INDEX OF MATTERS AND WORDS
WHICH OCCUR NOTABLY IN THESE COMMENTARIES OF B. CYRIL ON JOHN
The reader is referred to the numbers expressed in bold type.A Aaron ordered to be washed with the Levites, 1099. What this signifies, 1099. Aaron and Moses as mediators between God and the congregation of the people, 966. What Aaron and his sons signify in the Holy Scriptures, 251, 252 et seqq. Moses ordered to take Aaron as his companion, 279. Where and when, 279. That manna was reserved for God by the hand of Aaron, 319. Abel, who he is, 561. Why Abel is adorned with praise and honor, 562. Abel the just, 562. The likeness between Abel and Christ, 562. Abel deceived by Cain and led into the field and murdered, 563. God grasped the seed of Abraham, not that of the angels, 96. That the Jews are deservedly excluded from Abraham’s lineage, 558. Lazarus reckoned in the number of Abraham’s sons, 107. Abraham believed in uncircumcision, 891. The divine disciples took the place of Abraham, 891. Abraham ordered to offer his son in an odor of sweetness, 890. That the Jews are Abraham's sons, and how they fall away from that honor, 581. That the boast of Abraham’s race is vain, 513. Christ suggests that He is greater and better than Abraham, 584. What sort of seed was promised to Abraham, 584 et seqq. Abraham was a slave to sin before he was justified, 539. The Jews falsely arrogate Abraham as their father, 551 et seqq. How many years old Abraham was when he was circumcised, 510. Abraham the source and author of the nobility of the Jews, 541. That the Jews be proud of this, 541. Abraham and the prophets subject to the laws of nature, 576. Abraham God’s friend, 890. Achab: what he did when led by repentance, 595. The house of Achab did not cease from impiety against God to the fourth generation, 596. How many sons Achab had, 596. That Achab held the kingdom of the Israelites, 594. Adam’s prevarication, the work of diabolical fraud, 561. God, offended by Adam’s sin, passed sentence upon all men, 1060. Adam is another Christ, 945, 473, 991, 854. He descended from heaven, 854. How Adam was made in the beginning, 731. How Adam lost the grace of the Spirit, 472. Who is the second Adam, 114. We have labored through Adam’s disobedience, 1045. What it means to bear the image of Adam, 821. The effects of Adam’s prevarication, 824. The whole human race called to salvation, 1045. Who is called the last Adam, and why, 96. Adam obtained wisdom infused by God, 75. Adam extended corruption through the whole of nature, 84. By whom was Adam deceived, 560. What Adam denotes in the Holy Scriptures, 455. Who is the true worshiper, 191. Worshipers before God are not estimated by multitude, but by right faith, 382. What it means to wipe away the reproach of Egypt, 437. For how many years the Israelites served the Egyptians, 558. The tyranny of the Egyptians is called iron, 538. The magicians of the Egyptians did not do the same things as the great Moses, 628. What Egypt signifies in the Holy Scriptures, 313. The Jews repeat Egyptian idolatries, 589. Agar the handmaid, mother of Ishmael, 433. The Lamb led to the slaughter, 114. Alexander and Hymenaeus suffered shipwreck concerning the faith, 981. Ambition is to be rejected, 287. Where the Amorite was conquered, and by whom, 388. What Ananias heard about Paul, and from whom, 389. What sort of man Ananias was, 554. Angels are witnesses of God, 650. The host of angels does not stray from propriety, 218. The prerogative of angels, 786. That angels reveal the knowledge of hidden things, 75. An angel ordained to preside over the Churches, 638. That an animal is one thing different from the life which is in it, 387. What sort of person a soul loving God should be, 463. Anna the father-in-law of Caiaphas, 1020. Christ captured by the unhappy art of Annas, 1022. The Anomoeans are refuted, 832. They declared war against the Son, 832 et seqq. That the Apostles entered into the labors of the holy prophets, the office of the ministry is described, 198. The number of the Apostles designated by the twelve loaves, 556. Why the Apostles are called branches, 858. That water signifies sanctification through the Spirit, 324. That the divine Spirit is for the most part called by the term "water", 559. How water is sanctified, 147. The Ark of God did not ascend with the Israelites when about to fight against the Amorite, 389. From what woods the Ark was constructed, 387. What it signifies, 388. Why the Ark is covered with a veil, 388. Of whom the Ark is a type, 388. The Word comprehended in the figure of the Ark, 387. Description of the Ark of the tabernacle and the mystical explanation of its parts, 391. What the veil cast over the Ark signifies, 588. The beauty of archetypes shines forth in the character, 291. The madness of the Arians, 322. Arians neighbor to the dementia of the Jews, 178. The Jews are better than the Arians, 669. The Arians dare all things rashly, 25. The Arian is called a monstrous beast fighting against Christ, 521. The error of Arius, 20. The Judaic impiety of Arius, 19. Our weapons are not carnal, 1016. What the earnest of grace is, 1006. The Assyrians overturned by Israel, 649. The Assyrians surrounded the holy city Jerusalem with a siege, 496. When the Israelites served the Assyrians, 538. How great a number of the Assyrians were killed by the angel, 456, 649. Paul preached at Athens, 794. What a skillful listener should do, 387. What gold denotes, 388. Azarias and Joana fled from Judea into Egypt, 680. When and by whom the feast of unleavened bread was celebrated, 206. B That the priests of Baal did not draw down fire from heaven, 628. Babylon besieged by Cyrus, 621. Israel saved from the hands of the Babylonians, 649. The Israelite youths delivered from the cruelty of the Babylonians, 83. When the Israelites served the Babylonians, 538. The image of baptism, 1074. That the baptism of Christ is more excellent than the baptism of John, the Jews themselves admit, 175. Why the baptism of Christ was praised by the Jews, 157. By what interval the baptism of John is surpassed by the baptism of Christ, 157. What sort of baptism that of John was, 110. Blessed the Baptist compared to a lamp, 248. The Baptist called a lamp, 64. That Blessed the Baptist was light, 56. Blessed the Baptist thought by some to be an angel, 61. That the Baptist was truly great, 475. Blessed the Baptist a witness of great authority, 60. John the Baptist called an angel by the voice of the Lord, and why, 62. Blessed John the Baptist and John the Evangelist a most worthy pair of theologians, etc., 97. The epithets of the former, 97. The same preceded the Savior and followed Him, a rich witness, 97. Blessed the Baptist attained to the pinnacle of all virtue, 141. Beheaded by the fury of Herod, 141. Who Barabbas was, 1042. Barnabas taken for Jupiter, by whom, 1072. The pool of Bethsaida, 617. Bethlehem situated in Judea, 477. Bethlehem the village where David was, 483. Christ called a Bethlehemite by the Scriptures, 132. The guilt of blasphemy imposed upon Christ, 915.
ANALYTICAL INDEX
A Confession of those cured by Christ, 607 et seqq. The history of the blind man translated to the Gentiles, 632. That Caesar does not arrogate the heavenly kingdom to himself, 1053. What provided the occasion for envy to Cain, 562. Cain deceived Abel, and killed him after leading him into the field, 563. That Cain was given as a father to the Jews, 560. That the Jews imitate the wickedness of Cain, 562. That Cain was given Satan as a father, a liar, 563. What sort of person Cain was, 560. He is deservedly called the son of Satan, 560. Cain the firstborn of Adam, what was his profession, 561. Caiaphas the author of Christ’s death, 1021. A reed serving the divine doctrines ought to overcome all sloth, 77. Candelabrum. Seven lamps on the candelabrum of the temple, not just one, 457. Why [it is made] of pure gold, 457. Why the candelabrum of the temple has a solid shaft, 457. What the lilies on it signify, 457. And the two olive branches, 457. That those who are novices in the faith must remain among the catechumens for a long time, 144. The number one hundred as a symbol of perfection, 433. Comparison of wax with ingenuity, 142. Canaanites as inhabitants of Galilee, 457. Who is the true character, 12. That charity contains the fullness of the Law, 944. Charity the best of virtues, 196. Charity as the complement of the Law, what it is, 842. What the bond of charity ought to be in us, 996. What the duty of charity is, 271. B Christ by His goodness anticipates our petitions, 207. The way of Christ, 763 et seq. Christ constituted as the pedagogue for the Gentiles, 656. Christ as the counsel of the Father, 20. Christ as the candelabrum, 590. Christ never ceases to save and help, freeing those by whom He is received, 292. Christ never deviated from decorum and timeliness, 185. Christ as the light and truth of the Father, 20. Christ described by a double altar, 390. And how, 590. Christ as man adores the Father, 190. Christ as the end of the legal institution, 268; the fullness of the Law and the prophets, 268. Christ from the seed of David according to the flesh, 185. What was in the place of food and delights for Christ, 196. To whom the circumcision that used to be performed on the eighth day is appropriate, 433. Legal circumcision does not destroy death, 431. What spiritual circumcision is, 431. How spiritual circumcision prevails over the honor of the Sabbath, 438. That circumcision, even if performed on the Sabbath, might usefully set one free, 437. When the circumcision was, 891. To whom circumcision was given, 430. The Holy Spirit seen in the likeness of a dove, and why, 127. Comparison of the Only-begotten with the sun, 88. Comparison of the mind with an iron instrument, 2. No composition falls into God, 74. The childish and low-crawling concept of certain Jews, 502. What conscience is, 1011. Its effects, 1011. The reason for consubstantiality in human and divine things, 54, 55. Contemplations typified through wood, 2. Contempt of God as a bad thing and the supreme sin, 517. What is the type of a holy life, 281. Conversion through faith not to be fruitless, 327. The grace handed down to the Corinthians from heaven, 794. From whom Cornelius learned that he who is baptized is saved by God, 73. Comparison of the participation of Christ's body with wax, 364, 365, 863. The body of John the Baptist called a corpse, 143. The body as a garment of the soul, 431. From whom and at what time the strength of quails was promised to the Israelites, 316, 317. What the abundance of quails signifies, 519. That all things were created by the Father through the Son and the Holy Spirit, 87. How God transcends everything created, 501. The Cross as a sign to the Jews that Christ is the true God, 457. Delay in seeking good things is harmful, 130. What the monument of greed is, 315, 316. That Cyrus undertook an expedition into Babylon, 671. D Demons believing and trembling, 580. The demon as the author of evil, 560. When the power of demons was overturned, 386. The demoniacal wisdom of the Greeks, 405. The ignoble crowd of the damned, 82.
Dan and Beersheba as the borders of the region of the Jews, 1094. Daniel rescued from the cruelty of the lions, 85. The horrible vision of Daniel, 172. Dathan and Abiron stirred up sedition against the leadership of Moses, 457. Their punishment, 457. Whence it flowed, 457. That David is called Christ, 403. Why, and by whom, 403. What it signifies that David and his companions touched the bread of the proposition, 390. David springing from the tribe of Judah, 185. How David is signified to have filled the place of those who were saved from Israel, 391. In what the knowledge of God is situated, 692. Who is the enemy of God, 55. It is proper to the one God not to sin, 52. To resist God is full of danger, 149. What the spiritual mode of delights is, 827. The number ten as the most perfect number in Scripture, 356. What the particle "from above" signifies, 503. What "from above" is, 503. Deuteronomy as a certain recapitulation of the books of Moses, 265. How diabolical fraud is to be overcome, 525. The form of diabolical malice expressed in Cain, 562. The devil called the minister of the diabolical will, 395. By what the temptations of diabolical tyranny are foreshadowed, 386. The devil as the author and at once the helper of Jewish impiety, 1012. What the feasts of the devil are, 13. Judas as the son of the devil, 758. Humanity withered by the fraud of the devil, 180. By what the tyranny of the devil had to be overturned, 740. Death constructed in Christ by the art of the devil, 338. By whom and how the power of the devil was overturned, 386. When the tyranny of the devil began to fall, 559. The devil as a lover of falsehood, 448. A liar and the father of liars, 448. That the devil claimed nothing for himself in Christ, 855. What expelled the devil from the heavenly halls, 507. The devil as the parent of all malice, 561. The day of the advent of Christ, 678. Why we are called gods, 93. Delay in seeking good things is evil, 130. How the disciples are "outside the world," 1008. That the disciples are called bread, 357. According to whose likeness, 357. A work of singular dispensation and patience worthy of God, 725. The divine hand encompasses every place, 76. The divine power and operation cannot exist in anyone similar through the same [nature] unless he is God himself, 253. That there is no "greater" and "lesser" among the divine persons, 27. The comparison of divine offspring with fire, 128. What is the best method of teaching, 508. The office of a doctor, 129. What the virtue of a doctor is, 148. How the doctor of the law is impelled to follow God, 834. That more subtle doctrine is condemned by the unlearned, 373. What Christian doctrine is, 2. Comparison of doctrine with fine flour soaked in oil, 5. Confusion of doctrine in heretics, 54. B The Church of Christ glories primarily in the rectitude of its dogmas, 784, 785. What the Church of the firstborn is, 340. The holy Church called a table, 557. The appellation of the Church of the firstborn of paradise, 763. The Church of the Gentiles raised up through Christ, 560. The Church of Christ called a body, 999. The precious and most worthy members of the Church, raised to the constitution of one perfect man, 997. The glory of the Church will never cease, 510. Sad poverty and lacking ears, 4, 5. Eldad and Medad as two of the LXX elders, 1100. Elias brought down fire from heaven, 628. Elias the prophet, 80. Elias expected by the Jews, 476. How Emmanuel is shown typically, 387. What Ephraim is in Scripture, 693. Esau born of a free father, 543. Esau displayed a servile mind by the depravity of his morals, 543. Distinction of the eucharist from manna, 361. The effect of the mystical eucharist, 666. The effect of the mystical eucharist, 975. The image of the mystical eucharist, 1074. Christ is united with us by the mystical eucharist, 1001. Whence the power of the mystical eucharist has proceeded to us, 1074. The eucharist promised by Christ, 324. In what it consists, 325. What the error of the Eunomians is, 29. 50. The opinion of Eunomius concerning the Son of God, 30. Eunomius as the enemy of God, 50. The force and reason of evangelical worship, 880. Evangelical preaching as a covenant of peace, 651. Evangelical doctrine as the root of heavenly benevolence, 875. Evangelical doctrine brings in the fullest blessing, 138. What births the law of evangelical doctrine, 1018. Evangelical conversation figured in Abraham, 891. What is the food of evangelical preaching, 457.
A Evangeliorum scopus, 877. The Gospel of John transcends all admiration, 8. The Gospel of John is a great and arduous work, 5. The skill of the Evangelists in writing is wonderful, 8. What is the mind of the Evangelists, 7. Exterminator, who he is, 362. Hezekiah, king of Jerusalem, wise and good, 82. How King Hezekiah of Jerusalem eluded the attack of the besieging Assyrians, 456.
F The minds of women, 183. What hay denotes, 281. Iron as a sign of correction, 432. Confession of faith to be shown to God, 683. Confession of faith is the mother and reconciler of life, 682. The reward for faith held in the Son, 341. Twofold species of faith, 687. A description of faith, leading to life, 319. How faith operates in the rule, 201. Faith is the foundation of piety, 423. To what things faith may be compared, 146. Faith is a uniform, admirable, and precious thing, 555. Faith is in the Son, 23. Faith is a huge good, and when, 689. In whom faith should be, 630 et seq. The faithful are superior to the Israelites, 92. The meaning of sonship, 24. Various appellations of sons, 46. How we are called sons of God, 93, 97. How it is to be understood that the Son bore death both willingly and unwillingly, 339. The Son is the character of the Father, the Father is as it were the archetype of the Son, 46. How the Son is heir of the Father’s goods, 170. How the Son is in the Father, 12. The Son is the light and truth of the Father, 18. The Son is the image and character of the Father, 21. The Son is the gate that leads into the knowledge of the Father, 515. How the Son is in the Father, 28. The Son is older than the ages, not born in time, 11. What spiritual flowers are, 387. What "outside" signifies, 328 et seq.
G Gabriel attributes the structure of the Lord’s body to the Holy Spirit, 366. Galilee, bordering on Judea, situated to the north, 397. What is signified by it, 397. Why and how the Galileans receive Jesus, 205. The Galileans approached Philip as if he were a Galilean, 700. His fear, 700. How Christ is to be understood as a Galilean, 481. Gamaliel, 641, 642. Gerizim, mountain of blessing, a place of worship according to some, 184. Treasury (Gazophylacium), what it is, 497. The order of divine generation, 107. Why the Gentiles were hostile to Christ, 593. Gentiles held in execration by the Israelites, 629. Gentiles and Israelites built into one new man, 754. How Christ was known to the Gentiles, 663. How the faith of the Gentiles was signified, 390. Who was the pedagogue appointed for the Gentiles, 656. The flocks of the Gentiles are commingled with Israel, 656. A type of the calling of the Gentiles, 601. That a multitude of Gentiles will be gathered together with those who convert from Israel, 656. Gentiles are simple and easy to lead to obedience, 603. Gentiles brought to Christ in place of the Jews, 327. That they are partakers of eulogia, 527. What was the mode of purification for the Gentiles, 870. Differentiation of the glory of the saints from the glory of the Only-Begotten, 97. Gomorrah as a bitter grape, 783. How the occasion for mocking by the wise Greeks was removed, 1013. Greeks, Jews, Scythians, barbarians made one, by whom they are to be refuted, 452. Jews commingle the errors of the Greeks with the tenets of the Church, 588. The saints are free from the curiosity of the Greeks, 68. The lying of the Greeks, 497. A proverb of the Greeks, 333. The morals of the Greeks are not different from those of the Jews, 700. The accession of the Greeks to faith occurs in place of the firstfruits, 700. The wisdom of the Greeks is demonic, 405. How the loss of grace is portended to the Jews, 177. The distribution of graces, 99.
H Heresy is a snare of the devil, 43. The emptiness of heretical denial is described by the prophet Hosea, 4. Various appellations of heretics, 29. The vain calumny of heretics against the Only-Begotten, 47. That heretics pervert the reason of divine dogmas, 86. The fabrication of heretics, 56. A heretic is an enemy of Christ, 152. That Christ did not migrate from Jerusalem without a cause, 268. At Jerusalem the counsel to kill Christ was known, 444. Evangelical preaching was to depart from Jerusalem, 177. Why Christ ascended to Jerusalem, 404.
B The inhabitants of Jerusalem, by what argument some believed Jesus to be God according to nature, 131. That the inhabitants of Jerusalem spoke things dissenting from the rest of the multitude of Jews, 443, to which he is led, 446. The Jerusalemite people saved by an angel, 456. The site of the Jerusalem temple, 396 et seq. What is signified by the he-goats (Hircos), 450. The law on homicide, 1041. The definition of man, 582, 963. What is assumed in it, 963. A description of man, 338. That God is angered by the creation of man, 84. On what principle men are led to Christ, 540. He who is said to be of highest piety, 632. Man as a participant in divine wisdom, etc., 53. What the honor owed to parents ought to be, 135. According to some, human affairs are subject to the power of the hours, 455. The absurdities that follow from that opinion, and its refutation, 453 et seqq. Hospitality is commended, 281. Humanity designated by the word "spouse," 137. Who is the human race and by whom it could be saved, 18. The reason for humiliation in the Son, 22. How the habit of humility appeared in God, 186. Hymenaeus and Alexander made shipwreck concerning the faith, 981. The Son is distinct from the Father by the definition of hypostasis, 17.
I A comparison of fire and heat with the Father and the Son, 12. How fire gave knowledge of the divinity, 80. What the fruit of illumination is, 88. What is an exact image, 12. Diminution does not fall upon God, 27. The discourse on the Incarnation, 94. That Christ wills the mystery of the Incarnation to be hidden, 282. What is the true and general cause of the Incarnation, 819. By whom it was explained, 819. For whose sake the dispensation of the Incarnation was made, 89. Where the depth of the Incarnation is noted and by what signs, 838. The enemy of truth is injurious to the mystery of the Incarnation, 526. How the mystery of the Incarnation is delineated, 151, 1270. By what word the mystery of the Incarnation is signified, 904. The Jews were ignorant of the mystery of the Incarnation, 237. The mystery of the Incarnation is wisdom, 124. What is the reward of incredulity, 280. What is the wage of incredulity, 136. The incredulous person brings judgment upon himself, 134. Of whom infants are a type, 698. How it is to be understood that death was involuntary for Christ, 332. What is the wrath of God, 175. Taken as a punishment, 175. Isaac, son of Abraham, born free from a free woman, 433. Isaac as a type of Christ, 581. Isaac as a figure of Christ, 891. What Isaiah calls the remnant of the Israelites, 390. Ishmael, son of Abraham, by the handmaid Hagar, 433. When he was circumcised and why, 433. How Israel is saved by spiritual circumcision, 434. How Israel recognized that he was led out of Egypt, 317. Israel dead in Mosaic figures and buried in the shadow of the letter, 621. Israel is condemned by the faithfulness of the Samaritans, 201. Why God did not spare Israel, 379. Whither Israel was carried into Assyria, 518. Israel punished justly, 286. Israel enslaved himself to the empire of Caesar, 1053. Israel struck by untimely fear, 591. The sin and judgment of Israel, 90. That Israel is condemned by his own judgment, 286. Christ is called the king of Israel, and why, 697. Christ is accused of arrogating the kings of Israel to himself, 1036. That Israel perished on the eighth and twelfth day, 433. How and why, 870. The race of the Israelites propagated into a great multitude, 82. Israelites inscribed as the peculiar lot of God, 89. For how many years the Israelites served the Egyptians, 558. Extracted with difficulty at last, 558. Moses as internuncio for the Israelites, 881. How the Israelites proceeded to the promised land, 344. God appeared to the Israelites as a terrible avenger, 780. And when, 780. The impious pride of the Israelites, 1005. Why the Israelites wept in the desert, 278. From whence the Israelites are to be accused of perversity, 395. The command to the Israelites that they should ascend Mount Seir, 588. When the Israelites served the Assyrians, 588. That Israel was cursed—the Gentiles, 629. The punishment of the Israelites was not premature, 404. Christ is the advocate not only of the Israelites, but also of others, 967. The Israelites are superior…
to the Gentiles in terms of the capacity for obedience, 207. God imparted salutary doctrine to the Jews, although they were unworthy, 511, 512. The Jews were in no way like the sons of Abraham, 563. The Jews did not understand the dispensation of the Incarnation, 343. There is no way left for the Jews to avoid punishment, 907. The unbelieving Jews were cast out from the holy places, 140. The Jews were ignorant of the Scriptures, 108, 109. The Jews persecuted Christ on account of the paralytic healed on the Sabbath, 221. The impious agree with the Jews, 592. The Jews are similar to Cain in malice, 562. Christ brought darkness upon the Jews as He departed from them, 318. The Canaanites were neighbors to the Jews, 1046. A That no excuse for madness is left to the Jews, 326. Why God did not spare the Jews, 579. The error of the Jews is most foolish, 548. The unbridled spirit of the Jews, 213. The bitter rebuke of the Jews, 553. The fall of the Jews, 89. The spirit of the Jews, burning with an insatiable desire to kill Christ, 210. The superciliousness of the Jews, 312. The ferocious spirit of the Jews, 494. The region of the Jews is adjacent to Galilee, 693. The region of the Jews is situated in the southern parts, 596. How the bread of angels was given to the ancestors of the Jews, 351. The perversity of the Jews is rejected, 336. The customs of the Jewish Synagogue, 403. What is the zeal of the Jews, 914. How the difficult hearing of the Jews is indicated, 1018. The, burning and immense audacity of the Jews, 518, 586. The miserable and putrid reasonings of the Jews, 929. The minds of the Jews are covered in darkness, 518. Where Christ dwells after the religion of the Jews is abandoned, 403. That Christ was not delivered to death by the force and power of the Jews is signified, 869. The slippery ears of the Jews were healed by God, 235. The leaders of the Jews were most demented, 513. The people of the Jews are lying and impious, 574. The spirit of the Jews is more and more inflamed toward cruelty, 215. The counsel of the Jews was not unknown to the holy prophets, 613. The spirit of the Jews is precipitous toward any crime, 1033. The most foolish opinion of the Jews, 508. What deceived the unprovident mind of the Jews, so that they did not acknowledge Christ as the Son of God, 478. The evangelist rightly admires the stupefaction of the Jews, 515. The comparison of the Jews and the Samaritans, and how the readiness of the Samaritans convicts the Jews, 195. The disaster of the Jews, 517. The people are most obstinate, 32. The ignorance of the Jews, 335. The Jews were scandalized by the miracles of Christ, 525. That many great and evil wars awaited the Jews, 317. That the Jews greatly feared the sign of the resurrection, 520. That the Jews would never have had Christ in their power, if He Himself had not willed it, 660. The Jews foolishly condemned Christ, 517. That the Jews would suffer all grave things, 545. The Jew is slow and sluggish in perceiving the words of God, 362. The law forbade the Jews to be defiled in any way, 179. The Jews used blasphemous words, 516. The Jews rejected nothing that was not good, 211. The Jews study only for gain, 138. That the Jews did not sin against the Son alone, 232, 233. The arrogant Jew, 449. What will happen to the followers of Jewish madness, 466. The apostles were nurtured in Jewish customs, 291. What destroys Jewish superciliousness, 1005. The audacity of Jewish fury will never cease, 912. How Jewish pride was abolished, 1026. It is probable that some adhered more tenaciously to Judaism, 480. The Father hands over judgment to the Son, 225. What is the day of judgment, 12. Why Judas is rebuked, 694. Judas was ensnared by the devil’s traps, 642. Judas is vile and venal, 876. Judas the Galilean and Theudas led the people into defection after them, 612. What it means to judge, 225. The souls of the just transcend to the heavenly city, 540.
L Christ shed tears, and why, 656. What is salutary joy, 1005. The resurrection of Lazarus is a figure of the general resurrection, 690. God predicted that Lazarus was dead, 529. Whence Lazarus originated, 529. Lazarus was the brother of Mary and Martha, 677. Of what thing this is a symbol, 677. Lazarus after death was carried by angels into Abraham’s bosom, 106. Lazarus was raised from the dead, 85. In what consisteth legal discipline, 317. What is a legal precept, and how it signifies, 81. Legal worship was repressed by evangelical doctrine, 189. Legal observation is vain, 873. How we are purified from it, 873. When legal types of worship ceased, 322. When legal shadows are untimely, 318. What is the end of the legal institution, 268. Salvation through faith is better than legal and typical worship, 369. The desires of the flesh impede the law of the spirit, 811. That the law prefigured great things in small, 572. How the doctor of the law was impelled to follow God, 834. We ought not to subject to our laws those things which are above us, 10. The shadow of the law changed into spiritual worship, 191. The law of
the Israelite spares, and precedes them into the land of promise, 405. The doctrine A of Moses and the prophets is held of no account by the Jews, 617. Moses is the master of legal instruction, 267.
World, what it is, 829. By what the world is illuminated, 90. The world, in which it is accused by blessed John the Evangelist, 89. The world is accused of an ungrateful spirit, 88. World, what it signifies, 507. World is a field, 297. The explanation of divine mysteries is difficult, 4.
N Naboth, by whom and for what reason he was killed, the mention of, 595. Nain, arriving, Christ raised the only son of the widow, 361; and how, 361. Nathanael, how he made his confession of faith, 771; what words being heard, 772. Nathanael, how and when he was called to the faith, 133. Nathanael, very studious and highly learned, 132. Nathanael’s faith confirmed by Christ, 134. Divine nature is devoid of all passion, 28. Created nature, how it is called to supernatural things, 91. Nature of things, what it contains, 37. Nature of men, when it was illuminated, 76. What are the first-fruits of a renewed nature, 475. Divine nature is superior to our mind and speech, 33. Divine nature placed above all example, 45, 48. Divine nature is devoid of alteration, 97. Nature is sometimes carried toward the better, sometimes toward the worse, 68. Nazareth, Christ passes by that in which He is said to have been raised, 202. Nazareth, the place of Christ's upbringing, not of His nativity, 477. Nazareth is situated in Galilee, 477, 483. It is better to deliver faith to neophytes than deep discourse and laborious exposition, 149. Neophytes must ruminate on the doctrine of catechesis, 192. Neophytes who have been baptized at an unseasonable time are not to be admitted to the holy tables, 144. New moon, what it is, 386. The new moon is called the new age in Christ, 386. Nicodemus received Jesus, 386, 482. However, he was afraid to confess Christ, 620; why, 620. Nicodemus, one of the doctors and princes of the Jews, 245. He believed the testimony of miracles most certainly, 215. Nicodemus is prompt toward the faith, 145. Nicodemus is argued to be carnal, 146. Nicodemus is attached to Mosaic laws, 154. The noble before God, who they are, 513. Noah, preserved from the flood, 85. Spiritual clouds, what they are, 103. Honorable marriage, 136.
O By Christ’s obedience the sheep are recognized, 665. Ahaziah, son of Ahab, 595; by whom he was killed, 596. Refined oil, what it signifies, 250. The rationale of omnipotence in divine things, 23. False opinion concerning Christ among the Jews, 132. The work is distinguished from the maker, 86, 87.
P The bond of peace, what it is, 944. Custom of the Philistines, 700. Branch, what it signifies, 869. Five barley loaves, what they denote, 285. The remainder of the loaves, what it denotes, 281. Spiritual paradise, which it is, 2. Paralytic, from how many years he was infirm, 223. Paralytic, how healed, 687. Christ freed the paralytic from a long-standing disease, 521. The Jews were paralytics in mind, what it signifies, 207. Paralytic, when he was healed, 205. Paralytic, where he was healed, 617. The honor due to parents, what it should be, 155. Parents, overcome by natural love, sometimes bear with troublesome children, 222. The true Passover, for whom it is, 693. Passover, when and why it was made at that time, 437. Why the Son makes the passion B voluntary, 353. Passion, in a certain way involuntary to Christ, 351. Pastors are guilty of the lost sheep, 444. Father called a husbandman, 858 et seqq. Father, how in the Son, 32. The name of Paternity, whence God has it, 24. The Father cooperating with the Son, and the Son with the Father, 340. Comparison of the Father and the Son with fire and heat, 12. Comparison of the Father and the Son with the splendor of the sun, 16. How Christ was in Paul, 789. Paul at Athens, 874. Paul, as chosen, by whom he was called, 589. Paul mitigated the bitterness of stripes, 903. By whom he was beaten, 905. Paul, having the habit of Mercury, 1072. For sinners, not only is punishment reserved for the future judgment, but they are often punished in this life, 210. Sin signified by the serpent, 131. Pentateuch of Moses, 285. By what it is signified, 285.
ANALYTICAL INDEX
A By the name of rock the Word of God is signified, 436. The root of Peter’s denial, 1023. Where the confession of blessed Peter was made, 1009. The purpose of Peter drawing his sword is not alien from the Law, 1017. Peter’s spirit inflamed more and more toward piety, 722. It is enigmatically indicated to Peter what is to happen to him, 757 et seqq. Peter is shaken, B Peter, while the others flee, adheres to Christ, 1021. Why Peter was so called, 131. Why Peter questions Christ, 781, 785 et seqq. Peter looked to the ignominy of the passion, not the good of the passion, 1019. Pharaoh, the tyrant of the Egyptians, to whom Moses was sent, 434. Pharaoh, exasperated, pursued Israel, 272. Pharaoh laid a yoke upon the Israelites, 335. Pharaoh, tyrant of Egypt, 90. Pharaoh justly punished, 273. Pharaoh laid a yoke upon the Jews dwelling in Egypt, 743. He took away their time for prayer by the assiduity of their labors, 713. The evil design of the Pharisees, 611. The Pharisees are dull, slow, and unteachable, 487. Acute toward evil, and unskilled and inexperienced in doing what is right, 487. The Pharisees mock the miracle done in the blind man, 635. The Pharisees severely rebuked by the criticisms of Christ, 451. The Pharisees itching with a lust to command, 640. The blind man shows the Pharisees to be insane, 619. The bloodthirsty audacity of the Pharisees, 642. The Pharisees are wretched and insolent, 611. The principate of the Jews to be taken away from the Pharisees, 651. The arrogant and stiff-necked Pharisee, 379. The adulterous mind of the Pharisees, 627. That the Pharisees do not have the Word of God abiding in them, 251. The Pharisees ready for all wickedness, 151. That the Pharisees seek an opportunity against Jesus for this reason, 443. The ignorance of the Pharisees, 251. C That the Pharisees offend Moses himself, 263. How Christ noticed the crowd of Pharisees stirred up against him and in what way, 261. To what point of drunkenness and fury Christ saw the Pharisees would arrive, 655. How Christ artfully turns aside the accusation of the Pharisees, 244. The arrogance of the Pharisees is inimical to God, 476. The character of the crowd of Pharisees, 110. That the Pharisees easily stray from the pursuit of the right course, 249. They provoke John the Baptist, not without a divine impulse, 158. They cast him out, 630; what is signified by this, 630. The Pharisees lie in wait for Christ the Savior, 634. The obstinacy and incredulity of the Pharisees, 614. The haughtiness of the Pharisees, 444. Reprehension of Pharisaic conversation, 624. Philip, of the same mind as the other disciples, 774. Desirous of learning, 774. What the foundation of piety is, 423. Christ shows that the fracturing spirit of Pilate is not unknown to him, 1039. Why Pilate’s audacity against Christ appears to lack excuse, 1038. The
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anyone being called light, 64. That the Holy Spirit was not the giver of the Holy Spirit, 169. A The reason for sanctification proceeding from the Father and the Son, 62. Wisdom is the Word, 73. In him are the hidden treasures of wisdom and knowledge, 45. Wisdom does not enter into a malicious soul, 31. Satan divided against himself, 85. That Satan is to be mocked as a deceiver, 1043. Satan had cast the design into the heart of Judas the traitor, 733. Satan the author of envy, 561. That Satan had raised his neck against the rebukes of God, 561. Satan leads the minds of the faithful into an adulterous sentiment, 684. Reasonably called the father of every wicked person, 560. Satan the author of evil, 560. Satan the father of wicked Jews, 559. Son of the devil, 559. Various arts of Satan for deceiving, 324, 325. Why and whence Satan is cast down, 561. How Satan assails the soul of man, 738. Scandal, like a plague, feeds upon the minds of the simpler ones, 9. Who is the true gate of the Feast of Tabernacles, 402. How the feast of the true Tabernacles is to be celebrated, 402. Scribes and Pharisees, foolish, 252. Divine Scripture is not a minister of sin, 371. Mount Seir, the place of the battle of the Israelites with the Amorites, 588. Zipporah circumcised her son with iron, 435. What Zipporah denotes, 434. How the Seraphim stand before God, 710. The power of words to explain the divine majesty is meager and barren, 49. "As," what it sometimes signifies in the Scriptures, 226 et seq. The pool of Siloam, 602. Siloam a type of baptism, 602. Comparison of fine flour soaked in oil with doctrine, 3. The image of God, according to which man was made, adulterated by the incursion of sin, 122. What is signified by Mount Sinai, 257, 258. How the cities of the Sodomites burned, 18. The sun and splendor compared with the Father and the Son, 16. What are spiritual spices, 387. To whom the Spirit reveals, 7. Spiritual desires of the flesh hinder the law, 811. How the Spirit is undivided from the Son, 368. The heavenly Bridegroom received with a willing mind by the Church of the Gentiles, 137. What "up" and "down" mean in the Scriptures, 503. Synagogue forbidden to the followers of Christ, 915. The synagogue of the Jews, like a lion in the forest, made against Christ the Savior, 1042. How Christ raised the daughter of the ruler of the synagogue, 361. The Syrophoenician woman, 512. The Syrophoenician woman begs for mercy for her miserable daughter with tears, 176.
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Tabernacle, when erected, 386. What the Feast of Tabernacles designates for us, 468. Why the tabernacle was commanded to be set up in one day, 387. Why we are called temples of God, 143. Why and how we are said to be temples of God, 474. That a new time appeared in Christ, 386. How the time is depicted, 464, 465. Time, which is long to us, is held as nothing before God, 815. What the time of morning, in which manna was gathered, signifies, 318. Comparison of darkness with smoke, 290. Explanation of the number three, 137. Whether testifying about oneself is forbidden by the law, 487, 488. Testimonies of the prophets concerning the way of Christ, 109. Theudas and Judas the Galilean led the people to defection, 642. What is the discourse of Thomas, 680. Who is the throne of God, 15. Why Christ crossed the Sea of Tiberias, 21. What the torrent denotes, 468. The Trinity is one by reason of consubstantiality, 367. The Trinity is understood in identity of substance, 19. To what time the reason of the Trinity was unknown to Israel, 700. The empire of the Trinity is one, 698. What is the amplitude of the Trinity, 17. What the pontifical trumpet is, 389. A type of spiritual goods, 401. Who is the type of the calling of the nations, 601.
U
The Only-begotten is life according to nature, 173. Comparison of the Only-begotten with the sun, 88. The Only-begotten is the principle of all things, 49. Bodily union with Christ, 999. Union of the Son with the Father, 1000, 1001. The bond of this unity, 1002, 999.
V
"I go," what it signifies, 499, 502. Diverse appellations of the Word, 11. An elegant description of spring, 387. Its comparison with the effects of salvation, 387. We are children of truth and offspring of light, 227. The way of Christ, what it is, 109. Its difference from the way of Moses, 109. The way of Christ, 765 et seqq. What intellectual victims are, 387. What is the root of virtue, 337, 423. Who is the fountain of life, 51. To whom the power of vivifying belongs, 385. What is voluntary and non-voluntary in Christ, 851.
Z
The perverse zeal of the Jews, 914.
ORDER OF MATTERS CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME
S. CYRIL, ARCHBISHOP OF ALEXANDRIA. COMMENTARY ON JOHN (continuation). Fragments of Books VII and VIII. 9 Book IX. 106 Book X. 285 Book XI. 447 Book XII. 607 SUPPLEMENT TO THE EDITION OF JEAN AUBERT. Fragments on the Acts of the Apostles. 758 Explanation on the Epistle to the Romans. 774 — on the First Epistle to the Corinthians. 855 — on the Second Epistle to the Corinthians. 915 — on the Epistle to the Hebrews. 951 Fragments on the Epistle of Blessed James the Apostle. 1007 — on the First Epistle of Blessed Peter. 1011 — on the Second Epistle of Blessed Peter. 1018 — on the First Epistle of divine John. 1022 — on the Epistle of Jude. 1023 Various readings on the commentary on John. 1026
END OF THE SEVENTY-FOURTH VOLUME.
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