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1,221 subjects · from Migne’s own Ordo Rerum, in English
S. DIONYSIUS, BISHOP OF ALEXANDRIA
Canonical epistle to Basilides the bishop
Epist. II. — To Novatian
Epist. III. — To Fabius, bishop of Antioch
Epist. IV. — To Cornelius, Roman pontiff
Epist. IX. — To Pope Xystus II
Epist. V. — To Pope Stephen
Epist. VI. — To Pope Xystus
Epist. VII. — To Philemon the presbyter of Xystus
Epist. VIII. — To Dionysius, then presbyter of Xystus, and afterwards his successor
Epist. X. — Against Germanus the bishop
Epist. XI. — To Hermammon
Epist. XII. — To the Alexandrians
Epist. XIII. — To Hierax, bishop in Egypt
Epist. XIV
Epistle I. — To Domitius and Didymus
EXEGESIS ON HOLY SCRIPTURE
Fragments from the books against Sabellius
Fragments from the books On Nature
Fragments from the four books to Dionysius, Roman pontiff
Fragments from the two books On the Promises
Historical and literary notice
I. — Against the Epicureans, who both removed Providence and attributed all things to individual bodies
II. — The dogma of the Epicureans is refuted by examples of common things among men
III. — The same is proven from the construction of the universe
IV. — The same is concluded from the nature of man
V. — That the management of his works is not laborious nor troublesome for God
S. IGNATIUS MARTYR
Judgment of Cotelier on the epistles of S. Ignatius
Preface of Vossius to the epistles of S. Ignatius
Testimonies of the ancients regarding the epistles of S. Ignatius
S. PAMPHILUS’ EXPOSITION OF THE CHAPTERS OF THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
S. PHILEAS, BISHOP AND MARTYR
EPISTLE to Meletius, Bishop of Lycopolis
EXCERPT from his epistle to the Thmuites
Notice
S. Sophia
S. THEONAS, BISHOP OF ALEXANDRIA
EPISTLE to Lucianus the chamberlain
Notice
Saba Typicon
Sabana
that is to say linens especially suited for drying the body
Sabaoth
Historia cujusdam, qui ex sanctificatione volebat detruncari illud, Dominus Sabaoth
Sabaoth, that is, of hosts
Sabbas, lady of the city of Samson
Sabbath
Full of the grace of the Spirit
God's Sabbath
His desperate salvation
His sons and grandsons crucified on the mountain because of the vexed Gibeonites
mystically
Nothing is an intermediary for wisdom with God
Ornaments of the secular, detriments to monks
Priests and bishops celibate among Christians
Sabbath, Sabbaths; the Sabbath of Sabbaths, Moses observing the Sabbath
Samuel the priest slaying Agag, and confounding Saul
Saul’s first and second anger
Scenopegia (Feast of Tabernacles)
the air is generally said to be changed on
The true and the feigned wise man
The wise man fearing for his books
To pluck ears of corn on the Sabbath
Sabbath (Matt. 24:20), signifies the cessation of works of virtue
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Sabbath evening entry
Sabbath is a monument of the creation of the world
I, 43
Sabbath, fasting at Rome
Sabbath, its cause was the mercy of God
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Sabbath, made for man, not man for the Sabbath
I, 261
Sabbaths: which are false, which are true
Those things which are said concerning sabbaths render him liable to a curse who understands them in a carnal sense
What is the spiritual sense
Sabbatiani, why so named
ibid
Sabbatians
Sabbatians, heresy of
Sabbatius
He is delivered in a wondrous way from an attacking lion
liberal toward monks
Sabbatius, monk of Philomelii
Sabbatius, Novatian presbyter
Sabbatius, son-in-law of Bardas Caesar
Sabel, Saint
Sabellian heresy, narration of
Sabellian impiety
is execrable
Sabellians
Sabellians, Arius, and the Anomoeans, homily against
Sabellicus
Sabellius heretic
Sabellius, bishop of Libya
asserted one person in the divinity
Condemned, together with his sect, in the Council of C.P. I
Sabellius, lævus Afer
Sabinus, Bulgar
Sabinus, maligned Nicene fathers
Sabit
a sect of the Gentiles; their origin
And Gregory of Nazianzus refutes them
Sacellarius, or prefect of the treasury
his functions
Sacellius
who he was; his offices
Sacerdos Tranita præliatur
Sacramental union, failure
Sacred elements, spilling
Sacred host, particles
Sacred persons, performance of duties
Sacred rites, head uncovered
Sacred rites, three times
Sacred Scripture
divine Scripture suffices for Christians for wisdom, nor do they need foreign teachers
how many good things divine Scripture contains
how sacred Scripture is to be understood when it attributes limbs to God
is divinely inspired
It calls God by different names
it explains the reasons for living well
It is shrouded in obscurities
It makes frequent use of figures and metaphors, produced by the Holy Spirit
Sacred Scripture bends the mind now with the terror of
Scripture speaking about divine things accommodates itself to the human intellect
teaches us primarily the true knowledge of God
the knowledge of sacred Scripture compared to a wide sea
the words of Scripture are tempered to the capacity of the human mind
things which sacred Scripture has not said openly are not to be investigated too curiously
why sacred Scripture contains a common and vulgar style of speaking
Sacred Scripture is like the waters of the Jordan
Sacred Scripture, divine inspiration of
Sacred table, anointing
Sacred table, covering
Sacred table, elevation
Sacred things
No one is to be promoted to sacred things unless elected by God
Sacred things gather the soul, profane things distract it
Sacred vessels
from the times of Christ and the apostles until our own have been held in honor and veneration by all Christians
Sacred vessels and sacrilege
Sacred vessels of the Church
Sacred vessels of the Church are given for the ransom of the city
Sacred vestments
Sacred vestments, necessity
Sacrifice
sacrificium vespertinum quid
Sacrifice of Christ
Its virtue is always at work
Sacrifice of swine
sacrifice receive them
Sacrifice, to remember is one of God's benefits
Sacrifices
a foreshadowing of things to come
But demons delighted in these victims, as enemies of the human race
Demonic sacrifices
God commanded the sacrifice of animals as if the one offering were offering his own soul
God never commanded bloody sacrifices before the Law
God rejects the sacrifices of the Israelites, and declares that sacrifices are offered to Him by the nations from everywhere
How it was customary to sacrifice differently to different gods
Nefarious sacrifices were forbidden to those who were the first to hold the Christian faith
The legal species of sacrifices do not confer salvation
What sacrifice was among the ancients
What sacrifices were accustomed to be made to the gods
Why and how sacrifices were prescribed by God to Israel
Why the old law commanded them and what God now wishes to be offered to Him
Sacrifices of Gentiles, forbidden
Sacrifices, law concerning
Sacrifices, savor of
Sacrifices, why God demanded
Sacrifices: the Scripture does not reject them entirely, but only those of the Jews
Demons are nourished by the vapors of burnt victims and the smoke arising from incense
The multitude is reprobated; God requires one sacrifice. Let everyone offer himself to God
The one sacrifice is approved for the blotting out of sin
Various rites of sacrifices
Sad victory
Sadikini (the Fishers)
a Manichaean sect
Who fasted throughout all their life
Sadness
Sadness (concerning)
Definition of sadness
Prayer and patience cure sadness
Sadness follows upon sloth
The Spirit of God is driven away by sadness
Untimely sadness is from the Demon
Saducæi
Safety, of others, we must provide for
Saga
ample and long garments, reaching almost to the knees
Sages
There is a dissension among authors concerning those seven Sages
Who are the sages according to Plato
Sagmarii horses
what are so called
Sails cut in battle
Saint Paul
Saint Paul is a common sun
Saint Trophimus, first bishop of Arles
Saints
God alone knows the difference between the saints
Holy dead [saints] are able to intercede for us
Regarding the lot of the souls of the holy, for whom there is now nothing left to be expiated, what Irenaeus thought
That the title of mediators is communicated by God to certain saints, and that it is neither vain nor ineffective
The feast of All Saints fell on the feast of the Holy Trinity, that is, on the octave of Pentecost
The peace of the saints
The saints are present with us as we sing
The vices of the saints are changed into medicines
what must be observed during their feast and procession
whether they will chant praises to God after the resurrection with the tongue of the body and with voice
Saints and martyrs, fighting against the devil, have carried off the victory
Saints and their relics
Saints are to be honored and prayed to, that they may intercede for us
Saints become present to us through the Scriptures
Saints, examples of to be imitated
Saints, imitate
Saints, sins of set forth
Saipes
Saitus, leader of Chosroes
Besieges Chalcedon
Persuades Heraclius to seek peace
Throws legates into chains
Saitus, leader of Chosroes, captures Alexandria
Salaminians
The oracle given to the Salaminians
Salaminius, monk
Salamis
previously called Coronis
Salamis city
Salamis, island
Salamo
Salampacis, a Persian widow, refuses marriage with Alexius Philanthropenos
Sale of taxes
Saligniacus
Salmanazar, king of the Assyrians
Salmasius
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SALOMON
found many remedies for bodily diseases
Salpacis, title of the Persian commander
Salt
how much and why it is useful for cattle
Salustius
Salustius is chosen bishop of Jerusalem after Martyrius
Salustius Secundus, same as Saturninus
Salutation
What the final salutation means
Salutations of others are to be forestalled
Salvation
Care for salvation must not be deferred until the morrow
Hope of salvation is the remedy for wounds
Salvation [comes] from the grace of God, not from the merits of men
We obtain salvation through mercy
Why God willed to impart salvation to the world through His Son
Salvation of the soul
Samakini
another Manichaean sect
Samaneans
Samaria
captured by Salmanasar, king of Assyria, after a three-year siege
The Samaritans were easily conquered by the Assyrians
Samaria is the region of enemies who have corrupted sound doctrine
Metropolis of the Israelites, Samaria
Samaria, afflicted by grievous fame
Samaritan sect
And dogmas
origin
Samaritan woman
The conversation of Christ with her is unfolded
The manner of acting of both is commented upon
The sincerity of the Samaritan woman
Samaritans
The origin of the Samaritans
Sammarthani
Samosata
Samothracians, captives among the Bulgars
Samson and his victory
Samuel, name of
Sanchoniathon
a most ancient writer, wrote the history of the Phoenicians
his passage concerning the gods
Sanchuniathon
Sanchuniathon the Berytian, wrote the Phoenician theology, which Philo of Byblos translated into the Greek tongue, and wrote a most true history of the Jews
Sancta tota cur dicatur B. Virgo
Sanctagidianus comes
Sanctificatio dicitur B. Virgo
Sanctification
The reason for sanctification proceeding from the Father and the Son
Sanctorius
Sanctuarium dicitur B. Virgo
Sanctus
Use of the title for the Roman senate, soldiers, and people
Sandals
Sangaris River, charged with a bridge and diverted
Sangarus
a city of Bithynia by the sea, not far from Helenopolis
Sanni
The Sanni used their own laws under the Roman empire
Santabarenus
Sapor, King of the Persians
Sapores
ordered gifts of Odenathus to be thrown into the river
Sappho
Sappho on crowning the dead
Saracenica
Saracenica Sylburgii
Saracens
Defeat the Craterans
fall into the sea by [the intervention of] the Virgin
He routes them near Samosata
make a pact with Thomas
Make peace with him
Spaniards under the leader Apochapsis occupy Crete
Surround Emperor Theophilus, who barely escapes
The etymology of this word
Under the leader Constantius, son of Thomas, they attack the Romans
Saracens, converted to faith
Saracens, ferocity of soldier
Sarah, gives suck to a child
Sarah, liberated from the bed and hands of the barbarian without shame
Sarah, wife of Abram
Sarbarus, the Persian
Induced by letters intercepted from Heraclius
Obtains the kingdom
Sarbarus, the Persian, carries off the holy cross from Jerusalem and besieges Chalcedon
Sarcophagi
various ones of the emperors in the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople
Sardanapalus
Filer than Sardanapalus
His epitaph examined
Sardian acclamations
which they chant to the Lords
Sardica
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Sardica, Synod of
Sardis
Sardis citadel, garrison lets in the Persians
Sardonyx
a precious stone; its virtues
Sargánē
Sargánē [basket]
sarkikōs
sarkinos
sarkion
Sarmatians, expedition against
Saron (or Saronas)
is a place in Judea having fields highly suitable for agriculture
Sarus, tyrant
Sasan, seditious against Mantachias and leader of the Persians
Sasan, subdues Ephesus
Sassanid Monophysites
Satan
Compared to a wall
divided against himself
Having been cast into hell, he will suffer heat and flames there as his inheritance
He is called the exactor of sin, requiring perseverance in evil from individuals
He is called the father of pride
He is named a dragon and a serpent
he plunders by various means
How Satan assails the soul of man
Reasonably called the father of every wicked person
Satan had cast the design into the heart of Judas the traitor
Satan leads the minds of the faithful into an adulterous sentiment
Satan receives opportunities to tempt from us
Satan the author of envy
Satan the author of evil
Satan the father of wicked Jews
Satan, to whom some were delivered as if to a lictor, to be disciplined
Son of the devil
That Satan had raised his neck against the rebukes of God
That Satan is to be mocked as a deceiver
What Satan signifies
Why and whence Satan is cast down
Satan tempted the heart of Ananias
Satanael
by the Euchites, is called the Son of God and is worshipped
Satan’s arts of deception
Satiety is the mother of lust, for it itself begets desire
Satiety is the parent of incontinence, and fornication happens from repletion
Satiety, the vehicle of diseases
Satitii
Satitii men
Satornilians
SATURN
devoured Jupiter
Hesiod lied concerning Saturn, and his father and son
How Saturn came into the number of the gods
The progenitors of Saturn, and his children
Why he was expelled by the Solymi
Saturn despoiled of his kingdom by Jove
Saturn foretold to him that an ark must be built
Saturn's migration to Africa
Saturn's star
Saturn, star seen at Constantinople at midday
Saturnalia
Bloody Saturnalia
Saturnian Jupiter
Saturnian Jupiter
Saturninus heretic
Saturnus
Satyri, harbor
Satyrs
That Satyrs are depicted as the sun
The choirs of Satyrs
Whence so named
Sauchnis
legislator of the Egyptians
Saul
A demon appeared under the form of Samuel
God left him to seek what he had destroyed
Hoping that God would rescind the sentence regarding the giving of the kingdom to David
out of love for the kingdom, destroyed those who spoke from the belly (ventriloquists)
The punishment of Oziah and Saul
The truth of the words was from God
Saul, son of Kish
Saul, the son
By the help of demons, a ventriloquist announced the future slaughter to Saul. How that was done
Saussay
Sauvage
Savagery, interdiction of
Savaro
Savior: that noble man of whom Luke xix, 12, speaks can be called this
But those who were subjected to the prince of this world sent legates to reject his rule
Seeing the world subjected to the empire of sin, he did not refuse to become their king
These legates are they who were the authors of the Savior’s death
Savus, fluvius
Saximum
that is to say dancing, choral performance, leaping, especially that which was done before the emperor; what must be observed in it
Saxo Grammaticus
Saxones
sbestikos
Scala dicitur B. Virgo
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Scamander’s rivers purple with gore
Scamanes in ambush
Scamanes in ambush
Scamon
Scandal
like a plague, feeds upon the minds of the simpler ones
Scandal is to be fled everywhere
Scandals, two kinds of
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Scaramanca virtus bellica
Scaramangion, insignia of senatorial dignity
Scaramangium
the name of a garment; the etymology of that word
Scarcely aware that he is doing unjust things
Scarcely aware that he is doing unjust things
Scardona
Scarlatani (charlatans)
whence they derived their origin
Scaturigo fontana dicitur B. Virgo
Sceptres
a kind of standard
what those of the Constantinopolitan emperors were
Sceva
Likewise Mary the sister of Moses and the sons of Sceva
scheis
schetikos
Schiruvan
Sirvan, Serban, error of Jovil
Schism
How seriously schismatics are to be regarded by God
is a great crime, nay more grievous than others, according to the Fathers
Schism, definition of
Schisms, punishment for
Schoenus
a city of the Thebans and a river
Schola
scholastic soldiers
Scholarii
having escaped from their hands, return with the young man, the son of Michael
The junior prince, given over to luxury, scorns the Scholarii
The pacts of the Scholarii with Michael
The young man is put into custody
Their authority is supreme; that of the prince is none
They invade Trebizond
They place the son of Michael, who had been brought up without him, on the throne
They punish their adversary
Which, however, he recovers intact later
Scholiastes Aristoph
Scholiastes Æschyli
School
A school overturned with its master and disciples
Schraderus
schēmatizō
Science
Sciences
The most notable sciences flowed from the barbarians to the Greeks
Scipio Ammiratus
Scipio, insignia of a Great Duke
Scipiones
which the emperors carried in their hands, what they were
Sciri
ask for aid against the Romans and Goths
Scironian rocks
Scirtus river
Sclavi
Sclavini
Brought over into Asia by Justinian
Cross the Euxine, bring aid to Telesius
Serve the Bulgars
Sclavini, help the Avars
Scope
The scope or end proposed to man by the philosophers, and which by the holy oracles
Scopia, town
Scorpion venom is most useful against pestilence
Scotta
Scotta
Scoundrels are like dogs, who while appearing to want to fawn with their tails, inflict bites
Scribes and Pharisees
After Judea was utterly overturned, they were consumed by famine
Compared to withering flowers, they deceived a great many who did not know Christ to be the Son of God, and although they knew it, they did not take counsel
foolish
Given to greed, and wandering through the houses of the Jews, they spoke flattering words to extract gifts and tithes from them more easily
How corrupt they were
How miserably they perished
Proud, they goaded the Jewish people subject to them into crucifying the Lord
seemed wise and prudent
The day of visitation in Scripture is called the time of war
The prayer of the Scribes and Pharisees was like silver not proven
They became a crown of injury and insolence
They became imprudent and blind in mind and intelligence
were as the crown and glory of the Israelites
were continually inciting the common people against Christ
were persistent against Christ in mind, word, and all their monstrous machinations
were their teachers
What was the office of the scribes among the Jews
Scribes, Jewish, their morals graphically expressed
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Scribones
who they were, and what their offices
Scripture
All things in Scripture spoken mystically and in a spiritual sense
Bread of corn, bread of angels in a spiritual sense
How great the authority of this version was formerly, even among the Jews
How sacred Scripture is to be received
How useful is the reading of Holy Scripture
is not the sole rule of faith
Literal sense not sufficiently explained by Maximus
man; flesh and spirit: never aging in spirit
That Irenaeus attacked the Gnostics by the sole aids of the Scriptures, an assertion of Erasmus to be amended
The place where it was first produced was honored by them with an annual solemnity, if Philo is to be believed
Their names
They are not all so clear and obvious to everyone that there is no obscurity in them
Whether in the time of Ptolemy Lagus or Philadelphus
Whether the Greek interpreters of Scripture were the LXX or LXXI
Whether the whole Old Testament was translated by them, or the law only
Why the book of Scripture is placed on the head of the pontiff
With how much honor Irenaeus regards the sacred Scriptures
Scripture is living water
Scripture often personifies the inanimate
Scripture, accurate reading of
Scripture, compared to gems
Scripture, compared to gold mines
Scripture, not to be read cursorily
Scripture, reading of
Scripture, why God did not wish clear
Scriptures
authenticated by the testimony of divine powers; these events are recounted
For He either created these or took them from elsewhere
How the Scriptures are to be heard
In the Scriptures, things said concerning God in a bodily sense are transferred from those things which exist so according to nature
It does not say whence He took the garments in which He appeared after the resurrection
It is a sin to drag the words of Scripture to one's own wrath
It is a sin to sting one's neighbor through psalmody
It is otherwise in the poets; for a man does not absorb a man, as Saturn did Jupiter
one should not pass over even time or one element of the divine Scriptures
Scripture has nothing superfluous
Scripturæ cur Judæis relicta
The Word of God, contemplated, sung, and heard, has the power of driving away demons
What the Scriptures call the Kingdom of Heaven; why they are obscure
Yet there is no reason to doubt, but rather one should seek the faith of that clothing from the power of Christ
Scriptures, literal interpretation
Scuteris Chumnus defends Orestiada
Scutum (Shield), a new emperor is raised upon
Scylax Caryandensis
Scyloioannes
Scyros, island
Scythia
The first apostle of Scythia
Scythian boys, trained for military service
Scythian solitude, a proverb
Scythians
attacked the Romans and killed many at the public festival
Having known the evangelical laws, they laid aside their native barbarism
He besieges the stubborn ones
He is scorned by the besieged and is afflicted by various disasters
He orders the Latins to be excluded from the city
The prince of the Scythians becomes angry
Scythians and Avars besiege Byzantium at the same time as the Persians
Scythians are cruel
Scythians are deformed
Scythians are deformed
Scythians captured Bigila, who was carrying money to Edeco
Scythians captured Bigila, who was carrying money to Edeco
Scythians dared things more grievous and atrocious than what they had suffered
Scythians dared things more grievous and atrocious than what they had suffered
Scythians lay down their arms
Scythians lay down their arms
Scythians recite verses of Attila
Scythians recite verses of Attila
Scythians slaughtered by the Huns
Scythians slaughtered by the Huns
Scythians use dry reeds for fire
Scythians use dry reeds for fire
Scythians, character of
Scythians, defeated by Umpertopulus
Scythians, dwellers on the Danube
Scythians, faith of
Scythianus the heretic
an Egyptian by fatherland, a Saracen by race
he composed four books
one he called the Gospel; the second, the Capitulum; the third, the Mysteries; the fourth is inscribed the Thesaurus of Life
Scythopolis, city of Palestine
Scythæ
Scythæ ad Romanos transeunt
Auxilio Manueli veniunt
Curribus pro munimentis utuntur
Demnitzicum capiunt
Istrum transeunt
Manus cum Romanis conserunt
Prædatum eunt Romanorum agros
Vincuntur et fugiunt
Seal
A seal is not the cause of unequal participation, but the underlying matter
Whence the unequal representation of a seal arises
Seal of Emperor Michael
Sebastocrators, insignia of
Sebastohypertati dignitas palatina
Sebastopolis
second
Second advent
SECOND BOOK. A collection of diverse epistles from the third exile
Epistle I. — To the Iconomachist synod, as if in the person of all the superiors. Dogmatic teaching on the holy images
Epistle II. — To those leading the monastic life. Concerning certain superiors who had been more lax in the cause of the images
Epistle III. — To the superior
Epistle IV. — To Theophylactus, Bishop of Nicomedia. Dogmatic teaching on the holy images
Epistle IX. — To Joseph his brother and Archbishop. He laments the prevarication of certain persons
Epistle V. — To Naucratius, his son. On the martyrdom of Thaddaeus the monk. A complaint concerning certain who have lapsed. An exhortation to constancy
Epistle VI. — To the presbyter who had subscribed. On the holy images
Epistle VII. — To John, his son. He responds to questions asked
Epistle XI. — To the same. Concerning certain who have lapsed and are to be received back
Epistle XII. — To Paschal, Pope of Rome. He seeks the aid of the Roman pontiff against the iconoclasts
Epistle XIII. — To the same. Of the same and the preceding subject
Epistle XIV. — To the Pope of Alexandria. Of the same and two preceding subjects
Epistle XIX. — To the nuns. He incites them to the perfection of the religious life
Epistle XV. — To the Patriarch of Alexandria. Against the heresy and cruelty of the iconoclasts
Epistle XVI. — To the Laura of Saint Sabas. Against the iconoclasts
Epistle XVII. — To the Laura of Saint Chariton. Of the same argument
Epistle XVIII. — To Nicephorus the most holy patriarch. He consoles an exile
Epistle XX. — To Macarius the superior. Concerning a certain superior and other lapsed persons
Epistle XXI. — To the brethren who are detained in prisons for the Lord. On the holy images
Epistle XXII. — To the absent brethren. Written in prison as a testament
Epistle XXIII. — To the superior. On the holy images
Second Epistle of Peter
Second universal synod, canons of
Secreta
Secrets and taciturnity
Secretum and curia are the same thing
that is to say, the place where judges sit before the tribunal
Secular powers
Honor and obedience to be rendered to secular powers
Seculars conceal sins but divulge good works
Secundicerius
what must be observed in his promotion
Secundus
the heretic; in what points he dissented from Valentinus
Secundus, condemned
Secundus, martyrdom
Sedes dicitur B. Virgo
Sedition at Antioch
Sedition of the citizens
Sedition of the Constantinopolitans
Sedition of the people
Sedition of Vitalian the Thracian
Seducers
Seducers are compared to various things
Seeking the Word of God
Seeking the Word of God well is a thing most pleasing to God
Seers
The honors which seers receive after death
The Pythian seer refuted
They are convicted of lying
Seers among the pagans, who they were, and their names
Segor, the humanity of the Lord
Sehenicus civitas capta
Seldenus
Selenites
a precious stone, its virtues
Seleri palus
Seleucia
Seleucia, Council of
Seleucians
The heresy of the Seleucians, that they deny the visible paradise
Seleucus, signet ring of
Self-praise
How odious is self-praise
Sellæ Manuelis descriptio
Selybria
Selybria taken from the Latins
Selymbria
Sem and Japheth are a figure of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus
Semiramis, wife of Ninus
semnologēma
Senate
a word wont to be used with a double meaning
Senate of old Rome
Senate of old Rome
Senators
military, who were they
Senators removed from the midst
Senior Rome
Senior Rome
Sennacherib, bears ill the city recaptured by the Greeks
Sennacherib, judge surnamed Bad
Sennacherib, king of the Chaldaeans, Assyrians, Babylonians, and Medes
His numerous army struck down by an angel
Impious toward God
Undertakes an expedition against Judaea
Sense
Chaste speech of the mouth
Custody of the senses
Prudent in speech and in mental sense
Spiritual perception of the senses
The author of idolatry. The sense of life and soul
The interior word, *Logos*, instituted reason; its excellence; the perfection of the sum of man; the commerce of the divine Spirit therein
The just man shall fall seven times, etc
The linen cloths and the napkin of the sepulcher; those caring for Christ’s burial; placing seals and guards
The method of writing speech, and its power and contempt
The word *rhētōrikos* (rhetorical)
Sense, various meanings of verse 26, Prov. 16
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Senseless
Senses
Parmenides accused the judgment of the senses of falsehood
The functions of the senses proceed from the brain
Senses of man
the five
Sensible man
Sephora
Sephora, what it signifies
Septe, castle
Septenary number
is said to bring about the growth and decline of men
It contains the creation of the world and God’s rest
It is most venerable in the Law
it provides signs for judging in diseases
Nature does not follow the septenary number, but that number follows nature
Septuagint interpreters of Scripture
Sepulchres
Only the sepulchres of pious kings are known; the monuments of the others are neglected
Sepulchres in the temples
Ser Asker sultanus
Serdar, great duke
Sera
a city of the Chinese
Seraphim
How great a joy the enjoyment of the vision of the Lord brings to the Seraphim and why that joy is mixed with fear
How the Seraphim stand before God
NOTICE concerning the Homilies on Uzziah or on the Seraphim
What Seraphim are mystically
What the crying of one to another signifies
What the interpretation of their same name is, and how it signifies the unguent
What the Seraphim who assist the pontiff in the confection of the unguent signify
Why the blessed Seraphim is spoken of in the neuter gender
Why the Seraphim cover their face and feet
Serapion
father of ten thousand brothers
In order to help the poor, he hires out his own labor during harvest time with them
Serapion of Thmuis
writes against the Paulicians
Serapion the deacon
Serapion, called the Sindonite
because he was clothed only in a linen sheet
He indicates his hunger at Athens
He rejects gold and walks without money, without a purse, without a tunic
He sails to Rome and remains fasting on the ship for five days
He sells himself to a Manichaean man in order to lead him back from error
He sells himself to mimes so that he might gain them
Serapion, injuries to John
Serapion, Saint
Serapis
Serapis, temple destroyed
Serapis, temple of
Serbia, fortress
Serbs, injuries against the Emperor's envoys
Serdica is distant from Constantinople thirteen days' journey for a man lightly equipped
Serdica is distant from Constantinople thirteen days' journey for a man lightly equipped
Serenius Granianus
Serenus
to whom Justin writes
Seres
The Seres accepted the evangelical laws
Sergiopolis
Sergiopolis, a city of Syria, in which the relics of the martyr Sergius were preserved
Sergius
The feast of Sergius
Sergius of Constantinople
patriarch
Sergius the Confessor, History
Sergius the heretic
A wolf concealing himself in sheep's clothing, he appeared to many as a doctor of piety and a guide to salvation
All who had been conspicuous for impiety before were thought mere children compared to his craftiness and captious morals
By his followers he was equated with God
having been initiated into the mysteries of apostasy by a certain woman, he becomes the precursor of Antichrist
he boasted himself to be the Paraclete and the Holy Spirit
He had Drynius as a father
He is openly hacked to pieces by the impious Baanes
He proclaimed himself a herald sent by the Apostle
His writings
Now a giant, now a monkey, now a lion, now a fox, simulating now this, now that manner
struck by an axe, he meets his final day
Sergius the protospatharios
brother of Photius; he exhorts him to repentance
Sergius, disciple of St. Auxentius
Sergius, disciple of St. Stephen the Younger
Sergius, leader of the East, enclosed in a camel skin by the Saracens
Sergius, Magister and logothete of the dromos
Photius gives him thanks because he had rebuked him
Sergius, Patriarch of Constantinople
Dies
Dissuades him from his marriage with Martina
He is compared to a physician and a husbandman
Restrains him from attempting flight
warring with armed tears, breaks the barbarian audacity
With the Blessed Virgin Mary protecting, he turns the barbarians to flight and frees the city
Sergius, patriarch of Constantinople, crowns Heraclius
Sergius, patrician, prefect of Sicily
Seric cloth
The testing of Seric cloth
Serious persecution
is a sweet blessing of the Lord
Sermon on gentleness
Fighting against misery
How great is the filth of anger
How much good gentleness provides
Imitating Christ’s gentleness
Imitators of God’s gentleness
In what way the faithful differ from the unfaithful
Sermon on the vanity of the world and on the resurrection of the dead
Sermones de moribus
Sermons, utility of attending
Serpent
Serpens initio amicus hominis; quomodo ille Evam alloquutus est
Serpens mulierem alloquens mentitus est
That the serpent is better than the Creator, an error of Marcion, if Theodoret is to be believed
The symbolic serpent
The words of the serpent to the woman, full of lies and blasphemies
Serranus, emended interpretation of Plato
Serræ
Serug, author of idolatry
Servants
Servants should be subject to their masters with all honor
The multitude of servants is censured; against those who walk about with a train of servants
Servants, days of rest for
Servants, good
Servants, subjection of
Servants, when they are to be ordained
Servii a Romanis deficiunt
Servitude
Servitude is no obstacle to piety
The various modes of servitude
Who becomes a servant of men
Servitutis species variæ apud Byzantinos
Servius
Servius Tullius
Seseris ab Joanne imper. expugnatur
sesigēmenōs
Sesonchosis
legislator of the Egyptians
Sesostris, king of the Egyptians, more savage in prosperous circumstances
Sesostris, king of the Egyptians, more savage in prosperous circumstances
Sesostris, king of the Egyptians, undertakes an expedition into Asia
Session at the right hand of the Father
Session of Christ
for power and majesty
Seth
An apocryphal book by the name of Seth; the Mount of Victory
Seth, the sons of
they wrote the disciplines of celestial matters on columns, if Josephus is to be believed
Sethians
silently touched upon by name
That there were seven books among the Sethians under the name of Seth, one book under the name of Abraham, and others written under the name of Moses
The errors of the Sethians, who they were
Whether they were distinct from the Ophites
Sethus, prefect at Singidunum
Sethus, prefect at Singidunum
Setzenitza
Seven ages
Seven boy saints of Crete
Seven ecumenical synods
1. Nicaea
2. Constantinople I
3. Ephesus
4. Chalcedon
5. Constantinople II
6. Constantinople III
7. Nicaea II
and the various heretics condemned by them
Their place, number, presiding officers, together with their actions, are described
Seven empires at various times held power in various regions
Seven Epistles
Seven holy children, resurrection of
Seven men create a king for the Persians
Seven praises
Seven sages of Greece
Seven sages, antiquity of relative to Moses
Seven sages, manner of philosophizing
Seventeen thousand two hundred captives
Seventeen thousand two hundred captives
Seventh degree of consanguinity
Seventh not prohibited
Seventh prohibited
Seventh Synod
Seventy apostles
The seventy apostles were Barnabas, Sosthenes, Cephas, Barsabas, Linus, Cleophas
Seventy Interpreters
under Ptolemy Lagus, at Alexandria
Seventy-two Elders
Severa, Empress
Several chains (catenae) are cited
Several Fathers were accused of Origenism
Severian and Antiochus, departure from John
Severian of Gabala
Futilis Severiani sphæricam orbis formam negantis opinio
MONITUM ad sex Homilias Severiani, Gabalorum episcopi, de mundi creatione
Severiani, also called Acephali
Severianus
Severianus, bishop of Arethusa, sends a document of deposition to Severus, patriarch of Antioch
SEVERIANUS, BISHOP OF GABALA
Fifteen Sermons of the same
Homily against the Jews
Homily on Pythonesses and Sorceries
Notice
Oration on the Apparition of God
Oration on the Brazen Serpent
Orations on the Creation of the World
Sermon on Peace
Severity, like kindness, is to be used sparingly
Severus
Acknowledges only one nature in Christ
Chalcedonian Council refuted
He is proscribed by the Emperor Justin
His Enthronistic letter
His letter to Soterichus
His letters to Justinian and Theodorus
Insinuates the opinion of Anastasius the Emperor
ought not so much to be a prince as to cherish an opinion of severity
Severus rules in Rome after Majorian
Severus, having expelled Flavian, bishop of Antioch, is ordained; he anathematizes the synod of Chalcedon
Severus exposed his movable goods for sale publicly through a herald, so that he might redeem captives from the price
Severus exposed his movable goods for sale publicly through a herald, so that he might redeem captives from the price
Severus is chosen as envoy from the Senate, a man who was thought to excel in modesty, temperance, and justice
Severus is chosen as envoy from the Senate, a man who was thought to excel in modesty, temperance, and justice
Severus of Antioch, the impious
He changes his mind and acts as the tutor of an unchaste dancer
He speaks things contradictory to one another, and contradicts himself
His first teachers and patrons
is refuted, and his errors regarding the incarnation and person of Christ are keenly attacked and refuted
Like an asp, he is killed by his own offspring
Like an unstable wave flowing away, he has no stable foundation
Severus, a collator of sophistries, twists the words of Scripture to his own meaning
Severus Sulpicius
Severus, as envoy, set sail for Sicily and came to Carthage
Severus, as envoy, set sail for Sicily and came to Carthage
Severus, edict concerning not burdening slaves with labor
Severus, forced to die
Sex
Into which creatures sex falls
Sgurus
Shadow
a comparison of human things with a shadow
is cup-shaped, cylindrical, conical; the shadow of the earth is conical or turbinate
One and the same thing is said to be both being and non-being in a different respect
One and the same thing is the cause of contraries
The shadow of the earth rotates together with the sun
The shadows of bodies illuminated by the sun are carried around with the shadow of the earth
Shame (concerning) and modesty
Sheep
To lay down one's life for one’s sheep
Sheep venerated by Samians
Shem, son of Asshur
Ship construction, inventors of
Shipwreck
shipwreck in port
Shipwreck swallows 73,000
Shoaib (or Shobab), Arab
the same as the father-in-law of Moses
Shoes
Short Rules
Siarus, strategopedarch, defeated
Siarus, strategopedarch, gathers forces against the Persians
Sibyl
bears witness to the judgment of the impious that will be by fire
Punishment established against readers of the Sibyllines
see Oracles
Sibyl, prophecy concerning the empire of the Othmanids
Sibyla
Sibyls
Sibyls and their oracles
Sicarii
Who are called Sicarii
Sicera, fictitious and spurious wine
Sichem
Sichem, what it signifies
Sicilia
Sicilian Muses
Sicilian Muses, i.e., Empedocles
Sicily, (in) made golden basins
Sick, communion of
Sickness and death of Selimis
in a fated place; Dephter darlar, Bairam major and minor
Sicorius Probus
sent as ambassador to the Persians
Sicorius, an upright notarius of the memory
Sicorius, an upright notarius of the memory
Siculi Græcos prælio navali superant
Classe cum Græcis decernunt, eos vincunt
Corcyram obsident
Dimalim igne vastant
Ducem capiunt
Romanos vincunt et in fugam vertunt
Sida
a metropolis of Pamphylia
Siderius, History of
Siderocastrum
Sidimunthus came to Epidamnus and, walking around privately to each of the citizens
Sidimunthus came to Epidamnus and, walking around privately to each of the citizens
Sidimunthus thinks well of Roman affairs
Sidimunthus thinks well of Roman affairs
Sidimunthus was spreading new rumors daily in Epidamnus
Sidimunthus was spreading new rumors daily in Epidamnus
Sidonius Apollinaris
Siege engines
Military siege engines ordered to be poured by the Turk like dragons
What the greater siege engines are
Siege of Rhodes
Marmora, Portus Physicus
Siges
one of the thirty aeons which the Valentinians invented
Sight
restored to Tobit after eight years
Sight and hearing hold the primacy among the senses
whether one excels the other
Sight, the first of the senses
I, 279
Sigibert, duke of the Franks
Sigibert, duke of the Franks
Sigibertus
Sigismundus Herbesteinius
Sign of the holy quaternion of the ancient testaments
Sign of the Savior conquers
Signs and miracles, performance of
Signs of grace and error
Silence
Companions of silence
Ends of spiritual things, the beginnings of others, and continuous progress
From the Father through the Son in ineffable union and distinction. The iris taken as an example
Gifts of the Spirit, the Spirit itself. Another not obeying a more divine breathing and spirit in him
Grain of mustard, the word of God; the Lord himself, and faith
Mystical silence: what it is
See Taciturnity
Sign of hostility; the passion to be overcome in us and in others
Spirit, gifts of the Spirit; in them one is more divine than another, which is more to be obeyed, love
Sun against Gibeon, etc
The flesh and sense of the spiritual man
The happiness of the (first) state
The Holy Spirit, on the tenth day from the Lord’s ascension
The natural law of the sun
The principal Spirit and that of free will
The Spirit incorrupt in all, in those who are under the law, and those who are in Christ
The Spirit of the Son, because through him from the Father in mind
The sun was lifted up
To hope. Those who hoped before in Christ
To walk in the Spirit
Silence honors women
Silence is an excellent gift
Silence of a prudent man
often stops long speeches
Sileni
The chorus of Sileni and Satyrs
Silentiarii
They served by weeks, and after the week was concluded, others came to perform their turns
who they were; their offices
Silius Italicus
Silvanus, defection
Silver miliarensis
Silverius
He is deposed by Belisarius, and Vigilius is substituted in his place
Silverius, bishop of the city of Rome, opens the gates of the city to Belisarius
Silvester
Silvester Giraldus
Simeon
Adam addressed Christ through him
How he preached to all the Gentiles and to the Jews the mystery of the flesh assumed by God
How Simeon and Levi avenged the defilement of Dina
Simeon signifies obedience
Simeon, what it signifies
What blessing Simeon received from his father Jacob as he was dying
Whether he was a priest
Simeon Dunelmensis
SIMEON METAPHRASTES
Day 12. Life of S. Spyridon
Day 13. Martyrdom of the SS. Eustratius, Auxentius and companions
Day 14. Martyrdom of S. Thyrsus and companions
Day 15. Martyrdom of the SS. Gurias, Samonas and Abibus
Day 21. Martyrdom of S. Thomas the apostle
Day 22. Life of S. Cecilia and companions
Day 23. Life of S. Clement the martyr
Day 23. Life of S. Gregory of Agrigento
Day 23. Martyrdom of the ten holy martyrs of Crete
Day 25. Life of S. Catherine
Day 25. Life of S. Mercurius
Day 25. Martyrdom of S. Anastasia the Younger and companions
Day 29. Life of S. Marcellus the Archimandrite
Day 4. Life of S. Barbara
Day 4. Life of S. Joannicius the abbot
Day 5. Life of the SS. Galaction and Episteme
Day 6. Life of S. Nicholas of Myra
Day 7. Martyrdom of S. Hieron and companions
Day 8. Life of S. Patapius
Day 9. Martyrdom of S. Menas and companions
Day 9. Martyrdom of S. Orestes
OF THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS (continuation). MONTH NOVEMBER. Day 2. Martyrdom of the SS. Acindynus, Pegasius and companions
Simeon the elder saw Christ, and received Him in his arms, confessing Him as Lord and Savior
Simeon the Just
embraced the common Savior and blessed Him
Simon
Simon bishop
unjustly excommunicated by John of Antioch
Simon heretic
Simon Magus
A statue erected to his name by the Romans with an impious inscription
His portents and magic arts
Honored as a god
Honored with a statue with an inscription
how much authority he won for himself
That the Apostle Peter was put to death by Nero for his sake
The impious dogma of Simon Magus and Valentinus, that good works are not necessary for salvation
What dreams and blasphemies he uttered concerning himself and the woman he had taken to himself
What he blasphemed concerning his Helena
Why Peter did not kill Simon Magus
Why Simon coveted the power of giving the Holy Spirit
Simon the bishop, iniquity against Nicene fathers
Simon the Samaritan, magician
Simon the Zealot
Simon the Zealot, bishop of Jerusalem, was crucified
Simon, companion of Cleopas, was not Simon Peter, nor Simon the Cananaean, but another disciple
439
Simon, fall of
Simon, impiety of
Simonians
The intemperance, incantations, and deceptions of the Simonians
Their impieties
They worshipped the images of certain people
Simonides praetor
Simonides praetor
Simonis, daughter of Emperor Andronicus, married to King of Serbia
Simple
First come simples, then composites
from simples is composed whatever is composite
It is impossible that simples coexist with composites
Simple and innocent
Simple diet
is preferred to luxuries
Simple speech is in place of an oath for the holy
Simplicity
Simplicity is a certain mark of an innocent man
Simultaneity
Simylus
Sin
A person sinning receives the devil into himself by the first consent
How all are concluded under sin
How great an evil sin is
is to be avoided with all diligence
like a wound, even after healing leaves tracks and scars
nothing is harmful to man except sin
signified by the serpent
Sin is called darkness
Sin unto death
Sin, even when blotted out, is not to be committed to forgetfulness
Sin: what is worthy of punishment in sin
Sinners who are not to be tolerated
Sins which are called preceding judgment, and which ones are subsequent
That those who are not punished here for sin are to be mourned
The nature of sin
The operation of sin is not natural
The sinner sleeps, nay, is even dead
The sinner, insofar as he is such, is a child of the devil
There is a great difference in the ignorance of sinners, from those things which are committed against justice and divine law by those who know better
Why many who sin are not heard
Why sin is said to dwell more in us than virtue
why sinners do not pay the penalties of their sins here
Sin (Peccatum)
He who does not think about his own sins and the final judgment judges and mocks his neighbor
There are many who weep for sins, yet whom something else flees; what is the scope of tears
Sin has obscured the likeness to God
Sin is called a thorn in sacred Scripture
Sin, mountainous
husband of Chayebab
Sin, three modes of servitude
Since there were nine wise men, for what reason only seven obtained that name
Sinistri
Sinner
one must not flatter the sinner
The misery of the sinner, once the fear of God has been cast off
Sinner (Peccator)
In rebuking sinners, excessive severity is to be avoided
Sinners segregate themselves from God; God does not segregate them
Sinning
After the act of sinning, knowledge of the sin for the most part follows
It is objected that men who were to sin ought not to have received birth from the Creator
Remission of sins is given through the Spirit
Sin against the Holy Spirit
Sin brought forth death
Sin to be avoided, by what means
To sin is of human will and choice
Various meanings of the word
Why penalties are sought from sinners almost immediately
Sinopensis
Sinopensis; for Diogenes
Sinopites castris a Manuele præficitur
Sins
How voluntary sins differ
Sins, against God should be punished
Sins, against us should be borne with
Sins, remission of obtained in short time
Sins, venial
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Sion
Sion had the Mother of God as a dweller on earth
and there, obeying the laws of nature, she received the end of life
Sion is our city and heavenly fatherland, whose towers are fixed in the hands of the Lord
Sirach
SYNOPSIS Siraci
Sirens
How Pythagoras preferred the Muses to the Sirens
Siricius, bishop of Rome
Sirmium
A Græcis captum
Ab Hungaris expugnatur
Sirmium, a town, is captured by the Gepids
Taken again by the Barbarians whom they call Avars
Sirmium, a town, the domestic and private property of the duke of the Avars
Sirmium, a town, the domestic and private property of the duke of the Avars
Sirmondus
Siroes, son of Chosroes
Sisinius, bishop of the Novatians
Sisinnius
disciple of Elpidius
disciple of Manes
He is ordained priest
He shuts himself in a monument
Sisinnius, Bishop of the Novatians
Sisinnius, canons concerning marriages
Sisinnius, dream vision of
Sisinnius, episcopal see
Sisinnius, patrician
Site
A particular [eclipse], of Christ
All stars are dense and bright
By its double motion, it causes days and nights, and the hours of the year
By what other names the subsolanus (east wind) is called
Division of the spectres appearing in the sky
Division of the stars
Exaltations and dejections, and adversities
How an eclipse of the sun occurs
How it is moved
How it is to be understood that there is nothing contrary to substance
How the magnitude of the sun is discovered
How the parallel circles of the sun are disposed
How they are moved
In which signs it lingers longer
is twofold
It does not traverse the equal parts of the zodiac in equal time
It is eccentric to the zodiac
It is more than seventeen times as distant from the moon as the moon itself is from the earth
It is the cause of contrary passions by its motion
Likewise also the wandering ones
Rainy years succeed squalid ones
Shooting stars
Station is an act
Substance is said by reason of intention and remission
The difference between pools or lakes
The division of succession
The Earth is greater, and indeed more than one hundred and sixty-six times greater [than the moon], and has other colors, and why
The houses of the wandering stars
The order and periodic motion of the wandering stars
The sphere is the first of all solid figures
The spheres of the planets move both according to and above nature
The spheres of the seven wandering stars, the planets, are eccentric
The unwandering stars move by three motions
They are changed according to the inclination of the world
They are configured to one another by five configurations
They are depressed sublimely and depressed humbly; they are lifted humbly and lifted sublimely
They are moved flexuously and tortuously
They are not fixed in the firmament
They are not moved in an unorganized manner
They change the solar circle
They have a spherical figure, and are turned according to the opinion of Plato
They make a conjunction with the sun at different times
They recede to any interval from the sun, except for Venus and Mercury
What a bearded star is
What kind of mirrors of the clouds are
What kind of shadow the inhabitants of Syene have at the time of the summer solstice
What kind of star the sun is
What pools are
What squalor is
What succession is
What the *strobilus* (whirling) wind is
What the site of that which is moved is
What the solar circle is
What the sphere *aplanes*, or the unwandering [sphere], is
What wandering spheres are
When a total eclipse of the sun occurs
Where the sun is higher, there the moon is nearer to the earth
Which, among the spheres that are carried by a motion contrary to the first sphere, is the perfect one
Why and how those who are occupied with the solar light for a long time are injured in their vision
Why rising and setting stars appear crimson
Why they are called wandering stars
Situation
Six first ecumenical synods
Sixth degree not prohibited
Sixth degree prohibited
Sixth Synod
Sixtus, Bishop of Rome
skedastos
skedastēs
skirtaō
skirtēma
Slander regarding three gods, homily against
Slanderer
The slanderer destroys not only bodies, but also souls
Slaughter of neighbors, the beginning of our calamity
Slaughter of neighbors, the beginning of our calamity
Sleep
filthy dreams are sent to the pious by a demon
It is a gift of God
It is enough to grieve over these
It is necessary
It prepares for daily death
Otherwise the distinction between voluntary and involuntary sins would be removed
That he might find them rejoicing in an evil deed
The mutual succession of sleep and waking
the night is not to be spent wholly in sleep
They are to be expiated by tears, not by water
Sleep and waking of God
what they are
Slippers
Slothful in religion
Slothful, shall have no excuse
Slow speech
with confusion denotes something foolish and weak
Small light in the icons of the angels and the saints, what it signifies
Smele
Smerdis and Spathines, magi, occupy the kingdom after the death of Cambyses
They are slaughtered
Smerdis, son of Cyrus
Smiltzos, turned out of the kingdom of the Bulgarians
Smiltzos, widow negotiates marriage with Emperor Andronicus
Smyrna
Smyrnæ
Smyrnæi
Snow
it is preserved when straw and garments are placed upon it
whence and how it is made
So not a man only, nor a woman
22, in Epist. ad Ephes. XI
22, in Epist. ad Ephes. XI, 155. Montf
So that soldiers might be raised to great hope, the emperor does not allow bravery to be fruitless
So that soldiers might be raised to great hope, the emperor does not allow bravery to be fruitless
Sobriety is everywhere to be embraced
Socaria, two kinds of
Socarium
Society
See Conversation
Socinian opinion against the divinity of Christ
Socrates
although very poor, nevertheless burned with lust
because he swore by the oak and the dog, was accused and condemned
born of a mother who was a midwife, and a father who was a sculptor
Cited
died by a potion of hemlock
falsely held to be the wisest of men
he had two wives, Xanthippe and Myrto
he himself practiced the sculptor's trade
His error in the History of the Ephesine council
inflamed by anger and lacking self-control
Socrates the son of Sophroniscus
The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates
was given to women
was of remarkable appearance and facial form
Why?
Socrates and Plato abhorred him who separated the useful from the honorable and just
Socrates hist
Socrates mocked them
Socrates, Ecclesiastical History
Socrates, wrote history of 135 years
Sodomites
How the cities of the Sodomites burned
Sodomites, most wicked
Sogdites, later subjects of the Turks, of the Ephthalites
Sogdites, later subjects of the Turks, of the Ephthalites
Sol dicitur B. Virgo
Solachus, sent as envoy by the Chagan
Solachus, sent as envoy by the Chagan
Soleimanes
under pretext of defending a pupil left by a Bano of Transylvania, despoils the mother and pupil of Hungary
Solertia
Soleus, place for emperor
Solibas, comes of Justinian
Solicitude for brothers is necessary
Solimanes besieges Vienna of Austria
Wetsch, Vindoniana, Ostrikion
Solinus
Solitary life, praise of the
Solitude
An encomium of solitude
Solitude helps a man to collect his mind
Many have been lovers of solitude
Why those who have had sleep turn pale
Solomon
already an old man, led into pleasure by women
and what the litter is
contemporaneous with Homer
for this reason God was vehemently indignant against him
interpreted as "peacemaker"
nor is he accustomed to be placed in the number of the saints, prophets, apostles, or evangelists
not by God's impulse
Solomon did not repent
Solomon's bed, what it is
Solomon's temple
surrounded by luxury and pleasures
Solomon's testament
Solon
and Lycurgus cared most for the worship of the gods
he who wrote the laws for the Athenians
hears from an Egyptian prophet that the Greeks are children
when Solon enacted his laws
Solon, saint
Solutio maledictionis B. Virgo
Solymampaxis, leader of the barbarians, reconciled to the Romans
Solyman Persa
Some have felt that all will be saved
Some Macedonians said the Holy Spirit was not a subsistent being
Some Manichaeans
Abstaining from the killing of animals and meat
drowned by the King of the Persians or put to death
Their heresies in Egypt and Alexandria prevailed everywhere
Their sects, the Sadikini and Samakini
They also disapproved of the washing of water
Some say he competed in the Isthmian and Pythian games
Some say Pluto is Osiris, others Apis
Somoron, that is, Samaria
Son
the Son is distinguished from the Father by hypostasis
Son and the Spirit, as the light of the Father
Son of Apocaucus
He is suppressed by an assault of the populace
He occupies the citadel
The son of the dead Apocaucus decides to surrender Thessalonica to Cantacuzenus
Son, character of the substance of God
Son, consubstantial with the Father
Son, Creator by nature
Son, divine attributes by nature
Son, divine dignity not by participation
Son, equal honor and glory with the Father
Son, God by nature
Son, image of God and the Father
Son, Life by nature
Son, Light by nature
Son, not a creature
Son, true light and not a creature
Son, uniquely begotten by nature
Son, worshiped with the Father
Sonches
Sonchis
Sondin, a steep and precipitous mountain
Sondin, a steep and precipitous mountain
Song of degrees
Whence the song of degrees is so called
Song, a chant adapted for dancing
Song, who sang it first
Songs
Songs of banquets
Sopater, Various Excerpts
Sophene
Sophene
Sophia
The church of (Saint) Sophia, built by Justinian, is described
Sophia, church dedicated
Sophian, Saracen
Sophianus
Sophianus harbor
Sophistic art, rejection of
Sophistries against the resurrection
Of those who say Christ did not come in the flesh
Sophocles
Oedipus
Sophocles
Sophocles on crowning the dead
Sophocles' opinion concerning God
Sophocles' scholiast
Sophocles' scholiast
Sophonias, a monk, sent to Apulia
Sophroniscus and Menevius, sons of Socrates and Myrto
Sophronius and the Palestinians defer to Pope Honorius, so that he may quiet the two wills and operations
Sophronius the monk
Sophronius, against Eunomius
Sophronius, patriarch of Alexandria
on the veneration of images
Sophronius, patriarch of Jerusalem
Thesis of the faith
Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem, committed to writing the life of Mary of Egypt, which is most full of compunction
Sophronius, patriarch. Alexandrinus
Sorcerers are excluded from the heavenly Jerusalem
Sorceries and incantations
are to be fled
Sorech, which Symmachus interprets as "choice"
Soros
a place name, why so called
Sorosgi
Sorosgi
Sorrow
Tristitia salutaris quænam
Sosandron, monastery
Soscus
Sostenianum monastery
Sosthenes
Why the Jews struck Sosthenes
Sosthenius, harbor
Sotadean teachings
Sotas
Soteria (salvation)
reading for epainos (praise)
Soul
The beauty of the body is to be accounted as nothing before the beauty of the soul
The most savage enemies of the soul are unbridled impulses of the will
What is the eye of the soul
What is the life of the soul
Soul and body
Soul and body, sermon on
Soul of man, not pre-existent
Soul, being incorporeal, how it is under bonds and pain
Soul, how it departs when the breath is constrained
Soul, how it is taken by an angel
Soul, if it can be held by fire
Soul, if it is in the seed
Souls are called ships
Souls of sinners, that they are seized by demons
Souls, departure of
Souls, received into the moon
Souls, whither do they go
Sozomenus
Space
what it is, according to the philosophers
Whether there is a certain empty space outside the world
Span of a day
Spanduginus
Spare time
Sparks of fire are compared to the works of sins
Sparrow
A comparison of the sparrow with the rich man
Spartenus, of Thessalonica
Spartianus
Spatharius
Speak
We must be slow to speak and to anger
Speaking in a high tone
Species
Species Jacob B. Virgo
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Spectacles
Scenic spectacles, circus games, and theatrical shows, are incentives to all vices and irritants to evil desires, according to the Holy Fathers
Why public spectacles are to be avoided
Spectaculum dicitur B. Virgo
Speculum purissimum B. Virgo
Speculum Saxonicum
Speech
For we are members of one another
In speech, care must be taken that we be neither rude and unskilled, nor abuse our broken speech
like a fountain, which the more frequently it is drawn from, the more limpid are the waters it pours forth
Nor should we speak for the sake of trifling, but for the most part we should be silent
Those whose actions do not respond to their words have snares lurking among them and are to be avoided
We must pray daily that we may be rich in speech and powerful in work
Speech, internal and external
Spelmannus
Spermologos
"Spermologos" [babbler] is a certain kind of bird
Spes dicitur B. Virgo
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sphadazō
Sphentisthlabus, falls by the hand of Maria, Queen of Bulgaria
Sphere
Philosophers and theologians do not agree on the number of the celestial spheres
Sphere and spherical [matters] cultivated by the Egyptians
Sphere and spherical [matters] cultivated by the Egyptians
Sphranthzes
Spicilegium Acherianum
Spilled at the entrance to the Holy Place, what must be done
Spinulus, arranges for an auxiliary fleet for Emperor Andronicus
Spirit
A comparison of the Holy Spirit with a ray and the sun
He is supplied to the creature through the Son
How the Spirit is undivided from the Son
is life according to nature; from the living Father
is sometimes placed for thought, soul, conscience
Spiritual desires of the flesh hinder the law
That spirits departing from here remember what they did here and from whom they departed is a constant opinion of the Fathers
That which is born of the spirit is spirit
The Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of the Son
The Holy Spirit is from the Son
The Holy Spirit is proper to the Father and the Son
The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father
The Spirit blows where he wills
The Spirit of God repudiated by sin
The Spirit of God was borne over the water; in what way this is to be understood
The virtue of the Holy Spirit, and its efficacy of purging by fire, is compared
To whom the Spirit reveals
What the spirit breathed into man by God after creation is
Spirit, gift of
Spirit, Holy
is the Spirit of the Son
It is also the Spirit of the Father, if indeed He proceeds from the Father
The Father produced the Spirit from His own substance
Spirits
Whose spirits are from God and whose not
Spirits, personal
Spiritual birth is more wonderful and better than carnal [birth]
Spiritual clouds
what they are
Spiritual Eve, formed from the rib
Spiritual gifts
Spiritual health
What spiritual health is
Spiritual man
Spiritual matters
In spiritual matters one must proceed in order
One must begin from the consideration of oneself
Spiritual matters, how to approach
Spiritual paradise
which it is
Spiritual perfection, sermon on
Spiritual priests
Spiritual progress
Spiritual sheep, complete number
Spiritual spices
What are spiritual spices
Spiritual things
Spiritual things are adumbrated in material ones
Spiritual things must be considered spiritually
That it is necessary to compare spiritual things with spiritual, what this means
Spiritually humble and poor
Spiritus Sanctus, present at universal council
Splendid garments forbidden to priests
I, 318
Splendor angelorum B. Virgo
Spoils are whatever things are placed around prostrate corpses
Sponsa dicitur B. Virgo
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Spontaneous things are to be preferred to violent ones
Spontaneous things are to be preferred to violent ones
Sportulae, distribution approved by some bishops, condemned by the Emperor
spoudaioterōs
spoudasma
Spring
after the sadness of winter, is a sweeter image of the Saints who have turned from an unruly way of living
An elegant description of spring
An elegant description of them
In the spring the world was created at the time of the equinox
In the spring time the Savior rose
Its comparison with the effects of salvation
Other comparisons of the same kind
The amenities of spring occurring at the feast of the Dedication
The pleasantness of spring
Springtime of life
Mature spring in the month of May
Spurious narrative regarding the passing of the Virgin, under the name of Melito of Sardis
Spyridion
was present at the Synod of Nicaea
Spyridon, Saint
St. Alexander of Alexandria, notice
St. Anna’s church
St. Athanasius’s epistle to Ruffinianus
II, 41
St. Clement I, life of
St. Clement I, writings
ST. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA, ARCHBISHOP
Commentary on the prophet Amos
Commentary on the prophet Habakkuk
Commentary on the prophet Haggai
Commentary on the prophet Hosea
Commentary on the prophet Joel
Commentary on the prophet Jonah
Commentary on the prophet Micah
Commentary on the prophet Nahum
Commentary on the prophet Obadiah
Commentary on the prophet Zephaniah
St. Editha builds a temple to St. Dionysius
St. Eligius, once an excellent goldsmith, devoted all the industry of his art to the honor of St. Dionysius
ST. EPIPHANIUS, BISHOP OF CONSTANTIA IN CYPRUS
Acts of St. Epiphanius, Bollandian
Dedication epistle of Dion. Petavius
Elogia of the Ancients concerning Epiphanius
Life of St. Epiphanius by John and Polybius
Notitia of Fabricius
Preface of the same
St. Eustathius of Antioch, notice
St. Eutropius returns to the Gallic labors from which he had imprudently departed
St. George
St. Gerard, abbot of Brogne, obtains some relics of St. Eugenius
ST. GREGORY THE THEOLOGIAN, ARCHBION OF CONSTANTINOPLE
Notice of the ancient manuscripts according to which we have emended Gregory's orations
ST. GREGORY THE THEOLOGIAN, ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE
A nightly vision by which he is kindled with a love of chastity
After the middle of the year 362, the father of the Theologian subscribed to the formula of Rimini
All the Catholics, heretics, and infidels flock to his sermons
Although all petitioned that he should ascend the episcopal throne, he cannot be forced. Gregory is installed in the Constantinopolitan see
Another interpretation of Gregory the father's words from the Memor. Trev. 1707
Ardor for maintaining modesty
Baronius’s opinion
Basil is elected bishop of Caesarea through the labor of both Gregorys
Basil tries to recall Gregory
Basil, having built a monastery, tries to attract Gregory
Both Gregorys labor that Basil may be placed in charge of the Church of Caesarea. Nothing is omitted by them so that the matter might proceed prosperously
Caesarea of Cappadocia was famous for letters
Concerning rules of conduct
Concerning Valens, who was making an attack against the Nazianzene Church; together with his father, he carries off the victory
Constant in sacred houses, they desire both to be and to be called Christians. Athens, pestiferous to others, harms them not, but confirms them in the faith
Defense of Gregory against Tollius
Friendship grows between Gregory and Basil. One soul appeared to be in both. One study for both was virtue
GENERAL PREFACE
Gregory applies himself to the study of sacred letters, and is wonderfully delighted by that study
Gregory becomes master of his vow, walking a middle path between the anchorites and the cenobites
Gregory comes to Caesarea, adds himself as an ally to Basil, and takes part in the fight near Sasima against Anthimus
Gregory complains that fraud was done to him. Basil is blamed by many
Gregory composes peace between Eusebius and Basil
Gregory defends the cause of the faith in an excellent manner. The times had need of such a defender
Gregory did not fail the faith pledged to God: how did he fail the one pledged to Basil
Gregory dies
Gregory endeavors to heal the discord arising in the Church of Caesarea, and works on orations against Julian
Gregory frees his country from great danger
Gregory is an ally to Basil, who is struggling against the same Valens
Gregory is born. Early education in the paternal home
Gregory is consecrated bishop of Sasima at Nazianzus, not at Caesarea, in the year 372
Gregory is invited by Eusebius to a spiritual assembly or to a feast day
Gregory makes his testament. Gregory returns to Nazianzus
Gregory not only confirms the dogmas of the faith and refutes errors, but also imparts precepts of morals
Gregory promises that he will live for God if he escapes safe. He acknowledges that he was saved by the prayers of his parents
Gregory reproves Basil for providing for the election of the bishop of Caesarea with too little caution
Gregory returned from Athens under age
Gregory the father receives baptism from the Nazianzen bishop. Driven to flee his homeland by an angry mother
Gregory was born when his father was not yet a bishop
Gregory was neither present at the election of Basil, nor did he visit him after the election; to Basil, complaining that he was neglected, he replied
Gregory withdraws Basil from a foolish rite. He brings aid against the Armenians. A very close intimacy between Basil and Gregory
Gregory's fatherland: whether Nazianzum or Arianzus
Gregory's perpetual virginity is asserted against Beveridge and Muratori
Gregory, recalled from solitude by his father
Gregory’s augury concerning Julian
Gregory’s excellent sentiment on this matter
Gregory’s parents
Gregory’s studies are carried beyond the threshold
He arrives at Athens around the year 350
He betakes himself to Palestine for the love of letters
He betakes himself to solitude with Basil: both lead an ascetic life. The austerity of life, the lack of things, the labor of hands, etc
He carries on the care of the Church of Nazianzus
He had also bound himself by a vow to embrace the monastic life
He imposes upon himself the law of never swearing, and keeps it
He is created bishop
He is occupied with writing epistles and composing verses
He is visited by Gregory of Nyssa, whom Basil sent
He meditates on returning to his homeland
He offers his services to Basil against Anthimus of Tyana
He receives baptism. Exactly when is not certain
He sails to Athens and is tossed by a violent storm. The validity of baptism conferred by laymen is not sufficiently known to the Greeks
He seeks Alexandria
He seeks the company of pious men
He sets out for Caesarea in Cappadocia
He takes care that Eulalius is appointed bishop of Nazianzus
He tries in vain to appoint a bishop for Nazianzus
He withdraws to Arianzum, and from there he betakes himself to Caesarea
He writes to Nectarius against the Apollinarians
In Cappadocia, Gregory first joined in friendship with Basil
In other battles of Basil, Gregory plays his part
In what year Gregory was born
Inquiry is made as to the church of which Gregory, commonly called Nazianzen, should be considered and called bishop
It is credible that Gregory also led a solitary life in Tiberina, where Arianzum was situated
LIFE OF ST. GREGORY adorned chiefly from his own writings
Moved by the fame of Gregory, Jerome comes to Constantinople from Syria, that he may become his disciple
Near the end of Julian’s reign, he subscribed to an impious formula, but kept his heart unharmed
Nonna, mother of Gregory, came from a holy root
Not only in affection, but in reality does Gregory strip himself
Objections of Bollandus
Observations concerning Church discipline from the writings of Gregory
Occasion of dissension having arisen among the orthodox, the heretics seize a pretext to insult them, whom Gregory refutes
Of what bodily stature Gregory was. The feast day of Gregory
On Amphilochius, both father and son, bishop of Iconium, and on Gregory’s entire maternal kinship, to which Amphilochius is shown to belong
On baptism and confirmation
On ecclesiastical causes
On faith
On God
On grace
On penance
On temporal and ecclesiastical power
On the angels
On the eucharist
On the Father
On the hierarchy and celibacy of presbyters
On the Holy Spirit
On the Incarnation
On the monastic life which Gregory professed
On the reading of pagan books
On the sacrament of matrimony
On the sacrament of orders
On the Son
On the soul, its immortality and origin
On the Trinity
On the various editions of the works of St. Gregory
On virgins and monks
Original sin
Our efforts in preparing this edition of the works of Gregory are set forth
PART ONE
PART THREE. — On various headings of Gregorian doctrine
PART TWO. — Gregorian defense
Piety towards his parents recalls Gregory from the delights of the desert to his father's house
Received into hospitality by his kinsfolk. The house into which the orthodox gathered was a pious one
Requested by his parents and citizens, he spends some time in the world. Piety towards his parents keeps Gregory at home, and there he conducts a monastic life
Sighing and crying out, yet not altogether resisting, Gregory is installed
Struck with grief, Gregory consoles himself with the hope that he would obtain permission to depart
That small place, which was afterwards called Anastasia because of the restored faith
The age and illnesses of his parents do not allow Gregory to be away
The Arians stir up mobs. The fraud of the Arians. They drive many into deceit
The character of Gregory's father
The complaints of Basil against Gregory, and of Gregory against Basil
The death of his brother Caesarius brings huge pain to Gregory; and after his passing he is overwhelmed by most troublesome affairs
The Gregorian deeds in the city of Constantinople
The heresy of the Hypsistarians
The inconveniences of the contrary opinion
The mark of falsehood should not be branded upon Gregory’s words
The Philocalia and the monastic rules are the fruits of the studies of Basil and Gregory
The poor opinion held by the ancients regarding the inhabitants of Cappadocia
The schism of the monks on account of the subscription of Gregory the father did not happen under Constantius. This discord was brief
The teachers he used in Athens
The Theologian speaks as if he himself were the guilty one, which must be attributed to his piety towards his father
Theodosius convokes a general council in the year 381
There is a very grave difficulty in Tillemont’s opinion
They summon Eusebius of Samosata from the East
Together with his brother Caesarius, he returns to his parents
Twice was Gregory dragged from solitude
What he did in solitude. The calamities by which the Church was afflicted at that time
With the highest consensus, Gregory is installed in the Constantinopolitan see, lacking the suffrage of almost no one
With what arms of defense Gregory came, prepared to fight against the heretics
ST. GREGORY, BISHOP OF NEOCAESAREA, SURNAMED THAUMATURGUS
I. — Gregory, formerly Theodore, polished in Greek and Roman studies, is consecrated Bishop of Neocaesarea. At what time he passed away
II. — The Expositio fidei of St. Gregory is divinely dictated. It is held to be authentic by the testimonies of the ancients
III. — The Metaphrasis on Ecclesiastes is attributed to St. Gregory. What Billius and Bengelius say concerning this work
IV. — At what age St. Gregory's Canonical Epistle was written. What the Quinisext Council thought of it. Whether its eleventh canon is genuine
V. — Concerning the Panegyrical Oration to Origen by St. Gregory. How highly it is valued
VII. — The opinion of learned men regarding the Homilies IV and the Disputation on the Soul attributed to the holy Father
VIII. — Concerning the epistle of Origen addressed to our Gregory, and also concerning his life by St. Gregory of Nyssa
St. Hierotheus is a distinguished herald of the Gospel
St. Hierotheus ruled the Athenian Church for some time
St. Hierotheus the second master of Dionysius in the mysteries of religion
St. Hierotheus. He becomes bishop of the Athenians
St. Isidore of Pelusium wrote to Didymus
ST. JOHN DAMASCENE
Admonition on the Trisagion Hymn
Admonition to the dissertation against the Nestorians
Admonition to the dissertation on the two wills
Admonition to the Elementary Institution
Admonition to the Epistle on confession
Admonition to the Epistle to the Emperor Theophilus
Admonition to the following dissertation
Admonition to the following opus
Admonition to the following opuscula
Admonition to the opusculum on sacred fasts
Admonition to the opusculum on the body and blood of Christ
Admonition to the opusculum on the Holy Trinity
Admonition to the opusculum on Unleavened Bread
Admonition to the Paschal Canon
Cap. II. — On hypostasis, person and individual
Cap. III. — On difference, quality and property
Cap. IV. — On substantial and adventitious difference, that is, natural difference and accident
Cap. IX. — On passion
Cap. V. — On separable and inseparable accident
Cap. VI. — On those things which are of the same and of diverse substance
Cap. VII. — On genus and species
Cap. VIII. — On operation
Cap. X. — On the will
Chapter I. — On substance, nature and form
DISSERTATION AGAINST THE HERESY OF THE NESTORIANS
ELEMENTARY INSTITUTION ON DOGMAS
EPISTLE ON CONFESSION
EPISTLE ON SACRED FASTS
EPISTLE ON THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST
EPISTLE ON THE HOLY IMAGES TO THE EMPEROR THEOPHILUS
EPISTLE ON THE TRISAGION HYMN
EPISTLE ON THIS: WHAT IS MAN?
EXPOSITION AND DECLARATION OF FAITH
EXPOSITION on the Epistle to I Timothy
EXPOSITION on the Epistle to II Timothy
EXPOSITION on the Epistle to Philemon
EXPOSITION on the Epistle to the Colossians
EXPOSITION on the Epistle to the Ephesians
EXPOSITION on the Epistle to the Galatians
EXPOSITION on the Epistle to the Hebrews
EXPOSITION on the Epistle to the I Thessalonians
EXPOSITION on the Epistle to the II Thessalonians
EXPOSITION on the Epistle to the Philippians
EXPOSITION on the Epistle to the Romans
EXPOSITION on the Epistle to Titus
FRAGMENTS
ON THE COMPOSITE NATURE AGAINST THE ACEPHALI
ON THE EIGHT SPIRITS OF WICKEDNESS
ON THE TWO WILLS IN CHRIST
ON UNLEAVENED BREAD
ON VIRTUES AND VICES
OPUSCULUM ON THE HOLY TRINITY
ORATION ON THE SACRED IMAGES, AGAINST CONSTANTINE CABALLINUS
ORATION ON THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP IN FAITH
PASCHAL CANON
SACRA PARALLELA
VARIOUS FRAGMENTS
St. John is the sun of the Gospel
St. Luke in Acts cites his own Gospel
St. Maximus is defended
St. Methodius, historical-literary notice
St. Methodius, testimonies of the ancients
St. Paul the apostle, the first preceptor of Dionysius in matters of faith
St. Peter of Alexandria, authentic Acts
St. Peter of Alexandria, historical and literary notice
St. Peter of Alexandria, homily on the Cross and Passion of Christ
St. Peter of Alexandria, Monitum of Mai
St. Peter of Alexandria, Oration on Palm Sunday
St. Peter of Alexandria, various fragments
St. Polycarp’s zeal for the conversion of Apollophanes
St. Regulus was a listener to John the apostle
St. Sophia
For these reasons the temple is suddenly deformed by ruin
The gathering of the citizens and the commiseration
The magnitude of its ruin is described in words
The pious diligence of the nobles, and especially of the women, in removing the rubble
The temple of St. Sophia, in the part looking toward the east, collapses as the hemisphere falls, and gaps open
St. Sophronius, Bishop of Jerusalem
St. Stephen stoned to death
II, 14
St. Theodosia, heals a youth
Stabilimenta S. Ludovici
Stadia, town
Stagiræ, mountain
Stags
are said to be fatal to serpents
Standard of the guards
struck by lightning
Standards
What the standards of the Turks are like
with images brought into Jerusalem
Stanum
Staridola
Stars
the substance and form of the stars, being perpetually in motion, fight with their immobile stability
Stars and constellations, evil not in
Stasenus, kinsman of Synadenus
Statius
Statue of St. Michael the Archangel, thrown down by an earthquake
Stauracius
Stauracius, designated emperor, is extinguished
Stauratius
spatharocandidatus, prefect of the island of Cyprus
Stauropegia
I, 20
Stauropegion
Stenimachus, town
Stephanus
Cruelly killed by the boys of the Antiochians
Deposed
Stephanus
Stephanus, bishop of Hierapolis, wrote the life of Saint Golanduch
Stephanus, bishop of the Ephesians, attended the synod of Chalcedon
Stephanus, ordained bishop of Antioch
Stephanus Byzantius
Stephanus Luzinianus
Stephanus, associate of Cosmas
Stephanus, bishop of Barabla (Jamnia)
takes part in the Council of Chalcedon
Stephanus, envoy of Justinian to Terbelis
Stephanus, hermit
Stephanus, machination against legates
Stephanus, Persian, prefect of the treasury
Is burned
Stephanus, Persian, prefect of the treasury, threatens the mother of Justinian with lashes
Stephanus, son of Maria by Eutropius
Redeemed by his mother
Stephanus, son of Maria by Eutropius, given as a hostage to the Avars
Stephanus, the first martyr
Stephen
Stephen bore the accusation of one multitude, but the schemes and false testimonies of another
Stephen’s address, how prudently it was disposed
Stephen’s prayer, whether it obtained pardon for his persecutors
the first martyr and prophet
Why religious men made a lamentation over Stephen
Stephen (Saint) the Younger
Dies a martyr
Embraces the monastic life
Stephen (Saint) the Younger, born, anointed
Stephen Uresis, King of Serbia, becomes in-law to Emperor Michael
Stephen Uresis, King of Serbia, domestic squalor
Stephen, disciple of St. Stephen the Younger
Stephen, monk
Stephen, ordained patriarch of Constantinople by Theophanes, metropolitan of Caesarea
I, 127
stereimnios
Sterility or unfruitfulness, both are subject to a curse among the ancients
Sterility, evil of
sterētikos
sterētikōs
Stesichorus
palinode of the cursed poem against Helen
Stesimbrotus of Thasos
Sthenelus, king of the Argives
Sthlavus, Despot
Sticharion
Stilicho consul
Stilicho consul
Stilicho, put to death
Stilicho, tutor of Honorius
Stilicho, tyrant
Stoic sect
stoicheiōsis
stoicheiōtikos
stoicheiōō
Stoics
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It lasted until the times of the Blessed Paul
say that all things are made from four elements, and that God permeates them
Stoics
The paradoxes of the Stoics
The Stoic sect, why so called
Who the Stoics were
Storms and hail prove that the creature is a servant of God
Strabo
Strategius, brother of Constantine
STRATEGOPULI
Alexius
Constantinus, son of Alexius
Strato
Stratonice
sister of Synesius
Strator
Strength
Let us not rely upon our own strength with any confidence
Nothing is to be presumed concerning our own strength
Strength and fortitude
Strenuitas vestra
Origin and use of the title
Strife
For what cause there are strifes and altercations among us
Strinabus, town
Strobus
Strong men are to be praised after death; a passage from Homer on this matter
Strummitza
Struthus, Joannes, of the palace school
Strymon, river
strōmateus
Stubborn wickedness
Stubbornness, interdiction of
Studii, monastery
Studium monastery
Study and diligence
It needs the help of God
One ought to approach the disciplines studiously
Stumbling block
A stumbling block is not to be placed before a brother
Stumpium, town
Stupa the patriarch
Stupor, expressed for wonder
styptikos
stēthynion
Suani
harassed by the Persians, seek help from the Romans
Suania, a part of Lazica
Suania, a part of Lazica
Suanian duchy, Suanian duke, rector
Suanian duchy, Suanian duke, rector
Suanian forms of war
Suanian forms of war
Suanians are robbers, rustlers of plunder, perpetrators of crimes
Suanians are robbers, rustlers of plunder, perpetrators of crimes
Subdeacons
Subdeacons, constitution of
Subjection in monastic life
Subjects imitate the morals of their princes
Sublimitas ineffabilis dicitur B. Virgo
Subordination
must be observed everywhere
Subrumi, little boys
Subrumi, little boys
Subsidium omnium dicitur B. Virgo
Substance
for expectation
From substances, nature and art perform whatever they perform
Hence Paul’s "faith is the substance of things hoped for," about which text we have spoken in the annotations to Nicephorus
Its properties
Substance is divided into corporeal and incorporeal
Substance is to be a certain thing and not to be another certain thing
Substance, what it is
the definition according to Aristotle is that it is receptive of contraries
There are diverse substances whose faculties are diverse
what it is simply, universally, and specifically
Substance and hypostasis, definition of
Substance of God, that no human being has received
Substitution (substratio), what it is
I, 33
Substitution, what it is
II, 169
Subterranean prophecies
Sudaria and Semicinctia
Sudaria and Semicinctia, what they are called
Suddenly liberated by God
Suetonius
Suffering, not an evil
Suffrage was once called ordination
I, 1
Suffrages
Concerning suffrages in the creation of a bishop
sugchōnnymi
Sugerius abbas S. Dion
suggatabainō
suggatabatikōs
suggatadikazō
suggatagō
suggataichmazō
suggatakrinō
suggateimi
sugkakopatheō
sugkakoucheō
sugkalyma
sugkalyptō
sugklēronomēō
sugkritikos
Suidas
Argued against, πρὸς τὴν εὑρεῖαν
Cited
in the term τεμάχη is faulty
Likewise
What he says about σκύβαλα
sullaleō
Sultan Iacup
Heste Rebiste
Sultania, formerly Tigranoceria
Origin of the name of the Sultan among the Persians, from Cedrinus
Sumptuary law
Sun
The sun illuminates and perfects all things
The sun is stayed by Joshua
The varied motions of the sun
What the utility and efficacy of the sun are
whence it is called *helios* in Greek
Sun and splendor
compared with the Father and the Son
Sun's chariot
Sun's eclipse
Sun's heat
it is not in itself very hot
whether it is hot
Sun's magnitude
Sun, eclipse of
Sun, folly of those who worship
Sun, why created after the third day
Sunium
a most celebrated village
Supercelestial waters
Supergenuale
Superior in wealth and abundance of words
Superior in wealth and abundance of words
Superior things are to be venerated with an uncurious faith
Superiors are to be revered
Superiors of the Order are by no means to be corrected by their inferiors
Supermanicalia
Superstitious observers of times offer sacrifices in Egypt
Suphir, a region situated in the Indian people, in which most precious stones are wont to be born
Supplication
Supplication differs from entreaty and intercession
Sureties of clerics
Suretyship
Surita
Surius
Susanna
The history of Susanna is authentic, from Irenaeus and others
Suspect woman, story of
Suspicion
for some it is enough for speaking and writing
Suspicions are to be avoided, and what we ourselves suspect must be diligently examined
They always think others are speaking about them
Swallow
deprived of the light of its eyes, appears with sight three days later, and how this happens
It teaches us the resurrection of bodies
Swearing, against the custom of
Swine
Swine before whom pearls are not to be cast, who they are
Swine are suffocated by ointment
Sycophants
are to be shunned
the word of a single sycophant often subverts cities and homes
Sycæ
Syene
a city midway between Ethiopia and Egypt
sygkrisis
Syllogisms
The chain of syllogisms
Sylvanus, monk
symbama
Symbelum
Symbol
How they are to be explained
Symbols are more appropriate for us
Symbols must be explained in one way and then another
Symbols which are brought forward by Saint Dionysius: whence they are taken
The ancient tradition of the apostles to be diligently guarded
We must not cling to symbols
what it is
Symbol of faith, Constantinopolitan additions
Symbol of faith, origin of
Symbol of the Faith
The opinion of the Fathers that the Symbol of the Faith was established by the apostles themselves
Symbolic precepts
Symbolic precepts
Symbolic theology
brings absurd images to the more unlearned
what fictions it uses
What kind it is
symbolikōs
Symbols were given, some to men, some to women
Symeon
Symeon, monk of Emesa
Symeon, monk of the Acoemetae
Symeon, who took Christ in his arms, was he a priest?
Symeon Stylites
and another to Basil, bishop of Antioch
He spent fifty-six years in monastic exercise
He was the first to conceive of standing on a column
His body is carried to Antioch with great honor in the principate of Leo
His letter to Leo Augustus
Leo Augustus writes letters to him
Symeon Stylites flourishes under Theodosius the Younger
The shrine or *Mandra* of Symeon is described
Symeon Stylites the Younger
His death
On what occasion he ascended the column
Symeon Stylites the Younger under Tiberius
Symeon the bishop, martyrdom of
Symeon the Just
one of the interpreters of the LXX, of whose incredulity, and who lived three hundred and fifty years and saw Christ
Symeon, martyrdom of
Symeon, son of Cleopas
died at Rome, crucified under Trajan
Symmachus
A Samaritan who approaches the Jews and is circumcised again
He interprets Holy Scripture
Symmachus
Version of Symmachus
Symmachus, held consulship
Symmachus, philosopher
Symmachus’s Greek edition of the Bible
is cited
read by Cyril for
symmetaballō
symmetakerannymi
symmetreō
sympachynō
symparadechomai
symparenylēsis
symperasma
symperilambanō
symperipherō
symperiphora
symperiphorikōs
sympheugō
symphilosopheō
symphorēsis
symphyrsis
sympodizō
Symposia (banquets) by contribution are not to be held by clerics, nor even by laymen
Symposia are not to be held in churches
Symposia, whether with pagans or on feast days, are forbidden
symproskyneō
sympēxis
Synagogue
forbidden to the followers of Christ
How Christ raised the daughter of the ruler of the synagogue
The synagogue of the Jews, like a lion in the forest, made against Christ the Savior
synaisthanomai
Synalizōn
Synalizōn [eating together]
synamphoteros
synanabainō
synanakerannymi
synanaphainō
synapodeiknymi
synapokleiō
synapōtheō
synarmologeō
Synaxaria
Synaxis
At the synaxes, bodies and clothing must be presented clean to the Church
Many used to preach, the last of whom was the bishop
Meaning and derivation of the term
Synaxis, or the assembly of the faithful on the Lord’s day
The attendance at them was commanded both after and before baptism
They were concluded with prayer
Whether they were celebrated in the Church of Jerusalem on Saturday during Lent
Syncellus
syndiaireō
syndiakrinō
syndiaphtheirō
syndiarrhēnnumi
syndiastellō
syneiskomizō
syneispherō
syneisphora
syneistodos
synekphanizō
synekphōnēō
synekteinō
synempiptō
synendeixis
synentygmenōs
synepikomizō
synepipherō
synepiplekō
synepiteinō
Synesius
Synesius of Cyrene
His letters, and Oration to the Emperor Theodosius
Synesius of Cyrene is promoted to the episcopacy while still entangled in the errors of the Gentiles
Synesius of Cyrene, writings of
syneutiō
synexalloioō
Synisactae (syneisaktos) women are not to be with clerics
synistaō
synneusis
synnoia
synnomos
Synod against the Donatists
I, 644
Synod against the heresy of Pelagius and Celestius
I, 645
Synod at Caesarea
Synod at the Oak, against John Chrysostom
Synod celebrated for the sake of images
Synod of Ariminum
Synod of Carthage, against Pelagius and Coelestinus
Synod of Constantinople
Synod of CP. against the holy images
Synod of Jerusalem
Synod of Milan
Synod of Sardica
Synod of Seleucia
Synod of Side, against the Messalians
Synod of Sirmium
Synod of Tyre
Synod under Constantine IV
Synod under Decius
I, 265
Synodal action
Synods
the various ones, of which seven are enumerated
Synods are to be held in the place which the metropolitan has designated
Synods convened for Arius
Synods of bishops are not to be neglected
I, 471
synolon
synoptikos
synoptikōs
synouleō
SYNTAGMA AND NOMOCANON
syntelestēs
synthēma
syntomia
syntērētikos
Synulosis
synyparxis
synypsō
Syperus
Syperus is asserted by some to be the author of the error concerning a triple Divinity
Syrges, his invasion of properties
Syrgiannes, sent to the West
Syria, shaken by an earthquake
Syrians infest the Roman empire
Syrians, translated into Thrace
Syrianus, acts against Athanasius
Syrophoenician woman
The Syrophoenician woman begs for mercy for her miserable daughter with tears
systaurōō
systrophē
sōmatōsis
sōphronismos
Sōphrosynē
Sōphrosynē [temperance]
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