That, not always the causes, but the events are what is significant, 69, 656. How a wife and parents are to be left, 226. The usefulness of a wife, 222.
V "I go," what it signifies, 610. The vessels of the strong man, 188. Valentinus' heresy, that Christ existed only according to appearance, 516. Demons are fed by vapors, 178. To plunder quickly, what it means, 9. The veil of the temple, what it is, 160, 260. The belly in place of the heart, 611. The winnowing fan, what it is, 18. The Word, what it is, 567. To whom the word "I am" is appropriate, 513. How those who hear the divine word are adopted as sons of God, 513. The burdens of the divine word, 689. "My words to abide in you," what it signifies, 711. Words, that is, deeds, 287. The preaching of the Word of God shown through many parables, 65. Those who labor in word and doctrine sometimes rest from their labors, 202. What the impediments to the divine word are, 689. The preaching of the Word of God is signified by the washing of the feet, 689. The simple crowd, ignorant of the drones, follows the truth, but none of the lawyers, 116. Truth is the basis of faith, 549. The excellence of truth is shown, 744. The worm of conscience that does not die, 221. The evening of the Sabbaths, and the deep of the twilight, and very early in the morning, the same, 163. Garments to be laid aside, 689. The garment of the soul, the flesh, 231. To touch the garment of Christ, 197. James, the brother of the Lord, used one garment throughout his whole life, 253. To tear garments, what it means, 158, 160. The Way is called the Gospel, 16. Ways of the Lord, 283. The turns or weeks of Solomon, 271. To see the Son of God is the greatest rest, 753. To watch, what it means, 131. It is necessary to watch and pray, 251. The watches of the night distributed according to military discipline, 76. Why the Jews were accustomed to release one prisoner, 744. The lust for vengeance, how great an evil, 96. Vengeance is not to be taken, 312. The vineyard and its cultivators, 452. The theology of the tower of the vineyard, 113. Why the Jews were called a generation of vipers, 17, 61. There are three powers of the soul, 68. The virtue of virginity belongs to the few, and is given by God alone, 101. The place of virgins in the temple, 128. Who the foolish virgins are, 101. Why men alone are numbered in Scripture, 583. The virtue of the name of Christ works even through the unworthy, 339. Virtue is the summit of the enemies' love, 30. Virtue is arduous and difficult, 293. The virtue of a neighbor will do me no good in judgment, 136. Where virtues done for empty glory receive their reward, 30. Although one is endowed with virtue, he still needs to be healed by God, 710. The vision of the prophets, 3. When visions are divine, and when diabolical, 272. Why the present life is called night and day, 653. Our life ought to be royal and free, 257. It belongs to God to give life, and that eternal, 647. To live, as it is said of Christ, 595. The second calling of the apostles, 177. God either punishes or crowns our will, 55. The will of God is the salvation of man, 562. Our will destroys us, and saves us, having made an election by God, 599. Who does the will of God, 605. A vow, what it is, 31. Voice, an inarticulate spirit, 521. The voice of Christ raising Lazarus, 665. Who the foxes are, 40.
Z Zabulon, 21. Zacharias, who he was and why he was killed between the temple and the altar, 128, 362. Zacharias, 271. Zacharias' silence, what it means, 274. What the tares are, 69. The skin girdle, what it is, 175. Zorobabel was not born in Bethlehem, as the Jews interpret, but Christ, 11.
INDEX TO THE SECOND VOLUME
Among us from col. 319 of volume II up to col. 403 of volume III.Aaron's calling, 676. Abel, why he was killed by his brother, and how it is said he still speaks, 732. Abel's sacrifice, 731. Abraham justified by faith, not by the law, 30. Abraham the father of all, 31. Abraham the father of the uncircumcised and of the circumcised, 32. How he obtained the promise, 688. If Abraham was justified, why was he circumcised?, 32. What kind of promise was made to Abraham, 53. Why Abraham is greater than all in faith, 736. Abraham's hospitality, 92. Abraham's temptation, 736. Not all who are from Abraham are his seed, 33. It is sometimes necessary to abstain even from things permitted, lest the conscience of the weak be offended, 168. Adam as the form of Christ, in what sense, 38. Adam the first and the last, 228. Adam as a type of Christ, 38. Adam's disobedience, 40. The force of adjuration, 528. To adopt. We who are adopted await another adoption, 60. Egyptians are idolaters, 13. Emulation is sometimes good, 350. Christ's afflictions are for the cause of salvation, 661. The afflictions of this age are short, 59. Why afflictions and tribulations are called certainty by the Apostle, 505. The consolation of the afflicted, 64. By what reason the son born of Agar is said to be born according to the flesh, 352. Why altercation is to be avoided, 160. Anathema, according to the Apostle, is separation from the glory of Christ, but not from His own love, 67. Works of the soul and flesh, 378. The soul is like a lyre-player, the members are the lyre, 46. Apollinaris' error refuted, 228. Who Apollo is, 234. What apostolic bowels are, 7. The office of the apostles is declared, 5. The apostles are co-workers of God and husbandmen, and so are to be called to the harvest by the Lord and not by the husbandmen, 137. The freedom of our will, 135. Arius' impious opinion concerning the Son of God is refuted, 650. An invincible argument against Arian treachery, 67. Aretas, Herod's father-in-law, 308. The indifference of arms, 43. Misers. Theophylact wisely inveighs against misers and avarice, 406.
B Baptism is not to be repeated, 682. The wondrous power of baptism, 196. An elegant comparison of baptism with Christ's burial, 41. How the sacrifice is explained by a most apt similarity in baptism, 55. Theophylact excellently refutes the baptism for the dead of the Marcionites, 223. The unity of baptism not to be repeated is deduced from Christ's death, 726. To be baptized. What Moses is, 177. Who is to be considered blessed, 32. Whence wars are stirred up, 98. Three kinds of wars to be endured in this life, 560. The fullness of blessing, 112. God's benefits are as it were a repayment of debt, 85. How a benefit is to be measured, 285.
A Benignity and goodness, the distinction between, 360. The goods of this world, what sort they are, 19. Many goods are ungrateful to God, 87. Why God commanded that oxen and cattle be slaughtered, 571. Prize (brabium). What is required for the attainment of the prize, 176. Bulgaria, in what part of the world it is situated, 110.
C The gift of celibacy is of God, 158. Cain’s grief, of what sort it is, 751. Why Caleb and Jesus entered Palestine, 969. The cup of blessing, what it is, 180. What it signifies to lack the Lord, 493. What the uncovering of the head indicates, 185. Carnal life explained, 57. The flesh is the servant of the soul, 50. The affections of the flesh, 35. The desires of the flesh, 379. The works of the flesh and the soul, 378. Why Christ assumed flesh, 662. That the flesh is not evil, 50. If the flesh is in good health, it is enough, 98. The utility of chastisement, 275. Chastity is the fruit of justice, 45. Cephas is named last for the sake of honor, 124. To whom spiritual gifts are given, 658. Spiritual gifts to be emulated are not the greater, but the better, 201. Christian charity, of what kind it is, 516. Harmful charity, 90. Charity is to be perpetually shown to one's neighbor, 96. The commendation of charity, 201. Paul urges with most powerful argument that charity should be practiced toward infirm brothers, 168. If one is without charity, how can one betray oneself to be burned, 202. The whole business of Christianity consists in the resurrection, 218. Christian worship, of what kind it is, 7. The dignity of a Christian man, 249. What does not befit a Christian, 406. Christians called so from Christ alone, 123. Why Christians are called "of Christ," and why they ought to be afflicted, 514. The affliction of Christians, 343. The glory and patience of Christians, 36. That Christians of old had all things in common, 188. The persecutions of Christians, 261. The Church of Christians, aptly assimilated by the Apostle to a natural body, is excellently expounded by the author, 197. Christian teaching, an elegant explanation, 68. A Christian is a prophet, priest, and king, 249. How Christ fought against principalities and powers, 483. Christ begotten before all things, 472. Christ is the head of angels and of the Church, 485. Christ, the Church of Christ, 96. Christ is the author of creation, 655. How Christ, who is God, intercedes for us, 64. Why Christ suffered at the end of the ages, 716. Christ is the figure of the substance of God, 651. Christ is the end of the law, 75. Christ is our brother, 345. Christ is the true God and true man, 4. B Why Christ died openly but rose again in secret, 690. How Christ is said to have been made a little lower than the angels, 659. For what reason Christ is without genealogy, 92. How Christ has cleansed us, 652. How Christ has reconciled the Father, 715. How Christ is a Priest according to the order of Melchizedek, 697. Why Christ has not yet destroyed all infidels, 723. How Christ is said to have been made sin for us, 178. How Christ supplies spiritual gifts to His members according to proportion, 272. Why Christ held Himself to be seen by the twelve apostles when Matthias had not yet been assumed into the number of the apostles, 217. How Christ works through all His members: a clear exposition of the author, 377. In what sense some are said to sin against Christ, 469. How Christ took away the sins of many, though not of all, 717. Christ is the principle of the resurrection, 472. That we suffer the afflictions of Christ, 242. What the flesh of Christ is like, 53. The true incarnation of Christ, 662. The sacrifice of the high priest Christ, 699. The priesthood of Christ is more excellent than the priesthood of the Levites, 693. The triumph of Christ, 483. What Christ has in common with the rest of the high priests, 676. That all rise in Christ, 22. That Christ did not have all things that we have, 438. Why Paul and the prophets sometimes make no mention of Christ’s divinity and generation is excellently declared by the author, 167. And hence no help remains from those words for Arius and Socinus. Paul does not discourse clearly about the deity of Christ and the Holy Spirit because of the infirmity of the hearers, 175. The same Apostle, when instituting a discourse about Christ, does not speak as of God but as of man. Why, ibid. We partake of the true body of Christ from the altar, 181. The communication of Christ’s body differs far from participation in Him, 180. Human nature could only be healed through Christ, 30. He who receives the body of Christ unworthily, what evils he brings upon himself, 492. In Christ, how we are adored by the angels, 380. The flesh of Christ prays for us to the Father, 700. Choice of foods is a matter of infirmity, 99. What a girdle is, 419. Circumcision is twofold, 23. An explanation of the twofold circumcision and the twofold foreskin, 23. A moral description of the heavens, 310. Heaven, according to John Chrysostom, is immobile, 702. Clamor is the vehicle of anger, 404. The Lord’s Supper is a banquet, 188. That long hair is unbecoming to a man, 185. Revelling, the mother of dissensions and quarrels, 359. Our effort causes us to be chosen, 79. These words of the author, although they appear somewhat harsh, become clearer from those things which follow. Contention, inflation, whispering, 316. What it means to conclude in unbelief, 84. The fear of God checks concupiscence, 278. How concupiscence is said to have been unknown before the law, 47. The necessity of confession and patience, 586. In what sense the faithful spouse is clean with the unfaithful, and in what sense impure, 159. Care is to be taken of blood relatives, 377. Pure confidence of conscience, 245. That sin reproves the conscience, 104. Counsels and precepts differ widely among themselves; nevertheless, they are commended in the Scriptures, 57. That perfection is achieved through affliction, 679. Contemptible. Who are those called contemptible in the Church by Paul, 151. God avenges contempt of Himself, 518. Definition of contention, 18. Affliction is a medicine for sin, 280. Contumely is more bitter than bodily torments, 275. It is wholly in the soul, 275. Meetings are to be conducted not with human affection, but in the name of Christ, 148. Circumcision of the heart, 24. The Corinthians were servilely subject to false apostles, 305. The Corinthians, proud in riches and human wisdom, despised Paul, 119. Divided into various classes, they doubted the resurrection and commit countless other crimes, for which they were rebuked by Paul, ibid. Paul represses the pride of the Corinthians, 141. Why God made human bodies proportionable, 197. The resurrection of bodies and their flourishing in nature and virtue is explained, 225. The same bodies, however, are to rise more splendid, ibid. The incorruption of the body is from heaven, 267. In what sense the body is called animal, 227. That the body helps the soul, 338. The body is not a hindrance to nature, but sin, 42. That the body is not evil by nature, ibid. How the body will rise spiritual, 227. The body is not to be killed, but the works of the body, 57. Why our body could be easily overcome before the coming of Christ, 43. The body is to be subjected to afflictions and hardships so that the spirit may be saved, 148. That one is called a part of the body not by place, but by union, 197. The difference between corruption and mortality, 231. The evils of gluttony, 153. Why the believer has need of much virtue, 35. The name of the criminal, for the sake of honor and charity, Paul does not manifest, 147. The Cross is the glory of the faithful, 364. The enemies of the Cross are properly described, 452. By rational worship the Christian becomes a priest and a victim, 86. D The effects of luxury and gluttony, fornication, 154. What Paul’s deposit is, 597. God the Word never deserted the flesh He assumed, 480. Knowledge of God is a precious ointment, 254. The indwelling of God in us, 277. The judgments of God are unsearchable, 85. We ought not to demand an account from God, 667. How it is said of God, "He gave gifts to men," 395. God does not work in the unwilling, 428. For what reason we ought to trust in God alone, 662. It was customary for the saints to give the name of God from the benefits they received from Him, 242. How the celestials know God face to face is illustrated by an example, 205. To give the right hand signifies agreement and fellowship, 53. That without God nothing can be done rightly by us, 435. Why the devil is called the prince of the air and the spirit, 378. Prayers of deacons, 62. The day of man, in what sense it is taken by Paul, 141.
The evil day: what are those evils which are committed on that day, 419. Ignorance of the last day is useful, 522. Observation of days, idolatry, 318. Not to snatch dignity from faith, 118. Judgment: By the gift of judgment, prophets were distinguished, 212. Why love is the fulfillment of the law, 96. The excess of Christ’s love, 37. To love differs greatly from being at peace, 150. The virtue of a disciple adorns the teacher, 256. The burdens and duties of an evangelical steward, 141. Divine things are not to be investigated, 17. He who investigates divine things with human reasonings blasphemes, 80. The rich are needy in many things, 286. How riches should be used, 232. A teacher ought to be worthy of the faith, 218. The office of a teacher, and that those who are not doers of the law are more harshly rebuked, 21, 22. The joy of a teacher is the sorrow of the sinful, 150. Evangelical teachers are royal censers, 215. How they are salvation to some, but destruction to others, ibid. It is the duty of an evangelical teacher to mix praise with rebukes, 279. The Lord’s Day is one of the Sabbaths, 232. The duty of masters toward servants, 496. The force of the particle ‘until’ (donec), 22. How a gift and sacrifices differ, 703. The difference between one sleeping and one dead, 408. Yet one should not despair of either, ibid. A double meaning sometimes signifies much, 479.
E The evils of drunkenness are recounted, 98. Why the Apostle joined the drunken and the revilers with idolaters, ibid. The Church is the temple of God, 335. Christ is the head of the Church, 496. The incomprehensible reason for God’s election, excellently explained with various examples, 69. The seal of the elect, 601. Almsgiving is the sum of virtues, to be done by commandment, avarice, ibid. An elegant similitude in him who glories in the law and doctrine, 22. Why the Philippians sent Epaphroditus to Paul, 445. Epaenetus, the firstfruits of Achaia, 114. Ephesus is the metropolis of Asia, 367, in the argument of the Epistle. A bishop should be as a shining star; celibate, or if married, in no way subject to the lusts of his wife, 575. In the age of the apostles, the name of bishops was also common to presbyters, and the name of presbyters to bishops, 427. Bishops were sometimes called deacons, ibid. Epistles: what method must be held in writing epistles, 497. The authors of errors are to be punished twofold, 383. To recall from error is more than to awaken from the dead, 376. Why Esau did not find repentance, 751. Esau’s tears, ibid. What punishment and of what kind awaits those who receive the Eucharist unworthily, 727. Why Eve is said to be deceived, and not Adam, 573. Her light-mindedness pervaded all women, ibid. The difficulty of announcing the Gospel, 125. The gratuitous announcement of the Gospel is laudable, 16. That a preacher of the Gospel should receive no reward, provided he does not grow sluggish in idleness, 173. How Paul announced the Gospel, 130. Regarding what things the Gospel is spoken of, 4. Three things are necessary for evangelical ministry to bring forth abundant fruit, 388. What it means to blind the eye of God, 226. When someone is shown to be excellent by comparison, 675. Self-examination, 89.
F That a believer should not enter into marriage with an unbeliever, 159. Why every believer is a saint, 686. All believers together, the Church, 114. Faith does not destroy the law, but establishes it, 22. Regarding faith and the sacraments alone, let no one dare to promise himself impunity, 177. Faith is free, 250. The doctrine of faith differs greatly from the institution of discipline, 100. Faith is not to be demanded according to human reasonings, 35. Faith is a gift of God, let it be profitable, 31. Faith is rightly called a foundation, 479. The Apostle commends not only faith, but the manner of life, 35. The work of faith joined with works of charity, 501. The utility of faith, 108. Faith is from God, 10. Why the Apostle calls faith a law, 29. Faith alone does not sanctify, 109. Faith is a testament ancient to the law, let the reader weigh these words of the author with a vigilant mind, 88. When faith is promulgated, prophecies are abolished, 205. Why the Son was incarnate and suffered at the end of the ages, glory, 444. Who are the children of God, 58. The impurity of fornication, 155. A varied and elegant interpretation by the author on how he who commits fornication sins against his own body, ibid. All fornication is impurity, 29. In what sense fornication is worse than infidelity, 158. What fraternal charity is, 91. That sin does not sever fraternity, 123. Who the brethren of the Lord are, 170. Let everyone vigorously fulfill his own function, 89.
G Gluttony is the mother of foul lust, 179. How perpetual joy is to be prepared, 526. Joy with tribulation is explained by a most apt comparison, 506. The faith of Gideon, 741. Foolish and vain Jewish genealogies, 635. Generation sometimes happens through institution, 351. The necessity and honor of the genitals, 198. Why the Gentiles were elected and Israel rejected, 71. In what way the Gentiles are better than the Jews, 20. How Gentiles are said to be unjust, 82. Why the Gentiles are said to be saved, 81. How future glory is to be sought, 17. Who is said to glory in God, 29. When it is lawful for us to glory, 246. What our glorying is, 56. Christ is the author of our glorying, 37. Whence the Greeks were handed over to impurity, 13. The Greeks are liars, 26. How the Greeks had the knowledge of God, 11. Whence the stupidity of the Greeks, 12. The foolishness of the Greeks, 78. The insanity of the Greeks is refuted, 26. Whom the Apostle calls Greeks and Jews, 25. How long the grace of God remains with us, 763. That the grace of Christ is stronger and more effective than that which innocent Adam had lost, 39. The necessity of grace and the inefficacy of the law, 20. From the abundance of grace, the Greeks inferred that many crimes were to be committed, 26, 40. Thanks are to be given to God for our own good and that of others, 8. The doctrine of Gregory of Nyssa concerning the equality of the Son with the Father, 651.
H Heresies stirred up by the devil, 483. That heresies beget schisms, 478. Why there must be heresies, 189. Whence heresies are so named, 48. Heresies are not to be explained by everyone, 574. The rise of heresies, 116. Heretical friendship is to be avoided, 430. The perverse doctrine of heretics, 432. The various opinions of heretics concerning Christ, 437. Man made rich by God, 588. Let a man examine himself, that he may not exalt himself, 362. Man is composed of every kind of soul, 527. To speak according to man is to assert something according to human reasoning, 26. A fitting description of the old man, 490. What it signifies to serve men, 161. 'Human' sometimes signifies what is indecent and meager, 44. The encomium of hospitality, 456. How hospitality is to be practiced, 92. One must pray well even for enemies, 92. What humiliation is in Paul, 316. Paul calls the punishment of the punisher 'humility', 316. In what true humility consists, 53.
I In what manner one must abstain from things offered to idols, 163. Paul with very good reason reproves the eating of things offered to idols, ibid. The same apostle gives the appropriate reason why these things are forbidden, 181. The image of God: from the image of the invisible God, our author invincibly proves the divinity of Christ, 469. Why an angel is not said to be created to the image of God, ibid. When one becomes an imitator of the Lord, 508. Untimely deaths on account of the body of Christ consumed unworthily, 192. Impurity: how creatures are cleansed from all impurity, 872. When the Roman Empire is dissolved, the Antichrist will appear, 537. Impiety is the abandonment of God, 13. The difference between impiety and injustice, 11. Many forms of impiety, ibid.
The wicked to be removed from the midst, 150. The fruit of impurity is disgrace, 45. No impure person is holy, 241. To punish the incorrigible pertains to the edification of the Church, 320. How unbelief is to be restrained, 668. That untimely rebuke edifies nothing, 106. The mode of rebukes, 252. To harden. How God is said to harden, 70. Infirmity is also taken as temptation, 144. Scandals of the infirm are to be avoided, 169. All enmity begins from us, 473. Enmities are to be undertaken for the sake of piety, 93. It is better to suffer injury than to inflict it, 152. Why the disobedient is said not to live, 748. What it is to intercede for Christ, 64. He who turns away from good is rendered useless, 26. Whom we are accustomed to envy, 197. Envy is a passion, not an action, 165. The wrath of God against the Jews, 511. How the wrath of God in this age differs from that which will be in the future, 10. Wrath is the daughter of indignation, 404. Wrath is inflamed by shouting, ibid. Wrath without sin, 402. Isaac is a type of Christ, 737. How Isaac is an only-begotten, ibid. Isaac was formed by the Word of God, 68. With how much hatred the Philistines pursued Isaac, 733. What kind of punishment Isaiah suffered, 743. The exclusion of Ishmael from the inheritance did not begin from persecution, but from the will of God, 351. The Ishmaelites are from Abraham by nature, not by faith, 34.
J The constancy of Jason, 117. The faith of Jephthah, Samson, and Barak is commended by the Apostle. Yet here the words of Theophylact must be pondered with a diligent mind, 742. How the Jew sinned in the Law, 22. What is meant by a Jew, 23. Who is a true Jew, 24. Jews were first chosen by God, afterwards ungrateful and for that reason justly condemned, 26. Why the Jews are [called] dogs, 446. The Jews were highly honored by God, 24. How they were freed from the Law, 46. Why they will receive the Antichrist, 80. The hatred of the Jews and the Gentiles, 108. The nobility of the Jews, 97. The rabies of the Jews, 511. The Jews are blinded, and thus dull in mind, so that they are not able to understand the Scriptures themselves, 260. The salvation of Jews and Gentiles, 107. The servitude of the Jews, 80. The hope of the Jews, 689. The brightness of the Jewish race, 664. What is meant by the judgment of God being at the doors, 179. The severity of the future judgment, 141. The memory of the judgment strikes terror into the Corinthians, 148. From the sin of corrupt judgment many falls follow, 14. Greek judges are called unjust, 151. An oath is the end of all controversy, 689. Quarrels are the cause of divorce, 120. We are not of our own jurisdiction, 156. Justification is not from the works of the Law, 30. The opinion of Theophylact concerning justification is to be received cautiously, 29. The justice of God is from faith, 74. By the justice of God we are saved, 10. Justice is every virtue, 103. Why the justice which is from God is in faith, 136. Justice is the weapons on the left and on the right, 274. The function of justice, 742. The endurance of justice, 292. The Just. How God makes the just worthy of the portion of the saints, 468. Differences among the just, 226.
L The connection of legal matters among themselves, 554. Let legates suffer no evil, 422. Whether the Law was the will of God, 87. How the Law works concupiscence, 47. The Law is called the book of Genesis, 213. Why the Law is the cause of a curse, 342. The Law is the demonstration of sin, 40. The Law is the whole Old Testament, 351. In how much [the Law] is inferior to the New Testament, ibid. Why the Law and circumcision are the cause of greater punishment for the Jews, 19. How the Law of Moses is spiritual, 257. The decrees of the Law are holy, but the Apostle calls them images of mysteries, 718. The fulfillment of the Law is love of neighbor, 96. The cause for which the Law was given, 514. The letter of the Law is the spirit of servitude, 58. The severity of the Law, 257. That the Law did not sanctify the soul, 337. When the Law is not existing, sin is not imputed, 48. The ingenious division of laws: above man, in man, and around man, 52. What is liberality, 90. That a man's action is free under grace, 142. The office of the free, 494. What liberty is in Paul, 183. How one is a servant in the Lord. That liberty is of the Lord, 61. That free will is in man, 71. The antiquity of letters, 46.
1276 The difference between long-suffering and patience, 467. The long-suffering of God makes us more wicked, 70. The long-suffering of God is an occasion for greater punishment, 17. Whence long-suffering comes, 577. How long-suffering differs from meekness, 360. The wondrous hospitality of Lot and Abraham, 92. Luke the evangelist was beloved by Paul, 499. Why it is said that God spoke to us and not Christ, 649.
M How stains differ from wrinkles, 412. Those who are more intelligent will be punished more, 18. That every magistrate is to be obeyed, 760. How the curse was removed from us, 345. In what malice differs from craftiness, 149. Who is an infant in malice, 210. What it is to eat for the glory of God, 183. The mystery of manna, 286. What sort of purity of hands is required by Paul in prayer, 562. Maranatha, a Syriac word: for what cause Paul uses it when writing to the Corinthians, 236. The heresy of Marcellus, 630. That matrimony does not hinder faith and other virtues, 114. Matrimony is a precious thing, but not holy. Let the reader, I pray, read the words of a supreme and most wise man which are held there, if he has thought preposterously about matrimony, 156. That God took care of matrimony first, 410. For what cause He deferred it, ibid. The excellence of matrimony and virginity is set forth by a graceful similitude, 571. The bond of matrimony [and] the liberty of celibacy, 160. The pleasure of matrimony is short, ibid. The utility of matrimony, 156. How Christ appeared to Matthias, 217. Melchizedek is more excellent than Abraham, 693. A type of Christ, ibid. Why [he is] a figure of Christ, [and] the same [in reason]. For what reason he is said to be without father and mother, 693. How he was made a priest, 693. He is greater than the priests of the Law, ibid. How Melchizedek's living always is to be understood, ibid. Melote, what kind of garment it is, 743. The members have need of one another, 198. The goods and evils of the members are communicable, 199. There are three orders of inferior members, 198. How the renewal of the mind is formed in man, 86. Who is perfect in mind, 210. Double fear, 96. Miracles. God performs miracles even for those who will not profit, 210. That it is the grace of God not to attain to the more excellent ministries in the Church, 396. Paul's ingenious assimilation to repress those who envy those who exercise greater ministries in the Church, 197. To dispense mercy is the greatest glory of God, 72. Immoderate sorrow destroys even man, 233. The heresies of Montanus, which detracted understanding from the prophets, is refuted, 209. Diseases from pleasures, 362. How death [is] in baptism, 602. The death of Adam on our account, and likewise the death of Christ on our account, 140. How the devil held the empire of death, 662. The fear of death is the greatest servitude, 663. Why Christ tasted death, 660. Untimely deaths [arise] on account of unworthy consumption of Christ's body [and] the man is said to be dead by the Law, 48. Whence mortality comes, 39. Double mortification, 488. What and how great was the splendor of Moses, 259. That the faculty of teaching does not belong to a woman, 563. A woman taught once, and overturned everything, 563. Woman [is] from man, [but] man [is] through woman, 187. That Paul permits a woman to teach privately, 154. What the world signifies in Scripture, 745. Another meaning of the world, 655. The world is wicked deeds, 418. The change of the world, 655. How the world and the angels will be judged by the saints, 151. Whose duty it is to murmur, 441. That the walls of Jericho fell by faith, 741. The mystery of Christ is preaching, 131. The mystery hidden from the ages, 476. The mysteries of God are not to be scattered rashly, 141. How far present mysteries differ from the things of the future age for the more perfect, 718. It is one thing to know a mystery, but another to know the hidden reason of a mystery, 569. That to be a participant of the mysteries is an argument of the greatest honor, 104.
N The humiliation of Nebuchadnezzar, 211. Nebuch [is] stoning, 743. That help is to be brought to the needs of the neighbor, 91. Human nature could not be healed except through Christ,
A nature, what it is to act against nature, according to Paul, 83. The arrogance of those who compare themselves to others, 297. Nero as a figure of the Antichrist, 537. Nicopolis, a city of Thrace, 647. How one may be said to act in the name of Jesus, 493. In the name of Christ, Paul sometimes entreats, with the Father omitted, 112. The particle "not" sometimes does not diminish the sense, but denies, 125. The Novatians are not to be listened to, 351. The heresy of the Novatians explained, 316. The New Testament is superior to the Old, 258. The Spirit of the New and Old Testament is the same, 265. Marriage is a gift from God, 158. The necessity of ornaments, 197. Carnal operations do not inherit heaven, 229. The necessity of a good work, 17. Of good works, some are greater, some are lesser, 137. The necessity of works, 580. The reproach of Christ, 739. True prayer, what should be said, 380, 496. Prayer sometimes asks for what it does not know, 61. How hands are to be lifted up in prayer, 562. The gift of prayer is set forth, 62. Perseverance in prayer, 91. The virtue of prayer, 645. The utility of prayers, 453. The error of Origen, 227. The holy kiss, 115, 527. Leisure is the author of every evil, 479. Why the sacrifice of Uzziah was ungrateful to God, 527. The duty of parents, 494. Why we owe more to parents according to God, 415. A pastor should seek nothing beyond what pertains to use and necessity, 171. The sadness of a pastor correcting his own flock is explained by a most apt similitude, 251. The Father as advocate for us, 271. The Father as the author of resurrection, 134. Patience is the best virtue, 273. The patience of Christians, of God, 106. The end of patience, 745. What contributes most to patience, 740. How one must run through patience, 745. Patriarchs: For what cause God gave the land he promised to the patriarchs not to them, but to their posterity, 736. The Epistle to the Hebrews was written by Paul himself, 652. Paul writes the Epistle to the Hebrews for many reasons, 647, in the argument of the Epistle. How Paul speaks to the Jews, 22. Paul led before Nero, 428. Why Paul was chosen, and not Judas, 554. The author's words are to be weighed here with a sober mind. Why Paul praised himself, 298. Paul's wonderful economy in teaching the divinity of Christ, 652. Why Paul circumcised Timothy, and accepted nothing though needy, 303. Paul is also equal to the greater apostles, 313. Paul as the herald of the Gospel, 475. Paul burdensome to no one, 302. Paul calls punishing others humiliation, 316. Paul does not punish the sinning, but the impenitent, 317. Paul, who raised the dead, why he did not heal the infirmities of Timothy, 582. Paul always prepared to die, 224. Paul commutes himself to more firmly establish the evangelical truth, 351. For what cause Paul chides Peter, 356. Paul prays to be delivered from the infidels, 112. How Paul says he sins in that which he does not understand, 150. Paul honors Peter as his greater, 351. Paul's disputation among the Athenians, 175. Paul glories in his captivity, 498. Paul's words, which seem to be contradictory, are reconciled, 249. Why the Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians was written with great diligence, and filled with complete sentences, 367, in the argument of the Epistle. Paul's warning does not differ from the doctrine of Christ, 561. Paul's benevolence toward the Romans, 110. It is Paul's habit that, when he wishes to remove something entirely, he uses great redundancy, 222. Paul's infirmities, 312. Paul's holy insanity, his prudence in writing, 8. Paul's Epistles in chains are most holy, 461, in the argument of the Epistle to the Colossians. Paul did not hand down everything in writing, 185. Paul is led by the Spirit of God, while he promises those things which he knows are not to be, 185. For what cause Paul, discussing bishops, passes over the presbyter to the deacons, 567. The symbol of the Pauline Epistles, 346. Poverty as the creator of riches, 283. Sinners are to be comforted, 252. Why God does not deprive sinners of his gifts, 88. Repentant sinners are to be comforted, 252. The manner of punishing those who sin, ibid. It is proper to have mercy even on those who sin publicly, 491. B Why sin is called law, 52. The power of death of sin, 622. Sin is expiated by legal sacrifice, 709. Sin does not dominate our [will], unless we have submitted, 43. When sin is said to reign, 42. Sin is called corrupt will, or the devil himself, 47. Concupiscence is what Paul calls sin, which to Chrysostom is an evil will and greedy for sinning, 51. Sin is not to be recalled to the memory of the penitent, lest he be confounded more than is just, 252. What sin is called, 52. The fallacy of sin is despair, 668. The death of sin is the resurrection of virtue, 41. The power of sin is like a general's, death is the soldier, 40. The works of sin are laborious, 97. Why the wages of sin is called death, 45. The tyranny of sin is extinguished through Christ, 55. Some are sins that remain even after the death of those who sinned, 583. Why Christ did not take away the sins of all, 717. He who baptizes does not remit sins, but he in whose name he baptizes, 125. The communion of money, 111. Dangers confirm faith, 504. One must not yield to dangers, 435. How we ought to conduct ourselves in dangers, [no reference provided]. What peripsoma is, 145. God does not accept persons, 334. Why Christ is called the rock of scandal, 73. Peter's authority is more excellent than the rest, 216. Peter also holds the preeminent place among the apostles, ibid. Pharaoh's hardening explained, 72. What are valid medicines, 718. Philosophical comparison, 635. The fallacy of the philosophers, 466. The punishment of the Israelites was typical, and thus a much lighter punishment was imposed on Christians, 178. The necessity of penance is taught, 341. Baptism succeeded penance, 682. The duty of a pontiff, 664. How Christ is more excellent than the pontiffs, 676. That the power of princes and magistrates is only from God. A true and genuine explanation of this sentiment, 94. Why the dinner of the supper takes its name, 190. A teacher not rebuking a sinning disciple brings harm to him, 280. The duty of a faithful teacher, 118. The joy of a teacher is the alacrity of his disciples, 223. The perfection of a disciple is desirable to the teacher, 143. Besides works and precepts, there are also other works worthy of praise, and this is explained by the author through a most apt similitude, 517. These things which are commanded differ far from those which are taught, 574. That our prayers are not heard must be borne patiently, 10. Predestination of God is from foreknowledge, 63. Predestination and the works of God are not to be measured by human calculation, 62. God predestines from foreknowledge, 63, 29. What it means to preside, 89. The heavenly rewards of Christians, 58. The preposition "through" applied to the Father against the Arians, 121. What is carnal foreskin, 23. How one may be said to bring on the foreskin, 160. Christ our first fruits, 170. Who are called firstborn, 753. To what a prodigy pertains, 109. The difference between a prodigy and a sign, ibid. Why God delays his promises, 687. The firmness of God's promises, 248. How a promise may be abolished by the law, 33. Prophets existed even after the coming of Christ, 200. The distinction between prophets and fanatics; to the former belongs the power of keeping silence, while to the latter it is otherwise, 213. Prophecy is most apt for the conversion of infidels, 211. Why the gift of prophecy is more excellent than the other gifts, 206. What the propitiatory is, 29. Christ is the type of the propitiatory, ibid. "Because": the signification of this preposition, 660. Prosopopeia of the prophets, 60. The utility of the neighbor is to be sought, 182. He who calls his neighbor a fool does not always sin, 340. False apostles, 236. Shame is the fruit of sin, 45. Purity is the fruit of justice, ibid. Pusillanimity hides the promise, 683. C Gain, all is shameful for a bishop, 627. Three rests, what they are, 667. For what cause Paul placed Peter after himself, 121.
INDEX TO VOLUME II OF THEOPHYLACT
AR Rahab the harlot’s faith, 741. Reconciliation, Christ the author of our, 37. Redeem time, what it is to, 409. Reigning of Christ, what it is, 221. Kingdom of God, what it introduces, 103. Two kingdoms, 221. Kings, the anointing of, 249. Remnant of Israel, 72. Rest, celestial, in what sense it is a Sabbatism, 671. Resurrection of faith, our head, 216. Resurrection, why it is not believed by some, 224. Resurrection of every man is instantaneous, ordered by the wondrous dispensation of God, 230. Abraham believed in the resurrection, 52. Our resurrection flows from Christ’s resurrection, 219. From Christ’s resurrection, the spiritual resurrection from sins is aptly described, 4. Great distinction between the resurrection of the good and the bad, 56. How not all who rise will die, 229. Revelation, greater than a vision, 309. Revelation, a species of prophecy, 207. Rhetoricians as leaders of the people, 131. Romans, the dignity and power of, 108. Rudiments, the instruction of is difficult, 110.
S Sabbath, an image of the kingdom of heaven, 672. Priest, that he should sing sacred things to God intelligibly, 209. Priests are called angels, 228. Creation of priests, 557. The portion of priests in sacrifices, 172. The office of priests is to preach the Gospel, 118. The dignity and excellence of the priesthood, 691. Translation of the priesthood, 969. Reading of Sacred Scripture is necessary, 612. Sacrifice, why God willed that He be sacrificed for us, 721. Sacrifice of Christians, the unique, 719. Sacrifice of the faithful, pleasing to God, 86. Jewish sacrifice, why it is displeasing to God, ibid. Distinction between the sacrifice of Christ and the oblations of the Law, 709. Sacrifices of the old law, why they were rejected, 722. Various names for sacrifices, 721. Sacrilege, Paul calls the use of things consecrated to idols by this name, 22. Century (age), wicked, 326. Samaritans, pious in half measure, 150. Samson’s faith, 742; Samson’s delusion, ibid. Saints are faithful, 151. Saints, why the poor are worthy of double pity, 111. Saints, who they are, 578. Saints in the sight of men, who are they, 372. How one must communicate with the needs of the saints, 91. Sarah, affected by old age and sterility, 34. Sarah’s faith, 754. Satan’s power, 512. Wise men, how they strive to become fools, 159. Scandal, that it should never be given, 269. Paul fears to place a scandal before his brethren, 288. Scandals do not creep in so long as the body is united, 116. Scandals are to be avoided even in lawful things, 104. The evils that follow from scandals are many, and, as Basil testifies, most grave, 582. He who knows and sins is punished more sharply, 28. Whoredom, the effect of luxury and gluttony, 154. Scorpion, the strength of death is beautifully explained by the sting of a scorpion, 231. Scripture, the books of the Old Testament are far removed from fables, 629. He who wishes to judge of true and false dogmas should keep the sensory organs of his soul exercised in the Scriptures, 681. It is the interest of every Christian to read the Scriptures, 415. To write, that which is not written is said to have been written, according to the outcome of events, 612. Sects, many evils of, 123. Once, why Christ died, 717. Seed of Abraham, who they are, 68. Speech without knowledge, and the contrary, 122. Apostolic speech, founded on human wisdom and elegance, empties the cross of Christ, 125. Let speech be seasoned with salt, 497. Efficacy of the Word of God, 672. The speech of preaching, which Paul uses, is likened to a small knife, 109. Servile condition, though not instituted by God, is nevertheless necessary, 417. Slavery, various modes and species of, 3. Servants and masters share a common Lord, 496. Faith of servants, 416. Race of servants, morose, 632. Office of servants, 495. Seth, the image of Adam, 460. Sign, in what it differs from a prodigy, 109. A sign causes fear, a prophecy is beneficial, 220. Why signs are shown even through the unworthy, 135. The faithful have no need of signs, 290. Error of the Simonians, 59. Sobriety, the ornament of youth, 631. True sobriety, what it is, 521. Fate, the work of fortune, 372. Lot, what it is said to be in the Scriptures, 168.
BSpes, of whom it is spoken, 61. Virtue of hope, 91. Utility of hope, 108. Spirit of austerity, 147. Spirit of Christ, 654. Spirit, the pledge of future immortality, 263. Spirit, the same in the Old and New Testaments, 265. Spirit of gentleness, [spirit of] God’s authority, 109. Contumely of the Holy Spirit, 728. The Spirit’s divinity Paul attests, 195. When the grace of the Spirit is extinguished, 109. Newness of the Spirit, 46. Those who minister spiritual things are owed temporal things in return, and this by justice, 111. How spiritual things were Mosaic, 177. Stephen, the stoning of, 743. Foolishness, the cross of God, 128. Subjection does not overturn piety, 94. Pride, the citadel of vices, 15. From Symmachus, an enemy of Christ, Christ’s divinity is vindicated, 655. Reason for sincerity, 149. Syllogisms of the Greeks, 295. Divine matters are not proven by syllogisms, 125. How a command might appear to be daily [reiterated].
T Tabernacle, to enter it is spoken of as an entrance in the Old Testament, 709. Parts of the tabernacle, famously described, 707. "As if" and "as," particles that signify both a doubt and a confirmation, 439. Theophylact, an imitator of the great Chrysostom, proves original sin famously from the oracles of Paul, 37. His somewhat harsh sentiment concerning the bitterness of Christ’s passions, 242. Moreover, what the commentator writes in his Epistle to the Galatians ought to be weighed with a grain of salt, 330. How the same author excuses the ignorance of Paul, who was most versed in the Law and the Scriptures, 554. Traditions without writings, 185. Temple of Solomon, its excellence, 715. Time, acceptable, 273. Time, called "opportunity" by the Apostle, 62. Difficult and evil times, how they are spoken of, 607. Evils of drunkenness, 98. Tentations, intolerable, the gate of hell, 244. Fertility of the earth must be referred back to God as acceptable, 685. The machine of the earth, to be endowed with incorruptibility, 60. Earthquakes, how many in Scripture, 754. New Testament, its excellence, 704. Abrogation of the Old Testament, ibid. The same Spirit of the New and Old Testaments, 263. Why Paul invokes God as a witness, 420. Throne of grace, 675. Throne of judgment, ibid. Throne, the judgment of the kingdom, 650. Conjunction of fear and charity, 282. Spirit of fear, 192. Virtue of Timothy, 234. To deliver to Satan, what it is, 13. Tradition, a famous monument of, 708. Translation, an ingenious interpretation of, 469. Mystery of the Trinity, 261. Mystery of the Trinity is not to be explored from the order in which the names of the persons are placed, 295. Sadness according to God is a remedy for sin, 280.
U Revenge, the best method of, 93. God does not take revenge if a human being attempts to take revenge, ibid. First of the Sabbath, the day of the Lord, 232. That the only-begotten Son of God is not a creature is proven against the Arianizers, 169, 170. Anointing without oil is common in the Scriptures, 3. Wife, to be loved by the husband, 411. Wife as the servant and mistress of the husband, in what sense, 157. Defects of the wife to be endured, 414. Uxorial burdens, 162. Love of wives which Paul commends is marvelously expounded by the author, 411. Duty of wives and husbands, 493, 494.
V The will of God is varied, 87. Belly, of whom it is God, 452. How God will destroy the belly and foods, 153. Study of the belly, condemned by the Apostle, 116. Word of God is adulterated if it is taught according to the opportunity of times and persons, 141. Words spoken and secrets which Paul heard, 310. Conflict of words to be avoided, 603. Truth, the light of reason, 399. Versatile (crafty), who should be so called, 149. Old Adam, who he is, 38. Old man, malice, 41.