Index of Subjects and Words Found in Cyril’s Commentaries on the Twelve Minor Prophets

INDEX OF MATTERS AND WORDS CONTAINED IN CYRIL’S COMMENTARIES ON THE TWELVE MINOR PROPHETS

^A Aaron, having taken the censer and placed incense upon it, stood between the dead and the living, and the plague ceased, 71. Chosen to prefigure Emmanuel, 566. Clad in the vestments of the high priest, and entering into the Holy of Holies, 366. With Mary, he spoke against Moses, 366. He fashioned a calf for the Israelites in the wilderness, 366. Chosen by God to be a mediator between Himself and men, 446. Abdias the prophet, prophesied in the same century as Joel, 334. Abraham and his descendants pleased God, 28. They served the living and true God, 16. Worshippers of justice, 16. Immovable in faith, 16. Abraham, when about to sacrifice his son Isaac to God, bound him, 153. Abraham said to Lot: “Let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are brothers,” 239. Achab, king of Israel, feared Ader, king of Syria, 14. He spared him, whom God had ordered to be destroyed, 14. For his soul, he was himself surrendered, 14. He had Jezebel as a wife, 18. He coveted the vineyard of Naboth, 18. Addicted to the worship of demons, 18. Slain by Jehu along with his sons and Jezebel, 18. A figure of the leaders of Israel, 121. He reigned over Samaria and Israel, 249. He built an ivory house for himself, 286. He summoned four hundred false prophets and consulted them, in royal attire, 286. Struck by an arrow between the neck and the shoulders by chance, he died from the wound at sunset, 286. Achar stole precious items from the anathema, 47. Found guilty of theft and confessed his sin, 47. Stoned along with all that he possessed, 47. His distortion or perversion is set forth, 47. Achaz, king of Jerusalem, impious and an idolater, 8. He made his son pass through the fire, 8. He built a new altar, 9. Achaz, son of Joatham, 92. Through envoys, he compelled Teglath-Phalasar to aid him with counted money, 92 and 181. He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, 181. He burned incense in the high places, 181. He transferred his son through the fire, 181. With the money of Teglath-Phalasar, he hired the Assyrian, 236 and 391. He could not repel the enemy in a prolonged war, 236 and 391. Flagitious, hateful, and laboring under the greatest infamy because of his impiety, 457. A wicked man and an apostate, and a murderer of his own children, 458. Adam, in the beginning, rendered human nature subject to the curse, 95. He was not without the spiritual grace of prophecy before he transgressed the divine command, 227. Excellent and distinguished in the goods of nature, 227. Adamia, a city of Sodom, destroyed by celestial fire, 163. Adamant cannot be broken or tamed by any force, 525. Accustomed to despise the vigor of fire, 525. Ader, king of Syria, undertook an expedition against the Israelites, 14. God delivered him into the hands of Achab, king of Israel, 14. He devastated the tribes of Israel, 19. He overthrew many cities of Samaria, 19. Adolescents or the underage residing in the shrines of idols, 339. Adrian attacked the nation of the Jews in war, 330. Egyptians punished by waters turned into blood, and ashes or dust turned into gnats, 23. They worship Apis or a calf as a god, 81. They perished having been triumphed over by the Babylonians, 120. Horsemen archers, or soldiers of the equestrian militia, hired for pay, 191. Egypt punished, having been conquered by Cambyses, son of Cyrus, 241. It looks toward the western part of Judea, 322. It was devastated by Sennacherib, 401. Emath, two cities in the kingdom of Damascus, facing the east, 312. One wider and larger, the other smaller, 312. Emath Raba, that is, the greater and wider one, 312. Now called Antioch, 312, 328. Emath the lesser and narrower, neighboring and contiguous, the Epiphania of Antiochus, 322, 323. Agag, king of the Amalekites, plotted unholy things against the Israelites, 13. Condemned by divine authority, 13. Slain by Samuel, 13. Ageb signifies the South, 561. Aggeus the prophet, 232. Agnus (lambs), two sacrificed daily in the holy tabernacle, 200. Agrostis (couch grass), born in the fields, especially in unplowed and desolate ones, seizing the earth nearby and adjacent, 144. Altar, new, built by King Achaz, 9. One of the victims in the first or outer tabernacle, another of golden incense in the second and inner tabernacle, 9. Amasias, son of Joas, king of Judah, a religious and just man, 150. Amos the prophet, among the prophets of King Jeroboam, 150. He broke the teeth of the prophets, 247. He rebuked the prophet Amos, 276. He feared that he would lose the priesthood himself, 327. A false prophet, 328. He sits at the altars of the gods, 328. He collects the portions and scraps of the victims, 328. Ammonites gathered against Israel, 256. Neighboring peoples of Judea, 259. They dissected the pregnant, 262. They dared to mock God, 262. Giving thanks to false gods and singing triumphal songs, 262. Subdued by Nebuchadnezzar, 262. Amon, son of Manasseh, succeeded to the kingdom, 281. A bad egg of a raven, 281. He lived only two years, 281. Amorites, a barbarian nation, savage and frequent, 270. Consumed by the Israelites, 270. Amos, the father of the prophet Isaiah, 247. Amos the prophet, a Tekoite, 6. Made a prophet from a shepherd, 246. Killed by the son of the priest Amasias, 247. A herdsman, raised in pastoral manners and customs, 246. He lived in the solitude of Judea, 246. Born in the village of Thecua, 246. A good man and a lover of all equity, 246. He prophesied in Bethel, 247. A goat-herd, 398. Living a rustic, simple life, and experienced in no evil, 529. Sustaining himself with very meager food, 529. Made a prophet by God, 329. Contemptuous of the stupidity of Amasias, he twisted a curse against him, 328. Ananias, a false prophet, opposes the words of Jeremiah, 175. Ananias, a disciple of Christ, 229. He saw a vision concerning Paul when he came to Damascus, 229. A faithful man, strong in habit, unbroken in spirit, 229. Angel, in one night, slew one hundred and eighty-five thousand, 24, 151, 323, 435. Angel speaking in the prophets, the word of God, 10. Angels are ministers, 52, 63. The nature of angels obtained all its riches from God, 65. The most holy choirs of angels are subject to the law of the justice of God, 190. They are about to incinerate the wicked in Sodom, 70. Angel speaking...

^A followed Moses on Mount Sinai, 310. Angels ascending and descending by a ladder reaching from earth to heaven, 345. They deserted Samaria, 397. The soul of man is very prone to fall away from integrity, 33. When it has cast off the protection of heavenly grace, it is very easily captured by Satan, 34. The sinful soul is compared to a wicked woman, 41. The soul that has sinned, it shall die, 234. The mind of man is nourished by divine sermons, 292. The seventh year, the year of remission, 333. Antioch, a city named by Antiochus Epiphanes, 315. Antiochus, surnamed the Illustrious, 201. Having set out for Judea, he burned the temple, 201. He compelled all the Jews to neglect the customs of their fathers, 201. Antiochus, surnamed Epiphanes, 313. He named two cities in the Damascene kingdom, one Antioch, the other Epiphania, 313. Antiochus provokes the Jewish nation with war, 350. Apis, or the calf, the god of the Egyptians, 81, 87. Believed to be the son of the Moon and the grandson of the Sun, 87. It had the sign of the shape of the moon on its forehead, 87, 113. Apostles beget children in Christ through the Gospel, 25. They confessed that they were called by God, 245. Witnesses of the glory of Christ in the whole world, 316. Swarms of bees flying around cast sweet and dear honey, 332, 367. Waters changed into blood, for punishing the Egyptians, 215. Concerning the fountains of the Savior, 215. Living water of the sacred baptism, 221. A great eagle, of great wings, with a long reach of limbs, and full of feathers, 199. Signifies Assur, the prince of the Babylonian land, 199. Arabs, peoples neighboring Judea, 239. An altar raised under an oak and a poplar to the Hamadryad nymphs, 76. The laughter of the altar, 247. Ararat mountains, upon which the ark rested, 412. Trees in the forests die, 270. The region of the Arcadians and their cities especially, 129, 150. An archangel sent by God, with a trumpet, 241. Artaxerxes, king of the Persians, 255. Asa reigned over Jerusalem, 457. He announced to all Judah at Enacim to tolerate the stones of Rama, etc., and he built in them around the hill of Benjamin, and a watchtower, 457. Ascalonites foully lacerated Samaria and the kingdom of Judah, 249. Helpers of the Idumeans and allies in war, 257. Ascalonites, helpers of the Idumeans and allies in war, 356. The head of an ass bought for fifty shekels, 200. Assur, prince of this world, 161. Assur, prince of the Babylonian land, 198. He tore away all the excellent things from Israel and carried them home, 198. One hundred and eighty-five thousand Assyrians killed by an angel in one night, 24. Implacable anger, 184. The Assyrian peoples are intractable, 185. They are compared to whelps in forests or thickets, 185. Like locusts, 215, 216, 221. Situated to the east, 222. They burn Damascus, 250. They devastated the peoples of foreigners with iron and fire, 250. The region of the Assyrians, that is, of the Persians, 280. The Assyrians with their forces invaded Israel and ravaged it like robbers, 281. They are compared to horses, 321. They crush the Israelites, 522. They were handed over into the hands of the Persians and Medes, 463. Astarte, the abomination of the Sidonians, 3, 78. Named Aphrodite, or Venus, 78. Avarice, idolatry, 302. Bird-catchers bring down sparrows sitting on trees with wonderful artifice, 277. Audacity, the protection of the heart, 184. Augustus Caesar, 73. Certain birds, not bearing the winter of their own climate, seek foreign ones, and know without a teacher what is expedient for them, 137. The south wind binds the veins of waters under the earth, 189. Azael, king of Syria, conquers the tribes of Israel, 19. He overturned very many cities of Samaria, 19. He defeated Israel in the valley of Jezreel, 22, 200. Jerusalem attacked among these, 250. He burned fortified cities with fire, 250. He dashed the little ones and split the pregnant, 255. Azarias, who is also Ozias, king of Israel, 7. He aspired to a sacred function not at all convenient for himself, 7. Orphans to Desi pea, quarius, who is also Zacharias, 7. Boam, 7. He held the kingdom of Israel for six months, 7. He was handed over to his own domestics to be slaughtered, 7. Idolater, 19. He reigned in Samaria, 391. Azarias or Ozias, most hostile to the nations, 251. A pious man, and a student of virtue, 251. He fell into the disease of pride, 251. He dared to offer incense to God, 251. Sprinkled with leprosy, 251. Banished from Jerusalem, 251. Powerful, strong, and strenuous, 251. Azotii foully lacerated Samaria and the kingdom of Judah, 256. They overturned Solomon's, 256. They invaded Israel and ravaged it like robbers, 284. Azotus, near and bordering on Judea, 280.

^B Baal, the idol of the children of Ammon, 3. Signifies Baalim idols, 50. Baasa reigned over Samaria, 457. He went up into Judah and built Rama, 457. He ceased to build Rama, opposing the enemies, 457. Babylon, subdued by Cyrus, son of Cambyses, 29, 165, 294. They interpret it as confusion, 432. A cruel, insulting, and arrogant city, 461, 463. Babylonians did not permit holy ceremonies in divine worship by law, 41. They devour an abundance of crops like beasts, 43. Obliquely signified by beasts and birds, 50. They devastate Samaria, 129. They overturn Jerusalem, 129. They move against the Egyptians and triumph over them with no effort, 165. They devastate everything, 210. They heap slaughter upon slaughter, inhabiting the east, 223. Shouting joyfully in victory in the military manner, 262. The naked prevail over the armed, 321. They burned Samaria with fire, 321. They subjugate Judea and depopulate it, 359. Having left their own country, they invade Jerusalem, 361. Together with the inhabitants, they set cities on fire, they proudly exalted themselves against the glory of God, 462. Bethel, the field of vanities, that is, of idols, 235. A city greatly distorted toward impiety, 299. Balaam attempted a prophecy against Israel, 75. A soothsayer and augur, 447. Hired for a price by Balac, king of the Moabites, 447. Balac, son of Sephor, orders Balaam to prophesy, 75. The execrable king of the Moabites, 447. He hired Balaam the soothsayer and augur for a price to pray evil against Israel, 447. Basanitis region, fertile and flourishing with the richness of the soil, 287, 468. Rendered confusion, 469. Beelphegor, the same as Priapus, worshipped by women and eunuchs, 77. With feminine wailings, and cymbals, and torches, 326. Bel, the idol of the Babylonians, 50. Benadab, son of Adar, king of Syria, besieged Samaria, 219, 230. King of Damascus, 230. He took to himself thirty-two kings or leaders as allies of the expedition, 230. He is sick, 255. Benadab, king of Syria, having destroyed Israel, overturned very many cities of Samaria, 19. Benjamin and Judah did not fail when other tribes were failing, 5. They sacrificed in the temple, 5. They sacrificed to idols, 5. Benjamite, at first superior to the other tribes, afterwards all are destroyed by them, 457. Bersabee, a city situated at the extreme borders of Judea, 510. Defining the region as if from the south toward the sea, 340. Beasts of the field, enemies of the Jews, 50. Beast signifies wild and cruel, 66. Bethel, house of God, 79. House of the calf, 144, 171. Bethel is rendered house of God, 171. Bethlehem, a city of the tribe of Judah, 131. House of Ephrata, the origin of Jesse, David, and the blessed Virgin, 455. Blaspheming son of an Egyptian woman, stoned to death, 319. Bruchus, an insect, 330. It covers much of the earth with great force, 330.

^C Cain, a murderer and a liar, just as his father, 420. Cambyses, son of Cyrus, subdued the kingdom, 241. Carmel, a mountain of Judea, in which Elias the Thesbite lived, 253. The recognition of circumcision is rendered, 69. Chalaune, under the Persian kingdom, is today called Lysippa, 313. Chamos, the idol of Moab, 3, 151. Canaanites, wicked and idolatrous neighbors of the Jews, infamous in their own way, 174. Charity of the many will grow cold, 222. It embraces the fullness of the law, 502. It prepares no harm for the neighbor, 351. Charan, a small city, and very close to Damascus, having most warlike inhabitants, 455.

^A Hiram, king of the Tyrians, very dear to David, 258. Beloved by Solomon, 258. Assists Solomon in all things, 258. Sends many gifts to Solomon, 258. Christ reclined with publicans and sinners, yet as a physician, 15. He is truly the seed of God, 20. The blood of Christ exacted from all Israel, 22. Christ rising again shattered the bows, 22. He is called David, in Ezekiel, 29. The twofold advent of Christ, 50. He shall render to each one according to his works, 47. Mediator of God and men, 53. Our peace, 53. Truth and mercy, 65. Wisdom, 69. He rose the third day according to the Scriptures, 94. In him is the fullness of every good thing for us, 96. On the wood he triumphed over principalities and powers, having affixed to himself the handwriting against us, 187. He foretells future events to his holy disciples, 187. He overthrows the tyranny of the devil, 187. He is compared to the south wind and the heat, 189. He set life before all, 189. Wine of Lebanon and incense, 194. Our grandson, 205. Heavenly bridegroom, 205. He shut up the crowds of demons in helll, 218. Our Savior, 223. Worker of wonders, 225. He gives to those who love him things greater than can be said or hoped for, 225. Forgiving crimes and stopping the mouth of sin, 227. The second Adam, 227. The first-fruits of our race, 227. The expectation of the nations, 229. Rendering to each according to his works, 230. In the resurrection of the human race he shall cry out as if from Zion, 241. A fountain going forth from the house of the Lord, 244. A torrent and fountain of life, 244. Christ Jesus our Lord, 268. He rebuked the merchants of the Jews who brought animals into the temple, 268. He gave us power to tread upon serpents, 271. He overturns enemies, and subjects the more robust, 271. Christ is in us through the Spirit, 307. Called Emmanuel, 326. Inserted into us by God the Father as a diamond of help, 326. To succor those in need, and to distribute resources, 337. Derided by the Pharisees and scribes, 337. Fountain of life, 341. The end of the law and the prophets, 342. God from God, 346. Precursor for us he ascended to the Father, 346. He initiated a new and living way for us, 346. He redeemed the world from the power of the devil, 353. Leader and prince of our festive celebration, 353. He is called a great trumpet by Isaiah, 366. Willingly he sustained death, 366. He remained in the heart of the earth three days and three nights, 366. Before the constitution of the world, he was decreed and destined for the reparation of the universe, 367. He combined admirable works with his doctrine, 368. Having despoiled hell, the spirit was brought to those constituted there, 381. According to the nature of his divinity, he fills all things, 393. Living light, 419. Our one master, 429. That good shepherd who feeds us in gardens and among lilies, 436. Our peace, 457. He provided sustenance proper and accommodated to himself, 441. The foundation of the Church, an immovable base, and perpetual security, 464. The justice of God and the Father, 464. Gnats from the ash or dust, 23. Cooked with grape-skins or raisins, offered to alien gods, 59. Confessions are voluntary according to the law, which one offers to God of his own accord, 290. Heart to be opened to God, 219. Field, garden, vineyard, 222. The Corinthians wish to recede from the holy mandate delivered to them, 314. They wish to adhere to those who teach otherwise in an unskilled manner, 314. Creature cooperates with God, and accompanies the authority of the ruler, 23. Looking at the Creator, who was treated contumeliously, it mourned in a way, 250. By the cross the crowds of adversaries are triumphed over, and malignant powers are overthrown, 23. A wood shown to Moses by God and cast into bitter waters was the image and type of the precious cross, 317. Cyrene, very rich and set on a height, 348. It lies as if in a deep gulf, 348. With Cyrus reigning, the Jerusalem temple was rebuilt, 5, 350, 460. Cyrus, son of Cambyses, once Babylon was subdued, having obtained the Persian empire, 29. He ordered the Jews to return home together with the sacred vessels, 291, 123, 141, 165, 201, 232, 294, 460, 463.

^B Demons, apostates, 36. They are perverse and pestilential lovers, 36. They begged Christ not to order them to depart into the abyss, 595, 471. Damascenes gathered against Israel, 236. Antestgauni, 236. They treated Israel cruelly and inhumanely, 255. Damascus, metropolis of Syria, 9. It is besieged by Tiglath-Pileser, 92, 145. Restored, 231. It crushed the inhabitants of Gilead, 254. Captured and translated, 256, 281, 391, 438. The tribe of Dan sought for itself a possession to dwell in, 134. They build a city, and there place an idol, 134. They worship the carved image taken from the house of Micah, 136. Dan, an illustrious city of the Samaritans, 5. Situated in the extreme borders of Judea, toward the south it defined the region as if by the sea, 340. David, that is Christ, according to the flesh from the seed of David, 62. David the wise, 302. Originating from Bethlehem, 435. The ten tribes with a half, alienated from the kingdom of Rehoboam, always remained with the Medes and Persians, 121. The number ten is most perfect, a symbol of perfection, 64. When teeth have become numb, they are too weak to chew anything, and cannot grind food, 292. God does not despise even one just man praying for the whole city, 28. He clothes us as it were with benefits, and overshadows our mind and heart with supernal aids, 36. Fountain and origin of all gentleness, 59. He imparted wisdom and prayer to man, 59. To be gilded through those things which we have from him, 59. Fountain and origin of all gentleness, 59. With his mind, no one can struggle against him, 95. Patient, long-suffering, and very merciful, 105. Giver and bestower of all abundance, 128. He wrestled like a man with Jacob, 155. Compared to one sleeping and awakened, 156. He surpasses every creature, 164. By nature good and merciful, 166. It is a matter of indignation for him to turn himself to the wickedness of some, 166. Author of our happiness, 185. Compared to a physician, 171. He compares himself to wild beasts, 181. Long-suffering, and of much mercy, and truthful, 210. He saves whom he wills, and renders them immune from evils, 213. He inflicts evils most of all, 217. God the Lord, and he shone upon us, 227. God of the universe worshipped of old in the temple, 233. He dwells in our hearts through the Spirit, 242. He beholds even the things that are in darkness, 49. Present, he looks upon the things that are done especially by us in the Church, 259. He imitates a lion, 277. He assimilates himself to a fowler and a snare, 276. Like a fowler he casts down the proud, 176. As if to suffocate those caught in a snare, who were accustomed to cling tenaciously to worldly business like foxes or mice, 177. In the beginning he punishes sinners more mildly, 291. Feeling no pain from small ones, he burdens them with still harsher blows, 293. He is our God, and he is in truth, 293. Fabricator of the universe, 296. Governor of human affairs, 296. Superior to every height and every excellence, 296. Administrator of every creature, 296. Life-giving, able to save, 298. Omnipotent, 300. King and legislator of the supernal spirits, 300. Dominating the elements, and bending the nature of things to his own will, 300. He resists the proud, 300. He counts the arrogant, the disobedient, and the contumacious in the place of an enemy, 300. As long as he chastises only with words, he seems in a certain way not to be present, 305. He swears by himself, 317. Physician of spirits, 386. He fills heaven and earth, and the things that are under the earth, 393. He underwent motion in a certain way, exempt from change, 393. God is to be loved with the whole soul and with the whole heart, 394. The great day of the twofold advent of Christ, 30. Day of youth, regeneration through the law, 49. Day, the time of the incarnation of the Only-begotten, 49. Day, a time convenient for a vocation, 306. Charity is the fullness of the law, 172. It does not work evil to one's neighbor, 172. Dinah, daughter of Jacob or of Israel, 103, 107. The disciples were called from all with choice, 250. They were scourged, 420. They rejoiced that they were whipped, 420. They knew they had suffered with Christ, even that they would reign with him, 13. Divination by rods, an invention of Chaldean curiosity, 75. Divinity is included and defined in no place, 93. Wealth unjustly gathered shall be vomited forth, 173. House of God shall be called a house of prayer, 268. Ivory house of king Ahab, 286. Great and small house of Ephraim and Judah, 320. If a dragon be struck, then at last he wails, as if in pain, and proclaims his grief by beating the ground with his tail, nor does he emit a medium clamor, 399.

[E]Church gathered from the nations, 46. Sacred and divine sheepfold, 138. It sat in the shadow of the Savior, 193. The Bride

^A of Lebanon, beautiful, 205. He takes up his cross, and follows Christ, 205. New Jerusalem, 253. He cares for his own worshippers, and makes them superior to their enemies, 243. Intellectual Jerusalem, 242. Compared to a torrent of reeds, 241. The churches of Christ contain many heads of the saints, 352. Holy, 360. The house and city of God is of the holy, 560. The city and house of Christ, 393. Compared with the dogmas of the Greeks, 424. The city of God, as a certain land and region of the sanctified, 438. Edom, whence the Idumeans were afterwards named from him, 260. Alienated from mutual love, 260. Extremely guilty of hatred against brothers, 260. Unseen, 261. Edom, this is earthly, 351. The Elamites miserably lacerated Samaria and the kingdom of Judah, 218. Eliakim, son of Josiah, reigned in Jerusalem, 282. Reduced to servitude by Nebuchadnezzar, 282. Elijah the prophet, killed many prophets of Baal, 14; was a man, like us, subject to passions, and he prayed, and it did not rain for three years and six months, 292. Eliphaz, son of Esau, 155. His son Teman, 153. Elisha the prophet anointed Jehu king over Israel, 18; summoned by the kings of Israel, Judah, and Edom, 263. Elisha, disciple, 329. Emmanuel shone forth, with the kingdom of Israel removed, 22. By Jezreel, that is, the seed of God, it is understood, 25. Virgin-born spouse, 526. Man dwelling on earth, 337. Emmor, son of Shechem in Shechem, 104. Enacim, a small town in the extreme borders of Judea before the wilderness, 400. Towards the south, 400. Worshipping the rites of the Moabites and Idumeans, 400. Ephod signifies liberation, 135. Ephraim and Manasseh were reputed for one tribe, 155. By Ephraim naming the prophets, they mean the Samaritans, 5. It is also accepted for the royal tribe in Samaria, 106. For all Israel, 158. Abandoning his native soil, he had Egypt for a fatherland, 168. Subject to Assyria itself, and bent his neck to a foreign scepter, 168. Captured, and made subject to his enemies, 168. Fallen into apostasy, he forgot God, 164. Struck by God, 172. Similar to the foreign Canaanites, 173. In all ways he applied himself to gathering riches, 173. He is called Canaan, on account of impiety, 174. House of Joseph, 299. Called Israel, 299. Signifies the ten tribes, 303. Ephraim born from Joseph, 305. Ephraim populous, consisting as it does of ten tribes, 320. By a great and innumerable multitude, an abyss is designated, 321. Epiphania, a city named after Antiochus Epiphanes, 513. The horse is an animal prompt to acquire knowledge convenient to its acquaintance and its nature, 317. Horses, as though thinking, and prudently and knowingly neighing, when they perceive they have an honorable and observed rider, 317. A proud animal, and most suitable for running, 321. When mares are spotted, they are incited by the stimuli of nature, 321. The caterpillar begins to be generated from the dew falling at dawn, 388. Red Sea, through which navigation is rightly instituted to the Jewish nations, 369. Esau, held in hatred by God, 169. Brother of Jacob, 383. Was of a mind not good, but hostile to Jacob, 259. Embraced and kissed his brother, 259. Sought the lentil pottage, 260. His name was called Edom, 260. For one meal, he sold his birthrights, 260. Laid aside his old impiety, 261. Returning from Mesopotamia, Jacob kissed him with tears, 261. Hairy, and covered with hair on all sides, 555. Esauites, posterity of Esau, 261. Difficult and harsh, 261. Entered into a pact of peace and concord with neighboring nations, 558. Ezra predicted a few things to be done in his own times, 232. Wrote history, 232. With torn garment, he mourns the Israelites, 238. Evangelical precepts contain spiritual union or coupling, 52. High places, that is, temples on mountains and hills, 133. Hezekiah, son of Ahaz, king of Judah in Jerusalem, 9. Pious, and most studious of justice, 9. Dissipated the high places, and cut down the groves, 9. Endued with divine zeal, and dear to God, 150. With the Babylonians removed from the midst, he reigned, 293. Most sorrowful, 436. Ezekiel the prophet commanded to make bread for himself in human dung, 22. Accepts dung of oxen for human, 22. B ^B Being ordered, he saw all the idols of Israel depicted on walls, 29. Brought to Jerusalem in the vision of God, 86. Saw six men sent against Jerusalem with axes, 83. Made dumb, 227.

F Famine compels one to neglect otherwise impregnable natural affection, 24. Famine of hearing the word of the Lord, 35, 227. Famine to be brought by the locust, 214. Cruel famine in Samaria, so that an ass’s head was sold for many denarii, 292. Feast days instituted for the sake of calves, 108. The fig, a symbol of sweetness, 43. Everyone who is faithful is a temple of God, or an altar, 342. Children of Christ generated through the Gospel, 25. Children of fornication, which is perceived by intelligence, 35. Children of light and children of the day, 23. Children of wrath, 51. Holy children of Judah, 245. Children of confession, 245. The end of labors is glory and pleasure, 401. The river of peace is our Lord, 214. The fountain issuing from the house of the Lord is Christ, 244. The fountain of life is Christ, 244. The living fountain, the Son from God the Father, 292. The fountains of incorruptible waters are the writings of the holy apostles, 271. Spiritual fornication, 73, 109. Fruits springing forth from sacred fires, 75. Grain is a type of life, 65.

G Gabaa, a town of the Benjamites, which is interpreted "hill," 135. Elevated and situated on a hill and watchtower, 456. Gaba, the same, 456. Gilead, a city beyond the Jordan inhabited by priests, vain, that is, idols, 176. Subdued by Phul or Tiglath-Pileser, king of the Assyrians, 176. Gilead, a small town situated on the borders of Palestine, 251. Occupied by the Syrians, and utterly destroyed, 234. Gileadite, a place supplying very much and broad abundance of pasture for cattle, and abounding everywhere with a variety of herbs, 468. It is rendered as a mutation of the Testament, 430. Galgal, a mountain in Moab, 447. Galgal, a city in which superstitious worship of statues flourished in an unspeakable manner, 140, 175. Galgala, an illustrious city of the Samaritans, 5. A city beyond the Jordan, inclined again and again to apostasy, 289, 299. Gaza, a city of the Philistines, which today is Palestine, 256. The Gazites, helpers and military allies of the Idumeans, 256. They overturned the cities of Solomon, 237. Gideon, called by another name Jerubbaal, 151. By night secretly he destroyed the altar of Baal and cut down his grove, 155. Nations before the advent of Christ, little differing from wild beasts and poisonous reptiles, 43. They did not have divine law, 264. Gerar, a city of the Philistines or Palestine, 299. Named after the well of the oath, 299. A city greatly distorted toward impiety, 299. The Gergesites, neighboring people of Judea, 239. Consumed while the Israelites fought against them, 270. The Gergesenes miserably lacerated Samaria and the kingdom of Judah, 218. Geth in Copher, a small town or village of Judea, 364. Geth which is called the city of foreigners, 236. Primary city of Palestine in those times, 313. Inhabited by the Enacim and those who were called Philistines, 313. Of the Philistines, 513, 401. The Gethites, neighboring people of Judea, 239. They hold the glory of God in derision, 404. Swords turned into plowshares, and spears into sickles, 51. Sword of the spirit, the word of God, 161. Gog, king, 323. Sennacherib, 323. Assyrians, 324, 330. Gomer, a type of the soul which chooses for itself a dishonest and base life, 42. It was a snare of death and the gate of hell, 46. The Synagogue of the Jews, 24. Greek philosophy, 236. Superstition, 238. Dogmas, 484. The Greeks ascribe divine benefits to demons, 39. They lavish the faculty of their own eloquence in celebrating the honors of demons, 39. Raising their eyebrows with false opinion of wisdom, 237. Laws of the Greeks, 258. Wisdom, 313. Fables, 313, 375, 376. The Greeks hand down that the empire of the sea is in the power of a certain Neptune, 373. They teach most stolidly that stones and wood, and creation itself, ought to be worshipped, 441. Punished by a horrible hail, the Egyptians, 25.

^A Gratitude passed from the Jews to the Gentiles, 26. Celestial grace as a fortification of the soul, 54.

Habakkuk, the prophet, 516.

Heretics attribute the benefits granted by God to unclean demons, 39. An impious crowd, hateful to God, 39. They pervert the minds of the simpler folk and set snares to destroy men, 39. They differ little from cruel beasts; they conceal impiety and will eat the fruit of falsehood, believing themselves to be something because of the inventions of their fallacies; they turn away, 237. They drag off those who are entangled in the snares of their impostures as far as possible from the boundaries of truth, 238. They speak falsely against the glory of the Only-Begotten, 307. Carrying within them a drunkenness not of spiritual fragrance, but more truly of mire, 307. They oppose the word of truth, 313.

The inhabitants of the city of Ai slaughter not a few of the Israelites, 47. Hebrew women would call their husbands by the names of false gods, 50. Hercules, the son of Alcmene and Jupiter, 376. Devoured by a whale, 376. Yet returned, with his head only shorn of hair. Herod, the son of Antipater the Ascalonite, ruled over Judea when Christ was born, 22. The Hivites, the Israelites fighting against them, were consumed, 270. It was permitted to offer sacrifice only in Jerusalem, 28. Jerusalem taken by the Babylonian, 149, 200. It has a long wilderness to the south, 222. It was the first to kill the Lord, 231. Jerusalem trembled from an earthquake, 251. Nobler and more illustrious among the cities of Judea, 253. Called the summit of Carmel, 253. A distinguished and renowned city, 261. The mother of the Jews, 266. Occupied by Nebuchadnezzar, and the whole of it ravaged by the sword, 282, 294, 335. The inhabitants of Jerusalem used to sacrifice to Baal on the high places, 307. They offered libations to the host of heaven, 307. They feigned to have reverence for the law in their hearts, and strove to offer sacrifices, and observed feast days, 307. They despised Zion, 511. So struck with grief that they soon expected that they would perish together with the Samaritans, 356. A buck goat used to be sacrificed for sin, 71. Barley, a food suitable for cattle, 61. The humble man, prompt to obey, was loved by God above all others, 48.

[I] Jaundice, a yellow or royal disease, 592. Idols of the Baalim made of stone, 19. Idolatry hateful to God, 326. Taken away from the midst, 526. ^B Idumea reduced to a wilderness, 214. Bordering on the Israelites, 355. Ravaged by the Israelites with sword and fire, 556. Southern, and near and adjacent to those inhabiting the southern part of Judea, 361. The Idumeans gathered against Israel, 276. Peoples neighboring Judea, 239. They foully ravaged Samaria and the kingdom of Judah, 249. Propagated from the blood of Esau, 256. Perpetual enemies of the Israelites, 256. Brothers of the Israelites, 239. Named from Edom, 260. Always stolid and wicked, 260. Descendants of Esau, 354. And neighbors of the Jews, 355. Stimulated by envy, 355. Associating barbaric neighbors with themselves, they join battle, 335. They fell and perished in the valley of Josaphat, 335. They harassed the Israelites more atrociously than foreigners, 385. They are mocked and deluded, 357. Implicated in the cults of idols, 358. They insult their brothers in their hardships, and in inhumanity little yield to the Babylonians, 559. Savage, and removed from every sense of mercy, 359. A fire-bearer once preceded the army, crowned with laurel, carrying or leading a torch, 561. There is no joy for the impious, 41. An everlasting worm is reserved, 41. They shall perish from the earth root and branch, 47. India and its regions, especially the southern ones, 362. Denoted by the name Tharsis, 369. The Indian Sea, 222, 216. To be drunk is most base, and is condemned in the highest degree by the law, 270. An infant swims in natural fluid in the womb, 576. In the belly of the pregnant woman as if buried, it cannot breathe, yet it lives nonetheless, 576. Infants frequently grieve without cause, and weep profusely over trifling matters, 387. Sometimes they are calmed by a small thing, and suddenly leap from sadness to joy, 387. The ungrateful man is like a blasphemer, 159, 185. The crime of the ungrateful is foolish, 521. Those initiated into the mysteries of Beelphegor, 77. They ran about with feminine wailings, cymbals, and torches, 77. A lion strikes the man disobedient to the voice of the Lord, 14. Disobedience cannot be defended from crime, 14. ^C After turning away follows altogether, and in a certain manner accompanies, 265. Isaiah the prophet loosened the sackcloth from his loins, and walked naked and barefoot through Jerusalem, 14. He demonstrated to the Israelites the habit of future captivity, 16. Ordered by God to walk naked and barefoot through Jerusalem, 390. Looking almost with his own eyes upon Christ at his saving passion, 413. He questions Christ, in a way contemplating the places of the nails, 413. The prophets, naming Israel, understand the Samaritans, 5. The ten tribes into Assyria, 7. Into the mountains and rivers of the Medes, 9. The kingdom of Israel taken from the midst when Emmanuel was born, 22. Israel degenerated from the name of the people of God, 26. In the extreme times of the age, he will be counted among the sons of God, 28. The vine of the Lord, a new and beloved planting, 65. The husbandry of God, always remained among the Persians and Medes, 122. He leads forth forces against the Benjaminites, 136. Captured like a bird, 137. He made a calf in the wilderness, 241, 242. He subjected himself entirely to a human kingdom, 177. He clung to the women of the Moabites, 179. He sacrificed to Beelphegor, 170. Compelled to migrate into the mountains of the Persians and Medes, 186. A vine beautifully spread with shoots, 194. Translated by Shalmaneser, 200. Captured by Nebuchadnezzar, 200. Dismissed by Cyrus after seventy years had passed, 201. Dissipated to every wind, 201. Divided into Ephraim and Judah, 252. Delivered into servitude to the Babylonians, 255. Israel is sometimes called the two tribes, sometimes the ten, sometimes the twelve, 248. Israel fashioned a calf in the wilderness, 253. He incurs the offense of God, 255. Educated in the divine commandments, 261. Israel, that is, the tribe in Samaria, 205. A contemner of the glory of God, and impiously corrupted, 283. Implicated in horrendous crimes, 290. Disciplined by vexation and scourges, 304. Reduced entirely into servitude, and having suffered extremes in war, 520. Afflicted in Egypt, 521. Foolish, disobedient to the law, contentious, 383. Saul sinned gravely by asking for a king for himself, 455. Subjected to the Persians, he was formerly led into Babylon and the Medes, 462. Liberated from servitude, 469. The Israelites adore Baal, 221. They returned into Judea when Cyrus dismissed them, 252. Liberated from the burdens and molestations of tributes and servitude, 252. They gave themselves up to sloth, 272. They restore the walls of Jerusalem, 252. They strive ^D to rebuild the temple, 252. Commanded to sound the trumpet at the new moon, 231. They adored golden calves, 241. They were subjugated to the Levi business, 232. They were led away into captivity, 252. They inhabited their own region after their return, 252. Undefeated and invincible to enemies, 252. They once conquered the Moabites, 264. Utterly destroyed by the Moabites, 264. Instructed in the discipline of the divine commandments in many ways, 263. Drawn into the error of their fathers, 265. They repudiated the law of God, and would not keep his commandments, 266. They fought against the Amorites, Hivites, Girgashites, Perizzites, and Jebusites, 275. Arrogant and contemners of God, 277. They despised the prophets, and held the law in the final place, and pursued fleeting things, 278. They fled from the word of God, and resisted those inviting them to virtue, 278. Addicted to base gains, 293. Occupied in mind and thought with the acquisition of much money, 295. They rose up against Aaron, 509. They made a calf in the wilderness, 298. Devoted to the cult of the stars, 293. They made golden calves for themselves, and sought help from them, 322. The Israelites, most profligate in tongue, 347. They proceeded from the root of Abraham, 347. Deported from Egypt into the land of promise, 347. Lapsed into sloth, 347. They went down into the neighboring Idumea, 355. They construct and restore the holy city, 558. Led from all Judea into Babylon, 562. Seeking out mountains and hills, there they performed mysteries, 418. They offered sacrifices to demons under the oak and the pine, 445. They thought and believed that they were superior to the divine wrath, and would be victors in any war, if they were aided by the auxiliaries of neighboring nations and the conspiracies and promises of princes, 459. Indeed, they were baptized in Moses, but in the sea and in the cloud, 469. Itabyrium, the most noble mountain of Galilee, far most rich in the hunting of wild beasts and birds, 83. [J] Torrent of Jacob, 131. Jacob's name changed to Israel, 151. Ephraim, 306. Jacob wrestled with God as if with a man, 151. A candid and simple man

197. Unjustly mocked, 168. Dexterous and ready from the cradle, 168. He supplanted his brother in the maternal womb, 168. He wrestled with the angel, 168. He rebuked his sons for the slaughter of the Shechemites, 69. He dwells in Bethel, and there he builds an altar to God, 169. He hid foreign gods and earrings under an oak, 169. Blessed by God, 169. A lover of labor, 131. He commands those ascending into the house of God to be purified and to change their garments, 131. He remains safe in the memory of God, 131. Wise, 172. He served Laban in place of a hireling, 177. He departs from the house of Laban, 239. He embraced and kissed his brother, 250. Patriarch, 317. Chosen and beloved by God from the womb, and while still enclosed in the maternal viscera, 317. Jacob, his descendants are so named, 317. He saw a ladder reaching from earth to heaven, and angels ascending and descending upon it, 345, 370. ^A Jarim sounds as "defender" or "protector," 92, 116. Jehu’s [soldiers] gathered against Israel, 269. Consumed by the Israelites fighting against them, 270. Jechonias, king of Israel in Samaria, a useless vessel, 120. The fifth from King Hezekiah, 133. Jehu, king of Israel, killed Ahab and his children and Jezebel, 7. His sons were kings up to the fourth generation, 7. ^B He threw Ahab into the vineyard of Naboth, 8. He delivered the seventy sons of Ahab to be killed, 8. He burned the statues of Baal, razed the shrines, and slaughtered the priests, 8. Found in the sins of Jeroboam, 8. At length he also worshipped the calves, 18. His sons equaled their father in impiety, 19. He justly killed the pseudo-priests, 83. He also tore down Baal himself and burned his statues, 97. Fasting, a sacrifice truly most sacred, 209. It softens the Lord, calms wrath, and takes away punishment, 219. Jeremiah the prophet, sanctified in the womb, 11. Given as a prophet to the nations, 11. Pleading his youth, he strove to entreat God, 11. Called in his youth to the office of prophesying, 13. He descended into Egypt by divine command, 42. He dissuades [the people] from the sacrifices of idols, 119. He foretells that Babylon will be captured, 163. By God’s command, he placed bonds or wooden chains upon his neck, 175. Seized in spirit and thought by the spectacle of imminent war, 210. Bound by Zedekiah and cast into a cistern, 363. He is forbidden to pray for a people unworthy of mercy, 311. He foretold war for the city of Jerusalem, 415. In a prophetic vision, he sees a great multitude of the Jews prostrated, 415. Jerubbaal, ^C the surname of Gideon, 134. It means the same as "let Baal avenge himself," 134. Jeroboam, servant of Solomon, of the mount and tribe of Ephraim, 4, 103, 139, 149, 178, 328, 367. Two Jeroboams, kings of Israel, 4. Alike in character and impiety, 4, 230, 326, 361. Jeroboam the first, inventor of apostasy, 121. Detestable, 182. He received sin into his mind as if it were colored and concealed, 186. He had an opinion of his own prudence, 186. Jeroboam, son of Nebat, placed the golden calf in Bethel, 217, 255. He is the author of Israel’s sin, that they should worship golden calves, 167. Jeroboam, son of Joash, another than the first, 250. Wicked and a transgressor, 250. He restored Damascus, 251. He was increased by many dominions, 251. He conquered foreigners, 251. He invaded Syria and defeated it with arms, 255. Jeroboam celebrates a feast day of dedication for the calves to be sacrificed to, 281. He appointed for himself priests of the high places, 285. He cast out the Levites, lest they should discharge the priesthood of the Lord, 286. Jeroboam the second restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the wilderness, 365. Son of Joash, 365. He waged war with foreigners and recovered the cities taken from Judah, 365. He reigned in Samaria, 391. Jerusalem, the new one, which is the Church of the living God, 235. Holy, 241. Studious of the best institutions, 241. It will be easily conquered by no one, 241. No longer accessible to foreigners, 242. Heavenly, which is conceived in the mind, 243. Jesse, born of Bethlehem, 433. Jesus, son of Josedech, high priest, 5, 29, 123. God signified through an angel that his sins were pardoned by the change of his garments, and that he would be a judge in the future, if he obeyed His precepts, 123. Joshua, son of Nun, a type of Christ, 47. He led the sons of Israel through the Jordan and distributed the promised land to them, 102. Assumed as leader in military service, 432. He distributed the land of promise by lot, 450. He reduced the regions of the nations under his rule, 471. He shut up five kings in a cave and moved a stone to the cave, 471. Jezebel, wife of King Ahab, 18. Killed by Jehu with her husband and sons, 18. Persecutrix of the prophets and plotter against the righteous, 21. By perverse machinations she contrived the slaughter of the righteous, 21. A type of the Synagogue, 21. Jezreel, a town of Samaria, 19. Jezreel in Latin sounds "seed of God," 20, 22, 24, 56. Jezreel, ^D son and firstborn of the prophet Hosea, 20, 23. Jezreel a type of Christ, 24. Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, 18. An idolater, worshipping the calves, 18. Jehoahaz, son of Josiah, king, anointed as king, 282. He reigned barely three months, 282. Bound by Pharaoh Necho, 283. Jehoiakim, born of Josiah, reigned in Jerusalem, 282. He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, 283. He reigned eleven years in Jerusalem, 283. He became a servant of Nebuchadnezzar for three years, 283. He rebelled again against Nebuchadnezzar, 283. He did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done, 283. John the Baptist, than whom no greater has arisen, 242. Joash, king of Judah, 250. Joash, son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel, wicked, 29. Jotham, son of Azariah, king of Jerusalem, 8. After his father’s departure he is anointed as king, 8. He dies, 8. Joathan, the same, king of Jerusalem, 391. A pious man, 187. Job sheared his hair when his children were killed, 336. Joel, the prophet, prophesied in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings, 197. In the same century as Obadiah prophesied, 354. Jonah, prophet, son of Amittai, 364. Born of Gath-Hepher, 364. He issued many oracles to the tribes of the Jews, 364. He preached to the Ninevites, 365. He shadowed forth in a certain way the mystery of our Savior’s dispensation, 365. He attempted to flee from the face of God, 366. Swallowed by a whale, he was restored on the third day, 366. He felt no small grief when God had mercy on the Ninevites, 366. Not rashly sent to the Ninevites, 368. Joppa, a maritime town of Palestine, 369. An emporium for things necessary for life, especially for those sailing to eastern cities, 369. Joram, king of Israel, 263. He sent a messenger to Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, 263. He went up against Moab to battle, 263. Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, 265. He went up against Moab to battle, 265. Joseph is called Israel, Ephraim, and Samaria, 299. Josiah, king of the tribe of Judah, that is, David’s line, killed the pseudo-priests upon the altar, 83. Made tributary by Pharaoh Necho, 280. Son of Amon, 281. A wise and skillful man, and most lover of God, 281. Having begun his reign, he destroyed the shrines of idols, overturned the altars, and cut down the groves, 281. He burned the chariot of the sun, 281. He slaughtered the priests of the high places in Bethel, 281. He burned the bones of men upon the altar of the calves, 281. He cast out the wizards and those who had a devil in their belly giving answers to those who inquired, 281. He was good and acted sincerely with God, 281. He rashly joined battle, 282. He fell in battle, 282. He was brought back from his own to his home in Jerusalem, 282. Having taken up arms against the Egyptian, he rashly met him with an army, 298. Joshua, successor of Moses, leader of the Israelite tribes, 562. Judea compared to a field, 208. The corporeal limit and end of the Israelites, 258. Laid waste, 461. Jews, reduced under Christ, similar to vines, 21. Unbelieving, compared to a woman, 23. Not all consumed by the war brought by the Romans, 26. Dispersed to all the winds according to the Scripture, 26, 28. Stripped of grain and wine, that is, of mystical blessing, 40. Compared to beasts, reptiles, birds, and fishes, 68. Their region toward the south has a broad and immense wilderness, 189. Their four more notable calamities, from Shalmaneser, Nebuchadnezzar, Antiochus, and the Romans, 200. They hated Christ’s oracles, 211. In the extreme times of the world, they will return to the Lord, 213. Unhappy, [burning] with slanders forged against Christ, 327. Their breasts ignited with the flames of envy, 327. They felt a famine of the word of God, 359. Having received liberty from Cyrus, they migrated back to Judea and built the temple, 350. Harassed by war from Antiochus and Hadrian, 350. They went away as captives into Persia and Media, 355. They strove to rebuild the city and temple, 355. They mark with ignominy those who mix with the peoples of the nations, as a foolish thing, and most remote from their own use and custom, 375. Blinded, 419. Judah and Benjamin remained in Jerusalem, while others were failing, 4. They sacrificed in the temple, 4. They sacrificed to idols, 4. Judah, that is, those who worshipped in Jerusalem, 7, 22, 24. Judah was saved miraculously, 21. Children of Judah, children of Christ, 25. Judah trusts in God, saved by Him and through Him, 161. He provokes God to anger, 164. He fortifies his cities with restored walls, 164. Judah is rendered, confession, 245. Judah took all the sanctified things and all the gold found in the treasuries, and sent them to Hazael, 250. Judah trained in the laws, 261. Judah, the two tribes in Jerusalem, 269, 272. Judge, he fully holds the place of God, 26. A reed always loves water, nor does it cease to be green, 213.

[72,963A] although it tapers to a point, it is still well-proportioned, 244. Juniper, a dense and leafy tree, 193. It appears as a certain handcrafted structure, 195. It is neither penetrable by solar rays nor accessible to the downpour of rains, 195. Justice is liberating from death, 173, 287, 303. The just are able to benefit others, and can deliver the sinner from the impending doom, 27. A just man praying alone for the whole city is not despised, 27. For the just, their own virtue is a source of beauty and ornament, 35. Youths—that is, those more eminent in prudence and endowed with intellectual strength, 272.

L Milk is most suitable for infants, 242. Lachish, a city of the kingdom of Judah, nearby and bordering on the Philistines, 403. Tears are accustomed to be shed even in great joy, 261. Joyous things are slippery, 183. Laish, a land surveyed and occupied by the tribe of Dan, 133. Bands of robbers depopulate Judea, 283. These robber bands of Chaldeans, Tyrians, Moabites, and the sons of Ammon, [72,963B] against Samaria, 283. Lazarus, dead, recalled to life, 241. A lion strikes the disobedient, 14. A mighty beast, and undaunted, whose encounter is dangerous, 93. The lion will roar, and who will not fear? 95, 252. A hungry lion wanders through mountains, glades, and forests contentiously, 277. He attacks his prey roaring horribly and discordantly, 277. He brings food to his springing cubs, and they grapple with the prey with a clamor, 277. He is accustomed to roar against beasts, 277. He does not leap and devour his prey in anger unless he has first sent forth threats, 277. The strongest of beasts, 279. Leprosy, a loathsome and incurable disease, 252. Lepers were cast out beyond the camps, 7. Levi and Simeon, brothers, plot deceit, 104. Levites were abandoning the tabernacles of their dwelling, 286. Cast out by Jeroboam and his offspring, so they might not perform the priesthood of the Lord, 286. The Law is a pedagogue to Christ, 43. Sweet to a soul that loves God, 43. A shadow and a figure, 52. It does not have enough power to join us perfectly and purely with God, 82, 53. Perfect and at the same time imperfect, 60. Dictated through angels, 90. The spiritual end and boundary of the Israelites, 258. The Law was in a shadow, [72,963C] yet it plainly contained the dogmas of truth, 272. A dispenser of God and justice, and a pedagogue to justice, 301. Holy, and just, and good, 301. Given through Moses, 301. A guide and mistress to carry out the will of God, 301. A type and foreshadowing, 315. Once, for the ancients, bitter and intolerable, 347. It has emerged as sweet, and as if most suitable for drink, 347. The Libyan bay has exposed or open recesses maritime, 348. The wood shown by God to Moses, so that he might cast it into the bitter water, was an image and type of the precious Cross, 347. Tongues given as a sign not to the faithful, but to the unfaithful, 227. Locusts consume the stocks of vines and their sap, causing them to dry up quickly, 204. They bring famine, 214. They are compared to enemy wedges, 215. They lack a king, 216. They go forth in an expedition in orderly fashion, as if by a given signal, 216. They fly in a certain sequence, as if in battle lines, 216. Progressively and dutifully they follow and attend one another, as if they were sisters, 216. They wage war with their teeth, 210. While they destroy what is suitable for food, they kill by famine, 210. They will enter into houses and cities; they seem to shake heaven itself, 217. Lot with his wife and daughters saved, 27. An effigy of Lucifer artfully made, 310. Lucifer rising before the solar rays, and bringing the beginning of the day to the inhabitants, 310. Worshipped, 310. Weeping over the dead is undertaken, 252. The son of the Moon, believed by the Egyptians to be Apis, 87, 545. The moon seen turned into blood, 230. Lycophron, one of those whom the Greeks admire as eminent, 376.

M A Macedonian man is seen by Saint Paul in his sleep, 229. The glorious and admirable struggles of the Maccabees, 201. Machmas, a most flourishing city of the Arcadians, 130. Midianites, inclement masters, 134. Their princes: Oreb, and Zeeb, [72,963D] and Zebee, and Salmana, 154.

964 Wise masters and lovers of God point out the path to that which is right, 267. Malachi, the prophet, 132. Manaa, gifts, a sign of subjection, 186. Manaim, son of Gaze, from Thirza, king of Israel, 7. Of the blood of Jehu, and his son, 7. He killed King Sellum, 7. A worshiper of false gods, 7. He bought peace from Phul, king of the Assyrians, 7, 92, 145. He seized the golden calf and sent it to the king of the Assyrians, 145. Of the tribe of Ephraim, 145. Manahem, the same, ruled in Samaria, 391. Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, ruled in Jerusalem, 280. In morals, quite unlike his father, and very far removed from piety toward God, 280. A perverse man, and prompt to perpetrate any nefarious deed, 280. Execrable, a worshiper of idols, and wonderfully addicted to the impostures of demons, 280. He built altars and shrines to Baal, 280. He worshiped all the militia of heaven, 280. Through fire, he caused his own sons to pass, 281. He gathered augurs, and those whose study was to lie, 281. He died, 281. A sheaf to be consecrated to God for the first fruits of the grain harvest, 26. Manna, the bread of angels, 282. Sent down from heaven, 282. The Indian Sea, 222. Neighboring Palestine, and washing Egypt itself, 222. Of Tiberias, 377. Miriam, sister of Aaron, insults the perishing Egyptians, and leads the dancing choirs, 446. She signifies the Church, 446. Matthew, called from the very office of avarice, 231. Good physicians administer harsh and unpleasant medicines to the sick, so that the tolerance of pain may drive away the disease, 200. Israel translated to the mountains and rivers of the Medes, 9, 24, 26, 186. The Medes signified by beasts and birds, 50. Very many nations of the Medes are enumerated, 145. Memphis, a most fortified city of the Arcadians, 129. A lie is always weak in itself, 326. Micah the prophet, prophesying during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, 391. He seems to behold in some way the future tumult in the cities of Samaria, 415. Micah, an idolater on Mount Ephraim, 154. He hired a Levite, and made him a worshiper of a graven image, 154. The militia of heaven, the stars, 131. Moabites gathered against Israel, 256. Peoples neighboring Judea, 258. They ravaged Samaria and the kingdom of Judah with cruelty, 249. They descended from Lot, 259. Not ordinarily wicked, 263. They burned the bones of the king of Edom, 263. Angry at the Israelites, by whom they had once been conquered, 264. Consuming the remains with fire and sparing not even the bones, 264. With the Israelites utterly destroyed by them, they even added them at times as allies, 264. Insane, 310. Moloch or Molchom, the idol of the Moabites, 310. Having a pellucid and excellent stone, on his forehead, after the appearance of Lucifer, 310. It sounds in Latin, "our king," 310. Mountains, the disciples of Christ, and above others, the Baptist, 145. Covered with diverse stocks, 352. Most optimally planted with trees, 352. Morasthi, a city or small town of Judea, 392. Death abolished by Christ, 189. Moses, commanded to deport Israel, vindicated from Egyptian servitude, into the land of promise, 11. He tergiversates to carry out the mission, and puts forward the slowness of his tongue, 11. When they had fashioned a calf in the desert, 71, 141. He ground up the calf, 142. He admires God as both good and patient, 151. He persuaded the Maker to forgive the guilty, 151. He offered sacrifices of thanksgiving, 151. He sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, 260. Not to be destroyed, 309. This is he who was in the Church in the desert with the angel, 310. He received the words of life, 310. Commanded to cast the wood shown by God into the bitter water, 347. He was commending Israel to God under Mount Sinai, 363. He was a sequestrator or mediator between God and men, 365. He was taken to project the type of Christ, 365. He confessed himself to be of thin voice and slower of tongue, 366. God answered him from above the mercy seat, 593. A most wise mediator and internuncio of God, 431. To God, the Israelites' pedagogue, 200. Women ate their own infants, 24. A woman, a symbol of imbecility and of an unmanly and broken spirit, 25. Women oppose the prophet Jeremiah, 42. Hebrew women called their husbands by the names of false gods, 50. Wrangling over infants, 200. Pregnant women cut open with saws, 254. Announcers of the Resurrection, 338. The female gender, worthy of grace and mercy, 229. She received the pledge of the Spirit from God, 229. Music in mourning, an inopportune narrative, 220. Naboth refuses his vineyard to King Ahab, 18. Perversely

^A snared in the life of Jezebel, he loses his life, 18. The Jezreelite from the city of Samaria, Jezreel, 19. A just and religious man unjustly slaughtered, 19. Rendered in Latin, *Venurus* (He who is to come), 20. A type of Emmanuel and of Christ, 20. He would not give up the vineyard of his father, 20, 21.

Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, as a dragon, 121. He obtained Jerusalem by force and arms, 200, 201. Advancing to battle, he destroys everyone to a man, 240. He makes an incursion against the Ammonites with his entire force, 262. He occupies Jerusalem and devastates the whole city utterly with the sword, 282. He exacts tribute from everyone according to their means, gold and silver, 282. He subjugated the whole of Judah, 291. He burned Jerusalem together with its neighboring cities and villages, 294. Having destroyed the divine temple, he returned home a glorious victor along with the remnants of the captives, 294. He led away the whole of Israel as captives, 433.

The nature of things is the will of the Creator, 376.

A ship lacking a rudder and a pilot is buffeted about by every wind, 301.

Nazarites, sanctified according to the law, 272. Offering their hair to God, 272. Avoiding wine, vinegar, grapes, dried grapes, and the grape berry, 272. Keeping far away from the corpses of the dead, 272.

Nebrod’s land, the region of the Assyrians or Babylonians, 419.

Nimrod, a giant, a hunter before the Lord, 410.

Trumpet of the New Moon, 241. A figure of the future and new age, 481.

Nineveh, a Persian city, situated in the east, and famous, 368. Through impostures and sorceries hateful to God, it inspired a fear of its religion, 368, 382. Always condemned for every crime, 382. The Ninevites, without procrastination, turned seriously to repentance upon the proclamation of one man, 368. Proud in speech, 383.

Ninus the Babylonian named his father Belus after the idol which they worshipped, 50.

Nobility before God is considered to be good character, 318.

Nymphs, Hamadryads, figments of the Greek poets, 76.

O The mystery of the number eight, 60.

Adullam, a city situated at the furthest boundaries of Judea, 403.

Huldah the prophetess answered Josiah, asking if the Lord would cease from being angry, if things would go well for the Israelites, and if the calamity announced by the voices of the prophets would cease, 280.

Oil, a type of cheerfulness and of a good state of being, 63. In Egypt it is highly prized, 167. The use of oil contributes to the perfection of those sanctified by holy baptism, 221.

The prayer of even one just man for the whole city is not despised, 27.

Musical instruments of the Jews regarding glorifications, 307. Musical instruments, things outside the law, 307.

Hosea, son of Beeri, king of Israel, 8. He plots against Pekah, son of Remaliah, 8, 9. He summons the king of Egypt for help, 9. Slain by Shalmaneser, king of the Assyrians, 9, 113. He did evil in the sight of the Lord, 186. Made a servant of the king of the Assyrians, 186. Taken alive and bound in chains, 186. Considered by Israel to be a prudent man, 186. He reigns in Samaria, 200.

Hosea, Jerome thinks, is the first of all the prophets, 1, 2. Under the kings Jeroboam, Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, 1, 2. Prophesied for eighty-four years and more, 2. He truly took a harlot into marriage, 16. Little concerned for himself, he consulted for the salvation of another, 16. Having stepped slightly outside of decorum, he saved Gomer, 17.

Uzziah, who is also Azariah, king of Israel, 11. Good, but not altogether, 11. Struck by God with the disease of leprosy, 11. He tramples the prophet Amos during the times of Uzziah, 246. Most hostile to the nations, 251. He fell into the disease of pride, 251. Sent away from Jerusalem, 251. Powerful, strong, and famous, 251. He makes an inrush into the provinces of aliens, 251. He built towns, 231. He imposed tribute, 231. He invaded Syria and conquered it by arms, 253.

P Palestinians, aliens, 318. Transferred from Cappadocia, 318. Colonies of the Cappadocians, 348.

Loaves, as the first fruits of the harvest, dedicated, 128. The bread of mourning, polluted, 128. Strengthening the heart of man, 194. The living bread which came down from heaven and gives life to the world, 211, 271, 291, 299.

The panther leaps with such a light foot that it is thought to fly, 93.

The pastures of cattle are often ruined, 252. The pastures of the powerful are the poor, 287, 333. They signify the tall, the wise, ^B arrogant in their minds, and lofty in heart, 277. Caught by marvelous skill by bird-catchers, they are cast down from trees, 277. Caught in snares, they are destroyed, 277.

Pathros, land of Egypt, 149.

Paul the apostle, having become all things to all men that he might save all, 15. He sanctified the Gospel from the Gentiles, 207. In his sleep he saw a man of Macedonia, 220. Deprived of sight and healed through Christ, 229. An old man in mind, great-spirited in soul, and filled with heavenly wisdom, 229. He handed the fornicator over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, 268. Most wise, 273. Crucified with Christ, 429. He arms the soldier who is understood to be in Christ, 440.

Sin, to be avoided by Christians, 132. It disjoins and separates from God, 172. Not every sin is unto death, 501.

*Pemmata* (cakes) accustomed to be offered in sacrifice to demons, 59.

The day of Pentecost, 227.

Israel transferred to the mountains of the Persians, 24, 26, 186. The Persians signified by beasts and birds, 50. They procured their own unique empire, 51. The Persian nations are counted as very numerous, 145. The region of the Persians lies near to the very ends of the Orient, 280.

Peter the apostle saw a sheet let down from heaven, in which were all quadrupeds and beasts of burden, 12. Being ordered to kill and eat, he refused, 12. Gently reproved and rebuked by God, 13. He sharply accused the people of the Jews, 251.

Pekah, son of Remaliah, leader, kills the king of Israel, 8. And reigns in his stead, 8. He did evil before the Lord, 8. Died through the treachery of Hoshea, son of Elah, 8.

Pekah harasses the Jerusalemites with arms, 8. He hires Rezin, king of Syria, for a price, 92. He attacks Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, 92. Having laid waste the cities of Judah, 265. King of Israel, 281. Having attacked Jerusalem with arms, 391. King of Samaria, 457. He led an army into Judah, 457. He produced the greatest slaughter in one day, 457. In one day he killed one hundred and twenty thousand strong men with their fortitude, 438.

Pekahiah, son of Menahem, king of Israel, 8. Reigned two years, 8. Did evil before the Lord, 8.

Pharaoh Necho, king of Egypt, invaded Samaria, 200. Made the region tributary, one hundred talents of gold having been exacted, 200. With an expedition undertaken against Babylon, he retreats from his country with his entire army, 282. He kept King Jehoahaz bound in custody in Egypt, 282. He oppressed Israel, the Samaritans, and the Jerusalemites, 282. He imposes tribute on the people of the whole land and exacts custom duties from everyone, 282. A tyrant of the Egyptians, 293. He perished, submerged with his forces, 469.

Pharisees, accusers of Christ, 15. They taught the doctrines and commandments of men, 58. Greedy for filthy lucre, avaricious, 337. They mock Christ, 357.

Perizzites, ^C destroyed with the Israelites fighting against them, 270.

Philistines gathered against Israel, 256. Leading troops, [alt-version omitted]

Philosophy, Greek, 236.

Pul, king of the Assyrians, entered Samaria, 8. Having accepted a large sum of money, he withdrew, 8, 92, 105, 215. He led away two tribes across the Jordan, their cities having been overturned, 304.

Phulas (Pul), king of the Assyrians, smashed the calf molded from pure gold, 145, 146. He subjected the cities of Samaria, 146. The same Pul, though persuaded with difficulty by a large sum of money, has returned to his own country, 591.

A fish, most remote from speech, delights primarily in mutual devouring, 67. Most timid in nature, 163. It flees from noise and avoids only the shadow of the fisherman, 165.

Honey-cakes offered to alien gods, 59. Cakes made for the host of heaven, 311.

It was the custom of the ancients to transport the fruits of the fields on wagons, 273.

Repentance wards off penalties and averts the punishments to be brought down by wrath, 299. Even for small sins we should not be unwilling to do what must be done, 304. Everywhere useful and necessary, 308. It dispels divine wrath, 331.

*Popana*, a kind of biscuit offered to alien gods, 59.

Moderation brings security to princes, but to raise one's spirits brings detriment, 317. They will sustain a bitter and grave judgment, 317.

Some killed the prophets, 14. The prophets of Baal killed by Elijah, 141. Holy prophets do not easily bring themselves to relate very sad things, 199. By devising enigmas and parables they benefit not a little, 199. Sometimes they bring forward timely examples, 199. Holy prophets announce things that are about to happen, 240. They conceive images of the things themselves in their minds, 260. They call Israel sometimes two, sometimes ten, sometimes twelve tribes, 248. They wrap their words in obscurities, 252. They were assumed, those who in a certain way held conversations with God, 272.

^A Worthy of the friendship and love of God, and holy, 276. They are useful and subservient to words only, 278. They have obtained this honor from God, that they might know all things which He Himself wished to do, 279. Greatly grieving for the sake of their brethren, they sometimes use sharper rebuke, 297. They bite out of charity, 297. They are mocked, 306. They call those tangled in deceits to health, 327. Primarily at the end of their words they remember God, 355. That those hearing might be affected in the same way with them, they endeavor to attain the vision in the way it is declared, 341. They are compared to physicians, 391. They were accustomed often to see, in what way those things which are predicted by them will come to pass in the future, 413. The prophets were weary, indeed dangers were present, being oppressed in themselves, they were killed in various ways, 420. They instructed men to piety and the recognition of the time to come, 420. Prudence befits those who command, 186. The prudence of the flesh is death, 228. False prophets of Baal killed by Elijah and Jehu, 97.

Q The number five, which is imperfect, 60. The number fifteen, containing seven and eight, 60. Five righteous men would have saved the Sodomites, 27.

R Raasson, king of Syria and Damascus, 256. He brought an army against Jerusalem, 256. Having depopulated the cities of Judea, 256. Raba, signifies greater and more ample, 322. Rabbath, metropolis of the Ammonite region, 262. To be burned, and to perish with a cry, 262. Rabshakeh insults ^B Jerusalem, 9. He blathers against the glory of God, 24. He besieges Jerusalem, 151. He cuts God up with insults, 323. Arrogant, 324. Sent by Sennacherib from Lachish to Jerusalem, 336. He overwhelmed the inhabitants of Jerusalem with such grief that they soon expected themselves to perish, 336. He paid the penalty for his arrogance and cursing, 336. Ræphan, which is rendered as darkness or blinding, 310. Rezin, king of Syria, 285. He attacks the king of Judah, 285. Killed by Tiglath-Pileser the Assyrian, 185. Having armed himself against Jerusalem, 391. King of Damascus, 457. An ally of Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Samaria, 457. The rationale of judgment, suspended by golden chains from the ephod, hung upon the breast of the high priest, 62. God punished a king who had invaded the sacred dignity, 7. Regeneration through holy baptism is the conciliatrix of the children of God, 29. The remnant of Israel mixed with the nations, 26. The reptiles of the earth, enemies of the Jews, 50. They signify the most wicked, 66, 67. The resurrection of Christ triumphs over the Jews, 22. The resurrection of the dead is diverse, of the righteous and the unrighteous, 30. The resurrection of Christ happened on the eighth day, 60. Revelation made to the prophets did not consist of tongue and words in our fashion, 10. It happened like a light illuminating the mind and heart, 10. It is called by the prophets the angel speaking in them, 10. Rhesin, king of Syria, aids Pekah the son of Remaliah with arms, 8. He is killed by Tiglath-Pileser, king of the Assyrians, 8. Rheman, a mountain in Armenia, situated in the extreme recesses of the Persians, 288. The yoke of King Rehoboam shaken off, 148. Defeated by Shishak the king of Egypt, 200. The Roman armies devastated Judea, 24. They did not consume the entire nation of the Jews, 26. The most illustrious leaders of the Romans, whatever the sun beholds, brought under their dominion, 51. They waged war against the Israelites, 201, 208. Like locusts they fed upon wicked Israel against Christ, 215. Mingling all things with fire together with the city and the divine temple, 337, 342. Their principality and empire subdued the most clear world, 428. Wheels of a threshing wagon, 253. They revolve around axles, 272. Reuben, having violated the paternal bed, greatly offended, 268. Rust is called the calamity of war and desolation, 87. It burns and reduces the fruits of the fields ^C as if into ashes, 206.

S Sackcloth, the putting aside of luxuries and ease, 209. Sackcloth and baldness, the habit of mourners, 536. Priests should always be mindful of Christ, and carry Him about through the Spirit dwelling in them, 62. The sins of the people devour the elect generation, 206. Prefects of the sacred liturgy to be performed, 206. They consecrate their life to God, 206. They also provide for others from the labors of intercessions, 209. Priests of the family of Levi did not sustain serving idols, they have returned, 87. Sacrifice was said to be accepted when it was offered to God, 72. One sacrifice is a holocaust, another is called a sacrifice for salvation, 307. Zalmunna, leader of the Midianites, 151, 155. He killed the mother with her sons, 155. Shalmaneser, king of Assyrians, laid waste to Samaria, 9. He transported the Israelites to the mountains and rivers of the Medes, 9, 24, 26, 113. He captures Hoshea, king of Israel, 113, 186. He petitions Hoshea the king of Israel, 186. He besieged Samaria for three whole years, 186. He forced Israel to migrate into the mountains of the Persians and Medes, 186, 200. He did not subdue all of Samaria, but a certain part, and with the captives he returned into his own kingdom, 304. Solomon, while he does not wish to offend women, offends God, 2. There were also seven hundred principal wives, and three hundred concubines, 3. Conquered by the love of women, although most wise, 4. He builds a shrine for Astarte, 78. He built altars and shrines for the deities of alien women, 148, 178. He made golden spears and shields, 200. He was mighty in strength, and had power in forces, 256. He so subjugated the neighboring nations that he had even built many cities among them, 256. He built Tadmor in the desert, 257. Having pondered that august temple in Jerusalem, he chose one hundred and fifty thousand stone-cutters, and laborers, and proselytes, 426. Salvation is promised through Christ, 45. Samaria besieged by Shalmaneser for three full years, 186. A mountainous region, 283. It perished entirely, broken down in every house, 286. Devastated, 336, 538. Deserted by angels, 397. Compared to a dragon and sirens, 399. Daughter of Ephraim, 458. Fertile in oil, 412. Samaritans called Israel and Ephraim, 5. They defected both from God and from Jerusalem, 5. Their region is inhabited only by beasts and reptiles, 43. They die of hunger, 43. Their land is fertile in oil, 167. What they did to Judah and Benjamin, they suffered the same from the Babylonians, 458. The Samaritans built for themselves more notable houses that were splendid and most sumptuous, 287. They stuffed themselves with vanishing pleasures, 287. Most given to caring for their skin, 287. They oppress the poor, 287. Impatient of the yoke, 287. They are called the house of Joseph and Israel, 299. They perpetrated enormous sins that were by no means to be hidden, 303. They count the authors of the best counsels as enemies, 303. They were hurling insults at the holy prophets, 305. They applaud during musical concerts, 316. They are anointed with ointments of excellent composition, 316. Samuel the prophet killed Agag with his own hand, 13. He announces to Saul that the kingdom is about to be taken away, 13. He is urged by the sons of Israel to appoint a king over them, 183, 431, 432. The saints are indeed most meek, yet nevertheless with this they are also sharp and warriors, 241. They preserve cities, and deliver regions from an impending calamity, 518. Curbing or blunting the wrath of God, however fervent, by the clarity of their life, 518. To sanctify, to consecrate to God, 238. Sanctified, that is, having the vow of sanctification upon them, 272. The blood of Christ avenged from all Israel, 23. Zarephath, a city of the Sidonians, 362. Satan, a most cruel and most violent beast, 53. His vessels were seized by the Savior, 61. Coming from the north, 1. Making cold, 222. He stinks, 223. An importunate tyrant, 255. Accused in the person of Assur [Assyria], 245. Existing on the earth, he snatched and devoured more atrociously than huge beasts are wont to do, 285. Saul the king did not lightly offend God, 13. He deemed him worthy of pardon, whom divine authority had condemned, 13. Deprived of the kingdom, he paid the bitter penalties of obstinacy, 13. The first king designated by the irate God, 185. Scenopegia, a holy and festive day, 102. The Feast of Tabernacles, 174. Celebrated on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, 174. Schornia, a name of a place in Moab, 417. Scripture is divinely inspired, 212. It sometimes fashions reason even for brute animals, 212. It makes the crowds of the great idolaters similar to demons, 244. A spiritual fountain, and a source irrigating intellectually, 292. It announces the light of truth, 313. Arousing the minds of believers to all things worthy of praise, 315. Zeboim, a Sodomitic city, which fire fallen from heaven consumed, 163. Zedekiah was at times binding Jeremiah, at times sending him into a pit, wishing to extinguish him drowned there in mud, 505. So[r], king of the Egyptians, 113, 186. Seir, the region of the Edomites, 353. Its natives [are] hairy, ^D

^A Mountain in the region, 353. Sellum, king of Israel, from the blood of Jehu, 7. He is killed by Manaim, son of Gadi, 7. Semeas the prophet, 410. Senaa, an illustrious and extreme city of Egypt, 401. Very strong or powerful, 401. Near Judea, 401. Senaar, a wide region, settled by foreigners in towns and villages, within the borders of Judea, 401. Old age, excelling in the pre-eminence of virtue, 229. Renowned for illustrious deeds, 229. Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians, besieges and captures the cities of Judea, 9. He surrounds Jerusalem with a siege, 24. Sennacherib, with an army of many thousands, covering the land like a flood and reducing all things to his power, 333. He returns into his own kingdom, by far the greatest, bringing an innumerable multitude of captives with him, 35. Having devastated Samaria, he subjugated all its cities; he threatens terrible things against those standing [against him], 336, 591. King of the Assyrians, 591. He took the city of Lachis, belonging to the kingdom of Judah, 591. Having ravaged Judea, 400. He besieged Jerusalem, 400. He threatened that he would burn the gates of Jerusalem, 400. He attacks Senaar and Egypt at the same time, 402. He also overturns many cities of Judea, 432. Sephela, a part of Judea pertaining to the north, 362. Denotes the Philistines or Palestinians, 362. Seven in the Scriptures signifies the whole time of the law, 60. Serpents, deprived of food, are sometimes accustomed to use their tongues to gather dust and take what they find for food, 471. Iron saws, wheels of carriages, with which it is the custom of the Syrians to thresh a threshing floor, 231. Sicima, a small town beyond the currents of the Jordan, near Galaad, 102. The Sicimites are slaughtered, all of them to a man, 101, 107. Sinai, a mountain in the wilderness, 310. Sion, heavenly and divine, 215. Sion, that is, the Church, 311; he considers the end of the captivity before it was late, 460. Sirens, certain musical birds that can arrest those who hear them by the harmony of their songs, 399. Most talkative of sparrows, and accustomed to produce a sweet sound, 399. Nightingales, which hatch eggs in the bays of the sea, then, with the nest snatched away by the waves, pour out a mournful melody, in some way lamenting the losses of their offspring, 399. Sodom and Gomorrah overturned, 204. Angels came to Sodom, about to burn the wicked with fire, 305. The just could have averted the punishment of the Sodomites, 27. The Israelites, inebriated by the wine of the Sodomites, 182. The sun worshipped toward the east, 86, 87. Apis, the grandson of the sun, believed by the Egyptians [to be such], 87, 145. The sun, having suppressed its splendor, refused to shine for mortals any longer, 250. The wilderness of Judea, situated toward the south, reaches as far as the limits of the Indian Ocean and extends as far as Persia, 271. Solitude, that is, the evangelical way of life, 271. Sophonias the prophet, was born of Chusi, from the tribe of Simeon, 578. He prophesied when Josias, son of Amon, was king of Judah, 578. He terrifies at first, then consoles, 578. He predicts the captivity of the Jerusalemites, 578. He also predicts the destruction of many nations, 578. He discourses on the advent of Christ, his resurrection, and the conversion of the nations to him, 578. He died and was buried alone in his own field, 578. The Holy Spirit teaches us about everything, 46. The Holy Spirit given on the day of Pentecost, 227. Poured out upon us abundantly, 229. Stephen, a man full of the Holy Spirit, 310. Accused before the masters of the Jews because of blasphemies against God and Moses, 310. Refuting the calumnies with suitable answers, 310. Susac, the same, took up arms against Jerusalem, 410. Susacim, king of Egypt, occupied the royal city of Jerusalem, ^B Salomon [sic], he turns away, 200. He returned home with splendid victory, 300. He makes an excursion from his land with as many forces as he could, 410. The Synagogue, noble, because of the ancestors of the Jews, 19. It fornicated spiritually in Egypt, 20. It killed Jezrael, that is, Christ, 23. The mother of the Jews, 191. A fruitful vine, 194. Devastated, 194. It killed the heavenly Bridegroom, that is, Christ, 203. It is excluded from the divine bridechamber, 203. It is bereft, 203. Having chosen God as the leader of its virginity, 297. It has inexcusable sin, 297. Compelled to desert the piety and religion of [its] ancestors, 297.

Syrians, neighbors to the towns of Samaria, 91. Broken, 250. They excused their slothfulness badly, 250. A small town, they occupy Galaad, and destroy it utterly, 254. They cut open pregnant women with saws, 254. They kill even the imperfect fetuses with their infants, 254. They thresh the threshing floor with iron saws or carriage wheels, 254. Colonies of the Cyrenians, 255. They raided Israel and harried them in the manner of thieves, 284. They were counted under the kingdom of Damascus, 348. Colonies of the Cyrenians, 348.

T Teglatphalasar, king of the Assyrians, captures Samaria, 8. He transfers Israel to the Assyrians, 8. He enters into war against Rasin, king of Syria, 9. He captures Damascus, the metropolis of Syria, 24, 105. Invited to the aid of the king of Judah, 284. He subjugated all Galilee as far as Nephtali to himself, 591. With Phacee reigning, he ascended against Samaria, 458. He destroyed as many cities of Samaria as possible, 458. The temple, built by Solomon, 2. Rebuilt with Cyrus permitting it, 5. Burned together with the city, 117. Temples of Baal erected, 117. The temple burned by Antiochus Illustris, and its vessels plundered, 201. Famous for its reputation, 230. It had to burn, 250. Temples to be built so that in them the God of all might be glorified, and the worship due to him might be offered, 268. Temples of the gods, workshops of drunkenness and pleasure, 270. The temple truly holy, 270. Inflamed, 342. We confess that sacred temples are built for the glory of God, and therefore we believe that the God of all does not disdain to dwell in them, 595. The Jerusalem temple restored, 460. Scripture does not preserve the distinction of times, 17. All things are contained in three degrees, 905. The four goddesses presiding over the seasons of the year, 127. God prescribed in the law three times in the year, in which every male might appear before him, 290. At the three times defined by the law, tithes, first-fruits of the fields, sacrifices, and thanksgivings were offered, 290. The Egyptians punished by almost three days of darkness, 23. There was darkness at the beginning over the abyss, 300. Earth, that is, men inhabiting the earth, 56. Voluntary land, 57. The third day, according to the Scriptures, Christ rose again, 91. Testudines, that is, mounds raised to divert water into hills, 176. Thaman, a region of the Idumeans, 355. It looks mostly to the south, 353. It is the south for the Hebrews, 355. Thaman, son of Eliphaz, 355. He gave his name to the region, 355. Thammuz in the language of the Greeks is Adonis, 79. Tharsis, Tharsi, or Tharsus, a city among the Ethiopians and Indians, 369. A city of Cilicia, at the Cydnus river and the roots of Tharsis mountain, 369. A mountain of Cilicia, by far the greatest, 369. Thecua, a village, 246. Contained in the kingdom of Ephraim, 246. Themam, the metropolis of Idumea, 262. It was burned and defeated by enemies, 262. Themanite Idumeans, 358. Formerly bold, but in the future to be weak and fearful, 358. Therapim means remission, or he heals them, 153. The torrent of reeds is the same as that of the cedars, 241. Torrents descend from the mountains with force, 308. Tribulation is a fruitful thing, 338. It makes us more cautious and frees us from the snares of sloth, 338. Immoderate sadness, when a place is left for it, renders the mind turbid, 336. The trumpet of the archangel, 241. With the great clarity of the sound, it will recall the totality of the dead to life, 241. Typos, an image and likeness of truth, 315. The Tyrians gathered against Israel, 256. Avant-couriers, having become venal, 257. Peoples bordering on Judea, 259. They sold an innumerable multitude from Judah and Israel to the Idumeans, 258. They vexed the Israelites with war, 259. They disturbed the covenant of their brothers, 259.

V Urias the priest, by order of King Achaz, constructed a new altar, 9. A bear raging for her cubs taken, 184. Grapes offered to strange gods, 169. V A red heifer, an immaculate offering, 70. Stimulated by a gadfly, it separates itself from the herd, 80. The Valley of Achor, the valley of perversion, 47, 48. The Valley of Jezrahel denotes the monument of Christ in the garden, 22. The Valley of Josaphat [is not] at many stadia from Jerusalem toward the east ^C