none so perfect as to have no
affection
towards earthly things, v.
Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6
47.
make their
converts deny their faith, in order to rebaptize them, ii. 128 vi. 352. (see Baptism. )
Thrice condemned judges whom they demanded, ii. 46. their petition to Julian the Apostate, ii. 34. their complaints against Csecilian, ii. 37. they set adition above Scripture, vi. 396. destroy the Scripture which they boast to have saved, iii. 105. were themselves guilty of what they charge the Church with, 95. rightly
fish's mouth, a stater, e. two di- drachmas, vi. 89. the mystical mean ing of ib.
Discipline,
tribulation that chastens, v. 385. its lesson taught not hear ing, but feeling, ib. to he exercised
with love, v. 53, 54. of the New Testament, milder than the Old, v. 181.
vi. 47, 292. they
Devil, the, a false-accuser, iii. 454. the
prince of this world, ib. the prince
of death, 226; vi. 286. called Didrachma, the piece of money in the
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punished by secular power, vi. 351. Ecstasy, or trance, transport of mind
persecuted the teachers of the truth, v. 471. abused Augustine, ii. 65. should be dealt with charitably, i. 340. duty of converting them, i 134, 340.
Other arguments against, i. 92, 150, 158, 261 ; iii. 43, 48, 263; iv. 9, 198, 399, 403, 462 ; v. 25, 485, 546.
Their chief cities Bagai and Tha- mugade, i. 160. stories of two con verts from them, ii. 26, 27.
Donatus maintained that all the world was lost, save his followers, i. 158. a leader of heresy, i. 411.
caused either by panic, or by reve
lation, i. 231, 396 : iii. 345; v. 29J. Edom, explained to mean earthly, iii. 162. in the Punic language,
blood, vi. 174. why Esau so called,
ib.
Egypt, the land of Ham, v. 158. the
ten plagues of, and their mystical meaning, iv. 70. a type of the world, v. 276; vi. 142.
Elect, the, many in themselves, few in comparison of the lost, iv. 370; v. 273 are stars whom God numbers, vi. 366. among the Manichees, (see Manichees. )
Dour, the door of our heart has two Election of the Gentiles to be attributed leaves, desire and fear, vi. 264. the to grace, not merits, vi. 133.
door to be shut, how, ib. door of the Elisha, his baldness and its meaning, gate, the beginning of faith, i. 351.
Dove, the, a pattern of love, iii. 35. an emblem of the Holy Ghost, vi. 77- Drachma, the piece of money lost by
the woman, and its mystical mean
ing, v. 130; vi. 203.
Drunkenness, the madness of, v. 117.
at the Martyrs' Festivals, a perse cuting them alter death, iii. 175.
(see Core, Baldness. )
End, used in two senses, of consuming,
Spiritual,(see Inebriation. ) K.
Eagle, mystical explanation of its racteristics, iii. 311 ; v. 45.
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and of consummation, i. 236; iii. 35, 79. Christ our end in the latter sense, ib. vi. 220. ' To the end,' in the titles of Psalms, applies to Christ, ib. the end of ends, ever lasting life, v. 405. the littleness of all things that come to an end, v. 26. works good in themselves, must be done for a good end, v. 362.
Endor, meaning of the word, iv. 144. Envy, hatred of another's happiness, v. 159. accompanies pride, iii. 153.
is the child of iv. 491. from comes all enticement of others to sin, vi. 225. men envy others what themselves wish to be or to have, vi. 224. the devil, the great envier, envies man what he has lost, vi. 225.
Ephraim, meaning of the name, iii. 70 iv. 102.
Ephrata, means mirror, vi. 97. Epicurus, called a hog by the heathen themselves, iii. 515. taught that death was the end of existence, ib. that
pleasure was the highest good, ib. Esau, a type of carnal men, vi. 173.
of the proud, ii. 279. of the Syna gogue, as Jacob of the Church, iv. 92, 263 v. 276.
Eternity, not to be adequately expressed in words, vi. 357. called length of days, v. 482. one day and many days, iii. 182. to God has no past or future,
v. 27, 256. has no change of times, v. 249, 496; iv. 279. requires deep thought, iv. 32. our refuge
Earth, used for the flesh, ii. 60. for carnal men, vi. 139. earth-born, used for sinners, ii. 304. for this life, vi. 230. for the universe, vi. 424. for stedfastness in God, i. 3. for un- spiritual men, i. 7. for sinners, i. 99. earth laid out above the waters, meaning of, vi. 155. God's earth, the heavenly Jerusalem, i. 111. lower places of the earth, earthly lusts,
iii. 229. earth may be worshipped
in the Flesh of Christ, iv. 453. Earthly things compared to smoke, ii. 63. if earthly things were real goods, God would not give them to the wicked, iii. 494. the devil would persuade men to worship him for
earthly things, God lor heavenly, ii. 167.
none so perfect as to have no affection towards earthly things, v. 350. we must not cleave to earthly things if we would see God, i. 26.
Easter-tide, a type of everlasting hap
piness, as Lent of the troubles of from the changeableness of time, this world, v. 256; vi. 416. was iv. 272. alone is, ii. 105. celebrated with feasting, ib.
Eat, to, with the proud, to share their satisfaction, iv. 490. how the Church eats men, i. 254. (see Eucharist. )
Etham, means stout, iii. 507. stands for the devil, ib. rivers of, his in struments, iii. 508.
Ethiopians, who meant by, iii. 505.
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in instituting, i. 350, 353. amaze ment of the disciples when He spoke of their eating His Flesh, i. 348. they understood Him carnally, iv. 454. called a figure of Christ's Body and Blood, i. 10. His Body, iv. 491. to be celebrated visibly, understood spiritually, iv. 455.
Eucharist, Sacrament of, prefigured, Exult, we must exult with fear, be i. 348. Christ's humility in insti cause all in which we exult is God's tuting, i. 346, 350; iv. 254. Christ gift, vi. 441. the Saints exult in bore Himself in His own hands
The means of spiritual health, i.
346. the food of rich and poor alike, Eye, the eyes the windows of the
ii. 303. good to those who imitate Christ, i. 148, 160; ii. 304. en lightens, i. 361.
Christ to be adored in, i. 148; iv. 454. good in itself, given to the wicked to their damnation, v. 141; vi. 293. given to Judas, i. 10, 98. Judas a type of all unworthy re ceivers, vi. 293- caution in receiving, ii. 305.
The Jews shed Christ's Blood in their madness, drank of it when converted, ii. 265 ; iii. 279. (see
mind, ii. 185. light, the food of the eye, iv. 232. the apple of the eye, that by which the sight is directed, i. 114. wantonness of eyes teproved, ii. 368. to set before the eyes is to love any thing, iv. 486.
Of God, on those who look to Him, i. 299. none can avoid, iv. 356. the folly of fearing men's eyes and not God's, i. 404.
Eyes of Christ's Body, His con spicuous members, iv. 232.
Faith the eye of the heart, iv. 312. its strength, vi. 356. those have not, who envy the prosperity of the wicked, ii. 62. what things injure its sight, iv. 435. it is blinded by sin, ii. 153. to be healed by the oiutu. ent of God's commandments, ii. 154. blindness of the inward eye, cured by cleansing the heart v. 391. consists in inability to understand heavenly things, ib. a greater misery to be blind in soul than in body, iii. 384.
Ezckiel, prophesied in the Captivity at Babylon, iii. 250. Ps. lxv, called a Song of Jeremiah and Ezekiel, ib.
F.
Face of God, the power whereby He is made known to those worthy of it, i. 101. His presence in His Church, iii. 314. His Revelation of Himself at the Day of Judgment, iii. 350.
Faith, the eye of the heart, iv. 312. represented by gold, lust by grass, iv. 420. our first-born, vi. 141. a good root turning the rain of grace into fruit, vi. 318. the fathers of old had the same faith as Christians, ii. 382; iv. 43; v. 155. none ever
reconciled to God without faith in Christ, v. 155. faith in Christ the only thing that cleanses, iv. 264. in
their beds, i. e. in their hearts, ib. we must exult in the Lord, if we would trample on the world, iv. 383. wicked exulting and good exulting to be distinguished, ib. the exultation of the just, not in deed, but in hope, iii. 28. the exultation of the wicked, in this world, and therefore fleeting: of the righteous, in the Lord, and therefore lasting, i. 308.
Sacraments, Sacrifice. ) Evangelists, called arrows,
i. 119. heavens, i. 125. the Lord's feet, iv.
308.
Eve, a type of the Church, ii. 174.
(see Church, Christ. ) our flesh, an Eve to us, ii. 309. the clothing of skins signified mortality, v. 73.
Evening, represents the end of all things, v. 105. or worldly trouble, iii. 266. evening began when the light of wisdom was withdrawn from man, i. 224, 228.
Evil. 1. misery, evil which comes to us from God, justly deserved, i. 309. God inflicts evil, not in wrath, but in just judgment, i. 383. bodily evil shared by good and bad alike, iv. 94. ordinary good and evil, shared by all alike, the true good, not for the evil, nor the true evil for the good, iii. 72.
2. Wickedness. (st:e Wickedness,
Sin,Sinner. )evi\ for evil, (see Venge
ance. )
Example, sinners often converted by
the examples of others, v. 464. this implied in the expression ' coals that lay waste,' ib. examples of Saints arouse some, cast down others, vi. 231. strengthen the faith of the weak, v. 165. we follow the example not of the many, but of the good, ii. 136. the falls of Saints not an example for us to sin, iii. 296, 367.
Exalt (see Pride. )
474 INDEX.
Christ made Man leads to know Him as God, v. b'23. a protection against cavils, i. 235. Christ's Re surrection the especial object of, v. 477.
prayer, ii. 208. voluntary hunger, ii. 199. a Christian work, iv. 224. its importance, ib.
converts deny their faith, in order to rebaptize them, ii. 128 vi. 352. (see Baptism. )
Thrice condemned judges whom they demanded, ii. 46. their petition to Julian the Apostate, ii. 34. their complaints against Csecilian, ii. 37. they set adition above Scripture, vi. 396. destroy the Scripture which they boast to have saved, iii. 105. were themselves guilty of what they charge the Church with, 95. rightly
fish's mouth, a stater, e. two di- drachmas, vi. 89. the mystical mean ing of ib.
Discipline,
tribulation that chastens, v. 385. its lesson taught not hear ing, but feeling, ib. to he exercised
with love, v. 53, 54. of the New Testament, milder than the Old, v. 181.
vi. 47, 292. they
Devil, the, a false-accuser, iii. 454. the
prince of this world, ib. the prince
of death, 226; vi. 286. called Didrachma, the piece of money in the
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472 INDEX.
punished by secular power, vi. 351. Ecstasy, or trance, transport of mind
persecuted the teachers of the truth, v. 471. abused Augustine, ii. 65. should be dealt with charitably, i. 340. duty of converting them, i 134, 340.
Other arguments against, i. 92, 150, 158, 261 ; iii. 43, 48, 263; iv. 9, 198, 399, 403, 462 ; v. 25, 485, 546.
Their chief cities Bagai and Tha- mugade, i. 160. stories of two con verts from them, ii. 26, 27.
Donatus maintained that all the world was lost, save his followers, i. 158. a leader of heresy, i. 411.
caused either by panic, or by reve
lation, i. 231, 396 : iii. 345; v. 29J. Edom, explained to mean earthly, iii. 162. in the Punic language,
blood, vi. 174. why Esau so called,
ib.
Egypt, the land of Ham, v. 158. the
ten plagues of, and their mystical meaning, iv. 70. a type of the world, v. 276; vi. 142.
Elect, the, many in themselves, few in comparison of the lost, iv. 370; v. 273 are stars whom God numbers, vi. 366. among the Manichees, (see Manichees. )
Dour, the door of our heart has two Election of the Gentiles to be attributed leaves, desire and fear, vi. 264. the to grace, not merits, vi. 133.
door to be shut, how, ib. door of the Elisha, his baldness and its meaning, gate, the beginning of faith, i. 351.
Dove, the, a pattern of love, iii. 35. an emblem of the Holy Ghost, vi. 77- Drachma, the piece of money lost by
the woman, and its mystical mean
ing, v. 130; vi. 203.
Drunkenness, the madness of, v. 117.
at the Martyrs' Festivals, a perse cuting them alter death, iii. 175.
(see Core, Baldness. )
End, used in two senses, of consuming,
Spiritual,(see Inebriation. ) K.
Eagle, mystical explanation of its racteristics, iii. 311 ; v. 45.
cha
and of consummation, i. 236; iii. 35, 79. Christ our end in the latter sense, ib. vi. 220. ' To the end,' in the titles of Psalms, applies to Christ, ib. the end of ends, ever lasting life, v. 405. the littleness of all things that come to an end, v. 26. works good in themselves, must be done for a good end, v. 362.
Endor, meaning of the word, iv. 144. Envy, hatred of another's happiness, v. 159. accompanies pride, iii. 153.
is the child of iv. 491. from comes all enticement of others to sin, vi. 225. men envy others what themselves wish to be or to have, vi. 224. the devil, the great envier, envies man what he has lost, vi. 225.
Ephraim, meaning of the name, iii. 70 iv. 102.
Ephrata, means mirror, vi. 97. Epicurus, called a hog by the heathen themselves, iii. 515. taught that death was the end of existence, ib. that
pleasure was the highest good, ib. Esau, a type of carnal men, vi. 173.
of the proud, ii. 279. of the Syna gogue, as Jacob of the Church, iv. 92, 263 v. 276.
Eternity, not to be adequately expressed in words, vi. 357. called length of days, v. 482. one day and many days, iii. 182. to God has no past or future,
v. 27, 256. has no change of times, v. 249, 496; iv. 279. requires deep thought, iv. 32. our refuge
Earth, used for the flesh, ii. 60. for carnal men, vi. 139. earth-born, used for sinners, ii. 304. for this life, vi. 230. for the universe, vi. 424. for stedfastness in God, i. 3. for un- spiritual men, i. 7. for sinners, i. 99. earth laid out above the waters, meaning of, vi. 155. God's earth, the heavenly Jerusalem, i. 111. lower places of the earth, earthly lusts,
iii. 229. earth may be worshipped
in the Flesh of Christ, iv. 453. Earthly things compared to smoke, ii. 63. if earthly things were real goods, God would not give them to the wicked, iii. 494. the devil would persuade men to worship him for
earthly things, God lor heavenly, ii. 167.
none so perfect as to have no affection towards earthly things, v. 350. we must not cleave to earthly things if we would see God, i. 26.
Easter-tide, a type of everlasting hap
piness, as Lent of the troubles of from the changeableness of time, this world, v. 256; vi. 416. was iv. 272. alone is, ii. 105. celebrated with feasting, ib.
Eat, to, with the proud, to share their satisfaction, iv. 490. how the Church eats men, i. 254. (see Eucharist. )
Etham, means stout, iii. 507. stands for the devil, ib. rivers of, his in struments, iii. 508.
Ethiopians, who meant by, iii. 505.
it
i.
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is
1 ;6 ;
a
it,
it
INDEX. 473
in instituting, i. 350, 353. amaze ment of the disciples when He spoke of their eating His Flesh, i. 348. they understood Him carnally, iv. 454. called a figure of Christ's Body and Blood, i. 10. His Body, iv. 491. to be celebrated visibly, understood spiritually, iv. 455.
Eucharist, Sacrament of, prefigured, Exult, we must exult with fear, be i. 348. Christ's humility in insti cause all in which we exult is God's tuting, i. 346, 350; iv. 254. Christ gift, vi. 441. the Saints exult in bore Himself in His own hands
The means of spiritual health, i.
346. the food of rich and poor alike, Eye, the eyes the windows of the
ii. 303. good to those who imitate Christ, i. 148, 160; ii. 304. en lightens, i. 361.
Christ to be adored in, i. 148; iv. 454. good in itself, given to the wicked to their damnation, v. 141; vi. 293. given to Judas, i. 10, 98. Judas a type of all unworthy re ceivers, vi. 293- caution in receiving, ii. 305.
The Jews shed Christ's Blood in their madness, drank of it when converted, ii. 265 ; iii. 279. (see
mind, ii. 185. light, the food of the eye, iv. 232. the apple of the eye, that by which the sight is directed, i. 114. wantonness of eyes teproved, ii. 368. to set before the eyes is to love any thing, iv. 486.
Of God, on those who look to Him, i. 299. none can avoid, iv. 356. the folly of fearing men's eyes and not God's, i. 404.
Eyes of Christ's Body, His con spicuous members, iv. 232.
Faith the eye of the heart, iv. 312. its strength, vi. 356. those have not, who envy the prosperity of the wicked, ii. 62. what things injure its sight, iv. 435. it is blinded by sin, ii. 153. to be healed by the oiutu. ent of God's commandments, ii. 154. blindness of the inward eye, cured by cleansing the heart v. 391. consists in inability to understand heavenly things, ib. a greater misery to be blind in soul than in body, iii. 384.
Ezckiel, prophesied in the Captivity at Babylon, iii. 250. Ps. lxv, called a Song of Jeremiah and Ezekiel, ib.
F.
Face of God, the power whereby He is made known to those worthy of it, i. 101. His presence in His Church, iii. 314. His Revelation of Himself at the Day of Judgment, iii. 350.
Faith, the eye of the heart, iv. 312. represented by gold, lust by grass, iv. 420. our first-born, vi. 141. a good root turning the rain of grace into fruit, vi. 318. the fathers of old had the same faith as Christians, ii. 382; iv. 43; v. 155. none ever
reconciled to God without faith in Christ, v. 155. faith in Christ the only thing that cleanses, iv. 264. in
their beds, i. e. in their hearts, ib. we must exult in the Lord, if we would trample on the world, iv. 383. wicked exulting and good exulting to be distinguished, ib. the exultation of the just, not in deed, but in hope, iii. 28. the exultation of the wicked, in this world, and therefore fleeting: of the righteous, in the Lord, and therefore lasting, i. 308.
Sacraments, Sacrifice. ) Evangelists, called arrows,
i. 119. heavens, i. 125. the Lord's feet, iv.
308.
Eve, a type of the Church, ii. 174.
(see Church, Christ. ) our flesh, an Eve to us, ii. 309. the clothing of skins signified mortality, v. 73.
Evening, represents the end of all things, v. 105. or worldly trouble, iii. 266. evening began when the light of wisdom was withdrawn from man, i. 224, 228.
Evil. 1. misery, evil which comes to us from God, justly deserved, i. 309. God inflicts evil, not in wrath, but in just judgment, i. 383. bodily evil shared by good and bad alike, iv. 94. ordinary good and evil, shared by all alike, the true good, not for the evil, nor the true evil for the good, iii. 72.
2. Wickedness. (st:e Wickedness,
Sin,Sinner. )evi\ for evil, (see Venge
ance. )
Example, sinners often converted by
the examples of others, v. 464. this implied in the expression ' coals that lay waste,' ib. examples of Saints arouse some, cast down others, vi. 231. strengthen the faith of the weak, v. 165. we follow the example not of the many, but of the good, ii. 136. the falls of Saints not an example for us to sin, iii. 296, 367.
Exalt (see Pride. )
474 INDEX.
Christ made Man leads to know Him as God, v. b'23. a protection against cavils, i. 235. Christ's Re surrection the especial object of, v. 477.
prayer, ii. 208. voluntary hunger, ii. 199. a Christian work, iv. 224. its importance, ib.
