Thorn, all earthly
pleasures
have
thorns in them, v.
thorns in them, v.
Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6
199.
the true Christians thereby troubled, ib.
but by enduring the tares their fruit increased, iii.
268.
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Tarshish, Tarsus,
any how
some supposed to be others Carthage, ii. 292. represents the proud,
ib.
Teach, when God would teach, He
first gives understanding to receive, v. 386. teaching twofold, of what we should know, and of what we should do, ib. the higher saints taught directly God,others through them, v. 290.
Tears, why called meat' rather than 'drink, ii. 183; vi. 41. how eaten day and night, ii. 183. the tears of Christians shed for their absence from God, ii. 123. are the new wine of love, iv. 158 the tears of them that pray sweeter than the joys of the theatres, vi. 41. we should blot out with tears the flames of sin, iv. 393.
Teeth, who are the teeth of sinners and the teeth of the Church, 13; iv. 80, 394. are blunted and set on edge by unrighteousness, are restored by conversion, ii. 330'
Temple, man God's Temple, when Christ dwells in his heart by faith, v. 510. and in a still higher degree the saints who see Him face to face, ib. all true Christians one Temple of God, individual Christians stones built into the Temple, vi. 74. God's
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Temple beautiful not with precious ation God our Upholder, Deliverer, stones, but with righteousness, iii. and Protector, vi. 304. even when
261. he violates God's Temple, who breaks the unity of the Church, i. 99. God protects those who are His Temple, i. 197.
Temples of the heathen gods were closed in St. Augustine's time, vi. 198. none but devils and evil spirits worshipped in them, iv. 426.
Temptation, represented by wind, i. 382. comes like a river, is to be resisted by standing on the Rock, iii. 67.
we conquer temptation, we still feel
pleasure in the suggestion, vi. 300.
(see Warfare
Testament, used in Scripture for any
kind of covenant, iv. 142. difference between a human and a divine testa ment, ii. 65.
The two, Old and New, typified by Ishmael and Isaac, 344; v. 467. how far they agree, how far differ, iii. 492. the promises of the Old, earthly, of the New, heavenly, 380; iii. 493; iv. 275;
Still assails us after the remission
of sin in Baptism, v. 39. continually v. 261 vi. 433. they are not at
assails us, and keeps us in pel vi. 420. light temptations and grievous distinguished, iv. 288. we must not parley with them, vi. 176. longing for heaven the best weapon against them, ib. the prayer of soldier of Christagainst temptation, iv. 88, &c.
The thiee steps of, suggestion, delight, consent or resistance, vi. 300. delight not yielding, consent is, v. 39.
Assails both in adversity and pros perity, iii. 266, 288. the former comes first in order, ib.
Christ's threefold, sets forth the three great classes of temptations, 70. He was tempted that we may
not be conquered by the tempter, iv. 296. we were tempted in Christ, and in Him overcame the devil, iii. 177. (see Christ. )
variance with one another, iv. 350. God the Author of both, iii. 493. sleeping between the lots,' acqui
escing in their harmony, iii. 330. The Old prefigured the New, iv. 168. the New hidden in the
Old, as the fruit in the root, iii. 467. the New, pure wine, the figures of the Old, the dregs, iii. 531. the grace of the New Testament veiled in the Law, revealed in the Gospel, vi. 296. the Old revealed in New, the New veiled in the Old, v. 185. many under the Old Covenant, heirs of the New, v. 261. some understood the hopes that were veib"d under earthly promises, 415. the faith of the New Testament was in the elect, even when was veiled now that revealed not in many that are called, vi. 64. Christ the Mediator, Surety, Witness, Heri tage, Coheir of the New Testament, iv. 255. the discipline of the New milder than of the OM, v. 181.
All Christ's members are assailed
by, iii. 229. the tempttr ever
knocking for entrance: we must
close our hearts to him, vi. 264.
never ceases during this life, vi. Testimonies, God's, all things whereby 420. is ever trying us either by love
or fear, ii. 201. his trap failed with
error and terror, 245. always as
sails the fleshly part of our nature, Testimony, the, and the Law, two
vi. 298. his temptations are under God's control, iv. 494; v. 135, &c. not permitted to tempt us beyond our power, iii. 206; iv. 392. (see
Devil. )
The profit of, iv. 392. enables us
to advance, iii. 176, 399. and to know ourselves, ii. 2; iii. 56. is re quired for our discipline, ib. like fire, burns the hay, purifies the gold, v. 124. better to be tempted and conquer, than not tempted and re
jected, vi. 318.
Not to be conquered without God's
help, iv. 272. we do not conquer them, but Christ conquers them in us, v. 527. in the warfare of tempt
names of the same thing, iv. 49. false testimony borne against Christ both before and after His death, ii. 33.
Thamugade, one of the strongholds of the Don at party in Africa,
160.
Thanis, the plain of, represents the
commandment to be humble, v. 58. Thanks, God requires for His benefits, ii. 28. we should thank God not only for His benefits, but also for
His chastening, ii. 331 iv. 314. grounds for thankfulness, iv. 268. we thank God for what He has done, pray for what we want Him still to do, v. 66.
He proves His love towards us, v. 335. in what spirit they may be searched into, v. 315, 316.
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mitted theft in spoiling the Egyp tians, v. 162.
Thigh, meaning of girdinz the sword
upon the th'gh, iv. 332. the breadth
of Jacob's thigh, the multitude of
513
413. the soul should strive after rest, not increase useless toil, v. 295. the best object of toil, to see God, iv. 312. the thought of the reward sustains us in our toil, ii. 31. toil is the price of our rest, iv. 375. it
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his descendants, ii. 248. Christ is short, and has many comforts, ib.
called the fruit of David's body, not of his loins, because born of a wo- vi. 102.
now is the seed time of toil, the harvest will gladden us hereafter, ii. 62. men toil not for themselves, but their children, vi. 4.
Thorn, all earthly pleasures have
thorns in them, v. 57. thorns, in Tomb, the, falsely called an home,
that they prick, not with their root, but the upgrowth, a pattern of sins, pleasant at first, but deadly at last,
vi. 222. sin like a bramble, which has no thorns when young, but puts them out afterward, iii. 122.
Threats, God's, called His bow, iii. 117. His overhangings, ii. J95. His threats deter from evil, invite to good, ii. 341. man's, should neither
deter from good, nor compel to evil, ib. he who is not moved by God's threats, is an unbeliever, ib.
Timbrel, mystical explanation of, vi. 439. is a figure of incorruption, vi. 455. players on timbrels, those who have conquered the flesh, iii. 345. David playing the timbrel a type of Christ on the Cross, i. 350, 353.
v. 229. the time of mercy and the time of judgment, iv. 479. (see Mercy, Judgment ) the time of
ii. 318. tombs called memorials, ib.
(see Memorial. ) the body the tomb of the dead soul, iv. 235. the throat of the wicked how an open sepulchre, i. 30.
Tongue, the, used for what is uttered
by 392; ii. 383. God's Tongue
how the pen of a ready writer,' ii. 233. the Christian's tongue, the song of Jerusalem, vi. 172. the tongue that praiseth not God, a bar barous one, v. 279. Christ's Tongue, His preachers, 156. we should have in heart, what all have on their tongue, 311.
The dispersion of tongues came through pride, the reunion of them by humility, iii. 39. the meaning of the gift of tongues, 136; vi. 76. Christ and His Church speak as one Man in many tongues, 136. every
Time, is, and yet is not, ii. 100. our
time on earth short, though it seem
long, ii. 12. the present moment
all that we can hold of time, iv. 32.
how a thousand years are as yester
day to God, iv. 272. the time of to avoid slipping with, ii. 97 vi. promising and of fulfilling distinct,
God's good pleasure, the time of Torrent, a, water flowing violently,
mercy, iii. 372. the acceptable time, the time of grace, i. 295. the fulness of time, Christ's coming to teach men to despise the things of time, iii. 479. Christ has two times, the time of His humiliation, and the
time of His glory, v. 253. three times of the world, before the Law, under the Law, under Grace, v. 104. six times or periods of history, iv.
330.
Tobias guided his father Tobit to
walk ; his father guided him to live,
iv. 433.
Toil, is the seed of iniquity, sin the
417. the torrent of God's mercy overflows those who trust in Him, ib. are streams sometimes full, some times dry, iii. 507. and so ri present those who are vigorous the faith for a while, and then fall away, ib. the torrent in the way. the flow
conception of toil, i. 5S. more toil
in sin than in good woiks, iv. 329;
vi. 230. ungodliness full of toil, i.
87, 108. the only way to end toil,
to love what cannot be taken from Traditores, those who gave up their us, i. 58. for this we must toil, vi. copies of the Scriptures for fear of
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one who in the llody of Christ, speaks with tongues, vi. 404.
Difficulty of taming, vi. 254. hard
66. folly of sinning with, ii. 397. the tor gue the evidence of the heart, iv. 344. deceitful tongue, what, v. 463.
of human mortality, v. 255. heretics are torrents, they flow violently for a while, and then pan away, iii. 116.
Torture, they only can conquer, who trust in Christ, not themselves, iv. 293. (see Martyrs. )
Trading, not unlawful in itself, but dishonest trading, iii. 424. its tempt ations, iii. 423, <ke. danger of its making men forget heaven, vi. 160. means allegorically, trusting in one's own doings, iii. 425.
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persecution. The Church often charged with the guilt of ' traditio' by heretics, ii. 34 ; iv. 408 ; vi. 399.
Trance, (see Ecstasy. )
Transfiguration, our Lord's, a type
of the conversion of Christians, vi. 408.
Treasure, God treasures up mercy for those who seek sinners wrath for themselves by refusing to seek
iv. 358. good will the treasure of the poor, ii. 29. our desert, our treasure, ii. 55.
85. no road to heaven without
ii. 388. the means of obtaining eter nal life, 375. the wrath of a Father chastening His children, iii. 68. means of escaping everlasting fire, iii. 165. meant to harden, not to destroy us, iii. 288 iv. 378. strengthens us, iii. 398. keeps us from hoping in this life, iii. 299. will come to an end, its reward will not, v. 306.
Is the result of sin, though a means of winning glory, ii. 170; iv. 91. punishment and favour at
Treasure-house, God's secret counsels
His treasure-house, whence He once, ii. 119. we must acknowledge
brings forth all we need, 327. heaven the Christian's treasure- house, iv. 313.
Trees, of the plain, the lower orders among the nations, v. 117. of the woods, the pagans, iv. 409. the tree in Paradise good, but man forbidden to take of in order to test his obedience, iii. 440. why called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, iii. 441.
Trial, four kinds of, to which Chris tians are subject, v. 192 -- 195. (see Temptation, Tribulation, Rod, Scourge. )
Tribes, the twelve, were houses like the Roman Curia? , iv. 2; v. 498. tribes of the Lord and tribes of the devil, v. 498.
Tribulation, called night,' and win ter,' ii. 26, 196; iv. 317. 'iron,' v. 157. fire,' 225 iii. 288. com pared to a refiner's furnace, 153, 275. a wind rough, but favourable, vi. 3.
All our life tribulation, iv. 27. even in prosperity, to one who loves his true home, ib. ii. 356; iv. 196; vi. 186. he no Christian who finds none in this world, iii. 59. Scripture promises nothing in this life save tribulations, ii.
INDEX. 511
Tarshish, Tarsus,
any how
some supposed to be others Carthage, ii. 292. represents the proud,
ib.
Teach, when God would teach, He
first gives understanding to receive, v. 386. teaching twofold, of what we should know, and of what we should do, ib. the higher saints taught directly God,others through them, v. 290.
Tears, why called meat' rather than 'drink, ii. 183; vi. 41. how eaten day and night, ii. 183. the tears of Christians shed for their absence from God, ii. 123. are the new wine of love, iv. 158 the tears of them that pray sweeter than the joys of the theatres, vi. 41. we should blot out with tears the flames of sin, iv. 393.
Teeth, who are the teeth of sinners and the teeth of the Church, 13; iv. 80, 394. are blunted and set on edge by unrighteousness, are restored by conversion, ii. 330'
Temple, man God's Temple, when Christ dwells in his heart by faith, v. 510. and in a still higher degree the saints who see Him face to face, ib. all true Christians one Temple of God, individual Christians stones built into the Temple, vi. 74. God's
is
it by by
is
i. ''
i.
' by
;
it,
512 INDEX.
Temple beautiful not with precious ation God our Upholder, Deliverer, stones, but with righteousness, iii. and Protector, vi. 304. even when
261. he violates God's Temple, who breaks the unity of the Church, i. 99. God protects those who are His Temple, i. 197.
Temples of the heathen gods were closed in St. Augustine's time, vi. 198. none but devils and evil spirits worshipped in them, iv. 426.
Temptation, represented by wind, i. 382. comes like a river, is to be resisted by standing on the Rock, iii. 67.
we conquer temptation, we still feel
pleasure in the suggestion, vi. 300.
(see Warfare
Testament, used in Scripture for any
kind of covenant, iv. 142. difference between a human and a divine testa ment, ii. 65.
The two, Old and New, typified by Ishmael and Isaac, 344; v. 467. how far they agree, how far differ, iii. 492. the promises of the Old, earthly, of the New, heavenly, 380; iii. 493; iv. 275;
Still assails us after the remission
of sin in Baptism, v. 39. continually v. 261 vi. 433. they are not at
assails us, and keeps us in pel vi. 420. light temptations and grievous distinguished, iv. 288. we must not parley with them, vi. 176. longing for heaven the best weapon against them, ib. the prayer of soldier of Christagainst temptation, iv. 88, &c.
The thiee steps of, suggestion, delight, consent or resistance, vi. 300. delight not yielding, consent is, v. 39.
Assails both in adversity and pros perity, iii. 266, 288. the former comes first in order, ib.
Christ's threefold, sets forth the three great classes of temptations, 70. He was tempted that we may
not be conquered by the tempter, iv. 296. we were tempted in Christ, and in Him overcame the devil, iii. 177. (see Christ. )
variance with one another, iv. 350. God the Author of both, iii. 493. sleeping between the lots,' acqui
escing in their harmony, iii. 330. The Old prefigured the New, iv. 168. the New hidden in the
Old, as the fruit in the root, iii. 467. the New, pure wine, the figures of the Old, the dregs, iii. 531. the grace of the New Testament veiled in the Law, revealed in the Gospel, vi. 296. the Old revealed in New, the New veiled in the Old, v. 185. many under the Old Covenant, heirs of the New, v. 261. some understood the hopes that were veib"d under earthly promises, 415. the faith of the New Testament was in the elect, even when was veiled now that revealed not in many that are called, vi. 64. Christ the Mediator, Surety, Witness, Heri tage, Coheir of the New Testament, iv. 255. the discipline of the New milder than of the OM, v. 181.
All Christ's members are assailed
by, iii. 229. the tempttr ever
knocking for entrance: we must
close our hearts to him, vi. 264.
never ceases during this life, vi. Testimonies, God's, all things whereby 420. is ever trying us either by love
or fear, ii. 201. his trap failed with
error and terror, 245. always as
sails the fleshly part of our nature, Testimony, the, and the Law, two
vi. 298. his temptations are under God's control, iv. 494; v. 135, &c. not permitted to tempt us beyond our power, iii. 206; iv. 392. (see
Devil. )
The profit of, iv. 392. enables us
to advance, iii. 176, 399. and to know ourselves, ii. 2; iii. 56. is re quired for our discipline, ib. like fire, burns the hay, purifies the gold, v. 124. better to be tempted and conquer, than not tempted and re
jected, vi. 318.
Not to be conquered without God's
help, iv. 272. we do not conquer them, but Christ conquers them in us, v. 527. in the warfare of tempt
names of the same thing, iv. 49. false testimony borne against Christ both before and after His death, ii. 33.
Thamugade, one of the strongholds of the Don at party in Africa,
160.
Thanis, the plain of, represents the
commandment to be humble, v. 58. Thanks, God requires for His benefits, ii. 28. we should thank God not only for His benefits, but also for
His chastening, ii. 331 iv. 314. grounds for thankfulness, iv. 268. we thank God for what He has done, pray for what we want Him still to do, v. 66.
He proves His love towards us, v. 335. in what spirit they may be searched into, v. 315, 316.
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Theft, whether the Israelites com
mitted theft in spoiling the Egyp tians, v. 162.
Thigh, meaning of girdinz the sword
upon the th'gh, iv. 332. the breadth
of Jacob's thigh, the multitude of
513
413. the soul should strive after rest, not increase useless toil, v. 295. the best object of toil, to see God, iv. 312. the thought of the reward sustains us in our toil, ii. 31. toil is the price of our rest, iv. 375. it
INDEX.
his descendants, ii. 248. Christ is short, and has many comforts, ib.
called the fruit of David's body, not of his loins, because born of a wo- vi. 102.
now is the seed time of toil, the harvest will gladden us hereafter, ii. 62. men toil not for themselves, but their children, vi. 4.
Thorn, all earthly pleasures have
thorns in them, v. 57. thorns, in Tomb, the, falsely called an home,
that they prick, not with their root, but the upgrowth, a pattern of sins, pleasant at first, but deadly at last,
vi. 222. sin like a bramble, which has no thorns when young, but puts them out afterward, iii. 122.
Threats, God's, called His bow, iii. 117. His overhangings, ii. J95. His threats deter from evil, invite to good, ii. 341. man's, should neither
deter from good, nor compel to evil, ib. he who is not moved by God's threats, is an unbeliever, ib.
Timbrel, mystical explanation of, vi. 439. is a figure of incorruption, vi. 455. players on timbrels, those who have conquered the flesh, iii. 345. David playing the timbrel a type of Christ on the Cross, i. 350, 353.
v. 229. the time of mercy and the time of judgment, iv. 479. (see Mercy, Judgment ) the time of
ii. 318. tombs called memorials, ib.
(see Memorial. ) the body the tomb of the dead soul, iv. 235. the throat of the wicked how an open sepulchre, i. 30.
Tongue, the, used for what is uttered
by 392; ii. 383. God's Tongue
how the pen of a ready writer,' ii. 233. the Christian's tongue, the song of Jerusalem, vi. 172. the tongue that praiseth not God, a bar barous one, v. 279. Christ's Tongue, His preachers, 156. we should have in heart, what all have on their tongue, 311.
The dispersion of tongues came through pride, the reunion of them by humility, iii. 39. the meaning of the gift of tongues, 136; vi. 76. Christ and His Church speak as one Man in many tongues, 136. every
Time, is, and yet is not, ii. 100. our
time on earth short, though it seem
long, ii. 12. the present moment
all that we can hold of time, iv. 32.
how a thousand years are as yester
day to God, iv. 272. the time of to avoid slipping with, ii. 97 vi. promising and of fulfilling distinct,
God's good pleasure, the time of Torrent, a, water flowing violently,
mercy, iii. 372. the acceptable time, the time of grace, i. 295. the fulness of time, Christ's coming to teach men to despise the things of time, iii. 479. Christ has two times, the time of His humiliation, and the
time of His glory, v. 253. three times of the world, before the Law, under the Law, under Grace, v. 104. six times or periods of history, iv.
330.
Tobias guided his father Tobit to
walk ; his father guided him to live,
iv. 433.
Toil, is the seed of iniquity, sin the
417. the torrent of God's mercy overflows those who trust in Him, ib. are streams sometimes full, some times dry, iii. 507. and so ri present those who are vigorous the faith for a while, and then fall away, ib. the torrent in the way. the flow
conception of toil, i. 5S. more toil
in sin than in good woiks, iv. 329;
vi. 230. ungodliness full of toil, i.
87, 108. the only way to end toil,
to love what cannot be taken from Traditores, those who gave up their us, i. 58. for this we must toil, vi. copies of the Scriptures for fear of
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one who in the llody of Christ, speaks with tongues, vi. 404.
Difficulty of taming, vi. 254. hard
66. folly of sinning with, ii. 397. the tor gue the evidence of the heart, iv. 344. deceitful tongue, what, v. 463.
of human mortality, v. 255. heretics are torrents, they flow violently for a while, and then pan away, iii. 116.
Torture, they only can conquer, who trust in Christ, not themselves, iv. 293. (see Martyrs. )
Trading, not unlawful in itself, but dishonest trading, iii. 424. its tempt ations, iii. 423, <ke. danger of its making men forget heaven, vi. 160. means allegorically, trusting in one's own doings, iii. 425.
1
in
i. ;
i.
i.
is a
is ' i.
i.
it, i.
514 INDEX.
persecution. The Church often charged with the guilt of ' traditio' by heretics, ii. 34 ; iv. 408 ; vi. 399.
Trance, (see Ecstasy. )
Transfiguration, our Lord's, a type
of the conversion of Christians, vi. 408.
Treasure, God treasures up mercy for those who seek sinners wrath for themselves by refusing to seek
iv. 358. good will the treasure of the poor, ii. 29. our desert, our treasure, ii. 55.
85. no road to heaven without
ii. 388. the means of obtaining eter nal life, 375. the wrath of a Father chastening His children, iii. 68. means of escaping everlasting fire, iii. 165. meant to harden, not to destroy us, iii. 288 iv. 378. strengthens us, iii. 398. keeps us from hoping in this life, iii. 299. will come to an end, its reward will not, v. 306.
Is the result of sin, though a means of winning glory, ii. 170; iv. 91. punishment and favour at
Treasure-house, God's secret counsels
His treasure-house, whence He once, ii. 119. we must acknowledge
brings forth all we need, 327. heaven the Christian's treasure- house, iv. 313.
Trees, of the plain, the lower orders among the nations, v. 117. of the woods, the pagans, iv. 409. the tree in Paradise good, but man forbidden to take of in order to test his obedience, iii. 440. why called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, iii. 441.
Trial, four kinds of, to which Chris tians are subject, v. 192 -- 195. (see Temptation, Tribulation, Rod, Scourge. )
Tribes, the twelve, were houses like the Roman Curia? , iv. 2; v. 498. tribes of the Lord and tribes of the devil, v. 498.
Tribulation, called night,' and win ter,' ii. 26, 196; iv. 317. 'iron,' v. 157. fire,' 225 iii. 288. com pared to a refiner's furnace, 153, 275. a wind rough, but favourable, vi. 3.
All our life tribulation, iv. 27. even in prosperity, to one who loves his true home, ib. ii. 356; iv. 196; vi. 186. he no Christian who finds none in this world, iii. 59. Scripture promises nothing in this life save tribulations, ii.
