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Authors: Saint Augustine
‘select’ gods,
255
–61
Gog and Magog, in Apocalypse, meaning of,
919
f.
Good, the Supreme,
see
Summum Bonum
Grace, in Plato and Porphyry,
414
Hanna, song of, expounded,
716
–24
happiness, based on hope, in this life,
881
unattainable fully in this life,
589
ff.
Hebrews, Epistle to, authorship of,
680
.
Hedonism, criticism of,
214
f.
Heretics, a source of strength to the Church,
833
f.
Hermes Trismegistus, on idols (‘manmade gods’),
330
–37
413n.
Hydromancy, practised by Numa,
214
f.
‘intelligible’, contrasted with ‘sensible’ by Plato and his followers,
308
Isaac, the symbolism of his sacrifice,
694
f.
Isis and Osiris, Egyptian divinities,
53
n.,
250
n.,
339
f.,
341
,
388
,
658
,
812
Jacob, blessing of, by Isaac, its meaning,
700
f.
Jacob, blessing of Judah by, meaning of,
7
o6f.
Jacob, vision of, at Bethel, its meaning,
703
Jerome, on fall of Rome,
44
n.
‘Jesus’, meaning of,
752
n.
Jews, dispersion of, under God’s providence,
178
;
Jews, Seneca on,
251
f.
Job, a Gentile citizen of God’s city,
829
Jupiter, supreme god,
145
f.,
265
ff.
identified with other gods,
148
–52
identified with the ‘World-Soul’,
271
scandals about,
167
f
Judgement, the Last, Bk XX,
passim
foretold in Scripture: Apocalypse,
906
–30
Daniel,
944
–7
Isaiah,
938
–43
Malachi,
951
–8
2 Peter, 930f.,
948
Thessalonians
931
–5
various old Testament passages,
958
–61
Justice, human, fallibility of,
859
ff.
Justice, necessary to a community (Cicero’s discussion),
72
–5,
882
f.
killing, not always murder,
31
,
37
kings, of Rome, their lives and deaths,
106
–9
knowledge, ‘daylight’ and ‘twilight’,
437
,
464
knowledge, of infinity,
494
ff.
Labeo, Cornelius, on ‘good’ and ‘bad’ gods,
59
f-,
63
,
125
,
317
languages, barrier of,
861
lectisternia
, Roman ceremony of,
60
n.,
112
f.
Liber, Roman divinity, obscene rites of,
278
f.,
284
f.
light, meaning of, in Creation story,
436
f.,
450
f.
Logos and logas, in Stoic and Christion teaching,
464
n.
love, scriptural words for,
558
ff
Lucretia, suicide of,
28
ff.
Lupercalia, Roman festival,
774
n.
lust, sexual, an evil,
577
associated with shame,
579
ff.
586
f.
cynics shameless about,
581
f.
deplored by Platonists
580
, lust and procreation
583
ff. the result of sin,
58
of.
mankind, created from one person,
502
f
whether eternal,
483
ff magic
Porphyry exposes,
386
–90
Porphyry inconsistent about,
409
–13
the work of demons,
325
‘theurgy’, ‘magic’, ‘sorcery’,
383
ff.
Marius C,
77
f.
marriage, reason for ‘prohibited degrees’ in,
623
ff.
martyrs, Christian cult of,
340
ff.,
1034
f.,
1041
–7
marvels, human and demonic,
974
–6, natural,
968
–74,
976
–83
marvels
of man’s body,
103
f.
of man’s mind and ingenuity,
1072
f.
metamorphosis, of human beings into animals,
781
–4
miracles, in Augustine’s time,
1033
–49
in the Church, testifying to Christ’s resurrection,
1028
relating to Abraham and Moses,
381
ff.
relating to the Ark and the Law,
397
testifying to Christ’s resurrection,
1028
the greatest miracle: the world itself, and especially man,
976
,
985
Millennium,
907
–10,
914
–18,
921
f.
monstrosities,
661
ff.
moral teaching, absent from pagan religion,
53
,
56
,
65
f.,
70
,
78
,
80
–86
‘natures’, all good in themselves,
448
,
472
–6
Neoplatonism,
see
Platonism, Plotinus, Porphyry
Nigidius, the illustration of the potter’s wheel,
182
Noah, drunkenness of, an allegory,
649
,
652
sons of, symbolically explained,
650
–53
his books on pagan rites, destroyed,
294
f.
practised hydromancy,
206
f.
number, of elect, predestined,
567
equals number of fallen angels,
1023
numbers, finite and infinite,
494
f.
numbers, significant: six,
465
ten, eleven (Law and sin),
633
Origen, his error about creation,
455
and about universal salvation,
99
Original sin, in infants,
688
f. (
and see
Fall)
Osiris,
see
Isis
pagans, citizens of God’s City, among,
829
f.
pagans, models of virtue, Brutus, L.
Junius,
109
;
Cato of Utica,
34
;
Codrus,
785
;
Fabricius,
210
;
Pantheism,
148
,
152
f. (see
also
World-Soul)
paradise(Eden), before Fall,
567
,
590
passions, Christian attitude to,
349
peace, perfect peace unattainable here,
892
f;
the peace of final felicity,
865
;
the peace of society under law,
873
f.;
of the universe,
820
f;
of victory over evil,
864
f.
Peripatetic philosophers,
249
,
315
,
346
persecutions, of the Church,
833
ff.
Peter, St, pagan calumny of his ‘magic’,
839
–42
Philosophers, attitudes of, to pagan ‘gods’,
172
ff.;
conflicting opinions of,
816
ff.
Philosophers, mentioned, Anaxagoras,
300
;
Anaximander,
300
;
Antisthenes,
302
;
Archelaus,
301
;
Chrysippus,
347
;
Diogenes of Apollonia,
30
;
Diogenes of Sinope,
581
f.;
Epictetus,
347
f.;
