ANALYTICAL INDEX TO THE WORKS OF SAINT NILUS
(Arabic numbers refer to the columns of this edition; letters a, b, c, d indicate the divisions of the pages.)
A Aaron’s rod, how it blossomed, 918, c. Abel, murdered by Cain out of envy, 607, d. Abraham, when he knew he was about to sacrifice his son, why he said to his servants that he would return with his son, 379, b. In spirit he knew that Christ would be born from his loins, and therefore he adjured by his loins, 326, b. Called king on account of his virtue, 458, a. For fear of death, he calls his wife a sister, 911, b. Abraham not trusting the custody of the gate to his wife, what it denotes, 739, b, c. Absalom, guilty of tyranny, pays the penalty of his insane crime, 914, a; 955, 956. Abstinence, the origin and foundation of all virtues, 818, b. Its effects, 819, b, c; 822, b, c. Acedia or sloth, an iron (hard) love, an adversary of labors, a sundial of hunger, 1143, b, c. Languor of the soul, 1458, b. Accusers, even though venerable, are not to be believed unless the other side has been heard, 186, b. Adam, how he was deceived by the fraud of the devil, the effects of that fault in him, 890, 891 et seqq. Adam and Eve, although they sinned, are blessed, 154, d. Adam, cast out of paradise, first inhabited Judea, 83, a. After sin, clothed in skins, 171, a. His tomb is in Palestine, 83, a. Noah was not ignorant of that, ibid., b. Through Adam came death to man on Calvary, but life through Christ, ibid. Adverse and prosperous things are useful for salvation, 250, b; 518, c. In adversity one must not despair, and in prosperity one must not be overconfident, but pray, 86, d; 167, b; 267, b. In adversity one must not lose heart, 242, d. Egyptians, like lead, submerged in water, 571, d. Equality, perfect among Christians, 723, b, c. Ethiopian does not change his skin, nor the panther his checkered variety, 191, d. Affection for worldly things, a great impediment to those tending toward virtue, 754, b. Contrariant affections cannot be mutually entangled, 810, b. Affections in the voluptuous, once kindled, yield to nothing, 911, d; A 530, b, c. What is done with love proves light and easy, even if laborious, 823, d. We should serve God out of love, not fear, 111, c. We love and guard what we acquire with labor, 103, c, d. Those to be loved are hated by others, 127, d. To the lover, it is wearisome to live in heavenly things, 166, c. Whom God loves, He chastises, 99, b; 542, b; 431, b; 439, c, d; 479, a; 823, a. Affliction and voluntary sadness are sweeter than rest and joy, 287, c. Afflictions must be endured, 90, c. Bodily afflictions do not impede the joys of the soul, 171, b. They bring the greatest utility, and make the afflicted, if he bears it bravely, illustrious, 910, d. They are an exercise of the body, 331, b. Daily afflictions were a goad given to the Apostle, ibid. Spiritual gifts are conjoined with afflictions, 198, a. C By afflictions, as if by disciplines, we are instructed in this life for another, 330, b. Let those afflicted in both soul and body flee to Christ, 475, d. Agriculture is a useless pursuit unless signed by God’s gifts, 746, b. Albianus, born in Galatia, reared in Ancyra, 699, c. His virtues, 702 et seqq. He visits the places where Christ lived and died, 703, b. He adopts the solitary life, 706, a. By labor of his hands, he provided what was necessary for his body, 707, a. His food was bread alone, his drink water, ibid., b. He spent the greatest part of the night and day in psaltering and praying, ibid., c. He loved poverty to the highest degree, 710, a, b, c. He is wholly to be admired and imitated, 711, a. Ambition for material things overcomes salutary exhortations, 726, b. Athenians begged God that their friends should not rise to magistracies, 371, b. What belongs to friends is common, 831, d. The tears of friends recreate the sorrow of the afflicted, 598, a. The secrets of the heart are not to be opened immediately to recent friends, 485, a. It is not laudable to visit friends often and be visited by them, 417, c, d. It is not a marvel to be insulted and vituperated by friends, 459, b, c. D Loss of goods is not a loss, but rather a restitution, 1291, a. Love is one thing according to God, another according to the flesh, 279, b. Love is likened to a dog, 191, b, c. Love of God is to be preferred to that of kin, 250, c. We should not be moved immediately to voluptuous love by seeing a comely face.
Angels are figured in the spies of Palestine, 110, a. Angels are lovers of humility, 199, c. Angels excite us to prayer and stand with us, rejoicing and praying at the same time for us, 1186, a. As angels rejoice in our repentance, so they grieve at our stubbornness, 555, c. Angels are to be revered, for many stand beside us, 1242, b. Soul must be cautiously guarded from adverse things, 471, b. Soul destitute of God falls into all sins, 554, c. Filled with constant goods, it kicks against the goads, 423, b. Soul full of earthly cares is incapable of divine precepts; it is capable, however, if it be purified, ibid. Soul is the city of God, 203, a. Soul, feral, becomes tame through God’s benefits, 231, d. Wicked soul rejects the physician, 162, b. Soul perishes in sorrows without help, 167, b. Soul is a just organ, 171, a. Through sin, it is elongated from God, not in place but in manner, 298, a. Soul is the temple of the Holy Spirit and must not be befouled with sordid songs, 342, d. Vexed on all sides by temptations, it is filled with joy by angels, 390, a; 451, c; 470, c. Soul, inasmuch as it is intellectual, appetizes intellectual things, 258, b. Perfect soul is without care, but the impious soul is worn down by anxieties, 799, d. Soul exercised by enduring temptations shines forth more perfect, 906 et seqq. Soul is to be esteemed above all, 1242, a. Treasury of the soul is the heart, 419, b. The anterior parts of the soul are virtues, the posterior are vices, 470, d. The house of the soul is the state of life, 287, c, d. The back of the soul is malice, 471, a. The face of the soul is not dissimilar in form to God, 470, d. Fortitude of the soul is shown not only in the tranquil silence of the mouth, but also in the strenuousness of thoughts and patience in injuries, 1418, a. What is the infirmity of the soul, 782, b. Nature shaped the soul as a mirror of the face, 866, b. God sometimes tames the kicking soul against its will, 139, a. Cure of souls is the most difficult of all arts, 747, 750. To preside over souls is more laborious than over animals, 755, c. Animals that are not eaten according to the Law denote vices; those that are eaten, virtues, 334, d. He advises Pionius to lay aside rings and bracelets, 387, a. Apollinarius had rejected the Arian heresy, but broken by old age he fell into another, 178, b, c. He felt Christ assumed flesh in the heavens, 178, c. He is refuted, 182, d. He wasted his time on useless things and poems, 222, c. Apollo's tripod, most loquacious, became mute at the birth of Christ, 215, c. Apollonius of Tyana's magical works are like a handful of barley to the wise, 270, a. Apostles, true philosophers, 722, d. Freed from prisons and chains, 918, d. Christ strengthened them by washing their feet, 118, c, d. What goods were brought to us through the apostles, ibid. Apostolic life is necessarily exposed to evils, 383, b, c. External appearance must not be disjoined from integrity of morals, 250, c, d. Water of Neurim denotes a false opinion about things, 254, a. The heretic Carpocrates said the waters from the tears were Achamothortas, but he is refuted, 167, d. A propitiatory altar is placed wherever there are sinners, 102, d. Manners and religions of the barbarian Arabs, 611 et seqq. They invade monks living around Mount Sinai, slaughtering or capturing them, 627 et seqq. Their cruelty, 639 et seqq. God does not take away free will, 362, a. Arians teach that Christ is a creature, 159, b. Weapons from God are unshakable, 212, d. How monks ought to uproot arrogance from their affection, 778, b, c. Ascetics must not occupy themselves with worldly actions, 211, a. Obscene sights must not be ruminated, 526, c, d; 542, a, b.
ANALYTICAL INDEX
A Assyrian war against the Sodomites, what it teaches us, 783, a, b, c. Athenians praying to God that no natural friends should ascend to magistracies, 371, b. What an atom is, 87, c. Harmful omens to be avoided, 270, 271. Why we have two ears but one tongue, 183, c. Great is the danger of the ears and tongue, 1251, b. Gold is the cause of all evils, 698, b, c. Avarice is not only taking what belongs to others, but also wanting to have more than what is sufficient, 710, b. Avarice is detestable, 267, c, d. It devises all things gravely, and is the cause of intolerable calamities, 882, b, c. It produces unmercifulness, 806, d. Avarice is little parsimony regarding idols and insatiable madness, 1142, d. It is the root of all evils, 1151, b, c. Avarice, wrath, and the pain of gluttony are its offspring and seeds, 787, c. The effects of avarice, 879 et seqq. The demon of avarice is cunning and crafty, 1226, b, c. It is difficult to struggle against the spirit of avarice, which is overwhelmed by money, 798, d. Most of the time, the wealth of the avaricious falls into the hands of the wicked, 271, d. For the avaricious, the greater the wealth, the greater will be the eternal punishments, ibid. The souls of the avaricious, when they are separated from the body, are usually tormented, 850 et seqq. Greed should not be masked by specious pretexts, 114, c. What unleavened bread and leaven signify, 959, d.
B Baptism cuts off demons, 207, a. It makes a man free from being a slave, 162, a. Baptism and faith without works of justice do not rescue one from eternal fire, 1239, a. It is not permitted to repeat baptism, 91, a. Before baptism, there is imperfect knowledge, 106, b. Through baptism, there is the beginning and the earnest of divinity in us, 346, c. In baptism, Christ received the Holy Spirit as man, not as God, 316, c. Ineffable beatitude in heaven results from the disposition of virtues, 151, b. Blessed is he whom God instructs, 203, b, c. What the conversation of the blessed is, 836, 887. The war against the passions is much more difficult than a gymnastic contest, 770, c, d. A war of harlots, 1314, b. He who has not seen war has never set up a trophy, 602, a, b. He who fears war should flee, 183, c. Greater benefits are not easily to be granted, 103, c. The feral soul is softened by God's benefits, 251, d. God rejects those who are unmindful of benefits, 90, c. The spirit of blasphemy is to be attacked with pious works, 271, c. Good and evil depend on the will, 139, d; 278, b, c; 286, a; 531, b; 362, a. Good works are butter and honey; sad things are gall and vinegar, 173, b. He who waits for eternal goods is faithful, 518, c. The rejection of goods is necessary for a perfect life, 774, a. The possession of goods is a hindrance to virtue, 802, c. The loss of goods is not a loss, but rather a restoration, 1291, a. All confess that good is good without any contradiction, 815, b. Exhorts Pionios to lay aside arms and rings, 387, a. What the bracelets of Rebecca indicate, 115, c. The arm is a sign of labor and work, 790, a.
C The evangelical blind men acquired double light, 323, c, d. Why the angry crowd rebuked those who acclaimed Christ as the Son of David, ibid. Those blind men were more powerful than Jesus Navins (Joshua), 323, b. The blind think they see, 210, a. Nothing is weaker than blindness, and why, 834, a. Cain killed his brother out of envy, 607, d. He who dwells in royal courts is closer to calamities, 331, c, d. Calumnies do not stand, 147, a. Why the place of Calvary is so called, 83, a, b. On Calvary, the death of man is through Adam, life is through Christ, ibid. Dogs have naturally received the faculty of healing, 847, b. What it signifies to drive dogs from houses during the time of prayer, 1206, c, d. Love is likened to a dog, 191, b, c. The soul, which is the temple of the Holy Spirit, must not be defiled by sordid songs, 342, d. Two captives miraculously freed by Saint Platon the martyr, 579, 582. An immoderate pursuit of songs is harmful to salvation, 222, c. The carnal man delights in earthly things, but the righteous man in God, 217, a, b. The carnal will be cast out of the kingdom, 150, d. Let the carnal fear the impending punishments of hell, 279, a. Flesh fattened with food exercises tyranny, but when tamed by fasting it submits itself, 819, b. Hardened flesh C throws off sensitivity, 147, c. The flesh is a slave, the mind is the mistress, ibid. The flesh, as something destined to rot, is not to be fattened, 151, a. The petulance of the flesh is to be bridled by fasting, 150, b; 283, a, b; 527, c. The filth of the flesh is the nourishment of thoughts, 1095, a. Let the superior part of the flesh not rejoice too much, lest it be plundered by the devil, 367, d. Carpio the heretic said that waters arose from the tears of Achamoth, 157, d; but he is refuted, ibid. Carpus the bishop is most sharply rebuked by Christ for his rigor toward two young men recently in the faith, 299, a. Chastity is to be guarded most cautiously, 407, 410, 547, 550. The labor of chastity is useless when mercy is not present, 867, a. Praise of chastity, 602, a, b. What it means to tie tails to tails, 767 et seqq. Who the Cercopes were, 110, c. Canaan the mocker, a figure of the Jews, 119, c. Charity arises from humility, hatred from pride, 143, a. Charity is the connection of impassibility and the destruction of the passions, 1123, c. It has nothing of its own except God, for it is God itself, ibid. The excellent prerogative of charity is to cause the disposition of all to be as if it were one, 1047, b. It is characteristic of charity to be long-suffering, 1106, d. He who has acquired the virtues of charity leads the wicked passions into captivity, 1107, a. What Chebron and Chaleb denote, 114, c. A Christian cannot be without struggles, 1235, b. A Christian judges differently than an infidel, 166, d. What the circumcision of Christians is, 87, b. Persistent Christians who are accounted as Judaising traitors, 246, a. The morals and life of the early Christians, 974 et seqq. Perfect equality among Christians, 723, b, c. Barbarians venerate Christian virtue, 227, a, b. The Babylonians did this toward Jeremiah, ibid. Christ is nourished by the good works of men, 175, a; 370, a, b; 563, a. Christ takes on affections with the flesh, 163, a. Why he converses with sinners, 102, c; 427, d. Christ is God and man, 150, c, d; 214, 215; 270, c. Christ is the head of the Church, 115, d. He was made everything for us except sin, against the Manichaeans, 150, c. Christ delights to remain with us, 403, c. He delights that the oppressed come to him, 478, a. Christ in baptism received the Holy Spirit as man, not as God, 346, c. Christ in heaven is without a mother, on earth without a father, 155, b, c. On the cross he cried out to the Father from the person of men, 343, c. Christ is equal to the Father in divinity, 358, c, d. He is passible in his passion, impassible after the resurrection, Christ, although he was sought in the garden, did not fear death, 543, a, b. By being born he did not break the virginal seals, 182, b. Christ does not dwell in a soul defiled by sin, 1238, a. Christ is not not God because he is called a prophet, 138, a, b. He dissipates not only diabolical but also innate motions, 551, b. He not only died, but also rose again, 319, c. Christ subjected himself for us, 347, c. He died for sinners, 194, b. In what manner Christ was comprehended and emerged under the virginal womb, 918, 919, Eunomius, 126, c, d. Christ is the sun of justice, 102, c. The solace of sinners, 246, d. Christ alone by word and deed demonstrated true philosophy, 722, c. Christ crowned with thorns, that is, with sins, 305, b. He is all wisdom, 187, b, c. Christ is one, 427, d. Christ is said to have been made as man, 350, a. Christ did not spare himself so that he might spare us, 202, b. Christ, like Noah, keeps us in the ark of the Church, 119, c. He came to save all men, 195, d. Christ suffered voluntarily, 126, c, d; 270, c. Some of Christ's actions were human, others divine, 346, b. The advent of Christ opened the eyes of the Gentiles, but blinded the Hebrews, 339, b, c. At the advent of Christ, the sheep and the wolf are fed in one fold, 379, d; 382, a. Christ's flesh after the resurrection had become more subtle on account of incorruption, 439, a. The conception of Christ in the womb of the virgin was unstained, 190, c. Christ's body is food, 266, c, d. It is absurd for the wicked to eat this food, ibid. Although the particle is minimal, it fills the soul, ibid. What it means to have the intellect of Christ, 87, d. Young men, old men, boys, and women are suited for the militia of Christ, 551, c, d. At the birth of Christ, the most loquacious tripod of Apollo became mute, 215, c. The yoke of Christ is a golden chain, 155, d. The Hebrews are punished by the death of Christ, 107, c, d. The resurrection of Christ is true, 459, a. Those who believe in Christ live, those who do not are otherwise, 122, b. David had recognized from Christ the future salvation for us, 187, c, d. The Arians teach that Christ is a creature, 159, b. Through Christ the devil has been conquered, and we have been vindicated into freedom, 322, c. Apollinarius felt that Christ had assumed flesh in heaven, 178, c; 182, d. How it is to be understood that Christ took on the form of a servant, 126, 127. What it signifies that Christ intercedes for us, 131, d; 134, a. Heretics crucify Christ again,
A 323, b, c, d.
Excessive food harms both soul and body, 186, c. It hinders sleep for the gluttonous, 467, b. The seasonings and mixtures of foods are machines that conquer virtue, 791, b, c. The luxury of foods delights the throat and nourishes the sleepless worm of intemperance, 1146, b. The limit of the pleasure of foods is the throat, 727, d.
Scars of the soul are likened to leprosy, 127, c. Circumcision in a Christian, 87, b. It is not circumcision, but the keeping of the commandments, that profits the soul, 211, a, b.
The City of God is the soul, 203, a.
The gate of heaven is narrow; few enter through it, 147, b. In heaven, the order of men is diverse, 250, a. In heaven, there will be no change, nor fall, nor disturbance, 327, c. It is grievous to live for one who loves heavenly things, 466, c. The mind must be directed toward heavenly things, 139, b; 309, d. To neglect heavenly things and pursue earthly ones is unworthy of a Christian philosopher, 223, c. Let us not associate with those who neglect heavenly things, 331, d. He who does not contemplate heavenly things, but earthly ones, sees nothing good, 139, c. One must return to heavenly things after daily food, 226, c.
The mystical supper must be participated in every day; for thus our body begins to become Christ's, 1239, d. A greater grace is imparted to a larger gathering of good people, 103, c.
A foul thought formed in the mind is a hidden idol, 767, a. Impure thoughts are the daughters of the devil, 266, a. Bad thoughts cut off good ones, and conversely are cut off by good ones, 1207, c, d. Evil thoughts, which—, 1199 et seqq. Evil thoughts separate us from God; when they are removed, we approach Him, 514, c. Evil thoughts are the idols of the soul, 419, b, c; 563, d. They are restrained by the memory of judgment, 231, b. The bed follows delights, 98, c. There are serpents in the heart, 122, c. Garments are filthy, 202, d. God disperses evil thoughts from us, 258, c; 587, c; 470, b. Right thoughts must be put into execution, 146, d. When we dwell on good thoughts, we possess paradise; when we turn to evil ones, we are cast out from it, 303, d; 306, a. Access must be denied to evil thoughts, lest they disturb us again, 318, a.
Knowledge puffs up, 226, b. Nothing is more difficult than the knowledge of oneself, 335, c. He who knows more will be punished more, 239, d.
The conception of Christ in the womb of the Virgin was immaculate, 266, c, d. B Concupiscence has its own fire, 1067, d. Concupiscence, when resting, accustoms itself to break forth more gently by degrees, 1067, b. Let him who wishes God to forgive him forgive others, 419, a.
Conon, even though lazy and useless, nevertheless becomes puffed up when praised by foolish people, 142, c.
One's own conscience is an incorrupt judge, 723, b. Nothing is more infirm than a conscience stimulated by the memory of a wicked action, 954, d. The bites of conscience are more savage than death itself, 431, b.
God becomes known to us through the preservation of the universe, 90, a.
The company of the wicked is to be avoided, 103, b; 310, b. Excessive company is often a cause of anger, 433, d.
Constantinople was subjected to lightnings and earthquakes because of the murder of John Chrysostom, 335, a, b.
Custom is varied by custom, 538, b. Long-standing custom is broken with difficulty, 1019, a, b; 1031, d. Custom passes into habit, and habit passes into nature, 1066, c. Custom is a binding chain and does not permit withdrawal, 1083, b.
Continence according to God is good, but is evil according to the Manichaeans, 206, b. Continence begets temperance, 1147, d. The devil envies those who are continent, 238, d; 391, b. C
The conversation of good people is to be sought, as it is most useful, 351, b, c.
Conversion is easy for those who are willing, even if labor is present, 746, c.
The prince of cooks is the passion of gluttony, 791, b.
The heart is the treasury of the soul, 419, b. Man's heart is earth, 290, a. The human heart is like the earth, 154, b. An impure heart cannot please God, 1063, a. God can create a clean heart within us, 339, b. The secrets of the heart should not be disclosed to recent friends, 483, a.
The heron prolongs its life for many years, and is a lover of its children, 198, b. A figure of the inveterate sinner, ibid.
The heavenly crown is manifold, 155, d. He who does not labor will not be crowned, 479, a; 526, a.
The body, broken by labor, retains the intellect to itself, 1002, d. The body must not be fattened, 242, b. He who fattens the body should fear the judge, 216, b. The body is formed from dust, and revives from ashes, 130, b, c. Each person's body is the measure of his possession, like the foot of a sandal, 1307, a. Afflictions of the body do not hinder the joys of the soul, 171, b. Virtue is to be preferred to the convenience of the body, 743, c. What is the infirmity of body and soul, 782, b.
Modest correction placates those who insult, 302, c. Corybantes are insane, 151, d. D
For gluttons, excessive food hinders sleep, 467, b. To gluttonize at the time of carnal temptation is to increase it for oneself, 431, c, d; 503, c; 573, b, c.
Even irrational creatures instruct us on how it is fitting to pass our life, so that we may be acceptable to the Creator, 1051, 1051 and following.
What it signifies to have straight legs, 738, b, c.
The Cross of Christ turns hatred into charity, 127, d. The Cross of Christ makes the first last, 122, d. And who are the first made last, 123, a, b. One must pray with hands placed in the form of a cross, 119, d; 122, a. Let us sign ourselves with the sign of the Cross at the very exit from the house, 523, d. The sign of the Cross puts diabolical temptations to flight, 350, c; 522, c. The devil is prostrated by the power of the Cross, 202, a, b.
Desire for food is insatiable, and at no time permits the passion to rest, 806, a. Perverse desires are chains that are difficult to break, 1238, b.
The care of souls is the most difficult of all arts, 747, 750.
Care for oneself is to be preferred to everything, 1078, c; 1079, a. He who is burdened with cares is easily overthrown by the devil, but not so he who is not burdened, 231, c.
The demon that afflicts us compels us to flee to God, 166, c. The demon envies a man who is praying greatly, 1175, d; 1178; 1182, b. What the demon of sadness works in the soul, 1211, d. A single demon suggests many things, 190, c. Baptism cuts off demons, 207, a. Demons become weaker against those who struggle legitimately, 475, a. How impure demons test a man, 1223, b, c. Demons are indicated in the Scriptures by various appellations, 235, d. They rise up more gravely against those who are conquering, 431, a, b. In tempting, they bring aid to one another, 407, c. They lie in wait for us, but in vain, 86, a. They use our passions and senses as weapons against us, that they might wound us, 1047, c, d; 1050. Demons who rise up against us first to battle, 1199 and following. By what snares they taunt us, and how they are to be vanquished, 1130, 1131 and following. They strive to close our mouth with various temptations, 139, d. It is permitted for demons to tempt us in multiform ways, 91, b; 235, c.
By what reason Daniel evaded the ferocity of the lions, 918, b.
David had recognized the future salvation for us from Christ, 187, c, d. Not out of love for pleasure, but for offspring, he joined ten wives to himself, 286, b. He felled the famous Goliath not only with a stone, but also through the defense of God, 955, a, b. How he fled from Saul who was pursuing him, 911 and following.
Desire is irritated when that which it loves is not present to the mind, 634, a, b. If evil desires draw the senses of the soul to themselves, how much more should heavenly desires, 531, c. One must rather rule over one's own desires than be their servant, 214, c.
Sloth, or acedia, is a bronze love, an adversary of labors, a sundial of hunger, 1143, b, c. Sloth is a languor and infirmity of the soul, 1158, d; 1159. Our sloth does not save us, 195, d. Sloth nourishes the passions, and provides an occasion for desires to licentiously promote themselves toward those things for which they were born, 999, c. The devil revels more ferociously in the slothful, 486, c. Let us not be slothful to rise if we fall into sins, 355, a.
The devil suggests despair after a crime has been committed, 287, b.
Detraction, the daughter of anger, is to be detested, 218, b. Because of detraction, Mary, the sister of Moses, was struck with leprosy, 279, b. The soul of the detractor is immediately covered with leprosy, ibid.
God covers the scars of the soul, 127, c. God becomes known to us through the preservation of the universe, 90, a. He benignly assents to every petition, 835, d. God rejoices in those who strive to attain the same glory that He Himself has, 1027, a. He chastises the impious so that He may correct them, 578, c; 463, b; 510, c. He blinds the eyes of the wicked, but opens the intellectual ones, 162, b, c. God is incomprehensible, against Eunomius, 87, d; 147, b; 162, d. God is to be praised unceasingly, 170, d. In governing, He does not respect persons, 198, d. He is mild and strong, 367, b. God is all in all, 103, c. Being named, God puts demons to flight, 1231, d. He is not to be importuned, but His good pleasure is to be awaited, 430, d; 451, a, b; 533, c, d. He guards us within and without, 199, b, c. God has a special care for those who serve Him, 246, d; 238, a; 418, c. He can change things from worse to better, 263, b; 399, c; 475, c. He can change nature, 322, d. God is a prudent physician, 99, b; 342, b; 431, b; 459, c, d; 479, a; 523, a. Those whom He heals in the soul, He confirms in faith, 127, c. God always assists the infirm, 746, c. Without human cooperation, He shows good things to be perfect, 734, d. He alone is properly wise, 533, c. If He does not answer immediately, He delays for the better, 363, c; 387, b, c; 427, a, b; 466,
A a. b. 470. c. 478, b. c. 531, c. God is to be loved above all things, 212, c. He receives those who flee to Him, 239, b. 259, d. 395, d. 463, a. b. c. 522, a. 539, c. God converts sadness into joy and vice versa, 135, c. 302, a. He must be praised in prosperity and in adversity, 383, c. 390, a. b. c. Or rather, even more so in sadness, 383, c. 463, d. God created only one man, 154, c. d. God is one, 155, b. 174, c. 178, a. The love of God is to be preferred to kinsmen, 250, c. He who rejoices in the friendship of God is happy, 371, d. 574, a. The memory of God should never depart from the mind, 531, a. The memory of God is useful to the soul, 170, d. The memory of God gives comfort in time of distress, 563, c. Contemplation of the works of God brings great delight and much profit, 1051, a. b. Let us vow ourselves to God, 202, c. We should strive to please God, 258, a. God must be served out of love, not fear, 111, c. and Him alone, 546, b. c. Let us never refuse God even when He chastises, 203, b. Let the one who has God as his guardian not fear, 338, c. Let the one who wants God to be merciful to him be merciful to others, 327, d. Let the one who wants to come to God guard the gates, that is, the senses, 535, a. Unless we are helped by God, even if we are free, we can do no good, 558, b. c. All things are from God, 166, b. and are useful to us, 170, b. 342, b. Let those who want to seduce us from God be held in hatred, 471, c. 542, a, 543. The devil was trampled by the apostolic washing of the feet, 118, c. d. The devil fishes for the incautious by apparent causes, 227, d. The devil is a hater of honesty, and persecutes the holy with hatred, 887, 890. The devil is a thief and arms himself against us with our own sins, 322, c. He tempts according to our inclination and strength, 183, b. If he rises up more vehemently after good works, it is a sign that he has been hurt, 407, a. b. The devil is prostrated by the power of the cross, 202, a. b. Adam was deceived by the devil’s fraud, 890, for he may eventually serve his God, 479, d. Let him who has obeyed the devil open his ears to divine instructions, 522, a. Let him who fears the devil alone choose a faithful companion, 255, a. God does not always permit the devil to win, 255, b. 571, d. He who trusts too much in himself is plundered by the devil, 415, d. 418, a. Those who are still imperfect but teach others are mocked by the devil, 246, c. 458, d. We must contend with the devil, 191, c. Delay was often the cause of changing a plan, 774, a. Love is the fulfilling of the law, 390, b. The heart of those who love God always rejoices, 506, a. Human diligence not supported by divine help ends in failure, 731, c. Dina, the daughter of Jacob, 231, a. Discipline that does not teach the law of God is folly and ignorance, 1239, a. The negligence of disciples brings danger to the master, 755, a. The providence of God produces good works, even without human cooperation, 734, d. Christ retained His divinity in His passion, against Arius and Eunomius, 126, c. d.
B 106, d. Let us be olive trees bringing forth fruit in the Church of God, 383, d. Churches must not be adorned with vain gypsum ornaments, but only by the sign of the cross, 578, c. d. In churches one must weep, not laugh, 362, c. Desire for food brings disobedience, 1146, b. Almsgiving, 350, a. Almsgiving is commended, 874, it will have glory, 963 et seqq. One must be occupied with almsgiving, good works, and prayer, 887, a. b. c. He who believes that alms are given to God in the poor person does not wait to be asked, 239, c. Alms provide confidence before the tribunal of the supreme Judge, 855, d. Inheritances often come to almsgivers, 338, d. 370, a. b. Elijah found food under a plant, 123, d. Miraculously fed, 927, c. d. The angelic celibacy of Elijah, 151, c. What the mantle of Elijah signifies, 326, a. How Elisha hid from the enemies looking for him, 915, b. What the dedication (encænia) is, 171, b. The sword of the devil is manifold, 426, b. Why the dignity of the episcopate is given to men and not to angels, 334, b. Let a bishop not lust after sordid gain, 342, c. Bishops should not immediately excommunicate, but first soothe, 299, b. Intemperance and buffoonery must be restrained in bishops, 575, c. d. The wicked life of bishops causes the ruin of their subjects, 290, d. Many will be damned even from among the bishops, 542, a. External and popular feasts must be rejected, 1303, b. Errors are not to be followed just because they are ancestral, 211, d. Satiety of food feeds thoughts, and the drunkard gulps down the sleep of imagination, 1118, d. The Eucharist is compared to a scroll, 103, a. The effects of the Eucharist are life-giving to the good, deadly to the unworthy, 126, a. b. From the reception of the Eucharist comes the fatness of spiritual things, ibid. et 406, c. The Eucharist is to be refreshed, 126, a. Man will not be saved unless he communicates in the body of Christ with love and fear, 522, d. Eunomius, out of his senses, asserted that he could comprehend the nature of God, 87, d. Eve is a figure of Mary, 179, d. Eve clothed us with garments, but Mary with incorruptibility, 179, d. 182, a. The Gospel of Christ is mystically Deuteronomy, 110, d. Prophecies, the words of Moses, and mystical matters flow together with the Gospel, 106, c. d. Excess and defect are equally to be avoided, 415, a. It is example, not speech, that leads to imitation, 751, C evil examples prevail over good ones, 1014, 1015. Good examples imprint images very similar to themselves on souls that are not very hard and rough, 763, d. The riches of the greedy for the most part reach the wicked, 271, d. The riches of the impious will be dispersed like dust, 834, a. Riches do not let their possessors sleep, 875, c. The greater riches are to the greedy, the greater will be the eternal punishments, 271, d. True riches are not in the abundance of things, but in the satiety of a soul that desires nothing, 710, a. b. Lovers of riches are with difficulty torn away from them at the hour of death, 850 et seqq. The greed for riches must be cured by the poverty of possessions, 806, b. The instability of riches, 855, b. c. He who does not want to throw away riches will perish with his riches, 327, b. c. He who gathers riches is gathering them for others, but for himself eternal pains, 267, c. 290, d. He who lacks riches for almsgiving should purge his heart of vices, 471, c. A man is insatiable and inhuman when it comes to riches, 191, b. The rich will be rigorously examined regarding their administration of goods, 210, b. Doctrine that consists in works is more effective than that which is in words, 751, d. 751, a. It behooves the learned man who presides over others to be upright, 758, a. He who holds dominion must take care lest he be dominated by others, 119, a. The life of those who hold dominion is unhappy, 371, b. Those who await the Lord will be crowned by Him, 331, a. When the Lord withdraws from us, our infirmity becomes known, 338, c. When the Lord works our affairs, all are in safety, ibid. Gifts are to be valued not by the price of the thing offered, but by the magnificence of the intent, 615, c. Spiritual gifts are conjoined with affections, 198, a. Excessive sleep is beastly, 91, d. The endowments of the soul are more beautiful than bodily adornments, 190, a. E. The Church of God gradually shone above the sun, 386, a. b. The Church of Jerusalem, 178, d. The Church is to be frequented just as heaven; nothing earthly is to be spoken or thought in it, 1234, b. The figure of the Church, the moon, 479, a; Rahab, D the outcome of affairs is uncertain, 178, c. The outcome of affairs is best according to the will of God, not according to our own, 362, d. The end of life must always be kept before one’s eyes, 167, d. Let another’s experience become the teaching of others, 751, b. The explorers of Palestine are figures of the angels, 110, a. External things are not to be considered, 251, c. How Hezekiah put the army of the Assyrians to flight, 914, 915. F. The face does not sustain the concealment of the movement and state of the mind, 674, b. Those who throw away their means to just anyone are deservedly punished, 855, 858. Famine and its effects, 926, 927. The clock of famine is sloth, 1143, b. c. Fate is something fictitious, 183, d. Human happiness is unstable, 151, d. Human happiness is conjoined with miseries, 331, c. The gaze of a woman is a weapon steeped in poison, 1147, d. The company of women is to be shunned, 1150, a. b. c. Even wild beasts admire and honor virtue, 791, c. What leaven and unleavened bread signify, 959, d. Faith needs a divine impulse, and the impulse needs our choice and will, 318, d. Faith is necessary for the understanding of the Scriptures, 135, b. Faith and baptism without works of justice will not save from eternal fire, 1239, a. Faith and its effects, 362, b. Faith in Christ is justification; to confess with the mouth is full salvation, 86, c. Unbelief is to be rejected in acts of faith, 514, d. The power of professed faith, 86, c. The devil strives to abolish faith, hope, and charity, 262, a. Let him who is converted to the faith of Christ not favor old errors, 370, c. d. Through faith, knowledge confers countless goods, 86, d. Through faith and hope we approach God, 207, b. When faith fails, the devil oppresses us, 259, b. The devil is overthrown by faith, 391, b. In faith God strengthens those He heals in soul, 127, c. In faith God strengthens the unstable and incredulous through miracles, 579, b. He who trusts too much in himself will be abandoned by God and mocked, 358, a. b. The Son is consubstantial with the Father, 118, a. b. The generation of the Son from the Father is inexplicable, 155, b. 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who follow after riches are often reduced to extreme poverty, 853, b. The end of the just and the unjust is uncertain, 486, d. 487, a. The scourges of God are not to be rejected for the sake of eternal happiness, 203, b. 538, d. Leaves are for covering and ornament for a plant, and for the security of its fruit, 827, d. The end of fornication is pain, 770, b. The strong man, even if covered in wounds, shall obtain victory, 146, b. The thief and the adulterer believe that all men are thieves and adulterers, 98, d.
G. Joy is the destruction of sadness and the consolation of tears, 1143, a. Immoderate joy must be repressed by sadness of countenance, 150, b. He who desires joy should neglect earthly things, 439, c. Spiritual joys are preceded by temptations, 406, c. d. How Gideon destroyed the Midianites, 914, b. c. Since the jaw B is an instrument of nutrition, it is adorned by temperance, 822, c. Corporal generation is one, but spiritual generation is manifold, 158, c. Gentiles who have believed in the Word are nourished; Hebrews perish of hunger on account of their unbelief, 294, b. A sword provides great protection to the fighter, 1267, d. The sword of preaching is the word, 1271, c. What it means to carry a sword at the thigh, and what is signified by the sword, 754, a. b. Human glory is small and vile, 191, b. What is vain or empty glory, 822, d. Its effects, 823, 826. Vain glory is a boar from the forest, 830, a. It is the mother of heresies, a beast armed with a thousand teeth, 1143, c. d. Vain glory compels one to bring work into the public eye, wishing to please men rather than God, and it makes labors useless, 1047, d. Vain glory is an irrational passion, 1159, d. It is the beginning of mental error, 1194, a. A torn purse, 978, a. It is to be utterly shunned by priests, 551, c. The appetite for vain glory extorts the reward of good works and renders labor useless, 619, b. 623, c. 1058, b. c. Those who crave it are easily plundered by the devil, 491, c. d. He who aspires to glory is like a harlot, 423, b. Refreshing grace flies in when the soul nearly succumbs to sorrows, 406, c. d. God bestows grace upon those seeking it with constant sweat, 519, a. 538, d. Those destitute of the grace of God are a mockery to the devil, 239, b. c. 395, c. By legal and evangelical grace, men are gifted by Christ, 354, c. When grace departed from the Hebrews, all good things flew away from them, 294, c. C Thanks are to be given to God at the end of the year, 506, a. He who does not share the graces of God with others buries his talent and will be punished in judgment, 211, c. Giving thanks to God in distress is most useful, 458, b. 439, b. c. Gluttony, or the desire to fill the belly, is the mother and governess of the passions, but the expeller of honest things, 791, a. It is the mother of fornication and the nurse of evil thoughts, 1142, b. It burdens reason and excites libidinous desires, 615, a. b. Gluttony’s ratio has the end of fornication, 770, b. Addicted to the pleasure of gluttony, one is easily overcome by lust, 622, c. The offspring and sprouts of gluttony are avarice, irascibility, and pain, 787, c. The throat is the limit of all pleasure in food, 727, d.
H. Habit is contracted from custom, but nature is contracted from habit, 786, c. Heretics call those who abjure heresy ignominious [names], 195, d. Heretics crucify [Him] again, 159, a. They adapt the words of Scripture to themselves, 174, c. Although the Hebrews had sinned, they contended the opposite, 390, d. They are punished for the slaughter of Christ, 107, c. d. The princes of the Hebrews are called Sodomites, 111, c. God was angry with the Hebrews because they neither believed nor hoped, 207, b. With them, all good things flew away alongside grace, 294, c. Homicide and adultery are grave sins, even in the opinion of men, 83, c. Man alone was created from the earth, 154, c. Man alone is the image of God, 155, a. Who the old man is, of whom the Apostle speaks, 142, b. Men ought to serve one another like the members of a body, 838, 839. Who are the pestilence of souls, 310, a. That men should be washed with women is execrable, 311, a. Men are called water in Scripture, 194, a. Honor is the mother of evils, 1098, c. The affectation of honor, born at the same time as man, was granted not for the contempt of the one who honors, but for reverence, 891, a. The beginning of honor is the complacency of men, but its end is pride, 1098, c. Hospitality is to be practiced with great zeal, 1127, b. c. Enemies are to be loved, 347, b. 350, d. 351, a. 354, b. 571, d. Our enemies are numberless, 527, b. He who exerts humanity towards enemies D shall be saved in judgment, 385, c. A certain man threw a stone at an enemy, but the stone blinded the one who threw it, 314, a. Humility is the wall of other virtues, which keeps the treasures of the soul inviolate, 962, d. It never concedes a place to envy, 1058, d. It beats down the evil spirit of honor, 1098, d. Humility begets charity, but pride begets hatred, 143, a. Humility is to be loved, even if you are great, so that you may be exalted on the day of judgment, 1262, b. Humility lifts man up to heaven, 1163, a. It is matched by hospitality and makes pride cease, 125, a. b. Humility is necessary above all things, 506, d. 307, a. True humility obeys whatever it is tasked with, 99, a. Those who love humility are themselves angels, 199, c. Nothing harms those subject to humility, [not even] the ignorance of one’s superior, 99, a. Demons fear humility greatly, 1127, d. Through humility, not boasting, one ascends to heaven, 243, d. By humility, the devil is laid low, 194, b. c. God takes pity on the humble, not the powerful, 147, c. The heart must be humbled in hardships, lest it swell up, 222, d. What hypocrisy is, and its effect, 207, b. c. The hypocrite is clothed in another’s garments, 186, c.
I. Idols are the evil thoughts of the soul, 419, b. c. 563, d. What it denotes to place an idol in secret, 767, a. Idolatry does not lift the mind outside of corporal things, 85, a. On account of idolatry, sad things came to pass, 115, a. b. Sloth is the mother of vices, 1258, b. It was more miraculous that the fire of the Babylonian furnace did not do harm than if it had been suddenly extinguished by God, 375, d. Illiberality begets austerity of morals, 191, c. The illuminations of God are likened to dew, 98, a. The soul is to be dilated by divine illuminations, 235, c. d. The divine image conciliates reverence for those serving God and renders them venerable, 894, 895. One’s own weakness must be confessed to God, 219, a. God accommodated Himself to our weakness in teaching, 166, b. The ruin of imitators becomes a teacher of punishment, 731, b. Inhumanity is to be detested by bishops, 298, d. 299, a. b. 312, c. In punishment for this, they fall into intolerable temptations, 299, a. b. c. God rejects those who are unmindful of benefits, but receives the unworthy, 90, c. Avarice begets unmercifulness, 806, d. The immutability of God and our mutability, 214, a. The changing of the hands of Jacob made the first second, 122, d. The ignorance of a teacher ruins the disciples; the negligence of disciples brings danger to the teacher, 755, a. Impiety is a grave sickness, 151, d. Impiety often makes those famous whom diligence does not, 139, b. The impious man is exalted so that he may be cast down, 114, d. The impious man loves the impious and hates the just, 295, d. Impious affections are the souls of demons, 151, c. God chastises the impious so that He may correct them, 378, c. 463, b. 510, c. Dishonesty begets iniquity, 107, b. Dishonesty pal pated by the wise is easily detected, 125, c. 274, b. c. Dishonesty harms only itself, 162, d. 314, d. 315, a. When dishonesty is rejected, God is recognized, 554, c. The dishonest person judges his neighbor quickly, the honest person never, 98, d. The works of the dishonest are praised by the devil, 142, d. If the dishonest are not changed by the company of the honest, they will be punished with a double penalty, 379, c. The curses and mockeries of the dishonest are not to be cared about, 210, a. For the dishonest, all things are incentives to sinning, but for the honest, they are for praising God, 251, d. Impudicity is the fetus of gluttony, the disgrace of prayer, and the reproach of the heart, 1142, c. Inequality now occupies the life of mortals, 875, 878. The Incarnation is a lamp, 178, d. Human inclinations are swept into contrary things, 515, b. Where there is incontinence, there is famine, 298, a. All species of incontinence are called winter by Solomon, 312, a. Moderate want afflicts him who is not spurred on by the luxury of others, 862, a. A monk should practice inactivity, 295, a. God restrains the indomitable not out of hate, but out of love, 139, a. All follies are called mysteries by sectarians, 154, c. Infirmities of the body are profitable to the soul, 171, d. It is a sign of a dull mind to be occupied entirely with those things which pertain to the body, 1307, c. Iniquity is to deprive the needy of necessities, just as it is to oppress others with tyranny, 886, c. d. The works of iniquity are malevolence and dead, 151, b. He who has grown old in iniquities should at last know himself, 215, b. An injury inflicted upon the saints is cast back upon God, 291, b. c.
A Hope in God must be cherished, 99, d. 335, c. Insolence in prosperity must be restrained, 151, d. Understanding is the eye of the soul, 139, b. Understanding that thinks of nothing decent is like a foul-smelling tomb, 1038, d. The honors of neighbors should not be envied, 363, a. Envy is the clothing of pride and the enemy of charity, 115, d. Envy is destructive, 143, a. Envy opposes great successes, 178, c. Envy harms itself; its effects, 959, c. d. Because of the envy of certain co-bishops, John Chrysostom is driven into exile, 475, b. 522, d. These same co-bishops, punished by God, confessed their crime, 475, c. Anger is the destruction of prudence, the mother of wild beasts, and an impediment to prayer, 1113, a. b. Anger stirs up sorrow and hatred, 1106, d. Detraction is the daughter of anger, 218, b. Wrath clouds the mind, 365, c. Wrath, a furious passion, makes the spirit savage, 1134, c. Silent wrath turns out to be milder, 1067, b. Nothing can incite imitators of Christ to wrath, 350, c. Sometimes we must be angry with ourselves, 319, b. 527, b. One must by no means be angry with a neighbor, 350, c. How the Israelites, pursuing the Egyptians, escaped and defeated their enemies in the desert, 915, 918.
J Jacob wrestles with the angel, 923, d. Boasting must be bridled, 150, b. What does the history of Jebuthe teach us, 758, 759. The prayer of one fasting is like a fledgling eagle flying upward, 1116, b. My fast is a star shining in the serenity of night, ibid. Fasting from vices, 211, b. Fasting cuts off intemperance, and continence cuts off the lust of fornication, 1235, a. Fasting without good works is gluttony, 206, b. Fasting is an excellent mirror for a virgin, 147, d. The bread of fasting is good, since it is free from the leaven of pleasures, 1215, c. By fasting, the petulance of the flesh must be bridled, 130, b. Jephthah’s vow and praise, 907, d. The virtue of Jeremiah, held in veneration even by the barbarians, 227, a. The philosophers of Jesse, their customs, 722, a. b. Jesus Nave is a figure of Jesus Christ, 106, c. B Always, however, to be avoided, 83, c. 511, b. An oath, if possible, is to be refused for all things, 1303, b. Justice is an equal distribution, 390, b. c. Justice is an appendix of virtue, for without it every action is impure, 1215, c. It makes us close to God, fearless and imperturbable, 958, d. Justice is truly fitting, not giving equal shares to everyone, but providing to each according to his dignity, 1019, d. The contemplation of divine justice is difficult, 359, c. 390, c. The righteous man contends in virtue with the angels, 259, d. A righteous man who thinks he is one should not wax insolent over a sinner, 250, d. How he may be regenerated, 158, c. If he falls into error, he will have God as his defender, 570, b. In Scripture, the righteous man is called by a great number, the sinner by one or none, 155, c. The righteous man is everywhere pleasing to God, 116, c. In death he will be illuminated, ibid. In the soul of the righteous man, God inscribes what He requires, 150, b. He who blesses the righteous will be blessed, and he who curses him will be cursed by God, 510, b. c. The righteous are often forsaken so that they may learn patience and avoid pride, 217, b. c. 598, b. They are often afflicted by reproaches and labors, 99, c. Those who do not appear righteous are saved rather than those who do, 234, b. The souls of the righteous stand adorned at God’s right hand, 182, a. The shield of the righteous is a crown, 165, b. The security and power of the righteous, 994, 993. God permits sadness to the righteous so that they may be tested, 574, c. Everything serves the righteous in their infirmities, 227, a. God touches the righteous so that the impious may be terrified, 379, a. He does not forsake them, 226, c. d. The devil tries in many ways to drive the righteous into despair, 474, d.
Where Jesus touches, all things are changed for the better, 323, d. John, the forerunner of Christ, lived in the wilderness, 102, c. All the cities went out to him, 746, d. It was the beginning of the monastic life, 993, d. John Chrysostom is praised, 295, c. Because of envy, he is driven into exile, 475, b. 522, d. Because of his murder, Constantinople was subjected to lightning and earthquakes, 355, a. b. Job is famous not so much for his charity to the poor as for his tolerance in adversity, 375, a. b. c. A lily as if most beautiful among thorns, 813, d. The magnitude of Job’s calamities, 907, a. b. c. Patience, conflict, and victory, 893, 898 et seqq. God gave all good things because of his tolerance, 171, c. His three daughters, ibid. Jonah’s prayer from the depth of the sea reaches heaven, 830, d. How the belly of the whale kept Jonah incorrupt, 918, c. Jonathan tasted honey with the top of his rod, and saw, 255, c. The Jordan denotes the word of penance, 758, d. What the stones taken from the midst of the Jordan signify, 731, b. Joseph did not know Mary carnally, 182, c. Joseph’s struggle with Potiphar’s wife; compared to Susanna, 902, 903. Adam, driven from paradise, inhabited Judea, 85, a. Why the Jews suffered so many and such great evils, 107, c. Why the princes of the Jews were called the princes of Sodom, 111, c. The face of the judge must be anticipated with labors, 559, c. Judgment ruins the impenitent, mercy saves the penitent, 99, b. The day of judgment, 107, a. 214, b. 466, d. 467, a. On the day of judgment, we shall even be punished for an idle word heard, 440, a. The complaints of the impenitent will be numerous, but useless, 47, a. 555, d. 558, a. b. On the day of judgment, the righteous man will rejoice because of faith kept for Christ, 525, d. All things will be revealed to confusion, 191, d. Both good and evil will be examined, 378, d. The memory of judgment restrains evil thoughts, 271, b. The devil strives to erase the memory of judgment so that he may destroy; Christ inculcates it so that He may save, 278, c. d. The judgments of God are incomprehensible, 90, d. The yoke of Christ is a golden chain, 155, d. Liberty and confidence should not be given to the young, 474, a. With the young, as with daughters, the face should not be cheered, ibid. An oath, although not as grave as homicide, PATROL. GR. LXXIX.
Young men who are corrupt are to be avoided, 103, b. One who is young in age but an elder in character, 142, a. The habits of youth will last into old age, 366, b. One must do good in youth, 112, c. In youth, good habits are to be acquired, 531, d.
L Labor becomes a pleasure through love, and its difficulty a joy, 876, a. Human labor is useless unless it is sealed by the gifts of God, 746, b. Labor is the anchor of the mind, 1002, c. Labor is vain and useless if it does not reach that which it aimed at from the beginning, 1035, b. Things acquired with much labor are tenaciously held and loved, 103, c. d. The tear of prayer is a good bath for the soul, 1216, b. The tears of friends soothe the anguish of the afflicted, 598, a. Tears, otherwise than on earth, erase the sentence of the Judge, 362, c. He who cannot shed tears changes his heart, 511, d. 514, a. b. What the stones extracted from the midst of the Jordan denote, 731, b. The thief on the cross was immediately heard, 158, a. The praise with which a neighbor is praised is poured back even upon the one praising, 363, a. Human praise is not to be sought, 250, b, 213, c. He who seeks praise receives his reward, 327, a. b. The history of Lazarus and the rich man, 812 et seqq. 870 et seqq. Reading the New Testament is to be preferred by monks to all other things, 316, a. By the deprivation of sacred reading, the mind is blinded, 505, c. The utility and advantages of reading, 826 et seqq. To spiritual reading, prayer and manual labor must be joined, 578, a. b. By reading Scripture, the wandering mind is restrained, 1235, a. Reading is more useful than prayer, 494, d. In reading books, let us be like bees, 310, c. Leontius the presbyter, made a bishop, a man of both lives, active and contemplative, illustrious in praise, 703, a. Fourfold leprosy, 166, a. Scars of the soul are likened to leprosy, 128, c. A leper was cast out of the camp as unclean until he was cleansed, 474, d. The law of Christ is the law of liberty, 559, a. The law kept, keeps, 147, a. The law of God does not cause, but impedes sin against some people, 210, c. d. The law of nature willed that children be closest to their parents, nevertheless it teaches each one to have the desire for their own salvation as their greatest care, 862, b. c. Charity is the fulfillment of the law, 590, b. The meditation of the law is not a mediocre labor, 1233, c. Let him who has received many things from God renounce those things contrary to divine law, 434, c. Those things which are forbidden to be touched by the faithless as impure, are pure for the faithful through Christ, 14, a. He who wishes to be free must not covet, nor turn away from anything of those things which are in others, otherwise it is necessary that he be a servant, 1294, a. The lily signifies a soul free from anxiety, 799, d. Why we have one tongue and two ears, 183, c. Some assert there are seventy languages in the world, 458, b. Useless utterances and evil thoughts are pernicious, 122, c. Long-suffering is the armor of prudence and the remedy of the heart, 115, b. 48
A Washing of hands before entering the temple is a symbol of prayer, 90, d. 91, a. It is a genuine gain to confess what is done out of beneficence, 855, c. Mourning for sins is most useful, 163, a. The moon, waxing and waning, shows the mutability of things, 1054, c. d. The moon is a figure of the Church, 479, a. Luxury is to be shunned, 1147 et seqq. The demon of luxury is very deceitful and envious, 1187, a.
M The Midianites represent the figure of the passions of unchastity, 791, c. A teacher should separate himself from the tumult, 230, a. A teacher ought to contend no less for those he governs than for himself, 763, b. The ignorance of a teacher ruins his disciples, 755, a. Malice draws malice, 231, b. The Manichaeans assert that evil is immutable, 355, a. 390, d. Evil is evil only to itself, but the good is for others as well, 162, d. Present evils are small, but future goods are great, 559, b. Let not the evils which arise from crimes cause displeasure, 314, c. One should not pay attention to past evils, 251, d. Let him who wishes to be heard by God observe the commandments of God, 406, a. The Manichaeans call the books of their impiety a good treasure, 134, c. Gentleness puts demons to flight and renders us friends of God, 1215, c. d. The washing of hands before entering the temple is a symbol of prayer, 90, d. The labor of the hands is not to be neglected, 431, d. What it means to walk with one’s hands and what with one’s feet, 735, d. Mary clothed us with incorruptibility, but Eve with garments, 179, d. 182, a. Mary is venerated by the universe as Theotokos, 294, a. Mary is the true mother of the just, 179, d. Joseph did not know before the birth that Mary would be the Theotokos, 179, b. 182, b. He who desires martyrdom, when a tyrant is lacking, should contend with vices, 422, b. c. The jaw is the servant and helper of the belly, 819, d. God is a prudent physician, 99, b. 247, d. 398, b. c. He brings remedies, ibid. He who is occupied by evil has need of the heavenly Physician, 539, b. All wounds must be disclosed to the heavenly Physician, 539, c. A reprobate soul rejects the Physician, 162, b. B Good memory is no longer useful to those undergoing eternal punishments, 859, c. Memory of filth triggers the thought of the one speaking, 755, d. He is a liar in the scales who prefers present things to future ones, 566, c. d. 367; and he whose power of mind is corrupted, ibid. He who wishes to comprehend too much slips into falsehoods, 117, d. The mind is the charioteer, 518, a. The mind is the mistress, the flesh the servant, 147, c. While the mind keeps watch inwardly and guards the senses, no member acts wickedly, 1063, d. A whole mind is the bridal garment, 278, c. A pure mind is the throne of God, 1227, d. The mind must be exercised according to the virtue of each thing, 527, c. d. A mind removed from contemplation becomes either a demon or a beast of burden, 391, c. A sober and watchful mind is rarely deceived by the snares of enemies, 706, d. The mind is by its own nature always mobile, 1087, c. Elevation of the mind to God expels sadness of heart, 450, a. b. Nothing is more excellent than a moderate mind, 199, d. He who affects human glory is not unlike a harlot, 423, b. Why the fear of God cannot do what the fear of the sea can, 791, b. C Mercy of God, 499, a. b. The mercy of God saves sinners, but judgment destroys the impenitent, 99, a. b. God loves mercy and judgment, ibid. We ought to show mercy to the needy without discrimination, 875, c. The sinner who is naked of good works hopes only in the mercy of God, 87, c. He who wishes God to be merciful to him becomes merciful to others, 527, d. Compassion lifts up the merciful, inhumanity strikes down the unmerciful, 867, c. d. One must devoutly assist at the sacrifice of the Mass, 346, c. d. 347, a. St. John Chrysostom saw angels standing by it, ibid. Internal modesty overshadows the good things of the soul, 827, d. The modesty of Moses and Elijah, what it is, 626, a. b. What sorrow according to God is, 1105, a. A monk should not seek after that which belongs to another, but attend to himself, 211, a. b. 545, b. c. A monk is the altar of the Lord, 387, a. A gluttonous monk is subject to the toll of the belly, 117, a. An insolent monk who possesses money is a traitor, 246, a. b. An irascible monk is a wild boar and a solitary, 1154, c. A long-suffering one, however, is a quiet fountain, ibid., d. A monk should use food according to his health, 275, d. A monk should not change his places unless commanded, 190, b. d. 225, d, 281, a. 238, a. 263, c. He should not crave to stay in one place, 231, d. Modestly he should conduct himself, but trust in God, 138, c. A monk who is puffed up by vainglory is a laborer without wages, 1159, d. How he should conduct himself, 543 et seqq. 570, b. c. A proud monk is abandoned by the angels, 199, c. He is a tree without roots, and cannot withstand the onslaught of the wind, 1163, c. Let him accustom himself to vile foods, 415, a. The difference between a greedy monk and a poor one, 1151, 1154. Monks living in cities are doves and turtledoves; those who live in solitudes spend their lives, 1091, b. Although they are sometimes refreshed with good foods, they are not to be judged, 187, b. They conceal their good works and divulge their sins, 527, a. They prefer solitude to dignities, 82, a. True monks are despised because of pseudo-monks, 434, c. The struggle of monks is more laborious than any athletic contest, 227, d. The labors of monks are most difficultly mastered, 186, b. A teacher of monks is compared to a ship's pilot, 771, a. b. c. The morals of the earlier monks were upright; those of the later ones, however, were lost, 726 et seqq. The struggles of monks with the devil, 187, a. b. Information concerning the morals, studies, and virtues of the monks who led a solitary life around Mount Sinai, 614 et seqq. Barbarians suddenly raid them; the slaughter of some, 626 et seqq. The difference between the good and the bad, 1007 et seqq. The excellence of these, 1062 et seqq. The devil suggests unusual fasts to monks so that they may either become proud or grow infirm, 411, d. Much talking is blameworthy in monks, 490, b. 502, c. Stability is necessary for monks, 231, d. In times of danger, leading men flee to the monks, 82, b. The devil attacks monks especially, 455, a. Monastic life is exposed to temptations, 258, a. b. 387, b. c. 419, c. d. Monastic life should correspond to the monastic garment, 259, c. Mountains designate the contemplation of heavenly things, 466, a. b. Bodily sickness is an impediment, but not to the purpose, unless one wills it, 1290, d. The manners of youth will persist in old age, 366, b. Evil manners are the children of the devil, ibid. By upright manners, vessels of dishonor can be converted into vessels of honor, 354, a. It is better to die than to commit anything that degrades the institution, 746, c. The death of the soul is more grievous than the death of the body, 638, c. Let death be before your eyes every day, and you will never think of anything base, 1295, a. Death is not something grave, but the opinion which is conceived about death, 1290, a. b. Death must be kept before the eyes, 167, c. d. He who is dead to sin is just, 207, d. To weep excessively for the dead is a mark of unbelief, 195, b. 286, c. d. Evil motions are avoided by prayer, reading, and the patronage of the oppressed, 206, c. 430, c. d. Moses put the Amalekites to flight by prayer, 83, d. He led the people out of Egypt; his miracles, 931 et seqq. Moses spoke obscurely, so that he might not be understood by the foolish, 154, d. The face of Moses is the light of the Pentateuch, 135, a. It is not permitted for a woman to teach in church, 250, d. The conversations of women, whether under a rule or not, are to be avoided, 218, c. 431, a. b. The company of women and boys, whether beautiful or ugly, is to be avoided, 279, 282 et seqq. The devil introduces the unwary into friendships with women without malice, so that he may draw them into carnal sins, ibid. The world is a sick-ward, 217, d. The world is a cave, 379, c. Let him who has renounced the world not be too addicted to his relatives, 527, a. 575, d. Heavenly gifts, when received with humility, overthrow the devil, 151, b. Murmuring is the fetus of anger, 218, b.
N Nebuchadnezzar regained his kingdom after repentance, 499, a. b. The divine nature is not subject to any passion, 838, b. It is proposed for imitation, 1023, b. Nature keeps a similar course in all things, 818, c. Nature is to be postponed to virtue, 887, b. Nothing is more violent than necessity in nature, 727, c. d. God can change nature, 522, d. Virtue is more excellent than nature, 737, a. Necessity equalizes inequality, and reduces the humble to the sublime, 859, c. The right of killing himself is not granted to man by the Creator, 618, b. Negligence harms less than an arrogant estimation of oneself, 1038, d. Business is the weapon of the passions, 1082, b. Neuriim [youth] in water denotes a false opinion about things, 251, a. Nilus (St.), having recently lost his son Theodulus, rejecting the consolation of friends, laments his calamity before them, 590 et seqq. He narrates his conversion from the beginning, 590 et seqq. He disputes concerning Providence, with many things from the sacred
A history, repeated by examples, 670 et seqq. Consternated by the atrocious news of the danger of his Theodulus, he is raised up by the example of a most generous matron, who bore the news of the slaughter of her son most constantly, 655 et seqq. With his companions he buries the bodies of the saints, 663 et seqq. Presently, a kind message having been brought from the king of the Barbarians, he sets out to search for his son, 656 et seqq. He is captured by the Barbarians, liberated a little later, 667 et seqq. He receives sure news of his son's safety, and arrives at Elusa to find him, 671 et seqq. He is ordained a presbyter by the prelate of Elusa, 691. Invited in vain to remain, he returns with his son to the monastery, 691 et seqq.
He who wishes to harm another, harms himself by the judgment of God, 314, a. b. Noah the just, a figure of Christ, 119, b. c. Noah did not ignore the sepulcher of Adam, 83, b. The marks by which the soul is recognized to be related to God, which are, 1026, a. b. 1027, d. The Novatians deny penance, 498, b. c. Innovators, though impure, judge themselves pure, 274, a. b. What to struggle naked means, 798, 799. The use of money has no place among monks, 618, b. c. Marriages were instituted not for the fruit of lust, but for the increase of the race, 602, a.
O Obedience is to be cultivated for the imitation of Christ, 1059, a. b. Obedience leads to life, disobedience to death, 171, a. Obedience scourges demons more than fasting, 191, b. c. Reproofs B of a spiritual father do not proceed from hatred, but from love, 363, b. The eye is the lamp of the body, 139, b. c. When the eye is an armor of iniquity and when it is an armor of justice, 1034, a. What it means to pluck out the right eye, 754, b. c. God blinds wicked eyes, opens intellectual ones, 162, b. c. God can change impure eyes into pure ones, 326, b. The mortification of the eyes cuts off carnal temptations, 355, a; 430, b; 503, c. Hatred arises from pride, charity from humility, 113, a. The hatred which we have against demons confers upon us salvation, 1211, c. The olives of Zechariah denote Christians, 206, d.
Good works, the atria of God, 471, d. Good works, butter and honey; sadness, gall and vinegar, 175, b. Magical works C are not worthy of wonder, 270, a. Works, not words, induce imitation, 751, d. Evil works are unfruitful, 146, a. Works must be joined with words, 139, c; 222, c; 279, a. Works beyond one’s strength are not to be undertaken, 231, b. According to our works we shall either be punished or rewarded, 367, a. b. c. If after good works the devil violently rebels, it is a sign that he is suffering, 407, a. b. God is to be delighted by good works, not made sad by evil ones, 251, d. Not to trust in good works, nor to despair on account of errors, 167, a. In good works one must never cease, 206, c; 459, d; 574, c. To do good is not only rewarded, but also praises those doing good, 530, b. In doing good let not adversities frighten us, 566, c. In doing good there should be no difference of days, 434, a. Let him work vigorously who intends the greatest things, 515, b. Right action pleases God more than high knowledge, 11, b. He who collects D wealth is condemned by a double punishment, 814, b. Praying and watching are necessary in carnal temptations, 202, c. One ought to pray to be liberated from vices rather than from the body, 202, a. Praying with hands placed in the form of a cross, 122, a. Praying every day before every work, 120, a. Praying that we may be freed from impious affections, 151, c; 225, a; 283, a; 366, b. c; 510, d; 515, c. Praying that we may be freed from the servitude of sin, 551, c. When we pray, let us withdraw ourselves from earthly things, 438, c. Why we pray standing on Lord’s days, but with bent knees on terrestrial ones, 145, d. To one who prays and believes, nothing is difficult, 412, c.
Prayer is the ascent of the mind to God, 1174, d. The conversation of the intellect with God, 1167, d. Prayer is highly useful against the disquietude of the mind, 311, c. Prayer is the deposition or rejection of thoughts, 1182, c. Prayer is the germ of meekness and gentleness, 1170, d. Let prayer be made with sobriety, so that we do not ask from God what is not pleasing to Him, 1251, d. Prayer must be stripped of human affections, 159, a. Humble prayer bends God, but the supplication of the proud inflames Him, 1165, c. Prayer is the washing of the soul, 91, a. Prayer is more acceptable to God than mind, 442, a. b. Prayer draws the mind away from every sensible thought, 850, a. Prayer is not to be neglected, 850, c. Never to be interrupted, 562, b. Prayer is the nourishment of the intellect, just as bread of the body and…
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…the nourishment of the soul, 1190, b. Prayer is omnipotent, 405, c. d; 510, a. The mother of all virtues, 427, c. The sum of prayer for the perfect is the rapture of the mind to God, 1003, a. Prayer for persecutors is heard, but not for vengeance, 83, d. Prayer is not to be interrupted on account of temptations, 98, c; 432, c. Pure prayer is praiseworthy and profitable, impure is detestable, 278, a. b. Prayer illuminates those addicted to it, 427, c. Prayer places us such that we converse with God, and through long custom reconciles to us the friendship of God, 827, a. Prayer is more useful than reading, 494, c. d. Prayer is most useful, 459, b; 558, c. Watchful prayer restrains and fetters demons, 94, b. c. d. The altar of prayer is holy, because it draws to us the Holy of Holies, 1243, c. The twofold mode of prayer, one practical, another speculative, 1166, c. The effects of prayer, 831 et seqq. The imperturbability of prayer is acquired only through much struggle, 451, d; 454, a. The necessity of prayer, 835, 858. The state of prayer is a habit without passion, 1178, c. At the time of prayer access must be denied to every other thought, 523, c. Every place is suitable for prayer, 830, b. One must return to prayer after the perturbations of the devil have been uprooted, not before, 242, a. b. One must always cling to prayer, 86, d. The devil strives to impede prayer, 139, d; 403, d; 458, c; 525, a. b. He who neglects prayer is separated from God, 515, a. Through true prayer the monk becomes equal to the angels, 1191, d. By prayer the soul is fortified and free from temptations, 515, a. By prayer the darkened mind is illuminated, 366, a. By prayer, not by the mutilation of members, are carnal appetites repressed, 193, a. Christ himself had need of prayer, 855, a. b. By prayer rather than by a stone did David lay low Goliath, 351, a. By prayer the devil is laid low, 119, d; 482, d; 519, a. b. One must not desist from prayer until it is obtained, 102, b; 290, c; 306, b. c. In prayer the face of the soul shines, 234, a. In prayer to persevere and to exercise the mind towards the beautiful conversation of God, 998, b. Prayers are not to be sent to the unworthy, 102, d. Why heavenly orators are depicted with wings, 359, a. The just soul is an instrument, 171, a. The ornament which nature has given to each individual becomes an argument of derision by innovation, 1006, d. Idleness is to be shunned, 195, b. In the desert it was the cause of idolatry for the Hebrews, ibid.
P Pachon the monk suffers a war of harlots, and brings back the victory, 1314 et seqq. A sick palate deems sweet things bitter, 155, c. Palestine received Adam cast out from paradise, so that here he might pay the penalty of his crime, 83, a. For what crimes Palestine was despoiled and laid waste, 107, c. d. Bread is easy to prepare for those who have hands, 739, d. The panther does not change its variegated color, nor the Ethiopian his skin, 191, d. The paralytic healed by Christ, 494, a. b. Parents are to be honored and obeyed in the highest degree, 310, a. b; 450, b. Children succeeding to the splendid wealth of parents have often been reduced to extreme poverty, 855, b. Passions prohibited by assiduous conflicts become more robust, 779, b. c. Passions are very similar to oxen, 766, c. Passions are easily overcome in the beginning, but by custom gathering strength, they become difficult to overcome, 1070, c. d. Idle passions, just like reptiles constricted by cold, arise from their hiding places when the sun shines, 1090, a. A very great destruction follows the passions, 806, a. b. The food of the passions is images, 782, a. The sovereignty of passions is gluttony, 1146, a. Patience, 215, d. Patience is a gift of God, 419, d. Patience is to be practiced even before it is necessary, 1259, b. Patience is most useful in adversities, 403, a. b. Patience is necessary, 854, d. Patience is the queen of virtues, 403, b. The just are often deserted so that they may learn patience and avoid pride, 217, b. c; 398, b.
The names of the patriarchs are interpreted, 122, c. d. The one divinity of the Father and the Son, 155, a. Paul is blinded so that he might see, 162, b. Paul is far wiser than the wise men of Greece, 267, a. He traversed the whole world with his preachings, 267, a. A little thing is not to be despised, whether in good or in evil, 312, d; 343, a. A beggar fed will grant great glory to his feeder, 963, b. Those who despise a beggar do not go unpunished, 139, d. Do not despise a weeping beggar, lest your own prayers be despised, 1212, d. God confesses that beggars are equal to themselves in honor, 871, c. d. It is not repugnant for priests to handle the affairs of the poor, 370, a. b. He who expends his own things upon the poor should hope that retributions will never fail him, 519, a; 337, c. Poverty frees from judgment, 210, b. The poverty of a covetous man
is not less consuming than fire, 846, a. The praise of poverty, 170, c. The triple way of poverty in the present life, 986 et seqq., 1005 et seqq. The praise of voluntary poverty, 967 et seqq. That philosophers among the Gentiles also exhibited extreme poverty, 1018, b, c. He who sustains poverty joyfully is more blessed than the rich man who bestows alms, 375, b, c; 554, b.
A sinner, naked of good works, hopes only in the mercy of God, 87, c. A sinner should not be disheartened, 419, b. Let him not despair, 194, b; 202, b; 583, a; 594, c, d; 446, d; 487, d; 518, d; 519, c, d; 566, d; 570, c, d. The sinner shall not escape punishment, 355, b. After repentance, a sinner blushes for his sins, 116, a. The recovered joy of the heart does not become defiled, 266, b. That a sinner should confess himself as such to God, 359, c. He is like the widow whose son has died, 535, a. An inveterate sinner is likened to a crow, 198, b. Sinners are corrected with difficulty, 1019, a, b. The conversion of sinners is the confusion of those who reproach them, 747, c. Men despair of the salvation of sinners, but God does not, 566, d. The various forms of leprosy in sinners, 171, d; 174, a. A True philosophy must be freedom before all things, 719, a. Gentile philosophers and their most base customs, 719 et seqq. True philosophers are the apostles, 722, d. Piety is profitable for all things, 331, b. Piety and quiet are more precious than riches, 302, b. The piety which is to be had towards God, 1002, b, c. To lead others to piety is a great labor, 750, b. Sloth delights in recreations, 1110, b. It is the cause of many evils for many, 1002, b. It nourishes the passions, 999, c. It wages war against us through every iniquity, 1103, c, d. Smaller fish are devoured by the greater, such is the case among men, 886, a. Gentleness is best, 151, c. The wound of sin is more dangerous than iron, 638, c. Plato died a captive in Sicily, 267, a. Punishment never passes away, but sin does so quickly, 143, c; 278, d. Who would prefer the place of punishments to heaven? 562, c. Repentance, 455, b, c. Repentance softens the ears of God, 443, b, c. Repentance and faith make olives out of chaff, 207, a. Repentance makes black souls white, 322, d. Sin once admitted breeds the destruction of him who possessed it, 1258, b. Sin passes quickly, but punishment does not, 143, c. Some have sensed that sin is a living creature endowed with reason, 351, b; 379, d. Sin is often a false opinion, 251, a. Sin can take away honor, but cannot confer it, 831, b. Sin is not reckoned if there is no law, 206, a. It infects not only the soul but also the body, 483, d; 486, a. Sin, proceeding from a small cause, leads to the extreme limit of destruction and perdition, 1086, d. Sin through one man, 154, d. B Sin slays souls as if it were iron, 166, d. He who does not hate sin, even if he commits no sin, is judged among sinners, 1246, d. He who follows sin, having abandoned virtue, undertakes labor, 855, b. Sin by which God is cast out of the soul is always grave, 218, a. Sin is like lead, 233, d. It defames a man to the highest degree, 202, d. The fruits of sin are more bitter than gall itself, 547, 530. The gravity of sin is increased by circumstances, 526, a, b. After repentance for sin, virtue is increased, 294, c. One must live more diligently, 287, a, b; 515, c. Through sin the soul is weakened, just as the body is by infirmity, 189, b. Through sin, the soul is devastated like a city by war, 258, d. After sin, the devil suggests despair, 287, b. C God examines sins rigorously, 139, d. To mourn sins is not a small punishment for the penitent, 554, b. Let a man flee sins even if he knew that he would only pass through fire, 466, d; 467, a. God measures our sins not with wickedness, but with His own goodness, 158, d. That we should condemn our sins and grieve for them is a great grace of God, 590, d. The sins of one's neighbor are to be covered, not brought to light, 455, b. He who mourns his sins now will rejoice in heaven, 510, c. He who does not attentively accept the precepts of God slips into sins, 559, b. We are punished on account of sins, 422, b. On account of sins, we are subjected to despair of acting, 498, a, b. The abundance of the sins of the wicked causes them to boast, but the just man will be humbled because of his good deeds, 234, c. The difference between the sins of the faithful and the unfaithful, 158, a, b. The memory of sins is to be retained, 158, d. Through the confession of sins, the sinner is saved, against the opinion of certain ones, 498, 499. To say that God cooperates in sins is heretical, 307, d. It is characteristic of God to raise those dead in sins to grace, 427, a. When sins are multiplied, misfortunes are also multiplied, 378, c. One should be ashamed of sins, not glory in them, 218, d; 559, a. The splendid matter of money rouses covetousness to desire, 971, a. The possession of money is dangerous to the imperfect, 1266, a. Dead skins indicate corruption, 171, a. The perdition of those who imitate him becomes a punishment for the teacher, 731, b. Pilgrimage, the first of illustrious contests, 1095, b. Let him who studies for perfection avoid society, not seek glory, not provoke by injuries, 591, c, d. To live with others is more useful for him than solitude, 422, c, d. Peristeria, a matron clear in dignity, clearer in the virtues of the soul, 814, c, d. Persevering in good, 110, b; 202, d. A vigil in prayer is familiar to Christ, 95, c; 445, a. Vigil necessary, 538, a, b. The fruits of a vigil, 91, c, d. They are to be kept more cautiously, 95, b. By a vigil, the devil is overthrown, 94, a; 98, b. Wicked petitions, if they are not heard, one should not seek from God, 105, d; 106, a. Peter, stripped by his denial of the Master, 254, b. Clothed with hope, he is benignly received by Christ, ibid. Peter's three wounds were healed by three confessions, 338, a. Pharaoh's cupbearer designates Christians, but the baker designates the Jews, 113, d. D God raises the sinner, 183, a; 306, d; 571, c. He increases glory for the victors, 111, b. The Novatians deny repentance, 498, b, c. Through repentance, even with a memory of death, the sinner is saved, 518, d; 518, d. After repentance, a sinner blushes for his sins, 156, a. Repentance heals the sinner who is mindful of the punishment, 266, b. The impious opinion of the Novatians concerning repentance is rejected, 274, a, b. The devil grieves at the repentance of a sinner, just as he rejoiced at his fall, 531, d. God will not record the crimes of the penitent, 139, d. Recent penitents are like those convalescing, 230, d; 231, a. The gate of heaven is narrow, 147, b. The measure of possession is the body of each person, just as the sandal is for the foot, 1307, a. The measure of possession is the use of the body; what exceeds this is a disgrace, not use, 802, b, c. The powerful, by the providence of God, have need of the lesser, 82, b. The powers of heaven are swift for divine things, 298, c. Precepts, even if they are very small, are not to be despised, 531, c. Preaching was first entrusted to fishermen, 159, c, d. Robbers grow bold on the high sea, not where they are afraid, 163, b, c. To them, temptation is likened, ibid. He who does not know how to hold authority over himself, let him not seek to exercise it over others, 447, d; 542, c. Greater rewards for those who work better, 110, b, c. Conjurors do many things, which are rashly attributed to God, 307, d. It is for philosophers to rebuke the wicked with words, but for the furious to do so with blows, 310, d. Prayer differs from oration, 1003, c. God hears the humble prayers of sinners, 155, d; 158, a. The prayers of the religious are the best, 218, c. Primates in times of danger flee to the monks, 82, a. Prophets are called bees, 179, b. Prophecies, the words of Moses, and mystical matters flow together with the Gospel, 106, c. A location in Proverbs: "Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you become like him," is illustrated, 143, b. The providence of God is our mother, 166, c. Providence offers security to the worshipers of God, 930, 991. It permits evils, and why, 610, b, c. It adds hope, 203, b, c. We attribute temptations and misfortunes to the providence of God, 502, c, d. All things are subject to the providence of God, 110, a; 227, a; 291, d. Those who hold a conversation with us concerning providence in times of adversity are to be heard; those who talk about useless things are to be rejected, 459, b, c. Human providence is entirely vain, 831, d. The chanting of psalms calms the passions and makes intemperance rest, 1186, b. It mitigates the invasion of anger, 1255, a. The publican who was justified by two words, 559, b. Three boys intact in the furnace, 918, b. Spiritual struggle is much more difficult than a gymnastic contest, 770, c, d. The beauty of the body in a woman, when separated from the beauty of the soul, is deplorable, 311, b, c. The beauty of future things is to be argued from the beauty of present things, 535, b. Let the pure man be exercised in celestial contemplations, but not the impure, 255, d. The utility and necessity of quiet and solitude, 1071, 1073. Let him who has recently withdrawn from the crowds incumbently seek quiet, 46, b. One ought to apply oneself to quiet, 251, c; 539, d; 31, d. With quiet lost, a monk loses everything, 215, b, c; 516, a.
Raguel’s daughter liberated from a demon by the odor of a fish, 551, b. What the harlot Rahab denotes, 106, d. To plunder is for a wolf, not a man, 138, d. Refreshment through obedience is more potent than fasting, 194, c. Human affairs are divided into a double life, the present and the future, 330, b. The true resurrection of Christ, 439, a. After the resurrection, Christ is impassible, 143, d. The resurrection of bodies is very easy for God, 306, b. The trace of the resurrection of bodies from the glorious body of Moses, 131, b, c. Reasons for one who does not believe in the resurrection of bodies; they are refuted, 130, 151; 150, d; 155, a, b. In the resurrection, bodies formerly vile will be glorified, 255, a, b; 238, b, c. The retribution prepared for the just is ineffable, 559, d. Laughter is an indication of mockery, 866, a, b. Laughter should be neither excessive, nor dissolute, nor for many reasons, 1053, b. Excessive laughter is to be shunned, for it enervates the soul, 1253, b. What Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh represent, 106, b.
To one who wrongly asserts that Christ neglected the Sabbath, it is answered, 135, c, d; 158, a. Intelligence, life, and the integrity of morals make a priest, 1250, c. Priests and bishops are not to be judged by the laity, 334, a, b. All priests are to be honored, but one should associate only with the good, 1234, c. It is not repugnant for priests to conduct the business of the poor, 370, a, b. The priesthood must be undertaken with caution, 330, d; 531, a. Seculars conceal sins but divulge good works, 527, a. The future age is the land of the living, 251, c. The present age is a sea, 358, b. In this sea, one must trade for eternal life, ibid., c. Our salvation is from ourselves and vice-versa, 162, a; 191, d; 554, d. Our salvation is to be preferred to [that of] children and relatives, 862, c, d. The hope of salvation for those who have cast themselves into a ruined condition is entirely abolished, 571, d. The beginning of salvation is the accusation of oneself, 1250, c. One must provide for salvation with our resources while we have life, 859, 862. One must always fear for salvation, 195, c. Salutations of others are to be forestalled, 554, a. The neglect of salutations was the cause of many evils, ibid. Some have felt that all will be saved, 179, a. Samaria, afflicted by grievous fame, 86, b. Suddenly liberated by God, ibid. Samson and his victory, 914, d. The souls of the saints lived only for God who made them, having no regard for the body, 1006, a. The saints are children in comparison to the perfection of Christ, 179, c. The saints are not irascible because they rebuke, 194, d; 195, a. The soul of the saints is likened to a notebook or book, 130, b. One must rejoice in the conversation of the saints, for through them God is manifested to us, 1253, c. The glory of the saints is immortal, even after death, 1259, a. It is a solemn duty of the saints to render thanks to God, 151, b, c. The Holy Spirit committed the lives of the saints to writing so that each might be led to the truth by similar examples, 771, d. Even the wise slip into crimes, 238, d. Human wisdom is humble, nay foolish, 219, b, c. In spiritual wisdom, the kingdom of God is near to adults, not children, 426, c, d. Sarah, liberated from the bed and hands of the barbarian without shame, 211, b, c, d. Satiety is the mother of lust, for it itself begets desire, 787, c. It is for the pusillanimous to suffer scandal, 158, b. The authors of scandal will be punished most severely, 1015 et seqq. There is nothing more unworthy of a greater penalty than scandal, 290, c, d. There are two kinds of fornication, one of the body, the other of the spirit; both are to be avoided alike, 1118, b, c, d. Scripture is living water, 155, b. Clear Scripture is not to be caviled at, 111, d; 114, a, b. Sacred Scripture is like the waters of the Jordan, 265, d. Scripture often personifies the inanimate, 111, d. The study of divine Scripture is necessary, 214, c. Let him who is tempted be consoled by the utterances of Scripture, 431, c. We do not deny that the histories of Scripture, because we now adapt them to ourselves, happened then and in such a manner, 513, c. The reading of Scripture is sweet food, 179, b. In Scripture, the simple letter is the comb, but the sense is the honey, ibid., c. He who offers the words of Scripture to the senseless wastes his discourse as if speaking to a deaf person, 331, a. Heretics adapt the words of Scripture to themselves, 171, b, c. Others things are to be joined to the reading of the Scriptures, after the manner of Moses, 155, a. Faith is necessary for the understanding of the Scriptures, 155, b. In order that the devil may impede the reading of the Scriptures, he suggests that it is useless, 503, c. In the Scriptures, he who prefers the study of temporal wisdom is like Naaman, 263, c. A hidden idol is a base thought formed in the mind, 767, a. The plague of buffoons, 206, d. Sem and Japheth are a figure of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, 119, c. It is absurd for old men, otherwise prudent, to busy themselves with poems, 219, b, c, d. No one is safe from growing old, 142, a. He who puts off good works until old age is like a leper, ibid. Old age does not suffice in temptations, 178, c. A war of the senses against sensible things, 783, b, c. The sepulcher of Adam is in Palestine; Noah was not ignorant of it, 83, a, b. Divine discourses open the eyes of the soul, 233, c. They are sweeter than honey, ibid. Discourses, even if rebuking, are dear, 242, a. Discourses entrusted in secret are not to be published, but guarded, 275, a. Discourses should be pure, 31, b. Servants who fulfill the service of their Lord will be rewarded by God, but otherwise those who neglect it, 327, d. Silence is to be learned from idols, 213, c. Silence is necessary, 185, c; 1392, d. The silence of solitude is by no means dangerous to anyone, whether perfect or imperfect, 182, a. Simulation, 186, c, d. Simulation cannot diligently express the images of truth, 866, c. Sobriety is a bridle for the belly and an ordering of a harder life, 1112, b, c. What sloth is, 318, b. If a companion is polluted, it is necessary that he who associates with him be polluted as well, 1303, b. The sun, by its shining, demonstrates that the Son is to be understood as coeternal with the Father, 1051, b. Consolation is taken not from theaters, but from churches and monasteries, 545, d. The life and morals of solitaries, 619, 622. Solitude is the mother of philosophy, 775, b. The advantages of solitude, 590, 591, 746, 747. The necessity and effect of solitude, quiet, and silence, 1074, 1075. He who approaches solitude should renounce everything, 559, a. Excessive solicitude is too burdensome, 86, d. By horrible punishments, God draws those whom exhortations, Scriptures, etc., cannot draw, 535, d. What the sleep of Adam signified, 91, c. Spectators of vicious things rather than honest ones receive the impressed forms, 1015, d. The mirror of a virgin is fasting, 117, d. Hope obtains everything, 102, a. What the exercises of hope are, 99, d. The attainment of grace increases hope in the future, 102, b. The devil strives to strip us of total hope in God during our infirmities, 494, b, c. The needy must hope in God, 99, d; 335, c. He who hopes in God is never defrauded, 467, c, d. The Spirit desires mutual love, 143, a. The spirit becomes vile in the hearing of ridiculous things, 545, a. It was endowed in us not for the comprehension of God, but for the understanding of his works, 87, d. The frauds of the unclean spirit are opened in temptation, 407, d et seqq. The Holy Spirit is of the same nature with the Father and the Son, 310, d; 511, a. The Holy Spirit, sympathizing with our infirmity, comes to us, however impure we may be, 1179, c. The Holy Spirit, though one, is the author of many virtues, 307, a, b. He expelled depraved thoughts, 51, b. Let him who is anointed with the grace of the Holy Spirit not fear, 242, c. The wonderful changes of the Holy Spirit, 151, a, b. Christ received the Holy Spirit in baptism as a man, not as God, 316, c. He who has the Holy Spirit within him should fear no one, 507, b, c. He who scorns the commandments of God is stripped of the Spirit, 417, b. The din and apparitions of spirits are not to be feared, 430, c, d. What the stars teach us, 1055, b. The study of elegant eloquence separated from piety is useless, 415, d. Subjects are not to be burdened with precepts, 186, a. Subjects are not to be driven to desperation because of sins, 498, a. Blessed are subjects whose rulers command justly; otherwise those who command unjustly, 330, c, d. The defamation of those who write testaments, 862, 863 et seqq. A furrow is habit, 775, c. Pride lifts the senses toward swollen arrogance, 1017, d. It is a bladder swollen with excessive bulk, 1047, a. Detestable and the most iniquitous of all vices, 199, d. Pride is to be shunned even by the rich, 1262, a. It is justly execrated, 1058, c. Unless it is evacuated, it will never cease, 226, b. Pride breeds hatred, humility creates charity, 145, a. It is evacuated by pious works, 551, b, c. It is put to flight by the exercise of pious works, 416, a, b. Pride is a tumor of the soul full of pus; if it matures, it will burst, and will emit much stench,
A 1162, c. Through pride God withdraws from the soul, 358, c. He who considers his own existence does not become proud, 446, b. To possess something superfluous beyond nature, 803, b, c. The superior is to be obeyed, not judged, 250, a, b. What superiors must necessarily say to their subjects, lest they remain silent, 435, c; 554, d. The wrestling of Susona with the elders; it is compared to Joseph, 902, 903. He who attributes his own sustenance to his hands and not to God, let him beware that they might wither, 293, d; 298, a.
T He buries his talent who does not share with others the graces bestowed upon him by God; in judgment he will be punished, 211, c. Taurianus throws into prison those fleeing to the temple of the martyr Plato, 291, a, b, c. He predicts the evils imminent for him because of this, ibid. Temperance is a glorious thing, the principle and foundation of all virtues, 818, b. Its effects, 819, b, c; 822, b, c. Temperance is the stole of truth, the axe of wantonness, and the luminous torch of the heart, 1142, c. Temples are havens amidst earthly tempests, 150, a. Darkness, an impediment to works, 787, b. Temptation is necessary for man, 459, a. A greater temptation is as a greater virtue, 374, b. It will never cease unless pride is evacuated, 226, b. If a small temptation is nurtured, it grows into a great one, 275, c; 515, d. Temptation is assimilated to temptations, 165, c. It tests those who are well-pleasing to God, 395, 398. Temptation often expels a temptation, 40, a. Temptation where there is a commandment, 302, a. He who gluttonizes during the time of carnal temptation increases it for himself, 434, c; 503, c; 575, b. Temptation must be resisted from the beginning, 145, c. Temptations, let them not disturb us, 214, b; 423, c, d; 462, a, b; 523, a; 558, b. Temptations are overcome by prayers and maceration, 238, b; 259, a; 302, c, d; 393, a, b. They are overcome also by tolerance, 415, c. Temptations manifest virtue, 426, a. They firm the constancy of the soul, 1158, d. The mortification of the eyes cuts off carnal temptations, 430, b; 505, c. Let us attribute temptations and misfortunes to the providence of God, 502, d. The sign of the cross puts temptations to flight, 530, c; 522, b, c. Against the temptations of the flesh, the memory of hell is most useful, 319, c, d. Likewise the imploring of the name of Christ, 259, b; 391, b; 395, a; 599, a; 522, b. After temptations we will be glorified, 482, c. After temptations the spirit warms again and revives, 258, c. Our crown is woven by temptations, 458, b. Spiritual joys precede temptations, 406, c, d. The spirit is firmed by temptations, 259, a; 391, b. The soul vexed on all sides by temptations is filled with joy by the angels, 390, a; 451, c; 470, c. In temptations the flesh is not to be pampered, but afflicted, 503, d. In carnal temptations one must hope in the Holy Spirit, 163, d; 522, c. In carnal temptations one must watch and pray, 98, a. Let the just man not fear in temptations, but pray, 223, a. In temptations one must not despair, but hope for salvation from them, 217, a; 567, a, c. In temptations those skilled in the spirit do not despair, but the unskilled do, 262, c. In temptations the energies of the soul must be assumed, 482, b; 574, d. The devil tempts according to inclination and strength, 183, b. He who is more perfect is tempted more, so that he may be glorified, 415, b. He who is tempted, let him be consoled by the utterances of Sacred Scripture, 431, a, b, c. He who is not tempted, lives for himself alone, 426, a, b. Many are not tempted in the world although they are most perfect, 454, d. God aids those who are tempted, 183, b, c. When being tempted, the demon suggests to the mind fornication with women and boys, 450, c, d. In tempting, demons help one another, 107, b, c. In tempting, the frauds of the unclean spirit are opened, 407 et seqq. In tempting, if the devil is not fatigued, neither are we in resisting, 819, b. What is the mutable earth, 767, b. He who desires celestial things contemns the earthly, 574, c. Let him who wishes to fear no one renounce all earthly things, 334, d; 558, a. Let us not be solicitous about earthly things, 291, d. The uselessness of testaments and the madness of testators, 865 et seqq. Theodulus, son of St. Nilus, is captured by Barbarians; the father’s grief and complaints, 631 et seqq. He is destined to be slaughtered for the solemn sacrifice of the Barbarians, 612 et seqq. How he escaped the danger, he himself tells his father, 679 et seqq. He returns with his father to the monastery, 694, a. Where treasure is, there is also the heart, 139, b. The fear of God leads to repentance, 447, a. It does not obscure the mind, 123, c. It produces remission and joy, 127, c. Useless fear is to be cast out from the heart, 418, b. When the fear of the Lord is lost, He turns His face from us, 519, b. Moth, self-esteem, 978, a, b. The tolerance of labors is the cutting off of acedia and the breastplate of quiet, 1145, c. B Tranquillity is desirable above all things, 231, c. How true tranquillity is effected, 778, c, d. Tribulation is to be tolerated in hope, 90, b; 107, d; 146, b. Tribulations are to be borne constantly, for in them indeed a crown is woven for the combatants, 1213, b. Tribulations are to be tolerated, for among these virtues, just as roses among thorns, they are born and sprout, 1258, a. It is for the magnanimous to tolerate tribulations, 191, c, d; 195, c. When we are tribulated we flee only to God, 166, c. The Trinity, although distinguished by names and subsistences, is one nature, 1258, c. The one image of the Trinity, namely man, but a triple person, 151, a. God permits sorrows to the just, so that they may be tested, 574, c, d. Sorrows also come from God, 443, b. Sorrows are not to be divulged to everyone, 542, a. God permits sorrows so that we may not become insolent in prosperity, 187, d. Sorrows which the Gentiles imputed to auguries happened from God punishing, 271, a, b. When we are almost succumbing in sorrows, grace immediately flies in to refresh us, 406, c, d. He who has companions in sorrows is consoled, 471, a. Sorrow is destroyed by the love of Christ, 223, b. Sorrow is a disease of the soul and of the flesh, 1105, a, b. The sorrow of the soul is the mouth of a lion; it easily devours the contristed; it is a worm of the heart and an obstacle to meditation, 1153, c, d. Sorrow is the converter of unhappiness, 1142, d. The demon of sorrow, 1214, 1215. Those who tolerate sorrow will be consoled by God, 471, d. A soul immune from sorrow is far from fornication, 517, b. It is impossible to pursue heavenly things amidst crowds, 495, b. Turpiloquence is dangerous and to be avoided, 1306, b. The turtledove is a symbol of continence, 342, b.
U Abundance from want, 86, b. God converts the shadow of death into virtue and consolation, 87, a. The devil grieves at union, just as he rejoices in our enmities, 339, d; 512, a. Everyone thinks others similar to himself, 98, d. The use of individual things is granted by nature as common to all at the same time, 884, c. One must strive for one’s own utility, because one is not as close to another as each is to himself, 1078, c. Let not continent wives be scolded and beaten.
V What the cows drawing the ark signify, 774, b. What "woe" designates, 115, c. Let those who do not cease to sin fear it, ibid. and 750, d. Pernicious vaniloquences, 122, c. Vanity, spread everywhere, encompasses all in the net of its snares and holds them bound, 814, a. What is vanity of vanities, 158, d. Prophets predict the dangers of others, they are ignorant of their own, 270, c, d. Prophets are similar to crows, ibid. Prophecies are read in the Church so that sinners may be terrified, 522, b. The belly is the cause of pleasures, 790, a. The belly is the sea, 822, a. Insatiable, 879, c. A needy belly prepares one for watching in prayer, but a full one induces much sleep, 1146, b. Repletion of the belly induces pernicious passions, 1038, a, b. What it means to wash the belly, 790, c, d. Who ventriloquists are, 178, a, b. The Word is Creator, not a creature, 159, a; 558, c, d. The Word of God is like manna, 471, a. The Word in all things is similar and equal to the Father, 214, c, d. The force of the Word of God, 111, a. Miracles, 950, 951. Let not bashfulness be present in frequent recourse to God, 518, a. Images always precede the truth, 950, b, c. Clothes are bodily things, through which pleasure attracts the holder, 799, a. A garment is an ornament, but not a security, 1267, d. The way to virtue is good and short, it is the flight of the century, 1239, c. The short and plain way is to be preferred to the long and dangerous way, 1083, a. The narrower way is to be chosen, 186, a. Those defeated sometimes become victors over demons, 90, b; 308, a; 447, c. God grants a truce from the fight to the defeated, 90, b. The end of immoderate living is punishment, 186, c. In living, necessary limits are not to be exceeded, 266, d. True widows are not to be held in contempt, 338, b. God takes care of widows, ibid. Vigilance against demons is most necessary for those fighting, 1017, b. The fruit of vigils, 94, 95. The parable of the vineyards and the laborers is explained, 958 seqq. Drink wine very moderately: for as much as it offends, so much does it also corroborate those who drink, 1254, c.