Works of Theophylact, Volume IV

1285 INDEX IN TOM. IV THEOPHYLACTI.

that it is fitting to devote oneself to profane studies only for a time, ibid. Whether the prophets knew all things, 151. Whether they were in possession of their own faculties when they prophesied, 389. Why they did not themselves explain their own sayings, ibid. What the attendants of the girl Mary arriving at the temple signify, 474. What Python and Pythia are, 127.

R What the rebuilding of the tabernacle of David signifies, 268. In what way the faithful are a royal priesthood, 361. For a king who does not possess royal virtues, the royal dignity is a disgrace, 537. A king must overcome pleasure, ibid. How necessary and useful is excellent religion to a king, 541. That a king needs faithful friends, 542. That a king must beware of the ruinous effect of flatterers, 543. How harmful to a king is the favor shown by him to the wicked, 544. That a king should cultivate military exercises in time of peace and honor veterans, 545. That bodily exercise is very useful to a king, 546. That it is shameful for a king to give attention to mimes and jesters, ibid. That clemency is most necessary for a king, 547. To what extent a king should use the sword and punishments, ibid. That the entry of a just king is peaceful and joyful for his subjects, 541. That a king is to be commended for his virtues, not his attire, 571. That he ought to excel his subjects in virtue and wisdom, 547. What forms of government are good and how many are bad, 538. What religion is, 329. Who was considered religious among the Jews, 328. What Remphan is, 68. How the resurrection of Christ differs from others, 202. Why Rome was called Babylon by St. Peter, 381. Why Paul called himself a Roman, 275.

S What a Sabbath day's journey is, 14. What the Sadducees did not believe, 300. Who is to be greeted, 440. The Samosatene heretics, 28. Whether the saints retain a memory of affairs after death, 587. The satanic calumny of some against the Latins, 525. That holy martyrs healed a certain reader who was completely deprived of his voice, 303. A man who had extremely distorted feet, 503. Another afflicted by an unclean spirit, 107. A deaf and dumb man, 108. A lame man, 109. A leper, 110. A woman who, due to the flow of a deadly humor, was deprived of the use of sight, 110. A man who could never be satisfied, 112. The absurdity of the Scythians, 551. The stratagem of the Scythians, 552. What the seed of God is, 418. Who the Sicarii were, 298. Simeon, king of the Bulgarians, 508. What Simon Magus said concerning Christ, 413. What the dissolution of the pains of hell is, 201. Why the Holy Spirit did not come while Christ was present, 1286 or immediately as He departed, 8, 9. Why He came on the day of Pentecost, 19. Why in the form of fire, 2. Why He did not rest upon the mouth, but upon the head, ibid. The gift of the Holy Spirit is manifold, 9. Various revelation, 36. Why Stephen saw Jesus standing, 231. Why He did not perform miracles before His ordination, 221. What pride is and how it differs from vain opinion, 342.

T Why Tabitha was so called, 222. By the name of darkness in Scripture, ignorance or sin is understood, 406. God cannot be tempted with evils, 325. Temptations are of a double kind, 341. The utility of temptations according to God, ibid. Theodulus and Tatian break their idols—their torments for this reason, 485. Who Theophilus, to whom Luke wrote, was, 5. What Theophylact thought concerning the reported errors of the Latins, 514. Theophylact’s sophisms against the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Son, 517. Against the use of unleavened bread in the Eucharist, 520. Against the Latin fast on Saturday, 521. The death of the impostor Theudas, 55. The location of the city of Tiberiopolis, 489. Its devastation by the Omari and Bulgars, 496. Fear is spoken of in many ways, 361. The fear of God is twofold according to the Scriptures, 365. Timothy, one of the fifteen martyrs, the first bishop of Tiberiopolis, 489. Why Paul circumcised Timothy, 125. The bishop of Triaditza is interdicted from sacred ministry by Theophylact in the name of the synod, 581. Whether it was lawful for the apostles to have two tunics, 253. The anxious and perpetual fears of tyrants, 24. The characteristics of tyranny, 339.

U That this universe is not to be reduced to nothingness, but renewed at the end of the world, 398.

V Valens and Philippus, judges of Thessalonica, 490. That ancient Fathers tolerated many customs for the salvation of souls, 523. Why the viper did not harm Paul, 515. How husbands ought to behave towards their wives, 367. What a vision is, 308. Not all visions are to be made manifest, 259. Vladimir, king of the Bulgarians, 508.

Z The name zeal is ambiguous, 339. What true zeal is, ibid. The immoderate zeal of some against the offering of unleavened bread, 518. Of what sort is the zeal of the Photians, 522.

INDEX TO THE FOURTH VOLUME

A Aaron as a type of Christ, 178. The sin of Aaron, 178. The significance of Habakkuk, 134. The race of Ahab destroyed by God, 60. Achor, what it signifies, 28. The valley of Achor, 28. The double method of exhortation, 95. The subjugation of Egypt, 243. Egypt is called dragons, 106. How one must resist the passions, 227. *Agallian* is the same as to *skirtan* (to leap), 172. The depopulation of Alexandria, 242. Alexandria dedicated to the god Ammon, 241. When the soul departs from its nature, 36. When it becomes a harlot, 259. The wings of the soul, 48. The sin of the soul, 153. When the morning rain falls upon every soul, and likewise the evening rain, 58. In its growing malice, the word even becomes a panther, 56. When dejection is profitable, 50. The soul is the chariot of our Lord, 229. When the spirit does not sin in being angry, 232. Antellabus, 247. The idols of Apis, 45. The apostles are the feet of God, 224. And to what extent they are horses, 170. The allegory of the waters, 221. The waters of the journey, the grace of the evangelical word, 166. The swiftness of the eagle, 140. To which gods trees are dedicated, 43. Why the asp stops its ears, 25. The magic of the Assyrians, 259.

B How the Babylonians are similar to bindweed, 290. Why Balaam was summoned by Balak, 259. The unity of baptism, 221. The faculties of those baptized into Christ, 27. The significance of Barnabas, 213. Basanites, a most fertile region of Palestine, 216. The idol Baal-peor, 44. Why Benjamin is called the son of sorrow, 55. Bethel, the house of injustice, 45. What it signifies, ibid.

^A *Boum* (on the ox) name, who are to be understood by, 172. The arm of strength as a symbol of the working life, 110. The property of calamity, 218. Calcaneus (the heel), set for deception, 179. What the chalice signifies in sacred matters, 157. Who the *canthari* (tankards/urns) were to the ancients, 154. Flesh: living according to the flesh is an enemy of God, 214. The swiftness of the Chaldeans, 138. Sins, 181. Why Christ is called Israel, 99. Christ as the knowledge of God, [PG 126, 1287] Christ as the corner-stone, 30. Christ as the locust, 247. Christ as our bread, 80. Christ as our passover, 81. Christ as the mercy of the Father, 59. Christ as Pontiff, 178. Christ as our propitiation, 161. Christ insofar as He is fire, 228. Christ as the true David, 35. The weapons of Christ, 168. The book of the vision of Christ, 212. How the deeds of Christ and Jonah correspond, 195. Clerics, 243. Confession: why the trembling of the heart in confession is to be weighed, 234. Conscience as the judge of sin, 197. The worm of conscience, 206. The heart as the principal part of the living being, 191. How "heart" is accepted in various ways in the Scriptures, 194. What kind of hearts God requires, 147. Why the horn is called power, 163. Our body is clay, 246. What "custody" means for the prophets, 170. ^B The power of demons, 259. What sort of vision, 250. The signification of David, 35. The Virgin Theotokos as the steep mountain, 162. The adversaries of God, 213. That the acknowledgment of God is in faith, 31. The Word as the soul of God, 149. The kindness of God, 143. The face of God, the law of God, 144. Long-suffering, 214. Omnipotence not to be suffered by anyone, 164. The property of God, 91. The zeal of God, 213. God's manifestation in the flesh, a great mystery of piety, 138. That the name of God is assumed in the Scriptures in four ways, 184. "To destroy" is put for "to cast down," 59. God, why He had great care for the Israelites, 175. When God walks within us, 215. Whom He loves, 99. To whom He is present, and from whom He is absent, 56. To whom He is kind, 218. How the devil hunted the whole man, 145. The feast of the devil, 142. Ignominy, 153. A nest, 153. What "day" means in the Holy Scriptures, 157. The rape of Dinah, 62. The house of God is our mind, 83. ^C What is peculiar to drunkards and those full of wine, 34. The Church as the mother of believers, 215. The duties of the Church, 112. Why the Lord suppresses Ephraim, 95. Why he will be widowed of his offspring, 86. What this signifies. The justice of Hezekiah, 95. Three greatest festivals in the law, 225. The fig tree: what is to be understood by the fig, 24. The faithful as the body of Christ, 182. Faith as the burial of the mind, 224. Gabaa (Gibeah), the city of Benjamin, 84. What it signifies, ibid. What Gilgal signifies, 88. Gilgal, a city devoted to idols, 45. What it signifies, ibid. Why Gideon was called Jerubbaal, 98. Nations as the sea. Habakkuk provides a meal for Daniel, 174. Whence he originated, ibid. The flight of Habakkuk, ibid. His death, ibid. His burial, ibid. The end of heretics is separation from God, 153. The rejection of the Hebrews, 98. That the Hebrews are everywhere ill-spoken of under the name of delights, 246. How festivals and public assemblies differ. The burning of Jerusalem, 81. Jerusalem as the dwelling-place of lions, 336. When Jerusalem was made a harlot, 338. Jerusalem as the city of blood, 237. Men insofar as they are neighbors to the devil, 156. The destruction of men as the food of Satan, 117. Why idols are called madness, 85. The weakness of idols, nothing is weaker than weakness, 155. Indignation, 158. The unfaithful as the body of the devil, 132. What sort of darkness will pursue the enemies of God, 219. The nexus of disobedience, 222. The bonds of disobedience broken by Christ, ibid. The burial of the intellect, 224. The fornication of Israel, 164. Why the Israelites were justly handed over to the Babylonians, 214. Tabor as a mountain of Galilee, 48. When the journey of the Lord finds a place in us, 215. Jacob as a type of Christ, 93. Why Jacob was loved by God, 99. The swift feet of John, 225. Jonah swallowed by the whale, 189. Jonah the son of Amittai, he sat, 196. Why he shirked his function, 182. Why he paid fare for his navigation, 183. Why he fled from the prophet's function, 200. What things he had in common with Christ, 179. The flight of Jonah, 178, 183. The prayer of Jonah, 190. Why his prayers were not heard, 185. What is to be learned from the prophecy of Jonah, 205. Jonah’s burial, 207. Signification, 190, 207. Life, ibid. Sadness, 200. What Joppa signifies, 203. Josiah as the eradicator of idols, 224. The Jews as the Lord’s vineyard, 61. The Jews as wanderers, 88. The drunkenness of the Jews, 214. Their expulsion, 87. The impiety of the Jews against Christ, 141. Why war overtook the Jews, 94. Justice, 96. The bodies of the lascivious are weak, 238. The laurel as sacred to Apollo, 43. Sacred legal matters are clay, 246. Christ as the end of the law, 91. Why no one is justified by the works of the law, 149. The servitude of the law is temporary, 30. How the law and the prophets are the vine and the vineyard, 21. A lemma, 212. Lebanon as a workshop of idolatry, 216. Lebanon as a mountain of Phoenicia, 216, 158. Letter as chaff, 246. The signification of the loins, 234. While a wicked man is covered by God, 137. The hand of the Lord, 235. The signification of the hand, 198. The heresy of Marcion, 177. The rational mind of man as the place of God, 57. The burial of the mind, 224. Mesopotamia, 166. Who is truly a miserable man, 152. Death as the rest of man, 170. The thinking of mortals as a miserable thing, 100. Moses as a type of Christ, 178. Species of motions, 34. Nebuchadnezzar as a trouble to Egypt, 141. The prophecy of Nebuchadnezzar, 45. Madness, 150. What Nahum signifies, 212, 150. Whence Nahum originated, 150. The gentleness of the sailors, 187. Nineveh as a city of the Assyrians, 209. By whom it was built, 180. Why Nineveh is a part of Ammon, 241. Why it is a dwelling-place of lions, [PG 126, 1288] 235. Nineveh, how it was made a city of blood, 237. The cause of the devastation of Nineveh, 220. The destruction of Nineveh, 209, 250. The magnitude of Nineveh, 105. Munition, 212. The fast of the king of Nineveh, 181. A gadfly, 46. The olive as an image of the just man, 171. Hosea the son of Beeri, 9. A panther as a very swift wild beast, 58. By what reason Paul was a Roman, 223. The poor as the pastures of the rich, 238. What it is to sin in oneself, 490. The sinner as a son of sorrow, 53. Why God is far from sinners, 36. Sin, 93. Sin as a sting, 222. That there is no sin so great that it cannot be wiped away by tears, 203. An act contrary to nature, 45. Sin insofar as it is a hedge, 242. Sin insofar as it is a ditch, 28. Sin is dead without the law, 204. The first occasion for every sin, 87. The perversion of sin, 28. Premeditated punishment, 41. The sin of