Sinai
interpretations
of the name, iii.
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Serpent, its cunning, iii. 110; vi. 223.
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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. 317. those who sin through ig
norance or weakness l;ss evil than
those through pride, v. 346. through
want, less evil than in fulness, iii. Snare, of the hunter, the sweetness
476. always without cause, v. 632. Punished, even in this life, i. 72 ; iii. 123. punished by being left to their own evil, i. 29, 59, 82, 121. by
being driven from God, i. 31. their sins overruled for their punishment,
of this life, v. 533. how men fall into, and are delivered from it, ib. iv. 2S4. the devil spreads snares not in, but around, the Way, e. Christ, ib. the devil's traps baited with error and terror, 243.
i. 58. the steps of their punishment, i. 101. a warning to others, i. 85. punished here that they may amend, iv. 259, 495. divided against them selves, iii. 431. slaves to an evil master, i. 138. cannot be true friends, iv. 326 think God either unjust or unobservant, iv. 359. God just in permitting what sinners do, iii. 208.
Their prosperity not to be envied, iii. 247. a proof of God's anger, i. 85, 89 ; iv. 457. a pitfall to them, iv. 364. compared to grass, iv. 323. imagine that God approves their sins, because He delays punishment, ii. 361.
Must acknowledge their sins in order to be pardoned, ii. 371. if they punish, God forgives, i. 291; ii. 245; v. 510. must forgive, if they would be forgiven, vi. 64 , 302. ab solved hy the Church, restored to life by God alone, v. 21. (see Coh-
creatures can sing, man only can
sing with the understanding, i. 129.
we must sing with the heart to God,
iii. 253. we sing with the voice to
arouse ourselves, with the heart to Sisera, meaning of his name, iv. 143. please God, vi. 386. he who longs,
fcssion, Repentance, Wicked. )
386; iv. 79, 448; v. 21. a type of the Church militant, ib the true Sion, the heavenly one, vi. 105, 160, 437.
Stay, to speak falsehood is to slay one's own soul, i. 27. we had better let our bodies be slain, than slay our own souls by falsehood to save them, iv. 109. sinners slain by being alien ated from the life of God, vi. 214. God would slay in us what we have made, save what He has made, vi. 54. we must either slay iniquity or be slain by it, iii. 238. men slay unjustly, yet God permits justly, iii. 208.
in comparison of God, Who alone vi. 305. false glory like to, be cause the larger the more
unsubstantial, ii. 27. man's days how consumed away like smoke, v. 14. mountains smoking, the proud humbling themselves, v. 144.
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it is,
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Sojourner, how man is a sojourner here, yet with God, ii. 123. he is a sojourner on earth, will be possessor in heaven, vi 428. distinction be tween a sojourner and a citizen, v. 339. '
Solomon, means, peacemaker,' iii. iii. 496; vi. 104. of the devil, those 417; vi. 1(5. and so a type of Christ, who imitate him, ii. 239.
ib. yet he fell, vi. 17. had he not Sorrow, is pain of mind, 205; iv. fallen the promises to David would
have seemed to be fulfilled in him,
iv. 262.
Sou, of God, called the Arm of God,
227. Christ's sorrowfulness in His agony, 303; iv. 227. no sin, but mark of human weakness, iv. 227. sorrow in undeserved suffer ing better than pleasure in unjust doing, iii. 93. the sorrow of Chris tians seeming, their joy will be real the joy of the worldly seem ing, their sorrow will be real, ii. 326.
ii. 212. 'son' often used alone in Holy
Scripture for Son of God, i. 71. His
eternal generation expressed in " to
day have I begotten Thee,' i. 6.
how of one substance with the Fa
ther, iii. 361. shares the attributes Soul, the, used either of the rational of the Father, ii. 241. how He soul, or the principle of life, v. 178. emptied Himself, iii. 137. as God,
vi. 44. who should therefore be peace-makers, ib.
Of men, who called so, i. 84, 414; ii. 304 ; iii. 7. (see Man. )
Of Abraham, David, the Patri archs, those who imitate their faith,
is every where; in the body, which He took, is in Heaven only, iv. 21. is like God in a higher sense than
we, ii. 335. is God's only-begotten Son, yet He would not have Him remain One, iii. 310. (see Christ. )
Song, how different from psalm, i. 17; iii. 312. God teaches us the song of faith, hope, and charity, iv. 313, holy joy, a song to God, vi. 385.
