Forgiveness, of wrongs done by others,
a means of obtaining mercy from God, v.
a means of obtaining mercy from God, v.
Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6
fear and desire, the two leaves of the door of the heart, vi.
264.
no good to fear what cannot be avoided: we should fear damnation, that we may escape ii.
309.
this world the time of fear not of laughing, ii.
39P; iv.
431 v 394.
two grounds for not fearing, hope in God, and hardness of heart, iii.
60.
be who has sure hope in God, fears no one,
193. the Christian has no need to fear his enemies, iv. 431.
God only to be lean 193, 328. the records oi vengeance should cause fear, vi. 138. God displays His power in nature that man may fear Him, vi. 427. fear of God great safeguard, i. 29. leads men to amend, that they may be spared at the Judgment, iv. 451. should be accompanied by hope, vi. 379 why we must work out our salvation with fear, vi. 289. bear the first step to wisdom, v. 462. none truly fear God, but those en grafted into Christ, vi. 34.
Two kinds of fear, servile and chaste, 127, 135; iv. 58; v. 363; vi. 37. the fear of the Jews, servile fear, rv. 177. whereby God not wor shipped, iv. 63. nor the law fulfilled,
314; iv. 308; v. 431. fear the motive for obtaining, the will to sin remains, 314; v. 427. fear like the wolf, afraid of the dogs would plunder, hut dares not, iv. 343. _he
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who acts through fear, acts un Fleece, Gideon's, mystical lesson of it.
willingly, v. 355. does not lore
righteousness, vi. 3", 447. fear of Flesh, used for man, i. 217 J vi. 157.
hell profitable, but not a chaste fear, vi. 39 fear the road to love, vi. 447; Christ's death changed fear to love, iv. 308. the test whether fear be servili, or chaste, vi. 3 39. chaste fear would not sin, though it could with impunity, v. 427. thinks it a great punishment to lose God's Pre sence, v. 58 ; vi. 40.
Felix, a martyr, vi. 36. see note there.
Fetters, mean our mortality, vi. 354. the fear of God, v. 19. the fetters of the martyrs loosed, and turned into crowns by their persecutors, v. 20.
Field, God's field the world, vi. 435. the Church, v. 221. two men in one field represent the Clergy who go vern the Church, iv. 476 ; vi. 113.
Fig-tree, the, with leaves, yet with out fruit, the Jews and Pharisees, who made profession, yet practised not, i. 285. Nathaniel under the fig-tree, mystical interpretation of, i. 287.
the Word made flesh, i. e. became Man, i 217. for the carnal affections, i. 193. the flesh the handmaid of the soul, vi. 338, 340. is to be loved, yet chastised, as a wife, vi. 252. should be kept in subjection, vi. 301. the flesh fighting against the spirit is like the wife fighting against the husband, ib. is to us, as Eve to Adam, ii. 309. conquer the flesh and you will conquer the devil, vi. 298. the infirmity of the flesh, a bed of pain, ii. 169. we can con quer the flesh, if we will, by the aid given us, ib. they who conquer it called kings, iv. 23. not to fall in the flesh, a great thing : not to slip, beyo: d oer power, v. 296. how we are in, and yet not in, the flesh, ib. frailty of the flesh inherited from Adam, iv. 171. what good works done by the flesh, iv. 153. lust of the flesh one of the three great divisions of sin, i. 70.
All flesh how to come to God, iii. 256. our flesh, how it thirsteth for God, iii. 217. after resurrection, incorruptible, iii. 254. theresurrection of, iii. 218.
Finger, of God, the Holy Ghost, i. 65.
fingers of God, God's ministers filled
by the Holy Ghost, ib. fingers
wherewith Christ's members fight, Flight, we cannot fly from conscience,
what, vi. 297.
Fire, used for affliction, iii. 288. why
nor from God, i. 244. we cannot flee from God, save to God, vi. 201, 202. from His wrath to His ruth, iii. 528 ; iv. 383 ; vi. 379. sinners flee from God's Face in that they fear Him, not in that they escape Him, iii. 314.
used in exorcism, before baptism,
ib. the fire that tries every man's
work, tribulation and temptation,
i. 225. burns the chaff, purifies the
gold, i. 153. the fire that goes be
fore Christ, of evil passions in the Food, God our food, that restoreth
wicked, of grace in the godly, iv. 418--420.
Of the Judgment, the fear of it needful, ii. 340. of hell, the future punishment of sinners, the fire of lust their present punishment, iii. 117, &c.
Purgatorial at the Judgment, i. 36; v. 105. one fire to destroy, an other to purify, ii. 71. the grievous- ness of it, ib.
Flattery, is undue praise, vi. 249. called ' the oil of a sinner,' ib. vi. 391 . the mark of evil men, i. 107. by it they allure others to sin, i. 30, 85. those who flatter sinners, accessory to their guilt, ii. 358. to be avoided, ii. 156. if we love not flattery we shall not fear threats, iii. 100, ib. is more deadly than the murderer, iii. 398. is a great test of a man's soundness, ib.
and never faileth, ii. 384. the food both of angels and men; of angels, in heaven, of man, through the In carnation, vi. 129. righteousness the food of the godly, pride of the un godly, iv. 492. those who love earthly things, the food of the serpent, v. 141.
Our food how to be partaken to the praise of God, vi. 359.
Foot, love the foot of the soul, i. 83. our affections our feet, iv. 383. love of God and of our neighbour the two feet, whereon we draw nigh to God, i. 361. the foot of pride that whereby we fall, i. 420. feet of
Christ, those who turn to Him, iii.
343. His Saints, iv. 308.
Forgiveness, of wrongs done by others,
a means of obtaining mercy from God, v. 265; vi. 64, 302. (see Mercy, works of. )
(see Gideon. )
470 INDEX.
a.
Fountain, meaning of, iii. 507. God, Gate, of God, confession, iv. 478. of a Fountain of Life, after which we death, evil desires; of the daughter should pant, ii. 180. we should lift of Sion, holy purposes, 81, 82.
our souls to God, as vessels to a Gath, means press, iii. 57. David in fountain, that He may fill them, Gath, Christ among the wicked, vi. 292. ib.
Foundation, of heaven, Christ the Gebal, means vain valley' represents Chief Foundation; after Him the those who make false pretence of Apostles and Prophets, iv. 137. of humility, iv. 142.
the earth, the rich of this world, ib. Gehenna, (see Hell. )
Christ, our Foundation, above, not Generation, a generation, the low
No need to despair of forgiveness,
however great our sin, when they
who slew our Lord were forgiven,
iii. 149. God forgives these who
confess and punish themselves, ii.
376. often punishes in this world,
those whom he forgives in the next, Gaitucius, probably corruption of ii. 380. forgiveness promised lest Cuius Seins, name used in illus men should despair; death uncertain, trations, v. 418; vi. 252. (see note lest they should presume, v. 13. there. )
Free-will, God has given us free-will,
yet we can do nothing without His
aid, i. 203 ; vi. 203. God's help and
our free-will both needed for us to
serve God truly, v. 417. man sins
through free-will, not from any com
pulsion, i. 295. sin punished in
man, because he has free-will, v. 14.
man's free-will does not overrule
God's will, though it is contrary
to v 258. what we do of necessity,
what through free-will, vi. 135. God
does all things of free-will, ib. God
has given us free-will to choose
whether we serve Him or the devil, Getulia, the drought of, no argument vi. 417. God heals none save with against God's providence, vi. 425. their own free-will, v. 41. we must Giants, in a good sense the spiritually pray to God to grant what He com strong, in bad sense the proud, iv. mands, v. 326. 234. Christ the Giant of giants, ib.
Friendship, man's cannot help us Gideon, mystical meaning of Gideon's
much, may harm us; Christ's cannot
harm, must help, vi. 94. danger of
worldly friendships drawing us away
from God, vi. 168. the friendship of Gifts, God's earthly gifts common to the nicked, no true friendship, iv.
326.
Frog, a figure of empty talkativeness,
iv. 69.
Furnace, a, the day of Judgment, v.
105. tongue of the flatterer, a fur nace testing men's soundness, iii. 398.
good and bad, v. 75. we must pray for increase of God's gifts, 385. He will not take away His spiritual gifts, unless we reject them He does earthly gifts, and allows thers to, 194. God gave us being, He will give us grace to be good, v. 130. we may not choose to refuse God's
Future, the, as the past with God, v. 156. prophets use the past to fore tell future events, v. 92, 275.
below, iv. 215. we must be built into the Foundation of the heavenly City. v. 493.
Freedom, true freedom, to do good from love not fear, iii. 324. to serve the Lord for love, a service of free dom, iv. 469. the creature free when it offers service to God of free-will, v. 301. God's fetters better than freedom that leads to ruin, v. 19.
est reckoning of, fifteen years, v. 152. generations of men compared to leaves on tree, v. 28. the first generation mortal, through God's Wrath, the second immortal, through His Mercy, iv. 171. two generations, baptism and resurrection, vi. 141. generation of generations, what, v. 28.
Gentiles, called the desert, iii. 269. dogs, iii. 142. a wild olive, vi. 132. represented by the sea, ii. 274. the Ethiopians, iii. 505. called stones, because they worshipped stones, ii. 284. used for the wicked generally, ii. 303. worshipped false man in stead of true God, v. 284. said they worshipped powers, under the images of idols, v. 287. their calling, iv. 415. joy of Sion at their conversion, iv. 428. represented by the sheet let down to St. Peter, ib. rapid progress of their conversion in Augustine's time, vi. 146.
fleece, ii. 270; iii. 456; vi. 184. of his three hundred men that lapped, iii. 343.
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gifts when offered, i. 322. (see God,
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Gilead, ' means *heap of testimony,' iii.
169. Gilead is mine,' the Martyrs
are God's, ib.
Glorify, we glorify God, not by malting
Him glorious, but by telling of His glories, ii. 134. in glorifying Him, we benefit not Him, but ourselves, ib.
Glory, the glory of God, residing in Jesus Christ by grace, for remission of sins, i. 130. man's gratuitous sal vation, God's glory, ib. i. 132. God's glory, that he w ho is made righteous, should glory not in himself, but in the Lord, i. 184. in these God's glory dwells, i. 185. how all need the glory of God, i. 242. God takes away our glory to give us His own, iii. 276. the glory of all our own good due to God, ib. (see Grace, Martyrs. )
Our future glory, to be equal to the angels, and to see God, iii. 23.
Vain, the most dangerous vice to those advanced in holiness, i. 48. distinguished from the true glory, vi. 440, &c.
Goat, the Gentile Church called a she- goat, v. 104. he-goats not all rejected at the last, iii. 291.
GOD, Hisbeinglearnt from His works, iii. 514. few really believe there is no God, iii. 2. even they fear to say
106.
Alone truly IS, vi. 128. Three
477
heaven
We draw near to Him
like Him, 395; iv. 383. His fore knowledge, v. 184. His Beauty, iv. 174.
His Members mean powers of ope ration, 90. His Right Hand
His Power, ii. 212; v. 389, 483. or eternal happiness, iv. 277 vi. 188. the Arm of God, Christ, ii. 212; iii. 437; iv. 437. His Hand, Christ, iv. 277; v. 227.
193. the Christian has no need to fear his enemies, iv. 431.
God only to be lean 193, 328. the records oi vengeance should cause fear, vi. 138. God displays His power in nature that man may fear Him, vi. 427. fear of God great safeguard, i. 29. leads men to amend, that they may be spared at the Judgment, iv. 451. should be accompanied by hope, vi. 379 why we must work out our salvation with fear, vi. 289. bear the first step to wisdom, v. 462. none truly fear God, but those en grafted into Christ, vi. 34.
Two kinds of fear, servile and chaste, 127, 135; iv. 58; v. 363; vi. 37. the fear of the Jews, servile fear, rv. 177. whereby God not wor shipped, iv. 63. nor the law fulfilled,
314; iv. 308; v. 431. fear the motive for obtaining, the will to sin remains, 314; v. 427. fear like the wolf, afraid of the dogs would plunder, hut dares not, iv. 343. _he
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INDEX. 475
who acts through fear, acts un Fleece, Gideon's, mystical lesson of it.
willingly, v. 355. does not lore
righteousness, vi. 3", 447. fear of Flesh, used for man, i. 217 J vi. 157.
hell profitable, but not a chaste fear, vi. 39 fear the road to love, vi. 447; Christ's death changed fear to love, iv. 308. the test whether fear be servili, or chaste, vi. 3 39. chaste fear would not sin, though it could with impunity, v. 427. thinks it a great punishment to lose God's Pre sence, v. 58 ; vi. 40.
Felix, a martyr, vi. 36. see note there.
Fetters, mean our mortality, vi. 354. the fear of God, v. 19. the fetters of the martyrs loosed, and turned into crowns by their persecutors, v. 20.
Field, God's field the world, vi. 435. the Church, v. 221. two men in one field represent the Clergy who go vern the Church, iv. 476 ; vi. 113.
Fig-tree, the, with leaves, yet with out fruit, the Jews and Pharisees, who made profession, yet practised not, i. 285. Nathaniel under the fig-tree, mystical interpretation of, i. 287.
the Word made flesh, i. e. became Man, i 217. for the carnal affections, i. 193. the flesh the handmaid of the soul, vi. 338, 340. is to be loved, yet chastised, as a wife, vi. 252. should be kept in subjection, vi. 301. the flesh fighting against the spirit is like the wife fighting against the husband, ib. is to us, as Eve to Adam, ii. 309. conquer the flesh and you will conquer the devil, vi. 298. the infirmity of the flesh, a bed of pain, ii. 169. we can con quer the flesh, if we will, by the aid given us, ib. they who conquer it called kings, iv. 23. not to fall in the flesh, a great thing : not to slip, beyo: d oer power, v. 296. how we are in, and yet not in, the flesh, ib. frailty of the flesh inherited from Adam, iv. 171. what good works done by the flesh, iv. 153. lust of the flesh one of the three great divisions of sin, i. 70.
All flesh how to come to God, iii. 256. our flesh, how it thirsteth for God, iii. 217. after resurrection, incorruptible, iii. 254. theresurrection of, iii. 218.
Finger, of God, the Holy Ghost, i. 65.
fingers of God, God's ministers filled
by the Holy Ghost, ib. fingers
wherewith Christ's members fight, Flight, we cannot fly from conscience,
what, vi. 297.
Fire, used for affliction, iii. 288. why
nor from God, i. 244. we cannot flee from God, save to God, vi. 201, 202. from His wrath to His ruth, iii. 528 ; iv. 383 ; vi. 379. sinners flee from God's Face in that they fear Him, not in that they escape Him, iii. 314.
used in exorcism, before baptism,
ib. the fire that tries every man's
work, tribulation and temptation,
i. 225. burns the chaff, purifies the
gold, i. 153. the fire that goes be
fore Christ, of evil passions in the Food, God our food, that restoreth
wicked, of grace in the godly, iv. 418--420.
Of the Judgment, the fear of it needful, ii. 340. of hell, the future punishment of sinners, the fire of lust their present punishment, iii. 117, &c.
Purgatorial at the Judgment, i. 36; v. 105. one fire to destroy, an other to purify, ii. 71. the grievous- ness of it, ib.
Flattery, is undue praise, vi. 249. called ' the oil of a sinner,' ib. vi. 391 . the mark of evil men, i. 107. by it they allure others to sin, i. 30, 85. those who flatter sinners, accessory to their guilt, ii. 358. to be avoided, ii. 156. if we love not flattery we shall not fear threats, iii. 100, ib. is more deadly than the murderer, iii. 398. is a great test of a man's soundness, ib.
and never faileth, ii. 384. the food both of angels and men; of angels, in heaven, of man, through the In carnation, vi. 129. righteousness the food of the godly, pride of the un godly, iv. 492. those who love earthly things, the food of the serpent, v. 141.
Our food how to be partaken to the praise of God, vi. 359.
Foot, love the foot of the soul, i. 83. our affections our feet, iv. 383. love of God and of our neighbour the two feet, whereon we draw nigh to God, i. 361. the foot of pride that whereby we fall, i. 420. feet of
Christ, those who turn to Him, iii.
343. His Saints, iv. 308.
Forgiveness, of wrongs done by others,
a means of obtaining mercy from God, v. 265; vi. 64, 302. (see Mercy, works of. )
(see Gideon. )
470 INDEX.
a.
Fountain, meaning of, iii. 507. God, Gate, of God, confession, iv. 478. of a Fountain of Life, after which we death, evil desires; of the daughter should pant, ii. 180. we should lift of Sion, holy purposes, 81, 82.
our souls to God, as vessels to a Gath, means press, iii. 57. David in fountain, that He may fill them, Gath, Christ among the wicked, vi. 292. ib.
Foundation, of heaven, Christ the Gebal, means vain valley' represents Chief Foundation; after Him the those who make false pretence of Apostles and Prophets, iv. 137. of humility, iv. 142.
the earth, the rich of this world, ib. Gehenna, (see Hell. )
Christ, our Foundation, above, not Generation, a generation, the low
No need to despair of forgiveness,
however great our sin, when they
who slew our Lord were forgiven,
iii. 149. God forgives these who
confess and punish themselves, ii.
376. often punishes in this world,
those whom he forgives in the next, Gaitucius, probably corruption of ii. 380. forgiveness promised lest Cuius Seins, name used in illus men should despair; death uncertain, trations, v. 418; vi. 252. (see note lest they should presume, v. 13. there. )
Free-will, God has given us free-will,
yet we can do nothing without His
aid, i. 203 ; vi. 203. God's help and
our free-will both needed for us to
serve God truly, v. 417. man sins
through free-will, not from any com
pulsion, i. 295. sin punished in
man, because he has free-will, v. 14.
man's free-will does not overrule
God's will, though it is contrary
to v 258. what we do of necessity,
what through free-will, vi. 135. God
does all things of free-will, ib. God
has given us free-will to choose
whether we serve Him or the devil, Getulia, the drought of, no argument vi. 417. God heals none save with against God's providence, vi. 425. their own free-will, v. 41. we must Giants, in a good sense the spiritually pray to God to grant what He com strong, in bad sense the proud, iv. mands, v. 326. 234. Christ the Giant of giants, ib.
Friendship, man's cannot help us Gideon, mystical meaning of Gideon's
much, may harm us; Christ's cannot
harm, must help, vi. 94. danger of
worldly friendships drawing us away
from God, vi. 168. the friendship of Gifts, God's earthly gifts common to the nicked, no true friendship, iv.
326.
Frog, a figure of empty talkativeness,
iv. 69.
Furnace, a, the day of Judgment, v.
105. tongue of the flatterer, a fur nace testing men's soundness, iii. 398.
good and bad, v. 75. we must pray for increase of God's gifts, 385. He will not take away His spiritual gifts, unless we reject them He does earthly gifts, and allows thers to, 194. God gave us being, He will give us grace to be good, v. 130. we may not choose to refuse God's
Future, the, as the past with God, v. 156. prophets use the past to fore tell future events, v. 92, 275.
below, iv. 215. we must be built into the Foundation of the heavenly City. v. 493.
Freedom, true freedom, to do good from love not fear, iii. 324. to serve the Lord for love, a service of free dom, iv. 469. the creature free when it offers service to God of free-will, v. 301. God's fetters better than freedom that leads to ruin, v. 19.
est reckoning of, fifteen years, v. 152. generations of men compared to leaves on tree, v. 28. the first generation mortal, through God's Wrath, the second immortal, through His Mercy, iv. 171. two generations, baptism and resurrection, vi. 141. generation of generations, what, v. 28.
Gentiles, called the desert, iii. 269. dogs, iii. 142. a wild olive, vi. 132. represented by the sea, ii. 274. the Ethiopians, iii. 505. called stones, because they worshipped stones, ii. 284. used for the wicked generally, ii. 303. worshipped false man in stead of true God, v. 284. said they worshipped powers, under the images of idols, v. 287. their calling, iv. 415. joy of Sion at their conversion, iv. 428. represented by the sheet let down to St. Peter, ib. rapid progress of their conversion in Augustine's time, vi. 146.
fleece, ii. 270; iii. 456; vi. 184. of his three hundred men that lapped, iii. 343.
i.
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it,
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gifts when offered, i. 322. (see God,
Gootfs, Benefitt, Grace. )
Gilead, ' means *heap of testimony,' iii.
169. Gilead is mine,' the Martyrs
are God's, ib.
Glorify, we glorify God, not by malting
Him glorious, but by telling of His glories, ii. 134. in glorifying Him, we benefit not Him, but ourselves, ib.
Glory, the glory of God, residing in Jesus Christ by grace, for remission of sins, i. 130. man's gratuitous sal vation, God's glory, ib. i. 132. God's glory, that he w ho is made righteous, should glory not in himself, but in the Lord, i. 184. in these God's glory dwells, i. 185. how all need the glory of God, i. 242. God takes away our glory to give us His own, iii. 276. the glory of all our own good due to God, ib. (see Grace, Martyrs. )
Our future glory, to be equal to the angels, and to see God, iii. 23.
Vain, the most dangerous vice to those advanced in holiness, i. 48. distinguished from the true glory, vi. 440, &c.
Goat, the Gentile Church called a she- goat, v. 104. he-goats not all rejected at the last, iii. 291.
GOD, Hisbeinglearnt from His works, iii. 514. few really believe there is no God, iii. 2. even they fear to say
106.
Alone truly IS, vi. 128. Three
477
heaven
We draw near to Him
like Him, 395; iv. 383. His fore knowledge, v. 184. His Beauty, iv. 174.
His Members mean powers of ope ration, 90. His Right Hand
His Power, ii. 212; v. 389, 483. or eternal happiness, iv. 277 vi. 188. the Arm of God, Christ, ii. 212; iii. 437; iv. 437. His Hand, Christ, iv. 277; v. 227.
