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Doctrinal and Moral Treatises · Part 3

Monstrous births, and the resurrection, 265.

Montanists, attacked second marriages, 443.

Moral government of the world, 385.

Mortification of the members, what? 392.

Moses, veil of, 523; appeared after death, 548.

Mothers, of Christ, who? 418, 419.

Mouth of the heart as well as the body, 380, 381; not to be always literally taken in Scripture, 380; of the heart, 471, 472; confession with the mouth required, 486.

Multitude, testimony of followed in common life, 355; must be led by steps to religion, 358: is believed regarding Christ, 362; gathered by Him in the way of faith, 363; led by faith to approve many good things, 364, 365; witness of, against heretics, 365.

Mysteries, holy, words used in celebrating, 449.

Mystery, defense of, not popular, 349; to be borne with, 534.

Nabal, David right in sparing, 490.

Naboth, charge against, 491.

Name, eternal, promised to the eunuchs, 425.

Narration, to be employed in catechising, 285 sq., 289.

Nations blessed in Christ, 339; come to God, by believing, 341.

Nativity, Eternal, of the Son, 371; of Christ in time, 374.

Nature, the Christian knows little of, except that the goodness of the Creator is the cause of all things, 239; knowledge of the causes of, unessential to happiness, 242; wonders of, familiar, 364; all, is good, 386; lust is a disease of, 386.

Nazarites, long hair a figure of the veil of the Law, 523.

Neighbor, even an alien is, 487.

Net, of the Gospel, takes bad and good, 343.

Novations, against second marriages, 443.

Nuns, holy, deceased, 434.

Nurses, believed as to parents, 360.

Obedience, the Christian’s work, 372; above continence, 411; implies chastity, 412; unmurmuring, duty of Monks, 514.

Old persons, why they marry, 400.

Olibrius, husband of Juliana, 452.

Omnipotence of God, 322.

Opinatio, 360.

Opinion, distinguished from knowledge and belief, 359; different from belief, 458.

Ordination, to be withheld from a husband who had a second wife, 408; a sacrament, 412.

Original sin, remitted by Baptism, 386.

Pagans, soldiers: poets: yet in their sins, 375; idolatrous heathen so called, 509, 511; opinions of burial, 540; philosophers, 540.

Paint, not to be used by women, 451.

Parables, are no lies, 494.

Paradise, man deceived in, 372; Adam careless in, 530; how man forfeited, 531; vision of, also baptism necessary for admission to, 546.

Parcae quad non parcant, 491.

Pardon, granted implies sin, 404; to what granted by St. Paul, 404.

Pardon of sin conditioned by penitence, and has reference chiefly to the Judgment, 258; not given to those who forgive not others, 261.

Parents, not to be recognized when they hinder our ministry, 325; known by testimony, 339; known to children by faith: yet love due to, 360.

Parricide, Cataline, of his country, 528; why worst homicide, 530.

Passion, foretold by same writers as things now seen fulfilled, 341; in Jewish Scriptures, 342.

Passions, how attributed to God, 527.

Patience, of Christ, 372; of Job, 372; is not to be for temporal hopes, 372, 373; differs from endurance, 391; a great gift of God, 527; attributed to God: in what sense, 527; of God, without passion, 527, 528; in man, what, 527, 528; waits for good, 527, 529; compared with worldly endurance, 528, 531; for ill ends is no patience, 528; truth of, is in the cause, 528; not like science: both in mind and body, 529; shown without bodily pain: of our Lord toward Judas, 529; greatest against Satan’s assaults, 530; is God’s gift, 531; being from love of God, is from grace, 532; likens to God, 532; her words by St. Paul, 535; is it God’s gift? 535, 536.

Patriarchs, had several wives for offspring, 444; marriages of, attacked by Faustus, 448; fed cattle, 511; ignorant of what befell the Jews, 547.

Paul, his speaking by permission not of commandment, expounded, 262 sq.; once a persecutor, 309; his counsels and commands concerning marriage and virginity, 421; what “he spared,” 422; the Teacher: “vessel of election,” 442. chose the unmarried state as higher good, 442; rightly allows second marriage, 443; cared not for men’s praise, 453; St. Peter corrected by, 461, 462; kept good repute with care, 461; his answer to the high priest, 470; his oaths, 470, 474, 477; right in not “living of the Gospel,” 470; used sympathy, not falsehood, 476; charged by some with a lie, 477; not compelled by want to preach, 509; not using his liberty, 506 509, 510; bearing with the weak, 509; condescending, not of craft, 509, 510; becoming all things to all men: “becoming weak,” 509; relieved by distant Churches, 510; declined gifts to avoid suspicion of venal motives, 510, 511; labored in temporal as well as spiritual works, 511; avoiding suspicion of dishonesty, 513; rejoicing in the liberality of believers, 513; had special times for labor and teaching, at Troas: at Athens, 513, 514; could work by day and night, 515; not receiving support was to avoid offense, 515, 517; because his ministry was among the Gentiles, 515; not contrary to his Lord, 518; used means for self-preservation, 520; rapt into Paradise, 548.

Paulinus, St., of Nola, inquires about burial: his opinion, 569.

Peace, on earth, 257; the prize of continence, 386.

Peasants, became Monks, 516, 519.

Pelagianism, noted by St. Augustin in his book on widowhood, 441, 449. 450; dangerous approaches to 450.

Pelagians, think patience man’s attainment, 531; argument of, for free-will, 531, 532.

Penance, done openly in Church: way of remission for the baptized, 375; refusal of, condemned, 473.

Penitence, needful for pardon of sins, 258.

Penitents, order of, 375.

Penny, in the parable, 426.

Pentecost, 308.

Peoples, and nations, our witnesses to Christ, 362.

Perfect, are not even to wish to lie, 472.

Perfecting, good and evil, 387.

Perjury, strangely justified by some, 498; none can be allowable, 499; real though not of truth, 499; feared even by the adulterous, 500.

Permission, not same as consent, 475.

Persecution, flight from, 520, 521.

Perseverance, need of grace for, 453, 454.

Persian fable of Manichees, 365.

Peter, St., his example cited, 410; simulation of, corrected, 461, 493; his denial, 462; justifying him makes St. Paul a liar, 477; denied only with the mouth, yet sinned, 486.

Pharisee and Publican, 428.

Physician, best judge for the sick, 373; hates sickness, loves the sick, 534.

Pity, how attributed to God, 527.

Plato, hidden meanings of, in amorous writing, 355.

Pleasure, thought chief good by Epicurus, 352; in holy labor, 452; of earthly things a known motive to natural will, 534.

Pontius Pilate, named to mark the date, 371.

Poor, feeding, for man’s praise not good, 487; of Christ, monks so called, 519; patience of the, 531; long for the inheritance, 535; of Christ to be made rich, 536.

Posture, in prayer increases fervor, 542.

Powers that be, subjection to the, illustrated, 306.

Prayer, the Lord’s, 238, 274; called “The Prayer,” 375; needed against temptation, 449.

Prayer, the daily, of the believer makes satisfaction for daily trivial sins, 260; remission of lighter sins by, 375; does more than exhortation, 450; spiritual delight in, 452, 453; helped by alms, 452; of the obedient heard, 514; interrupted for necessary labors, 518; posture at, increases fervency: yet is not necessary to it, 542.

Prayer, for the dead, 434; an universal practice, 539; at the Altar, 540; authority for, though not in Scripture: also profit of, 539, 540; do not profit all, 539, 542, 550; for all the faithful departed, 542, 543; for our departed friends, especially, 550.

Preaching, the Gospel, reward of, 509; the Gospel for support might offend the weak, 510, 511; for the sake of a maintenance wrong, 519.

Predestination, to eternal life is wholly of God’s free grace, 268.

Pride, and envying, 428; to be guarded against, 531; ground of false patience, 531.

Priesthood, of the Jews become vile, 470.

Priscillian, artful praise of, 483; himself detected without lies, 485.

Priscillianists, exposed by Consentius, 450; inquiries of Consentius about, 457; thought it lawful to deny doctrines, 481, 486, 492; some of their notions, 484; sin less than Catholics in blaspheming, 484, 485; heresy of, overthrown by Catholic Bishops, 485; anathematize Priscillian in pretence, 485.

Proba Faltonia, mother-in-law of Juliana, and note, 448, 454; grandmother of Demetrias, 451.

Property, management of, 361; question of lying to save, 467, 476; giving up of, a pattern to us, 518.

Prophecy, evidence of, conclusive, 339, 340; even for Gospel records, 340, 341; of things we see proves things unseen: Passion foretold in, 341, 342.

Prophecies, Old Testament, fulfillment of, pointed out, 313.

Prophetic meaning of Patriarchs’ care for burial, 541.

Prophets, effect of their teaching on multitudes, 364; in time of, women served God by marriage: God’s ancient people a prophet, 444; marriages of, attacked by Faustus, 448; knew only what God thought fit, 548.

Providence, not excluding our exertions, 520, 521.

Provision, for the morrow, how forbidden, 470; to be made for the future, 518.

Psalmody, a spiritual delight, 452; no hindrance to work, 514.

Psalms, to be learnt by heart, 514.

Publican and Pharisee, 428.

Punishment, eternal, 341; for sin inevitable, 385; less for schismatics who suffer for Christ, 535.

Punishments, future, eternity of, 273; threatened to correct the foolish, 351.

Purgatorial fire, possible, 260.

Purification, why ordered under the Law, 409.

Quick, the, and the dead, Christ shall judge, expounded, 255, 373.

Rahab, not approved for lying, 495; how she might have avoided it, 496.

Reading, three kinds of error in, 351, 352; spiritual delight in, 452 453; pursued to the neglect of doing what is read, 514.

Reality of Christ’s flesh, 389.

Reason, Manichees would prove all by, 348, 354; not enough to keep men from sin, 351; why not to be followed before faith, 357; unable to master religion, 360.

Refuge, is one seeking, to be saved by a lie? 460, 462, 468.

Regeneration, effects of, 275; prayer for, for Catechumens, 375; in Baptism, 386; had we no other birth we should not sin, 500.

Relics of martyrs (pretended ones), hawked about, 521.

Religion, search after true, 354; search for true, presupposes belief in God, 361.

Repentance, true, 264; of God without error, 527.

Report, good, duty of keeping, 453.

Resurrection, the, of the body, 264 sq.; of the saints, 266; of the lost, 266; derided by some, 313; is certain, 332; of Christ, prophesied, 341.

Retreat of monks, for prayer, 517, 518.

Revelations, by visions, 546; to Prophets partial, 548.

Reward, of Christian soldier, 453; of evangelizing, 509.

Rhadamanthus, fable of, 352.

Rhetoric, learned from the few whom the many acknowledge, 354.

Rhyming terminations, 527.

Rich, the, humbled before the Church, 340; healed of pride, in becoming poor, 518; men, become monks, 519.

Riches, desire of, condemned in widows, 452; what men will suffer to gain, 528; of God, 531.

Right Hand of God, what meant by, 327, 373.

Rising with Christ, what, 392.

Robbers, lying in wait, 458, 459.

Rome, the usage of, in respect of divorce, 402; love of the commonwealth, 519.

Root-virtue, continence, 412.

Ruffinus, translated Eusebius’ Ecel. Hist., 543.

Rule of Faith, the Creed, 369 sq.

Ruth, blessed, though Anna more so, 443; continent widows may not set themselves above: married again to be an ancestor of Christ, 444.

Sacraments, of New Law, supersede the old, 461; truth intimated in, 475.

Sacrifice, for sin, called sin, 495.

Sacrifices, legal, not for Christians,. 351.

Sadducees, our Lord’s answer to, 447.

Saints, the, resurrection of, 266; shall know at the resurrection the benefits they have received by grace, 267; Church daily renewed in the, 340; general effect of their examples, 364; in heaven cannot sin, 385, 387; differ in merits: in glory: and joy, 426; number of the, to be completed, 453; of Old Testament saved by grace through faith, 533. 534; intercession of: prayers to, 549; prayers to: patrons, 539, 542 sq.; memorial chapels. of, 539, 542.

Sallust, referred to, 528.

Samuel, apparition to Saul, opinions on, 548.

Sanctity, treated of, 437; higher, sought in separation from the world, 514.

Sarah, her example cited, 411; an example to wives, 444; denied her laughing, 460; truly called Abraham’s sister, 491.

Satan, as an angel of light, 257; tempted Job, as Adam, by woman, 372, 530; brought low, after his pride, 522; tempts. through or without instruments, 530; hurt not Job, but by God’s power, 530; fell by his own will, 534; exorcised from children, 569.

Saul (King), those who buried him praised, 544; seeing Samuel, 548.

Schism, a breach of charity, 535.

School, tempting discussions in, 348.

Schoolmaster, the Law a, 351.

Scipio Africanus, his daughter portioned by the state, 519.

Scripture Holy, creed scattered about in, 347; statements all true, 422, 423; forbids being overwise, 442; wrested, 508; to. be learnt by memory, 514; cannot deceive, 534.

Scriptures, copies of, in hands of Jews, 342; of the Old Testament often figurative, 460; why contain examples as well as pre­cepts, 470; forbid every lie, 476; no mincing of, 477; knowledge of, praised, 481; true interpretation of, to be urged, 492; three methods to be used with, 493; of Old Testament attacked by Manichees, 349, 350; why hard to defend, 349; fourfold sense of, 349; partial use of, 351; how to deal with, 351, 353; three suppositions about, 352; Church’s belief about, 353; falsely charged with absurdity, 355; believed on Church’s testimony, 362.

Secular judgments imposed on Bishops by Apostolical injunction, 521.

Sedes, dwellings called, 373.

Senators, became Monks, 519.

Septivira, 447.

Sermon on the mount, 428.

Sickness of the soul, what, 386.

Signacula; 475.

Signs; intelligible, 283; employed at the formal admission of a catechumen, 312; not known, without the thing, 361.

Similes, easy weapons to find, 348.

Simon, his example cited, 433.

Sin and Sins, results of Adams, 246; often put one for the other, 252; of progenitors, 253; guilt of the first, can be washed away only in the blood of Christ, 253; pardon of, extends over the whole mortal life of the saints, 258; trivial, 260, 263; relative magnitude of sins, 262 sq.; two causes of, ignorance and weakness, 264; remission of, 331; impossible to God: original in children, 347; law made to restrain fools from, 351; every action not rightly done is, 360; forgiveness of, in Baptism, 375; none too heinous: some are venial, some remitted by prayers, some, by penance, 374; Catechumens still under, 375; remitted to the faithful in Baptism, 386; spiritual men not exempt from, 390; venial and deadly, 402, 403; none are free from, 439; confession of, 447; not to be committed to save life, 462 sq.; confession of, required, 473; wrongly estimated by carnal men, 474; of others, not to be prevented by our own, 476, 486; not to be done to detect sin, 481; against conscience, 484; not justified by motive, 488; yet made less, 488, 496; venial not allowed, 489; alternatives of, 489, 491; of ignorance or infirmity, 490, 496, 510; forgiven for subsequent good works, 496; comes of our earthly birth: is the sting of death. 500.

Singing at work, 514.

Sinner, to protect a, is not to aid sin, 468; not to be despaired of, 468.

Sitting, at the right hand of God, what? 523.

Sixtyfold fruits of widowed life, 434.

Slaves, many, but one master, 408; freed to become Monks, 516; trusted by masters, 358.

Sleep, abstinence from, 528.

Society, founded on faith, 339.

Sodom, justified in comparison of Israel, 461; Lot’s conduct in, 463, 467. 468; men of, smitten with blindness, 497.

Soldiers of Christ, mark of, not repeated after desertion, 375; Monks so called, 521.

Solomon, commanded to build God a temple, 374.

Son, The, anointed by the Father, 339; said to suffer because His humanity suffered: of God is God: of man is man: of God is Almighty: why Only Son, 370; doth what He will: One God with the Father, 370; of God suffered and died: begotten before all times, 371.

Song of the Three Holy Children, 438.

Soul, made to know truth, 356; may be defiled, 380; meaning of, in Scripture, 383; purity of, more than that of the body, 463, 475, 476; Priscillianists in error about, 484.

Souls pure, God dwells in, 353; of the faithful departed, at rest, 541, 543; obtain the resurrection of the body, 542; rest of, not affected by the condition of the body, 540–543; nor by the events of the world, 547, 548; some free from all suffering, 547.

Speech, inward, heard by God, 471.

Spirit Holy, signified by finger of God, 305; the Apostles filled with, 342; continence the gift of God’s, 354; signified by men’s actions, 460; God, as dwelling in Temple, 350; consubstantial and coequal: called “Love,” 374; heareth all things, 471; the fire of Divine Love, 532; hence the source of patience, 532, 534.

Spiritual, desire of the old Fathers, 407, 408, 413.

Spy, supposed practice of, 483.

Steward of the Church must have one wife, 408.

Stewards, trusted though slaves, 358.

Stoics, wrong in making all sins equal, 495.

Studiousness, matter of praise, 356, 357.

Subtance, none but what God begot or created, 365.

Succession, Apostolic, 365.

Suffering, for faith and humanity, praiseworthy, 469.

Sufferings, endured for worldly objects, 528.

Suicide, threat of, may not move us to sin, 462 sq.; false claim of martyrdom by, 531.

Supererogation, 427.

Susanna and Anna, 403, 413, 423.

Swearing, instances of, in New Testament, 470; all “cometh of evil,” 474; rash, of David, 490; false, excused by some, 498.

Talking, lust of, leads to lying, 466, 467.

Tamar, falsehood of, not to be imitated, 495.

Tares, borne with till the harvest, 529.

Teaching, all implies some faith, 354; multitude may show where to find, 355, 362; Catholic, origin of, 356; ordinary way of, uses belief, 359; all requires a master, 365.

Tediousness, in catechising causes and remedies of, 293 sq.

Temple, Christian heart a, 374.

Temptation, counsel against, from the aged, 451; hope of gratification a, 452.

Tempting God by not avoiding danger, 508.

Terentianus Maurus, not to be read without expositors, 355.

Tertullian, unwisely attacks second marriage, 443.

Testament, Old, food for infant souls, 349; agrees with New, 349. passages that seem to condemn it, 351; veil of removed, 351; what the charge against, 353; St. Augustin’s belief about, 353; St. Ambrose’s exposition of, 356; charges brought against, 365; two, signified by Abraham’s sons, 470.

Testimony, parents known by, 339; of the multitude how useful, 354, 355.

Theatre, applause of, courted by poets, 355.

Thecla, mentioned, 434.

Theft, from rich not lawful, 467; is “from the mouth” of the heart, 472; some think too much of, as compared with sins of luxury, 474; though to feed the poor, 488; is less sin than lewdness: one worse than another, 488, 489.

Thigh, signification of putting the hand under, 409.

Thirtyfold fruit of marriage, 434.

Thought, sins of, 379, 380; goes before works, 381; of intention, 380; cannot go unpunished, 385; a mystery, 385.

Time, shifting course of, 452.

Times, change of, 349.

Timothy, St., his example cited, 409; circumcised by St. Paul, 461.

Titus, St., not circumcised, and why, 461.

Tobias, commended for burying the dead, 541.

Tongue, the, 487; not to be yielded to sin, 488.

Torture, to obtain testimony, 468, 528; question of lying, to escape, 468; to be borne with love, 470.

Trades, honest, practised by St. Paul, 511; manual, suitable to preachers, 512.

Travel, in search of instruction: to Holy Land, 355.

Tribulation, attends marriage, 422, 424.

Trinity, Holy, the, doctrine of, 327 sq., 374.

Truth, St. Augustin’s early love of, 347; belief prepares for beholding, 348, 349; search after, 354 sq.; lovers of, believe authority: why, made hard to discover, 361; God is, 363; state of mind needful for seeking, 365; of every statement in Scripture, 422; may be spoken in order to deceive, 459; comprises every eternal good, 463; eternal, distinguished from ordinary, 467, 474, 475; notion of keeping “in the heart,” 471, 486; love of, allows not false witness, 473; may be preferred to everything external, 475, 498; not to be wronged in defending it, 481; every lie contrary to, 483; to be kept with those without: some to be concealed from aliens, 487; nothing against it “just,” 495; defended by examples of chastity, 499, 500.

Type, woman, of what 425; application of the Three Holy Children, 438.

Typical, meaning of many wives, 408; view of impurity, 409.

Uncircumcision, not to be feigned, 509.

Understanding, distinguished from belief and opinion: is by reason, 359; now known by multitudes to be the way of knowing God, 364; quick, God’s gift, 370; faith goes before, 370.

Unions, three spoken of by the Apostle, 388.

Unity, in Godhead illustrated by that of souls united: but imperfectly, 370.

Unmarried, may mean widows, 442; persons, “think of things of the Lord,” 443; should give Christ what they reserve from a consort, 451; exhorted to forbear marriage, 453.

Unwilling continence estimated, 429.

Veil, of Scripture, done away in Christ, 351; of Moses, of the Nazarite, 523.

Veils, men not to wear: why, 524.

Vengeance, less kingly than forbearance, 529.

Ventilare, 351.

Vice, can use the instruments of virtue, 528.

Vine, the Church in its likeness to Christ compared to, 309.

Violence, not consented to, corrupts not, 463, 490; lying to escape, wrong, 463; not to be evaded by sin, 464.

Virgil, quoted, 239, 242, 352, 355, 540.

Virgin, (see Mary,) God most fitly born of a, 339; the Blessed, 403; the blessed, a type and pattern, 417; what was her highest blessedness, 418, 419; had vowed virginity, 418; was born of Christ: how both a Mother and a Virgin, 418.

Virginal chastity above marriage, 422.

Virginity, preferred to marriage, 397, 411, 422; is angelic, 403, 420; the greater of two goods, 411; to be guarded by humility, 413; that of the blessed Virgin, 418; a good, for the sake of the future life, 420, 421, 423, 424; its joys in heaven, 426; the gift of God, 432; its fruits hundredfold, 434; inferior to martyrdom, 435; preferred by St. Paul to conjugal faith, 442; goodness of, makes not marriage evil, 442; of children, a compensation to parents, 445, 448; forsaking, after profession is sinful, 445; of the Church, 446.

Virgins, brought to Christ everywhere, 340; all holy ones are Mothers of Christ, 418; rich, how they may give birth to members of Christ, 419; distinguished from sacred Virgins, 420; no “command” concerning, 421; have peculiar joys in heaven, 426; follow the Lamb, 427; need humility, 428; their grounds for loving God, 432; may be less fit than married women for martyrdom, 434, 435; encouragement to, 437; should love the fairness of Christ, 437; distinguished from the “unmarried,” 442; before widows in the kingdom, 451; special song of, 451.

Virtue, what patience is a, 527; instruments of, not to be yielded to, 528.

Virtues of the soul may exist unseen in habit, 409, 410.

Visible and invisible creation, 369.

Visions, of the unseen world, 546.

Vows, freely made, makes what was lawful unlawful. 443; wrong to desire to revoke, 445; marriage after, is not adultery, 446; but yet is worse, 446; of continence recommended, 450; a protection, 452; marriage to Christ by, 446; more laudable because not required, 446.

Vows of continence, 427.

Warfare, of the Christian life, 382, 387.

Washing, once for all in Baptism: daily, in prayer, 375.

Watchings, use of, 452.

Water, changed into wine, 363.

Whirling, about false doctrine, 523.

Wicked, the death of, eternal in the same sense as the life of the Saints, 273.

Widowed, chastity, above marriage, 423.

Widowed, continence, its rank, 434.

Widowhood, forsaking, after profession is a sin, 445; this is not adultery, but worse, 446; long and early, greater test of continence, 447; prayer and fasting make better, 448; hard questions about, 448.

Widows, their continence, 434; Fourth Council forbade (professed widows) to marry again, 441; may be called unmarried: better among the members of Christ than married women, 442; may marry again, as Ruth, 443; more blessed if not, as Anna, 443, 447; not therefore better than Ruth herself, 444; do better in not marrying now that Christ is come, 444; having family, have no good reason to marry, 445; what they should do according to their ability, 445; merits of, in different cases compared, 447; luxurious living of, condemned, 452; humility an ornament to, 448; alms help their prayers, 452; to draw others to like profession, 453.

Wife (see Husband), why created out of husband, 399; many allowed once, why, 407, 408; only one belongs to a steward of the Church, 408; and woman, Greek word ambiguous, 506.

Will (see Freedom of), of God, invariable, 369; true submission of, to God, 373; of man, admonished and healed by grace, 449; free, made too much of, by some, 450; if man works on, much more God helps, 450; God not lost but by, 530; free, of man, gets not patience by itself, 531; why it produces hardness, yet not true patience, 531, 532; evil, made frantic by devilish incitements: the devil became devil by his own, 534; has not love of God, but by His gift, 534.

Wills, forgery of, 488.

Wisdom, man’s true, is the fear of God, 237; to be found in true religion, 354; implies knowledge concerning God and man, 360; he who has not, knows not, 361; prayer to God for, 363; is God’s gift, 433, 450; patience handmaid of, 528; true and false, true from God, 531.

Wise, who are, 360; how are fools to find them, 361; are brought near to God, 363.

Witchcraft, not to be detected by witchcraft; 500.

Witness, false forbidden, 460, 467, 469; question if lawful to save life, 464; about God or Christ, 464, 467; definition of, 467, 468; incompatible with love of truth, 473; false, might seem expedient at times, 488.

Wolves, in sheep’s clothing, 485; sheep not to wear theirs, 486.

Woman, insult offered to the sun by a, 353.

Women, now, compared to the holy women of old, 406, 412; accompanied and supported the Apostles: and our Lord, 506; figure the concupiscential part of the mind, 524.

Words, use of Greek, 349; are the beginning of works, 400; are deeds, 487.

Work, evil, not made good by motive, 488; to refuse, as wrong an error, 415.

Working, understood of laboring in spiritual things enjoined by the Apostle, 503.

Works, are preceded by thoughts, 380, 381; and Faith, 392; good, a better portion than children, 451, 452; precede not election, 533, 534.

World, spirit of this, puffs up, 449; cares of, lower married holiness, 451; passing away, a reason against marrying, 452; waits for the number of Saints, 453; trials of, require patience, 529; love of, produces worldly endurance, 532, 534; lust comes of, but also of man’s will, 532 sq.

Wounds of Christ, 437.

Wrath, in God no passion, 527.

Writers, three was to err in using, 351; sense of, often hard to see clearly, 352.

Zaccheus and Goliath compared, 411, 430.