207 all the Churches, S. Polycarp 208 and the Church, of Asia under his successors 208 what faith teaches us 176 by acknowledging that some things belong to God Alone we preserve 176 Firm 289 we receive it in the Church 303 a noble trea- sure in a precious vessel 303 with a quickening power 303 Fear belongs to children as free more than to slaves 352 cf. 394 Five the number, the Gnostics might equally have used it 165, 166 Florinus 540 writings to 539, 540 Four the number 60, 164 Free obedience of and of children greater than of slaves 342, 352, 358 more required of 394 give all to their Lord 358
Freewill man's 317, 348, 352, 431,
432, 439, 450, 514, 515, 517 of men and Angels 431 of Antichrist 515 the Devil too had it 513 and hence Praise and Punishment 431, 432-435, 441, 442 to believe and not to believe 433 it gives man the glory of struggling after and win- ning Good 434, 435
GENTILES calling of, foreshadowed in Gideon's fleece 273 faith of, nobler because they believed without the Old Testament Scriptures 382 gross- er, compared to blind mice 518 Gideon's fleece what it represented 273
Gnostics Valentinian will not call
our Saviour Lord 4 falsely called 36, 127, 201, 512 ask whence God obtained the matter of His creation 115, 116, cf. 552, 553 if they turn- ed at length to God might appease Him by penitence 117 agree not among themselves 127 their system a bad patchwork 129 make God origin of evil 142 disciples of Simon Magus 406
GOD the Very 39, 91, 93 One God proved 94-96 acknowledged uni- versally, first by tradition from Adam; through the Prophets; by the Gentiles through the Creation; by the Church through the Apos- tles 114, 220 sqq 239 sqq 249, 251, 262 proclaimed by all Holy Scrip- ture 173, 318, 364 Abraham 319 and all the Prophets 201, 204, 220 sqq 228, 229, 234, 246, 415, 416,
510 and Evangelists 204 and Church of Rome in S. Clement's time 207 through the Son and the Holy Ghost creates and rules all things 67, 364, 366, cf. 326, 452, 460 [see Hands] made all things through His Word 116, 173, 189, 219, 230, 403 made all 174, 242, 251 and all the host of Heaven 184, 185, 186 made all, saved Man 230 those who depart from, empty for un- clean spirit with 7 others 57 cf. 113 and reap doom 413 doeth all things in order 317 immeasurable yet measured in the Son 317 migh- ty above all necessity 105, 459 not unjust 298 all from Him 169 His Will sovereign 200, 313 no stay nor rest for the mind save in Him 111, 135 human descriptions must not be applied to 123, 126-128, 177 may be termed Mind and Light yet not like human mind or visible light 123, 177 cf. 335 how Aóyos 177 IIis works one Harmony compared to Music 169 their very greatness 181 above the ken of our littleness 169, 175, 176 a Just Judge 305, 306 ef. 443 Love of Him above all other knowledge 170, 171 We must grow in Love to Him who gave us all 174 and be thankful to Him 284, 285 will be continually teaching us 175 cf. 394 things not told us to be left to 179, 180 those very perfect in His Love permitted to contemplate 188 gave us our souls, to each body its own 198 the overflowing wealth of His Love 203 ef. 198, 229, 344, 524, 529 to believe is to obey 323 of the Law and of the Gospel the Same 225 gave both Old and New Testament 249, 250, 330, 338, 403 One 227, 229, 234, 249, 324, 332, 334, 335, 337, 376, 378, 394, 403, 404, 417, 421 sqq 485, 498, 500, 501 Christians love 229 cf. 285 one GOD one LORD 264, 268, 324, 413, 493, 538 and one Spirit 324, 413 gives the knowledge of His Son to those who love Him 233, 234 cf. 326 abideth, His servants too 315, 438 bare with man's long punishment whom one day He would restore 284, 285, 435 teaches through His Word to know Him 318 through the Son is seen 323 how seen 367 they who see God, in God and quickened thereby 367 they who love see 367, 384 the more His children love and obey Him the greater His Gifts to
them 331, 332, 343 cf. 455, 514 doeth good to the thankful pun- isheth the unthankful 335 vouch- safes larger grace in the N. T. 336 and leads us 364 love of Him ever increases 338 Christians imitate 342 sight of, our proper joy 464 His Friendship gives Life 344 to see, our Life 369 and growth 533 His seed 402 gave both Testaments 403 by firm Faith in, one holds the Head 403 we must persevere in His love 435 gives life 485 True and Steadfast 526, 536 His own, Mercy 544 framed man for His goodness sake 345 His Almighty Hand mea- sures and spans and upholds all Cre- ation 362, 363 seen by Moses typi- fied our sight of God the Son 370 His appearance to Elijah what it signified 371 how He hardened Pha- raoh's heart 396 gives more Light to the obedient 396 dwells with the good 400 has Free will 433, 439 fore- knows all 515 obedience to, man's immortality 438, 439 by disobedi- ence to, His children become child- ren of the Devil 444, 445, 446 who obey are His sons 446 Image and Likeness of, distinguished 461 we have His Image 538 All-Might of His will, which creates all things 542, 543
GOD THE FATHER, His Son and the SPIRIT minister to 326 cf. 452 God the name belongs to those who are sons by adoption 310, 439, 440 GOD the WORD coexistent with God 170 the Son 189 God 212-216, 343 God by the witness of the Fa- ther, the Spirit, Angels, men, devils, all creation 324 the Creator of all things 53, 54, 98, 99, 173, 189 con- tains all 493 our only Teacher 180 cf. 421 made us 170 acknowledges One Father 176 cf. 421 sqq and re- veals Him 189 even to Angelic Hosts 190 His generation known only to Himself and the Father 178 says that the Father Alone knows the Last Day 178, 179 why it is so 180 gives the first place to God the Father 180 salvation of the Father 221, 224, 226, 228 cf. 500 reigneth for ever 225 Son of Man that Man may be Son of God 225, 281, 282, 449 made things new 225 know- ledge of, knowledge of salvation 226, 243 acknowledgement of His Coming makes perfect 243 observed order and season 269 One 425 obeys
the Father's will 269 rich in work 269 they who own not as One are wolves 270 will come again 270 the Same Who was crucified and died for us 271 has not His being only when Incarnate 275 fought and overcame 279 fin. God and Man 280, 282, 283, 290, 291, 483 Fair to look on yet without comeliness 282 the Head of the Body 283 saves us 286 His manifold work in the Old Testament 333 gave the law 343 cf. 339 Him Whom Abraham fol- lowed 343 to follow is to be saved 344 before the whole Creation gave glory to the Father 344 Chief above below and on earth 365 made known the Father 366 His Appearance to S. John at Patmos, what the portions mean 373 why saved in Egypt 374 washed the feet of His Disciples cleansing His whole Church 377, 378 more than Solomon as God 406 overcomes the strong as God 407, 501 cf. 500 fed us with His Flesh like as if Milk 436, 437 the Spirit of the Father 437 why a Baby 437 our Teacher 449 will judge 494 set Himself against the Apostasy 450 gave His Soul for our souls, His Flesh for our flesh 450 cf. 483 took Flesh in verity not in fantasy 450, 451 whose Flesh reconciled our flesh 482 restored the lost Image and Likeness 452 will raise our bodies 454 formed of clay the eyes of the born-blind to shew that He Himself is God's Hand Who form- ed at the first 485-487 Hand of God the Father 485, 486, 488 and His Voice 490 God Who forgave sins 490 compared to sharp iron 417, 491, 551 unless He were Man not fairly had the foe been overcome 497 His 40 days' fast and conquest 498-500 our Lessons therefrom 501 foretold in the Law 500 united Per- sonally to flesh 551
GOD the HOLY GHOST 68, 227, 236, 238 came down on Christ as the beginning of resting on us 272 His work on the Day of Pentecost 272 unites us to God 272 typified by dew 273 the anointing 277 Author of Scriptures, Witness to our Lord 289 the Communion of Christ 303 is where the Church is 303 those who partake not of, the Church nourishes not 303 Wisdom of the Father with Him before creation 365 upholds all things, gives to the
seed his body 453 imparted by the Father and the Son 492 GOD the Father, the Son God and Man, the Holy Ghost, in, the Chris- tian's Faith sure 408 Gospel the ground and pillar of our faith 204 when each one written 204 S Matthew's in Hebrew 204 Heretics by mutilating witness to 234 fourfold character of 235, 236 preached at the Passion 526 Governments human why God ap- pointed 505
HANDS of God, the Son and the SPI- RIT 364, 452, 460 cf. 458, 459, 517 Harmogenes 82
Heaven more Precious through the toil of struggling 435 Heaven, Pa- radise, the City, some said will be 3 degrees of bliss 537 Hebrew Incantations of Valentinians 65 Names of God 201 Helena the slave of Simon Magus 69, 70 fable about her 69 Hell affirmed by our Lord and prov- ed by Scripture 179 prepared by God for the Devil and his Angels 207, 299, 442, 444, 513 for all apos- tacy 512 yet they share it who persist in wickedness without re- penting 299 cf. 337, 442, 443, 513 -515 eternal 392, 393, 394, 443, 535 Antichrist and his subjects will be sent there 522 Hellebore no quantity will suffice for those who so lie against their God 183
Heresies believe One God but alter Him 67
Heretics deserving of pity 91 milder, may be warned off more gently 191 the Gnostic, forerunners of the Dragon 192 had their conversation akin to that of devils 192 sinning against the Spirit fall into the un- pardonable sin 237 thwart their own salvation 204, 495 cf. 522 Apostles and their disciples had care not to communicate with so much as by word 208 nor would the churches among the Barbarian in his day listen to them 209 to be loved with a love wholesome to them even though severe 307 offer strange fire, their lot that of Nahab and Abihu 385 if converted may be saved 446 compared to un-
trained wrestlers 478 take one or two words of H. Scripture blindly, miss sense of the rest 478 their different errors 495 all later than the Bishops to whom the Churches were committed by the Apostles 495 are blaspheming and shame- less Sophists 496 thinking differ- ently at different times 496 have high thoughts 496 hide their lies under veil of Scripture 499 deny the Resurrection 522
Hesiod's Pandora finds its counter- part among them 130, 155 Homer, cento quoted pellmell from 32 cited 105, 161, 406 referred to 129 his Pluto 44
Horos, 10, 12, 25, 58, 120, 121, 306, 420 his function 6, 7, 10, 11 his divers names 7 twofold 36 Hyginus Pope ninth from the Apos- tles 78, 207, 210, 541
Jaoth title of God 201 Idols things offered to, allowed by some to be eaten 80 Jerusalem the New 534, 535 the old, the preparation for immortality 535 Jews mistaken in thinking that the
restoration of Temple under Ze- rubabel is the N. T. 416
Ignatius S. cited [but not by name] 517
Image of God in Man's form; Like- ness through the Spirit 461 cf. 488 Image and Likeness perfected in us through God the Son 498, 517 Image of the Heavenly how re- ceived 473 Image Nebuchadnezzar's golden, a prefiguring of Antichrist
Incarnation denied by all the sects 231, 232 [see Gop the WORD] Incense in the Tabernacle, its com- position 165 the prayers of the Saints 357
John Baptist S. his preeminence 224 and preaching 224 how more than a Prophet 233 saluted in the womb his LORD 266 typified in Sampson 550 undoes his Father's silence 557
John S. the Evangelist abode till the
times of Trajan 160, 208 those who conversed with him mentioned 160 wrote his Gospel at Ephesus 204 against Cerinthus 229 fled Cerin- thus 208 characteristic of his Gos- pel 235
Joseph our Lord's reputed Father 232, 380 taught through the Holy Scrip- ture 379 some heretics affirm that he was Father of our Lord 293, 495 Josephus quoted 552
Joshua a type of our Lord 549 Irenæus S. dwelt among Celts 2 spoke a foreign tongue 2 why he wrote 3, 50, 91, 137 uses irony 13, 37, 38 his country on the Rhone 44 had had much talk with the Gnostics 141 was asked to write 137, 448 attributes works of man not only to their immediate authors but to au- thors far back 98 when young had seen S. Polycarp 207 and remem- bered it so well 540 prays over his work 215 promised another trea- tise 250 prays for those who have gone wrong 307 has office of dis- pensing the Word 448 supposes that the death of our bodies might have been ordered as part of our mo- ral training 454 distinguishes be- tween the Image and Likeness of God 461 thought that the world would last 6000 years 517 adjures them to copy his writing accurate- ly 539, 540 says that at Easter and Pentecost there is no kneel- ing 543 says that the Feasts we keep with wrangling please not God 555 writes to Pope Victor urging him to remove one who taught grievous error 560 Israelites' Exodus from Egypt a type of Church's journey through the world 400 building Tabernacle from the spoils of the Egyptians our war- rant and ensample 399, 400 Judas' Gospel 90 said to be typified by the on that suffered 152 the notion refuted 153
Judges if they judge unjustly shall likewise perish 505
Judge the unjust, Antichrist 509 Judgement Day of, all who teach wrong shall be there to give ac- count thereof 147 bad then doom- ed 317 cf. 348 Sodom then more gently dealt with than they who knew better 424, 425 [see Hell] Justified we are, through Christ's Coming 390
Lazarus parable of 198 Law the later Precepts of temporary, given in punishment to the mur- murings of Jews 347-351 [see De- calogue, Commandments] under the Old, sacrifices nought apart from obedience 352
Left hand, the Gnostics counted to belong to imperfection 56, 168 Letters of the alphabet, Mark's va- garies with 46 cf. 180 Hebrew call- ed Sacerdotal 163 Light not to be blamed for those who cannot see 441 cf. 396 or who hide themselves therefrom 442, 515 or are blind 514
Linus S., Bishop of Rome after SS. Peter and Paul 207
Lot conceiving by his daughters a
type 401, 402 his wife 401, 402 a type of the Church 402, 409 Love makes perfect 338 more preci- ous than knowledge and exalted above all gifts 408
Luke S. characteristic of his Gospel 235 S Paul's testimony to 257 spe- cialties of his Gospel 258, 259 gene- alogy in 295, 296
MAGI signification of their gifts 222 Mammon the word explained 218 Man divided into earthly and the an- imal 17, 60 earthly spiritual animal 23, 25, 26, 60, 66 animal and spi- ritual cf. 89, 434 by unthankfulness deprives himself of life for ever 200 the work of the whole Holy Trinity 310, 438 has free will and is there- fore justly doomed if he choose the bad 317, 432, 433 cf. 450 com- mingled with God 281, 282, 366,
517 free to believe or not believe 433 perfected by Obedience 433 by all God's arrangements 436 how gains by training 454, 455 why not created perfect 436-438 obe- dience his Life 438, 439, 440, 442 disobedience his death 439 taught by good and evil 440 by penitence rejects disobedience 440 must yield himself soft to God's training Hand 440, 441 which wills to give him Beauty 441 first preordained to be, in the appointed time made 449 made up of Body Soul and Spirit 460, 461, 463, 464, 467 of Body and Soul receiving God's Spirit 460 465, cf. 467, 468, 471 perfect who 461 from God his salvation and incorruption 500 ripened by tribu- lation 517 him the blind Gentiles serve, as stubble for growth of wheat and its chaff to burn, for working of gold 518 in this world suffered, in this world slain for Love of God, in this world shall they reign 524 in the Resurrection the whole Creation will serve 530 shall rise 536 neglecting to do good when he can, alien from the Lord's love 542 imparticipant of God, void 550 note, twofold, an image of the Word Incarnate 559 Man by, death over- come 497 the Devil conquered 500, 506 [see Resurrection] Marcellina a Gnostic 77
Marcion of Pontus 78, 178, 189, 190,
205, 208, 231, 234, 242, 259, 322, 327 mutilates S. Luke and S. Paul 78, 79, 250, 260 cuts himself off from the Gospel 237 denies salva- tion of Body 79 and Incarnation 405 the serpent was in him 79 off- shoot from him 80 his good god 95 his 2 gods 96, 305, 405 disproven 427 owned by S. Polycarp as first- born of Satan 208 lived in time of Anicetus 210 his party make God the author of evil 250, 405 judged by true Christians 405 Marcionites 312, 341, 414 blaspheme openly in plain terms 512 Mark 93 forerunner of Antichrist 40 led astray women 40-44 his false Eucharist 40, 41 S. Irenæus deemed that he had an evil spirit for his coadjutor 41 his invention which he put forth 44-53 what he thought new borrowed from Pytha- goras 131 his disciples thought that they might freely do any thing 43 Mark S. his testimony 229, 265 joins
on his testimony to that of the Prophets 229 characteristic of his Gospel 236
Marriage forbidden by Saturninus' sect 71 The continent 80 Marcion and Tatian 80 ceases after the Re- surrection 198
Martyrs Christ's Baby 266 those who dishonour, Christ will not honour 278, 279 plenteous in the Church, rare elsewhere 408 cf. 74 conquer through the Spirit 468
Mary Virgin invention that our Lord was not born of her passed but through her 231 cf. 262, 451 her haste checked at Cana of Galilee 269 the Birth of her foretold by Isaiah and King David 290, 291 in her Eve's work undone 296, 494 Matter origin of, known to God 179
not inoriginate lest God be no Cre- ator 552, 553 pseudo-origin of 15, 16, 115, 182 Matthew S. wrote in Hebrew 204 characteristic of his Gospel 236 Menander of Samaria 190, 195 dis- ciple of Simon Magus 70, 210 his false baptism 71
Menander the Comic poet referred to 145
Miracles wrought by Gnostics, of no kind sort 191 the Church in S. Irenæus' time could work, even to raise the dead 191, 195 wrought in the Church, some working one kind some another 195
Moses' Rod a type of Christ's conquest 292 Moses' writings claimed by our Lord as His own words 312 sight of God foresignified our sight of God the Son 370 and his Ethiopian wife the Gentiles 374, 375 Moses foretold the Lord's Passion 333, 334
NAAMAN's cleansing, type of ours in Holy Baptism 553 Nicolaitanes from Nicolas Deacon 78 an offshoot of Gnostic heresy 230
Number the notable or Mark=S 47, 49, 55, 162, 163 [see Sign] Numeration by Letters of Alphabet 48, 55, 168, 180, 190 fin.
OEDIPUS comparison with 478 Ogdoad 4, 10, 16, 27, 29, 31, 36,
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