Christ
ascended
in order to send down love, v.
Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6
not to be trusted in, iii.
299.
is night, be fore the day of eternity, iv.
27, 279; vi.
203.
is a stage play, vi.
46.
its pleasures a trap, v.
533; vi.
258.
is an inn, not a home, i.
380.
its short ness, i.
243; ii.
31; iv.
63, 322.
hope of life, makes it seem long, i.
43.
the shortness of life, compared with that of the patriarchs, no proof of God's greater anger now, iv.
274.
The new life, signified by Christ's
Him, i. 395; iv. 383, 467. if we would be like God, we must not withdraw from Him, iii. 438. con fession restores the likeness of God, which sin destroyed, iv. 6. (see
Image. )
Lion, used as a type in opposite ways,
of Christ or of devils, ii. 362; v. 124, 125. lions' whelps, the Jewish people, iii. 87. lion in his den, Anti christ, i. 88. Christ, the Lamb, con quered the lion, vi. 446.
Lips, of the inner and outer man, iii. 446. deceitful lips lay up store of punishment hereafter, i. 268. our lips should utter what the heart holds, ii. 148. toil of the lips, pride and falsehood, vi. 230.
Locust, mystically represents malice, iv. 70.
488 INDEX.
Long, eternity long, all that ends, short, iv. 311. what seems long to us is soon to God, ii. 6. (see Eternity, Life. )
yet, because we see Him not, iv. 348. God maketh Himself lovely to us, by praising Himself, that we may love Him, for our good, vi. 314. woundeth our heart to make it love
Longing, the desire of things absent,
v. 344. the thirst of the soul, iii. Him, v. 464. the beauty of creation
216. the mind reacheth forth in longing for what it desires, ii. 132. the longing of the righteous, to see God, i. 190. this longing not grati fied, that it may increase, iv. 149. should increase till it gain what it longs for, iv. 279. is increased by tribulations, ii. 327. we must long now, if we would rejoice hereafter,
v. 524; vi. 419. longing for eternal life, our armour against temptation,
vi. 177. all holy men have longed for Christ from the beginning of the world, v. 399. longing is secret prayer; by it we can pray without ceasing, ii. 82. God promises to hear true longings, v. 5; vi. 342. nothing prevents our serving God, save want of longing, v. 345.
Lot, means ' declining,' iv. 143. chil dren of Lot, fallen angels, ib. Lot's wife a warning to others, iv. 149. Lot's daughters, a type of those who misuse the law, iii. 171.
Lot>>, casting, an appeal to God, i. 261. why grace is called lots, ib.
Love, the foot of the soul, i. 83. whereby we run for the prize of our calling, ii. 143. the glue which fastens us to God, iii 228. the soul's excellence, v. 90. the might of the City of God, ii. 298. our root, ii. 322, 398 the root of all good, iv. 289. a light burden, iii. 329. compared to water, v. 90. to a ship, vi. 65. Christ's garment woven from above, i. 157. the upper part of the heavens, as being the more excellent way, v.
75. the exceeding broad command ment, v. 405. the law of the City of God,iv. 448. the fruit exalted above Libanus, iii. 463. is life; hatred, death, iii. 33.
God's, for us, greater than ours for Him, v. 90. God loves us always, whether He caress or threaten us, iv. 315. His own death, and the gift of the Spirit, pledges of Christ's love for us, iv. 312. Christ's love the only love we can be sure of, iv. 494.
Of God. God to be loved with a chaste love, iii. 23, 72, 488; v. 167. tests of the purity of our love of God, v. 39. what it is to love God for nought, ib. vi. 135. the good love, the wicked hate, Christ for nought, v. 209. we cannot love God fully
excites to love of God, vi. 341, 348. in the creature, we should learn to love the Creator, ii. 140. he loves not God who would be content with out the sight of God, iv. 197. we should love God, as our Father: the Church, as our Mother, iv. 269. we should endeavour to make others love GoJ,iii. 489. loveof God raises us, of the world lowers us, v. 507. we rise by loving God, fall by loving the world, vi. 17. the more we love, the more we rise, iv. 158. we are in heaven, though on earth, if we love
God, iv. 190. it is for our own good, not for His, that we love God, vi. 437. God will be none the worse if we love Him not, ib. we must not divide our love between Christ and avarice, iv. 430.
Is set forth in Scripture as the most excellent way, v. 76. greater than faith and hope, and why, iv. 314. the great and marvel lous way, vi. 268. must be accom panied by humility, ib. never grow- eth old, vi. 433.
Its sweetness, vi. 110. is the cause of unity, ib. its breadth, vi. 122. how love can be said to rage, vi. 117" how far it can be angry, v. 122. neither pagans, nor heretics, nor wicked Christians can have v. 75. he has not who ungrateful to the Holy Spirit, iii. 449. he has, who seeketh not his own, v. 505. they who have, bearone another's burdens, vi. 64. the true measure of love,
Christ's example, iii. 7&. how the abounding of iniquity chills love, ii. 129.
We must pray earnestly for its increase in us, v. 384.
Christ ascended in order to send down love, v. 77. the old law and the law of love contrasted, vi. 63. none can come to Christ but by love, 118. by love, Christ on earth with us, we heaven with Him, v. 507. love cries to Christ from us, from
Christ for us, vi. 239.
Of God and our neighbour, true
love (caritas), 283. the two com. mandments of the new law, the two wings thereof, iii. 329; vi. 202, 437. the two feet, 361. the love of God contained in three Commandments,
i.
i.
is
in
it
i.
it,
is
of oar neighbour, in seven, i. 313. love to be shewn to those who are without, and how, i. 340. the more we love, the more we shall grieve at others' sins, iv. 460.
Shewn in giving and forgiving, vi. 302. even the poorest has some what to give, ii. 29. love makes us always debtors, i. 352 l ii. 64. for giveness an act of love, vi. 393. love grows by spending, ib. measured by ability, v. 503. makes us do good even to our enemies, i. 282. to love our enemies the most wonderful of God's commands, v. 338. is good for us though bitter, ii. 154.
ought, ib. we should endure, not love, things of this world, i. 268. love even of lawful things, if exces sive, hurtful, iv. 131.
Luciferians, heretics, iii. 349.
Lust, is depraved love, i. 83. love set on wrong objects, i. 283. its dead- liness, i. 82. in an ill-regulated man lust rules, reason is a slave, i. 59.
how lusts waste the soul, iii. 119. is an evil master, i. 138. compared to bird-lime, vi. 202. should be de stroyed at its birth, vi. 176. lusts, when we are slaves to them, called necessities, i. 250. compared to the root of thorns, turning the sweet rain into prickles, vi. 218. lust and fear, the two causes of all sins, iv. 109. (see Concupiscence, War
The strength of, ii. 298. why said to be strong as death, ib. v. 505. the only power whereby persecution can be withstood, i. 83.
M.
INDEX. 489
Those who have not, will be de
prived of all other gifts they have,
vi. 367. nothing else will profit,
v. 503. God our plenteousness through
love, v. 505. those who have not, Luxury, is a slippery way, i. 383. may know but cannot fulfil the com
mandments, vi. 309. love can fulfil
what fear could not, v. 431. without
love, no peace, vi. 37.
Praises God, vi. 434. have love,
and you are safe, i. 157. love, the Maccabees, the, crowned by God, for
bond which prevents schism, i. 251. builds us in as stones into God's House, vi. 98. makes us citizens of Jerusalem, iii. 252 ; vi. 394.
Casts out fear, how, vi. 37. but not chaste fear, ib. v. 427. fear and love may be motives to good or evil actions, but not chaste fear or love to evil, iv. 110.
Kills our old nature, creates a new one, v. 505. we must be wounded by love, if we would attain to per fect soundness, ii. 73. is the end of the commandment, as consummating it, i. 283. is the end of all that is good, vi. 237. the sum of all Scrip ture, vi. 238. all good works summed up in love, iv. 281.
Must work one way or another, i. 283 ; v. 490. therefore we must see that its object be good, ib.
Perverted love, called desire or lust, i. 83, 283. the love of sinners, false love, vi. 237. is of hell, ib. the troubles of evil love, v. 57. im pure love casts down, holy love ele vates, v. 490. carnal love full of jealousy, true love not, i. 356. love of hurtful things, miserable, God merciful in denying them to us,
i. 195. true happiness not to have w hat we love, but to love what we
enduring torture, vi. 188, 428. their faith failed not, though their flesh was consumed in the fire, ii. 58. their mother how like the Church, iii 377.
Mammon, means riches, iii. 13. why called mammon of unrighteousness, ii. 315.
Man, consists of soul and flesh, ii. 78. his dignity above all other animals, iv. 465; v. 14. his dignity and weakness, ii. 109. some have be lieved that he was made by God, the rest of creation by the Word, i. 131; v. 389. gifted with understand ing, v. 129. how made in the Image of God, i. 218. capable of bliss, therefore of punishment, v. 14. God alone better than man's soul, i. 332.
All men created in Adam, v. 391. and fell in him, v. 387. All men Adam, and all men Christ, iii. 431. &c. subjected to vanity, because he would not be to verity, v. 317. (see Adam, Christ )
Twofold life of, i. 34, 178. the outer, or old, and inner, or new, man, ib to put off the old and put on the new, what, i. 176. man made old by sin, renewed by grace, vi. 433. good and evil men, the strife
fare, Love, Covetousnesa.
the luxury of Christians, the most grievous persecution of the Church, iii. 394.
490 INDEX.
between, ii. 16, 392. men and sods of men, bow different, i. 66, 99, 414. Unable to heal himself, iv. 452; vi. 61. He who made, alone can
remake, ii. 274. made on the sixth day, remade in the sixth age, iv. 330. God's great regard for, vi. 305. made gratis, remade gratis, i.
The new life, signified by Christ's
Him, i. 395; iv. 383, 467. if we would be like God, we must not withdraw from Him, iii. 438. con fession restores the likeness of God, which sin destroyed, iv. 6. (see
Image. )
Lion, used as a type in opposite ways,
of Christ or of devils, ii. 362; v. 124, 125. lions' whelps, the Jewish people, iii. 87. lion in his den, Anti christ, i. 88. Christ, the Lamb, con quered the lion, vi. 446.
Lips, of the inner and outer man, iii. 446. deceitful lips lay up store of punishment hereafter, i. 268. our lips should utter what the heart holds, ii. 148. toil of the lips, pride and falsehood, vi. 230.
Locust, mystically represents malice, iv. 70.
488 INDEX.
Long, eternity long, all that ends, short, iv. 311. what seems long to us is soon to God, ii. 6. (see Eternity, Life. )
yet, because we see Him not, iv. 348. God maketh Himself lovely to us, by praising Himself, that we may love Him, for our good, vi. 314. woundeth our heart to make it love
Longing, the desire of things absent,
v. 344. the thirst of the soul, iii. Him, v. 464. the beauty of creation
216. the mind reacheth forth in longing for what it desires, ii. 132. the longing of the righteous, to see God, i. 190. this longing not grati fied, that it may increase, iv. 149. should increase till it gain what it longs for, iv. 279. is increased by tribulations, ii. 327. we must long now, if we would rejoice hereafter,
v. 524; vi. 419. longing for eternal life, our armour against temptation,
vi. 177. all holy men have longed for Christ from the beginning of the world, v. 399. longing is secret prayer; by it we can pray without ceasing, ii. 82. God promises to hear true longings, v. 5; vi. 342. nothing prevents our serving God, save want of longing, v. 345.
Lot, means ' declining,' iv. 143. chil dren of Lot, fallen angels, ib. Lot's wife a warning to others, iv. 149. Lot's daughters, a type of those who misuse the law, iii. 171.
Lot>>, casting, an appeal to God, i. 261. why grace is called lots, ib.
Love, the foot of the soul, i. 83. whereby we run for the prize of our calling, ii. 143. the glue which fastens us to God, iii 228. the soul's excellence, v. 90. the might of the City of God, ii. 298. our root, ii. 322, 398 the root of all good, iv. 289. a light burden, iii. 329. compared to water, v. 90. to a ship, vi. 65. Christ's garment woven from above, i. 157. the upper part of the heavens, as being the more excellent way, v.
75. the exceeding broad command ment, v. 405. the law of the City of God,iv. 448. the fruit exalted above Libanus, iii. 463. is life; hatred, death, iii. 33.
God's, for us, greater than ours for Him, v. 90. God loves us always, whether He caress or threaten us, iv. 315. His own death, and the gift of the Spirit, pledges of Christ's love for us, iv. 312. Christ's love the only love we can be sure of, iv. 494.
Of God. God to be loved with a chaste love, iii. 23, 72, 488; v. 167. tests of the purity of our love of God, v. 39. what it is to love God for nought, ib. vi. 135. the good love, the wicked hate, Christ for nought, v. 209. we cannot love God fully
excites to love of God, vi. 341, 348. in the creature, we should learn to love the Creator, ii. 140. he loves not God who would be content with out the sight of God, iv. 197. we should love God, as our Father: the Church, as our Mother, iv. 269. we should endeavour to make others love GoJ,iii. 489. loveof God raises us, of the world lowers us, v. 507. we rise by loving God, fall by loving the world, vi. 17. the more we love, the more we rise, iv. 158. we are in heaven, though on earth, if we love
God, iv. 190. it is for our own good, not for His, that we love God, vi. 437. God will be none the worse if we love Him not, ib. we must not divide our love between Christ and avarice, iv. 430.
Is set forth in Scripture as the most excellent way, v. 76. greater than faith and hope, and why, iv. 314. the great and marvel lous way, vi. 268. must be accom panied by humility, ib. never grow- eth old, vi. 433.
Its sweetness, vi. 110. is the cause of unity, ib. its breadth, vi. 122. how love can be said to rage, vi. 117" how far it can be angry, v. 122. neither pagans, nor heretics, nor wicked Christians can have v. 75. he has not who ungrateful to the Holy Spirit, iii. 449. he has, who seeketh not his own, v. 505. they who have, bearone another's burdens, vi. 64. the true measure of love,
Christ's example, iii. 7&. how the abounding of iniquity chills love, ii. 129.
We must pray earnestly for its increase in us, v. 384.
Christ ascended in order to send down love, v. 77. the old law and the law of love contrasted, vi. 63. none can come to Christ but by love, 118. by love, Christ on earth with us, we heaven with Him, v. 507. love cries to Christ from us, from
Christ for us, vi. 239.
Of God and our neighbour, true
love (caritas), 283. the two com. mandments of the new law, the two wings thereof, iii. 329; vi. 202, 437. the two feet, 361. the love of God contained in three Commandments,
i.
i.
is
in
it
i.
it,
is
of oar neighbour, in seven, i. 313. love to be shewn to those who are without, and how, i. 340. the more we love, the more we shall grieve at others' sins, iv. 460.
Shewn in giving and forgiving, vi. 302. even the poorest has some what to give, ii. 29. love makes us always debtors, i. 352 l ii. 64. for giveness an act of love, vi. 393. love grows by spending, ib. measured by ability, v. 503. makes us do good even to our enemies, i. 282. to love our enemies the most wonderful of God's commands, v. 338. is good for us though bitter, ii. 154.
ought, ib. we should endure, not love, things of this world, i. 268. love even of lawful things, if exces sive, hurtful, iv. 131.
Luciferians, heretics, iii. 349.
Lust, is depraved love, i. 83. love set on wrong objects, i. 283. its dead- liness, i. 82. in an ill-regulated man lust rules, reason is a slave, i. 59.
how lusts waste the soul, iii. 119. is an evil master, i. 138. compared to bird-lime, vi. 202. should be de stroyed at its birth, vi. 176. lusts, when we are slaves to them, called necessities, i. 250. compared to the root of thorns, turning the sweet rain into prickles, vi. 218. lust and fear, the two causes of all sins, iv. 109. (see Concupiscence, War
The strength of, ii. 298. why said to be strong as death, ib. v. 505. the only power whereby persecution can be withstood, i. 83.
M.
INDEX. 489
Those who have not, will be de
prived of all other gifts they have,
vi. 367. nothing else will profit,
v. 503. God our plenteousness through
love, v. 505. those who have not, Luxury, is a slippery way, i. 383. may know but cannot fulfil the com
mandments, vi. 309. love can fulfil
what fear could not, v. 431. without
love, no peace, vi. 37.
Praises God, vi. 434. have love,
and you are safe, i. 157. love, the Maccabees, the, crowned by God, for
bond which prevents schism, i. 251. builds us in as stones into God's House, vi. 98. makes us citizens of Jerusalem, iii. 252 ; vi. 394.
Casts out fear, how, vi. 37. but not chaste fear, ib. v. 427. fear and love may be motives to good or evil actions, but not chaste fear or love to evil, iv. 110.
Kills our old nature, creates a new one, v. 505. we must be wounded by love, if we would attain to per fect soundness, ii. 73. is the end of the commandment, as consummating it, i. 283. is the end of all that is good, vi. 237. the sum of all Scrip ture, vi. 238. all good works summed up in love, iv. 281.
Must work one way or another, i. 283 ; v. 490. therefore we must see that its object be good, ib.
Perverted love, called desire or lust, i. 83, 283. the love of sinners, false love, vi. 237. is of hell, ib. the troubles of evil love, v. 57. im pure love casts down, holy love ele vates, v. 490. carnal love full of jealousy, true love not, i. 356. love of hurtful things, miserable, God merciful in denying them to us,
i. 195. true happiness not to have w hat we love, but to love what we
enduring torture, vi. 188, 428. their faith failed not, though their flesh was consumed in the fire, ii. 58. their mother how like the Church, iii 377.
Mammon, means riches, iii. 13. why called mammon of unrighteousness, ii. 315.
Man, consists of soul and flesh, ii. 78. his dignity above all other animals, iv. 465; v. 14. his dignity and weakness, ii. 109. some have be lieved that he was made by God, the rest of creation by the Word, i. 131; v. 389. gifted with understand ing, v. 129. how made in the Image of God, i. 218. capable of bliss, therefore of punishment, v. 14. God alone better than man's soul, i. 332.
All men created in Adam, v. 391. and fell in him, v. 387. All men Adam, and all men Christ, iii. 431. &c. subjected to vanity, because he would not be to verity, v. 317. (see Adam, Christ )
Twofold life of, i. 34, 178. the outer, or old, and inner, or new, man, ib to put off the old and put on the new, what, i. 176. man made old by sin, renewed by grace, vi. 433. good and evil men, the strife
fare, Love, Covetousnesa.
the luxury of Christians, the most grievous persecution of the Church, iii. 394.
490 INDEX.
between, ii. 16, 392. men and sods of men, bow different, i. 66, 99, 414. Unable to heal himself, iv. 452; vi. 61. He who made, alone can
remake, ii. 274. made on the sixth day, remade in the sixth age, iv. 330. God's great regard for, vi. 305. made gratis, remade gratis, i.
