Subjects — W
366 subjects · from Migne’s own Ordo Rerum, in English
Waddingus
Wallachia
There are two Wallachias, greater and lesser
Wallachia is cruelly ravaged
Wallachia uses the same language as the Gauls and Italians
Wallachians
All the Wallachian deserters killed
From where the Wallachians are named
The boldness of the Wallachians, who are also (called) Moldavians
The speech of the Wallachians' herald
The Wallachians transport themselves across the Danube in ships
Wallachians are Roman colonists
Wallachians are wicked men
War brought against the Wallachians; the flight of the Wallachians
Wan
Wastan, Ibanum of Cedrenus
War
The chief cause of war and strife
Warlike men
Warlike men
Wars
Wars and civil disturbances nearly throughout the world
Wars against Chimeriolas
Ceraunia, Chimara, Avelona, Lutsi bassa
Watchmen see the evil of the city from the head
Water
Why it is necessary for illumination
Water flowed with blood from the side of Christ
Water of the Choaspes
Water ought to be tempered
Water, blessing of
Watzius
Way of Christ
Its difference from the way of Moses
The way of Christ
what it is
Ways are like an angel
Ways of life
The two ways of life
We are abandoned by God
on account of sloth
We are holy by participation, but Christ is not
We are images of God through participation in divinity
We have learned from Genesis XXXV, 4, 9, that the terebinth and the oak are the same tree
Certain interpreters have rendered "terebinth" as "oak"
Idolaters are compared to the terebinth which has cast off its leaves
We must insist upon what we should do for eternal life, not upon vain questions
We ought not to be scattered by laughter, but to meditate on the torments of Gehenna
We should not follow with immoderate tears
those who hope that they will rise from the dead
Weakness
The various modes of weakness
Weasel venerated by Thebans
Weddings were not bad in the time of the Old Testament
Weddings, satanic pomps of
Western bishops, acts against Nestorians and Pelagians
Western doors, entry
What "from sea to sea" signifies
What "from sea to sea" signifies
What "institutions" (legally) are
What "tablinum" and "tabula" mean among the Latins
What "tablinum" and "tabula" mean among the Latins
What "to divide" (Matt. XXIV, 51) signifies
86
What a flagitious life confers upon its lovers
Likewise, what an honest one [confers]
The best counsel regarding choosing between the two
What a hairy chest signifies
What a hairy chest signifies
What a poisoning is
II, 218
What a scandal is
and to what punishments it is liable
What a toparch is
What a vestibule is
II, 3
What a word (sermo) is
What a zodiac is
What allies the Trojans joined to themselves
What an elder is
What are called holy places
I, 274
What are called splendors
What battology is
12
What Bethsaida is
What Didymus felt about it
What earthquake signifies in the Scriptures
What ecclesiastical hierarchy is
What harlots do
What hope is
What ignorance is by privation and what by excellence
What is called a "solox"
What is called a "solox"
What is called New Rome
I, 89
What is called the garment of the Word of God
What is it to offer sacrifice to God
I, 219
What is puerperium (childbirth)
I, 429
What is remission
I, 378
What is said among the Turks
What is the consecration of girls
I, 420
What is the end or scope of hierarchy
What is the poverty of Christ
What is the power of humility
What is the scope of the heretics
What is the way to perfection
What is understood by the name *therapeia* (service or healing)
I, 457
what it is
What it is to be a bishop
What it means that the scales are not to be crossed
What it means to bury the sun
What it means to bury the sun
What it means to render something holy
What Justinian calls "subadjuram"
What Justinian calls "subadjuram"
What kind of man Jesus was
What kind of person a man ought to be when about to be occupied with God
What kind of person Taurus was
What kind of person Taurus was
What lightning is
What Marcellus and Photinus thought concerning the incarnation
What may be applied to the right and left of God
What must be given to the body
What nations Gog and Magog signify
What night and day signify
What place in the temple was dedicated to virgins
What pleasure is appropriate for the holy
Bodily pleasures are like onions and leeks
He who does not live according to the prescription of virtue and wallows in bodily affections puts darkness for light
Those who are enticed by pleasure forget their return to their true fatherland
What pleasure is appropriate for the saints
The saints are as the light of lamps, which is dulled by the light of the sun
What repentance avails before God
What Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh represent
What sort of man Pelopidas was
What sort of man Pelopidas was
What spiritual sacrifices are
What the "right hand of God" signifies
What the Apocalypse is
What the bat signifies
What the beautiful form of Jacob
Jonas as a type of Christ
Jordan for baptism
Judgment for justice in Scripture
Swearing by God was an indication of true religion
The future judgment of God
The life of the righteous is the death of pleasures
What the beautiful form of Jacob (Ps. XLVI, 3) was
What the continuity and tension of the limbs are
What the days of Hilarius are
What the destruction of Troy would be like was predicted
What the fable of the Minotaur teaches us
What the fertile and spiritual vine is
What the fish clinging in the mud denote
What the foot sometimes denotes in the sacred Scriptures
What the foxes and little foxes in Scripture are
What the harlot Rahab denotes
What the hoof mystically signifies
What the inconstancy of mortal life is wont to effect
What the intelligible and the intelligence are
What the little book in the hand of the angel signifies
What the Photinians think regarding the incarnation
What the principles of things are for Empedocles
What the rod and the staff of consolation are
What the rod of direction denotes
What the rule of living according to nature is
What the sense of sight is, and how it performs its function
What the seven Churches, stars, spirits, lampstands, lights, and lamps signify
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What the seven seals designate
What the sights of the games are
ibid
What the signs are that are written as going to happen under the Antichrist
What the six wings of the four living creatures signify
What the stole signifies
What the term paternity signifies
What the tranquility of the Roman Republic was
What the treasure hidden in the field is, is explained
What the well-smelling odor of the flowering vine signifies
What the will in God is
What the word proseucha means to the Latins
What the word proseucha means to the Latins
What the works of the saints are
What things can be mixed
What Viaticum is
II, 160
What Vulcan signifies among the Greek poets
What was signified to the Church of Thyatira
What wheat signifies
Whatever is commanded contrary to the commandment of God is not to be done
When administered
When King Priam reigned
When one must resist pagan and heretical emperors
When one polluted in sleep may communicate
When Phinees was priest of the Hebrews
When Saul was anointed
When St. John was relegated to Patmos
When the Catecheses of Alexandria were held
When the opposition to idols flourished
Whence comes the love of men for women
Whence it happens that children are born similar or dissimilar to their parents
Whence Simon Magus originated
Among whom he boasted that he was God the Father, and among whom the Son
By whom he was baptized
Deceived by demons through magic, and a poisoner
Given to avarice
He did not receive the Holy Spirit, and why he lacked it
He had a concubine named Helena
He offered money to Peter that he might confer the Holy Spirit upon him through the laying on of hands
Proclive toward Venus
What vain things he absurdly invented about himself and his Helena
Whence the downfall of the Roman Empire flowed
Whence the rainbow arises and what it denotes
Whence the rarity of divine revelations in certain times
Where and when Phaethon was burned up
Where are your alms and your justice
Where emerald is found
Where pearls are nourished
Where the integrity of sanctification is found
Where virtue is greater, there is greater temptation
Whether by right of war, or by that justice
Whether by right of war, or by that justice
Whether Didymus is eloquent
Whether Didymus was condemned by the fifth synod
Whether Didymus was skilled in the Hebrew language
Whether incorporeal things are in a place
Whether phlebotomy
is safe during the summer
Whether that darkness arose from a defect, or an eclipse of the sun
Whether the emperor Romanus died a natural death, or was destroyed by poisons and violence, is not certain
Whether the infants of the Saracens
ought to be baptized in their own region and homes
Whether the resurrection was admitted by Synesius
Whether the saints currently enjoy the beatific vision according to Didymus
Whether there is any mention of glass in Moses
Whether there is any mention of glass in Moses
Whether those who have suffered an involuntary flow of semen ought to be partakers of the sacraments
II, 7
Which city is more difficult to capture, Daras or Theodosiopolis
Which city is more difficult to capture, Daras or Theodosiopolis
Which sins defile the body, and which the spirit
Which vices are opposed to which virtues
Whipped
Whirlpool (turbo)
How the whirlpool (turbo) in Archelaus relates to the heresy of Manes
White garment
mourning garment of the emperors
White stole
A white stole, what it signifies
White tunics
Worn at the imperial banquet and horse races
White, mystically
Who are called Porphyrogeniti
Who are called servants and free in the Apocalypse
Who are called the thousand years in the Apocalypse
Who are mystically called kings and priests
Who are the cold, the fervent, and the tepid
Who are the energumens
Who are understood to be ventriloquists
Who are Ventriloquists
I, 255
Who are worthy of reproach
Who first committed the rites of the sacraments to letters
Who is baptized in the Holy Spirit
Who is called "structor" in Juvenal
Who is called "structor" in Juvenal
Who is fit for the governance of the Church
Who is the father of darkness
Who is the true treasure
Who is truly an old man
Who is truly temperate
Who is truly to be called a wise man
Who is truly wise
Who Saturn was named
Who succeeded Romulus in the Roman kingdom
Who the barley signifies
Who was the scope proposed to the Only-Begotten
Who were called leaders of the Saracens
Who were called leaders of the Saracens
Who were the proud among the Romans
Who were understood by the name of Scythians
Whoever betrays the truth is to be condemned
Whoever places hope in himself is liable to a curse
Only that man is a human being who hopes in God
Whole
The whole is not made for the sake of small particles, but the parts complete the harmony of the whole
Whom it is proper to admit to testimony
I, 666
Whom Synesius calls by the name of Scholastics
Whom Synesius calls by the name of Scholastics
Whom the names of the twelve tribes of the patriarchs designate
Whom the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel designate
Whoredom is the premature bringing forth of virgins
Whoredom is to be avoided by the married
Whosoever proceeds on it, the same follow, even if separated by the body
Why
Why an equal number is attributed to each tribe
Why Christ instituted the Eucharist not under the species of flesh, but under the species of bread
417
Why Christ is called both the beginning and the end
Why Cyril did not mention Herod (in Comment. in Luc. III, 19)
146
Why God commanded them to abstain from their wives
Why God commanded them to abstain from their wives before approaching Mount Sinai
Why God orders the Israelites to wash their clothes
Why God orders the Israelites to wash their clothes before approaching Mount Sinai
Why Isaiah calls virgin milk by the name of butter
126
Why it is not permitted to hold the prefecture in one's own country, even among the Sinae
Why it is not permitted to hold the prefecture in one's own country, even among the Sinae
Why one must be vigilant
Why raw eggs cannot be turned around
Why some solitaries
fall into intemperance
Why spiritual worship is not holy from the beginning
Why that great dragon was cast down to the earth
Why the Bible is obscure
Greek translations, various
The edition of the Bible by Esdras, 200 years before the LXX
The translation of the Bible, 301 years before Christ
Why the Bible is obscure
Why the first and second Constantinopolitan Synod is so called
I, 331
Why the Greeks invaded Troy
Why the New Testament is so called
Why the ordination of a patriarch is attributed to the bishop of Heraclea
Why the series of the first bishops in the Churches is uncertain
Why the shoot, or fruit, of the vine is called wine
Why the Synod in Trullo is called *penthekte* (quinisext)
I, 510
Why the thorn is joined to the rose
Why the wall of the heavenly Jerusalem is likened to crystalline jasper
Wibertus
Wicked
Men of blood are to be fled; the wicked are to be avoided
The company of the wicked is most troublesome to the good
The wicked are not to be feared, but pitied
Wicked, Scripture does not call men
Wickedness
How to avoid the treacherous; the punishment of wickedness
That the wickedness of others is a consolation to the wicked
Widow
A widow is under her own jurisdiction, and can marry
A widow, if she lives with a man, is not worthy of the communion
If she is yet sixty years old, the fault is not the bishop's, but the woman's
One enrolled in the number of widows, which the Church feeds
The Lord makes his own widows
Widowhood is lesser than virginity
II, 74
Widows
A widow bringing two mites into the treasury
Mourning beseems widows, not adornment
The Lord looked at the mind of the widow, when he praised her so highly, not at what she offered
Widows struck by the heels by the Arians
Widows who are 60 years of age can be referred to the order of deaconesses
I, 201
Widows, constitution of
Widows, Paul as an example
Widows, their duties
Wife
A description of an evil woman
A wicked wife is to be corrected or endured
What kind of wife should be chosen
Wife is judged a sister to the Gnostic after the conception of children
Wife of Apocaucus
The widow of Apocaucus arms the Gasmules at the Empress's request
Wife of Cantacuzenus
Her death on the twelfth day thereafter, amid similar acclamations of the populace
Nocturnal omens which preceded the calamity of that woman
The grief and serious illness of the wife of Cantacuzenus, who hears these things from prison
Wife possessed by a demon
Wife, duty of
Wife, subjection to husband
Wife, what is her dress and adornment
Wild ass
unicorn, free
Wild beasts, why not subject to man
Will
A good will; God requires nothing beyond this
A wicked will makes a man worse than wild beasts
God awaits a sincere will for the conferring of the grace of baptism
The freedom of our will
The will is to God what tools, material, art, and labor are to men
The will of man, or faith, elicits the operation of Christ
To strip oneself of one's own will is the beginning of religious subjection
what is the sense of these words of the Lord’s Prayer: *Thy will be done*
what it is in man
Will, what it is
Will is a natural and self-determining appetite
Will. Brito in Vocab. ms
Willebrandus ab Oldenborg
Willelmus bibliothecarius
Willelmus Brito in Philipp
Willelmus de Baldenzeet
William of Tyre
Willow, symbol of chastity
Wind
God is said to create the wind, in what sense
is called "spirit," but with this addition: "storm"
On the power of winds
Pressed and restrained by the power of Christ, they bear witness to Him
The wind is against the Christians, favorable to the Turks
what it is
what it is; whence various winds arise
What the storehouses of the winds are
Winds stored in treasuries are led forth by God
Winds
blowing
how winds are in the storehouses
Magic wind of Comnenus
pernicious to crops
the advantages of winds
Wind at Cannae
Wind under Alexius
Wind under Constans
Wine
as a tyrant, ascends
In wine there is truth
is put for the mystical benediction and the unbloody sacrifice of the Mass
It is not right to serve wine
Nothing is hotter than wine among all liquid things
Power of wine
That some wine is to be imparted to a weak stomach
The goodness of the wine of the Gauls as an allurement to Italy
The Gospel is compared to wine
Those who govern the republic must beware of wine
Why wine does not affect all in the same way
Wine drunk too generously demands a price from the drinker as if he had been injured
Wine exhilarates the heart of man
Wine is the true doctrine of divine knowledge
Wine makes men mad
Wine poured out beyond satiety
Wine, the divine Spirit, produces the blood of Christ. Therefore, it is not to be abused
Wine gladdening the heart of man
is understood as the preaching about Christ
Wine in the bowels of one who drinks liberally
excites a certain fire
Wine served at pagan banquets
Wine — in wine is the truth of Dionysus
Wine — in wine is the truth of Dionysus
Wine, at supper and lunch, in winter or another season
Wine, how to use it
Wine, it is the hemlock of men
Wine, its use, when it is lawful or unlawful
Wine, only a moderate use of it is granted
Wine, poems on its evil effects
Wine, the immoderate use of must be avoided
Winepresses (Torcularia)
in the Psalms, for churches or altars
Winning
It is expedient to be overcome by some
It is more honorable to be overcome than to win badly
The vice of vengeance
To be overcome by difficult matters is not shameful
To win in discussions, to be overcome in matters
Winnowing fan
in Scripture, signifies purgation
Winter
A very harsh winter
how and when it happens to us
When it is great
Winter (Matt. XXIV, 20) designates secular disturbances
81
Winter storm and its effects
Wisdom
In him are the hidden treasures of wisdom and knowledge
is the cause of all things
it includes in itself all virtues
was impatient of rebuke
What is the principal work of divine wisdom
Wisdom does not enter into a malicious soul
Wisdom is the Word
Wisdom is to know oneself and not to be puffed up
Wisdom of Solomon
SYNOPSIS Sapientiæ Salomonis
Wisdom or Mind
the ruler of heaven and earth
Why [the author of] Wisdom willed to use simplicity in Holy Scripture
Wisdom, bones and flesh of
Wisdom, book of
Wisdom, the power and character of God, that is, the Son, can never be separated from God the Father
Wise men
are called magi
Wise men: they are to be helped
Witchcraft
Demonic witchcraft
With what sacrifice God is most pleased
Witnesses in judgments
Woe, to whom it rightly applies
Woe, woe to the great Babylon
Wolf's tongue
when applied to infants, loosens speech impediments
Woman separated from a bishop
Woman who has given birth
Woman who neglects or exposes her fetus
Woman, helper to Adam
Women
Certain women obtain what they desire by praying with tears
Women are prone to tears
Women ought not to enter the holy altar
Women ought not to have business with men
Women ought not to write books
Women ought to be silent in church
Women taking a vow of chastity
Women taking drugs to induce abortion
Women who are elders or presiding women
Women who are in the period of separation
Women, killed in battle
Wooden tower
constructed by a certain German
placed upon two cargo ships
Tower at Mesembria overturned
Wooden towers of 50 cubits
Wooden tripod, divination of
Word
as the craftsman of all things and the arbiter and moderator of our affairs
Behavied toward human nature as a bridegroom toward a bride
Being, the name of the Word
Diverse appellations of the Word
Fearsome to the unworthy, accessible to the pious and rightly prepared
Filthy words, as not being unheard by God, are to be fled from by every reason
How strong the voice of the Word is for raising Lazarus and recalling sinners to life
How the Word can be said to have died
It demands universal knowledge
It did not dwell in a man, but was made man
It entered into a second partnership with us, and indeed one far more admirable than the first
It was not made in the beginning, as the Arians wish, but it was in the beginning, and whatever was being accomplished by the Word, it was work
Just as most dreams are vain, so also are most words
More on words and loquacity
name of the Son of God, why
Son of God; not air struck by the breath of the mouth, as grammarians describe the word, but the wisdom which is from God
species of God as named in the Scriptures
Speed is to be avoided in speech
That our salvation consists not so much in words as in deeds
That the Word cannot be eaten in its own nature
The efficacious force of the arrow of the word
The mere thought, or simply the speech of the divine Word, represents the finished work; in its incarnation it thickens
The orderer of all things
The preaching of the Word, the first pastoral office
The Word bore upon itself the appellation of Son when it joined itself to humanity
The word implanted in us
To what the mind is compared which cannot express its own senses in words
What things the Word now suffers from the Sabellians and Arians
When the term "Jesus Christ" was bestowed upon the Word
Words which are devised by men have no limit
Word and knowledge
Word and knowledge are understood in many ways
Word internal and natural in God
Word of God
By the name of rock the Word of God is signified
The double fruit of the Word of God
The Word of God shall go forth from Jerusalem
The word of the apostles is as la
What it has in common with the magnet stone, and what is different
Why the simple eloquence was handed down by God through simple men, and how wonderfully
Word of the Father
But substantial
Calumny of the Centuriators that Irenaeus did not clearly distinguish between the substantial Word and the vocal word
Dissenting opinions are reconciled
is not prolatitious
The consubstantiality and coeternity of the Word consistently defended by Irenaeus
The Father emits the Word without any division of nature
Whether the Word would have become flesh if Adam had not sinned
Why the Word became incarnate later
Word, internal and spoken speech
Words
have not one color, nor one figure
He has the power of choosing, and He is omnipotent
He is a thing substantially subsisting; after He is uttered, He does not vanish by His own dissolution
He is the food of angels and of the soul according to the Fathers
Heralds of the divine Word compared with travelers and those who sail
Heretics who thought Him similar to human speech uttered by the lips
It is the other head of the Dragon
No trust to be placed in words and eloquence
that are brought forward as similar, in the shape of the voice, by no means exhibit a similar meaning
That very Word himself speaks
The power of words to explain the divine majesty is meager and barren
The study of words, less cared for in youth, makes men more prudent in old age
The Word is not "prolative" but subsistent: He is Christ the Son of God
The Word of the Lord went forth from Jerusalem, and from thence watered the whole world
The words of the Lord shall not pass away as created things
Those who blasphemed that He was resolved back into the Father and would not exist any longer
Truth is not in the sound of words, but in the meanings
What the opinion of the Valentinians concerning the Word was
Where this heresy arose
Words devoid of gravity should not be uttered
Words do not improve actions, but it is permitted to interpret words through actions
Words c
Work
What a work may be, in itself and as universal and particular
Works
A praying person who is barbaric and insane
A veil in prayer
Assiduous in prayer and charity, full of all divine gifts
commanded and voluntarily offered
Companions of prayer, divine virtues
Degrees of prayer
Diligence in prayer
Diligence of work
In the Lord's Prayer, the whole scope and goal is our deification from God through Christ. Its seven mysteries, theology, adoption, equal honor to angels, etc
Insistence of the mind in prayer, etc
Its summary
Obstacles to prayer: the love of beauty and the love of honor. Reconciling equality in it
Prayer as a staff against demons, the sword of prayer: seeds, oracles of the Psalms
Prayer of the imperfect and the perfect
Prayer, arduous for beginners
Prayer, the parent of joy. The power of assiduous prayer. The fruits of prayer
Simplicity of prayer from tranquility of action
Spiritual ascent of the praying person with Christ
The character of a praying person, like that of a child; the varied scope of those praying
The mind in it, collected and wandering. The salt and mode of prayer, the attacking demons. Prayer, bread, oil, wine
The most perfect state of prayer, and what it is to pray without ceasing and to dwell with God
The power of prayer toward divine charity
The prayer of the just is effective (ἐνεργουμένη), of great power
The stillness of prayer: to this, action is to be joined for contemplation. An index of the love of God
Unequal reward for workers, yet just
World
The mixing of contrary elements in the world
what it is
World, end of
Worldly things
the instability of worldly things
Worldly things, on not clinging to
Worldly wisdom
It is compared with the Egyptian Hagar
Its vanity
The first [part of] wisdom is to despise worldly things
Worm of the wicked
Worn out by forces, they are exposed to the aggression of others
Worn out by forces, they are exposed to the aggression of others
Wounds
A pirate
He who imparts firstfruits to demons
How princes ought to punish their subjects
how they are to be cured
Pharisees, the bulwarks of the Synagogue
Sins which are committed in ignorance are blotted out by prayer alone
That all things come to pass by the providence of God
That God not rarely takes away from us the material for sins
The cup in sacred things, what it is
The difference between sins and iniquities
The insanity of vain prophecy
The power of God, what kind it is
The punishment of premeditated sins
The shoots of the Assyrians of Persia
The threat of punishment, an exhortation to repentance
True repentance
When a prince is God's lookout
Why prophecy is called a theme
Why Scripture uses the past for the future
Why sin is called a thorn
Wrath
That "the wrath remains upon him" designates eternal punishment
Wrath, interdiction of
Writing letters, inventors of
Written law
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