Esau and Jacob
represent
two na tions, ii.
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one house made up of all the faithful and the Angels, vi.
19.
they are stones of the house who are built in by charity, vi.
98.
we enter earthly houses, to dwell in them,
God's House, to be indwelt, ib. be thou God's House and He will be thine, i. 270.
heathen philosophers, 297. Chris tians should imitate Christ's, iv. 363. Christ's exaltation, a consequence of His humility, v. 242. humility the road to life, 113. our perfection, vi. 88. our strength, iv. 333. to turn from things of God to earthly things, a false humility, iv. 272. humility comes first, wisdom follows, v. 412. the prodigal son a pattern of hu mility, 132. humility in sin less displeasing to God than pride in good works, iv. 363. the trembling of humility better than the confidence
of pride, v. 144. humility must be in deed, not in tongue only, v. 319. the humility of the centurion, ii. 121. of the publican, ii. 152. some men exalted to make them the more humble, iv. 239.
Humble, the, unwilling to take praise
to themselves, i. 355. praise God
in all things, ib. how God gives
them grace, v. 201. attribute all
their good to God, v. 205. none but
the humble walk in the path of love,
vi. 268. God exalteth the humble,
yet maketh them not proud, v. 270.
the humble heart bringeth down
God from heaven to be near iv.
365 v. 186. God lofty, yet reached
by the humble, iii. 519. God would
have us humble, yet lofty, to take in Husbandman, God [our, iii. 295. we
General commendations of humi lity, 362, 371; ii. 121; iv. 58, 306, 407; v. 110, 142, 254, 268, 459; vi. 22, 89, 106, 108.
Hunger, part of the punishment of sin, ii. 72; v. 520. requires the remedy of food, ib. in what sense the righ teous never seem to hunger, ii. 49. now our time of hunger, hereafter of plenty, 338. the Church hungers after the conversion of sinners, 254.
wisdom, vi. 85, 86. the humble en must bring Him forth fruit, which ters by the door, the proud climbeth His, not ours, v. 38.
in another way, iv. 401. the proud Hymn, song of praise to God, iii. humbled by evils, the humble de
Idilhun, means 'overleaping
applied, ib.
Idols, how those who worship them are
like unto them, vi. 148. their mad ness, vi. 174, 445. the worship of
if
; it
is
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i.
i.
it
by by
is a
is i.
i.
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i.
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INDEX. 483
them forbidden by law in Augus
tine's time, vi. 198. and destruction Innocence, must be in heart, not in
of idols almost completed, iv. 466. the Jews readily turned to idols, because they loved earthly happiness, i. 415. refutation of idolatry, iv. 423 -- 427. rage of idolaters against the kingdom of Christ, iv. 445. covetousness, idolatry, v. 147.
Idumreans, or Edomites, their name means ' earthly,' ii. 390. or ' men of blood,' iv. 142.
hand only, iv. 81. true, harms not even an enemy, i. 51. all righteous ness included in, iv. 485. to be pre ferred to riches, iv. 165. blesses God
even in sleep, v. 36. pretended in nocence twofold guilt, iii. 239. we should keep innocence, as a miser does his money, ii. 63. innocence will prevail before God as Judge, though it fail before man, ii. 88.
Image of God, is in man's soul, not Innocent, he is, who harms neither
others nor himself, iv. 485. whose heart is blameless, vi. 10. he is not, who wishes to do harm, though he does it not, iv. 343.
his body, ii. 205,333. we keep God's
Image by clinging to Him, iii. 439.
God claims His own Image of us,
v. 130. they who neglect God's
Image in them, deserve to have Innocents, the, crowned by Christ, ii.
their image brought to nought, iii. 485. we may wish to be like God in a wrong way, in independence, not in holiness, iii. 438. we banish God's Image from within us by sin, recall it by confession, iv. 6.
292.
Intention, known to God only, vi. 268.
scarce known to man himself, ib. men to be judged by their, ii. 173. makes a man's work good or bad, i. 281. evil inteDtion blinds men, vi. 271. the left hand said to work what is done with worldly intention, the right hand, what for eternal life, v. 483.
Iniquity, (see Sin. )
Imitate. Christians imitate better Chris
tians, they Christ, ii. 135. we must
not imitate man, i. 260. to imitate
Christ in all things, to enter by the
gate, iv. 282. wherein we should Intercession, the great power of, set
try to imitate Him, wherein not, ib.
iii. 437, 438.
Immortality, free from all pain, because
forth in Moses, v. 180. (see Prayer. ) Iron, used for tribulation, v. 157. Isaac, a type of Christ, i. 238 ; ii. 392.
free from corruption, iii. 61. Christ's fshmael, a type of those who worship taking our mortality a pledge of our God for worldly motives, v. 468. immortality, vi. 369, 423. Christ Ismaelites, those who obey them
became mortal not of His own sub stance, but of our's : we become im mortal, not of our substance, but of His, vi. 369.
Incarnation, the benefits of Christ's, iii. 443; vi. 165. undeserved by hu man nature, v. 225. the union of the flesh and the Word, a marriage, ii. 229. (see Christ. )
Inebriation, spiritual, used of the ef-
feots of the Holy Spirit in our hearts,
specially as conveyed by the Holy
Eucharist, as causing ineffable joy,
i. 416. as refreshing, iii. 267. as Jabin, means wise,' represents the
causing estrangement from former
life, i. 167; v. 115, 532.
Infant, who are infants in the Church,
i. 63. meaning of infants in spiritual things, vi. 86. infants in Christ how strangled in infancy, vi. 175.
wise of this world.
Jacob, means ' supplanter,' vi. 415.
Esau and Jacob represent two na tions, ii. 379; iv. 262; vi. 173. a type of the Church, iv. 92. of good Christians, ii. 379; vi. 173. meaning of his two names, iv. 49; vi. 415. mystical meaning of his wrestling with the angel, vi. 413. of his halting on his thigh, ii. 248. of the angels ascending and descending on the ladder in his vision, v. 460.
Inheritance, God our's and we His,
i. 24. not lessened by the number of
heirs, ii. 335. we are coheirs with
Christ therein, ib. we are heirs, not
to succeed Him, but to live with
Him, vi. 224. the inheritance of the
Old Testament, earthly happiness ; Jebus, the old city, on the ruins of
of the New, eternal, iii. 331.
which the new city Jerusalem was
selves, not God, iv. 142.
Israel, the name of election, ii. 349*
2
means ' seeing God,' ii. 349 ; iv. 5, 438; v. 477, 499, 546; vi. 415, 436. the faithful represented by, v. 276; vi. 132, 431, 437. all who have a new life, i. 148. the captivity and restoration of, a type of that of Christians, iii. 471.
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built, a type of the fallen world, iii.
19-2, 251.
Jericho, means 'the moon,' ii. 182.
the man going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, sets forth mankind falling from life to immortality, ib.
Jerusalem, originally called Jebus, iii. 251. called also Salem, i. 345. the same as Sion, iii. 253. means * vision of peace,' i. 80; ii. 386: iii. 192, 251; v. 546; vi. 149, 158. its over throw dwelt on, on Ps. 74, iii. 490 &c. in Augustine's time was in habited by Christians, iii. 230. a type of the heavenly Jerusalem, v. 492, 537; vi. 1. the spiritual Jeru salem belongs to Gentiles as well as
writings which Christians believe, ii. 177; iii. 86, 147. have a mark set on them, like Cain, ib. convicted by their own books, ii. 177-
How already judged, vi. 145. by Christ's Resurrection, vi. 101. not all reprobate, iv. 390. many who had rejected Christ afterwards con verted, iv. 356. drank of the blood they had shed, ib. iii. 279. surpassed in zeal the Gentile converts, v. 16.
Unconverted Jews still expect Christ, iii. 501. will fall into the snares of Antichrist, v. 188. those who now reject Christ as their King, like the Jews, iii. 55. but worse, because now He is exalted, v. 382.
Jews, v. 263. Jerusalem a type of Joal, means ' enemy,' iii. 162.
the Church trinmphant, Sion of the Jot, a type of Christian laymen, vi.
Church militant, i. 80. &c. (see Sion. ) Jerusalem and Babylon, the world and the Church, iii. 189, 251 ; iv. 220; vi. 4. 158. &c. on Ps. 127. Praise the only employment of the heavenly Jerusalem, vi. 387.
114. served God for nought, iii. 75, 76; vi. 115, 206. God permitted him to be tempted to prove him, and that the devil might be vanquished, iv. 283 ; v. 480. as a pattern to all Christians, iii. 76. God was with him in his solitude, ib. rich in the midst of losses, i. 274; v. 481. his wife left him by the devil, that she might be an Eve to him, i. 222 ; iii. 76; iv, 284; v. 135; vi. 115, 332. conquered the devil on the dunghill, while Adam was conquered in Para dise, i. 222, 381 ; ii. 296; iv. 368, 440. spoke no blasphemy against God, v. 136. the devil had no power to assail him but what God gave, I. 881.
Jews, why called after Judah, iv. 2.
signified by dry land, ii. 274 ; iii.
504. by the ox, the Gentiles by the
ass, vi. 29. how superior to other
nations, iv. 178, 389. had the Law,
which made them guilty, i. 242.
tempted God, yet were not forsaken
by Him, iv. 395. when unfaithful,
descendants of Esau rather than
Jacob, v. 276. had carnal hopes of
the Resurrection, iii. 271. their
carnal notions made them prone to
idolatry, i. 415. lost the privilege of John the Baptist, Christ's lantern, vi.
being sons of Abraham by unbelief, vi. 431. made tributary to the Ro- mans as a punishment, iii. 111.
W ould not acknowledge Christ in
His humiliation, ii. 272; iii. 277,
387. because the Hand of God was
heavy on them, vi. 198. blinded by
pride, vi. 199. their blindness judi
cial, iii. 384. guilty of our Lord's Jonadab, his name means ' free obe death through their words, iii. 235.
slew Him because they grudged Him
the sovereignity over them, iii. 238.
and prove whether He were more
than man, iii. 234. were themselves
slain thereby, iii. 238. slew Him
lest they should lose earthly ad Joseph, means ' increase,' iv. 102, vantages, which yet they lost, iii.
495. lost all thereby, iii. 86, 230;
iv. 263 ; v. 219; vi. 101. not one in
Jerusalem in Augustine's time, v.
537. cast Christ out from the earthly
Jerusalem, were cast out by Him
fiom the heavenly, v. 538.
Jews and Christians typified by Esau and Jacob, vi. 173. carry the
109. his boldness, vi. 261. a martyr, because he died, though not for Christ, yet for the truth, vi. 262. renounced false honour, to find true glory, ii.
God's House, to be indwelt, ib. be thou God's House and He will be thine, i. 270.
heathen philosophers, 297. Chris tians should imitate Christ's, iv. 363. Christ's exaltation, a consequence of His humility, v. 242. humility the road to life, 113. our perfection, vi. 88. our strength, iv. 333. to turn from things of God to earthly things, a false humility, iv. 272. humility comes first, wisdom follows, v. 412. the prodigal son a pattern of hu mility, 132. humility in sin less displeasing to God than pride in good works, iv. 363. the trembling of humility better than the confidence
of pride, v. 144. humility must be in deed, not in tongue only, v. 319. the humility of the centurion, ii. 121. of the publican, ii. 152. some men exalted to make them the more humble, iv. 239.
Humble, the, unwilling to take praise
to themselves, i. 355. praise God
in all things, ib. how God gives
them grace, v. 201. attribute all
their good to God, v. 205. none but
the humble walk in the path of love,
vi. 268. God exalteth the humble,
yet maketh them not proud, v. 270.
the humble heart bringeth down
God from heaven to be near iv.
365 v. 186. God lofty, yet reached
by the humble, iii. 519. God would
have us humble, yet lofty, to take in Husbandman, God [our, iii. 295. we
General commendations of humi lity, 362, 371; ii. 121; iv. 58, 306, 407; v. 110, 142, 254, 268, 459; vi. 22, 89, 106, 108.
Hunger, part of the punishment of sin, ii. 72; v. 520. requires the remedy of food, ib. in what sense the righ teous never seem to hunger, ii. 49. now our time of hunger, hereafter of plenty, 338. the Church hungers after the conversion of sinners, 254.
wisdom, vi. 85, 86. the humble en must bring Him forth fruit, which ters by the door, the proud climbeth His, not ours, v. 38.
in another way, iv. 401. the proud Hymn, song of praise to God, iii. humbled by evils, the humble de
Idilhun, means 'overleaping
applied, ib.
Idols, how those who worship them are
like unto them, vi. 148. their mad ness, vi. 174, 445. the worship of
if
; it
is
;
I.
i.
i.
it
by by
is a
is i.
i.
i.
;
i.
it,
i.
INDEX. 483
them forbidden by law in Augus
tine's time, vi. 198. and destruction Innocence, must be in heart, not in
of idols almost completed, iv. 466. the Jews readily turned to idols, because they loved earthly happiness, i. 415. refutation of idolatry, iv. 423 -- 427. rage of idolaters against the kingdom of Christ, iv. 445. covetousness, idolatry, v. 147.
Idumreans, or Edomites, their name means ' earthly,' ii. 390. or ' men of blood,' iv. 142.
hand only, iv. 81. true, harms not even an enemy, i. 51. all righteous ness included in, iv. 485. to be pre ferred to riches, iv. 165. blesses God
even in sleep, v. 36. pretended in nocence twofold guilt, iii. 239. we should keep innocence, as a miser does his money, ii. 63. innocence will prevail before God as Judge, though it fail before man, ii. 88.
Image of God, is in man's soul, not Innocent, he is, who harms neither
others nor himself, iv. 485. whose heart is blameless, vi. 10. he is not, who wishes to do harm, though he does it not, iv. 343.
his body, ii. 205,333. we keep God's
Image by clinging to Him, iii. 439.
God claims His own Image of us,
v. 130. they who neglect God's
Image in them, deserve to have Innocents, the, crowned by Christ, ii.
their image brought to nought, iii. 485. we may wish to be like God in a wrong way, in independence, not in holiness, iii. 438. we banish God's Image from within us by sin, recall it by confession, iv. 6.
292.
Intention, known to God only, vi. 268.
scarce known to man himself, ib. men to be judged by their, ii. 173. makes a man's work good or bad, i. 281. evil inteDtion blinds men, vi. 271. the left hand said to work what is done with worldly intention, the right hand, what for eternal life, v. 483.
Iniquity, (see Sin. )
Imitate. Christians imitate better Chris
tians, they Christ, ii. 135. we must
not imitate man, i. 260. to imitate
Christ in all things, to enter by the
gate, iv. 282. wherein we should Intercession, the great power of, set
try to imitate Him, wherein not, ib.
iii. 437, 438.
Immortality, free from all pain, because
forth in Moses, v. 180. (see Prayer. ) Iron, used for tribulation, v. 157. Isaac, a type of Christ, i. 238 ; ii. 392.
free from corruption, iii. 61. Christ's fshmael, a type of those who worship taking our mortality a pledge of our God for worldly motives, v. 468. immortality, vi. 369, 423. Christ Ismaelites, those who obey them
became mortal not of His own sub stance, but of our's : we become im mortal, not of our substance, but of His, vi. 369.
Incarnation, the benefits of Christ's, iii. 443; vi. 165. undeserved by hu man nature, v. 225. the union of the flesh and the Word, a marriage, ii. 229. (see Christ. )
Inebriation, spiritual, used of the ef-
feots of the Holy Spirit in our hearts,
specially as conveyed by the Holy
Eucharist, as causing ineffable joy,
i. 416. as refreshing, iii. 267. as Jabin, means wise,' represents the
causing estrangement from former
life, i. 167; v. 115, 532.
Infant, who are infants in the Church,
i. 63. meaning of infants in spiritual things, vi. 86. infants in Christ how strangled in infancy, vi. 175.
wise of this world.
Jacob, means ' supplanter,' vi. 415.
Esau and Jacob represent two na tions, ii. 379; iv. 262; vi. 173. a type of the Church, iv. 92. of good Christians, ii. 379; vi. 173. meaning of his two names, iv. 49; vi. 415. mystical meaning of his wrestling with the angel, vi. 413. of his halting on his thigh, ii. 248. of the angels ascending and descending on the ladder in his vision, v. 460.
Inheritance, God our's and we His,
i. 24. not lessened by the number of
heirs, ii. 335. we are coheirs with
Christ therein, ib. we are heirs, not
to succeed Him, but to live with
Him, vi. 224. the inheritance of the
Old Testament, earthly happiness ; Jebus, the old city, on the ruins of
of the New, eternal, iii. 331.
which the new city Jerusalem was
selves, not God, iv. 142.
Israel, the name of election, ii. 349*
2
means ' seeing God,' ii. 349 ; iv. 5, 438; v. 477, 499, 546; vi. 415, 436. the faithful represented by, v. 276; vi. 132, 431, 437. all who have a new life, i. 148. the captivity and restoration of, a type of that of Christians, iii. 471.
J.
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484 INDEX.
built, a type of the fallen world, iii.
19-2, 251.
Jericho, means 'the moon,' ii. 182.
the man going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, sets forth mankind falling from life to immortality, ib.
Jerusalem, originally called Jebus, iii. 251. called also Salem, i. 345. the same as Sion, iii. 253. means * vision of peace,' i. 80; ii. 386: iii. 192, 251; v. 546; vi. 149, 158. its over throw dwelt on, on Ps. 74, iii. 490 &c. in Augustine's time was in habited by Christians, iii. 230. a type of the heavenly Jerusalem, v. 492, 537; vi. 1. the spiritual Jeru salem belongs to Gentiles as well as
writings which Christians believe, ii. 177; iii. 86, 147. have a mark set on them, like Cain, ib. convicted by their own books, ii. 177-
How already judged, vi. 145. by Christ's Resurrection, vi. 101. not all reprobate, iv. 390. many who had rejected Christ afterwards con verted, iv. 356. drank of the blood they had shed, ib. iii. 279. surpassed in zeal the Gentile converts, v. 16.
Unconverted Jews still expect Christ, iii. 501. will fall into the snares of Antichrist, v. 188. those who now reject Christ as their King, like the Jews, iii. 55. but worse, because now He is exalted, v. 382.
Jews, v. 263. Jerusalem a type of Joal, means ' enemy,' iii. 162.
the Church trinmphant, Sion of the Jot, a type of Christian laymen, vi.
Church militant, i. 80. &c. (see Sion. ) Jerusalem and Babylon, the world and the Church, iii. 189, 251 ; iv. 220; vi. 4. 158. &c. on Ps. 127. Praise the only employment of the heavenly Jerusalem, vi. 387.
114. served God for nought, iii. 75, 76; vi. 115, 206. God permitted him to be tempted to prove him, and that the devil might be vanquished, iv. 283 ; v. 480. as a pattern to all Christians, iii. 76. God was with him in his solitude, ib. rich in the midst of losses, i. 274; v. 481. his wife left him by the devil, that she might be an Eve to him, i. 222 ; iii. 76; iv, 284; v. 135; vi. 115, 332. conquered the devil on the dunghill, while Adam was conquered in Para dise, i. 222, 381 ; ii. 296; iv. 368, 440. spoke no blasphemy against God, v. 136. the devil had no power to assail him but what God gave, I. 881.
Jews, why called after Judah, iv. 2.
signified by dry land, ii. 274 ; iii.
504. by the ox, the Gentiles by the
ass, vi. 29. how superior to other
nations, iv. 178, 389. had the Law,
which made them guilty, i. 242.
tempted God, yet were not forsaken
by Him, iv. 395. when unfaithful,
descendants of Esau rather than
Jacob, v. 276. had carnal hopes of
the Resurrection, iii. 271. their
carnal notions made them prone to
idolatry, i. 415. lost the privilege of John the Baptist, Christ's lantern, vi.
being sons of Abraham by unbelief, vi. 431. made tributary to the Ro- mans as a punishment, iii. 111.
W ould not acknowledge Christ in
His humiliation, ii. 272; iii. 277,
387. because the Hand of God was
heavy on them, vi. 198. blinded by
pride, vi. 199. their blindness judi
cial, iii. 384. guilty of our Lord's Jonadab, his name means ' free obe death through their words, iii. 235.
slew Him because they grudged Him
the sovereignity over them, iii. 238.
and prove whether He were more
than man, iii. 234. were themselves
slain thereby, iii. 238. slew Him
lest they should lose earthly ad Joseph, means ' increase,' iv. 102, vantages, which yet they lost, iii.
495. lost all thereby, iii. 86, 230;
iv. 263 ; v. 219; vi. 101. not one in
Jerusalem in Augustine's time, v.
537. cast Christ out from the earthly
Jerusalem, were cast out by Him
fiom the heavenly, v. 538.
Jews and Christians typified by Esau and Jacob, vi. 173. carry the
109. his boldness, vi. 261. a martyr, because he died, though not for Christ, yet for the truth, vi. 262. renounced false honour, to find true glory, ii.
