{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/101/1010477.htm","path":"chr/ecf/101/1010477.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/101/1010477.htm","text":"Abraham's bosom, 131 and note, 192 (note)\nAugustin has a leaning towards the philosophy of the, 86\nthey doubted everything, 86, 88\nAcademies, the three, 86 (note)\naverted death by partaking of the tree of life, 73 (note)\nthe first and second, 162 (note)\nhelps his father in writing The Master, 134 and note\nhe is baptized by Ambrose, 134 (note)\nthe blessing of the New Testament, prosperity of the Old, 76 (note)\nAEneid quotations from the, 51, 53\nin darkened, lies distance from God, 53\ninordinate, bring their own punishment, 51, 53, 55\nAgonistic garland, Augustin receives the, 69\nAugustin was fond of, 189 (note)\nAltar, Augustin begs that his mother may be remembered at the, 141\nAlypius, bishop of Thagaste, 90 (note)\nhad studied there and at Carthage, 94\nwas taken up as a thief at Carthage, 96\nhow his innocence was proved, 96\nhis integrity in judgment and at Milan, 97\nhis discussion with Augustin as to celibacy, 98\nAugustin undertakes to write the life of, 99 (note)\nretires with Augustin into the garden, 124\nAugustin makes his acquaintance, and is received by him in a fatherly way, 88\ndistinction between his teaching and that of Faustus, and its influence, 88\nhe expounded the Scriptures every Lord's day, 91\nSimplicianus succeeds him as bishop, 116\nthe Song of, and Augustin, 134 (note)\nis persecuted by Justina, the mother of Valentinian, 134 and note\nmiracles wrought in behalf of, 134\nAmelius the Platonist, 107 (note)\nAmpitheatre of Titus, Gibbon's description of the, 95 (note)\nAnaximenes of Miletus, his notions about God, 144 and note\nsource of their blessedness, 112 (note)\nGod's eternity manifest in their unchangeableness, 179\nAugustin asserts that they are changeable, 180\nmisery of, shows their former excellence, 192\nAnswer to prayer of Monica, 67, 84\nAugustin's faith strengthened by, 133\nwas born at Thebes, and visited Paul in the desert before his death, 122 (note)\n\u1f08\u03c0\u03bf\u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03ac\u03c3\u03c4\u03b1\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2, the doctrine unnecessary, 79 (note)\nApollinaris, bishop of Laodicea, 113 (note)\nespecially that of Hierius, 75\nArcesilas, teaching of, 86 (note)\n\u1f08\u03c1\u03c7\u03b7, \"The Beginning,\" applied to Christ, 166 (note)\nArgument, Augustin's power in, 67 and note\nArians, the Empress Justina seduced by the, 131\nAristotle's Ten Predicaments, 77\nhe and Zeno prepared the way for Neo\u2011Platonism, 86 (note)\nArius, Victorinus wrote some books against, 117 (note)\nArts, liberal, Augustin understood the books relating to the, unaided, 77\nof Paul of Thebais, 122 (note)\nManich\u00e6an, as compared with Christian, 122 (note)\nby embracing, we virtually deny the right use of God's gifts, 155 (note)\nAugustin's classification of, 69 (note)\nbelief of the Jews in, 69 (note)\nwere called mathematicians, 106 (note)\nAstrology, refutation of, 105, 106\nAtoms, in nature no two touch, 127 (note)\nhe prays to God that he may not be beaten, 49\neducated from his mother's womb in the true faith, 50\nhe was signed with the cross, and seasoned with salt, 50 and note\nhis hatred of study and the Greek language, but delight in Latin and the empty fables of the poets, 51\nHomer distasteful to him because it was in Greek, 52\nhe entreats that whatever he learnt as a boy may be dedicated to God, 52\nhis declamation applauded above that of his fellows, 53\nhe was more afraid of making a mistake in grammar than of offending God, 53\nhe committed petty thefts and sought dishonest victories at play, 54\nhe deplores the wickedness of his youth, 55\nespecially that of his sixteenth year, 56\nhe used to go to Madaura to learn grammar and rhetoric\nhis father, though only a poor freeman of Thagaste, made a great sacrifice to send his son to Carthage, 56\nhe plumes himself upon being more licentious than his fellows\nhis mother unwisely opposes his marrying, 57\nhe robs a neighbouring pear-tree from a love of mischief, 57\nhe is caught in the snares of a licentious passion, p. 598 60\nhe is affected by a foul spiritual disease, 61\nhis sacrilegious curiosity, 61\nnot even to church does he suppress his desires, 61\nhe becomes head in the school of rhetoric, 61\nhe begins to study eloquence, 61\nhis father dies in his seventeenth year, 61\nin his nineteenth year he is led by the Hortensius of Cicero to philosophy, 61\nhe rejects the Sacred Scriptures as too simple, 62\nhe falls into the errors of the Manich\u00e6ans, 62, 76\nhis longing after truth, 62, 63\nManich\u00e6an system peculiarly enthralling to an ardent mind like his, 63 (note)\nhis desire for knowledge caused him to join the Manich\u00e6ans, 64 (note)\nhis victory over inexperienced persons, 67 and note\nthe nine years from his nineteenth year, 68\u201178\nhe receives the Agonistic garland, 70\nhis friend's illness and death, 70\nhe leaves Thagaste and goes to Carthage, 72\nhe writes books on the \"Fair and Fit,\" 73\nhe dedicates them to Hierius; he longs for his commendation, 74, 75\nhe turns his attention to the nature of the mind, 75\nin what he conceived the chief good to consist, 75\nhe calls it a Monad, and the chief evil a Duad, 76\nwhen scarce twenty, he understood Aristotle's Ten Predicaments, 77\nhis ready understanding of the liberal arts, 77, and sciences, 77\nthe twenty\u2011ninth year of his age, 79-88\nhe begins to appreciate the knowledge of God above secular learning, 81\nhe points out the fallacy of the Manich\u00e6an belief as to the Paraclete, 81 (note)\nhe withdraws from the errors of the Manich\u00e6ans, being remarkably aided by God, 83\nhe leaves Carthage to go to Rome, 84\nbecomes one of the \"elect\" of the Manich\u00e6ans, 86\nhis view of Arcesilas' philosophy, 86 (note)\nhis erroneous views as to Christianity, 86\nhe goes to Milan to teach rhetoric, and there makes the acquaintance of Ambrose, 88\nhe resolves to abandon the Manich\u00e6ans and become a catechumen, 88\nhis mother follows him over the sea, 89\nhe recognises the falsity of his old opinions, 92\nhe describes how Alypius, led into the circus by his fellow-students, becomes fascinated by the fights held there, 95, 96\nhe becomes inflamed with the love of wisdom, 98\nhe is troubled in mind, 98, 100\nhe is prevented from marrying by Alypius, 98\nhe undertakes to write the life of Alypius, 99 (note)\nis urged by his mother to marry, and a maiden sought for him, 99\nhe sends his mistress back to Africa, but takes another, 100\nin his thirty\u2011first year he recalls the beginning of his youth, 102-115\nhis conception of God, 102 and note, 103, 104\nhis mind is severely exercised as to the origin of evil, 106\nis stimulated to wisdom by the Hortensius of Cicero, 107 (note), 123\nhe rejoices that he proceeded from Plato to the Scriptures, and not the reverse, 114\nhe found in the latter what was not in the former, 114\nhe consults Simplicianus as to the renewing of his mind, 116\nhe describes the thirty\u2011second year of his age, 116, 128\nhe is still held by the love of women, 116\nhe burns to imitate Victorinus, 120\nhe retires with Alypius into the garden, 124\nhe refutes the Manich\u00e6an notion of two kinds of minds, 125, 126\nwas still enthralled by his old loves, 126\nhe retires into solitude to meditate, and hears a voice saying, \"Take up and read,\" 127\nhis reason for giving up his professorship, 129, 130 (note)\nhis lungs become affected, 130\nhe retires to the villa of his friend Verecundus, 130\nhe finally gives up the professorship, 131\nhe found in retirement preparation for future work, 131 (note)\neffect of the Psalms on him, especially the fourth, 131, 132\nhis anger against the Manich\u00e6ans, 132\nin his thirty fourth year he writes his book The Master, a dialogue between him and his son, 133;\nhe suffers from toothache, but loses it in answer to prayer, 133\nhe attributes all that he was to his mother's tears, 135 (note)\nhis last conversation with his mother, 137\nhis grief at her death, 139\u2011140\nhe is troubled that he was so long without God, 152\neffect of church music on him, 156\nobject and use of his Confessions 143, 163\nhe entreats of God that he may be led to the truth through the Scriptures, 163, 164\nhe designates Eraclius as his successor, 163;\nhe prays to be taught by God, 170\nhis old notions as to matter, 177\nhis longings for the heavenly Jerusalem, 182\nwas addicted to the allegorical explanation of Scripture, 190\nof the holy writings, 93 and note\nBacon, the sentiments of, concerning friendship, 72 (note)\nAugustin being seized with illness, prays for, 50\non his recovery it was postponed, 50\nin Augustin's days often deferred till death approached, 50 (note)\nguilt after, greater than before, 50 and note\nthose who attended stage-plays were excluded from, by the Fathers, 60 (note)\nthat of Nebridius took place when he was ill and unconscious, 70\ncandidates for, seasoned with salt, 89 (note)\nmartyrdom described as a second 90 (note)\nthe washing of, called illumination, 118 (note), 194\nrenunciation of Satan before, 118 (note)\ncustoms of the Eastern Churches at, 119 (note)\nbeing the sacrament of initiation, is not so profitable without the Lord's Supper, 199 (note)\ngives life, Lord's Supper maintains it, 199\nthe entrance into the Church 199 (note)\n[Hebrew] and [Hebrew] distinguished, 115 (note)\nBasilica, the Portian, 134 and note\nBath, soothing powers of the, 139\nBauto, the consul at Milan, 94 (note)\nsymbolical of those given to carnal pleasures, 80 (note), 81\nclean and unclean, explanation of the division of, 91 (note)\nChrist the, of all things; the Word the, 166\nthe words, \"In the beginning,\" interpreted differently, 183, 187\nliterary, merit of the, 62 (note), 81 (note)\nthe Psalms \"a Bible in little,\" 131 (note)\nBirds of the air symbolical of pride, 80 (note)\nBlessedness, true, to be attained only by adhering to God, 190 (note)\nBlindness, Augustin compares sin to, 192 (note)\nBody, soul, and spirit, 111 (note)\nas distinct from soul, 111, 112\nBoyhood, Augustin's fondness for play in, 50\nCaesar, Christ paid tribute to, 80\nCarthage, Augustin sent by his father to pursue his studies at, 56, 60\nhe leaves that city on account of the violent habits of the students there, 84\nCassiacum, Verecundus' villa at, 130\nCatechumens, seasoned with salt, 50 and note, 89 (note)\nor \"Hearers\" of the Manich\u00e6ans, their privileges, 66 (note)\nAugustin resolves to become one in the Catholic Church, 88\ncustoms of, at baptism, 119 (note)\nwhen ready p. 599 for, they were termed Competentes, 197(note)\nCategories of Aristotle maybe classed under two heads, 77and note\nCatiline loved not his villanies, but had a motive for committing them, 58\nCelibacy, discussion of Augustin and Alypius concerning, 98, 99\nAugustin's conception of the, 75\nVarro gives 288different opinions as regards the, 75(note)\nthe sins of, found in manhood; an emblem of humility, 54\nChrist, the fulness of the Godhead is in, 62\nperfect human sympathy of, 71 (note)\nhumiliation of, for us, 74and note\nManich\u00e6an belief as to the human birth of, 87(note)\nthe two natures of, 113 (note), 161 and note, 162\nas God, the country to which we go, as man, the way by which we go, 114\nthe Victor and Victim, Priest and Sacrifice, 162\nChristian, certainty of the faith of the, as compared with the uncertainty of the teaching of the philosophers, 86(note)\nthe almost and altogether, 121(note)\nChristianity gives the golden key to happiness, 75(note)\nAugustin's erroneous views as to, 86(note)\nhistory of, creation type of the, 194\nmusic of, its effect on Augustin, 156\nCircensian games, Alypius' love of the, 94\nhe becomes Augustin's pupil, and is involved in the same superstition as his friend, 95\nAugustin becomes carried away by the love of the, 95\nthey were put a stop to by the sacrifice of Telemachus the monk, 96 (note)\nCicero's writings as compared with the Word of God, 81(note)\nhis opinion concerning Arcesilas' teaching, 86(note)\nAugustin studies his Hortensius, 61, and is stimulated to wisdom thereby, 107(note), 123, 124\nCircus, games of the, 95and note, 158(note)\nClassics, highly esteemed in Augustin's day, 51\nobjections to the study of the, 53\nCommandments, modes of dividing the Ten, 65and note\nCommunity, Augustin and his friends propose to establish a, 99, 100\nCompanions, influence of bad, 59\nCompetentes, name given to catechumens when ready for baptism, 197\nConception of Christ, Augustin's, 112\nof God, 102 and note, 103, 104\nConfession to God, Augustin urges the duty of, 79\nConfirmation sometimes called a sacrament by the Fathers, 118(note)\nConstantine was not baptized till the end of his life, 50(note)\nhis controversy with Sylvester, 69(note)\nConstantius enacted laws against Paganism, 120\nContemplation, the Christian ascends the mount of, by faith, 181(note)\nthe reward of practical duties, 197\nContinency, false and seducing, of the Manich\u00e6ans 95and note\nContinentia and Sustinentia, difference between, 153(note)\nConversion, Monica's dream of her son's, 66\nof Paul, 120 and note, 138(note)\nConverts, how received in Justin Martyr's time, 118 (note)\nCorporeal brightness, Augustin thought of God as a, 71(note), 77\nforms, Augustin's mind ranges through, 75, 76, but later on he repudiates the notion of a, 92\nCorruption, the five regions of, 103\nCourtiers, history of the two, 122\u2011123\ntime began from the not it from time, 188 (note)\ndoctrine of the Trinity emblemized in the, 191\nhistory of the, a type of the Church,\nCreator, true joy to be found only in the, 58\nputting the creature above the, 81\nCredulity of the Manich\u00e6ans, 93(note)\nCross of Christ symbolized, 52(note)\nCurds, the mountain of, 130and note\nCuriosity, a help to learning, 52\naffects a desire for knowledge, 58\nfishes of the sea symbolical of, 80(note)\ntemptation of, stimulated by the lust of the eyes, 157, 158\nCurtain of Ps. civ. 2, rendered \"skin,\" 195(note)\ntrue inner righteousness doth not judge according to, 64\nCustoms, human, to be obeyed, 65\nCyprian, oratory in memory of, 84\nDaniel praying in captivity, 181(note)\nDarkness and light, 103 (note)\nDead, prayers for the, 90 (note), 139, 141 (note)\nfestivals in honour of the, 90\norigin of the custom, 90 (note)\nDeath, origin of the law of, 73 (note)\nAugustin says Adam was able to avert it by partaking of the tree of life, 73 (note)\nDeath\u2011bed baptism of Nebridius, 70\nDeclamation, Augustin's, applauded above that of his fellow\u2011students, 53\n\"Deep, the great,\" Augustin's interpretation of the, 191 (note), 194 (note)\nDistentio, distraction, 174 and notes\nDivination, the soothsayers used sacrifices in their, 68\nthe mathematicians did not do so, 69\nAugustin's obstinate belief in, but his friend Nebridius scoffs at it, 70\nafterwards influenced by Augustin, he too believes in it, 70\nDivinity of Christ, 113 (note)\nDocetae, belief of the, 113 (note)\nDonatism, how developed in Augustin's time, 90 (note)\nspiritual pride of the Donatists, 162 (note)\nDrachma, the woman and the, 119, 149\nof Monica concerning her son's conversion, 66\nAugustin's view of, 154 (note)\nThorwaldsen's, result of, 154 (note)\nDrunkenness forbidden by God, 154, 155\nhow this dualistic belief affected the Manich\u00e6an notion of Christ, 87 (note)\nDust, the mathematicians drew their figures in, 77 (note)\nEarth, beauty of the, 144 (note)\nEast, turning to the, at baptism, 119, (note)\nEducation, Augustin disapproves of the mode of, in his day, 52\nFaustus' objection to the spoiling of the, 66 (note)\ngold of the, belongs to God, 109 and note\n\"Elect\" of the Manich\u00e6ans, 66 and note, 68, 83 (note)\nAugustin becomes one of the, 86\ndivine substance in the, 103, 104, 155 (note)\nbaits to draw man to the Word, 45 (note)\nGreek and Latin, Hierius' knowledge of, 75\n\u1f18\u03bd\u03b4\u03b9\u03ac\u03b8\u03b5\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2, \"in the bosom of the Father,\" 108 (note), 166 (note)\nEnemies of God, who are the, 79 (note)\nEraclius, Augustin designates, as his successor, 163 (note)\np. 600\nEsau, Jacob and, illustrations concerning, 106\nhis longing after the Egyptian food, 108 and note\nEternal, on comprehending the, 167, 175 (note)\nEternity, of God, 48, 109 and note;\nrelation of, to the mutable creature, 179\nreason leads us to the necessity of a belief in, 173 (note)\nEucharist, oblations for the, 85 (note)\nregeneration necessary before the reception of the 118 (note), 138 (note)\ncalled by the ancients \"the sacrament of perfection;\" maintains life which baptism gives, 200\nAugustin's interpretation of the, 200 (note)\nEunuchus, Terence's, 53 and note\nEversores, or subverters, 61 and note\nAugustin's notions concerning, 64 (note)\nthe chief Augustin calls a Duad, 76\nManich\u00e6an doctrine of, 83 (note), 86, 87\nAugustin's notion of, 110 (note)\nEvil habits bind like iron, 120 and note, 121\nconviction powerless against, 121\nbecame associated with Augustin, 135\nhe leads the singing at Monica's funeral, 139\nAugustin's endeavours to unravel his difficulties as to the spirits in prison, 164 (note)\nExcess, by grace we avoid, 155\nEyes, the lust of the, 157, 158\nFables, Manich\u00e6an, 83 and note\nthe use of, common with mediaeval writers, 164 (note)\n\"Fair and Fit, Augustin's book as to the, 74, 76\nthe Manich\u00e6ans exalted reason at the expense of, 63 (note)\nFame, the emptiness of popular, 68\nFasting enjoined by Justin Martyr as a preparation for baptism, 118 (note), 154 (note)\nFaustus, a bishop of the Manich\u00e6ans,\nhis knowledge superficial, 82, 83\ndistinction between his teaching and that of Ambrose, 88\njoy in proportion to past 119, 120\nFever, Nebridius falls sick of a, and dies, 70\nFichte's strange idea as to St. John's teaching concerning the word, 185 (note)\nFictions, Augustin's love of, 52, 53\nAugustin's reply to Faustus as to Manich\u00e6an 93 (note)\nFig\u2011tree, Manich\u00e6an delusions concerning, 66\nFirmament, allegorical explanation of the, 195, 196, 199 (note)\nstudies the constellations, and relates a story to disprove astrology, 105, 106;\nFish of the sea, symbolical interpretation of the, 80 (note), 200 (note)\nthe Word made, 107 and note, 108, 112\u2011113, 162\nas distinct from body, 164 (note)\nForgetfulness the privation of memory, 148, 149\nFortunatus, Augustin's controversy with, 103\nabsence of, the punishment of former sin, 125\nthe Pelagians held that through the power of, they could attain perfection, 140 (note)\nof the world enmity to God, 51\nbetween Augustin and Nebridius, 70\nLord Bacon's sentiments as to, 72 (note)\nFruit, distinction between the \"gift\" and the, 203, 200\nrites at Monica's, 139 and note\nGassendi vitalized Epicureanism, 100 (note)\nwhat Moses meant in the book of, 186\nrepetition of the allegorical interpretation of, 206\nGibbon, his description of the amphitheatre of Titus, 95 (note)\nhis charge of Platonism against Christianity, 107 (note)\ndiversities of, given by the Spirit, 197\ndistinction between the \"gift\" and the \"fruit,\" 203\u2011204\nGnostic opinion as to the origin of the world, 205\nman desires to praise Him, His power and wisdom, 45\ntrue rest in Him only, 45, 59, 74, 161\nAugustin longs for that knowledge, 158 (note)\nby filling them He created them, 72\nunchangeableness of, 46, 63, 73, 79 (note), 116\nalways working, yet always at rest, 46, 207\nimperfect man cannot comprehend the perfect, 46 (note)\nis Truth, 62, 72, 81, 109 and note, 151, 152, 187 and note\nsought wrongly not to be found, 63\nheld by the Manich\u00e6ans to be an unmeasured light, 68 (note)\nthe true light, 76 (note), 109 and note, 157\nthe source of light, 112 (note)\nthe architect and artificer of His Church, 72 (note)\nwounds only to heal, 72 (note)\nshould be our highest love, 72\nour supreme good, 78, 151 (note)\nto be preferred to learning, 87\nAugustin's conception of, 102 and note, 103, 104\nincorruptibility of, 103 and note, 104\nsubjection to, our only safety, 107\n\"I am that I am,\" 109, 110 (note)\nhope and joy in Him alone, 142,153\nthe Immutable Light of wisdom, 190 (note)\nthe mercy of, in conveying His truth by symbols, 199\nGods, why the poets attributed wickedness to the, 52\nHomer transfers things human to the, 52\nthe Manich\u00e6ans taught that good and evil were primeval, and had independent existence, 64 (note)\nAugustin's conception of the chief, 75, 105\nGod our Supreme, 78, 151, 190 (note)\nand evil illustrated, 110 (note)\nGod saw that everything in creation was, 204, 205\nGrace, the fulfilment of love, 183 (note)\nGrammar, the Christians forbidden by Julian to teach, 120\nGrammar schools entrances of, covered with veils, 51 and note\njoy in the conversion of the, 120 and note\nthe reason of his dislike, 51, 52\neloquence, Hierius' knowledge of, 74, 75\nGreeks, led to Christ by philosophy, 107 (note)\nat the death of his friend, 70-71\nat his mother's death, 139, 140\nsilence a good consoler in, 127 (note)\nat the death of friends natural, 139 (note)\nHabits, evil, bind like iron, 120 and note\nChristianity gives the golden key to, 75 (note)\nknowledge of God the highest, 81\nthe Word of God a fount of, 81 (note)\nconsummation of, in heaven only, 131 (note)\nnot joy merely, but joy in God, 152\nHarts of the forests, 164 and note\np. 601\nwhy Augustin never went beyond the rank of a, 68 (note)\ndid not practise abstinence, 155 (note)\nHeart, the law written on the, 74 (note)\nhumility exalts the, 74 (note)\nof man, Augustin interprets the \"deep\" to mean, 194 (note)\nfulness of reward in, 76 (note)\nconsummation of happiness only in, 131 (note)\na prepared place for prepared people, 192 (note)\nand earth shall pass away, but not the Word, 196\nHeaven and earth, different interpretations of, 182, 183\nHeavenly bodies, motions of the, not time, 171, 172\nHebrew, Augustin had no knowledge of, 164, 165 and note\nHedonism and Epicureanism, 100 (note)\nHedonists, their \"good\" is their own pleasure, 75 (note)\nHelpidius, disputes with the Manich\u00e6ans, 87\nHeresies confirm the truth, 113\na native of Syria, an orator of Rome, 74\nAugustin dedicates his books on the \" Fair and Fit \" to, 74\nHippocrates, Vindicianus early understood, 70\nHoly City, light, life, and joy of the, is in God, 191 (note)\nwhy spoken of in Genesis as \"borne over,\" 191, 192\ndistasteful to Augustin because it was Greek, 51\nHonoratus, a friend of Augustin, at one time a Manich\u00e6an 88 (note)\nwe are saved and made happy by, 76 (note)\nall, is in the mercy of God, 153\nHope and joy in God alone, 142\nHoroscope\u2011casters, Vindicianus begs Augustin to throw away the books of the, 69\nhe is stimulated to wisdom thereby, 107 (note), 123, 124\nHour\u2011glasses of Augustin's time, 163\nHumanity of Christ, 71 (note), 85 (note), 113 (note)\nAugustin thinks it profane to believe in the, 87\nManich\u00e6ans' belief as to the, 87 (note)\nHumiliation of Christ for us, 74\nto draw us to Himself, 74 (note)\nHyle, or matter, the evil principle of the Manich\u00e6ans 76 (note)\n\u1f38\u03c7\u03b8\u1f7a\u03c2 emblem of the, 200 (note)\nIgnorance, danger of, 47 (note)\nIllumination, the washing of baptism, 118 (note), 194 (note), 198 (note)\nImage of God, man created in the, 91 (note)\nImportunity, Monica's, to the bishop, 67\nManich\u00e6ans, notion of the, 87 (note)\na mystery to Porphyry, 161 (note)\nits innocence is not in its will, but in its weakness, 48\nInjury man does himself by sin, 79 (notes)\nIntuitionists, their \"good\" lies in following the dictates of conscience, 75 (note)\nJacob and Esau, illustration concerning, 166\nJerome, his knowledge of Hebrew, 165 (note)\nAugustin longs for the heavenly, 182 and note\nthe mother of us all, 192 (note)\ntheir influence on Neo\u2011Platonism, 118 (note)\nJulian the Apostate favoured the, and encouraged them to rebuild the temple, 120 (note)\ntrue, to be found in the Creator only, 58\nin proportion to past fear, 119\nin the conversion of the great, 120 (note)\nforbade the Christians to teach grammar and oratory, 120\nhe favoured Paganism, the Donatists, and the Jews, 120\nJustice and mercy, illustration of God's, 133 (note)\nhow converts were received in his time, 118 (note)\nJustina, persecution of Ambrose by, 134 and note\n\u05e7\u05b8\u05e0\u05b8\u05d0 and \u05d1\u05b8\u05bc\u05e8\u05b8\u05d0 distinguished, 115 (note)\nAugustin's great aim was to attain, 158 (note)\nmore sought than divine, 53, 54\ncuriosity affects a desire for, 58\nAugustin's desire for, made him join the Manich\u00e6ans, 64 (note)\nhas to do with action, 197 (note)\ndifference between that and divine, 207\nLatin, Augustin's love of, 51, 52\nthe same in itself, but different in application, 64\nof development in Scripture, 64\nwritten on the heart (lex occults), 74 (note)\nLevitical, concerning the division of beasts into clean and unclean, 91 (note)\nGod to be obeyed in, or contrary to laws, 65, 66 and note\nrudiments of, distasteful to Augustin, 51\nknowledge of God to be appreciated above secular, 81\nto be preferred to money, and God to it, 87\nLentile, the Egyptian food, 108 (note)\nLiberal arts and sciences, 68, 77, 80\nFaustus had no knowledge of the, 82\nAugustin sees that a knowledge of, does not lead to God, 158 (note)\nLicentius' notion concerning truth, 123 (note)\nlonging after the blessed, 150\u2011152\nLight, the Manich\u00e6ans held God to be an unmeasured, 68 (note)\nGod the true, 76 and note, 157\nGod the unchangeable, 109 and note, 112\nthat seen by Isaac and by Jacob, 157\nwhat Augustin understood by the Word in Gen. 1:3, 191\nLikeness to God, our, 91 (note)\nLittle things, the power of, 135 (note), 136\n\u039b\u03cc\u03b3\u03bf\u03c2, the, 107 (note), 113, 166\nlove not to be condemned, but love in God is to be preferred, 73\ngrace the fulfilment of, 182 (note)\nsupremacy of the law of, 188 (note)\nLoving God purely, 69 and note\nanalogy between, and one of our Lord's temptations, 153 (note)\neating and drinking a, 154, 155\nof the eyes, curiosity stimulated by the, 157, 158\ndifference between it and love, 153 (note)\nLuther's Bible in Little, 131 (note)\nMadaura, formerly an episcopal city, now a village--Augustin learnt grammar and rhetoric there, 56\nmoved by God to delight in praising Him, 45\nhis existence from God, 45, 46\nimperfect, cannot comprehend the perfect, 46 (note)\nmade in God's image, 64, 91 (note)\ninjures himself, not God, by sin, 79 (notes)\nthe trichotomy of, 111 (note), 113 (note)\nthe Mediator between God and, 112\nChrist a perfect, 113, 114 (note)\nknoweth p. 602 not himself, 144\nGod does not need, although He created him, 190, 191 and note\nfaint signs of the Trinity in, 193 and note\nhow Augustin interprets the dominion of, over the beasts, 200\nis renewed in the knowledge of God after His image, 201\nknoweth nothing but by the Spirit of God, 205\ndifference between his knowledge and God's, 207\nManich\u00e6ans, their materialistic views of God, 46 (note), 68 (note), 76, 86\nAugustin falls into the errors of the, 62\nthe Scriptures obscured to their mocking spirit, 62 (note), 67 (note), 88 (note)\nAugustin later on accused them of professing to believe in the New Testament to entrap the unwary, 62 (note), 83 (note)\ntheir system peculiarly enthralling to an ardent mind like Augustin's, 63 (note)\nkindred in many ways to modern Rationalism, 63 (note)\nAugustin attacks their notions concerning evil, 63\ncavillings of the, 64, 87, 93, 167, 174\ntheir doctrine concerning good and evil, 64 (note), 76 (note), 83 (note)\ntheir delusions concerning the fig\u2011tree, 66\ntheir reason for refusing to give bread to any but their own sect, 66 and note, 68\nthey held that God was an unmeasured light, 68 (note)\ntheir notion concerning the soul, 76 (note)\nwhen opposed, they pretended the Scriptures had been corrupted, 81 (note), 87 and note\ntheir belief as to the humanity of Christ, 87 (note)\ntheir false and seducing continency, 95 and note\nRomanianus falls into the errors of, 100 (note)\nAugustin's anger against the, 132\nAugustin refutes they opinions as to the origin of the world, 205\na strange mixture of the pensive philosophy of Persia with Gnosticism and Christianity, 64 (note)\nasserted that the Holy Ghost was personally resident in him, 81\nasceticism of his followers, 122 (note)\nManna, meaning of, 48 and note\nMarriage, Augustin desires, but his parents oppose it, 57\nMartyrdom, reason for exalting, 90 (note)\ndescribed as a second baptism, 90 (note)\nhonour done to the, 90 and notes\ntwo of the, buried in the Ambrosian Basilica, 134 and note\nMaterialists, the, seek the common \"good\" of all, 75 (note)\nused no sacrifices in their divinations 69\nthey drew their figures in dust or sand, 77 (note), 106 (note)\nMatter, or Hyle, the evil principle according to Faustus, 76 (note)\nthe Platonic theory concerning, 76 (note)\nGod did not create the world from but by His word, 165\nthe world not created out of, but by God's word, 165\nAugustin's old notion as to, 177\nnot created out of God's substance, 177\nAugustin discusses whether it was from eternity or was made by God, 184\nprivation of, is forgetfulness, 149\nGod cannot be attained unto by the power of, 149\npossessed, by beasts and birds, 149\nmanifoldness of, 149, 150, 161\nof God, all hope is in the, 153\nAugustin is sent to teach rhetoric at, 87, 88\nhe recites his panegyric to the Emperor at, 94 (note)\nChurch hymns and psalms first introduced at, 134\nAugustin turns his attention to the nature of the, 75\nAugustin refutes the Manich\u00e6an notion of two kinds of, 125\nfour perturbations of the, 148\ntime the impression of things on the future and past things in relation to the, 173\nMinisters, how they should work, 200\nthe cessation of, and its probable result, 69 (note), 106 (note)\nwrought in behalf of Ambrose, 134 and note\nnecessary to some ignorant men, 200\nMisery of the angels and their former excellence, 192\nModeration in eating and drinking, 154\nMonachism, Antony the founder of, 122 and note\nMoney, learning to be preferred to, 87\nthe mother of Augustin, her obedience to her husband, 50\nher dream concerning her son's conversion, 66\nthe wooden rule therein symbolical of the rule of faith, 66\nshe goes to consult a certain bishop, 67\nhow her prayers for her son were answered, 67, 84\nher sorrow at his deception, 84\nshe never failed to make oblations at God's altar twice a day, 85\nshe follows her son over sea and land, and encourages the sailors in danger, 89\nher confidence that she could not die without seeing her son a Catholic Christian, 89\nher love for and her obedience to Ambrose, 89, 90\nshe gives up making offerings at the oratories, 90\nshe urges her son to marry, and chooses a wife for him, 99\nearly training and life of, 135, 136\nher youthful love of wine, 135\nher peace\u2011making and endurance, 137\nshe gains her husband to God, 137\nher last conversation with her son, 137, 138\nMonophysites, still turn to the west in renouncing Satan, 118 (note)\nMontanus, the pretensions of, similar to that of the Manich\u00e6ans, 82 (note)\nMoon, sun and, Manichean belief as to the, 63\nMorality of the Manich\u00e6ans, 95\nMortality, skins the emblem of, 112 and note, 195\nMortification, pain better than, 100 and note\nwhat he meant in book of Genesis, 186\nhe is supposed to have perceived all the truth in its words, 188\nMountain of milk and curds, 130 and note\nMountains of God, Augustin's interpretation of the, 191\nMusic, church, effect of, on Augustin, 156\nMysteries, of Scripture, God's reason for the, 48 (note)\nthe mystery and simplicity of Scripture, 62, 93\nthe unfolding of God's, in the future life only, 124 (note)\nwell-regulated minds do not seek to pry into the, 193\nwhen revelation is clear and devoid of, 196 (note)\nof God can be revealed by Him alone, 207\nMystery or \"sacrament,\" 118 (note)\nNebridius, a goodly youth Augustin's friend, 70, 105, 130\nhe left Carthage for Milan to be near Augustin, 97\ntried to dissuade Augustin from belief in the astrologers, 70, 105\nhis argument against Manich\u00e6anism, 103\nconsented to teach under Verecundus, 122\ndies in Africa after the conversion of his household, 131\nNeo\u2011Platonism, Aristotle and Zeno prepared the way for, 86 (note)\nAmelius developed and formulated, 107 (note)\ndoctrine of, as to the \"Word,\" 107 (note)\nas to the soul's capacity, 198 (note)\nAugustin speaks with admiration of, 117 (note)\np. 603\nNew Song, the, of Praise 45 (note)\nNew Testament, the Manich\u00e6ans professed to believe in the, to entrap the unwary, 62 (note)\nadversity the blessing of the, 76 (note)\nthe Manich\u00e6ans asserted that the writings of, had been corrupted, 87 and note\nObedience, to teachers enjoined, 49\nto God, in or against human laws, necessary, 65, 66\nOblations, what they are, 85 (note)\nMonica made them twice a day, 85\noffered at Queen Victoria's coronation, 85 (note)\nat the tombs of the martyrs, 90 (note)\nOdours, the attraction of, 156\nOld Testament, its histories, typical and allegorical, 65 (note)\nprosperity the blessing of the, 76 (note)\nOnesiphorus, hospitality of, 203\nin memory of the saints and martyrs, 90 and note\nofferings at the, forbidden by Ambrose and afterwards by Augustin, 90\nMonica discontinues hers, 90 and note\nthe Christians forbidden by Julian to teach, 120\nOrigen's knowledge of Hebrew, 165 (note)\nof the law of death, 73 (note)\nof the human soul, Augustin on the, 183 (note)\nof the world, the Manich\u00e6an notion concerning the, 205\nOstia, Augustin and his mother stay at, 137\nshe dies at, and is buried there, 138\nOvid, quotations from, 71 (note)\nPachomius, the good done by the monks of, 122 (note)\nPaganism, Constantius enacted laws against, but Julian the Apostate reinstated it in its former splendour, 120 (note)\nPain, spiritual and physical, better than mortification, 100 and note\nParaclete, the, of the Manich\u00e6ans 62\nManich\u00e6us asserted that He was personally resident in him, 81 and note\nParadise, allegorized by some, 92 (note)\nParents, make light of the childish troubles of their offspring, 5\nambition for their children's progress often injudicious, 50\nour first, doctrine of the early Church concerning their immortality had they not sinned, 73 (note)\nPast and future, in the, there is time, 169\nthey exist only in the soul, 170\nPatriarchs, actions of the, prophetic, 65 and note\nPatricius, the father of Augustin,\na poor freeman of Thagaste, he was only a catechumen when his son was to his sixteenth year, 56\nhe dies when Augustin is sixteen, 61\nwas at first unkind to his wife, but was melted by her enduring meekness, etc., 136\nis gained over to God by her, 137\nPaul, St., Augustin studies the writings of, 114\nhis rejoicing at the good works of the Philippians, 203\nPaul of Thebais, asceticism of, 122 (note)\nPeace of heaven, the only true, 207 (note)\nPearl of great price, Augustin compares Christ to the, 117 (note)\n\u03a0\u03b5\u03b9\u03c1\u03b1\u03c4\u03b7\u03c1\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd a \"warfare,\" 153 (note)\nPelagians, they laid claim to the attainment of perfection through power of freewill, 140 (note)\nPelagius and the bishop, dispute between, 155\nPelican, the fable of the, 164 (note)\npoetical fictions less dangerous than, 63\nPhantasm, Augustin thinks of God as a, 71, 72\nand of Christ also, 85 (note), 86, 87\nAugustin ceases to look upon God as a, 111\nPhilo, the Therapeutae of, 122 (note)\nPhilosophy, made the beginning of Augustin's conversion, 61\nin Greek, the love of wisdom is called 62\neffect of, on the writings of the Fathers, 61 (note)\nthe various schools of, 75 (note)\nrevelation alone can reconcile the different systems of, 75 (note)\nthe academic and other schools of, 86 (note)\nled the Greeks to Christ, 107 (note)\nAugustin's opinion of the various schools of, 107 (note)\nPlato's, the nearest to Christ, 117\nPyrrhonists, doctrine of the, 86 (note)\nPiety, confession to God is, 81\nPlato, works of, compared with the Word of God, 81 (note)\ndogmatic and sceptical sides of his philosophy, 86 (note)\ndoctrine of, in connection with Christianity, 107 (note), 114\nparallels between his doctrine and that of God, 109\nmuch in Platonism in common with asceticism, 122 (note)\nPlatonic theory of matter, 76 (note)\nPlatonists, Augustin studies the books of the, probably those of Amelius, 107 and note\nPleasures, carnal, the beasts of the field symbolical of, 80 (note), 81\nPlotinus, theories of, 107 and note, 112\n\u03a0\u03bd\u03b5\u1fe6\u03bc\u03b1 the, 111 (note), 113 (note)\nPoetry, classical, evils of, 51\u201153\nPompey, the ruse of, 135 (note)\nPontitianus, a countryman of Augustin's, 122\nAugustin reading St. Paul's writings, 122\nhe relates to him the history of Antony, 122\nPorphyry's pride in regard to the Incarnation of Christ, 161\nPoverty, in what that which displeases God consists, 123 (note)\nAugustin begins his book with, 45 (note)\nman desires to praise God, 45, 79\nGod's, is inexhaustible, 45, 46 and note\nsilence the highest, to God, 46 (note)\nlove of worldly, 159, 160 and note\nsometimes not to be avoided, 160\nPrayers, the manner of Easterns when at, 66 (note), 84\nAugustin's faith strengthened by answer to, 133\nPretium regium, meaning of, 97 (note)\nPride, debases the heart, 74 (note)\nbirds of the air symbolical of, 80 (note)\nPriority of origin illustrated, 187\nProdigal son, the, allusions to, 53, 63, 77\nProgress, the law of, in Scripture, 64\n\u03a0\u03c1\u03bf\u03c6\u03bf\u03c1\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc\u03c2 i.e. \"made flesh,\" 107 (note), 166 (note)\nProsperity the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity of the New, 76 (note)\nPsalms and hymns first sung in church at Milan, 134\nsung at death\u2011beds and burials, 139 (note)\nPsaltery of ten strings, 65 and note\n\u03a8\u03c5\u03c7\u03ae the, 111 (note), 113 (note)\n\u03a8\u03c5\u03c7\u03b9\u03ba\u1f78\u03c2 \"soulish\" or \"natural,\" 112 (note)\nPunishment of sin, 72, 79 (note)\nthe absence of free\u2011will a, 125\nPurgatory, prayers for the dead imply a belief in, 141 (note)\nRationalem, term applied to holy things, 203 (note)\nRationalism, modern, Manichean system kindred to, 63 (note)\nthe Manich\u00e6ans exalted it at the expense of faith, 63 (note)\nleads us to a belief in the necessity of eternity, 173 (note)\nReddere, used of the creed 118 (note)\nnecessary before receiving the Eucharist, 118 (note)\nRest, true, in God alone, 45, 58, 59, 74, 94 (note)\nin heaven, ours here an earnest of the future, 45 (note)\nGod ever worketh and yet is always at rest, 207\nRetirement, Augustin finds in, preparation for future work, 131 (note)\nRevelation, law of the development of, 64 (note)\ncan alone reconcile the difficulties of the various p. 604 systems of philosophy, 75 (note)\nis like a broad and deep river, 178 (note)\nRhetoric, Augustin becomes head in the school of, 61\nhe teaches it at Thagaste, 68,\nRomanianus, a relative of Alypius,\nrich and talented, and good to Augustin, 100 and note\nis influenced by Augustin to embrace the Manich\u00e6an, heresy, 100, (note)\nAugustin's explanation of his conversion to, 115 (note)\nRome, Augustin's motive for wishing to go to, 83, 84\nRule, the wooden, seen by Monica in her dream, 66\nsymbolical of the Rule of Faith, 67, 128\nthe, or \"line,\" of Ps. 19:3, 4, 199 (note)\nRumination, spiritual, 91 (note)\nSacrament, or mystery, 118 (note)\nconfirmation, etc., sometimes spoken of by the Fathers as a, 118 (note), 197 and note\nSacrifices were used by the soothsayers in their divinations, 68\nSaint, a Manichean 66 and notes\nSalt, seasoning with, on admission as a catechumen, 52 and note, 89 (note)\nSatan, renunciation of, before baptism, 118\nAugustin disapproves of the method of instruction in, 52, 53\nthe different, of philosophy, etc., 107 (note)\nScience does not lead to God, 80, 158 (note)\nAugustin read the books concerning, unaided, 77\nFaustus was reputed to be skilled in, 80, but had no real knowledge of them, 82, 83\nScipio's change of name, 120 (note)\nScripture, God's reason for the mysteries in, 48 (note)\nmade plain to the \"little ones,\" being obscured to the mocking spirit of the Manich\u00e6ans, 62 (note)\nManichean perversion of, 62 (note), 67 (note)\nthey tried to deprive it of all authority, 63 (note)\nthe law of progress in, 64 and note\nthe Manich\u00e6ans, when opposed, pretended that the, had been corrupted, 81 (note)\nAmbrose expounded the, every Lord's day, 91\nplainness and depth of, 93 and note\nAugustin rejoices that he studied Plato before, and not the reverse, 113, 114\nAugustin entreats of God that he may be led to the truth through the study of, 163, 164, 178 and note\nmysteries and right use of, 164 (notes)\ntruth to be seen in, but not by all, 182\nSea, allegorical explanation of the, 196 and notes\nSelf\u2011deception, Augustin's, 123\nSelf\u2011knowledge to be preferred to ignorance, 47 (note)\nSelf\u2011love and pride the sources of sin, 65\nSense, God has given to each its proper pleasure as well as use, 79 (note)\nSermons, Goodwin's description of the effect of, 89\nShakespeare, quotation from, 69 (note)\nSight, the allurements of, 156\nthe highest form of praise to God, 46 (note)\na consoler in grief, 127 (note)\nSimplicianus, and the Platonist, 113 (note)\nAugustin consults him about the renewing of his mind, 116,117\nhe succeeded Ambrose as Bishop of Milan,. 117\nthe Manich\u00e6ans, denied, 76 (note)\nguilt of, after baptism, greater than before, 50\nlove of, for the sin's sake, 59\nself\u2011love and pride the sources of, 65\nits own punishment, 72, 79 (note), 143 (note)\nthe absence of free\u2011will the punishment of former sin, 125\nforgiveness of, after baptism, 140 and note, 141\nhas not substance, only weakness, 192 (note)\nAugustin compares it to blindness, 192 (note)\ninjure themselves, not God, 79 (notes)\nSkins, Augustine makes, the emblems of mortality, 112 and note, 195 (note)\nSodom, the sea of, 60 and note\nSong of Ambrose and Augustin, 134 (note)\nSoothsayer, the, promises Augustin victory on certain conditions which he despises, 68\nSorrow, why sent to us, 72 (note)\neffect of time and consolations of friends on, 72\neffect of silence in, 127 (note)\nSoul, Augustin fancied that he and Nebridius had only one soul between them, 71\ninvocation to it to return to God, 73\nthe Manich\u00e6an, notion concerning the, 76 (note)\nspeculations concerning it after death, 164 (note)\nAugustin on the origin of the human, 183 (note)\nNeo\u2011Platonic idea as to its capacity for seeing God, 198 (note)\nSozomen's account of the origin of Monachism, 122 (note)\nthe letter and the, of Scripture, 92 and note\nSpiritual body, the, 112 (note)\nreprobated by the Fathers, those who went to them being excluded from baptism, 60 (note)\nStars, knowledge of the, etc., 80, 81\nManichean teaching as to the, false, 82\nthe catechumen to be content with the light of the moon and the, 197, 198\n\u03a3\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03ad\u03c9\u03bc\u03b1 the firmament, 199 (note)\nStoics, the great year of the, 202 (note)\nAugustin's distaste for, in boyhood, 50\nSubstance, corporeal, Augustin's idea of God as a, 102 and note, 103\nGod's substance incorruptible, 104\nAugustin thinks of God as an incorruptible, 116\nmatter not created out of God's, 177\nSubverters, Augustin delighted in their friendship, although he abhorred their acts, 61\nthe name of a pestilent and licentious set of persons, also termed Eversores, 61 and note\nSun, the Christian should always aspire to look at the, 108\nChrist the central, 198 (note)\nManichean belief as to the, 63,\nSustinentia and continentia, difference between, 153 (note)\nSylvester, bishop of Rome, before Constantine, 69 (note)\nGod's goodness in conveying His truth by, 189\nSymmachus the prefect sends Augustin to Milan, 87, 88\nSympathy, real and false, 51, 60, 61\nChrist's perfect human, 71 (note)\nSyria, Hierius a native of, 74, 75\nTablets, matrimonial, 136 and note\nTalmud, illustrations of God's majesty, in, 46 (note)\nof His mercy and justice in, 133 (note)\nTears, why sweet to the unhappy, 71\n\u03a4\u03b5\u03c7\u03bd\u03af\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2, or artificer, God a, 72 (note)\nTe Deum, the song of Ambrose and Augustin, 134 (note)\nTelemachus the monk sacrificed his life to put an end to the circus fights, 96 (note)\nTemptation, the winds and waves of, stilled by Christ, 144 (note)\np. 605\nwe should not court, 156 (note)\nChrist's, typical, 80 (note), 153 (note)\nTestament, the Old and New, 76 (note), 180\nThagaste, Augustin's father a poor freeman of, 56\nAugustin taught rhetoric there, 68\nit was there Augustin met Nebridius, 70\nAugustin leaves to go to Carthage, 72\nPaul the hermit of, 122 (note)\nTheft, Augustin commits, from his parents' table, 54\nand later, he steals not from poverty, but the love of wrong\u2011doing, 57\u201159\ninnocent Alypius is apprehended for, 96\nTheophilus of Antioch's opinion concerning Adam's immortality, 73 (note)\nTheraput\u00e6 of Philo, the, 122 (note)\nThorwaldsen, the Danish sculptor, dream of, 153 (note)\nhas no relation to eternity, 167\nitself a creature, therefore not before creation, 167, 168\ncannot be measured, 169,172,173 and note\nnevertheless, there is past and future, 196\nmotions of the heavenly bodies not, 172\nof what is it the protraction? 172\nthe impression of things on the mind, 173\nregarded as an agent, 174 (note)\nAugustin argues that it and the world had one beginning, 175\nbegins from the creation, not the creation from it, 188 (note)\nhas no relation to God and His Word, 205\nTitus, amphitheatre of, 95 (note)\nTobias, the light seen by, 157\nToothache, Augustin suffers from, 133\nTradition, Rabbinical, concerning the children of Israel, 64 (note)\nTree of life, able to avert death from Adam, 73\nTrichotomy of man, doctrine of the, 111 (note), 113 (note)\nTrinity, the Manichean notion of the, 62 (note)\ndoctrine of the, conveyed in creation, 191\ntypes of, in man, 193 and note\nmystery of the doctrine of the, 193 (note)\nillustrations of the, 193 (note)\nTrouble, why sent to us, 72 (note)\nTruth, Augustin's desire and longing for, 62, 63\nthe Manich\u00e6ans abused the word truth, 62\nGod is, 62, 72, 81, 151, 152, 186 and note\nAugustin's despair of finding the, 86\nLicentius' and Trygetius' notions concerning\nthe search after, and the finding, 123 (note)\nAugustin begs that God will lead him to the, through the Scriptures, 163\u2011164\nthe discovery of, difficult, 176\nto be seen in Scripture, but not by all, 183\nTrygetius' notion concerning truth, 123 (note)\nAugustin at one time thought the Holy Scriptures not to be compared in dignity to, 62\nhis contrary opinion, 81 (note)\nUniverse, beauty of the, 79 (note)\nVictorinus, conversion of, 117\nWay, Christ the, 114 (note), 116\nWeeping, why sweet to the unhappy, 71\nWest, custom of turning to the, 113 (note)\nWife, Monica fears that a, would prove an encumbrance to her son, 57\nbut afterwards seeks for one for him, 99\nWill, evil a perversion of the, 111\nAmbrose forbids it at oratories, 90\nWisdom, Augustin's love of, 62, 98\nthe love of, called philosophy in Greek, 62\nAugustin stimulated to the love of, by Cicero's Hortensius, 107 (note)\nthe word of, given by the Spirit, 197 and note\nWizards, Augustin's opinion of, 68 (note)\nWoman, creation of, 206 and note\nWood, the cross called a ship of, 52, 53 (note), 114 (note)\nwit and eloquence baits to draw man to the, 45 (note)\nthe written, likened to the swaddling-clothes of the child Jesus, 64 (note)\nGod created the world by His, 165\nGod speaks to us eternally in His, 166\nthe beginning of all things, 166\nhappiness of the spiritual creature to be found only in the, 190\nthe firmament the type of the, 195, 196\nheaven and earth shall pass away, but not the, 196\na fount of happiness, 81 (note)\nthe things of this, are fleeting, 73\nthe sea ened to the wicked, 196 and notes\nthe Manich\u00e6an, and Gnostic opinion as to the origin of the, 205\nthe, was created out of nothing, 206\nZeno and Aristotle prepared the way for Neo\u2011Platonism, 86 (note)","title":"Nicene and Post Nicene-Fathers, Vol. I: The Confessions o...","type":"page"}