Doctrinal and Moral Treatises (part 4 of 4)

Sallust, referred to,²⁵²⁰528.

Samuel, apparition to Saul, opinions on,²⁵²¹548.

Sanctity, treated of,²⁵²²437; higher, sought in separation from the world,²⁵²³514.

Sarah, her example cited,²⁵²⁴411; an example to wives,²⁵²⁵444; denied her laughing,²⁵²⁶460; truly called Abraham's sister,²⁵²⁷491.

Satan, as an angel of light,²⁵²⁸257; tempted Job, as Adam, by woman,²⁵²⁹372,²⁵³⁰530; brought low, after his pride,²⁵³¹522; tempts. through or without instruments,²⁵³²530; hurt not Job, but by God's power,²⁵³³530; fell by his own will,²⁵³⁴534; exorcised from children, 569.

Saul (King), those who buried him praised,²⁵³⁵544; seeing Samuel,²⁵³⁶548.

Schism, a breach of charity,²⁵³⁷535.

School, tempting discussions in,²⁵³⁸348.

Schoolmaster, the Law a,²⁵³⁹351.

Scipio Africanus, his daughter portioned by the state,²⁵⁴⁰519.

Scripture Holy, creed scattered about in,²⁵⁴¹347; statements all true,²⁵⁴²422,²⁵⁴³423; forbids being overwise,²⁵⁴⁴442; wrested,²⁵⁴⁵508; to. be learnt by memory,²⁵⁴⁶514; cannot deceive,²⁵⁴⁷534.

Scriptures, copies of, in hands of Jews,²⁵⁴⁸342; of the Old Testament often figurative,²⁵⁴⁹460; why contain examples as well as precepts,²⁵⁵⁰470; forbid every lie,²⁵⁵¹476; no mincing of,²⁵⁵²477; knowledge of, praised,²⁵⁵³481; true interpretation of, to be urged,²⁵⁵⁴492; three methods to be used with,²⁵⁵⁵493; of Old Testament attacked by Manichees,²⁵⁵⁶349,²⁵⁵⁷350; why hard to defend,²⁵⁵⁸349; fourfold sense of,²⁵⁵⁹349; partial use of,²⁵⁶⁰351; how to deal with,²⁵⁶¹351,²⁵⁶²353; three suppositions about,²⁵⁶³352; Church's belief about,²⁵⁶⁴353; falsely charged with absurdity,²⁵⁶⁵355; believed on Church's testimony,²⁵⁶⁶362.

Secular judgments imposed on Bishops by Apostolical injunction,²⁵⁶⁷521.

Sedes, dwellings called,²⁵⁶⁸373.

Senators, became Monks,²⁵⁶⁹519.

Septivira,²⁵⁷⁰447.

Sermon on the mount,²⁵⁷¹428.

Sickness of the soul, what,²⁵⁷²386.

Signacula;²⁵⁷³475.

Signs; intelligible,²⁵⁷⁴283; employed at the formal admission of a catechumen,²⁵⁷⁵312; not known, without the thing,²⁵⁷⁶361.

Similes, easy weapons to find,²⁵⁷⁷348.

Simon, his example cited,²⁵⁷⁸433.

Sin and Sins, results of Adams,²⁵⁷⁹246; often put one for the other,²⁵⁸⁰252; of progenitors,²⁵⁸¹253; guilt of the first, can be washed away only in the blood of Christ,²⁵⁸²253; pardon of, extends over the whole mortal life of the saints,²⁵⁸³258; trivial,²⁵⁸⁴260,²⁵⁸⁵263; relative magnitude of sins,²⁵⁸⁶262 sq.; two causes of, ignorance and weakness,²⁵⁸⁷264; remission of,²⁵⁸⁸331; impossible to God: original in children,²⁵⁸⁹347; law made to restrain fools from,²⁵⁹⁰351; every action not rightly done is,²⁵⁹¹360; forgiveness of, in Baptism,²⁵⁹²375; none too heinous: some are venial, some remitted by prayers, some, by penance,²⁵⁹³374; Catechumens still under,²⁵⁹⁴375; remitted to the faithful in Baptism,²⁵⁹⁵386; spiritual men not exempt from,²⁵⁹⁶390; venial and deadly,²⁵⁹⁷402,²⁵⁹⁸403; none are free from, 439; confession of,²⁵⁹⁹447; not to be committed to save life,²⁶⁰⁰462 sq.; confession of, required,²⁶⁰¹473; wrongly estimated by carnal men,²⁶⁰²474; of others, not to be prevented by our own,²⁶⁰³476,²⁶⁰⁴486; not to be done to detect sin,²⁶⁰⁵481; against conscience,²⁶⁰⁶484; not justified by motive,²⁶⁰⁷488; yet made less,²⁶⁰⁸488,²⁶⁰⁹496; venial not allowed,²⁶¹⁰489; alternatives of,²⁶¹¹489,²⁶¹²491; of ignorance or infirmity,²⁶¹³490,²⁶¹⁴496,²⁶¹⁵510; forgiven for subsequent good works,²⁶¹⁶496; comes of our earthly birth: is the sting of death.²⁶¹⁷500.

Singing at work,²⁶¹⁸514.

Sinner, to protect a, is not to aid sin,²⁶¹⁹468; not to be despaired of,²⁶²⁰468.

Sitting, at the right hand of God, what?²⁶²¹523.

Sixtyfold fruits of widowed life,²⁶²²434.

Slaves, many, but one master,²⁶²³408; freed to become Monks,²⁶²⁴516; trusted by masters,²⁶²⁵358.

Sleep, abstinence from,²⁶²⁶528.

Society, founded on faith,²⁶²⁷339.

Sodom, justified in comparison of Israel,²⁶²⁸461; Lot's conduct in,²⁶²⁹463,²⁶³⁰467.²⁶³¹468; men of, smitten with blindness,²⁶³²497.

Soldiers of Christ, mark of, not repeated after desertion,²⁶³³375; Monks so called,²⁶³⁴521.

Solomon, commanded to build God a temple,²⁶³⁵374.

Son, The, anointed by the Father,²⁶³⁶339; said to suffer because His humanity suffered: of God is God: of man is man: of God is Almighty: why Only Son,²⁶³⁷370; doth what He will: One God with the Father,²⁶³⁸370; of God suffered and died: begotten before all times,²⁶³⁹371.

Song of the Three Holy Children,²⁶⁴⁰438.

Soul, made to know truth,²⁶⁴¹356; may be defiled,²⁶⁴²380; meaning of, in Scripture,²⁶⁴³383; purity of, more than that of the body,²⁶⁴⁴463,²⁶⁴⁵475,²⁶⁴⁶476; Priscillianists in error about,²⁶⁴⁷484.

Souls pure, God dwells in,²⁶⁴⁸353; of the faithful departed, at rest,²⁶⁴⁹541,²⁶⁵⁰543; obtain the resurrection of the body,²⁶⁵¹542; rest of, not affected by the condition of the body,²⁶⁵²540-²⁶⁵³543; nor by the events of the world,²⁶⁵⁴547,²⁶⁵⁵548; some free from all suffering,²⁶⁵⁶547.

Speech, inward, heard by God,²⁶⁵⁷471.

Spirit Holy, signified by finger of God,²⁶⁵⁸305; the Apostles filled with,²⁶⁵⁹342; continence the gift of God's,²⁶⁶⁰354; signified by men's actions,²⁶⁶¹460; God, as dwelling in Temple,²⁶⁶²350; consubstantial and coequal: called "Love,"²⁶⁶³374; heareth all things,²⁶⁶⁴471; the fire of Divine Love,²⁶⁶⁵532; hence the source of patience,²⁶⁶⁶532,²⁶⁶⁷534.

Spiritual, desire of the old Fathers,²⁶⁶⁸407,²⁶⁶⁹408,²⁶⁷⁰413.

Spy, supposed practice of,²⁶⁷¹483.

Steward of the Church must have one wife,²⁶⁷²408.

Stewards, trusted though slaves,²⁶⁷³358.

Stoics, wrong in making all sins equal,²⁶⁷⁴495.

Studiousness, matter of praise,²⁶⁷⁵356,²⁶⁷⁶357.

Subtance, none but what God begot or created,²⁶⁷⁷365.

Succession, Apostolic,²⁶⁷⁸365.

Suffering, for faith and humanity, praiseworthy,²⁶⁷⁹469.

Sufferings, endured for worldly objects,²⁶⁸⁰528.

Suicide, threat of, may not move us to sin,²⁶⁸¹462 sq.; false claim of martyrdom by,²⁶⁸²531.

Supererogation,²⁶⁸³427.

Susanna and Anna,²⁶⁸⁴403,²⁶⁸⁵413,²⁶⁸⁶423.

Swearing, instances of, in New Testament,²⁶⁸⁷470; all "cometh of evil,"²⁶⁸⁸474; rash, of David,²⁶⁸⁹490; false, excused by some,²⁶⁹⁰498.

Talking, lust of, leads to lying,²⁶⁹¹466,²⁶⁹²467.

Tamar, falsehood of, not to be imitated,²⁶⁹³495.

Tares, borne with till the harvest,²⁶⁹⁴529.

Teaching, all implies some faith,²⁶⁹⁵354; multitude may show where to find,²⁶⁹⁶355,²⁶⁹⁷362; Catholic, origin of,²⁶⁹⁸356; ordinary way of, uses belief,²⁶⁹⁹359; all requires a master,²⁷⁰⁰365.

Tediousness, in catechising causes and remedies of,²⁷⁰¹293 sq.

Temple, Christian heart a,²⁷⁰²374.

Temptation, counsel against, from the aged,²⁷⁰³451; hope of gratification a,²⁷⁰⁴452.

Tempting God by not avoiding danger,²⁷⁰⁵508.

Terentianus Maurus, not to be read without expositors,²⁷⁰⁶355.

Tertullian, unwisely attacks second marriage,²⁷⁰⁷443.

Testament, Old, food for infant souls,²⁷⁰⁸349; agrees with New,²⁷⁰⁹349. passages that seem to condemn it,²⁷¹⁰351; veil of removed,²⁷¹¹351; what the charge against,²⁷¹²353; St. Augustin's belief about,²⁷¹³353; St. Ambrose's exposition of,²⁷¹⁴356; charges brought against,²⁷¹⁵365; two, signified by Abraham's sons,²⁷¹⁶470.

Testimony, parents known by,²⁷¹⁷339; of the multitude how useful,²⁷¹⁸354,²⁷¹⁹355.

Theatre, applause of, courted by poets,²⁷²⁰355.

Thecla, mentioned,²⁷²¹434.

Theft, from rich not lawful,²⁷²²467; is "from the mouth" of the heart,²⁷²³472; some think too much of, as compared with sins of luxury,²⁷²⁴474; though to feed the poor,²⁷²⁵488; is less sin than lewdness: one worse than another,²⁷²⁶488,²⁷²⁷489.

Thigh, signification of putting the hand under,²⁷²⁸409.

Thirtyfold fruit of marriage,²⁷²⁹434.

Thought, sins of,²⁷³⁰379,²⁷³¹380; goes before works,²⁷³²381; of intention,²⁷³³380; cannot go unpunished,²⁷³⁴385; a mystery,²⁷³⁵385.

Time, shifting course of,²⁷³⁶452.

Times, change of,²⁷³⁷349.

Timothy, St., his example cited,²⁷³⁸409; circumcised by St. Paul,²⁷³⁹461.

Titus, St., not circumcised, and why,²⁷⁴⁰461.

Tobias, commended for burying the dead,²⁷⁴¹541.

Tongue, the,²⁷⁴²487; not to be yielded to sin,²⁷⁴³488.

Torture, to obtain testimony,²⁷⁴⁴468,²⁷⁴⁵528; question of lying, to escape,²⁷⁴⁶468; to be borne with love,²⁷⁴⁷470.

Trades, honest, practised by St. Paul,²⁷⁴⁸511; manual, suitable to preachers,²⁷⁴⁹512.

Travel, in search of instruction: to Holy Land,²⁷⁵⁰355.

Tribulation, attends marriage,²⁷⁵¹422,²⁷⁵²424.

Trinity, Holy, the, doctrine of,²⁷⁵³327 sq.,²⁷⁵⁴374.

Truth, St. Augustin's early love of,²⁷⁵⁵347; belief prepares for beholding,²⁷⁵⁶348,²⁷⁵⁷349; search after,²⁷⁵⁸354 sq.; lovers of, believe authority: why, made hard to discover,²⁷⁵⁹361; God is,²⁷⁶⁰363; state of mind needful for seeking,²⁷⁶¹365; of every statement in Scripture,²⁷⁶²422; may be spoken in order to deceive,²⁷⁶³459; comprises every eternal good,²⁷⁶⁴463; eternal, distinguished from ordinary,²⁷⁶⁵467,²⁷⁶⁶474,²⁷⁶⁷475; notion of keeping "in the heart,"²⁷⁶⁸471,²⁷⁶⁹486; love of, allows not false witness,²⁷⁷⁰473; may be preferred to everything external,²⁷⁷¹475,²⁷⁷²498; not to be wronged in defending it,²⁷⁷³481; every lie contrary to,²⁷⁷⁴483; to be kept with those without: some to be concealed from aliens,²⁷⁷⁵487; nothing against it "just,"²⁷⁷⁶495; defended by examples of chastity,²⁷⁷⁷499, [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.