Being fond of adornment, 75 C 12. Love of money is the root of all evils, 671 C 2. To flee without looking back, 130 D 5. Murderous and bloodthirsty, 416 E 5. Folly of mind, 628 B 1. X Joy follows after sorrows, 86 B 2. The law is imperfect and incomplete, 416 B 8. A choinix and two litrae as a measure among the Hebrews, 68 E 4. Swinish life, 42 A 5. Christ as Wisdom itself, 113 B 6. Ψ To be rebuked, 43 B 6. A soul full of cares, 190 E 9. Worldly things are harmful to the soul, 402 B 3.
INDICES IN THE WORKS OF THEOPHYLACT
The numbers represent the pages of the Venetian edition, the series of which we have indicated by thicker type in the text.TO THE FIRST VOLUME
In our edition, Vol. I with part of Vol. II up to col. 318.A Abiathar, who is called the son of Mark, is called Abimelech in the books of Kings, 185. To deny oneself, 213. The renunciation of Peter, how it occurred, 255. The abomination of desolation, what it is, 130. Abraham as father of the nations, and why Matthew begins the genealogy from him, 750. To raise up children to Abraham from stones, what it means, 17. Abraham was just, merciful, and hospitable, and why he was invoked by the rich man, and not Lazarus, 420. Abraham's bosom, 420. Abraham was first a Gentile and a worshiper of idols, 421. Abraham as the father of the Hebrews, 4. Abraham offering Isaac, whom he prefigured, 630. Adam, where he was buried, 257, 485, 750. Things that happen here are for admonition; those that happen elsewhere are for punishments, 570. The young man who fled naked, who he is, 255. How one ought to worship God, 537. Worship is to be rendered to God alone, 641. The two comings of Christ, and the two precursors, 216. The two comings of Christ, as Savior and as Judge, 541. If there were no adversaries, there would be no crown, 328. The Pharisees flatter, Christ rebukes, 178. Who the builders are, 236. Aelius Hadrianus razed the temple and the city of Jerusalem to the ground, 441. The three ages of man, 19. Why punishment is eternal, though sins often last but a short time, 370. Affliction, 67. Why Christ is called the Lamb of God, 323. Christ is the husbandman, 714. Strange and unusual things always please more than familiar ones, 564. "Another and another" are said of person; "other and other" are said of nature, 507. Altars among us are sanctified by the gifts, but this was not done so in the old law, 123. To covet honors is of the Gentiles, 229. Ambition, how evil and tyrannical it is, 107. Amen is an affirmative word, 26. The friend coming from the road, who he is, 554. Angels are called ministers and rulers, 95. Angels are indignant at the inhumane and merciless, 95. Angels and priests are co-workers of Christ, 666. The power of angels and why they are called angels, 511. Corner, 236. The narrow gate, 36. Anguish: let us not be faint-hearted in times of anguish, 584. Christ is not called an animal, 596. False apparitions of souls, 41, 755. To love and find, to lose and hate one's own soul, what it means, 51. The soul of the dead, where it is, 41. The food of the soul is every work, 71. The soul's garment and wife: the flesh, children, works, 97. The whole man is often signified by the word "soul," 510. The three virtues of the soul by which we ought to love God, 139. The healing of the soul is more difficult than that of the body, 182, 307. Christ heals the soul and also infuses virtue, 182. What it means for the soul to be trampled, 279. The distinction between soul and spirit, 279. What are the goods of the rational soul, 371. What the soul is, 557. The animal man, 395, 595. Antichrist is called the abomination of desolation, 130. In the time of Antichrist there will be many false prophets, by whom many of the just will be seduced, 130. How the times of Antichrist will be, and how his imposture will multiply iniquities and trouble charity, 130. What kind of person Antichrist is, and who is indicated, 644. How those of old lived before the law was given, and why the Law and Scripture were given, 5. Apollinarius, who denied that Christ had assumed a soul, is refuted, and whence he took the occasion for his error, 15, 619. Apollinarius of Laodicea is refuted, asserting that our Lord and God did not assume the perfect nature of man, that is, body with a rational soul, but flesh alone, 515. How Apollinarius, arguing that Christ's flesh was inanimate, is refuted, 515. Apollinarius, teaching that Christ assumed a body from heaven which passed through the Virgin as through a conduit, is refuted, 512. And again, denying that Christ's body is from this world, 619. The mutual love and reverence of the Apostles, 671. Let us be imitators of the Apostles, 109. Whether the Apostles moved mountains, 91. The Samaritan apostle was a woman, 559. The Apostles believe Christ more than themselves, 145. The second calling of the Apostles, 177. Why the Apostles are commanded to remain in one house, 344. How the kingdom of God approaches those who heed and those who do not heed, 344. By what power the Apostles and prophets performed miracles before Christ was glorified, 612. The fruit of the Apostles: the nations converted to the faith, 712. The faith of the Apostles in the words of Christ, 691. How "among" is to be understood, 506. Living water is the grace of the Holy Spirit, 554. What the water and blood flowing from the side of Christ signify, 755. By water we arrive at Christianity, 755.
INDEX TO VOLUME I. OF THEOPHYLACT
A Mark the evangelist, compared to the eagle, in the preface to the Gospel according to Mark. Man compared to a tree, 37. Archelaus the king, 13. The "threshing floor" is the Church, 18. "Areola" (the small bed), 203. Arius, asserting that baptism should be in names, not in the name, is refuted, 167. Arius is refuted, for feigning that the Son of God is a creature and a work, 507, 653. Arius is refuted for asserting that all things were made through the Son, not as if that one is the Maker, but an instrument, 508. Likewise, wishing to demonstrate that the Son is not begotten by the Father, but existed like one of the other creatures, 518, 572. The error of Arius, asserting that Christ is subject to hours and times, 532. The error of Arius, asserting that Christ is the only-begotten of God because he alone was made and founded by God, while all other things were [made] by him; denying that the Son is of the same substance and power as the Father, 572. Arius is refuted, claiming [that] the Father comes to be in the disciples through him, 733. The weapons of the devil are sins, 357. Armenians, denying two natures in Christ, are refuted, 755. The arrogant man is not a disciple of the Lord, 603. What the she-ass signifies, 250. The symbol of the ass in the Law, 673. Invidious aspects, 569. How great is the disease of avarice, 136. To the avaricious, poverty is hateful, 415. It is not enough to hear; one must have heard and learned, 593. The one who hears and does not do will suffer a great ruin, 590. Christ, tempering himself to the capacity of the hearers, often seems to say contrary things, 730. For the sake of the hearers, Christ often speaks humbly of himself, 648. What the ear of the high priest's servant, cut off, signifies, 151. The ear signifies obedience, 737. What gold, frankincense, and myrrh signify, 13.
B Babylon and Egypt are the workshops of all wickedness, 14. What the baptism of Christ is, 18. Baptism casts out the devil, 63. Whether baptism ought to be done in the name of Christ alone, 497. There is no hope for a second baptism, except through repentance; purity is not enough, 513. The baptism was not John’s, but Christ’s, 521. How the Lord called [physical] birth a baptism, 541. Baptism is Jacob’s well, 560. Baptism is designated by the pool of Bethsaida, 567. What the water of baptism is like, and its power, 568. The symbol of baptism, 540. How great is the gift and virtue of baptism, 547. It is not enough to be baptized alone; one must work well afterwards, 167. Why the Lord is baptized, 176. The Holy Spirit is given to the baptized, and heaven is opened, 176. What Barabbas [signifies], 156. Battology, 31. Battarism, 31. Wars, famine, pestilence never come from anywhere else but from God, 241. Blessed are those who, 25. The Law does not prohibit doing good to anyone on the Sabbath, 369. Bethany, 231, 448. Bethabara, 523. Bethlehem, what [it is], 10. Bethlehem is the fatherland of David, 282. Bethlehem is situated to the south, 382. Bethphage is interpreted as the house of the jaws, 448. Bethsaida, a city, 523. Blasphemy, 206. Boanerges, 187. Our good deeds are to be hidden and not displayed, 180. Our good deeds are to be hidden from the envious, 330. Our good deeds are to be offered and attributed to God, 179, 196. Our good deeds are twofold, of the body and of the soul, 44. We receive the beginnings and seeds of good things through grace, which we graft and make grow, 554. God alone is good, 102. God is the fountain and root of goodness, 221.
C What a corpse is, 201. God permits us to fall because of excessive confidence, 250. All fall who are adversaries of the Word, 756. Who the blind and dumb man is, 59. The blind man, questioned by Jesus, as to what he wants, 229. Why Christ sends the blind man to Siloam, 634. What Caesar is, 236. Caiaphas the bloodthirsty, 666. What the sandals of Christ signify, 1254. The cup of passion, 149. Why Christ prays to avoid the cup, 149. The place of Calvary, 158. The camel is an animal midway between clean and unclean, 16. What the camel is, 103. Whether the sign in Cana of Galilee was absolutely the first, 535. Who are the dogs and the swine, 35. Capernaum, 21. Capernaum, the city of Christ, 42. Capernaum exalted, why, and what it is, 55. Flesh is the wife of the soul; deeds are the children, 97. Why Christ performed the Passover, 142. How Christ is said to have been three days in the earth, 62. Christ is the true pearl, 70. The brothers and sisters of Christ, 71. Christ killed outside the vineyard, 251. How Christ is the God of the living and not of the dead; and elsewhere, how he is called the God of the living and the dead, 121. How Christ is [associated with] the third day, 163. How all things have been delivered to Christ, 166. Why Christ is baptized; why he sits in a boat, 187. Who are the kinsmen of Christ, 189. Many will falsely claim the name of Christ, 241. When the second coming of Christ will be, 244. Christ is the true Passover, 142, 246. Christ is a prophet, 247. The care for Christ is to be preferred to the care of the poor, 247. That Christ and the disciples did not have their own houses, 248. Christ will not come without a body, 547. The beginning of Christ's preaching, 547. The body of Christ is truly on the altar, 247. Christ's humble acts are to be attributed to the weakness of the hearers, 725. How Christ is said to sit upon the seat of David, 276. Why Christ has delivered us, 283. How Christ grew in wisdom, 291. The book of Isaiah offered to Christ while he was reading, 300. Why Christ works signs in Capernaum, but not in Nazareth, 301. The flesh of Christ is life-giving, 317. Whom Christ and his words should put to shame, 339. All things are delivered to Christ rather than to an angel or archangel, 337. What sort of person a disciple of Christ ought to be, 402. That Christ is not seen in the altar, 249. The glory of Christ is the flesh and the cross, 427. The flesh of Christ in the altar is life-giving, just like the flesh of God, 595. Christ has two births, 12. Christ is the firstborn and only-begotten, 10. How Christ is a shepherd, 12. Why Christ willed to be baptized at thirty years of age, 19. Christ came as a physician, not as a judge, 43. Why Christ was believed by some to be Elias, Jeremias, or John the Baptist, 84, 200. Why Christ willed his glory to be overshadowed, 212. Christ sacrificed himself by handing himself over to the disciples, 164. Why Christ is the bridegroom, 117, 184. What it means to see the face of Christ, 88. Why Christ is called the Lamb of God, 523. The childhood miracles of Christ are spurious, 523. How Christ is not subject to hours and time, 532. Christ did not drive out the buyers and sellers only once, 536. Why Christ did not baptize himself, 546. How Christ is said to grow, 547. Christ alone is the bridegroom; the teachers are the groomsmen, 526. That Christ is taught as one hypostasis with two natures, 542. The coming of Christ is preached in the books of Moses, 558. Christ neither had his own house while living, nor a sepulcher while dead, 757. Christ seeks to gain our life in various ways, 560. When Christ lacked nothing, why he often received many things, 562. How Christ is to be understood as coming in the name of the Father, 579. Christ is attentive and composed, not accustomed to let his eyes wander here and there, 582. That Christ has no need of prayer is shown by examples, 663. Christ is the bread of life, giving life to all, 593. Christ cannot lie, nor can he even be deceived, 698. The brothers of Christ are the sons of Joseph, 601. Christ proved himself to be true man, 603. At what time of the year Christ suffered, 650. The voice of Christ raising Lazarus, and why he wept, 665. Christ is the way to the Father, 66. Asking in the name of Christ, 724. Christ is at the right hand of God, 714. Christ is the husbandman, 714. Christ is called the Paraclete, and the Holy Spirit [is called the Paraclete] by Paul, 707. Christ, dead and naked, in the poor, 757. Why Christ permitted himself to be touched after the resurrection, 765. How Christ ate after the resurrection, 763. The saving name of Christ, 724. The death of Christ was a kind of pilgrimage, 249. Why the disciples who were called immediately followed Christ, 177. It is not fitting for a Christian to wear soft [clothes], 55. Christians exist who are wicked, and Gentiles who are good, 546. There are two heads of Christianity, 167. What Christianity requires, 546. Chrysostom is gold-mouthed, 773.
A Seeking food from the devil, 203. The food of Christ is the will of God, 252. What is the food that perishes, 597. What is circumcision, 281. Whether keys were given to Peter alone, and what they signify, 85. God is not accustomed to make us better by force and violence, 598. Heavens opened through Christ, 19. What is the kingdom of heaven, 405. God did not wish to constrain us: otherwise He would not have made us rational, nor possessed of free will, 405. The envy of relatives is peculiar, 601. Who are the relatives of Christ, 189. Scripture calls relatives brothers, 753. Charity is called knowledge, 27. The knowledge of future things belongs to God alone, 530. We cannot know God unless He first knows us, 647. Whence carnal intercourse arises, 514. What it means to buffet, 153. Who the money-changers are, 110. The fertile dove, 288. The simplicity of doves, 19, 48. No one is fed by Communion unless healed in soul, 75. How the sacrament of Communion is defined, 595. A beautiful comparison of the sower and the reaper, 563. He who lacks compassion does not abide in God, 98. It is beastly to lack compassion, 662. Why the Lord said "compel them to come in," 398. What is called true concord, 96. Concord is not always good, 51. Unbelief is condemnation, 545. He who trusts in his own wisdom does not call upon God, 55. What it means to confess in Christ, 50. How difficult the separation of marriage is, 100. What love and care marriage ought to have, 417. Why Moses allowed divorce so quickly, 416. The good of marriage was of the greatest concern to God, 100. Conscience will judge each one according to his deed in the second coming, 545. One must not contend with brothers over temporal things, 27. Christ checks the contention of the disciples regarding primacy with two examples, 469. It is given to those who ask to remain continent, 101. The commendation of continence, 24. To convene for the sake of meeting or cohabiting, 7. There is no hope of conversion after death, 137. To know the heart of man belongs only to God, 597, 725. What is Corban, 78, 206. What is Corbana, 154. A horn, 282. The body is the house of the soul, 130. A body that falls is called a corpse, 201. Judas did not eat the body of Christ, but hid it; and more on the body of Christ, 147. The body of the Lord itself is the bread which is sanctified on the altar, 146. The body of Christ, soul, and body, is to be received as bread, 261. The body of Christ is indivisible, 752. Things necessary are to be rendered to the body, 336. A believer, 233. Believers who do not have a good life will be condemned, 70. The believer has abolished the law through the Gospel, 177. Signs following believers, 264. Every believer gains two things: that he should not perish, and that he should have eternal life, 544. Only believers will be brought into judgment to render an account, 545. To believe someone, and to believe in someone differ, 682. The wicked man cannot believe, 682. In believers are seen the works of the Spirit, 720. To believe every flesh is the glory of God, 726. Those who believe in Christ will not die, 660. No one is believed less than he who swears much, 29. It was the custom of the Romans to crucify rebels, 742. What the cross was to the ancients, 87, 289. To take up the cross, 87. The cross is the punishment of the worst, 51, 156. Who may carry the cross of Christ, 157. The cross is a cup and a baptism, 228. The torment of the cross was ignominious to the ancients, 749. The cross is the mortification of the affections, etc., 484. What hour the crucifixion of Christ was, 748. The cross of Christ the Lord, and the sovereignty of the King, 484. The cross and death are the authors of grace for us, 542. A comparison of the cross of Christ and the uplifted serpent, 542. The cross and flesh are the glory of Christ, 489, 543. What it means to strain out a gnat and swallow a camel, 126. Who are the true worshippers of God, 640. Why Mark added "when the sun was set," 179. Let us not be addicted to the cares of this life, 588. Custody, 163. The custody of the apostles, 730. D The cruelty of demons toward men, 41. Demons will be allowed to contend with us until the consummation of the world, and why, 193. Famished demons and their food, 187. Why the kind of demons is cast out especially by fasting, 92.
1256 Demons are not to be believed even when they speak the truth, 178. Demons have no power, not even over swine, 193. The torment of demons is to be driven from man, 195. How a demon is cast out, 219. A troop of demons are serpents and scorpions, 345. Demons can even perform miracles, 332, 530. Christ was even thought to be a demoniac by his own relatives, 188. He is worthy of greater damnation who commits evils under the pretext of good, 124. David is an ancient type of Christ, 4. What is the seat of David, 276. Whose are the psalms of David for the winepresses, 601. The giving of tithes, 434. The Theotokos, 517. One must not believe in the ghosts of the dead, 421. To descend from heaven, whose it is, 590. God descended from heaven as God, and ascended into heaven as man, 597. Whether God is seen by anyone, 699. God swears by himself alone, 29. God works virtues in us, 37. Who loves God, 712. God gives more than we ask, 98. All things are possible to God, 225. All good works are to be attributed to God, 179, 196. God wakes us at night and by day, 192. God is to be obeyed everywhere rather than our own will; there are two ways he reigns, 346. We have need of God, and God has need of us, 367, 368. The appellations of God as avenging and merciful, 396. God alone knows thoughts and hearts, 40, 725. How God is to be worshipped, 557. How God is said to be working even now, 572. God lacks form and figure, 178. God gives to all, but those who use and keep it show the gift of God, 598. God appears to some after death, 116. How God blinds us, 681. God does not hear sinners, what it means, 640. Whom God hears and whom He does not, 640. We cannot know God unless first known by Him, 647. The abandonment of God is called blindness, 681. Deification, 652. Men are called gods, 704. The right hand of God is Christ, 714. What are the right and left, 28. What is the rest of the devil, 63. The devil is called "lion-ant" in Job, 372. The power of the devil is demonstrated by the betrayal of Judas, 599. What are the evils of the devil, 626. Why the devil is called the prince of this world, 709. Didymus, 764. The custom of paying the didrachma, 92. What is the evil of the day, 34. The great day of the feast, 611. How festival days are to be observed, 569. Who is the finger of God, and in what manner, 356. Two kinds of love, 362. Love is the greatest thing for faith, 322. Love is the head of all commandments, 713. The wonderful love of God toward the world, 544. To love all is the mark of the perfect, 30. He who loves God also loves his neighbor, 239. How to love one's neighbor and one another is a new commandment, 696. What it is to love God, 736. Christ did not cease to love us, 736. What the flood and the Sodomitic fire signify, 429. Dionysius the Areopagite, 381. They are disciples of Christ who nourish themselves by just labors, 177. Hard things are not to be enjoined upon the disciples, 44. Since the disciples were called by Christ, it was from this that they followed Him immediately, 529. Discord among teachers offends the disciples, 732. Two things are necessary for a steward, faith and prudence, 135. Who is a steward, 439. Those who dissent will persuade no one, 733. Laudable dissension, 636. Why the rich man calls upon Abraham for help, and not Lazarus, 419. No one is richer than his neighbor, who loves his neighbor as himself, 102. The love of riches is a mountain, 20. The greedy for riches are mostly lovers of life, 439. How the Pharisees hunted for riches, 206. The barns of our riches are the bellies of the poor, 370. The bond of many riches is more vehement than that of few, 102. Riches are not accompanied by longevity of life, nor any rest, 369. Riches are injustices, 413. Christ calls earthly riches as nothing, 414. The dignity of teaching belongs to God alone, 124. Nothing is so becoming to the teachers of the world as humility and contempt for riches, 47. A teacher should not be discouraged, 47. Teachers who are weak are not to be burdened, nor are those who have a corrupt life to be looked down upon, 44.
Provided they teach truly and well, 122. A wicked teacher and leader, who does not allow his own to progress in what is good, what he deserves, is taught, as he ought to do, 202, 362. A teacher’s speech has no firmness unless he first shows himself a doer, 481. Who should be appointed a teacher, 526. Evil doctrine and a corrupt life ruin a man, 421. Every time is suitable for doctrine, 527. Who holds the doctrine of the Lord, 627. The preservation of right dogmas is sanctification, 752. The Lord’s day, 490. "House" is sometimes used for generation in Scripture, 392. Christ did not have a house, 757. When God’s gifts are removed from us, 99. Present gifts are not to be conferred upon future ones, 138. "Until," what it signifies in the Scriptures, 9. "Until I come," how it should be explained, 772. "Until" is a word of perpetuity, 10, 98. Dositheus, 129. Two are better than one, 199. Why twelve disciples, 46. Hard things are not to be enjoined upon disciples, 44.
E Holy drunkenness, by which Paul, David, and God Himself passed out of this world, 409. The Gentile Church is typified by the Canaanite woman, 80. How the Church is built upon Peter, 85. The Church is the house of the Paraclete, 182. Those who administer ecclesiastical things have many money-tables, 232. The Church is wonderful, 256. Evil Church leaders are rebuked, 378. We are all the Church, each is a member, but Christ is the head, 667. An unnatural eclipse at the death of Christ, 159. God’s election does not force our will, 599. Election is made by God, by which He encourages toward the good and imparts goodness; but it is in our mind and will to be saved, or the opposite, 599. In what power it lies for one to become elect, 117. Almsgiving is the first gate of deifying charity, 361. Elias is the forerunner of the second coming, just as John was of the first, 56. The coming of Elias, 216. Why Elias and Moses appear with Christ, 215. God chooses those whom He afterwards abandons because of their wickedness, 690. Elizabeth, 271. Elizabeth, one of the daughters of Aaron, 277. Embryo, 514. Dedications (Encaenia), what they are and on what day celebrated, 651. What the office of a bishop is, 286. Bishops should not be in one place and slothful, but should travel around and benefit many, 179. "And" for "for," 278, 529. And why "to Peter" was added in Mark, 262. Why the Gospels were written; in the Preface to Matthew; what the Gospel is, ibid. Why there are four Gospels, ibid. The Gospel is light, 21. Where and when Mark’s Gospel was written; in the Preface to the Gospel of Mark. The evangelical life is the kingdom of God, 277. The Gospel according to the Egyptians, and the twelve; in the Preface to the Gospel of Luke. Evangelical speech is compared to wine, the law to water, 534. The excellence of the evangelical law, 554. The diversity of the evangelical law and the old promises, 541. The concord of the evangelists; in the Preface to the Gospel of Matthew. The opinion of some concerning the evangelists, 166. Evangelists do not disagree in chief matters, 255. Evangelists wrote few things out of many, 602. One Spirit moved all the evangelists; in the Preface to the Gospel of John. The concord of the evangelists concerning the hour of Christ’s crucifixion, 748. Eunomius is refuted for denying one and the same power and operation of the Father and the Son, 573. Also for foolishly claiming the Spirit is a servant, 541. The difference between eunuchs, 101. The ravings of Eutyches, who asserts that Christ appeared as a man only in appearance, 516. Blindness is the abandonment of God, 681. Nothing is more miserable than the blinded, 469. To shake off the dust, what it means, 48.
F Who is said to see the face of Christ, 90. What it is to obscure the face, 32. Foolish virgins, 136. The fast of the fourth day (Wednesday), 216. What the leaven of the Pharisees is, 365. Three feasts of the Jews, 600. What it is to observe feast days, 569. What the fig tree is, and why it was cursed by the Lord, 252. The withered fig tree is a type of the Jewish Synagogue, 112, 23. The fig tree is the generation of the Jews, 385.
Fidelis (faithful) and prudent is rare, 135. One is not truly faithful who is impure in life, 543. One seems to be faithful in Christ insofar as he believes, 710. Faith alone without works does not justify, 37, 576. Faith perfects all things, 34, 43. Christ attributes His miracles to faith, 218. Weak faith easily falls, 76. Faith and prudence are required of every steward, 135. The Lord does not immediately grant the request of the Canaanite woman, so that He might manifest her faith, 207. Faith stripped of works will result in a greater occasion for torments, 118. Undoubted faith is to be retained in the reception of the sacrament of the body, 593. How great is the virtue of faith and credulity, 710. Faith is the basis of prayer, 433. Faith alone does not effect the sonship of God, nor does it save, 710. Cold and imperfect faith is not faith, 566. Faith without works is dead, and conversely, 588. Diligent faith is a leader to every operation, ibid. Faith in Christ is a perfect and holy work, and one that sanctifies him who possesses it, 588. Faith is the greatest and most excellent gift of God, 590. The faith of those who, having seen signs, suddenly believed, 609. Right faith is from the Scriptures, 611. By faith in Christ we are free and no longer slaves, 623. Faith will not exist in the future age, 634. It is the part of faith to receive things unseen, 763. The Son is of the same substance as the Father, 716. The Son also sends the Holy Spirit, 716. How the Son is in the Father, and again the Father in the Son, 698. Christ is the truthful God, not a liar, 727. How Christ the Son is said to be heard by the Father, 714. The Son and the Father have the same power, operation, and knowledge, 576, 698. To see the Son of God is the greatest rest for man, 733. One should not blush for the sins of parents, 6. The end of the Jewish kingdom, 39. Who are the children of the bridal chamber, 184. The appellation of children and sons in the Scriptures, 44. The Son of man, 310. Why we are called sons of God, 515. They are sons of God who hear the word of God, they bear punishments, 632. To touch the fringe of Christ's garment, 77. All prosperous and bitter things are to have an end, 168. One must keep the end in memory, 245. Who is strong, and what his vessels are, 188. It is lawful to marry the wife of a deceased brother who left no children, 73. One must always bring forth fruit, 17. Who is said to bring forth fruit, 711. A thief is one who does not rightly use the Scriptures, 644. Christ was deemed a madman even by His own, 188. God alone has the knowledge of future things, 536, 271.
G Gabriel, what it means, 277. Galilee, the land of the Gentiles, 15. The Galileans were seditious, 480. Gluttony is a measure hiding the light, 197. Gaza and the treasury (gazophylacium), 78, 240. The joy of the good is to suffer insults and hardships for Christ, 732. Gehenna, what it is and whence it comes, 30. A comparison of divine and carnal generation, 514. How fourteen generations, where there are only thirteen persons, 7. How Scripture wishes to name generation, 244. The humility of birth is despised, 199. There is no utility of birth unless good morals are present, 189. The Gentiles were also dissenting and tumultuous among themselves, 118. Why the genealogy of Christ begins from Abraham, 4. Why the genealogy of Joseph, and not that of Mary, is set down, 8. The sword is the word of faith, 51. One is to use the sword not at all, 151. What the glory of God is, 498, 719. The disease of vainglory invaded the apostles, 95. The vain seeker of glory is a servant and ignominious, 682. If you follow glory, you will not find it; if you flee it, it will follow you, 183. The glory given by Christ to the apostles is manifold, and what is the greatest, 733. The greatest glory of the just is to see the Son of God, 733. The glory of Christ is the cross and the flesh, 612. What it is for Christ to be glorified, 737. The Greeks also used to go to Jerusalem to worship God, 674. The difference between grace and merits; in the Preface to the Gospel of Matthew. Grace is effective even through the unworthy, 37. Grace of God [calls] all, as well the good as the evil, 118. Thanks are to be given to God before food and always after, 147, 250. To be "gracious" and "full of grace" differ by much, 275. The grace of the Holy Spirit is living water, 554. Christ is the exemplar of gratitude, 85. Gregory the Theologian, 59.
H Heretics are crafty and smooth-tongued, 56. God does not want heretics to be immediately burned and consumed by war, 68. Christ held the Hebrew [Scriptures] in honor even unto death, 259.
The Hebrews corrupted Scripture through their own malice, 9. Herod, who he is and whence, 10. The bitter death of Herod, 15. Why Herod was believed by some to be Christ, 186. Herod as the slayer of John, 200. Why Herod was glad to see Jesus, 481. Who the Herodians are, 186, 211. Whether Herodias was taken by Herod while Philip was still alive, 201. What a hiatus is, 419. The war and desolation of Jerusalem, when, 212. Jerusalem as the land of malice, 222. The see of Jerusalem was handed down to James the Less, 253. How "This is my body" is to be understood, 249. What "today and tomorrow" means, 391. Homicide and lying are the evils most proper to the devil, 626. Every man is a participant in the nature of all things, 348. The two-fold infirmity of men, 388. A man is known as good or wicked in his thirtieth year, because this is the perfect age, 19. There are three orders of men, 595. The purpose of man is nothing without the aid of God, 472. Man is an animal changeable by his very nature, 600. What is the greatest rest for man, 733. Few are held in honor among their own people, 564. It is the way of the nations to covet honors and dignities, 229. What Hosanna means, 110, 231, 672. We must be hospitable, even if possessing little, 74. The commendation of hospitality, 154. To what extent hospitality is to be venerated, 352. Two things dominate the human race, 543. The things of human nature which are in Christ are attributed to the divine, 544. Those who inflict injury upon the humble are liable to the greatest punishments, 81. It is the work of a disciple to be made humble, 107. To be humbled is the work of God, 636. Where the law of humility is prescribed, 685. The humility of Christ, 684. The water jars of stone, 533. Who the hypocrites are and to whom they are compared, 31. Hypocrites are great before men, 273. What sort of evil hypocrisy is, 365. One hypostasis in Christ with two natures, 542. The Father and the Son differ by their hypostases, 653.
Idolatry is understood through the sixth man of the Samaritan woman, 661. God did not prepare fire for men, but for demons, yet we cast ourselves into it, 140. The inextinguishable fire of Gehenna, 18, 221. The ignobility and obscurity of men does not displease God, nor does nobility please Him, 262. The merciless man is a plunderer, 141. Unclean spirits, 178. The unclean man is not truly a believer, 545. The impious shall not rise in judgment, 545. Why the wicked generally live in prosperity here, 570. Who is most correctly called impudent, 432. The work of the Incarnation of the only-begotten Christ is to sanctify our nature, 727. Incredulity gives place to the devil to invade man, 31. The penalty of incredulity, 274. Incredulity is condemnation, 545. The Spirit will convict the incredulous, 19, 719. Mysteries are not to be revealed to the incredulous, and why, 35. All the incredulous are cursed, 545. The words of the incredulous, "How" and "Why this," are to be understood, 545. It is not fitting that we be more austere toward the unteachable, 209. What hell is, 419. The origin of infidelity, but not the only one, 580. It is impossible to baptize the unfaithful, 620. How we should avenge ourselves on enemies, 627. The love of enemies is the vertex of virtues, 30. Even those who are not priests, when affected by injury, bind those who injure them, 96. The punishment of the unjust is unceasing, 141. What an intelligent man is, 326. To what extent the intercession of the saints [avails], 80. Among those born of women, how it is understood by some, 319. There are two causes of our destruction, 121. The true interpreter of Scripture sees the face of Christ, 90. One must not answer those who ask maliciously, 113. Envy obscures all good things, 199. The comparison of the envy of the Jews, 604. Our good things are to be concealed from the envious, 330. What an iota and a dot are, 26. What anger is just, 27. Anger is an evil beast, 437. Who are the irreprehensible, 271. The nativity of Isaac, 514. Isaac as a type of Christ, 750. The testimony of Isaiah concerning the birth of the Virgin against the Jews, 9. Iscariot [named] from the village of Iscara, 145. Who the Israelites are, 330. Jacob’s prophecy falsely interpreted by the Herodians, 186. James, bishop of Jerusalem, who used one garment throughout his whole life, 273. Herod killed James, 107. Fasting is an armor against temptations, 19. The time of fasting, 43. The virtue of fasting in healing the demon-possessed, 219. We fast on Wednesdays, 246. Who must fast, 229. Jeremiah, taken as a prophet while a boy, 84. Jesus as Savior and God, 8. Jesus condescends to all, so that He might gain all, 54, 59. How we can see Jesus, 90. Whence Jesus is called a Nazarene, 530. Why John was sent, 16. John as the mediator of the Old and New Testaments, 16. John, because he was a pure man, could not overcome the passions without bodily mortification, 45. Why John sent [men] to ask, "Who art thou?", 32, 318. Why John is called an angel, and not a reed, 53, 174. John is buried in Sebaste, 73. The life of John was irreprehensible, 113. John as the last of the prophets, the beginning of the New Testament, 174. Why John went into the desert as a boy, 284. Why the death of John was hastened, and Theophylact’s opinion concerning it, 547. Why John is a burning lamp, 577. When and where John the Evangelist wrote his Gospel: In the preface to the Gospel of John. John as the interpreter of Matthew’s Hebrew Gospel into Greek: In the preface to the Gospel of Matthew. Why John has the face of a lion: In the preface to the Gospel of Mark. John as contemplative, 177. What John means, 281. John, though unlearned, taught us things which none of the evangelists dared to utter: In the preface to the Gospel of John. Why John said, "In the beginning was the Word," and not rather, "In the beginning was the Son," 505. John was beloved by Christ, 88. Why John reclined on the Lord’s bosom, 692. John was alien to all pride, 772. Trajan condemned John the Evangelist, 107. John was moved by Christ to write, 773. Job behaved very poorly toward reproaches, 26. What sign of Jonah there is, 359. Whether Joseph was a just man wishing to dismiss Mary, 7. Joseph had six children from the wife of his brother Cleopas, 71, 161. Joseph’s children are the step-children of the mother of Jesus, 161, 260. How Joseph is the son of Jacob in Matthew, but the son of Eli in Luke, 297. Joseph of Arimathea, 261. Joseph the historian, 131. Judas is called confession, 387, 665. There are two Judases, 145. Judas Iscariot, 46, 143. Christ strove with all zeal to call back Judas, 150. The death of Judas Iscariot, 151. Why Judas was chosen for the apostolate, and what it signifies, 187. Judas was not always evil, but sometimes had a holy will, 600. Why the dispensation of the money bags was entrusted to Judas, 671. Judas was a miser, a thief, and a sacrilegious man, 670. It seems that Christ washed Judas first, 686. Judea as confession and the Jew as confessing, 158. Why the Jews did not think that Christ should be killed on the feast day, 222. The custom of the Jews in rending their garments, 254. The two destructions of the Jews, 453. The Jews offer a local worship to God, the Samaritans a different one, 556. The frequent ablution of the Jews, 533. Due to the negligence of the Jews, many books are missing from the sacred ones, 15. How the Jews were accustomed to release one prisoner, 744. How the Jews were handed over to the Romans, 750. The Jews did many things without the command of the Law, 745. The jubilee year, 630. Let the judge receive not gifts, but works, and he shall judge, 87. We must not contend in judgment, 29. Mercy follows judgment, and faith follows mercy, 126. The Son knows the day of judgment, 135. Judgment at the second coming, or the conscience of each individual, 545. The Father gave judgment to the Son, not because He is the son of man, but because He is God, 683. What the yoke of Christ is, 56. Julian the Apostate, 226. That to swear in the evangelical law is altogether an evil, 29. He who swears is often to be distrusted, 29. An oath is not always to be kept, 73. How the just possess the earth, 23. The souls of the just are in the hand of God, 41. Justice is every virtue, 26. Justice when combined with pride makes a man the lowest of all, 433. What justifications are, 271. How God is justified in sinners, 633.
Lamech, 127, 362. The lamp of the soul is given, 136. Who the cornerstone is, 236. The thieves are a figure of two peoples, 159, 258. Decisions of the thief, 644. We ought to be washed, so that we may worthily communicate in the body of Christ, 687. The narration of Lazarus and the rich miser is not history, but a parable, 417. The voice of Christ raising Lazarus, 665. One must attend to reading on the Sabbath, 185. What a legion is, 151. Lions sent into Samaria, 556. The law of God is a plantation, and so it is not eradicated, 79. How Christ is said to have fulfilled the Law, 18. The Law is to be understood according to the spirit, 79. The law of Christ is superior to the life of Elijah, 310. It is necessary to hear those who teach the law of God, even if they do not practice it, 122. God gave us three various laws, 386; nothing falls away from the law without being done, 476. The Law spoke imperfectly to the imperfect, ibid. When the cessation of the Law is, 562. Nothing of the Law is taken away by Christ, 417. The law of Moses reprehends sins, and inflicts punishment sparing no one, 544. Length of days is promised to those keeping the Law; but eternal life to those keeping the Gospel, 544. How Christ is the end of the Law, 562. The Law and the prophets could not accomplish the will of God, that is, salvation, 562. The Law is all Scripture, 652. The books of Moses are not called the Law alone, 716. Leprosy, an incurable disease, 305. Why Christ touches the leper, 180. Why it was enjoined by the Lord that the cleansed lepers show themselves to the priests, 426. Consecration of the tribe of Levi, 92. Leviathan, 91. Liberty of spirit, 285. Christ shows free will, saying, If any man will, 86, 690. Free will, 405, 432. Free will is diminished, 592. Binding and loosing, to what extent, 85. How the casting into outer darkness with hands and feet bound is to be understood, 118. What locusts are, 16. The nature of locusts, 175. Long-suffering is taught by Christ, 114. What the washing of the feet signifies, 690. The calf is given to Luke, in the preface of the Gospel of Mark. To grieve is a certain species of helping, 94. Lunatics are demoniacs, 22. The apostles are the light of the world, 25.
M B The Macedonians are confuted for attempting to show that the Holy Spirit is a creature, and numbering Him among things that have been made, 510. Macedonians, who diminish the glory of the Spirit and assert that He is a servant of the Son, are refuted, 541. Macedonius is confuted, asserting that the Spirit is of a different substance and inferior to the Son, 702. The three Magdalenes, 143, 246. Who the Magi were and why they came, 10. They were Babylonians, 14. Whether anyone can be called Master, 124. The comparison of the magnet with the Father drawing us to Himself, 592. It is not enough to flee evil, but the fruits of virtue must be produced, 17. The wicked must be kept away from the sacraments, 146. Custom of evils is to be abandoned, 28. Evils are not from nature, nor from God, 65. He who does evil under the pretext of good is worthy of greater condemnation, 124. Satan introduces all evils to human nature, with God permitting, 386. Evils are both born and grow, 600. Malice does not sustain itself, 746. How to understand the Father commanding the Son, 684. The commandments of God treat of mutual love, 239. The commandments of Christ are a light yoke, 56. Love is the head of the commandments, 713. What it is to abide in Christ, 711. Why the apostles are commanded to remain in one house, 200. The Manichaeans are confuted for asserting that Christ laid aside His body in the Jordan, 19. The Manichaeans are confuted for denying free will, 579. Manes is refuted, 79. The wonderful wickedness of the Manichaeans, who assert that bread and every creature were made by an evil God, 582. The Manichaeans are confuted for claiming we are bad by nature, 579. The Manichaeans are confuted for asserting that a change of life is impossible, 470. The Manichaeans are confuted for asserting that Christ was incarnate only according to appearance, 516. The error of the Manichaeans, that the old law was established by an evil craftsman, 542. The error of the Manichaeans, that the Old Testament is not from God, nor were the prophets sent by God, is refuted, 615. One who is clearly sinning must not be condemned unless he is rebuked while sinning, 118. The manna of the Hebrews, 20. What manna interpreted means, 589.
Gentleness is not good everywhere, 84. The hand is an operative virtue, 186. The hand of Christ is power, 651. The error of Marcellus, that Christ had descended from heaven with a body, 597. The error of Marcion, who alienates the Old Testament from the New as if it were evil, 542. Mark, the disciple of Peter, otherwise called John, when he wrote the Gospel: In the preface of the Gospel of Mark. Why Mark remains silent about the one who cut off the ear of the servant of Peter, 252. A pearl, how it is born, 70. How Mary is betrothed, 7. Mary a virgin before and after birth, and never known by Joseph, 9. Mary, the mother of Jesus, is called stepmother of the sons of Joseph, 290, 754. From what tribe Mary was and who she was, 277. Mary returns home, while Elizabeth is giving birth, 280. Mary, the mother of James, is called the Mother of God, 491. The three Marys anointing Jesus, 321. Mary Magdalene, sister of Lazarus, was not a harlot, 246. Martha signifies the practical virtue, Mary the contemplative, 332. Martha did not have the faith in Christ that she should have had, 659. The Massalian heretics devoted to idleness are confuted, 597. When the conversion of Matthew occurred, 43. Why Matthew bears the face of a man: In the preface of the Gospel of Mark. Matthew has two names, 183. The difficulty of marriage, 101. The coming of the Lord is to be at midnight, 136. Whether and how we have need of Christ as Mediator, 725. What wild honey is, 16. A lie is a lack of freedom, and humiliated speech follows, 640. The devil is the father of a lie, 626. He makes God a liar who does not believe the Word, 549. The mind is a lamp and is kindled by virtues, 136. Who are understood as money-changers in the Holy Scriptures, 232. How and how much harlots and publicans are better than priests and monks, 113. The symbol of the triple immersion, 540. The harvest and the laborers, 48. What the harvest is, 193. What the migration into Babylon is, 6. The military class delights in tumults and insults, 157. The military order is a slave to gold, 735. What the least commandments are, 26. The least in the kingdom of heaven, ibid. Demons are able to do miracles, and have done so, 532. Why the apostles were permitted to do miracles while Christ was still alive, 47. Christ attributes His miracles to faith, 218. Miracles of the childhood of Christ are fabricated, 525. Miracles that are done are greater than those done through nature, 533. Let the Jews be prostrated by a miracle, so that they may have no excuse, 736. In whom mercy is, 24. The mercy of Christ is shown in the withering of the fig tree, 111. Mercy is to be done both tangibly and spiritually, 142. Mercy is more pleasing to God than the tithe, 125. Mercy forestalls, flows through, 282. To whom it is given to know the mysteries, 191. Mysteries are to be hidden among the impious and disobedient, 35. The Lord was accustomed to seek solitude when about to hand down mysteries, 581, 735. Who the meek are, 23. What the bushel hiding the light is, 192. Adultery and whoredom differ, 28. It does not behoove a Christian to wear soft garments, 53. Woe to those who have professed the monastic life but return to worldly things, 40. A mountain is a proud mind, 233. Diseases are soldiers and avengers of God, 39. More difficult diseases usually arise from sins, 40. The beginning of a disease is easily cured, 338. The faithful are said not to die on account of the hope of resurrection, 657. To die for the truth is the glory of God, 676. Our death is a sleep for Christ, 657. Death entered beyond nature, 149. Why men fear death, 148. The death of Christ is our sanctification, 160. The death of Christ is as a certain pilgrimage, 249. The death of Christ is not as if it were common, 610. To foretell death is not human, 610. Why God wished the time of our death to be unknown to us, 134. We have been unpleasantly affected toward death by all, 149. How and whether Christ feared death, 149. Custom of speakers toward those who do not understand, 473. Why Moses and Elijah were seen in the transfiguration of Christ, 215. Womanly constancy and faith, 754. How many women anointed the Lord, 143. Holy women have brought forth wicked men, 278. The infirmity of women does not prohibit them from the company of Christ, 260. Women, the genus —
A damned and cursed, 161. Blessed are the pure in heart, 24. By the name of "world" Jews are sometimes understood, 734. When the apostles were in the world, 688. The consummation of the world, 619. Who is to be understood by the prince of the world, and of what world, 709. What is meant by mutual, 30.
N What is meant by spikenard, 246. Nature could not perfect the law, 18. God will be in those who follow the natures of wild beasts, panther, bear, lion, 117. We ought not to seek transcendent things in human nature B, 251. Human nature is mutable, 600. Whoever observes nature does not receive the things which are above nature, 397. Nature and reason is called natural law, 512. It belongs to an animal-like man to live according to nature, 397. There are two natures in Christ, 609. Things which belong to human nature are attributed interchangeably to the divine nature in Christ, and conversely, 544. Ship. What it means to receive Christ into the ship, 586. What Nazarene is interpreted as, 16. The foolishness of the Nazarenes, 71. What Nazareth is, 277. We ought to be content with necessary things, 10. The inevitability of the body is signified by Caesar, 236. God inflicts necessity upon no one, 513. Trade is robbery, 392. The genus of merchants is greedy and most avaricious of profit, 117. A neophyte is not to be forced to observe the highest things, 143. Naphtali, 21. The error of Nestorius, that the Son of God is one, and the Son of Mary another, 386. The error of Nestorius, that the Son of God dwells in a pure man, 518. The error of Nestorius, who denied that Christ is the Son of God by nature and substance, and declared Him to be a creature, 653. The error of Nestorius, who declared that Christ attained deification only after the resurrection, and not from heaven, 590. Nicodemus did not believe perfectly, 539. The authority of nobility, 92. One must devote time to prayer at night for the greater quiet of the mind, 75. Noah in the ark is a type of preparation, 134. One must ask in the name of Christ, 724. "Not being able" as "not willing," 625, 680. We are not of our own power, 29. The heresy of the Novatians, not receiving those who have sinned after baptism and communion, 255. Nuptials do not hinder the virtues, 40. Nuptials are an aid to mortal life, 456. The custom of nuptials, 526.
O Who the obedient children are, 114. One must obey God in internal matters, and magistrates in external matters, 149. Double obedience, 166. Why Christ often spoke rather obscurely, 562. To overshadow, 276. To kill oneself is diabolical, 619. Christ was killed, when He willed to suffer, 149. The evil eye, 206. What stumbling blocks are, 94. When it is allowed to offend a foolish person, 94. Offenses must be forgiven from the heart, 99. Oil, alms, 33. Whence the sacred oil, 200. "All" for "many," 49. The burden of Christ is light, 50. There is need for many workers, 342. Our works C bless us most, 47. Those who do not have good works are excluded from the kingdom, 141. The perfect work is faith in Christ, 588. There will be judgment of evil works even in the believer, 545. Works without faith are dead, and conversely, 588. Good works are required with faith, 218. It is not permitted to work after death, 118. God permits each one to do what he wills, 690. He who follows Christ ought to work, 587. First operation, then contemplation, 375. The three operations assigned by Dionysius along with the three orders of the Church, 448. The same operation of the Father and the Son argues for the same power, 576. Good operation preserves faith, 588. Operation is one thing, anxiety another, 688. In which things the operations of the Spirit appear, 720. "It is fitting" is significative not always of necessity, but also of event, 61. To bear reproaches is greatest and most pleasing, 24. What the work of God is, 588. Why and whence one must pray, 31. One must pray in church, who asks for harmful things, 724. D One must devote time most especially to prayer at night, 75. Prayers require quiet, 204. The foundation of prayer, faith, is shown, 663. Three orders of those receiving and keeping the word of God, three classes of men, 395. What order and modesty are among the disciples, 674. He who is ordained for the sake of gold is deposed by God, 233. Those about to ordain must pray, 187. Origen, asserting an end to punishments, is refuted, 141, 214. His dream of Thomas, 658. Adornment is to be neglected by a Christian man, 34. Idleness taught all malice, 587.
P Who the peacemakers are, 24. A Christian ought to be a peacemaker, 24. Waterless Palestine, 533. Who the chaff is, 293. What a mantle is, 29. Palm, 342. The palm is attributed to the victors, 673. Loaves are turned into the Lord’s body, 125. The bread on the altar is not a figure, but the body and blood of Christ itself, to be prayed for from God, 355. A parable is not preserved in all its details, 723. A parable and its parts are to be investigated and assumed, and believed, 412. Why Christ was accustomed to speak parabolically, 65, 324. Parents. We must not be ashamed for our parents, 6. How and when parents and wife are to be forsaken, 177, 226. Care for parents even to the last breath, 753. Parents are to be obeyed, provided they do not stand against piety, 753. How apt is the comparison of birth, 722. That the affections of small things are sometimes great, 103. Why and when Christ performed the Passover, 145. Christ ate the Passover legitimately, the Jews did not, 152. What the festival of the Passover is, 600. To be fed by others is not to be thought a grave matter, 554. Christ predicts his Passion for two causes, 440. Signs of a true shepherd, 644. The will, power, judgment, operation, knowledge, and substance of the Father and the Son are one, 576, 698. How God is called the Father of Christ and our Father, 762. The Father loves us without a mediator, 724. That the Father is called the only true God also applies to the Son, 727. The Father is not the author of carnal birth, but a cooperator and minister of God, 124. God tests patience in us through temptations, 204. Contempt of prophets in their own country, 199. Although possessing little, one should nonetheless exercise mercy, 74. The error of Paul of Samosata, babbling that Christ first subsisted when He was born of Mary, 524. Who the poor in spirit are, 23. Every poor man is a brother of Christ, 140. Poverty is not to be something to be ashamed of, 562. The poverty of Christ for our sake, 340. Peace remains only among those who are worthy, 47. Not every peace is good, 581. The peace of the world is foolish, 707. Those sinning privately are to be rebuked, 95. How it is to be understood that God does not hear sinners, 610. How the sin against the Holy Spirit is irremissible, 61. That we must mourn our own sins, 23. Sin is the shadow of death, 284. They suffer punishment, 63. Money is stickier than birdlime, 438. Whether he who has money can be saved, 438. The love of money is condemned everywhere, 438. It is better to perjure oneself than to do something impious for the sake of an oath, 73, 201. What Pentecost is, 604. Christ going abroad, 114, 137. It is diabolical to throw oneself rashly into dangers, 49. When perjury may be permitted, and when not, 73, 201. Not only martyrs suffer persecution, 24. One must persevere in prayers so that we may obtain our requests, 207. Pestilence, famine, war come from nowhere but from God, 129. We must ask in the name of Christ, 724. Peter’s love for Christ, 76. Christ calls Peter blessed when he speaks well, but calls him Satan when he speaks poorly, 86. How Peter’s denial came about and why it was written, 255, 737. Peter advises to remain in the mount, 336. Peter is an example of penitence, 471. Some excuse Peter when he was foolish, 478. On Peter
how the building of the Church is done, 86. Peter welcomes Christ as a guest, 39. Why Peter struck with the sword, A ... 772. Peter is practical, 760. The mystery of Phares and Zares, 3. What Pharisee means, 17. The Pharisees are as much enemies of Christ as the devil, 59. Pharisees are blind and leaders of the blind, 125. With what ointment the leprosy of the Pharisees is to be healed, 143. The question of the Pharisees concerning the bill of divorce, 222. How Pharisees and Scribes differ, 362. How Pharisaical discipline is condemned, 239. Pharisees are the receptacles of all malice, 286. Who the Pharisee is, 308. With whom the Lord eats, 360. Pharisees are authors of scandal, 422. Pharisaic probity toward the simple, 457. What phylacteries on the hand and fringes signify, 123. Philip learned in the law of Moses, 529. Our philosophy consists of word and deed, 333. The error of Photinus, B who said that Christ began to subsist only when He was born of Mary, 512. One who promises piety and does not perform it is a hypocrite, 126. Whence Pilate is called Pontius, 154. Pilate is weak and ambitious, 749. He desires to release Christ, 256. The pinnacle of the temple, 20. What rain and sun are, 30. Penitence according to baptism, 63. After penitence, the remission of sins through Christ, 53. Penitence is very laborious, 63. There is no time for repenting and working after this life, 537. The fruits of penitence, 294. To whom the pomps of Rome are dear, 603. The sin of high priests, 539. The sanctity of certain high priests, 135. The law permitted only one high priest to the Jews, 142, 253. What kind of weapons high priests have, 150. High priests selling spiritual things are rebuked, 233. High priests are slaves to envy and vanity, 123. The high priesthood was bought from the Romans, 233. High priests are money-changers, 536. What a swinish life is, 42. Pigs never looking upward, 406. How the grunting of pigs is to be restrained, 406. C The sophism of Porphyry attempting to subvert the Gospel of God, 507. What the gates of hell are, 85. How all power is given to Christ, 166. We are not of our own power, 29. Christ did not wish to be crucified beforehand, 151. How "Preach to every creature" is to be understood, 264. When the discourse of preachers runs happily, 343. One who preaches and teaches must also do good works, 180. The preaching of the apostles is understood through the grain of mustard seed and leaven, 68. The preaching of the Word is signified by the washing of feet, 689. The beginning of Christ’s preaching, 547. The prefecture of all things was given to Peter, 772. The desire for preeminence is not forbidden, 219. Jesus is to be anticipated by us, 202. God anticipates us everywhere, 202, 442. Short and frequent prayers, 31. How true prayers are made, 219. What the first day of Unleavened Bread is, 145. It is for Gentiles to love primacy, 107. Who are called first and last, 226. Christ is firstborn and only-begotten, 10. Who is called firstborn, 283. D What one who has primacy and wealth ought to do, 135. Even some of the Jewish leaders believed in Christ, 614. The people usually become like evil leaders, 124. What an evil leader gains by not allowing his people to progress in good, 124. Leaders will always resist the truth, and why, 614. Whence the pool of Probatica is so called and what it signifies, 567. How the procession of the Holy Spirit is to be understood, 716. The difference between a wonder and a sign, 566. Christ washes the traitor first, 686. Christ reveals His own traitor, 145. Let us not be quick to promise, 688. Why the prophets say: "Thus saith the Lord", 26, 330. Prophets suffered many evils, 114. The power of prophecy, 528. The shewbread, 57. Proselytes, 125, 674. The cause of the Jews' prostration, 736. Every man is a neighbor, 103, 349. The prudence of the serpent, 48. Who a publican is, 308. Whence publicans have their living, 442. Why many children die, 632. Why the slaughter of the children was permitted, 14. We ought to be children in humility and innocence, 93. Childlike simplicity, 219. Who the children resting in bed are, 354. The child’s state is simple and innocent, 346. Disobedient children, 54. To shake off the dust, 48. No one ought to punish someone without a cause being examined, 140. Where purgatory is, 39. Who the little flock is and why, 374.
Q Curious questions are to be avoided, 287. Prayers require quiet, 204. Quis pro nullus, 681. How, a word of incredulity, 341.
R Raab is a figure of the Church, 5. What Raca is, 15. The burial of Rachel, 15. What Rama is, ibid. A raptor is one who does not pity his neighbor, 141. Reason is our light, 510. Reason and nature is called natural law, 512. The Romans used to crucify rebels, 742. What "Render to Caesar" means, 434. It is not permitted for kings to do anything in the temple, 113. We must walk like kings, who are called Christ's, that is, anointed, 257. There are two modes of God reigning in us, 546. What the Queen of the South signifies, 359. What the Kingdom of God is, and when God is said to reign, 147. How long the kingdom of death has lasted, 468. How and which things are to be left behind, 103. We ought not to take away the remains of the food placed before us by others, 210. Whose it is to remit sins, 623. A pattern of reprimand, 587. Useful reprimand, if it is done rightly, 25. "Repent," the saying is to be understood differently when said by John and differently by Christ, 177. That many who were to die again rose at the death of Christ, 161. What it is to rise in judgment, 543. Resurrection, 148, 238. Double resurrection, 591. Resurrection from the dead, and the corruption of bodies given to human nature through Christ, 589. Why the Lord often mentions the resurrection, 591. That the faithful are not said to die because of the hope of resurrection, 705. The mystery of the resurrection is great and difficult, 705. The hour of Christ’s resurrection is uncertain, 759. Who they are who draw nets, and who their companions are, 504. The Roman principate is manly, 732. How the Jews were handed over to the Romans, 750. Ruth is a figure of the Church, 5.
S The Pharisees profaned the Sabbath, 57. The Jews are forbidden to move themselves from a place on the Sabbath, 162. What Sabbath means, 131, 181. The Jews called every feast a Sabbath, 309. Sabbath and Sabbat, 434. To keep the Sabbath is abstinence from evils, 569. The Jews, violating the Sabbath with an entire hand, rebuke Christ, 637. The Jews call the days of the week Sabbaths, 758. The error of Sabellius, teaching that there are three persons, and that the same has three names, 167, 506. Sackcloth, a symbol of penitence and mourning, 55. What the purse and scrip signify, 472. How one is to understand "show yourself to the priest," 305. If priests and monks neglect their promises, harlots and publicans are better than them, 114. Priests as traders, 458. Priests, even if evil, are to be honored, 666. Priests and angels are Christ’s co-workers, 666. The high priests of the Jews do not have the power to remit sins, 623. How great is the dignity of priests, 761. Ancient sacrifices were figurative, 732. Who the Sadducees are and whence they are named, 3. Sadech, justice, 17. Who the salt are, 221. Salome, daughter of Joseph, 161. What Solomon's wisdom was, 359. In how many years Solomon's temple was built, 537. How salvation from the Jews is to be understood, 557. The salvation of men, as it is the will of the Lord, must be done by preachers, more than bodily food, 562. Salvation is not to be measured by human virtue, but by divine, 103. Why the disciples were forbidden to greet anyone along the road, 343. To be saved is situated in our mind and will, with the election of God toward the good having been taken, 672. It is the role of God alone to save, 645. Who the Samaritans are and whence they are named, 47, 426. Why the Samaritan is brought forward as an example of a neighbor, 349. Samaritans...
worship Christ in such a way, and that they are more upright than the Jews, 565. The Samaritan woman is wiser than Nicodemus, 553. The error of the Samosatenes, who assert that the Father is a man, 575. The generation of Samuel, 514. The sanctification of body and blood, 214. Double sanctification, of soul and body, 214. Sanctification as the preservation of upright dogmas, 752. How holiness and justice differ, 283. What is called holy, 652. That touching holy garments is of no avail without faith, 44. Since the saints have a body for a bond, 289. Although the saints may pray for us, we ourselves are heard more because we petition for ourselves, 80. The saints are sheep, but sinners are goats, 139. Why the faults of the saints were written, A. That any saint can be called a light, but not that Light, 512. The intercession of the saints, to what extent, 80. How the souls of the saints now ascend into the hands of the Father, 259. The blood-herb growing at the statue of Christ, 44. The blood of the Old and New Testament, 249. Weeping or sweating blood, 475. The wise of the world, 55. What a wise man is, 346. The satiety of the just, 24. It is necessary that scandals occur, but not so that they might destroy us, 94. The scandal of the unwise is to be postponed to the utility of one’s neighbor, 393. He who has the knowledge of Christ has everything, 70. The utility of the knowledge of the Scriptures, 892. What the Feast of Tabernacles is, 11. What it is to be written in heaven, 346. The diligent searching of the Scriptures is to be cultivated, not the specters of the dead, 421. How the Scriptures are understood in the Holy Spirit, 644. The Scriptures are the gate to those about to enter unto God, 644. Scripture is the rule of faith, 611. Who is the one not using the Scriptures, B. Sitting upon twelve seats, what this is, 107. Whose place it is to sit and likewise to stand, 470. To kill oneself is diabolical, 619. How genital seed is transformed in the embryo, 514. Joseph is an example for senators and the rich, 261. The seven spirits of malice, and the seven gifts of the Spirit, 63. The number seven is a symbol of the Holy Spirit, 209. Seven times as meaning often, 424. How the burial of Christ was prefigured by the pouring out of the ointment, 144. Speech without works is vain, 180. The sayings are the gate and door of the Scriptures, 645. The prudence of the serpent, 48. The beautiful comparison of the serpent exalted and the cross of Christ, 542. Let us no longer be servants, but free and sons through faith, 623. Sychem, the estate of Jacob, 553. "As," when spoken of the Father and the Son, indicates equality, 727. What Sidon is, 81. The first sign which Christ performed, 535. The operation of signs does not prove the love of God, 37. Siloam is a figure of Christ, 635. Simeon was not a priest, 288. Three Simons, 46. Simon as obedience, 157. The bosom of Abraham, 420. "If you will," as befitting Christ alone, 38. The sun signifies temptation, 64. Solitaries are tempted the most, 298. The convenience of solitude for mystical things, 735. The mind being blinded by anxiety, 33. Anxiety proves infidelity, 53. Anxiety is one thing, operation is another, 588. Solution and binding, to what extent, 96. Somor, wall, 552. Who the thorns and thistles are, 36. To those seeking spiritual things, even corporal ones are given, 34. Who is spiritual, 557. Why the Holy Spirit is represented by the form of a dove, and that He moved all the evangelists, 595. Theophylact denies that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Son, 550. How the Spirit is said to be of the Son, 550. How the Spirit is understood as not having been given before Pentecost and the death of Christ, 612. The gift of the Holy Spirit was not abundant before Christ was glorified, and why, 612. How it is proper for the Holy Spirit to proceed, 716. The innumerable ministering spirits, and that the Son also sent the Holy Spirit, 716. The coming of the Holy Spirit for the sake of triple utility, 719. The operations of the Spirit, in which they appear, 720. The Holy Spirit teaches nothing other than what Christ does, 720. The Holy Spirit is not inferior to the Son, 721. Whatever the Holy Spirit suggests, He has from the Father and 1268 Filio habet, 720. Spiritus sanctus cur posterius venerit, 721. 44. Sponsus est solus Christus, docentes pronubi, 526. Stater, 93. Statuam erexit mulier profluvio sanguinis liberata, Status post hanc vitam qualis, 487. Stella quam Magi viderunt angelica fult virtus, 10. Stridor dentium quid, 118. Studiosis datur nosse mysterium regni, aliis non, 65. Sublime. In sublime tolli quid sit, 373. Substantia Patris et Filii una, quomodo intelligenda, 698. Summa haud exigenda ab his qui nuper ad fidem ad- ducti sunt, 145. Superbia quam sit perniciosa, 433. Suppliciorum tempus, 41. Supplicium maximum esse extra lucem, 545. Superbia malorum radix, 313. Synagoga. In Synagoga cur Christus potissimum do- cuit, 596. Talithacumi, 198. T Talentum quis duplicat, 137. Tangere vestem Christi, 197. Templa propter nos inhabitat Deus, 128. Templum cor latronum spelunca factum, 232. Templo Dei qui ejiciun- tur, 232. Templum Hierosolymorum funditus eversum 241. Tenebræ exteriores, 141. Tenebrarum princeps dia- bolus, 709. Tentationes nos coronant, 149. Tentationibus nos Don temere injicere debemus, 176. Tentatio declarat qualis quisque sit, 65. Tentationes continuis precibus superari, duo, 533. Nou intrare in tentationem, quid, 353. Tentari cur nos sinit Deus, 586. Ternarii numeri vis, 150. Terrena sapientes tribus terræ dicuntur, 132. Terrenis non adhærendum, ibid. Terræ motum Scriptura in rerum alteratione ponit, 161. Testimonia Christi tria, Joannes, opera, Pater, 577. Testimonium Joannis Baptistæ quare tam crebro assumat evangelista de Christo, 526. Testimonium Christus de se dare, et non dare quomodo intelligendas, 57. Testamentum novum gratia item et veritas appellatur, Thamar scortum, et cur ejus potissimum meminerit evangelista, I. Theologia turris vineæ, 115. Theophylacti precatio, 182, 210. Theudas et Judas quare occisi, 119, 241. Thomas vere incredulus, 763. Thus, aurum, myrrha quid significent, 13. Thymiamatis altare, 272. Tibi nuptiales quæ, 41 Timor pietatis et reverentiæ est C argumentum, 358. Timor periculorum causa, 41. Titulus trilinguis quid significet, 752. Tonitrui filii, 187. Torcular. Pro torcularibus psalmi Davidis, 601. Totum Deo tribuendum, 740. Trabs et festuca in oculo, 35. Tradita Christo omnia a Patre quomodo, 56. Tradendo se Christus discipulis, immolavit se. 164. Transfigurari Christum qui videant, 87. Transfiguratio quid, 88. Transformatio quomodo, 214. Tricesimus annus perfecta ætas, 19, 296. Triduanus Christus quomodo, 163. Trinitas sancta credentibus benefacit, non solus Pater, 592. In Triade divina unus et non tres Dii, 653. Tu dicis, quomodo intelligendum, 482. Tunicas dilacerandi mos, 254. Tunica quid, 29. Tuni – cam dare, quid, 30. Tunica inconsutilis, 752. Turpiloquos laxat, 61. Turturum natura, 288. Tyrus quid, 81. U Uleisei quomodo nos debeamus de inimicis, 627. D Una Sabbatorum, 434. Unctio post lotionem, 32. Unctionis Mariæ Magdalenæ mysterium, 144. Unctionis institutum, 200. Unigenitus et primogenitus Christus, 10. Usque perpetuitatis vox, 168. Usura, 380.