, 365; charges of, against Scripture: of bloodless bodies, but coarse minds, 365, 366; their heresy, 385, 386, 388, 389; refuted: dismissed, 388, 390; their saying, 410; their heretical opinion, 413; said the law was not of God, 509.

Manichæans, place claimed for among the Apostles, 350.

Mankind, how they might have multiplied had Adam not sinned, 399, 400.

Mansions, many in heaven, 426.

Marriage, fools should consult the wise about 361; many have learned to despise, 364; its end, 391; not regarded as unholy by the Fathers, 398; a lower state than virginity: first bond of society: that of our first parents, holy, 399; Christ went to one, 400; how a good, 400, 402, 412; intended as well for fellowship, 400; of aged persons, 400; continence in, praise-worthy, 400; brings good out of evil: its uses, 400, 401 402; its grave joy, 400; how far certain compacts deserve the name of, 401; its abuse, not the sin of marriage, 401; Sacramental, 402, 406, 408; the lesser of two goods, 403, 411, 422, 423; of the just, better than the virginity of the impious, 403; not evil, but good, 402, 403, 409; in what sense it is “better” not to marry, 403, 407; was once a duty: St. Paul’s view of, 404; not sinful, 404, 408; to be not sinful must be without excess, 404; holy, though the partner is unholy, 405; that looks only to pleasing God, rare, 405; how piously contracted by the old Fathers, 406, 407, 408, 413; cannot be dissolved, except by death, 402, 411, 412; of many wives, allowable once, 406; compared to the taking of food, 407; was once contracted with spiritual desire, 407; hard, to use it like Abraham, 413; compared to ordination, 411; goods of, three, 413; of the old Fathers, holier than virginity now, 413; summary of St. Augustin’s book on, 417; how that of the old Fathers must be regarded, 422, 423; not even indirectly condemned by St. Paul, 422 423, 424; its fruits thirty-fold only, 434; of (professed) widows wrong but valid, 441; ends with the life of either party, 442; good of, shown, in that the bodies of married Christians are members of Christ, 442; due of, not to be withheld for fear of temptation, 442; the chastity in, God’s gift, 442, 450; evil of excess in, not of marriage, but venial through it, 442; ends of: that of Sacrament: second, allowable, 443; second attacked by Montanists, etc., 443; body as well as spirit, holy in, 443, 444; more desirable in Old Covenant, 444; of Patriarchs, was for offspring, 444; provides against temptation, 445; not needed when we may have spiritual children, 445, 453; better than unstable purpose of widowhood, 441; still good under the Gospel, 446; desire of, wrong after vows, 446; argument from “marriage to Christ” refuted, 446; third or fourth, lawful, though less worthy, 446; seventh, allowed by our Lord to be marriage, 447; hard questions about, 448, 449; ranks below continence: holiness of, inferior by reason of cares, 451; less needful since the world is perishing, 452.

Married, faithful women are mothers of Christ, 419; fruitfulness may not vie with virgin chastity, 419, 420; persons may follow the Lamb, 427, 436; persons in one respect cannot follow the Lamb, 427; may be fitter than virgins for Martyrdom, 434.

Martha and Mary, 403.

Martyr, supposed terms put to a, 464; no place for, if doctrine may be denied, 482; makes real gain, 497.

Martyrs, effect of their sufferings on mankind, 464; not prayed for at the Altar, 489; patience of, in scorn and pain, 529; true, do not kill themselves, 530; who suffer out of the Church, 535; memorials of, 542, 549, 550; prayers to, 542; care for others, the living, 542, 544 sq.; ashes and bodies dispersed, of Gaul, and elsewhere, 542, 544; overcame natural regard for the fate of their bodies, 544; removed from knowledge of earthly things, 549; tormenting demons, 550.

Martyrdom, often a hidden gift: common among Christians, 364; higher than virginity, 435.

Mary (see Virgin), the Blessed Virgin of the Jewish race, 339; Virgin after Christ’s birth, 339, 511; Christ born of, 371; suspected: conceived Christ in chastity, 486; holy virgins become like, 449.

Mary and Martha, 403, 413, 423.

Master, opposed to “schoolmaster,” 351; of grammar, 353; one, to many slaves, 408; power of, over slaves, 490.

Mechanics, became Monks, 516.

Mediator, a, needed by fallen men, 248, 253, 257; must be God in order to redeem us, 272.

Medicine, taking, implies hope of recovery, 361.

Meditation, in the Law of God, 452; consistent with work, 514.

Members of sin, how mortified, 392; all members, though differing in honor, 444.

Memorials of Martyrs, 539 542; prayers offered there, obtain special blessings, 539, 540, 542; buried, 550.

Men, fallen, God’s judgments on, 246; restored through the mercy of God, 246; the restored part succeeds to the place lost by the rebellious angels, 247; not saved by good works, but by grace through faith, 247; needed a mediator, 248; all born of Adam are under condemnation, 246, 254; Christians truly so, 523; figure the ruling principle of the mind, 524.

Mercy of God, free and abounding, 264, 268, 271; how far an excuse for wrong actions, 496.

Metaphor, is no lie, 491.

Midwives, believed, as to parents, 360; Hebrew, quoted for lying, 460, 495; were not prophesying, 460, 496; temporarily rewarded, 460; excused as beginners, 470, 495.

Mind, things in, perceived without sight, 337; of others, not directly perceived, etc., 337 sq.; prepared for truth by believing, 358, 362; of the wise brought in contact with God, 363; sovereign power of, disgraced by body’s sin, 487; parts of the, how figured, 524; patience a virtue of, 529; wounds of, 529; incomprehensible to itself, 569.

Miracle, spread of the Gospel a, 340.

Miracles, meant to produce faith, 363; what are, 364; better than reasons to impress fools, 363; point out authority, 364; some more gracious, some more wonderful: why less frequent, and note, 364; witness of, against heretics, 365.

Mistrust of self, our security, 383.

Monachism, a holy purpose, 521.

Monasteries, introduction of, into Carthage, 503; good, practise manual labor, 516; indifferent to which one’s property has been given, 519; time divided for labor and devotion and study, 521.

Monastery, some may labor, others instruct, 514; owes a maintenance to those who have surrendered their property to it, 519; division of works in, 519.

Monica, St., failed not to visit St. Augustin every night, 547.

Monks, not laboring for their own support, 503; the work of, occasion of writing, 504; honest trades for men; a holy society, 511; laziness of, a trap, 515; cause scandals, 516; to avoid giving offense, to labor and be obedient, 514; ecclesiastical occupations and teaching of, 514, 515; life holy and praiseworthy, 514; their many religious offices, 515; who have been delicately brought up, to be borne with, 516; not Evangelists nor Priests: supporters of the Monastery, 519; persons admitted without signs of amendment, 516; a heavy sin not to admit as, slaves, peasants, mechanics: some became exemplars, 516; kept stores of provisions, 517; might have dressed provisions, 517, 518; who have been rich not compelled to bodily labor, 519; none to be idle: disentangled from secular affairs, 520, 521; trusting for support in labor if able, without, if unable: called servants of God, 521; poor of Christ, 519; objects of the Bishop’s care, 521; hypocritical and vagrant, pretended ones, 521; a device of Satan to discredit that life by scandal, 521; accused of wishing to be maintained in idleness: of hawking: costuming: lying stories: begging, 521; wearing long hair, 522; life preferred to Bishop’s, 521; good ones accused and unsettled by the idle, 522; idle ones regarded as more holy, 523.