{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/104/1040672.htm","path":"chr/ecf/104/1040672.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/104/1040672.htm","text":"Abominations alleged to have been practised by the Manich\u00e6ans, the legitimate result of Mani\u2019s own writings, 363 sq.\nAbraham defended against Faustus, 284 etc.; and Hagar, 284; his denial of his wife, 285; the prophetic and typical character of, 287.\nAbraham and Isaac, types, 191.\nAbstemiousness on the part of Catholic ascetics, motives of, 61.\nAbstinence from meats and drinks, 60 etc.; of the Manich\u00e6ans, 76 etc.; reasons for, 77 etc., 78 etc.; view of Faustus respecting, 328 etc.; refutation of Faustus on the question of, 330 etc.\nActions, how to be judged, 76.\nAdam and Eve, Mani\u2019s account of, 134 sq.; types, 186.\nAdam fell, not because the tree was evil, but because obedience to God was something better than the fruit, 358 sq.\nAdimantus and his doctrine referred to, 170, 232, 233.\nAdoption, symbolism of, and its application to the genealogy of Christ, 159, 160.\nAgapius, a Manich\u00e6an writer, 33.\nAlbiruni\u2019s Chronology of Ancient Nations, referred to, 3, 9.\nAlexander of Lycopolis, treatise of, on the Tenets of the Manich\u00e6ans, referred to, 3.\nAl-Sharastani\u2019s History of Religious Parties, referred to, 3.\nAnathemas more suitable than arguments for Manich\u00e6an contradictions, 268.\nAnchorites and C\u0153nobites, the\u2014the continence of, set off against the continence of the Manich\u00e6ans, 59 etc.\nAngel, the, wrestling with Jacob, 191 sq.\nAnimal food, inconsistency of the Manich\u00e6ans in abstaining from, 82.\nAnimal sacrifices, why no longer binding on Christians, 169 sq.\nAnimals, the power ascribed to, by the Manich\u00e6ans, 268.\nAnthropology of the Manich\u00e6ans, 12.\nAnthropomorphisms of the Old Testament, ridiculed by Faustus and explained by Augustin, 319 sq.\nAnthropomorphites, the, not so bad as the Manich\u00e6ans, 139.\nAphthonius, a Manich\u00e6an writer, 33.\nApocryphal books quoted by Augustin as if canonical, 49; Augustin\u2019s predilection for, 250.\nAppetites, legitimate use of, 284.\nArcadius Augustus, Consol, 113.\nArchelaus, Acta Disputationis, referred to, 4, 7, 8, 22.\nAristocritus, Theosophy of, 33.\nArk, the, of Noah, its typical signification, 188 sq.; the raven and dove sent out of, 189 sq.; how Noah and his family entered and left, 191; and baptism, 243 sq.\nAthenian female criminals, 72 sq.\nAugustin, how he was ensnared by the Manich\u00e6ans, 24 sq.; how he escaped through Greek philosophy, 25; how he found in Neo-Platonism the solution of the great problems that had hitherto baffled him, 25 sq.; how he used Neo-Platonism against Manich\u00e6ism, 26 sq.; his perverse hermeneutical methods, 28; confirmed in Manich\u00e6ism by his easy victories over ignorant Christians, 101; recounts his experience in Manich\u00e6an error, and expresses his sympathy with the deluded Manich\u00e6ans, 129 sq.; dissatisfaction of, with his anti-Manich\u00e6an statements about free will, sin, etc., 96, 102, et passim.\nAuthority, ecclesiastical, position assigned to by Augustin, 130, 131.\nAuthority, the, of Scripture, 339.\nAuthorship of books, how ascertained, 343.\nBabylon, the captivity in, and return from, 194.\nBabylonian religion, ancient, dualistic elements in, 6 sq.; relation of, to Manich\u00e6ism, 19 sq.\nBahraim, king of Persia, slays Mani, 8.\nBarhebraeus\u2019 Historia Dynastiarum, referred to, 3.\nBaur on the relation of Buddhism to Manich\u00e6ism, 20, 21.\nBaur\u2019s treatise on Manich\u00e6ism, referred to, 4, 16, 20, 158, 253.\nBeausobre\u2019s work on Manich\u00e6ism referred to, 4, 31, 32, 33, 34.\nBeauty, the, of the universe, a result of the corruption and destruction of inferior things, 352 sq.\nBema, the, of Mamch\u00e6us, 132 sq.\nBersabee, Uriah\u2019s wife, a type, 307 sq.\nBindemann\u2019s treatise on Augustin, referred to 29, 35.\nBirth of Jesus, the, the absurd statement of Faustus respecting, 257 sq.\nBlasphemies, Manich\u00e6an, concerning the nature of God, 360 sq.\nBlunders of school-boys illustrative of Manich\u00e6an errors about God, 282 sq.\nBodies of saints, nothing disgraceful in, 327.\nBody, of our neighbor, duty of doing good to the, 55; the human, man\u2019s heaviest bond, 53; God\u2019s handiwork, 267 sq.; and soul, the, 43.\nBreast, the, Manich\u00e6an symbol of, 86, etc.\nBroadus on Matthew, referred to, 161.\nBuddhism, relation of to Manich\u00e6ism, 20 sq.\nBuddhist monks and the Elect of the Manich\u00e6ans, 21.\nBurton on the Heresies of the Apostolic Age referred to, 31.\nCain, Abel\u2019s offering preferred to the offering of, 185, 186; counselled by God, 186; questioned by God respecting Abel, 135; cursed, 135, 136; a mourner and an abject, 187; the mark set on, 187.\nCalderwood\u2019s Mind and Brain, referred to, 137.\nCalf, the golden\u2014significance of the grinding to powder, and burning of, 310.\nCaptivity, the, of the Jews, 194, 195.\nCarpenter\u2019s Mental Physiology, referred to, 137.\nCave, on the writing of Faustus criticized by Augustin, 34.\nChambers on Hermes Trismegistus, cited, 200.\nChrist, the birth of, denied by the Manich\u00e6ans,\u2014but defended, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181\u2013183; knowing, after the flesh, what it means, ibid.; types of, 186 etc., 190 etc.; prophecies of, 196 etc.; plain prophecies of, 197; the death of, real, 209; did Moses write of? 220 etc., 221 etc.; what Moses wrote of, 222 etc.; the Prophet like to Moses, 225; never sought to turn Israel from their God, 229; broke no command, 229; Manich\u00e6an notions of, 253 sq.; the power and wisdom of, 255; curious statement of Faustus respecting, 257 etc.; why descended from Zara of Tamar, 296; Son of David and Son of God, 314 sq.; son of Mary\u2014Faustus\u2019 objections refuted, 316 etc. [See Jesus.]\nChristians, the Church not to be blamed for bad, 60 sq.; semi and pseudo, 156; why Jewish laws are not observed by, 242 etc.; Jewish and Gentile, their relation respectively to the law, 244 sq.; observe the moral precepts of the law, 246; the morals of, 263 sq.\nChristianity, Manich\u00e6an objections to, 22 sq.; relation of Manich\u00e6ism to, 22 sq.\nChurch, the Catholic, the perfect truth is to be found only in, 50; the teacher of wisdom, 58; conspicuously visible, 204; the, identified by Augustin with Christianity, and apostrophised, 58, 62.\nChwolson on the Sabeans and Sabeanism, referred to, 5.\nCircumcision, a prophecy of Christ, 134; why Christians do not practice, 242.\nClean and unclean food, 170, 172.\nClement of Alexandria mentioned, 69.\nCloud and pillar of fire, types, 193.\nC\u0153nobites and Anchorites, their abstinence as compared with that of the Manich\u00e6ans, 59 etc., 60 etc.\nCompassion regarded by fools as degrading, 56.\nConstantius, a reformed Manich\u00e6an, 165.\nContrary nature urged by Fortunatus as the source of sin, 120 sq.\nCorporeal natures all from God, 96.\nCorruption, 71; counteracted by God, 71; evil is, 147; the source of, 147; comes from nothing, 149; what it tends to, 149; is by God\u2019s permission, and comes from us, 150; voluntary and penal, 352.\nCosmogony of the Manich\u00e6ans, 11.\nCovetousness the root of all evils, 51.\nCreating and forming, difference between, 71.\nCreature of God, none evil, but to abuse a creature of God is evil, 359.\nCreatures made of nothing, 356 sq.\nCriticism, biblical, the true, 178; unfair, of Faustus, 314; subjective, of the Manich\u00e6ans, 57 sq.\nCritics, childish, severely censured, 282.\nCruelty imputed by the Manich\u00e6ans to the God of the Old Testament, 276sq.; of the Manich\u00e6ans in refusing to give food to others than the Elect, and in compelling children belonging to their own sect to eat immoderately, 83.\nCunningham\u2019s Hulsean Lectures, referred to, 5, 29, 58.\nCunningham on the relation of Buddhism to Manich\u00e6ism, 21.\n\u201cCursed is every one that hangeth on a tree,\u201d 207 sq.\nCyril of Jerusalem on the Manich\u00e6ans, referred to, 4.\nDaniel\u2019s representation of the Son of Man, 197.\nDarkness, the Manich\u00e6an kingdom of, 136; five natures in the, 142; refutation of the theory of, 142, 143; the Manich\u00e6an race of, 171.\nDarmstetter\u2019s Introduction to the Zend-Avesta, and article in the Contemporary Review, referred to, 17, 18.\nDavid, his virtues and his faults, 297 sq.; and Saul, 298; prophetic significance of the sin of,. 307.\nDeath, the effect of sin, 208; of Christ, the, a real death, 209; without birth a possibility on the part of Christ, 320 sq.\nDecalogue, the, against the Manich\u00e6ans, 215 etc.\nDemons have no power apart from God, yet they have been made evil, not by God, but by sinning, 358.\nDiligence and piety both necessary for finding the truth, 41.\nDiscipline, 56; what it implies, 56.\nDisputations of Augustin with the Manich\u00e6ans, 34.\nDivorce, a bill of, 249 sq.; the law of Christ respecting, 251.\nDocetism, 326 sq.; the, of Faustus, 323, 326 sq.\nDorner, A., his work on Augustin referred to, 26.\nDualism, 264 sq.; in the ancient Babylonian religion, 6 sq.\nEating, on the part of the Elect, a means of liberating the divine substance imprisoned in vegetables and fruits, 85.\nEclecticism with reference to the Old Testament, attributed by Faustus to the Catholics, 332 sq.\nEdessa, Chronicle of, referred to, 31.\nEgyptian, Moses killing the, 309.\nEgyptians, spoiling the, 299 sq., 309.\nElect, secrecy of the rites of the, 114; Augustin\u2019s suggestion of shameful practices on the part of, 114.\nElijah, fed by ravens, etc., 194; the translation of\u2014Faustus\u2019 objection to, answered, 320 sq., 322.\nEphraem Syrus, writings of, referred to, 3.\nEpiphanius on the Manich\u00e6ans, referred to, 4, 31.\nEr and Onan, sons of Tamar, types, 306.\nEschatology of the Manich\u00e6ans, 15.\nEsnig, against Marcion and Mani, referred to, 3.\nEsoteric doctrines among the Manich\u00e6ans, 33.\nEusebius on the Manich\u00e6ans, referred to, 4, 8, 31.\nEutychius\u2019 Annales, referred to, 3.\nEvangelists, the authority of the, 174.\nEverlasting punishment inconsistent with Augustin\u2019s view of evil, 70.\nEvil beings may entice to sin without themselves sinning, 106.\nEvil, corruption of measure, form, and order, 352; did God institute it? 119 sq.; negativity of, 70 etc.; simply defect of good, and so not of God, 100 sq.; what? first answer, 69; second answer, 70; third answer, 71; not a substance but a disagreement hostile to substance, 72 etc.; Manich\u00e6an fictions about, 73, etc.; is corruption, 147; the source of, 147; origin of, 281 sq.\nEvils attributed by the Manich\u00e6ans to the nature of God, before the supposed commingling with evil, 361 sq.; in what sense from God, 149.\nExistence, true, belongs to God alone, 354 sq.\nExodus, the, of Israel from Egypt, a type, 192.\n\u201cEye for an Eye,\u201d etc., 248 sq.\nFabricius\u2019 Bibliotheca Gr\u00e6ca, referred to, 33.\nFaith, confounded with orthodox doctrine by Augustin, 164; the Catholic proofs of, 130.\nFallaciousness of Mani\u2019s pretensions, 135 sq.\nFaustus the Manich\u00e6an, who, 155; his praise of himself, 159; the hypocrisy of, 165; would fail to satisfy an inquirer, 205, 206; his logic, 230; his Docetism, 323, 326 sq.\nFihrist, Kitab al, referred to, 3, 7, 8; et passim, cited, 9 sq., 21.\nFirdausi\u2019s Shahnameh, referred to, 3.\nFirst man, the, of the Manich\u00e6ans, 157; different from Paul\u2019s, 157, 178, 179.\nFlesh, knowing Christ after the\u2014refutation of Faustus respecting the question, 177 sq., 180, 181, 182.\nFlood, the, its symbolic import, 189.\nFluegel on Mani, referred to, 5.\nFly, the soul of a, more excellent than light, 97.\nFood, distinction in, why Christians do not practice, 242; reasons for abstaining from certain kinds of, 77; clean and unclean, 170; various kinds of, prohibited in the Old Testament, 335 sq.; the laws of Moses and of Christ respecting, 232.\nForgiveness, taught in the Old Testament, 250 sq.\nForm, an element of the good, 352 sq.\nFortitude, 53; Scripture precepts respecting, and examples of, 53.\nFortunatus, the Manich\u00e6an, disputation against, 109 sq.; confounded, 123.\nFree choice belonging to man before the fall, 122.\nFulfilling the law, what is means, 236 etc., 241 etc.\nFulfillment of prophecy by Christ, 239 sq.\nFundamental Epistle of Mani quoted, 22; criticised by Augustin, 125 sq.; quoted, 361 sq.\nGataker on the significance of Mani\u2019s name, 31.\nGenealogy of Christ, objections of Faustus the Manich\u00e6an to, and reply, 159 sq., 173 etc.\nGentiles, the, never under the Jewish law, 245 etc.; Christians accused of retaining the manners of, 263.\nGenuineness of the New Testament writings, how ascertained, 343.\nGlorification of Christ, the, 134.\nGod, following, 44; the knowledge of, whence obtained, 44; the chief good, 44; what the Church teaches about, 45, 46; the one object of love, 46, 51; nothing better than, 46; nothing can separate us from, 47; we are invited to, by love, 47; we are joined inseparably to, by Christ and His Spirit, 47; we cleave to, by love, 48; absurd Manich\u00e6an notions about, 79 etc., 139; has no extension, 138; alone perfectly good, 147; nature made by, 149; in what sense evils are from, 149; the belief in one, part of the original truth, 261; the same who punishes and blesses, 174; the works of, 266 etc.; the eternal light, and the source of light, 274 etc.; astonished, 275; Old Testament representations of, vindicated, 275 sq.; jealous, 277 sq.; the omnipotence of, 322; the, of the Jews, how Faustus speaks of, 237, 273; and Hyle, of the Manich\u00e6ans, 264 sq., 272, 279 sq., 311 sq.; of this world, the, 264, 268; declared by Augustin to be incorruptible, impenetrable and incontaminable, against the Manich\u00e6ans, 113 sq.; the author of whatever is, 99; cannot suffer harm, 353, 359; if He could suffer no injury, why did He send us hither? 122; is He pressed by necessity? 123; Manich\u00e6an view of the mingling of the substance of with evil expounded by Fortunatus and refuted by Augustin, 116 sq.; not defiled by our sins, 357; unchangeable, 356.\nGodliness, form of without the power, 243 sq.\nGood, the chief, two conditions of, 42, 43; God the, 46, 69; a two-fold, 70; exhortation to seek the, 150; and evil, 270 sq.; doing, to our neighbor, 55, 56; nature of, 351 sq.; present even in bodies that in comparison with better things are popularly accounted evil, 353 sq.; the highest, God, 351 sq.; things from God alone, 353, 357; things put by the Manich\u00e6ans in the nature of evil, 143 sq., 359 sq.\nGospel, the, on what authority Augustin received 131; what\u2014refutations of Manich\u00e6ism respecting, 156, 157.\nGospels, the harmony of, 343 sq.\nHabit, the pernicious power of, 121.\nHand, the, as a Manich\u00e6an symbol, 83 etc.\nHardouin\u2019s Councils, referred to, 4.\nHarmony, the, of the Old and New Testaments, 44, 49, 55, 56; of the Gospels, 343 sq.\nHarnack on the Acta Disputationis, referred to, 4; Art. on Manich\u00e6ism, referred to, 5, 17; quoted, 24; on the relation of Buddhism to Manich\u00e6ism, 21.\nHebrews and Pagans, the difference between the worship of, 263.\nHefele\u2019s Councils, referred to, 4.\nHeraclides, a Manich\u00e6an writer, 33.\nHeretics, better to restore than to destroy, 129.\nHermes Trismegistus, 200, 205.\nHervey\u2019s work on Genealogies referred to, 161.\nHidden meanings the sweetest, 188.\nHierax, Commentary of mentioned, 33.\nHoly Spirit, Manich\u00e6an view of criticised by Augustin, 257 sq.; the, when sent, 133; twice given, 134.\nHormizdas, king of Persia, 32.\nHosea, commanded to take to him a \u201cwife of whoredoms,\u201d 304, 308.\nHyde on the significance of Mani\u2019s name, 31.\nHyle, 253, 259; and God, 264 sq., 271 sq.; Faustus\u2019 view of, 253; not evil, 354.\nIdolatry, the result of apostacy, 261; did the Jews practice it? 263.\nImmoral practices of the Manich\u00e6ans, 87 sq., 362 sq.\nIncarnation, the Apostle Paul on, 177 sq.; of Christ, the, objection of Faustus to, 159, 316.\nIndirect construction, instances of, 235.\nIndulgences, Manich\u00e6an, 166 sq., 330.\nInfants, sinfulness of, thought to be inconsistent with Augustin\u2019s definition of sin, 104.\nInfinity of God, the, questions about, 320.\nInquirer, the heathen, how answered and instructed, 201\u2013203; a difficulty of, met, 203; satisfied, 205.\nInquisitiveness condemned in Scripture, 52.\nJacob, sets up a stone for a memorial pillar, 191; his vision of the ladder, 192; his polygamy, 289 sq.; his wives, and the typical or symbolical meaning of, 290 sq.\nJesus, hanging from every tree, 257; was He born of Mary?\u2014cavils of Faustus, 312 etc.; both Son of David and Son of God\u2014Faustus refuted, 314 etc.; did He die?\u2014objections of Faustus refuted, 320 sq.; was He born?\u2014reply to Faustus, 324; both the birth and death of, real, not illusory, 326 sq. [See Christ.]\nJewish books, learning the Christian faith from, 227; laws and observances\u2014why Christians do not observe, 242 etc.; observed by Jewish, but not by Gentile Christians, 244 sq.\nJews, the, typified by Cain, 186\u2013188; their unbelief foretold, 203, 204.\nJoachim, a priest, alleged by Faustus to be the father of the Virgin Mary, 313 sq., 315 sq.\nJohn of Damascus on the Manich\u00e6ans, referred to, 4.\nJournal of the Asiatic Society, referred to, 3.\nJudah, the blessing of, its prophetic import, 196; the incest of, with Tamar, 295; and Judas, 296; the prophetic significance of his incest with Tamar, 305 etc.\nJudaism, relation of Manich\u00e6ism to, 21 sq.\nJudges, types in the book of, 194.\nKessler\u2019s list of Mani\u2019s writings, referred to, 32; on the relation of Buddhism to Manich\u00e6ism, 21; works of, on Manich\u00e6ism, referred to, 5.\nKingdom of light, the Manich\u00e6an, 135 etc., 138.\nLadder, Jacob\u2019s vision of the, 192.\nLardner referred to, 33, 34, 35, 36.\nLaw, the,. not for Gentiles, 175 sq.; always good, 218; the, and grace, 217; and the prophets, Jesus came not to destroy, but to fulfill\u2014genuineness of the words, 234 etc.; why Christians do not keep the, 192; Faustus\u2019 explanation of the words, 239 etc.; reply to Faustus respecting, 241 etc., 242 etc.; and Judaism, distinguished between by Faustus, 272 etc.; the eternal, 284.\nLenormant\u2019s Ancient History, quoted, 17; Chaldean Magic, referred to, 6.\n\u201cLife, thy, thou shalt see hanging,\u201d etc., 227.\nLight, God is, and the source of, 274 sq.; the Manich\u00e6an kingdom of, 135 etc., 138.\nLoesche on Augustin\u2019s indebtedness to Plotinus referred to, 26.\nLogic, the, of Faustus, 229, 230.\nLord\u2019s day, the, and Sunday, 238.\nLot, and his daughters, 287 sq.; not equal to Abraham, Isaac or Jacob, 294 sq.\nLove, to God, 44; we are united to God by, 47, 48; the fourfold division of, 48; the guiding influence of, 50; of ourselves and of our neighbor, 55; the teaching of the Old Testament as well as of the New, 56 sq.; to enemies, 248 sq.\nMaccabees, heroism of, to be imitated by Christians, 244.\nMan, what? 42; the chief good of, 43; wholly created by God\u2014refutation of Faustus respecting, 316 sq.; fleshly and spiritual, 316 sq.\nMand\u00e6ism, relation of to Manich\u00e6ism, and to the old Babylonian religious system, 19 sq.\nMandrakes, description of, and the supposed virtues and typical import of; explained, 293 sq.\nMani, sketch of, 8 sq.; theology of, 9 sq.; cosmogony of, 10 sq,; anthropology of, 12 sq.; soteriology of, 13 sq.; cultus of, 14 sq.; eschatology of, 15 sq.; ethics of, 16; the exaltation of, by his followers above Christ, shown by the attention which they bestow upon the anniversary of his martyrdom, and their neglect of the anniversary of Christ\u2019s death and resurrection, 132 sq.; name of, etymology of, 247; claims to be an apostle\u2014the claim refuted, 130, 131 etc., 200; why he called himself an apostle, 131; in what sense his followers believed him to be the Holy Spirit, 132; the festival of the birthday of, 132; promises truth but fails to fulfill his word, 134; wild fancies of, 134, 135; the two substances of his kingdom of light, 135; promises knowledge, 135, 136; his absurd fancy of a land and race of darkness, 136; refutation of his absurd ideas of two territories, 138, etc.; the number of natures in the system of, 140 etc.; his five natures in the region of darkness\u2014refutation of the fiction, 142, 143; sworn by, 247; derivation of the name, 247; which is, he or Matthew to be believed? 325; versus the apostles, 331.\nManich\u00e6an god, the, weak or cruel, 159.\nManich\u00e6ism, how it attracted Christians, 23 sq.; later, sketch of, 29; explained by Faustus, 252 etc.; exposed, 254 etc.\nManich\u00e6ans, and not Catholics, obedient to the precepts of the gospel, maintained by Faustus and denied by Augustin, 162 sq.; the, two tricks of, for catching the unwary, 41; the two gods of, 45; fictions of, about things good and evil, 63 etc.; three moral symbols devised by, 74 etc., 83 etc., 86 etc.; fables of, about God, 75; the abstinence of, 76; why they prohibit the use of flesh, 79 etc.; absurd tenets of, relating to God, 79 etc.; views of, relating to souls, 82; notions of, respecting marriage, 86; serious charges of immorality brought against, 86\u201389; to be gently dealt with, 129; their kingdom of darkness, 136, 142, 143; worse than the Anthropomorphists, 139; the first man of, 157; their perverse method of dealing with Scripture, evidence in controversy, 178; the idolatry of, 210; impeached of great errors and sins, 214 etc.; the Decalogue against, 216 etc.; beguiled by the serpent, 218, 219; are tares, 238; the oath used by, 247; the worship of, 255 sq., 260; the trinity of, 252, 258; the two principles of, 270 etc.; the God of, 279 sq., 311 sq.; apocryphal gospels of, 303 sq.\nMansi\u2019s Councils referred to, 4.\nMarriage allowed to the baptized by the apostles, 62, 63; among the Manich\u00e6ans, 86, 87; with sisters, 286.\nMarried life, continence in, 58.\nMarry, forbidding to, 328 etc., 330 etc.\nMartyrs, honors paid to, 261 sq.; the numbers of, 301 sq.\nMary, the Virgin, did she belong to the tribe of Judah?\u2014assertion of Faustus, and refutation of the same, 313 sq.\nMaterial substances not evil, but only seemingly so from their lack of adaptation to certain constitutions and circumstances, 72 sq.\nMattarians, a Manich\u00e6an sect, 165.\nMatthew, the call of, 234 sq.; the genuineness of the Gospel of, 325; or Manich\u00e6us which to be believed, 325 sq.\nMeats and drinks, abstinence from, or the reverse, 60, 61, 330.\nMeasure, an element of the good, 352 sq.; belongs to things regarded as immoderately small or great, 355; in a sense, suitable to God himself, 355.\nMilman\u2019s History of Christianity, referred to, 31.\nMind, is it diffused throughout the entire nervous system? 137; has no material extension, 138; the, degraded by departing from God, 47.\nMoral precepts of the Old Testament observed by Christians, symbolical precepts, not, 177.\nMorality of the law and the prophets, 272 sq.\nMonths, origin of the names of, 238.\nMorals, the, of the Christians, 263.\nMoses, the rod of, a type, 192; censured by Faustus for using the word \u201ccursed,\u201d and defended, 207, 208 etc.; did he write of Christ? 219 etc., 221 etc.; is his law pure paganism? 222 etc.; what he wrote of Christ, 222, 224 etc., 225 etc.; like to Christ, 225; defended against Faustus, 225, 232; his virtues; 298; slays the Egyptian, 299, 309; spoils the Egyptians, 300, 309; slaughters the idolatrous Israelites, 304, 310; burns and grinds to powder the golden calf, 310.\nMouth, the, the value of the Manich\u00e6an symbol of, 74, etc.\nMozley\u2019s Ruling Ideas in Early Ages, referred to, 5, 51, 107; quoted, 28.\nMugtasila, a Babylonian sect with which Mani was connected, 8.\nMuller, Max, his Sacred Books of the East, referred to, 20.\nMurder, the Manich\u00e6ans guilty of, in cutting plants, 169.\nMythology of the Pagans compared with that of the Manich\u00e6ans, 55 sq.\nNature, so far as it is nature, not evil, 354; every, as such, good, 136; cannot be without good, 146; corruption is not, 147; made by God, 148; and miracle, 321 sq.\nNatures corruptible, because made of nothing, 353.\nNeander on the relation of Buddhism to Manich\u00e6ism, referred to, 20.\nNeighbor, the love of, 54 sq.; doing good to, 55 sq.\nNeo-Platonism, dependence of Augustin on, 25 sq., 48, 150.\nNew Testament, the Manich\u00e6an treatment of the, 332, 335.\nNoah, and the ark, 188 sq.; age of, at the flood, 189; God\u2019s covenant with, 190; his drunkenness, 190; conduct of the sons of, 190.\nObedience to the gospel, the Manich\u00e6an representation of, 162 etc.; reply to Faustus\u2019 statement respecting, 163 etc.; unavailing without faith, 164.\nOblasinski on the Acta-Disputationis, referred to, 4.\nOld man, the, and the news 51.\nOld Testament, the, and the New, the harmony of, 45 etc., 49 etc., 56, 57, 301 sq.; Faustus\u2019 objections to, and charges against answered, 161 etc., 167 etc., 175, 176 etc., 211 etc., 212 etc., 273 sq., 277 etc., 332 etc., 334 etc.; the functions of, 335; the typical nature of, 335.\nOnly-begotten, the, of God, 148.\nOphitic Gnosticism, relation of to the old Babylonian religion and its later sects, 19.\nOrder an element of the good, 352 sq.\nPaganism, imputed to the Catholics by Faustus, 253; the charge of, retorted, 254 etc.; Christians vindicated from the charge of, 261, 263.\nPain only in good natures, 355.\nParaclete, the claim of Mani, born of ordinary generation, to be the, inconsistent with the Manich\u00e6an objection to the birth of Christ from the Virgin, 132; Manich\u00e6us not the apostle of the, 131; when sent forth, 133; the mission of the, 337; the promise of refers not to Manich\u00e6us, 338; sent immediately after the resurrection of Jesus, 338.\nPartridge, the, a type of heretics, 204.\n\u201cPatience of Israel, the,\u201d 205.\nPatriarchs, the, with all their faults, superior to the Manich\u00e6an Elect, and even the Manich\u00e6an god, 282; Faustus\u2019 opinion of, 340; defended against the attacks of Faustus, 342.\nPaul and Circumcision, 245; did he change his opinions respecting Christ? 177 sq.; harmony of his teaching, 180 sq.; the natural fierce energy of, made use of by God, 299.\nPaul and Thecla, the apocryphal book of, referred to, 329.\nPaulinus of Nola mentioned, 62.\nPelagian controversy more congenial to Augustin\u2019s mind than the Manich\u00e6an, 35.\nPelagians use Augustin\u2019s anti-Manich\u00e6an utterances against him, 102, 103 et passim.\nPerfection not attainable in this life, 58.\nPeriods of the world, six, 185 sq.\nPetrus Siculus on the Manich\u00e6ans, referred to, 4.\nPhilo, his interpretation of Scripture, 195.\nPhotius on the Manich\u00e6ans, referred to, 4.\nPlants, Manich\u00e6an view of the sacredness of the life of, 84.\nPoets, pagan, fictions of, more respectable than those of the Manich\u00e6ans, 214 sq.\nPossidius\u2019 Life of Augustin, referred to, 34.\nPower to do harm from God alone, 358.\nPrayer of Augustin for the conversion of the Manich\u00e6ans, 107.\nPride the cause of Manich\u00e6an error, 281.\nPrinciples, the two, of Manich\u00e6anism, 270.\nProcreation of children regarded as one of the greatest of evils by the Manich\u00e6ans, 86 sq.\nProperty allowed to believers by the apostles, 62.\nProphecies of Christ, 183, 196, 197; the fulfillment of, its evidential power, 201.\nProphecy, relation of Christ to, 235 sq.\nProphet, the, like unto Moses, 224 sq.\nProphets, the Hebrew, and their prophecies respecting Christ, defended against the assaults of Faustus, 183 etc.; 198, 199.\nProstitution condemned by divine and eternal law, 295.\nPunishment and forgiveness of sins prerogatives of God, 357 sq.\nPunishment constituted for the sinning nature that it may be rightly ordered, 353.\n\u201cPure, all things pure to the,\u201d 330 sq.\nPusey\u2019s statements about Mani referred to, 31.\nRationalism of the Manich\u00e6ans, 134.\nRaven and the dove, the, sent forth from the ark, 189.\nReason, the weakness of, in relation to God, 44.\nReligious life of the Manich\u00e6ans described by Faustus, 163.\nRepentance, the utility of, proves that the souls are not by nature evil, 106.\nResurrection of the dead, the, 179.\nRod of Moses, the, a type, 192.\nSabbath, the Jewish, 168, 169, 230, 231; why not binding on Christians, 243.\nSabeanism, relation of to Manich\u00e6ism and to the old Babylonian religion, 19.\nSacraments, the, of the Old Testament, 544; of the Old Testament and the New, 244 sq.; relation of Gentile and Jewish Christians to the Old, 245 sq.\nSacrifice, the true one, and imitations of, 260.\nSacrifices of the Old Testament, 169, 170; typical, 238, 277.\nSarah, her conduct towards Hagar, 284; Abraham\u2019s denial of, as his wife, 285; and Abraham, types, 286, etc.\nSchaff\u2019s History referred to, 3.\nSchism, as explained by Faustus, 235, 253.\nSchneckenburger\u2019s criticism of Baur, 5.\nScriptures, the, authority of, 57, 239; Manich\u00e6an mode of dealing with, in controversy, 178; and other good books, 180; the record of faith, 206; how the record of the deeds of evil men in, is to be regarded, 295 sq.; the principle of interpretation to be applied to, 310 sq.; all, profitable, 311; Faustus would subject the, to himself, not be subject to, 339;the genuineness of, 342 sq.\nSecundinus, Augustin\u2019s estimate of his reply to the letter of, 35.\nSeed, vegetable and animal, the nature of God in, liberated by being eaten by the Elect, 363 sq.\nSelf-denial, Catholic, 165, 166.\nSemi-Christians and pseudo-Christians, 156.\nSensible objects, not to beloved, 51, 52.\nSignacula, the three, 16, 74 sq.\nSin only from the will, 101 sq.; definition of, 103; not apart from free will, 120 sq.; the relation of Adam\u2019s posterity to, 121; what is it? 283; not from God, but from the will of those sinning, 357; not the striving for an evil nature, but the desertion of a better, 358.\nSocrates\u2019 History referred to, 31.\nSon of God begotten, not made 356; of David and Son of God, Christ the, denied by Faustus, 313, etc.; proved against Faustus, 314, etc.\nSoteriology of the Manich\u00e6ans, 13.\nSoul, the chief good of man, 43; obtains virtue by following after God, 44; of our neighbor, duty of doing good to the, 56; sinned and therefore is miserable, 122; the, nature of the rational, 148; has no material form, and is present in every part of the body, 136, 137; has no material extension, 138; and body, 43; virtue gives perfection to, 43.\nSouls, absurd Manich\u00e6an notions respecting, 82 etc., 83 etc.; two, treatise on, 95 sq.; can have their existence from God alone, 95 sq.; that are called evil by the Manich\u00e6ans, being capable of intellectual perception, are better than any object of perception, 96 sq.; supposed complaint of against the Manich\u00e6an God for involving them in endless misery, without necessity, and apart from their own will, 117 sq., 120.\nSpontaneous generation, supposed cases of, 85.\nStar of the Magi, the; 157, 158.\nStars, Manich\u00e6an superstition regarding the, 158.\nStercutio, a Roman demi-god, 72.\nStokes\u2019 art, Manes and Manich\u00e6ans, referred to, 5, 29.\nSubjective method of dealing with Scripture practiced by the Manich\u00e6ans, 178.\nSulpicius Severus mentioned, 62.\nSun worship on the part of the Manich\u00e6ans, denied by Faustus, 252 sq.; the, Manich\u00e6an worship of, explained by Faustus, 252 etc.; absurd statements of Faustus exposed, 254.\nSunday, and the Lord\u2019s day, 238.\nSymbolical nature of the Old Testament, 167 sq.\nSymbolic precepts of the Old Testament, 167, 168.\nSymbols, three moral, devised by the Manich\u00e6ans, 74 etc., 83 etc., 86 etc.; material, visible speech, 244.\nTables of stone, the, 213, 214.\nTamar and Judah, 295 sq.; a type, 306 sq.\nTemperance, the duties of, 51.\nTheodicy of Augustin incomplete, 282.\nTheology of the Manich\u00e6ans, 10.\n\u201cThieves and Robbers,\u201d all who came before me are\u2014who? 223.\nThomas, how taught by Jesus, 234; apocryphal story of, 304.\nTiele\u2019s Outlines of the History of Religion, quoted, 17.\nTitus of Bostra on the Manich\u00e6ans, referred to, 4.\nTrechsel on the Canon, Criticism, and Exegesis of the Manich\u00e6ans, referred to, 5.\nTrinity, the, 49; absurd views of Faustus respecting, 252, 258; Fortunatus\u2019 profession of belief in, 114.\nTurkestan, the refuge of Mani, 32.\nTurpitudes in God imagined by the Manich\u00e6ans, 362 sq.\nTwo territories, Manich\u00e6an theory of, refuted, 138.\nTypes, Adam and Eve, 186; Cain and Abel, 186; the ark, 188; the flood, 189; the raven and dove, 190; Noah\u2019s drunkenness, 190; Noah\u2019s sons, 190; Abraham and Isaac, 191; the angel wrestling with Jacob, 191; Jacob\u2019s stone, 191; Jacob\u2019s ladder, 192; Joseph, 192; the rod of Moses, 192; the Exodus, 192; in the wilderness, 193; the conquest of Jericho, 193; events during the time of the Judges, 193; events in the time of the Kings, 194; the Church, in captivity, and the return from captivity, 194, 195; must be acknowledged, 195; sacrifices, 236; other observances besides sacrifices, 242; fulfilled in Christ, 242 etc.; actions and persons, 305; Judah\u2019s incest, 305 etc.; Tamar, Er, and Onan, 306 sq.; David\u2019s crime, 307; Solomon, 308; various, 335 sq.\nTypical actions, it is of no consequence whether they are good or bad, 305.\nUnclean and clean food, 170, 172.\nVices, as objects of intellectual apprehension, better than light which is perceived by sense, 97 sq.\nVirginity, Pagan and Christian, 262.\nVirtue, Augustin\u2019s use of the word, 46; gives perfection to the soul, 44; the fourfold division, 48, 54.\nWars, the real evils of, 301 sq.; ordered by God, 301 sq.\nWegnern on Manich\u00e6an Indulgences, referred to, 5.\nWilderness, the, typical occurrences in, 193.\nWilson, of Bombay, on the Parsis, referred to, 36.\nWilliams, Monier, Indian Wisdom, quoted, 5.\nWine, the old and the new, 81; the Manich\u00e6an and the Catholic views of, 258.\nWisdom, 50; identified with Christ, 50 etc.\nWitness, the, of two men, 223.\nWords, on what the value of depends, 306.\nWorld, the, to be despised, 51, 52; the vanity of, 52.\nWorld-bearer of the Manich\u00e6ans, 255.\nYouths and maidens sent by God to entice the female and male princes of darkness\u2014immoral tendency of such fables, 254, 362 sq.\nZacagni\u2019s Collectanea, referred to, 34.\nZittwitz on the Acta Disputationis, referred to, 4.\nZodiac, connection of the Manich\u00e6an worship with, 14.\nZoroastrianism, relation of to Manich\u00e6ism, 16 sq.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. IV: Subject Indexes:...","type":"page"}