when he encountered a dying lioness in the road with eight whelps lying nearby, immediately conjectured the span of time he would have to live among the Persians, 518. The words with which Apollonius assailed Bardanes, king of the Babylonians, 519. Apollonius repelled the base lover of his beauty, having severely rebuked him, 520. Apollonius, after the manner of the Pythagoreans, was silent for a lustrum, 521. Apollonius uses an interpreter through whom he might address Phraotes, king of India, 521. Apollonius remembers that he was once the pilot of an Egyptian ship in the time of Iarchas; but on the other hand, Iarchas says that his soul was once clothed in a body of royal fortune, 525. Apollonius drove a demon out of a lascivious youth, 530. Intending to be initiated into the Eleusinian mysteries, Apollonius was prohibited by the priest of Ceres, and why, 530. In Rome, as a dishonest charlatan, Apollonius sang the songs of Nero with a venal voice, 530. Apollonius, as Philostratus asserts, using a pure and slender diet, foresaw a plague imminent for the Ephesians and quelled it as it raged, 534. Apollonius could by no means possess the art of divination, because, when questioned even about the most trivial matters, he sometimes remained in doubt, 531. Apollonius speaks of himself insolently and proudly, 535. Apollonius used clothing not common to other mortals, 535. Apollonius, having set out for a field at night, tore to pieces an Arcadian boy, 535. Apollonius in Rome was thrown into chains, 533. Speaking before Domitian, Apollonius vanished from the sight of all the bystanders, 536. Apollonius disputed about the power of the Fates among the Ionians; it was decreed by fate that he should be an architect, or even if both hands were cut off, he would turn out an architect, 538. Released from chains, Apollonius headed from Rome to Lebadea, 540. Apollonius of Tyana flourished under the Emperor Nero, 512. Where Apollonius died, it is uncertain, 541. When Apollonius had entered a temple, the doors suddenly closing, he disappeared, and was never seen anywhere, and there, as Philostratus fabulates, the voices of virgins were heard in this manner: "Come, come to heaven, come, wise man," and Philostratus the Athenian, 512. The words of Apollonius by which he met Damis and took him into his company, 517. Apollonius at his birth had midwives present, 517. Apollonius’s mother, while pregnant, seemed to herself to see before her eyes the shape of Proteus, 517. Apollonius’s fellow students under Euthydemus were followers of Plato and Chrysippus, 518. No trace of Apollonius’s death or tomb has appeared anywhere, 518. Apollonius’s progress in literary studies, the power of his happy memory, his use of the Attic tongue, 518. Apollonius’s ridiculous divination, 518. Apollonius’s ignorance discovered before Phraotes, king of the Indians, in Greek matters, 522. Apollonius’s ridiculous judgment in a litigated suit, 522. Apollonius’s foolish questions asked of Iarchas, 525. Apollonius’s response before Domitian concerning the prediction of the plague, 527. Apollonius’s ignorance is detected, 528. Apollonius’s invectives before Domitian and Vespasian against Euphrates, to whom he had been most closely joined shortly before, 532. Apollonius’s leg freed from shackles, by magic, 536, 537. Apollonius’s words to Domitian, who was accusing him of magic, 537. Apollonius’s most arrogant statement, that there are virtues in him, 511. As Apollonius was traveling from Persia to India, an Empusa met him, 521. As he was traveling to the Brahmins, a woman of spectacular color met Apollonius, white from the top of her head to her knees, and the rest of her body most black, 523. Whoever claims that Apollonius spoke as a philosopher above others, he will truly protest like an ass clothed in a lion's skin, nor will he appear clearly as anything other than a spectacular charlatan of cities and a clamorous sophist, 513. That Apollonius recalled a dead girl to life in Rome, besides the fact that it seems incredible to Philostratus, it also seems false, 550. Why the apostles of Christ are called the princes of Naphtali in prophetic voice, 441. How the apostles were chosen and the gentiles called, 48. The election of the apostles and disciples of Christ shadowed forth in prophetic discourse, 79. The Arabs collect divination from swans and other birds, as if from oracles, having devoured the heart or liver of dragons, 518. While Aristobulus was in the town of Jericho and was swimming there, he was held under water by force for a while; Herod conspired his death, 398. What kind of family the Asmonean family was among the Jews, 398. The ascension for him who had first descended, and subsequently the calling of all the gentiles, who were about to know the one and only God, is declared, 259. What "Assyrian" signifies when interpreted, 322. Under the name of the Assyrians, every kingdom imposed upon the gentiles through individual times is expressed in the sacred writings, 322. B What "Barachias" signifies when interpreted, 332. Bardanes, king of the Babylonians, in the time of Apollonius, 519. How the blessing of God was about to redound to all gentiles, in that seed which was to come forth from the offspring of Isaac, 45. Declaration of the benefit by which all gentiles were to be affected through Christ, 51. Bethlehem is convicted by the testimonies of the prophets that Christ would be born there, 341. It is proved by the authority of the Psalm that Bethlehem would be the place of Christ's nativity, 342. Goodness is never subjected to the envy of any thing, 416. Scripture is accustomed to call the prelates of the Church by the name of oxen, 71. The teacher of the Brahmins was Iarchas, 523. The public circus of the Brahmins, and in it seats arranged in their own order, 523, 524. C Why it is proper for the rectors and pastors of the Church to lead a celibate life, 32. What the new song, which is to be sung to the gentiles according to the prophet's testimony, is like, 263. The heaven itself, and the sun and moon, and the remaining stars are by their own nature subject to corruption and dissolution, although they are not to be dissolved, because He who composed them does not will it, according to the opinion of Plato, 106. The knowledge of the universal God was anciently delivered only to the Hebrews, which was to be perceived when Christ manifested Himself, 124. Why Moses commanded in his laws that those consecrated to God be anointed with prepared ointment, 172. The conversion of the whole world to the faith and the legitimate religion of one God through illiterate and rustic men is a miracle surpassing all faith, 135. The banquet of Apollonius and Iarchas, and the wonders in it, 524. Divine Scripture calls a kingdom by the name of a horn, 191. By what power the dead body of Christ revived, 170. The body of Christ is compared to a lamp, 188. The advent of Christ in the flesh brought correction to the world, 47. That all celestial bodies are subject to corruption and dissolution by their own nature, although they are not to be dissolved because He who composed them does not will it, according to the opinion of Plato, 106. Christ the Lamb of God who was made both sin and an execration, and is called King by the testimonies of Scripture, who might have had enemies, and who these the enemies are, 218. Christ, who rises specifically from the seed of David and is called "the David," who confounds the hostile Jews, and who renews the sanctification of the Father, 188. Christ who is specifically named as being to suffer all reproaches is described, 137. How Christ is to be compared to Moses, 3. According to what nature Christ is said to be a priest forever in the Psalm, 177. How Christ is said to have made our sins his own and to have borne our iniquities, 467. That Christ is proved to be that one prophet whom Moses had predicted would be raised up for the Jews from their brothers, 91. Christ as one of certain things hidden from the first constitution of the universe, unknown by reason to those who are religious, and presiding over God with grateful minds, 154. By what reason Christ is called the cornerstone, and is shown by an oracle as about to enter Jerusalem on a young donkey, 455. Christ is declared to have received by name the Lord, the Father, and the protector, 185. Christ was that one prophet whom God had promised would be like Moses, 443. Christ preached for three years and a half, which time is the half of one week, and the glory of his miracles shone on the earth, 226. Christ was that unique prophet who Moses had predicted would be like himself, 27. Why Christ endured the temptation of the devil in the desert, 434. Christ is by name exalted by God the Father, 191. Christ showed himself to the world as a certain instrument through the body, no otherwise than as a musician declares how learned he is through a lyre, 168. By what reason Christ is said to be a priest according to the order of Melchizedek, 223. Why Christ willed to make use of mostly rustic and ignoble ministers for disseminating the new doctrine, 136. Christ is specifically circumvented by the Jews and acknowledged by the gentiles, 190. Christ subdued into himself innumerable peoples, not with an army equipped with weapons, but by truth, meekness, and justice, 218. Why Christ [declared] inescapable [punishments] for the impious...
[Christ] is recommended by the testimony of Joseph. Christ imposed upon the calling of all nations a law that was both easy and accommodating, 124. Christ explicitly receives from the Father his faithful house, the Church, and a faithful priest throughout all time to preside over his Church with the knowledge of God, 444. Christ is explicitly preserved by God the Father, and he preserves his own [christs/anointed], 191. Why Christ was called a Nazarene, 349. Why Christ is called the Lamb of God, 462. Christ is cleared of the stigma of being a seducer, 107. Why Christ kept the Mosaic law throughout his entire life, [he] having been made to be the one who would fulfill it, 467. Why Christ is called shepherd and leader, 343. From what tribe and at what time Christ was to be incarnate is shown with clearer prophecy, 5. Christ is shown to obtain from the Father whatever he asks by name, 182. Christ is named by God and is recognized by all, yet he repudiates the Jewish nation [that was] after Moses, it is recognized to have finished [its course], 28. What the name of Christ signifies in the sacred letters, 171. Christ is shown to ascribe God as his guardian by name, [his] being hidden among those guardians who were kept in honor among the Jews is proven, 404. Christ’s advent into flesh is clearly designated by the prophecy of Moses, 3. By the disciples who narrated the admirable deeds of Christ, the obstinacy of the non-believers is rebuffed, 109. That Christ’s divinity and humanity are declared by the prophecy of the second psalm is shown in a most effective way, 182. Christ’s departure into Egypt cannot justly be blamed by anyone, 126. By what arguments Christ’s divinity may be proved, 134. That Christ’s divine nature suffered no detriment by the assumption of a human body is declared by the most fitting comparison of the rays of the sun, 167. Christ’s bodily advent into Egypt is predicted both in word and in meaning, and all the superstition of the nations that is to be converted at his advent is declared, 421. How the faith of Christ was propagated, 513. It is fitting for Christ alone to communicate the grace announced to all men, 3. What kind of terms Scripture attributes to Christ according to his divinity and what kind according to his humanity, 462. That Christ is the true [Word] of God, existing by a certain divine power and more excellent than the nature of man bears, the Hebrew rationale teaches, 176. Divinely inspired prophets from the age of Hebrew antiquity predicted that Christ would come into humanity, 513. God himself calls Christ, [being] of the universe, the Sun of justice, 254. Moses calls Christ the Word of God, now God and Lord, now the angel of God, 10. That Christ was no less known to those ancient fathers than to us is confirmed by the testimony of the sacred letters, 10. The impiety of those who think Christ was a seducer is rebuffed, 102. That Christ was to be betrayed by Judas is declared by prophetic testimony, 441. That the Psalmist clearly confirms Christ as Lord twice, 219. That Christ was announced by the oracles of the Hebrew prophets is shown, 89. Almighty God calls Christ both the Angel of the testament and the Lord, 253. With Christ arriving, it is shown that there would be a congregation of nations and a recognition of God by all men and a single manner of piety, and that the Ethiopians would offer sacrifices to him, 50. With Christ coming, the conversion of the ends of the earth and the nations dwelling there to God is demonstrated, and the coming generation and the people who will be born who will accept his justice [are demonstrated], 46. That those who were familiar with God before Moses were called "christs," just as we are called Christians, is shown, 12. What might be the true rationale of Christianity, 24. The life of those who embrace Christianity is divided into two species, 29. How the way of life of Christians may be compared with the way of living that Abraham and his ancestors kept, 9. Whence the nations derived the name of Christians, 39. That the new name of Christians is to be celebrated with praises and favor in the whole world is shown, 81. The natural limits of the entire created order are circumscribed, 515. The order of those who profess divine worship is threefold, 22. It behooves those occupied with divine worship to thereafter abstain from the commerce of wives, 33.
D Evil demons and authors of all malice are shown to have presided over the divinations and oracles of the nations, 205. How evil demons, by oracles and responses, often deceived the nations in many ways is proved, 203. That the vexation of demons is driven away by the very name of Jesus and by very few prayers is a Christian custom, 133. Damis departs on a journey from Assyria with Apollonius, and from then on began to use each other familiarly, 513. Damis the philosopher, associate of Apollonius, 512. Damis the philosopher thought then that Apollonius was something beyond man, for the reason that he freed himself from fetters while held in prison of his own volition, 517. David did not have a successor to his kingdom from his own seed from the time of the Babylonian captivity until the advent of Christ; [the Jews] were able to hold the kingdom of the whole Jewish race [no longer], 365. Demetrius dehorts Apollonius from returning to Rome, whom he pushes away, 533. It is proved that God descending from heaven, who existed as a guide for the nations that previously did not know him, turned away from the Jewish people, 268. That God is in God, just as we glorify the Father in the Son and the Son in the Father, is proved by the testimony of Isaiah, 223. According to the opinion of Porphyry, God is to be worshipped by pure silence and pure thoughts about him, 205. It is declared that God was manifestly to come to men and to call back the whole human race to himself, 261. Not many sons of the highest God, but one alone is rightly declared to be God from God, 147. That it is one God who was formerly known by the Jews and whom now the faithful venerate and worship is declared by prophetic oracles, 18. That God is visible to Israel himself is proved by divine Scripture, which signifies the very Word of God, 214. No one has ever seen God, 244. That God is to be seen on earth is proved by Christ's advent to men; Moses was not ignorant of this by the performance of the work, 232. Signification of the desolation of the metropolis of the Jews, 55. The right hand and the left are stronger [than they were], 433. How the Devil endeavors to turn men away from God and push them into sin by allurements and occult machinations is shown, 159. Why the Devil's [attempts] are said to fall to the side of Christ and not to the left (which surely signifies the side from the place of the Psalm), 437. Why Christ endured the temptation of the Devil in the desert, 434. By the disciples who narrated the admirable deeds of Him, the obstinacy of the non-believers is rebuffed, 109. The custom of the disciples proves most evidently of all what kind of person he is who professes anything, 127. The dispersion of the Jews among all nations is predicted, 56. When the divine nature is compared to oil and when to ointment, 174. The divine and incorporeal nature of the Son of God accepted no detriment, nor did it become worse itself by assuming a body, 198. By what arguments one may gather the divinity of Christ, 191. There are three orders of those who profess divine worship, 22. Two jars from which the Brahmans send winds and rain to their neighbors, 516. The bronze statue of Domitian situated by the river Melete, 540. Apollonius declares to the Roman emperor Domitian that Iarchas and Phraortes are the only ones among men worthy to be called gods, 531.
[E] Of what kind was the sect of the Ebionites among the Jews, 316. A certain knowledge concerning the Father and the Son was gathered for the Church of God through the grace of Christ, 61. What great goods God has promised to the Church of the nations, formerly deserted, 38. That the persecutors of the Church are to be destroyed is explained by the testimonies of the prophets, 82. The progress of the Church and of the Word of God and the law and the calling of all the nations is described, 55. That the Church is one, and that it is the same house of God, is shown, 186. That the Church would suffer insults and reproaches for the sake of Christ is shown, 187. The author of Ecclesiastes is Solomon, 1. What kind and how great the eclipse of the sun was at the very death of the Lord, 485. What Emmanuel signifies when interpreted, 316. Empedocles, Democritus, and Pythagoras [were] conversant with the magi, 540. Empusa or lamia is a demon clad in female form, 530.
A Ephrata is the same as Bethlehem, 347. The sacrament of the Eucharist, by the oracles of which prophets it was announced, 38. Euphrates the philosopher was the first to accuse Apollonius of Tyana of magic, 530. Euthydemus of Phoenicia, a most excellent rhetorician and tutor to Apollonius, 518. Euxenus of Heraclea in Pontus, an Epicurean and tutor to Apollonius, 519. Why Christ wished the evangelical doctrine to be disseminated by rustic and ignoble men, 133. That the prophets included mention of the Gospel in Christ himself is proven, 88. Why the evangelical preaching is called "thunder" by the prophets, 188. By how many points the evangelical law exceeds the Mosaic law, 23. The institutes of evangelical discipline, how beautifully the life of the blessed Job expressed them for us, 15. The overthrow of the Jewish nation is shown to have been foretold by the prophecy of the prophets, 250.
F Those who were acquaintances of God before Moses were once called Christs, just as we are called Christians, is shown, 12. The necessity of fate is opposed, 541 et seqq. How the Son of God is said to have existed before every creature, 148. The Son of God remained in that nature which can neither be harmed nor suffer, and which is incorporeal, even at the time he was made man, 169. The Son of God is as it were a certain animated and living instrument, through which God the Father created and preserves all things, 149. The Son of God is "another" according to efficiency, not having obtained this essence by himself, 147. The Son of God, while supplying divine power to a mortal, was not himself drawn by the mortal into a share or communion, 169. The Son of God, as a man, left behind a body to be buried, from which, as God, he departed, 166. Why the Son of God is called the Word of God, 229. Why the Son is called the image of the Father, 147. Why the Son of God wished to die and rise again on the third day, 167. How the Son of God, by renewing man, provided for us all the hope of eternal goods, 111. How the Son of God the Only-begotten is said to be in the Father and from the Father, 161. How the Son of God lived among men, 166. How far the Son of God is called Jesus and Christ, and also through which prophecies he was named or announced, 171. That the Son of God does not have the fullness of the paternal divinity from eternity possessed by himself, nor separated from the Father, nor without a beginning and unbegotten deity, 61. The Son of God received divinity through paternal participation, as if propagated from a flowing spring, with fullness, 62. The eternal generation of the Son of God cannot be comprehended not only by any men, but not even by those powers which have transcended every nature, 216. The nature of the Son of God drew no stain from human affections, just as when a lyre is struck, or nerves are plucked, it is not likely that he who plays can suffer as they do, 169. David testifies that the Son of God is the eternal priest of the Father and the confessor of the supreme God, 217. That the Son of God was announced by name as Christ in prophetic writings is shown, 182. David knew that the Son of God was begotten of the Father before the foundation of the world, 221. For what reason it was fitting that the Son of God should be incarnate. That the patriarch Jacob called the Son of God both God and the supreme angel of God, 234. That the Son of God appeared to the patriarch in the form of a man is proven, 236. Why the oracles of theological discourse pronounce the Son of God to be begotten, 14. That the laws of humanity applied the Son of God even to those who died in ancient times, 166. By the name of scourges, the efficacy of the demons themselves is hinted at in the divine scriptures, 436. It is not permitted for a Christian to use the deceitful inscription of leaves, 127. The fountains of Israel are the oracles of God, by which the Churches are watered even now, 441. Why the house of the Lord is called a furnace, 481. That the valiant one would never have been nailed to the cross had he not abandoned Christ, 494.
G How Christ illuminated Galilee by his preaching, 438. With what joy Christ affected Galilee by his arrival, 440. Why Christ deemed the Galilee of the Gentiles worthy of his doctrine and miracles in the highest degree, 440. The crowing of a cock, as is usual, puts to flight the shadows of demons, 529. The eternal generation of the Son of God cannot be comprehended not only by any men, but not even by any powers which have transcended every nature, 216. The eternal generation by which the Son of God was begotten of God the Father from eternity, without any privation, diminution, section, or division, [is explained by] a most fitting similitude of fragrance spreading from a flowing body into all that it encompasses externally, 148 and 149. That the Son of God received an inheritance from the heavenly Father for the nations [is shown] by the testimony of Scripture, 49. It is shown that the nations will know justice and that he himself is to be the judge of the universe, 263. That the nations, worshiping only the stars of heaven and the lights, were assigned separately to certain angels, 157. That there will be very many nations, and collections of them, which will be constituted out of Jacob, although only the Jewish nation descended from him, 46. How the nations of the earth were to be blessed through Christ in the same manner as the appellation of Abraham, 45. That the prophets of the Jews, coming beforehand, announced better things to the nations externally than to the Jews themselves, 41. That the kingdom of God is shown to be among the nations, 46. The conversion of the nations from the worship of idols to the God of the universe is shown, 51. It is shown how great the joy of the nations was to be at the advent of Christ, 46. How great the joy of the nations was through the advent of Christ according to God, 46. The recognition of the one and true God, and of the solemn celebration of worship in spirit by all the nations, is shown, 47. The declaration of the calling of the nations from the oracles of the prophets, 48. What piety toward God was to be in the nations through the advent of Christ is declared, 50. The calling of the nations through Christ, 54. When Apollonius was approaching the Gymnosophists, he spoke to an elm while he was riding on a camel along with his retinue, 533.
H Since there were twelve tribes of the Hebrews, how it came to pass that the appellation of the tribe of Judah itself is used even now, and no other, 172. The Hebrews signify the divine nature by various appellations, 594. That Herod plotted the death of the high priest Aristobulus, while he was in the town of Jericho, by holding him under water while he was swimming, is shown, 398. That Herod was the first of an alien race to rule over the Jews, 397. That Herod took Mariamne, the sister of the high priest Aristobulus, as his wife, so that he might curry favor with the Jews, 397. Whence Herod, in whose time Christ was born, derived his origin, 591. That under the reign of Herod everything which Moses had ordained in his laws, namely the anointing and the judgment, was shown to be abolished, 397. Hierocles compared Apollonius of Tyana to our Savior Jesus Christ, 511. Hierocles argues that Christians preach Jesus as God on account of a few miracles, as it seems to him, but he confirms that Apollonius, on account of the miracles he performed, was not God, but a man pleasing to God, 512. Hierocles accuses the divine Peter and Paul of falsehood, ignorance, and imposture, 512. Hierocles most audaciously prefers Philostratus to the holy evangelists, 523. The blasphemous words of Hierocles against Christ, 512. That Christ willingly laid down his soul to save men, when no one had the right and power over it, 496. It is shown by what art and deceit the enemy tries to divert and push men into sins, 160. That men in most ancient times attended only to the heavenly lights, having no knowledge of idols, 160. That God appointed angels to men as guardians and curators, 162. It is shown from whom the race of men was first deceived, and into the miseries of this present life it fell, 161. That the human race was seduced by a certain power hostile to God is proven, 161. That Herod put to death Hyrcanus, who was the last of the succession and series of high priests who ruled over the Jews, 374.
I Jarchas, the master of the Brachmans, when he first saw Apollonius, greeted him by name in Greek, and asked him to return to him the letter which he had received from Phraortes to be delivered to him, etc., 524. The miracles of Jarchas and the Brachman, 526.
ANALYTICAL INDEX
AIdolatry: That the Egyptians were the first authors of it, 228. Image of God the Father: Why the Son is so called, 150. Incense and fumigations: Why Moses ordained by law that priests should use them daily in the temple for abundant fragrance, 171. Incredulity of the Jews toward God is demonstrated, 56. Enemies of Christ: Who are to be so considered, 218. Iniquities: By what reasoning it is said that Christ bore our iniquities, 467. Inscriptions: That a Christian is not permitted to use the prestigious inscriptions of certain leaves, 127. Israel: What the interpretation of the name signifies, 236.
J Jacob the patriarch: At what time he predicted that Christ was to come, 95. Jacob the patriarch: It is demonstrated that the Son of God appeared to him in the form of a man, 234, 235. Jesus son of Josedech the high priest: He bore the image and figure of our Savior, in that he converted to God the servitude of human souls which had already prevailed, 196. Jesus: It is a Christian custom to put to flight the vexation of demons by the name of Jesus and by most pure prayers, 132. Jesus: It is found that no one had this name before Moses, 196. John the Apostle: Why he does not mention himself by his own name in his Gospel and Epistles, 120. John the Baptist: Why he denied to the Jews who questioned him that he was the prophet, 445. John the Baptist: By what notable deeds he eventually attracted men from the cities themselves into the desert, so that they gave faith to him as he preached the baptism of repentance, 430. John the Baptist: Why he chose for himself not Jerusalem itself, but the desert, for preaching, 429. Job: He was older than Moses by two ages, 14. Job: An example of notable piety toward God worthy of imitation, 10. Job: How beautifully his life expressed for us the instructions of evangelical discipline, 11. Josedecim: What the interpretation of the name signifies, 358. Josephus: His praiseworthy testimony concerning Christ, 124. Judas the traitor: His sacrilegious plot against Christ is proven to have been predicted by a prophetic voice, 461. Jews: Hitherto degenerating under the literal sense of the Mosaic law, they have relapsed into the execration of Moses himself, 28. Jews: They are argued against for their impious insults toward God, 58. Jews: They were the first of all to receive the knowledge and confession of God, 61. Jews: Why Christians refuse the rule of life of the Jews, whose oracles they nevertheless accept, 7. Jews: The display of their warlike apparatus, the destruction of nations, and the peace and kingdom of the Lord being spread to the ends of the earth is demonstrated, 35. Jews: Their rejection and the adoption of the nations is indicated by their own prophecy, 16. Jews: It is demonstrated by a most certain prophecy that upon the failure of the Jewish kingdom, the expectation of the nations for Christ began, 365. Jews: Their dispersion into every nation is predicted, 54. Jews: It is refuted with a most effective argument that they falsely expect only one coming of Christ, 456, 457. Jewish nation: Its impiety is accused and the evils which were to invade them after the coming of Christ are predicted, 54. Jewish nation: It is declared by a prophetic voice that there would be great incredulity in the Jewish nation against Christ, 454. Jewish nation: Its destruction is shown as having been announced by a prophetic voice, 230. Jewish nation: High priests ruled over the Jewish nation for five hundred years after the return from the Babylonian captivity, 366 and 371. Jewish cities: The desolation of them is described, 57. Jews: It is confirmed by prophetic testimony that Christ was to be betrayed for thirty pieces of silver, 478. Justice: By what means Abraham and his ancestors sought for themselves, before God, 9.
L Lamia or Empusa: A demon clothed in female form, 530. Lamia or Empusa: Tormenting Menippus with insane love; what is it?, 534. Wool: The earth produces wool among the Brachmans suitable for clothing, 525. Cornerstone: By what reasoning Christ is called the cornerstone, 27. New Law: That it was to be the sanction of the Gospel of Christ is confirmed by prophetic testimony, 445. Mosaic Law: Its evacuation and cessation through the coming of Christ is signified by the oracles not only of Moses, but also of all later prophets, 7. New Law: By what means Christ became the institutor of it, after all the precepts of the Mosaic law were fully completed, 25. New Law: Called by various names of the prophets, 8. Law: How it is said that it would go forth from Sion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem, 8. Libanus: By the name of Libanus, the temple is expressed in the prophetic Scriptures, 410, 411. Books of the Jews: Why the Church has received them, though it does not embrace their rule of life, 7. Prophetic books: The Church embraces the prophetic books of the Hebrews not by chance nor thoughtlessly, but with the greatest study, 43. Place: The place is expressed where God, whom the prophets announced, was to arise, 340. Light and Splendor: A fitting comparison with the Father and the Son in the divine writings, 147.
M Magi: How the most miserable of all men exercise their magic, 531. Magistrates of the Jewish nation: Accusation, 55. Mantichora: A quadruped animal with a human head, a leonine body, and a tail bristling with cubit-long hairs which it throws like arrows at hunters, 525. Mark the Evangelist: He recorded the narratives of blessed Peter the Apostle concerning the deeds of Jesus in a commentary, 120. Mark the Evangelist: He did not omit the words of Peter answering Christ who asked him whom men said that he was, 120. Mariamne: Herod took as his wife the sister of Aristobulus the high priest, that he might capture goodwill from the multitude, 397. Matthew the Apostle: Why he denotes himself in his own Gospel by his own name and as a publican, 17. Marriage: Why the laws among Christians are more strict than they were formerly among the Jews, 31. Maximus of Aegium: Companion of Apollonius, 512. Metempsychosis: Of Amasis king of the Egyptians, 555. Melchisedech: Moses himself testifies that he was a priest and, in fact, excelling Abraham, 10. Melchisedech: What the interpretation of the name signifies, 222. Miracles: Which Philostratus, Damis, and Hierocles pretend were performed by Apollonius, are refuted, 526, 527, 528. Miracles: Christ performed them by no other reasoning than by a certain divine power unknown to us, 127. Miracles: Why Christ sometimes forbade his own miracles to be manifested, 452. Miracles of Christ: A brief epilogue is gathered, whereby Christ is stripped of the infamy of being a seducer, 79. Miracles of Christ: The greatest of those performed on earth is the conversion of the whole world to the faith and the worship of the one God through rustic and unlearned men, 135. Miracles: The coming of Christ and his divinity are proven by the signs of miracles, 453. Miracles of Christ: The beginning is recorded as having taken place in Cana of Galilee, where water was turned into wine, 439. Mountains: What is mystically signified by the name of mountains in the holy Scriptures, 272. Moses: Why he designated Nausem, the son of Nave, as his successor, calling him Jesus by a changed birth-name, 195. Moses: He is said to have understood the future time when his laws could not be accommodated to all nations, 6. Moses: He stood forth as the first initiator and theologian of all the prophets, 206. Moses: No prophet existed like Moses except Christ, 95. Moses: No prophet like unto Moses arose among the Hebrews except one, our Savior Christ, 445. Moses: The Jews, hitherto living under the literal sense of his law, have fallen into the execration of Moses, 28. Mosaic law: The cessation of the Mosaic law was predicted not only by Moses himself, but by all the prophets posterior to him, 7. Mosaic law: Christ, having risen, took away the burden of the Mosaic law from his faithful, 6. Mosaic law: Since Christ fully kept the precepts of the Mosaic law, how did he become the institutor of a new reason and law?, 24. Mosaic law: Why Christ kept the Mosaic law during his entire life, 25. Mosaic law: By how many numbers the evangelical law surpasses the Mosaic law, 13. Mosaic rule of life: How difficult it was for all the Jews to keep, 2. World: There is only one power that is the maker of the world, 150. Whole world: It is shown to be filled with the praise of God during the time Christ lived on earth, 278. Musician: Shows how learned he is through the lyre, 168.
ANALYTICAL INDEX
**N**
The birthplace of Christ, Bethlehem, is proved to be such by the authority of the Psalmist, 188. How the divine nature must be conceived as penetrating, ordering, and perfecting all things, 168. That the Hebrews signify the divine nature by various appellations, 105. What the name Nazarene signifies when interpreted, 349. Nineveh, a city of Assyria, 520. That the name of four letters, which the Jews say is ineffable and which they are accustomed to use of God the Father alone, is shown in the Holy Scriptures to be attributed also to the Son of God where His divinity is treated of, 435. When the soul of the righteous ought to be called by the name of Sion or Jerusalem, 303. It is declared that the Word of the New Testament descended to earth and penetrated to all men, 278. Why the manner of marrying is more restricted in the time of the law of grace than it was in the time of the law of nature or the Mosaic law, 30.
**O**
Why Moses ordained in his laws that the fragrance of incense and fumigations should be stirred up in the temple, 172. What the nature and property of oil is, 173. When the divine nature is compared to oil and when to ointment, 174. What oil signifies mystically in the Holy Scriptures concerning God, 172. Omnipotent God, how He confesses Himself sent, that He might take away those things which are vicious, 282. It is demonstrated by prophetic oracles that the advent of Christ would be towards the end of the world, 276. Certain oracles concerning Christ from the responses of the gods, by the authority of Porphyry, 134. It is shown that evil demons and authors of all wickedness were in charge of oracles and auguries, 204. The triple order of those professing divine worship is described, 22. Origen’s eight volumes written against the oration of Celsus, 511. The region of the Oritae, where there are bronze rocks, bronze sand, and where the rivers themselves roll down filings of bronze, 527. What Hosanna signifies when interpreted, 459. That an earthquake occurred in the times of Hosea is proved by the authority of Josephus, 291. By the name of sheep, Scripture is accustomed to express that multitude in the Church which consists of those who are more imperfect, 71.
**P**
Why Christ is called the Prince of Peace, 345. Why Christ wished to be born in a time of peace, 139. In the time of the Passion, what was the greatest of all the afflictions that pressed upon Him, 592. The Passion of Christ was celebrated at evening as the night approached, 492. It is shown that the times of the Passion which happened to Christ were to come according to prophetic testimony, 491. Why Christ was forsaken by the heavenly Father in the time of the Passion, 493. Who are the three shepherds, to be removed from the Jews at the time of Christ’s advent according to the testimony of the prophet, that are to be understood, 482. The heavenly Father always hears Christ, 497. The Father is not Father in divine things in mere speech, but in truth and in reality the Father of the only-begotten Son, 4. Why the Father did not generate more sons co-eternal with Himself in divine things, 153. The Fathers of the Old Testament at first occupied themselves with begetting offspring and marriage, but maturely abstained and ceased, 33. That Christ was no less known to the ancient Fathers than to us is proved by the authority of the Holy Scriptures, 11. How sin from contempt had to be purged according to the institution of the old law, 4. By what kind of sacrifice the old law commanded sin from ignorance to be expiated, 4. In what manner Christ is said to have been made sin for us, 467. When Christ is said to have made our sins His own, 467. It is proved by the testimonies of the prophets that the persecutors of the Church are to be destroyed, 82. The duality of the divine Persons is most clearly commended theologically by Moses twice without any obscurities, 232. Isaiah testifies to the duality of the divine Persons, namely of the Father and the Son, and that one of them is the Maker of the universe, 249. The pestilence in Ephesus was quieted by Apollonius, 528. The pestilence seen by Apollonius in the guise of a ragged old man, 528. Pestilence is a corruption of the surrounding air, and a vice resulting from a putrid vapor tending toward a morbid quality, 528. The apostle Peter, out of excessive reverence, deemed himself unworthy to write the Gospel, 120. Peter was crucified at Rome with his head toward the ground, 111. Why Mark described Peter’s denial so exactly, 121. The books of Philalethes of Hierocles, in which he contends that the Tyanian should be equated with Jesus Christ, 511. Philolaus, a writer of Pythagorean doctrine, 319. Philostratus lived in the company of Apollonius, whose deeds he committed to memory, 512. Philostratus wove together the life of Apollonius from his infancy to his very end, 513. Philostratus, a strenuously foolish defender of Apollonius, 530. The lies of Philostratus and Damis are detected, by which they attempt to assert that Apollonius was self-taught, 518. It is proved that Job exhibited to all an example of piety toward God to be imitated, 16. The movement of the cupbearers which Apollonius saw among the Indians was magical, 531. It is proved that Pisatus at night brought images of Caesar into the temple of God against the law, 403. Hierocles the plagiarist, 511. Plato inserted into his books many things heard and read from the Egyptian priests and prophets, 540. Plato, finally acknowledging one God with great difficulty, did not dare to bring it into public, 129. Why Christ described inevitable punishments for the impious, but taught that eternal life from God is promised to the just, 106, 107. It is necessary to admire the one divine power over all the handiwork of the universe, 149. It is declared that there is a certain power hostile to God, in which he who dominates has seduced the entire human race, 158. Divine powers are indeed created innumerably, but there is one only of the Son of God Himself, on account of which the image of God the Father is introduced, 149. How difficult the precepts of the Mosaic law were for all the Jews to keep, 5. Why it is necessary for preachers and teachers in the Church to be separated from married life, 31. Scripture is accustomed to express the prelates of the Church by the name of oxen, 71. By what signs a conjurer may be recognized, 125. The error of those who think that Christ was a conjurer is refuted, 125. A Christian is not permitted to use treacherous inscriptions on certain leaves, or fumigations of herbs and roots, 127. The first-born virtue of God, which he also calls the wisdom of God and the offspring of the same, just as Solomon designates it in the Proverbs, 211. It is shown that the events of divine promises were to come not to the entire Jewish nation, but only to a few of them, 63. Why God promised to the Jews that He would raise up a prophet, 443. In what manner the Hebrew prophets at once sang of what was to be and illuminated the only true theology, 202. The habit of the prophets, 14. It is shown that the warnings of the prophets against the Jews happened on account of our Savior Christ and after his advent, 63. Why the oracles of the prophets looking toward the advent of Christ are found some more obscurely, others more openly said, 257. The most wise decrees of governing Providence guard and preserve all things, 515. Pygmies and Anthropophagi and Sciopodes seen by Apollonius among the Indians, 533. Pygmies inhabit underground caves near the Ganges, 525. Pythagoras, having conversed with the Magi, incurred no suspicion of magic, 540. Pythagoras the Samian, 520.
**S**
A well of sandarac water among the Brahmins, 538. The sandarac well, 523.
Satyrus, at the command of Apollonius, is made drunk among the Indians, 533. The writings of Hierocles are plagiarized, 511. Scropones seen by Apollonius, 533. Apes among the Brahmins are the guardians of the pepper-bearing mountains, 523.
**T**
The Tabernacle of Christ signifies his body in the Sacred Scriptures, 436. How the Psalmist predicts that the scourges of demons cannot approach the Tabernacle of Christ, 436. What the arguments for the temperance of Christ are, 126. Why the Temple of the Lord is compared to a furnace, 481. At what time the prophets predicted the Jewish Temple would suffer its final devastation, 381. Why the time of the advent of Christ is called the time of retribution, 452. By what signs and arguments the time of the advent of Christ can be detected, 363. Why Christ wished to endure the temptation of the demon in the desert, 454. How long the terebinth, at which God appeared to Abraham, lasted, 234. Why it is not as permitted for us to burn earthly things and sacrifice to God as it was for the Jews of old, 34. The New Testament is the new law, 7. What the distinction is between the New and the Old Testament, 7. How the reason of the New Testament was necessarily established so that it might be profitable for life to all nations, 7. What the mode and reason of the New Testament is, 7. What the reason of the Old Testament is, or what its ordinances and precepts are, 22. The Tetragrammaton name is placed in the books of the Hebrews for the one ineffable and unutterable appellation of God alone, 435. Why the preaching of the Gospel is designated by the appellation of thunder, 191. It is proven by prophetic testimony that Christ was to be sold for thirty pieces of silver, 468. The inhabitants prevent and drive away Apollonius, who was attempting to enter the cave of Trophonius, as if he were a magician, 540. What the voice of the trumpet signifies in the Holy Scriptures, 140. The young girls playing the timbrel whom the Psalmist calls upon spiritually, 441.
**U**
Ulysses was accustomed to call forth Achilles by means of a trench dug or by slain lambs, 529. When the divine nature is compared to ointment, how it is like oil, 173. By the ordinance of the Mosaic law, it was not lawful for anyone, except priests, prophets, and kings, to be anointed with the most fragrant ointment, 176. Why Moses commanded that those consecrated should be anointed according to his laws, having compared the ointment, 171. The destruction of the Jewish cities is described, 57. What the interpretation signifies by the name Urias, 332. Why it is not becoming for preachers and doctors of the Church to give their attention to affairs of a wife, 33.
**V**
The Word of God is the Son not by incarnation but by nature, 61. The propagation of the Word of God does not rely on human voices, but on the power of God, 110. The Word is God, and the same Creator of the universe, how he is said to have responded to Job and to have been seen by his eyes, 247. The Word of God, having his own essence by the command of the Father, is acknowledged by David, as well as by us, to be the Creator of the universe who was sent, 251. Just as the Word of God appeared in human form to the fathers, so he appeared to Moses and the whole people in the likeness of a cloud, 241. The Word of God, who gave answers to Moses no differently than to the ancient Fathers, also appeared in human form to Jesus, the successor of Moses, 215. How the Word of God sends forth a prayer to God the Father, signifying the future conversion of the Gentiles, 255. It is proven that the Word of God was sent to men for the healing and salvation of souls, which were once vexed and oppressed in evils, 264. The Word of God is not a speech that consists of nouns and verbs, and is like something articulated and enounceable, 204. It is proven that the Word of God was sent to the earth and in a short time declared to all men, that he was seen in figure and form and gave answers to the ancients, 233. David testifies that the Word of God was sent by the Father for the healing of men, 228. The Word of God is rightfully called the first of all things that have been generated, 231. The Word of God, as a unique and perfect sun, illuminates intellectual and rational natures, 155. That the Word of God, whom we are accustomed to call Christ, was no less known to those ancient fathers than to us, is shown by the testimony of the holy Scriptures, 10. David testifies that the Word of God would fill the whole earth with his doctrine in a short time, 228. Why Christ, by a prophetic voice, calls himself a worm, 496. Vespasian Caesar is said to have supplicated Apollonius just as if he were God, and to have asked as if by a prayer that he might make him emperor, 531, 532. It is proven by prophetic prediction that the garments of Christ were to be divided and his tunic shared by casting lots, 491. What the two staves signify in Jeremiah, 481. What is mystically signified by the two staves, one of which was called Beauty and the other Cords, in Zechariah, 481. What the life announced by Christ in the New Testament to all men is, 12. A voice heard by the priests performing the sacred duties in the temple at Jerusalem by night on the very day of Pentecost is proven: Let us depart hence, 402.