the same object often likened to contrary things, the ex
planation
must be sought from the context, v.
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340.
why He often scourges the innocent, leaves the guilty alone, iv.
328; vi.
427.
(see Punishment, Rod, Vengeance.
)
without love, left to understand amiss, to their punishment, 57. the same Scripture snare to the evil, blest to the good, 101; ii. 301. the mean ing of many passages elicited by heresies, iii. 49, 349.
Scripture, Holy, called a lantern, v.
414. a how, 56. a pen or stylus, iii.
348. mirror, v. 68. God's bond,
vi. 330. heavens, 65; v. 72. Sea, represents this world, both in its
heavens covered with clouds, as being hidden under figures and mysteries, vi. 373. letter comes to us from our country, v. 297; ii. 438. Chiist's Heart, laid open by His death, 156.
All written for Christ's sake, vi. 184. he understands truly, who reads Christ therein, iv. 413. all from the beginning applies to Christ, ii. 286.
Adapted to the capacity of babes, 65. to the greatest and the least, v. 102. its difficulties revealed to the meek, vi. 370. why contains
bitterness and its storms, iii. 263 v. 279,280. the Gentiles, iii. 504; iv. 249. persecutors, ib. unbelievers, vi. 140. the bottom of the sea, the hearts of the ungodly, iii. 264.
The Red, figure of Baptism, iv. 118.
Security, not to be looked for in our pilgrimage, but in our home, iii. 354 iv. 201. we are safe we have God within, ii. 61. man's security under God's protection, 193. per verse security, vi. 384.
difficult and plain passages mixed, Seek, we should seek God always, v.
100. contains mysteries, that we may seek the more diligently to be taught, iv. 341 vi. 370. that we may rejoice the more at finding its meaning, ii. 96; v. 86; vi. 236. to give freshness to well known truths, vi. 218. obscure passages of, bear many interpretations, 133.
Those who love it, believe what they understand not, v. 452; vi. 370. presumptuous to criticise it, vi. 382. those who find fault with, God hum bles, vi. 371. those who come to
149. how He still to be sought, even when found, ib. seeks, not sought by, those who are turned from Him, 324. He sought us while we despised Him, and there fore will not despise us when we seek Him, iii. 400. they do not really seek God, who seek Him for the sake of temporal things, iv. 63. those who do seek Him, cease to seek other things, 80. He should be sought in tribulations, 379; iv. 26. to be sought by good works,
Often puts part for the whole, iv. 233. that which contains for that contained, v. 183. narrates what future in past form, v. 275. uses human language to speak of God, in condescension to our weakness, vi. 85. rule for interpreting human at tributes applied in to God, 90. attributes to God, what He does in man, 12. meaning of 'and,' where nothing precedes, 19. rule for ex plaining allegories in, 71. language of, which in form of cursing, really prophecy, 31, 47. some things in, absurd in literal sense, to force us to seek spiritual, v. 87. much repe tition
237, 240.
The profit of, ii. 333; vi. 390. the delights of, ii. 96. why tells of the falls of good men, ii. 367. more profitable than heathen shows, 338. contains remedies for all diseases of the soul, ii. 6. its key notes, the Power and Mercy of God, iii. 205. speaks throughout of grace, iii. 405. the end of all in it, love. vi. 237. its prophecies either fulfilled or sure to be hereafter, ii. 160; vi. 331.
useful, 61; ii. 276; vi.
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vi. 291. as our Father, Redeemer,
Liberator, vi. 293. (see 'Prayer. ) Sehon, his name means lust of the
eyes,' vi. 143. other explanations,
vi. 157.
Septuagint, it* authority, iv. 234. its
authors may be considered to have
been inspired, ib. vi. 152.
Serpent, its cunning, iii. 110; vi. 223.
507
436. our hearts must be cleansed by faith, to see God, v. 522. God seen only by the mind, ii. 185. the sight of Him satisfies, and yet satisfies not, iv. 212. the beatific vision is of the Son as well as the Father, iv. 174. the vision of God, the sight of the Trinity, ib. the sight of Christ, the joy of our reward, iv. 312. sight of God face to face reserved to the Resurrection, ii. 212.
how to be imitated by us, iii. 110.
the serpent's head, the first sugges
tion of sin, v. 134. the serpent's food, Similitude! , cannot he perfect in all
worldly men, v. 141.
The brazen, a type of Christ on
the Cross, iii. 497 ; v. 430.
Serve, we must serve God willingly,
iii. 408. all service, but His, bitter, iv. 469. God's service a service of freedom, ib. sinners, runaway slaves from God, vi. 201 . we must serve either God or sin, i. 138. Christ's ministers servants for love's sake, v. 109. evil
points, v. 59.
the same object often likened to contrary things, the ex planation must be sought from the context, v. 125. a similitude in Scripture does not necessarily imply approval of the object from which the comparison is drawn, iii. 106. objects from which similitudes of holy things are drawn, not therefore objects of worship, iv. 346.
masters to be served for Christ's Simon Magus, received the gift of the
sake, v. 543. save when they bid what is against Christ's Law, ib. in serving them, we serve Christ, Who bids us, ib.
Sheep, God's people the sheep of His Hand, iv. 394. shorn sheep, the perfect, ib. the lost sheep still being sought by the good Shepherd, v. 457. sheep and oxen, those who are tamed to Christ's yoke, i. 68. un believers are sheep laid in hell, whose shepherd is death, ii. 321. Christ gathers sheep into His fold from both Jews and Gentiles, v. 187.
Ship, churches called ships, v. 132, 199. all are in the ship either as sailors or passengers, v. 199. Jesus in the ship, faith in the heart, i. 177, 377; iv. 311; v. 479; vi. 383. (see Faith. ) ships in danger both in harbour and at sea, men in peril both in a quiet and busy life, iv. 472.
Shows, injurious to both exhibitors and spectators, vi. 387. the Christian's shows, ii. 140; vi. 288, 360, 384, 388, 395. the sight of God's Pro vidence in the Church better than the shows of the circus, iv. 113.
Sichem, meaning of the name, and its mystical interpretation, iii. 168.
Sick, the, should not presume to give advice to his physician, vi. 381, 382. the proud folly of a sick man mocking at his remedy, vi. 270. all this life, sickness, v. 41. God the best Healer of man's sickness, v. 40.
Sight, of God, twofold, here by faith, hereafter face to face, v. 477 ; vi.
Sacraments, but not of love, v. 76. his sin in thinking to buy God's gift, i. 263; v. 257; vi. 76.
Sin, how Christ was without, i. 390. neither the Body nor Soul which Christ took, sinful, i. 392. Christ alone without, i. 242; ii. 375; vi. 414.
Original, maintained against the Pelagians, ii. 374. Adam's children like Adam, vi. 119. inherit original sin and its punishment, iii. 192. infants sinful through v. 133, 424. washed away in baptism, ii. 375 v. 322.
No man, however holy, free from, iv. 258; v. 318; vi. 241. even those who do no wilful sin, yet sinful, v. 320. how man can be said to be sinful and yet do no wickedness, v. 321. all, even Apostles, have need to pray for forgiveness, vi. 285. the most advanced have sins to be healed, iv. 261 vi. 253. of others, should make us search out our own, iii. 292.
All, falsehood, iv. 319. full of toil,
87. without substance, iii. 361 v. 530. sins called usuries and debts, iii. 46. wounds, iii. 386. chains, iii. 103. why called 'the sting of death,' 38. sin exists, when we feel pleasure at suggestions reigns, when we consent, ii. 369. sins com pared to brambles, iii. 121. one sin draws on another, iii. 102. vi. 74, 226. come not from God, but man's self, 57; ii. 245; v. 38; vi. 284. separates from God, vi. 178. arise
either from lust or fear, ii. 96. three
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divisions of, lust, pride, cariosity, i. 70. sin consented to, becomes one's own, vi. 65. sin of fathers how visited on their children, v. 216.
Little sins need to be carefully avoided, ii. 154. accumulate, iv. 358. and so, if not cleansed away, crush us, v. 323. to be feared for their numbers, vi. 66. cleansed by use of the Lord's Prayer, iii. 308. must be punished either by us or by God, ii. 245; iii. 140. we must slay it or it will slay us, iii. 238. sin often the punishment of sin, iii. 119. despair the extreme of, vi. 62 , 291. man can forsake it if he will, iv. 349.
The folly of defending, or laying to God's charge, i. 291, 294; ii. 131, 378; iii. 141, 374; iv. 316; vi. 204, 226, 244. we must be honest in searching out, i. 404.
Sinai interpretations of the name, iii. 337, 339.
Sing, to, distinguished from playing,
iii. 315; iv. 317; v. 148. other Sion, means ' watching,' i. 6, 80 ; ii.
sings with his heart, though his
voice be silent; he who does not,
is silent to God, though his voice
be loud, iv. 213. we must take heed
how we sing to God, i. 316. our
song to God, confession of our sins
and His Praise, iii. 305. none can
sing worthily to God, unless He
give the power, i. 375. we must do
what wc sing, v. 469. he sings to
God, who lives to God, iii. 315. we
should regard not the voice of the Sleep, put in Scripture for death, i. singer, but the acts of the doer, vi.
434.
Sinners, generally used of gross sin
11. (see Death ) Christ sleeping in the ship, a type of the faith asleep in the heart, (see Faith, Ship. ) lovers of this present world said to sleep, iv. 12.
ners in Scripture, v. 179. men are
sinners whether under law or with
out law, iii. 413; v. 421 called Smoke, all created things compared to,
darkness, i. 378; v. 474; vi 165.
goats, iii. 291. ' dust driven by the
wind of temptation,' i. 382. how said
to be no more, ii. 125. degrees of,
iii.
without love, left to understand amiss, to their punishment, 57. the same Scripture snare to the evil, blest to the good, 101; ii. 301. the mean ing of many passages elicited by heresies, iii. 49, 349.
Scripture, Holy, called a lantern, v.
414. a how, 56. a pen or stylus, iii.
348. mirror, v. 68. God's bond,
vi. 330. heavens, 65; v. 72. Sea, represents this world, both in its
heavens covered with clouds, as being hidden under figures and mysteries, vi. 373. letter comes to us from our country, v. 297; ii. 438. Chiist's Heart, laid open by His death, 156.
All written for Christ's sake, vi. 184. he understands truly, who reads Christ therein, iv. 413. all from the beginning applies to Christ, ii. 286.
Adapted to the capacity of babes, 65. to the greatest and the least, v. 102. its difficulties revealed to the meek, vi. 370. why contains
bitterness and its storms, iii. 263 v. 279,280. the Gentiles, iii. 504; iv. 249. persecutors, ib. unbelievers, vi. 140. the bottom of the sea, the hearts of the ungodly, iii. 264.
The Red, figure of Baptism, iv. 118.
Security, not to be looked for in our pilgrimage, but in our home, iii. 354 iv. 201. we are safe we have God within, ii. 61. man's security under God's protection, 193. per verse security, vi. 384.
difficult and plain passages mixed, Seek, we should seek God always, v.
100. contains mysteries, that we may seek the more diligently to be taught, iv. 341 vi. 370. that we may rejoice the more at finding its meaning, ii. 96; v. 86; vi. 236. to give freshness to well known truths, vi. 218. obscure passages of, bear many interpretations, 133.
Those who love it, believe what they understand not, v. 452; vi. 370. presumptuous to criticise it, vi. 382. those who find fault with, God hum bles, vi. 371. those who come to
149. how He still to be sought, even when found, ib. seeks, not sought by, those who are turned from Him, 324. He sought us while we despised Him, and there fore will not despise us when we seek Him, iii. 400. they do not really seek God, who seek Him for the sake of temporal things, iv. 63. those who do seek Him, cease to seek other things, 80. He should be sought in tribulations, 379; iv. 26. to be sought by good works,
Often puts part for the whole, iv. 233. that which contains for that contained, v. 183. narrates what future in past form, v. 275. uses human language to speak of God, in condescension to our weakness, vi. 85. rule for interpreting human at tributes applied in to God, 90. attributes to God, what He does in man, 12. meaning of 'and,' where nothing precedes, 19. rule for ex plaining allegories in, 71. language of, which in form of cursing, really prophecy, 31, 47. some things in, absurd in literal sense, to force us to seek spiritual, v. 87. much repe tition
237, 240.
The profit of, ii. 333; vi. 390. the delights of, ii. 96. why tells of the falls of good men, ii. 367. more profitable than heathen shows, 338. contains remedies for all diseases of the soul, ii. 6. its key notes, the Power and Mercy of God, iii. 205. speaks throughout of grace, iii. 405. the end of all in it, love. vi. 237. its prophecies either fulfilled or sure to be hereafter, ii. 160; vi. 331.
useful, 61; ii. 276; vi.
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vi. 291. as our Father, Redeemer,
Liberator, vi. 293. (see 'Prayer. ) Sehon, his name means lust of the
eyes,' vi. 143. other explanations,
vi. 157.
Septuagint, it* authority, iv. 234. its
authors may be considered to have
been inspired, ib. vi. 152.
Serpent, its cunning, iii. 110; vi. 223.
507
436. our hearts must be cleansed by faith, to see God, v. 522. God seen only by the mind, ii. 185. the sight of Him satisfies, and yet satisfies not, iv. 212. the beatific vision is of the Son as well as the Father, iv. 174. the vision of God, the sight of the Trinity, ib. the sight of Christ, the joy of our reward, iv. 312. sight of God face to face reserved to the Resurrection, ii. 212.
how to be imitated by us, iii. 110.
the serpent's head, the first sugges
tion of sin, v. 134. the serpent's food, Similitude! , cannot he perfect in all
worldly men, v. 141.
The brazen, a type of Christ on
the Cross, iii. 497 ; v. 430.
Serve, we must serve God willingly,
iii. 408. all service, but His, bitter, iv. 469. God's service a service of freedom, ib. sinners, runaway slaves from God, vi. 201 . we must serve either God or sin, i. 138. Christ's ministers servants for love's sake, v. 109. evil
points, v. 59.
the same object often likened to contrary things, the ex planation must be sought from the context, v. 125. a similitude in Scripture does not necessarily imply approval of the object from which the comparison is drawn, iii. 106. objects from which similitudes of holy things are drawn, not therefore objects of worship, iv. 346.
masters to be served for Christ's Simon Magus, received the gift of the
sake, v. 543. save when they bid what is against Christ's Law, ib. in serving them, we serve Christ, Who bids us, ib.
Sheep, God's people the sheep of His Hand, iv. 394. shorn sheep, the perfect, ib. the lost sheep still being sought by the good Shepherd, v. 457. sheep and oxen, those who are tamed to Christ's yoke, i. 68. un believers are sheep laid in hell, whose shepherd is death, ii. 321. Christ gathers sheep into His fold from both Jews and Gentiles, v. 187.
Ship, churches called ships, v. 132, 199. all are in the ship either as sailors or passengers, v. 199. Jesus in the ship, faith in the heart, i. 177, 377; iv. 311; v. 479; vi. 383. (see Faith. ) ships in danger both in harbour and at sea, men in peril both in a quiet and busy life, iv. 472.
Shows, injurious to both exhibitors and spectators, vi. 387. the Christian's shows, ii. 140; vi. 288, 360, 384, 388, 395. the sight of God's Pro vidence in the Church better than the shows of the circus, iv. 113.
Sichem, meaning of the name, and its mystical interpretation, iii. 168.
Sick, the, should not presume to give advice to his physician, vi. 381, 382. the proud folly of a sick man mocking at his remedy, vi. 270. all this life, sickness, v. 41. God the best Healer of man's sickness, v. 40.
Sight, of God, twofold, here by faith, hereafter face to face, v. 477 ; vi.
Sacraments, but not of love, v. 76. his sin in thinking to buy God's gift, i. 263; v. 257; vi. 76.
Sin, how Christ was without, i. 390. neither the Body nor Soul which Christ took, sinful, i. 392. Christ alone without, i. 242; ii. 375; vi. 414.
Original, maintained against the Pelagians, ii. 374. Adam's children like Adam, vi. 119. inherit original sin and its punishment, iii. 192. infants sinful through v. 133, 424. washed away in baptism, ii. 375 v. 322.
No man, however holy, free from, iv. 258; v. 318; vi. 241. even those who do no wilful sin, yet sinful, v. 320. how man can be said to be sinful and yet do no wickedness, v. 321. all, even Apostles, have need to pray for forgiveness, vi. 285. the most advanced have sins to be healed, iv. 261 vi. 253. of others, should make us search out our own, iii. 292.
All, falsehood, iv. 319. full of toil,
87. without substance, iii. 361 v. 530. sins called usuries and debts, iii. 46. wounds, iii. 386. chains, iii. 103. why called 'the sting of death,' 38. sin exists, when we feel pleasure at suggestions reigns, when we consent, ii. 369. sins com pared to brambles, iii. 121. one sin draws on another, iii. 102. vi. 74, 226. come not from God, but man's self, 57; ii. 245; v. 38; vi. 284. separates from God, vi. 178. arise
either from lust or fear, ii. 96. three
i.
i.
;
it,
;
i.
;
;
508 INDEX.
divisions of, lust, pride, cariosity, i. 70. sin consented to, becomes one's own, vi. 65. sin of fathers how visited on their children, v. 216.
Little sins need to be carefully avoided, ii. 154. accumulate, iv. 358. and so, if not cleansed away, crush us, v. 323. to be feared for their numbers, vi. 66. cleansed by use of the Lord's Prayer, iii. 308. must be punished either by us or by God, ii. 245; iii. 140. we must slay it or it will slay us, iii. 238. sin often the punishment of sin, iii. 119. despair the extreme of, vi. 62 , 291. man can forsake it if he will, iv. 349.
The folly of defending, or laying to God's charge, i. 291, 294; ii. 131, 378; iii. 141, 374; iv. 316; vi. 204, 226, 244. we must be honest in searching out, i. 404.
Sinai interpretations of the name, iii. 337, 339.
Sing, to, distinguished from playing,
iii. 315; iv. 317; v. 148. other Sion, means ' watching,' i. 6, 80 ; ii.
sings with his heart, though his
voice be silent; he who does not,
is silent to God, though his voice
be loud, iv. 213. we must take heed
how we sing to God, i. 316. our
song to God, confession of our sins
and His Praise, iii. 305. none can
sing worthily to God, unless He
give the power, i. 375. we must do
what wc sing, v. 469. he sings to
God, who lives to God, iii. 315. we
should regard not the voice of the Sleep, put in Scripture for death, i. singer, but the acts of the doer, vi.
434.
Sinners, generally used of gross sin
11. (see Death ) Christ sleeping in the ship, a type of the faith asleep in the heart, (see Faith, Ship. ) lovers of this present world said to sleep, iv. 12.
ners in Scripture, v. 179. men are
sinners whether under law or with
out law, iii. 413; v. 421 called Smoke, all created things compared to,
darkness, i. 378; v. 474; vi 165.
goats, iii. 291. ' dust driven by the
wind of temptation,' i. 382. how said
to be no more, ii. 125. degrees of,
iii.
