A it is necessary, III, 547 et seqq. A person burdened by many worldly cares cannot have a perfect spirit, III, 351. The spirit is tormented and constrained in bodily particles, III, 511, C, D. The doctrine concerning the migration of souls is disproven as being consistent with fables, I, 234, A, B, C. Anna the prophetess, III, 1075 et seqq. The four seasons of the year, II, 931, D. Anomoeans numbered the Son and the Holy Spirit among created things, II, 298 et seqq. The doctrine of the Anomoeans is refuted, I, 139, B, C; 182, A. The doctrine of the Anomoeans is the fruit of the tares sown by Arius, II, 262, D. The Anomoean is another Epicurus, III, 559, C. What the older term in created things signifies, II, 358, B, C; and what it means in God, 359 et seqq. What it is to open and shut in Scripture, I, 102, C. The bee produced as an example of virtue for the diligent, I, 958, D. The errors of Apollinaris, II, 206, D; 1125 et seqq. How an apology is to be established, II, 270, D; its end, 267, D. The Apostles were poor and unlearned, III, 1062, B, C. Appellations do not signify essences, but properties, II, 747 et seqq. What the water was over which the Spirit of God was borne, I, 82, B, C; the waters which are above the heavens, I, 90, B. Water turned into blood, I, 307, D; what this is mystically, I, 346, A, B. What the sacrament of water is, I, 362, C; what its effect is, I, 363, D. Of what kind we ought to be after passing through the waters, ibid., A. All water is fit for the use of baptism, if it meets with the faith of the recipient and the blessing of the sanctifying priest, III, 422, D. To what end does water serve in baptism, III, 582, A; it cleanses and illuminates man, 583, C, D. What kind of wind the North Wind is, and what it designates, I, 585, B; 988, A. The North Wind as an adversarial power, I, 555, B. Araxius, Bishop of S. Macrina, presides at the funeral, III, 994, A, B. If the will were not free, what absurdities and inconveniences would follow, II, 78, C, D. The faculty of free will is a good thing, I, 742, D. The free choice of the will is an honor equal to the divine, III, 523, B. Trees lead us to the understanding of the resurrection, III, 670, D. What the Ark of the Covenant covered by the wings of the Cherubim signifies, I, 383, A, B. Archias, a youth, dies seeking the water of baptism at a time when water was failing, III, 423, D. What the little ark in which Moses was exposed to the waters signifies mystically, I, 330, A. What sand signifies, I, 627, D. The fallacious and crafty art of Aristotle as an occasion for the impiety of Aetius, II, 266, B. Arius, the enemy of God, II, 262, D. The errors of Arius, II, 1282 et seqq. The qualities of Armenia, II, 778, A, B. Aroma as a sacrifice to God, I, 958, A. What aromatics in the Scriptures are, I, 782, B, C; 935, D. The tumor of arrogance, I, 663, C. What art is, III, 39, A. Who the inventor of arts is, III, 163, B. Early authors of the arts, I, 1106, B, C. What it is to ascend from a higher to a higher place, I, 378, D. The Ascension of Christ, III, 699 et seqq. What the ascents of the soul are, I, 887 et seqq. The three ascents, or advancements, of the soul, I, 842, B. The ass in Scripture is one who is laden with the crime of idol worship, III, 1142, D. What the deaf adder denotes, I, 594, B. Athanasius, Bishop of the Galatians, II, 259, C; expelled from Alexandria, 263, A. The courts of the Lord are the virtues with which reason dwells, I, 723, A. What the sense of hearing is and how it is exercised, I, 151, C; what evils come from it, I, 1186, C, D; hearing and speech have a natural relationship with each other, III, 979, A. The wicked soothsayer has no power against those who are defended by protection, I, 419, D. The mystical exposition of the curtains of the tabernacle, I, 386, C. The greed for gold is rebuked, I, 667, 670. How skilled goldsmiths purify gold and what they teach us, I, 831, A, B. B What the dawn is, I, 503, C. Avarice, a cruel mistress, I, 563, C; the root of all evils, I, 674, C, D; the worship of idols, I, 1122, C; a species of idolatry and what kind of sin it is, II, 231, D et seqq.; it opens the way to infidelity, III, 530, A. What unleavened bread is, I, 363, B. Babylonian offspring, II, 250, C. Babylonian dissensions and corrupt morals, III, 1078, B, C. What the staff signifies mystically, I, 358, B. Balaam, the soothsayer, I, 326, A; 422, A. Balach, prince of the Midianites, I, 526, A. Baptism according to the Scriptures, III, 231, A; the Old Scripture everywhere prefigured the image of baptism, III, 587, B; baptism foretold by the prophets, III, 594, A, B, C. Baptism as a river of grace, III, 419, C; given in the name of the Trinity, II, 586, C, D; it is not valid if some one of the holy Trinity is omitted, III, 1031, A, B; it ought not to be deferred because of an inclination toward vice, III, 426, B, C; why one who is baptized is immersed three times in the water, III, 586, A, B, C. The wonderful effects of baptism, III, 579, D; 593, C, D; in baptism it was customary for names to be given, III, 418, B. People flocked to the baptistery in times of earthquake, famine, and pestilence, 419, A. Some put off baptism, content if they were not punished after death, III, 427, C. The baptism of Philip was not at all laborious, 422, D. To those baptized through water and the washing, health is given, 418, B. It is a lesser evil to sin after being baptized than to die unbaptized, 433, A. One recently baptized is like a novice, 430, C. Basilius (S.) as a soldier of Christ, II, 914, A; he offered the erudition of the Gentiles to the Church as a gift, I, 359, C; his writings yield to none, except the divine ones, I, 67, C. Basil adorned with the beauty of all virtues, III, 775, A; his nobility and native land, III, 815; his love for God, 803; the mouth of piety, II, 250, A; his praises, III, 787, D et seqq.; he is compared with Moses, 790 et seqq.; 807 et seqq.; with Elijah, 794, 803; with Paul, 798; with John the Baptist, 802; with Samuel, 807; his death, II, 250, D; his reputation cruelly lacerated by Eunomius, II, 230, B, C; 238 et seqq.; 279, A; he is defended from the charge of timidity and fear, II, 287 et seqq.; 295. What battology is, I, 1127, B. What beatitude is, I, 434, B, C; 1193, D et seqq.; the head and end of every good, I, 531, C. Eight ways of comparing beatitude, I, 1194, 1195 et seqq. Who is truly to be considered blessed, I, 1198, A. Only the one endowed with virtue is to be considered blessed, III, 898, B. Bel, the god of the Babylonians, II, 682, C. What spiritual war is, I, 743 et seqq. Various apparatus of war, ibid. The inconveniences of war, I, 1282, C, D. To benefactors alone is the retribution of thanksgiving naturally due, II, 899, D. The praise and fruit of beneficence, III, 462, B, C; its first author and source is God, ibid., D. Benevolence is the reason why God came to man, II, 47, A, B. What our benevolence toward God is, III, 431, A. The benevolence of God is the beauty of the soul, I, 1098, B, C. What the mountains of Bethel signify, I, 863, A, B. What kind of good things men are driven to pursue, I, 750 et seqq. Why God grants good things to the wicked, I, 1131. All good things flow from the source of the Holy Spirit, III, 351, A. The acquisition of good is the flight from and destruction of the contrary, I, 450, A. The nature of good is nothing other than the Son of God, I, 551, C. The possession of good is the contemplation of Him, I, 623, C. The limit of good is vice, I, 874, D. What the nourishment of good is, I, 695, A. How great the power of the good and honest is, III, 90, B, C. What participation in divine good is, and what it effects, III, 106, B, C. The enjoyment of those goods which we await in the other life will not be in food and drink, although man conserved his life by those same things at the beginning of the world in paradise, I, 193 et seqq. Every good, by its very nature, insofar as it is good, has no limit, I, 299, D. The good and the honest are judged by two things in particular, and what they are, I, 698, C. Good is always firm and stable, I, 682, C; summed up under the name of wisdom, ibid. Good which is equally good for everyone and for all time can never be exhausted, I, 650, A, B. True and perfect good is God, outside of whom is vice, I, 726, A, B. A good is not truly good which is not ordered with justice, wisdom, and power, II, 55, D. The good above every good is the only-begotten God, II, 470, D. What is truly good and what is not, II, 499 et seqq.; it consists not in time, but in free will, 791, A. How the goodness of God is shown toward men, II, 62 et seqq.; the name of goodness is proper to God, III, 862, B. The ox in Scripture is one who is subjected to the yoke of the law, III, 1142, D. A cluster of grapes, the works of man, I, 506, C; who the cluster of Cyprus in the vineyards of Engaddi is, I, 827, C, D. What the souls of brute animals are like, II, 211, A; and what their actions are like, ibid., C, D. What box-wood tablets are, I, 1074, B. A corpse is that which lacks a soul, II, 1234, B. What blindness is, II, 27, C.
A blind man who has many eyes, I, 931, A. Voluntary slaughter, what it is, II, 230, D; and what involuntary is, and the penalties, 231, A, B. Why Cain was condemned, I, 846, C, D. Why the Lord forbade the disciples to wear sandals, I, 1086, D. What darkness signifies in Scripture, I, 378, A, B. What the fields rejoicing and the valleys being filled signifies, I, 530, B. What the candlestick of the tabernacle means mystically, I, 379, C. Who the dogs are in Scripture, I, 606, B, C. What the Song of Songs is, and why it is so called, I, 774, C, D. What a song is, I, 494, B; a song of harmony draws vice along with itself, I, 674, D. How many evils singing produces, I, 674, D; 675, A. What the nature of hair is, I, 1103, B; the beauty and praise of hair, I, 922, A, B; and what it denotes, 923, A. The likeness of a goat to the ornament of hair, I, 1103, D; 1106, A. The property of the she-goat and what it signifies, I, 847, A. The head of the Church is pure gold, I, 1055, A, B. What the head of the high priest crowned with a diadem is, I, 391, C, D. What Carmel is mystically, III, 594, D. The flesh and the spirit have no proper society, nor can they be mixed, II, 619, D. Whether there was deceit in God regarding the flesh assumed in the dispensation, II, 67, B, C; what the flesh, the old man, is, I, 1003, D et seqq. Chastisements not to be borne with difficulty, III, 307 et seqq. What the little chains by which the priest's ornaments are connected are, I, 591, C. What lion whelps denote, I, 587, A. The virtues of the cedars of Lebanon, I, 338, D. Huge sea monsters caught by man, and how, I, 266, C, D. Ham mocked his father, and why, I, 659, C. Charity is God, and how it wounds the heart, I, 851, A, B, C. What it is to order charity in the soul, I, 847, A. Cherubim, who they are as angels, I, 383, C. What the chords stretched on a musical instrument signify, I, 483, B. Christianity is an imitation of the divine nature, III, 243, C, D. What a Christian ought to be, III, 251 et seqq. What the name or profession of Christians means for them, III, 238 et seqq. What the perfect form of Christians is, III, 255 et seqq. That the life of Christians should be instructed with good morals, III, 455, B, C. Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God, II, 478, B; 498, B; why He is called firstborn from the dead, among many brothers, and of every creature, II, 634, 635 et seqq. Christ is eternal life, II, 834, B, C; the true light, 895, C; He is not the head of the faithless, 911, B. Christ called the door, bread, the way, the vine, the shepherd, the light, and how, II, 1010, 1011. The generation and death of Christ are outside of affection, II, 46, D. The advent of Christ from Scripture, III, 199 et seqq.; nativity from the Virgin, 207 et seqq.; His betrayal and passion, 211 et seqq.; the darkness at His death, 211; resurrection, 215; ascension, 218; circumcision, ibid. What the name of Christ signifies, III, 242, C; 251, B, C, D. Christ is the power and wisdom of God, III, 239, C, D; 630, D; light and sanctification, 262, C; peace, 262, A, B; passover immolated for us, 263, A, B; the rock, 267, D; image of the invisible God, 270, C, D; firstborn, 274, 275. Why Christ wished to be baptized by John, III, 579, C; how He was at the same time among the dead and in paradise, 614, D; 615 et seqq. What it signifies that Christ rose naked, without linen cloths, III, 658, B. The subjection of Christ, I, 1307, B, C; His comparison with Moses, I, 1135, D; 1138, A, B. How Christ is formed in us, I, 343, B, C. Which locks of hair are, I, 1003, B. A girdle for modesty, I, 358, B. What gnats and canine flies are mystically, I, 350, D. What cinnamon is in itself, I, 971, D; what in the soul and what in the air, 974, A, B, C. Circumcision in the wall and in the rock, I, 878, C. What the cithara and its harmony mean mystically, I, 602, B. What a city inhabited by evil and depraved studies and institutions is, I, 571, D. Variations in the meanings of names, I, 1002, D; by whom the key of the kingdom is prepared, I, 1023, D. A nail, continence, I, 414, D. A shield is faith, which cannot be broken, I, 747, B, C. How the heavens recount the glory of God, I, 74, B, C; 379, A; II, 983 et seqq. Heaven, since it is utterly devoid of change, never rests, I, 131, A. A description of a cemetery, and what it teaches us, I, 1203, D. Thought is a motion and operation of the mind, II, 1187, C. From where knowledge proceeds, and its effect, I, 646, B; self-knowledge of the goods that are in us is the safest way to guard them, I, 803, A, B. The distinction between cognition and judgment, I, 198, C, D.
How one can know oneself, III, 510, B, C. What the likeness of the bride's neck with necklaces signifies, I, 815, B, C. The true ornament of the neck, 818, B; why the bride's neck is compared to the tower of David, 931 et seqq. What color is, I, 78, D. The art of fowling with doves, III, 1086, 1087. What the columns of the tabernacle are, I, 379, B, and what they are mystically, 383, A, B; what columns support the portico of the soul, 658, B, C; what the columns of the Church are, 1078, B. The inscription on the columns, or that phrase: Do not destroy, in the psalms, to what it exhorts us, 511, B, C. The city of the Comani, III, 423, C. Spiritual commodities resulting from the visitation of holy places, III, 1015 et seqq. What the stirring of the bride's stomach signifies, I, 1011, B. For those who shall be changed (the subscription of a psalm), what it signifies, I, 499, A. What the opportunity of intercourse teaches us, I, 718, B, C. The power and nature of the harmony of the soul, II, 195. Who are called concubines in Scripture, I, 1111, D. What the power of concupiscence is, III, 54, 55. What concupiscence is in the soul, II, 223, D; 226, A. What the voice of confession signifies when it is prefixed to a psalm, I, 499, A. Custom cannot be easily changed in any matter, III, 358, B, C; the power of custom, III, 488, D. Dual contemplation, II, 618, D. We ought not to exercise continence more than is fitting, III, 402, 403. The heart is entirely a chamber, I, 891, C; the faculties of the human heart, I, 246, D, 247. What it is to make a heart (cordify), I, 947, B. Skin, the mortification of the flesh, I, 386, D. The region of Corniaspina, II, 282, D. Bodies were not created before souls, I, 230 et seqq. That it is possible for bodies of men scattered into the elements of the universe to have that which is proper to each restored from that commonality, I, 226, 227. The distinction of the motions of body and soul, I, 175, A, B. A contemplation of structures of the human body, briefly repeated somewhat more deeply from medicine itself, I, 239 et seqq. The change of our body is an affection, II, 50, B. Obesity of body hinders the perfection of the soul, II, 51, B, C; III, 406, 407. The body is not the cause of vices, but the will, III, 527, B. Whether the body grieves for the soul, II, 194. What a celestial body is, II, 935, A, B. The curtain of the tabernacle, I, 379, C; what it is mystically, 382, C. The creation of our nature is twofold, and what it is, II, 633, D; 658, A. The difference between creation and providence, II, 273, B, C. A rational creature divided into a twofold nature, I, 1166, B, C. It is the property of a creature to serve, I, 1158, D. God alone knows the reason of a creature, II, 938, A. A creature is mutable by its own nature, II, 338, A. What it is to grow in man, I, 282, C, D. What the cutting of hair denotes, I, 563, C. The mystery of the cross figured by the elevation of the serpent in the desert, I, 414, 415. What the figure of the cross signifies, II, 693, B, C; how the figure of the cross is described by David, III, 623, C, D; the sign of the cross brings help and a remedy to evils, III, 418, B. Why Christ chose the cross for Himself to accomplish the miracle of His passion, III, 622 et seqq. What the legs of Christ founded on golden bases are, I, 1075, C, D, et seqq. Covetousness is a way to pleasure, I, 438, B. Covetousness is a terrible beast, from which one must dwell afar, I, 423, A, B. What the cypress teaches us, I, 839, A. The diverse kind of healing, II, 222, A. He who is entangled in many cares cannot be of a perfect soul, II, 351. Who the guards of the city are, I, 1031, D et seqq.; and what this city is, 1034, A. What cymbals are in Scripture and what they denote, 483, C. The episcopate of Cysina, 286, B. D. Demons are authors and ministers of scandals, III, 495, B; they eat nothing, ibid.; why they envy us, ibid. A demon conquered by the virtue of the sign of the cross, III, 951, B. David's battle against Goliath, II, 910, 911. The remission of debts is a proper gift and office of God, I, 1178, B, C, D.
Dedication of the house of David, inscription of the psalm, what it teaches us, I, 510, B, C. That a defect cannot be numbered, what it signifies, I, 639, D et seqq. Deity, unknown to change or alteration, II, 470, D. What the word "Deity" signifies, II, 119, D; 122; how it applies to the Holy Trinity, 123. In the signification of Deity, the Son is understood simultaneously with the Father, II, 475, D. The Deity of the Holy Spirit is asserted, II, 550, B, C, D. It is a property of the Deity to be circumscribed by no place, 603; Deity is a simple nature, 918, B, C. The Deity of the Son is asserted, III, 559, D et seqq.; likewise that of the Holy Spirit, 574, 575. What the number ten (denarius) signifies, III, 1154, C, D. In what the praise of teeth consists, and what they denote, I, 923, 926; what the teeth of the Church are, 926, D et seqq. What "descent" signifies, I, 987, A. What God is, III, 1103, A, B, C; God is simple and lacks form, I, 262, B, C; incorruptible and immortal, 400, C; immutable, and why, 499, A, B; free from passions, 1131, D; God is perfect, not many but one, II, 11, B, C, D; he is not lacking in reason, 14, A, B; he is not the author of evil, 31, D. God is Spirit, II, 550, C. That which is God is pure from all mixture, II, 919, B. God is not a name, nor does he exist by voice or sound, 959, C. God is he who has no beginning, otherwise he would not be God, II, 1295, C. God is the cause of all good things, always one and the same, II, 1170, B. For what cause God was manifested in the flesh, I, 638, A. How God, who is impassible, is said to suffer and be affected, II, 50, B, C, D. How God is in all things, I, 1315, C, D. How God, when invoked, is present in those things which take place for sanctification, II, 86, A. God falls under number, namely that of the Trinity, and yet is one, III, 1102, 1103. What God is, of whom the mind brings back a likeness, III, 510, C, D. What the will of God is, I, 70, A. In what the true knowledge of God consists, 378, A. What the Word of God and divine reason are, III, 307, A. The various virtues of God, II, 43, D. Man made to the image and likeness of God, I, 178 et seqq.; 262 et seqq.; 1327 et seqq. What it is to see God, I, 403, D; 407, D. To see God is eternal life, I, 1263, D. The time for seeking God, what it is, I, 719, C, D. That God is powerful, just, good, wise, and that all these must be believed at once, II, 53, D. That God is true, because he is neither recent nor alien, II, 498, D. The plurality of gods is not to be spoken of in the Trinity, II, 115, D. What Diapsalma is, and in which psalms it is found, I, 331 et seqq. Diapsalma of the third psalm, I, 538, C; of the fourth, D; of the seventh, 539, B. Canticle of the Diapsalma, 559, D; 542, A. The love of one produces hatred of another, I, 718, D. The love of God, the fortitude of him who loves, 739, D. Love is the head of good things, III, 798, C. What affection the bite of the dipsas (serpent) produces, I, 759, D. Dissolution, the corruption of a composite thing, I, 400, B. How divinity is tempered with humanity, we do not know, II, 43, B. The divinity of Christ is separated neither from his soul nor his body, II, 547, C. Divinity is by its own nature simple and entirely alien from composition, II, 1127, B. The infinity of the divinity is not comprehended by the circumscription of flesh, II, 42, C, D. That cannot be thought of as divine which is not always, II, 11, D. What riches are to be embraced, I, 719, A. Two kinds of riches, and what they are, I, 1199, A. What is the best use of riches, III, 1038, C. Reason requires us to open the doors of the rich to the poor, III, 458, C, D. The delights and luxury of the rich, III, 466, 467. The same mode of teaching does not suit everyone, II, 10, A. The Lord is good and above every good, I, 1294, D. The Lord is the door, and how, II, 830, B, C. Equality between Lord and slave, I, 666, 667. Domitian killed by Gallus, II, 263, A. Whence "Doras" is derived, I, 862, B. E Drunkenness is the tinder of evil desires, III, 426, D. The excess of drunkenness, I, 639, B, C. What Drunkenness is mystically, I, 990, C, D. The Church is a ship; navigation is life, I, 1015, A, B. The head of the Church, pure gold, I, 1055, A, B. The Church of the Gentiles from the Scriptures, III, 223, C. Whence the name Ecclesiastes, and who the true Ecclesiastes is, I, 619, B, C; 635, B. The poverty of the spirit is blessed, I, 1207, A. Commendation of alms, III, 489 et seqq. The elements of which the world is constructed, III, 586, A. The beauty and motion of the elements, I, 379, A. Elias as leader of the religious life, I, 923, A, B. What care Elias applied to prefer honesty above all other bodily inclinations, III, 350, B, C, D; that he is to come before the second arrival of the Lord, 230, B. Elias prefigured the institution of the baptismal sacrifice, III, 591, C, D. What the food of Elias is, mystically, II, 114, B. What the "emissions" of the bride are, I, 967, D et seqq. What the sword upon the thigh signifies, I, 902, A, B. The temple of Ephesus burned, II, 266, D. The life and eulogy of Ephrem the Syrian, III, 819 et seqq.; abomination against heresies, 826; his love toward God and neighbor, 827; various virtues, 830, 831; his pilgrimages, 834; visions, 835; sermons, 835, 836; his artifice against Apollinarius, 839; knowledge of ecclesiastical matters, ibid.; similar to Abel, 842; to Moses, 843; his death, 847. The opinion of Epicurus concerning the existence of natural things, III, 22, B, C. The opinion of the Epicureans concerning the administration of natural things, III, 559, B. [alt-version omitted] What a bishop ought to be, III, 1066, 1067. What is meant by horses discussing with the rider, I, 811, B, C; "emissary" horses, which are mad with love for women, I, 278, A; the pride of horses, a vice of arrogance and insolence, I, 746, C, D. What the cavalry of Pharaoh mystically designates, I, 811 et seqq. What "to be" and "not to be" are, I, 479, A. Essence is simple and lacks division, III, 1105, A. What essence in humans is, II, 491, C. Divine essence is not to be investigated curiously and solicitously, II, 943, A. The ratio of the difference between one essence and another, II, 923, A. What hunger is blessed, I, 1234, A, B, C. The sacrament of the Eucharist, I, 986, 987, 990, 991. The meaning of "Et", I, 1158, D. Eudoxius, Bishop of Germanicia, II, 287, D. The book or work of Eunomius, how it was composed, II, 150, D; his revilements against St. Basil, 271, D; 279, A; his life, 263 et seqq.; whether he instituted an apology, 271, C. The doctrine of Eunomius, 298, A, B; his errors concerning ingeneration and generation, 915 et seqq. Whence the word "Epport" is derived, I, 695, B. Eustathius of Armenia, II, 266, C. Evagrius the monk, III, 1102. The Euxine Sea, II, 255, D. What the exactio (exaction) of usury is, III, 446, C. To what use the examples of the saints are profitable, I, 455, D. The "exit of the tabernacle", inscription of the psalm, what it denotes, I, 510, B. What is to be sought, III, 339 et seqq. Explanation of the sixth psalm, I, 607 et seqq. Who were the spies sent into the land of promise, mystically, I, 411, C, D. Who are the scouts of the army of the soul, I, 743, D. The principle of existing is the same for both soul and body, I, 234 et seqq. Ecstasis (trance), inscription of the psalm, what it signifies, I, 510, D. F What "to make" and "to compose" are, and how they differ from each other, I, 79, D et seqq. What "to make" and "to form" are, I, 279, D. The faculty of free will is a good thing, I, 712. The fallacies of demons are various, II, 110, C, D. Whether fate is God, II, 150, 151. Fate is not endowed with a soul, II, 154, C, D; it cannot do everything, 153, 157; fate is an immutable series according to a certain conjunction of stars; 151, 152; the fate of ships, cities, and nations, 166, 167. What windows and lattices signify, I, 863, C, D; the windows of the senses, I, 1186, C, D. What the construction of Solomon's litter signifies, I, 911, 912. Who is the wild beast that feeds in the forest, I, 812, D. What the universal feast of creation is, II, 222, B. The feast of the resurrection, arriving at a time when nights and days are equal, what it teaches us, III, 1027, C, D; that it is celebrated by all at the same time, 1026, A. Who are the early figs, and what they denote, I, 871, C, D. The faith of Christians through Christ, II, 466, A. What is the head of our faith, II, 526, D. The effect of faith, II, 144, A. Every figure (shape) is the boundary of a body, I, 400, B. The figure of the cross is expressed in our mind, III, 623, B, C. The Son of God is not created, as heretics thought, and why, II, 137, A, B. Whether the Son of God and the Holy Spirit ought to be numbered among created or uncreated things, II, 518, B. That the Son of God ought to be believed elevated above all creatures, and not to be sought among creatures, 338, 339 et seqq.; in what...
A he is joined, and in what he is separated from it, 335 et seqq. The Son is a sharer of the power and honor of the Father, 355, B, C; he is not an image and seal of the Almighty, 539; nor a seal of the Father’s words and counsels, 542. The Son of God made man assumed a man consisting of soul and body, and why, 546, 547. When the Son is said not to exist, the existence of the Father is also denied, 787, C; he is the fullness of all good, 810, A. The Son cannot be defined by quantity nor circumscribed, 923, C. The Son of God begotten and how, II, 919 et seqq.; he is the will of God, 983, A; he always existed with the Father, begotten simultaneously and without beginning, 1287, C. What is signified in Christ by the appellation "son of man," II, 342, D. The divinity of the Son is asserted, III, 559, D et seqq. Sons of the day, sons of light, who they are, II, 606, C, D. The scarlet thread is faith, I, 927, D. The end of a life instituted according to the prescription of virtue is beatitude, 454, A. The end of disease is health; the end of sleep is waking, 539, C, D; the end of contests is victory, 517, B; 550, B, C; what the end of divine contests is, 1291, C; what the end of hope is, 1315, A. "Unto the end" (in finem), a term prefixed to many psalms, its meaning, I, 491, A, B. What the firmament is, I, 79, D; II, 1003, A; whether it is a solid and hard body, I, 79 et seqq. The firmament is faith in Christ, I, 555, A. Flavianus, to whom Gregory wrote against Helladius, III, 999 et seqq. The time for weeping is in the present life, I, 707, C, D; and what misery is more to be wept over, 710. Whence rivers arise, I, 111, B. The river of spices from the bride’s garden, what it is, I, 986, B. The evils of deep water, I, 674, A, B. The fountain of the garden, the doctrine of virtues, I, 663, A. The sealed fountain is the soul, 963, D. The twelve fountains are the eloquent apostles, 366, C. Form and species do not always remain the same in the same man, III, 534, B. What the nature of the ant is, II, 827, B, C. Fornication has something more to be shunned than other crimes, III, 491, B, C. Fornication, like a camp-follower, carries baggage, 494, A. What kind of sin fornication is, II, 227, C. The fornicator is like a cloth, III, 494, B; many evils happen to him, ibid., C. What the name of brother means when applied by Scripture to both parts, I, 312, A. What the sweet fruit in the bride’s throat is, I, 986, D. The fruit of martyrdom is good, III, 770, C. What the cord placed on the lip denotes, I, 1106, D. Upon what foundation the prediction of future events rests, II, 163, C, D.
G The destruction of the sacred things of the Galatians, III, 1075, C, D. What the redness of the cheeks denotes, I, 930, B. Various differences of those who beget, II, 394, B. What generation is, II, 779 et seqq. Generation is twofold, II, 618, 619, 639; generation is threefold in us, and what they are, 635, C. The generation of the Word, I, 1041, B et seqq. The difference between generation and creation, II, 633, 658. Death necessarily follows generation, I, 702, A. What the mode of generation is according to Eunomius, II, 390 et seqq. Everything begotten subsisting out of something is of the same nature as that from which it was begotten, II, 602, A. Georgius of Laodicea, II, 259, C. Georgius Tarbasthenites, II, 263, A. Glory is not without splendor, II, 140, B. The splendor of glory is transient and fragile, III, 499, D. Various degrees which Moses climbed, who always became greater, I, 1026, B, C. Grace is a gift of God, III, 430, D. The flocks of goats from Mount Gilead, who they are, I, 922, 923. The vision of Gregory of Nyssa, III, 786, A. The life of Gregory Thaumaturgus, III, 891 et seqq.; his fatherland, 898, D; parents, 899, B; adolescence, ibid., C, D; living in the great city of Alexandria, he shines with temperance and sobriety, 903, A; he is slandered by a harlot, ibid., B, C; he begins a friendship with Firmilianus, and with him learns philosophy under Origen, 906, C, D; he returns again to his fatherland, 907, A; he withdrew into solitude, ibid., C, D; Phodimus, bishop of Amasea, raises him to the priesthood against his will, 910, C, D; his visions, 911 et seqq.; he enters a temple of gods whom he renders mute, 915; he leads their priest to the faith, 918; his preachings and miracles, 919 et seqq.; he miraculously reconciles two brothers, 926; he restrains the river Lycus, 930, 931; he approaches the city of Comana and appoints Alexander the charcoal-burner as priest, 934, 935; he causes the death of a lying Hebrew, 939 et seqq.; he frees a youth from a demon, 942, 945; he flees persecution, 947; he returns to the city, 954; he dies, 953.
1238 The study of gluttony is the root of sins and how, I, 1186, D. The pleasure of taste is the mother of all evils, I, 1186, D. What the throat of the bride is and what it denotes, I, 1083, B, C. What the throat of Christ is, I, 1083, C.
H The opinions of heretics are stones by which the wicked are overwhelmed, I, 375, C. The river Halys, III, 1082, A, B. What the harmony of the universe is, II, 26, C, D et seqq.; III, 166, C, D. Helladius the bishop, against whom Gregory writes, III, 999 et seqq. What the liver of the goat is in Scripture, I, 603, A. Heraclius the heretic is refuted, III, 1087, D et seqq. What the nest of the heron is, I, 338, D. The impious sentence of Herod, III, 1146, B, C. Winter denotes evil in Scripture, I, 870, B, C; the effects of winter, III, 778, D. The fawn of hinds is Christ, I, 862, B, C; what the twin fawns of a roe are mystically, I, 935, C, D et seqq. The apocryphal history about the Virgin Mary, III, 1138, D. What the word "today" signifies in the Scriptures, I, 315, C; II, 1258, C; 1286, D. What man is, I, 267, D. Why man was created last of all things, I, 134, A; his nature is more excellent than every thing created that we see, 134, C; he displays a certain imperial authority over all things, 135, B; royal dignity was bestowed upon him in creation, 135, C; he exhibits the image of divine empire in all things, 138, A. Why he is unprovided by nature with coverings and weapons, 139, D et seqq. Why the figure of man is upright, 143, B. Man is thus created that he might have instruments necessary for speech, 150, B. The nature of man cannot be perceived by our total consideration, 154, D. Man was made to the image of God, 155, B; 162, C; 178 et seqq.; 262 et seqq.; 666, B. Man is twofold, interior and exterior, 263, B. Wild beasts, birds, and all other things are subjected to the hand of man, 266 et seqq.; 666, A. How man was made, 279, C, D; man is a great thing and how, 279, A; how he is worthy of no price, 279, B; why he looks toward higher things, 291, C, D. Man is a small world, I, 439, C; II, 27, B. The food of man is wisdom, knowledge, and joy, I, 695, A, B. How man was made like a mirror, 834, B, C; he is not evil, but an image and incentive of good, 1131, B; he expresses the mystery of the Trinity in himself, 1330, B, C. The dignity and elevation of man, 1279, D. Man was born to enjoy divine goods, II, 22, D. The death of man is God’s benefit and why, 34 et seqq. Man is formed and completed by affection, 46, A. Who the new man truly and properly is, 583, C; how he is made a son of God, 610, B; he is ignorant of himself and all other things, 946, D; 947; he is composed of body and intellectual soul, 1127, B. No man is good, 1298, A. Why man was created after the whole of things, III, 59, B; whence and for the sake of what thing he was created, 503 et seqq.; he is not the same today as he was yesterday, 522, B. How the old man is abolished, 595, C. What a dead man lying is, III, 15, A, B. All things are subject to man, 307, B, C. By what studies men use to remain in life, III, 14, B. Voluptuous men are held by the desire of knowing future things, II, 110, C. Human study is the play of children in the sand, I, 627, D. The consideration of honesty in which each one ought to be occupied, III, 563 et seqq. What human honor toward the divine nature is, and its mode, II, 355, C, D. Into what and how many parts the hour is divided, II, 155, B. The enclosed garden is the soul, I, 963, D. The garden of the Bridegroom is the Church, 986, A. The garden is a table, not [merely] trees, ibid., C. The charm and delights of gardens, 662, C, D. Certain gardens, called of Vana, are described, III, 1079 et seqq. What the power of the enemy of human nature is, II, 171, A. Our enemies are perturbations and vices, I, 1134, A. What those with a thick neck signify, I, 935, A. What humility of mind and lowliness are, I, 1199, D. What the hyacinthine color in the vestment of the priest signifies mystically, I, 387, C, D. What a hymn is, I, 442, A, B; 494, B; 498, B. The difference between hypostasis and essence, II, 123 et seqq.
I The city of Ibora, III, 783, C; 1075, C. Whence fire has the power of illuminating, I, 74, D; 75 et seqq. What the fire that is not extinguished is, II, 106, A. What ignorance is, and what knowledge is, III, 175, B, C. How great an evil ignorance of oneself is, I, 806, C, D; 807. What the reason of the image is, I, 179, B; in the image how...
the distinction between the male and female sex exists 182, C, D; man made in the image of God, 178 et seqq. Rain (Imber), the various assaults of temptations in Scripture, I, 838, B. Rains and rain: whence and how they are produced, I, 94, 95. Immortality is life, II, 479, C. Impassibility is the principle and foundation of life, 30, A. Earrings are obedience, I, 595, C. Incarnation, divine, what it is, II, 1127 et seqq. The mystery of the Incarnation, Salomon, moved prophetically, handed down, II, 583, 584. The mystery of Christ's Incarnation is asserted, III, 1019 et seqq. Simple and unbegotten: in what their meaning differs, II, 918, C, D. Incorruptible: what it is properly, II, 122, C. Incorruptibility: what it signifies, II, 1070. Incorruption is most proper to God, II, 1258, A. Increase, twofold, of soul and body, I, 282, C. To put on a new tunic: what it means, I, 1006, A. Infants who are transferred from this life prematurely: what is their state, III, 162, 163 et seqq. Unhappy: no one is so of his own will, III, 1038, A. Hell (Infernus): what it is and where, III, 67 et seqq. Infinity eludes definition, II, 130, D. Infinite: what the notion and reason of it is, II, 358, D; 359, A. Infinite: it cannot be comprehended by any concept of words, II, 602, B. Entrance of the priest into the temple to offer prayers to God, I, 1147, D et seqq. Enmities: accepted in two meanings, I, 1323, D. Injuries: concerning their remission, I, 1178, 1179 et seqq. Unbegottenness: whether it is a substance, II, 407, D et seqq. Innocents: the slaughter of, III, 1143, D; 1146, A, B. Disobedience of the will is a sin, not of the body, II, 516, B. Inscriptions in the psalms: how many kinds of them there are, I, 487 et seqq. Foolish: who is to be considered truly so, I, 686, C, D. Dreams: causes of, I, 167, A. Islands: why souls are sometimes so called, I, 530, D. Entire: who is entirely whole (integer), I, 703, A. Intellect: what this word means in the hymns, I, 443. Interval and space: what they are, I, 730, C, D. Endives (Intyba): what they are and what they signify, I, 1230, C. Inventor of evils cannot affect us with benefit, III, 547, B. Envy and its effects, I, 410, B, C. The vice of envy and simulation: what it is, I, 1287, A, B; its cause and effect, ibid., C, D. Iota and the apex: the figure of the cross, I, 371, C; III, 623, D. Anger in the soul, what it is, II, 226, A, B; the heat of anger, what it is and whence it exists, III, 54, 55; comparison of anger with bodily worms, I, 706, D; the effect of anger and perturbation of the soul, I, 1215, D et seqq.; anger is described, 1283, D et seqq. Irritability (Iracundia), what it is, III, 55, A. Isaiah prefigured baptism, III, 594, B. Three days' journey: what it means mystically, I, 366, A. Jacob: whence so named, II, 1007, B. Fasting and abstinence: a kind of removal from the body, III, 454, C. Fasting is the foundation of virtue, 455, C; it profits nothing unless the mind is pure and clean, ibid. Cause of fasting, 458, A. Jerusalem: type of the majesty of the soul, I, 1098, C, D. Jesus: garment, I, 1006, A. John the Baptist, forerunner of the Lord: what care he took to prefer emptiness from all passions to bodily cleanliness, III, 350, B, C, D; he is compared with the great Basil, III, 802. Job, despoiled of all, even lost his children, III, 874, C, D; he bore all that patiently, 875, A, B. Jonas signified the burial of Christ, III, 603, B. Jordan river: figure of baptism, III, 591, D. Joseph: his continence in Egypt is proclaimed, III, 494, D; 495. Jews' incredulity, III, 223 et seqq. Judgment of God: mindful of the terrible, I, 611, B, C. Beast of burden (Jumentum), good: anger, desire, I, 478, C. Oath: twofold operation, I, 851, B; 1042, B, C. An oath is a prayer confirming the truth by itself, I, 851, A. Justice: what it is, and which is that which pertains to all, I, 1234, 1235; how the justice of God shows itself to men, II, 58 et seqq. Young women (Juvenculæ): which ones in Scripture, I, 1111, B, C. Youth and flowery age: vanity of, I, 1203, C, D. Labor is infancy; labor, youth, I, 463, B. Tears are as the blood of the wounds of the soul, III, 879, C; causes of tears, I, 159 et seqq. Joy, as opposed to pleasure, what it is, I, 647, A. Joy twofold, and which is the blessed one, 1231, B. Lampadia, a virgin, companion of St. Macrina, III, 987, D. Stones: to lie and to gather, what it means, I, 711 et seqq. Stone is Christ, I, 367, A; 610, B. Bricks in the earth made of mud: what it means, I, 342, 343. Praise: what it is, I, 494, B. "For the song" (Laus cantici) itself to David: the inscription of a psalm, what it denotes, I, 527, B. Washings (Lavacra) of houses, I, 655, C. Washings of the soul, 658, B. Lazarus, the poor man and the rich man in hell: the parable is elucidated, III, 83 et seqq. Lazarus raised from the dead, I, 219, D. Shady bed of the spouse is human nature, I, 835, D. The nuptial bed of Solomon surrounded by armed men: who he is, I, 899, B, C. Law: its commandments, I, 518, A. Friend of the law, friend of God, 591, D. Law is the divine voice, II, 354, D. Law is spiritual, I, 878, D. Gentleness: what it is and in what matter it is blessed, I, 1211, C, D. Gentleness and clemency: what they are, III, 54, C. Lions: their properties and what they designate, I, 591, C, D. Letoius (St.), Bishop of Melitine, II, 221, B. Lebanon is twofold, one chosen, the other bad and to be rejected, I, 1079, D et seqq. Lebanon, the mountain: what it indicates in many places of Scripture, 911, D. Why the form of the spouse is compared to Lebanon, 1079, C et seqq. To be delivered from evil: what it is, and who is the evil one, I, 1191, C, D. Liberty has no master, III, 103, A. Woods that are gathered for building a fire: what they teach us, I, 715, C. Woods of Lebanon: what they are, I, 911, D et seqq. Woods of the forest are not friends but adversaries of the Spouse, I, 842, C, D. Tree in paradise which was forbidden, I, 199 et seqq. Tree of life and tree of death: the same in paradise, 1019, D et seqq. Wood cast into bitter water: what it means, 366, B. Wood of the cross salutary to all, III, 585, B. Lilies: what they signify, I, 1095, C, D. The grace of the lily is twofold, and its significance, 1066, C, D. Lily of the valleys: what it signifies, 839, D. "For the lilies" or "For the Flowers": the inscription of a psalm, what it denotes, 502, D. Tongue: what it is and how it sends forth speech, I, 633, C, D. Origins and various uses of languages, II, 995 et seqq. Local change does not make God more near, III, 1014, C. Place before God: what it is, I, 400, D; 406, A. Time for speaking: what it is, I, 727, B, C, D. Faculty of speaking: whence it is and how it is exercised, II, 978, A, B. Lamp, which is the cause of splendor: it is not before the splendor, but is contemporaneous, II, 1287, D. Mourning: what it is and in what matter it is blessed, I, 1222, 1223; III, 335, D. Game of ball, III, 1055, B. Remedy for those who mourn is silence, III, 878, C. Moon: how it receives its light from the sun, and the cause of its diminution and increment, III, 31, C, D; 34, A, B. Light: whence and how it was made, I, 71, D; 74, A. Luxury is a cruel and rabid mistress, I, 363, C; it always has avarice as its companion, III, 527, D. Lycus, a rapid river, miraculously repulsed from its insolent and inordinate course, III, 930, 931. Macedonian errors, II, 1305 et seqq. Macrina, the virgin: why so called, III, 959, 962, A; the virtue and vision of her mother, ibid., B; to what studies she applied her mind while still a girl, 962, C, D; her outstanding form and beauty, 963, A; she is betrothed to a man who dies prematurely, ibid., B; she clearly rejects marriage, 963, C, D. Her piety and observance toward her mother, 966, A, B. She incites Basil the Great to the study of perfection, ibid., C; she persuades her mother to seek the monastery, 966, D. Her bed and pillow, 975, D; in her dying body, the wonderful power of her soul, 982; in the very agony of death, how she behaved, 982, 983; her prayer as she was at the point of departing this life, 983, C, D; she departs from the body to the long-desired Savior, she carried with her a particle of the wood of life (that is, the cross) in an iron ring, 990, C, D; her supreme poverty and chastity, 990, 991; the splendor of her lifeless body, 991, C, D. She heals an ill-affected eye after her death, 995, 998. Maeleth (For): the inscription of a psalm, what it teaches us, I, 507, A. Magi: adorers of Christ, III, 1143, B. Magic and incantation: an evil thing, II, 110, A.
Magistracy and all things attached to it, vanity, I, 1206, B. C. Interpretation of Punic evils, I, 970, C. D. Evil is designated by many names in Scripture, I, 870, B. Evil is corruptible, created, and not self-subsistent, and its father is the devil; against the heresy of the Manichaeans, III, 1254, A. B. C. No one cures evil with evil, III, 486, D. Evil is worth more than learned skill, II, 754, D. A greater evil expels the fear of lesser ones, III, 779, A. The nature of evil explained under the name of ignorance, I, 682, C. The primary cause of the entry of evil into the world, I, 559, A. B. C; what it means to be freed from evil, and who is the evil one, I, 1191 et seqq. Morning, what it is, I, 78, B. Manes the heretic, II, [A.] B. Manichaeism, II, 406, C. The Manichaeans’ opinions about the soul, II, 207, B; what their dogmas are, II, 30, D et seqq.; they are refuted, 31, B. C. Manna as dew flowing down from heaven, I, 311, D; what it is mystically, 367, B. Mansions, what they are, I, 366, D; many mansions with the Father, I, 1110, D. Hands of man made for the sake of speech, I, 143, C; 447, C. D. Moses’ hand changed in his bosom, what it means mystically, 334, D. Twisted gold hands which are in the Church, and what they signify, 1070, A. B. C. The hands of Christ, turned and full of Tarshish, 1067, D et seqq. The sea as one and continuous, and why it is salt, I, 99, C. D. The crossing of the Red Sea mystically, 363 et seqq. Mary, sister of Aaron, practiced virtue perfectly in everything, III, 395, A. Mary, mother of Christ, called the mother of James and Joses, III, 647, A. B. Marble, what it signifies, I, 1078, B. The stadium of the martyrs, what it is, I, 1294, C. How matter was made in creation, I, 70, C. D. Matter and God are not co-eternal, 211 et seqq. Matrimony is not among the things forbidden, III, 354 et seqq. What the zeal for contracting matrimony teaches us, I, 930, D. Incestuous marriages among the Persians, II, 170, A. Jaws in the body of Christ, what they are, and why they are like vials of aromatic oil, I, 1063 et seqq. The word "mediator" in Christ, what it signifies, II, 834, A. B. The reason why medicine is honored by men, III, 14, B. Medicine to be applied to the kind of disease, II, 10, B. The effects of medicine, II, 198, C. Who the inventor of medicine is, III, 463, A. Who is the true physician of the soul, I, 1162, D. The predictions of physicians, II, 153, A. Honey and milk under the tongue of the bride, what they are, I, 959, C. D. Melchoth, daughter of Saul, what it means mystically, I, 602, C. D. Encomium of Meletius, bishop of Antioch, III, 851 et seqq. Memory is not a work for God, and why, II, 1006, D. The lie of the serpent and of Eunomius, II, 283, C. D. The lie of Paul, Joseph, Sarah, and others, II, 283, B. C. The mind is a work of God, II, 971, B. The mind, what it is according to its own essence, III, 39 et seqq. The human mind is not the same thing as the divine nature, but its image, III, 42, C. D. The mind acts through the senses, and how, I, 131, B; it does not exist in one certain part of the body, 174, D. The domicile of the mind is in the head, I, 155, D. The mutual nexus between the mind, matter, and nature, 162, 163; the kinship of the mind with nature, 138, D. The faculty of the mind spreads through the entire body, joined to the individual limbs in a certain fitting way, 178, B. C. The power of the mind is present as an instrument to each of the senses, III, 30, B. Measure is necessary in all things, I, 698, 699. Who are the hirelings of God, III, 547, D. Harlot, heresy, III, 547, C. Metempsychosis, III, 107 et seqq. The doctrine of the migration of souls is overturned, I, 234, A. B. C. The miraculous cure of a soldier, III, 785, C. D. Misery, what it is and in what it consists, I, 1198, A. Mercy as a divine power among holy men, I, 1250, B. Blessed mercy, what it is, and who are the merciful, 1251, C. D et seqq. Mercy is a virtue most pleasing to God, III, 466, A. We are ignorant of the manner in which the soul is united to the body, II, 43, A. The mountain, steep and difficult to access, is theology, I, 574, 575. Montius, killed by Gallus, II, 263, A. Lethal disease is sin, I, 1162, D. An inveterate disease exceeds art, III, [B]. The death of man is a benefit of God, and why, II, 31 et seqq. The death of the body, what it is, and its analogy to the death of the soul, 55, B. Death as the separation of the soul from the body, 194, C. D. The death of the body is the extinction of the senses, but the death of the soul is sin, II, 546, B. Death is nothing other than the dissolution of the soul from the body, 1154, D. How death is naturally terrible and formidable, III, 15, A; everyone struggles in every way to avoid it, 14, B. C. The time of death is not defined by a certain age, III, 18, D. The death of those who died in the faith is not to be mourned, 498 et seqq.; it renders us completely free from all vices, 530, D. Death is a good thing, and why, 878, B. When the sentence of death laid upon Adam was confirmed and ratified, II, 546, C. The destruction of death is the resurrection of man from death, II, 1166, C. Sin is the weapon of death, III, 768, D. Motion and rest are one and the same, I, 406, C. Motion and rest are tempered in the nature of things, 442, A. B. Motion and immobility, what they are, II, 935, A. B. C. The distinction between the movements of the body and of the mind, I, 174, A. B. The life of Moses, I, 298 et seqq.; its mystical interpretation, 327 et seqq. What the elevation of Moses’ hands on high signifies, 371, B. Whence Moses was so called, II, 1007, A; his exposure in the basket and salvation, ibid. Moses, by the extension of his hands, described the cross, III, 602, D. A woman also is made in the image of God; her virtues, I, 275, B. C. Why women were the witnesses of the first resurrection, II, 891, A. B; why they received the message of the first resurrection, III, 531, D. The desire of women for adorning the body, I, 826, D. The species of mules is not born from itself, and what it signifies, I, 562, D. The world is good, and why, II, 22, A; it does not always remain the same, 630, C. He who confesses that the world had some beginning cannot but concede that it will also have an end, I, 210, 211. A gift offered by a poor man to King Xerxes, III, 166, A. B. True and original music, what it is, I, 442, C. Musonius, an illustrious and wealthy man, receives Gregory Thaumaturgus into his home, III, 922, C. Mutation, in what it consists, I, 467, A; III, 15, B. Myrrh, apt for the burial of bodies, I, 898, C. P; myrrh is a symbol of death, 1019, B. A bundle of myrrh between the breasts, what it is, 826, D, 827. N. The scent of spikenard, what it is mystically, I, 822, D, its mystical exposition, 970. Spikenard is precious, 826, B. The only son of the widow of Naim is raised from the dead, 218, 219. The day of Christ’s birth, III, 1127 et seqq. The effect of Christ’s birth, III, 1146, 1147. The nature of things, what it is, I, 107, A; how it existed according to the opinion of Epicurus, III, 22, B. C. Human nature is capable of free will, I, 881, D. The defect of human nature and its cause, II, 23, C. The misery of human nature, I, 462, A. B. The cure of nature is the harmony of life, 443, B. The divine nature is not contained by time, but time is from it, II, 366, B. The divine nature is one, continuous with itself, and undivided, II, 683, B; it has nothing by which it can be measured or contained, 934, A. The divine nature is the fountain of virtue, III, 103, A. A blessed and eternal nature is surrounded by no boundary, I, 874, C. D. Naucratius, brother of St. Macrina, an illustrious young man, embraces a solitary life, II, 966, 967; he supports the old, the sick, and the needy by his own labor, ibid., C; he is snatched away by an untimely death, ibid. Nicomedia destroyed by an earthquake, II, 167, B. C. Nothing is not God, II, 683, B. Why snows remain on mountain peaks until summer, I, 95, D. The name of God is holy, I, 1151 et seqq. Some names are usually used absolutely, some relatively, II, 427, A. The names imposed by Adam on brute animals, II, 1046, B. The differences of men, 1046, 1047. What is called new, II, 136, A. Nothing new under the sun, I, 634, D. Clouds and vapor, what they are and how they are formed, I, 98, C. D. The Mosaic cloud, what it is, I, 310, B. C, and what it is also mystically, 350, B. The cloud is the grace of the Holy Spirit, I, 362, B. The cloud sometimes denotes flesh, I, 554, A. Numen is not that which is understood to be circumscribed in a place, II, 603, C. Number, what it is, I, 86, C. Number is a sign by which the quantity of things becomes known, II, 311, B. C. The difficulties and annoyances of weddings, III, 326, 327; whatever absurd things happen in this life have their beginning from weddings, 338 et seqq. O. The obedience of the Son to God the Father, what it is, II, 527, 530. Obesity of the body hinders the perfection of the mind, III, 406, 407. The meeting of the Lord, III, 1151 et seqq. For the hidden things of the Son, an inscription of a psalm, what it denotes, I, 303, A. For the eighth, an inscription of a psalm, what it designates, I, 503, D; 547, C. The mystery of the eighth, 607 et seqq. The mystery of the eighth [...]
and mystically explained, I, 1054, D et seqq. Beauty: what the beauty of eyes is, 834, D; 833. The excellence of the eyes among the other limbs, 918, D. What things are to be referred to the eyes, 919. What it is to have eyes in one's head, 68... Hatred: what it is is defined, I, 734, B; and what should be held in hatred by nature, 734 et seqq. Oil of gladness: what it denotes, II, 1250, D. Olive tree, fruitful in the house of the Lord: what it is, I, 566, A. Oltiseris: a village, where it is, II, 259, A. Works of works: what they are, I, 622, B. Operations of the Trinity and of the soul, I, 1343, D; 1346, A. Operations: how they follow from substances, and what they are according to their own proper nature, II, 314, B, C. Whether these same operations produce the same works, 371 et seqq. Operator: God is always the operator, II, 1287, B; and His wisdom is always operative, ibid. Opinion: empty; honor, dignity, nobility of birth, riches, I, 463, A. Opportunity of time: what it is, I, 699, A. Work of substance: whether it is substance, II, 315, A, B. Prayer and reason in God: work and deed, I, 74, A, B. The praise and effect of prayer, I, 1123, A, B, C. Prayer: what it is, 494, B. Order and series of things: consists in the order and series of days, II, 338, B. Organs: of the prophet and the apostle, I, 375, B. Origen: wrote on the Canticles, I, 763, B. Mouth and tongue: their nature always has, as it were, the faculty of sinning at home, II, 278, D. Oppianos: torques, why so called, I, 817, C. Ornament: square, what it is, I, 391, C. Birth and death: proper to the nature of flesh, II, 46, A. Birth of Christ: its good effects, III, 1146, D; 1147. Mouth of the spouse: a fountain gushing forth the words of eternal life, I, 778, D; 779, A. Yawning: its cause, I, 167, A, B. Kiss: mystical, I, 1002, B. Bones: the necessity of them in the structure of the human body, I, 245, B, C. Door: of the mind, which the spouse both touches and knocks at, I, 1002, C. Leisure of the Sabbath: what its precept signifies, I, 714, B, C.
P Peace: nothing more pleasant than peace on this earth, I, 1282, A, C; what peace itself is, 1383, B. Peacemakers: who they are and in what they are blessed, I, 1283, A, B. Pacific: Solomon, and why he is so called, I, 791, A. Palms: of the desert, seventy disciples, I, 366, C, D. Eyelids: guardians of the eyes, I, 295, C. Bread: from heaven, true food, I, 367, C. Bread of gladness: beneficence, seasoned with the honey of the precept, I, 990, B. Petition for daily bread: what it signifies, I, 1170, A, B. Bread: that it is an aid brought by prayers, III, 543, B. Breads: who make them from stones, I, 1238, 1239. Pantokrator (Almighty): what it signifies in Scripture, I, 523, 526. Paraklētos (Comforter): the twofold meaning of the word, II, 551, B. Paraclete: the name is common also to the Father and the Son, II, 351, A. Parasceve: what it is, 370, B. Parents: honor due to them, III, 751, A, B. Birth: mature and not premature, what it is, I, 702, D. Birth is not man, but man is through birth, II, 591, A. Pascha: when and how it is to be celebrated, III, 618, D; 619 et seqq. Paschal day: how it is celebrated among Christians, III, 658, 659. Father: he who truly is, is always father, II, 434, A, B. Father of the world to come: Christ, and why, II, 586, A, B. Father: who are able to say this, I, 1142, A, B. The Father's voice at the beginning of the Lord's Prayer is explained, I, 1139 et seqq. The Father and Son: have one power, II, 1134, C. Fathers: we are fathers to ourselves, and how, I, 703, A. Fatherland (Patria): contains within itself the dignity of parents, III, 751, C. Fatherland of Christians: heaven, III, 893, C. Patriarchs: the names inscribed on stones, what they signify, I, 391, A. Poor in spirit: who they are, I, 1207, A. Poor: are to be loved, III, 454 et seqq.; they are the doorkeepers of the kingdom of heaven, 439, C. Poverty: twofold, and which one is blessed, I, 1199, B. Description of poverty, III, 458, B, C; 478, A. Sins: are nothing, and why, I, 459, D. Sin: what is the cause of it, II, 26 et seqq. Sin is an alienation from God, who is the true and sole life, II, 546, C. Sin: after man, and after man, the act of pitying and the name of mercy, II, 962, A. Sin: a thorn, III, 1135, C. Feet: to wash, what it is, I, 1003, D et seqq. Feet of the priest: naked, and why, 1006, D. Skins: of Solomon, what they are, I, 791, A. Robe (Peplum): of Rebecca and the robe of the soul, what they are, I, 1030, B, C. Striking: of the rod, designates immortality, 1051, A, B. Pilgrimages: abuses of to holy places are reproved, III, 1010 et seqq. Perfection: within what limits it is contained, I, 299, C. Persecution: what it is and what makes the blessed, I, 1294, C, D et seqq. Perturbations: of the mind, whence they arise, I, 191 et seqq. Rock: of the covering next to the bulwark, what it is, I, 878, A, B, C. Peter (St.): bishop of Sebaste, II, 241, A. Peter: St. Macrina's brother, is most holily instructed by her from his tender years, III, 971, B; the strength of his intellect, how great it is, ibid., C; he feeds many poor, ibid., D. Quiver: the soul is the quiver of the word, I, 547, A. Philip: the apostle, encomium of, I, 1087, C. Philosophy: consists in the melody and modulation of words, I, 439, C. Philosophers: various errors of, I, 538, B. Phodimus: bishop of the church of Amasea, III, 910, A. Painting: silent on the wall, it speaks and is most beneficial, III, 739, A. Piety: scope of, III, 287 et seqq. Ball-game: what it is, III, 1035, B. Hairs (Pili): symbol of death, I, 386, A; and of continence, ibid., D. Placilla the Empress: death, funeral, and funeral oration, III, 878 et seqq. Lamentation: in Scripture, what it is, I, 710, C. Planting and plucking up: time of, what it is, I, 703, 706. Rain and showers: whence and how they are made, I, 94, 95. Penance: purges sin, I, 723, B. Pontus Euxinus: that is, hospitable; what it is, and why so named, III, 898, C, D. Power: in God, is will, II, 498, B. Precipitation: into the sea, what it signifies, I, 571, D. Preparation: for prayer, what it is, I, 1136, D et seqq. Soothsayers and prophets: to consult them, what kind of sin it is, II, 226, 227. Presbyter: who is accustomed to be so called, I, 630, D. Presbyter: what, III, 1171, D. Firstborn: difference from the only-begotten, II, 499, C, D. Firstborn: the Son of God, how he is so called, 502, 503. Extermination of the firstborn of Egypt: what it is mystically, I, 534 et seqq. Beginning or sum: what it is, I, 65, D, 70, 71. Beginning of the universe: the Father, II, 778, A. By the word "beginning," what is signified, II, 395, B. Prodigal son: parable of, I, 1143, C, D et seqq. Parts: masculine and feminine, mystically what they are, I, 327, B, C, 339, C. Propitiatory: what it is mystically, I, 385, C. Before (Pro): what it is, I, 1138, D. Doctrine of Proverbs: what it is, I, 618, B, C. Providence: and the government of all things, is one and the same in the Trinity, II, 127, C, D. Neighbor and kinsman: who they are, I, 1086, 1087. Prunicus: who he was, II, 263, C. Psalms: why so dear to every race of men, I, 439, B. Psalms that lack an inscription are reviewed, 514, D et seqq.; and why, 518, B. Psalms in which "diapsalma" is found, 534 et seqq.; why the order of history is not observed in the psalms, 512 et seqq. Book of Psalms: how many parts it contains, 450, B; what is the first section, 450, D; what the second, 451, A; what the third, 451, D; what the fourth, 455 et seqq.; what the fifth and last, 466 et seqq.; what is the end of each, 482 et seqq. Book of Psalms: is referred to the praises of virtue, 447, C; it teaches the cultivation of virtue, 449, 447. Various inscriptions of the Psalms, 487 et seqq. Psalm: what it is, 494, B. Psalmody: mixed with the mind, what it is, I, 495, D; and what is performed with the spirit alone, 498, A. Psalter: what it is, I, 494, C. Shame: a powerful armor for avoiding sins, I, 650, D. Preparation for battle: various, what it teaches us, I, 745, C, D. Pulcheria: death and commendation at the funeral, III, 863 et seqq. Beauty: of the body and of the members of Christ is praised.
A And what it signifies mystically, I, 1054, D et seqq. Beauty, what it is, II, 198, D. Lungs, heart, and stomach of man, and their faculties, I, 246, C et seqq. Filth of the purity of the soul, pleasure, I, 1187, A. Purple, who they are, I, 914, C. Wells, how their waters flow, I, 110, D. Pythoness, what it is, I, 107 et seqq.
Q Forty martyrs, praises of, III, 730 et seqq.; 758 et seqq.; 774 et seqq. To seek and to lose, what it is, I, 719 et seqq. Quaternary number, what it denotes, III, 1154, C, D. What is that which was, I, 631, 631. Rest is the destruction of the soul, II, 203, A. By rest and motion, things that do not exist arise, and being arisen are preserved, I, 127, D. Fifty-seventh psalm explained, I, 590 et seqq.
R Cluster hanging from a tree, what it is mystically, I, 411, D. Frogs, the unclean multitude, what they designate mystically, I, 348, C et seqq. Reason in the soul, what it is, II, 225, D. Reason is not an obscure voice, but the beginning and foundation of the movement of the mind, II, 1187, C. Divine reason, what it is, III, 307, A. What is recent is not eternal, II, 770, D. Nothing new under the sun, how it is to be understood, I, 634, D. Righteousness is Christ, I, 786, D. Regeneration is twofold, and what they are, II, 635, D. Kingdom is known from the rule over subjects, II, 1322, B. Kingdom of God is not food and drink, but justice, impassibility, and beatitude, I, 695, B. The desire for the Kingdom of God, what it means for itself, I, 1155, B, C et seqq. Knowledge of religion, light, I, 375, D. Relics of the martyrs, to be honored, III, 739, B, C. Remembrance (On), inscription of the psalm, what it designates, I, 510, D. Ignorance of natural things, II, 935 et seqq. Resurrection, what it is, I, 634, C; what is its beginning, II, 51, C, D; how it will come to pass, III, 75 et seqq. Resurrection from the dead is to be expected by all means as a necessary order of things, I, 202, 203. Resurrection, why it is expected after certain intervals of time, if indeed it is to be thought a good thing; and why the human race was not stirred long ago from death, I, 203 et seqq. That there will be a resurrection does not appear to be abhorrent from the truth, 223 et seqq. Death must precede resurrection, 1018, 1019. Resurrection of bodies which have been since the beginning, how it will be in the future, III, 667 et seqq.; it will be accomplished in the twinkling of an eye, 659, C, D. Resurrection is the restoration and repair of our nature to its ancient state, III, 147, A; 878, A. If there is no resurrection, the end of life is death, III, 673, A, B. Various opinions concerning the resurrection, III, 107, B, C. The hour of Christ's resurrection, what it is, III, 614 et seqq.; what occurred in it, the evangelists have recorded in different ways, in no way contrary among themselves, 627 et seqq. Effects of Christ's resurrection, II, 1259, A, B, C. (That which is) kept silent in the bride, what it is, I, 1107, B, C. Rhamnus, a species of thorn, what it signifies, I, 593, C. Laughter, what its causes are, I, 159, C. Laughter denotes madness and delirium, 646, D. Laughter is a sign of alacrity of mind, III, 879, C. Dew, healing, I, 1003, A. Burning Mosaic bush, I, 306, C; what it is mystically, 331, C, D.
S Sabbath, its institution and celebration, III, 222. To keep the sabbatism from evil works, what it is, I, 715, B. Errors of Sabellius, II, 835, C, D; 1282 et seqq.; 1290 et seqq. Priest by the power of words is made august and to be honored, III, 582, D. Priest's life likened to a nut, I, 418, C. Priests lacerated by the insults of Eunomius, II, 258, C, D. Sacrilege, what it is and what kind of sin, II, 235, A, B. Propitiatory sacrifices, I, 958, A. Sacrifices and burnt offerings from the Scriptures, III, 219, C, D. Two ages, the temporal and the eternal, I, 1231, A. Essence of the ages, what it is, II, 1066, C. Solomon, who is the true one, I, 766, D. Solomon as a type of the true King in many things, 907, A. Dancing in Scripture, what it is, I, 710, D. Samson's admirable deed in the killing of a lion, III, 610, B.
B Samuel evoked by the pythoness, II, 107 et seqq. Holy of Holies in the tabernacle, what it is mystically, I, 387, A. Sanctification itself is the Lord, I, 1007, C. Mount Sangaus in Bethany, II, 167, B. Blood, whence the purple color exists, I, 250, C. Sprinkling of blood, what it is in Scripture, 598, A, B. Health of the soul, what it is, I, 1162, D. Human wisdom, what it is, I, 682, A. True wisdom and its works, ibid. Wisdom does not enter an evil soul, III, 555, D. Wisdom consisting in the higher regions, how it can be noticed and estimated by us, III, 30, A, B. The wisdom of God has no limit, II, 931, A. Action of wisdom, twofold, I, 482, A. Property of wisdom, what it is, II, 579, C. The head of the wise man alone is endowed with eyes, I, 682, D; his memory remains for eternity, 686, D. Property and signification of sapphire, I, 1074, C. Knowledge, what it is, and what ignorance is, III, 175, C, D. Scripture, why it is said to be divinely inspired, II, 713, D. Sacred Scripture, that the letter and diction are not to be followed perpetually, and why, I, 755 et seqq. Shields hanging from both coverings, what they are, I, 391, A, B. Sebastenas, Gregory makes him more certain concerning his correct opinion in matters of faith, III, 1030, 1031. Sempiternal, what is called, II, 136, B. Commendation of the number six, I, 286, C. Inconveniences of old age, III, 870, C. Senses, how the various ones may be exercised, I, 154, A, B. Senses are granted to man so that he may live pleasantly, I, 212, A. Senses are windows through which death enters, I, 1186, C. Dominion of the senses over the mind, I, 735, B, C. Proper faculties of the senses, II, 982, A. By the help of the senses we know the whole world, III, 31, B. Septenary number, what it denotes, III, 1154, C, D. Praise of the number seven, I, 286, D et seqq. Week of days, the nature of time defined, I, 610, C, D. Seventh day, indication of the final judgment, I, 290, A. Digging up of sepulchers, II, 234, D. Word of God is a weapon, which is Christ, I, 546, D. Speech is the interpreter of those things which we conceive by the mind, II, 418, C. Word of God, what it is, III, 307, A. Laborious sermons, which they are, I, 631, A, B. Serpent, the devil, watching the heel of man’s stride, I, 638, B. Serpent, sin in Scripture, I, 335, B. Figure and effect of the bronze serpent, I, 323, B; 414, 415. Serpents of the Egyptian magi, what they are mystically, I, 335, C. The life of serpents leads us to the proof of the resurrection, III, 691, A, B. Sitting and standing, what they are in God, III, 719, A, B, C. Seal of the operation of God, what it is, II, 539 et seqq. Sign of the Lord, what it is, III, 222, C. The sign of the cross, how great its virtue is, III, 951, B, C, D. The law of silence, what it is, I, 727, B. Forest, the wild life of men, I, 842, D. Simeon the elder, III, 1171, 1174. How the sayings of Simeon agree with the bride, I, 879, B. Similitudes from the grafting of farmers, I, 65, B; from flints, 71, D. Similitudes of gold with the marks of silver, what they are, I, 819, C. Similitude of the Son with the Father, how it is to be interpreted, II, 534, 535. Simon’s mother-in-law cured of fevers, I, 218, B. Simplicity in the Trinity does not receive remission and intension, II, 322, B. Simplicity in God, what it is, and what unbegottenness is, II, 919, 922. Bosom of the Son of God, what it is, I, 335, A. Bosom of Abraham, what it is, I, 510, A; III, 83, C, D. Sion, what it signifies under an enigma, I, 718, C. : the name is transferred to various appellations, II, 1030. Emerald engravers, I, 1071, C. Sun, the adverse incursion of temptation, I, 794, C. Sun, even when assailed by insults, is nothing other than sun, II, 274, A. Course of the sun, how it is, and what it teaches us, I, 626, C, D. Trifles of dreams, imaginary, conjectures, I, 167 et seqq. Sleep is a similitude of death, I, 991, C; and what it is mystically, 995, A, B. Sleep is to be shaken off from the eyes of the mind, 993, C. Sleep is the brother of death, III, 674, A. Sleep and waking are the complex and conjunction of death and life, 522, C. Sleep and waking are images of death and resurrection, 674, A, B. The cause of sleep and its necessity, I, 166, A, B, C. Filth of man, sin, I, 610, D. Speculation by which we contemplate God, what it is, I, 374, C. Thorns, sins, I, 358, A.
A Kingdom of the Holy Spirit, I, 1158, D. Spirit in God, what it is, II, 18, A, B. The Holy Spirit is uncreated, and why, II, 141, A, B. The Holy Spirit is not subjected to the Son, as Eunomius wills, 310, A, B, C. In what the Holy Spirit is joined to the Father and in what He is distinct from Him, 335, D. The Holy Spirit ought not to be sought among creatures, but believed to be exalted above all creatures, 358, 339 et seqq.; He cannot be called brother of the Lord, 559, D; He is not a little bell or an empty cask, 566, D. Spirit, what it is, and what the Word is, III, 194, A, B. The Holy Spirit from the Scriptures, 231, B, C. The divinity of the Holy Spirit is asserted, 574, 575. How the generation of the sons of God to the Holy Spirit is attributed in Scripture, II, 58, C. That the Holy Spirit is God is proved from Scripture and the Fathers, II, 1306 et seqq. Christ, the splendor of glory, III, 559, C, D. How the black and beautiful bride ought to be understood, I, 790, 791. The Bride is an enclosed garden, 962, C, D; a sealed fountain, 963, C; a well of living water, 978, B. Why the Bridegroom is called an apple, I, 896, A. How the stars of heaven were made on the third day, I, 118 et seqq. Stephen, stoned, rejoices, I, 1295, C. Encomium of Saint Stephen the Protomartyr, III, 708, 722 et seqq.; how he saw the heavens opened, 714, C, D, 718, A, B. The opinion of the Stoics concerning Divinity, III, 359, C. The structure of the body is described briefly, I, 239 et seqq. To walk foolishly in darkness, what it is, I, 686, C. The subjection of men to God, II, 38, B, C. Subjection is a good, I, 1310, B. Various kinds of subjection, 1306 et seqq. Substance, whether it is capable of intensification and remission, II, 300, B, C. To which subject the name of substance properly applies, ibid.; that the substance of the Father alone subsists, is a defense of Jewish impiety, 303, D. How and how impiously substances are distinguished by Eunomius, 319; how they are named as simple by the same, 323, C. Pride is a descent to lower things, I, 415, D. Pride is a primordial evil, and its vanity, I, 1202, 1203. The eyebrow, of what utility and assistance, I, 293, D. What the shoulder-pieces of the patriarchs, inscribed with names, signify, I, 387, B. Symmetric convenience in time, what it is, I, 699, C. The twofold form of Syria, and what it is mystically, I, 502, A, B, C. [T] The tablets of the heart, what they are, I, 1075, B. The construction and beauty of the Tabernacle, I, 318, 319; 787, B. What the altar and censer of the Tabernacle are, 383, D. The Tabernacle is the power and wisdom of God, 382, A. What the tables of the law thrown to the ground are, I, 397, A. When it is better to be silent, I, 727, B, C. The sense of touch, and what evils come from it, I, 1187, A, B. The fiery dart of fornication, III, 494, D. Temperance, the light of a pure conscience, I, 995, D. How we are made the temple of God, II, 547, D. Time is the common measure of all things, I, 699, C. What the time to bear and the time to die are, 702, 703. The space of time divided into three parts, 1126, A. Whence the measure of time, II, 1003, D, 1006, A. What darkness is and whence, I, 78, B; II, 1006, B, C. What the first assault of temptation is like, I, 743, D. The terminus is the infinity of the interminable, I, 459, A. Every thing has a terminus to its own capacity, 730, C. What the earth, invisible and uncomposed, is, I, 78, D et seqq.; it can never be removed from its stability, 127, D. What the earth standing forever teaches us, 627, A, B. Earth, publicans and harlots, 871, B, C. The earth of God, what it is, 530, C; and what it is in itself, II, 1003, C, D. What the word Tharsis denotes, I, 1071, A, B. Thecla the virgin, a disciple of Paul, I, 1067, A. Praises of Theodore the martyr and holy man, III, 755 et seqq. Theophilus, bishop of Alexandria, II, 1270 et seqq. How the throne of God above the winds ought to be understood, II, 545, B. What a throne signifies in the Scriptures, 1250, D. Incense consecrated to the honor of God, and why, I, 898, C, D. Fear is joined and yoked with the nature of servitude, II, 850, A. Just fear of God makes all things equal, III, 458, C. Golden bells are the splendor of good works, I, 590, A. What the inscription of titles denotes in the psalms, I, 311, A. What the wine press workshop is, I, 306, B. The wine press is conscience, 306, C. "For the Gittith," the inscription of a psalm, what it signifies, 506, B; 550, B, C. The torments inflicted upon the martyrs are described, III, 943, 946. What it means to spread one’s bed in evils, I, 847, D. What the cedar beams of houses denote, I, 838, B, C. Tradition suffices for the demonstration of those things which are believed by the Church, II, 654, B, C. B What transformation through baptism is, III, 593, C. The Trinity is proved from the Scriptures, III, 194, 195 et seqq. The Trinity is immutable and unalterable, the same as it ever is, 914, A. The Trinity is one God, II, 115 et seqq. The mystery of the Trinity is asserted, I, 259, C, D; III, 1031. Man expresses the mystery of the Trinity in himself, I, 1330, B, C. Tristitia is twofold, one evil, another good, according to God, I, 1219, D. The generation of wheat teaches us the rationale of the resurrection, III, 670, A. Troadius the martyr, III, 930, C. The trumpet is the preaching of the divine nature, I, 375, A; 379, A. The legal trumpet is prayer, III, 1127, A. What the skins of beasts given by God to our first parents denote, II, 34, C. What to strip off the tunic signifies, I, 1006, A. What the tower in which David hangs the best spoils denotes for us, I, 931, D, 935. The character of the turtledove, I, 815, A. The turtledove is John the Baptist, 871, A. [U] The breasts are the goods of divine virtue for us, I, 779, B. How "breasts better than wine" ought to be understood, 782, A, B. What the shadow of the wings of God is, I, 586, C, D. What, mystically, hooks are, I, 390, D. What, mystically, poured-out ointment is, I, 782, C, D. What it means to be supported by ointments, 847, C. What the difference between the Only-Begotten and the firstborn is, II, 499, C, D. Why the Only-Begotten is called Christ and yet also the firstborn, 638, C, D. To believe in the Only-Begotten God is the head and sum of Christian piety, 914, D. What the unity of the bride is, and its bond, I, 1118, A, B. Who, mystically, are the urns of the tabernacle, I, 386, C. Usury is prohibited by the holy Scripture, III, 443, 446. The life of the usurer is sluggish and insatiable, III, 458, A. [V] The Emperor Valens, deceived, II, 174, A; he harassed the Church of God, 287, C. What vanity and the vain are, I, 619, D. What the "vanity of vanities" is, 622, C, D. How the holy prophets were inspired by the divine power, II, 743, D. What, mystically, the bars of the tabernacle are, I, 383, A, B. Hunting and its various modes, I, 267, A, B, C. Who the hunters catching the foxes are, I, 822, C, D. What the movement of the bowels in Him is, I, 1011, B, C. What the word "belly" in the body of the Lord denotes, 1074, C, D, 1075, A, B. What Spring and the time of pruning are, I, 871, A, B. The use of words and names was devised after the production of men, II, 963, C, D. What the Word is and what the spirit is, III, 194, A, B. The Word of life is efficacious in the dead, I, 635, C. The Word of God remains living, simple, powerful, etc., II, 14, 15; it is proved from the Scriptures, 19, B. The Word of God made flesh and its various denominations, II, 137, B, C. The Word which was in the beginning was nothing else besides God, but was God Himself, II, 626, B, C. The Word first made flesh, afterward the Word was made flesh, 638, B. The Word is begotten, not created, II, 1294, D. The diverse and illustrious deeds of the Word, I, 1346, A. In what way bashfulness differs from shame, and its effect, I, 631, A. What the worm into which manna was converted is, I, 370, B. Who the worm is that does not die, II, 106, A. What the wart of body and soul is, II, 35, D; and how they are healed, 38, A, B. What evening and twilight are, and whence, I, 78, C. Vestiana, a noble woman, a companion of Saint Macrina, II, 987, D. Why the odor of the bride's garments is compared to incense, I, 959, D. What the long and flowing garment is, I, 358, B. The garments of the priest entering the inner sanctuary of the temple, 519, A, B. What the cleanliness of garments denotes, 374, B. Desire is a way to pleasure, I, 458, B. The Way is the Lord, 470, D. What the way is by which we are led to the discovery of what is honest, III, 366, 367. To see signifies the same as to have, I, 1266, B. He who is vigilant is suffused with redness, but he who is asleep turns pale, and why, I, 262, D. The vine is paradise, I, 798, C. What the vine is mystically, 799, C, D. The vine is human nature, 882, D. The various affections of wine, I, 659, 662. The rod of Moses turned into a serpent, I, 306, D; its mystery...