THE CONFESSIONS OF ST. AUGUSTIN
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INDEX OF SUBJECTS
Abraham's bosom, 131 and note, 192 (note)
Augustin has a leaning towards the philosophy of the, 86
they doubted everything, 86, 88
Academies, the three, 86 (note)
averted death by partaking of the tree of life, 73 (note)
the first and second, 162 (note)
helps his father in writing The Master, 134 and note
he is baptized by Ambrose, 134 (note)
the blessing of the New Testament, prosperity of the Old, 76 (note)
AEneid quotations from the, 51, 53
in darkened, lies distance from God, 53
inordinate, bring their own punishment, 51, 53, 55
Agonistic garland, Augustin receives the, 69
Augustin was fond of, 189 (note)
Altar, Augustin begs that his mother may be remembered at the, 141
Alypius, bishop of Thagaste, 90 (note)
had studied there and at Carthage, 94
was taken up as a thief at Carthage, 96
how his innocence was proved, 96
his integrity in judgment and at Milan, 97
his discussion with Augustin as to celibacy, 98
Augustin undertakes to write the life of, 99 (note)
retires with Augustin into the garden, 124
Augustin makes his acquaintance, and is received by him in a fatherly way, 88
distinction between his teaching and that of Faustus, and its influence, 88
he expounded the Scriptures every Lord's day, 91
Simplicianus succeeds him as bishop, 116
the Song of, and Augustin, 134 (note)
is persecuted by Justina, the mother of Valentinian, 134 and note
miracles wrought in behalf of, 134
Amelius the Platonist, 107 (note)
Ampitheatre of Titus, Gibbon's description of the, 95 (note)
Anaximenes of Miletus, his notions about God, 144 and note
source of their blessedness, 112 (note)
God's eternity manifest in their unchangeableness, 179
Augustin asserts that they are changeable, 180
misery of, shows their former excellence, 192
Answer to prayer of Monica, 67, 84
Augustin's faith strengthened by, 133
was born at Thebes, and visited Paul in the desert before his death, 122 (note)
Ἀποκατάστασις, the doctrine unnecessary, 79 (note)
Apollinaris, bishop of Laodicea, 113 (note)
especially that of Hierius, 75
Arcesilas, teaching of, 86 (note)
Ἀρχη, "The Beginning," applied to Christ, 166 (note)
Argument, Augustin's power in, 67 and note
Arians, the Empress Justina seduced by the, 131
Aristotle's Ten Predicaments, 77
he and Zeno prepared the way for Neo‑Platonism, 86 (note)
Arius, Victorinus wrote some books against, 117 (note)
Arts, liberal, Augustin understood the books relating to the, unaided, 77
of Paul of Thebais, 122 (note)
Manichæan, as compared with Christian, 122 (note)
by embracing, we virtually deny the right use of God's gifts, 155 (note)
Augustin's classification of, 69 (note)
belief of the Jews in, 69 (note)
were called mathematicians, 106 (note)
Astrology, refutation of, 105, 106
Atoms, in nature no two touch, 127 (note)
he prays to God that he may not be beaten, 49
educated from his mother's womb in the true faith, 50
he was signed with the cross, and seasoned with salt, 50 and note
his hatred of study and the Greek language, but delight in Latin and the empty fables of the poets, 51
Homer distasteful to him because it was in Greek, 52
he entreats that whatever he learnt as a boy may be dedicated to God, 52
his declamation applauded above that of his fellows, 53
he was more afraid of making a mistake in grammar than of offending God, 53
he committed petty thefts and sought dishonest victories at play, 54
he deplores the wickedness of his youth, 55
especially that of his sixteenth year, 56
he used to go to Madaura to learn grammar and rhetoric
his father, though only a poor freeman of Thagaste, made a great sacrifice to send his son to Carthage, 56
he plumes himself upon being more licentious than his fellows
his mother unwisely opposes his marrying, 57
he robs a neighbouring pear-tree from a love of mischief, 57
he is caught in the snares of a licentious passion, p. 598 60
he is affected by a foul spiritual disease, 61
his sacrilegious curiosity, 61
not even to church does he suppress his desires, 61
he becomes head in the school of rhetoric, 61
he begins to study eloquence, 61
his father dies in his seventeenth year, 61
in his nineteenth year he is led by the Hortensius of Cicero to philosophy, 61
he rejects the Sacred Scriptures as too simple, 62
he falls into the errors of the Manichæans, 62, 76
his longing after truth, 62, 63
Manichæan system peculiarly enthralling to an ardent mind like his, 63 (note)
his desire for knowledge caused him to join the Manichæans, 64 (note)
his victory over inexperienced persons, 67 and note
the nine years from his nineteenth year, 68‑78
he receives the Agonistic garland, 70
his friend's illness and death, 70
he leaves Thagaste and goes to Carthage, 72
he writes books on the "Fair and Fit," 73
he dedicates them to Hierius; he longs for his commendation, 74, 75
he turns his attention to the nature of the mind, 75
in what he conceived the chief good to consist, 75
he calls it a Monad, and the chief evil a Duad, 76
when scarce twenty, he understood Aristotle's Ten Predicaments, 77
his ready understanding of the liberal arts, 77, and sciences, 77
the twenty‑ninth year of his age, 79-88
he begins to appreciate the knowledge of God above secular learning, 81
he points out the fallacy of the Manichæan belief as to the Paraclete, 81 (note)
he withdraws from the errors of the Manichæans, being remarkably aided by God, 83
he leaves Carthage to go to Rome, 84
becomes one of the "elect" of the Manichæans, 86
his view of Arcesilas' philosophy, 86 (note)
his erroneous views as to Christianity, 86
he goes to Milan to teach rhetoric, and there makes the acquaintance of Ambrose, 88
he resolves to abandon the Manichæans and become a catechumen, 88
his mother follows him over the sea, 89
he recognises the falsity of his old opinions, 92
he describes how Alypius, led into the circus by his fellow-students, becomes fascinated by the fights held there, 95, 96
he becomes inflamed with the love of wisdom, 98
he is troubled in mind, 98, 100
he is prevented from marrying by Alypius, 98
he undertakes to write the life of Alypius, 99 (note)
is urged by his mother to marry, and a maiden sought for him, 99
he sends his mistress back to Africa, but takes another, 100
in his thirty‑first year he recalls the beginning of his youth, 102-115
his conception of God, 102 and note, 103, 104
his mind is severely exercised as to the origin of evil, 106
is stimulated to wisdom by the Hortensius of Cicero, 107 (note), 123
he rejoices that he proceeded from Plato to the Scriptures, and not the reverse, 114
he found in the latter what was not in the former, 114
he consults Simplicianus as to the renewing of his mind, 116
he describes the thirty‑second year of his age, 116, 128
he is still held by the love of women, 116
he burns to imitate Victorinus, 120
he retires with Alypius into the garden, 124
he refutes the Manichæan notion of two kinds of minds, 125, 126
was still enthralled by his old loves, 126
he retires into solitude to meditate, and hears a voice saying, "Take up and read," 127
his reason for giving up his professorship, 129, 130 (note)
his lungs become affected, 130
he retires to the villa of his friend Verecundus, 130
he finally gives up the professorship, 131
he found in retirement preparation for future work, 131 (note)
effect of the Psalms on him, especially the fourth, 131, 132
his anger against the Manichæans, 132
in his thirty fourth year he writes his book The Master, a dialogue between him and his son, 133;
he suffers from toothache, but loses it in answer to prayer, 133
he attributes all that he was to his mother's tears, 135 (note)
his last conversation with his mother, 137
his grief at her death, 139‑140
he is troubled that he was so long without God, 152
effect of church music on him, 156
object and use of his Confessions 143, 163
he entreats of God that he may be led to the truth through the Scriptures, 163, 164
he designates Eraclius as his successor, 163;
he prays to be taught by God, 170
his old notions as to matter, 177
his longings for the heavenly Jerusalem, 182
was addicted to the allegorical explanation of Scripture, 190
of the holy writings, 93 and note
Bacon, the sentiments of, concerning friendship, 72 (note)
Augustin being seized with illness, prays for, 50
on his recovery it was postponed, 50
in Augustin's days often deferred till death approached, 50 (note)
guilt after, greater than before, 50 and note
those who attended stage-plays were excluded from, by the Fathers, 60 (note)
that of Nebridius took place when he was ill and unconscious, 70
candidates for, seasoned with salt, 89 (note)
martyrdom described as a second 90 (note)
the washing of, called illumination, 118 (note), 194
renunciation of Satan before, 118 (note)
customs of the Eastern Churches at, 119 (note)
being the sacrament of initiation, is not so profitable without the Lord's Supper, 199 (note)
gives life, Lord's Supper maintains it, 199
the entrance into the Church 199 (note)
[Hebrew] and [Hebrew] distinguished, 115 (note)
Basilica, the Portian, 134 and note
Bath, soothing powers of the, 139
Bauto, the consul at Milan, 94 (note)
symbolical of those given to carnal pleasures, 80 (note), 81
clean and unclean, explanation of the division of, 91 (note)
Christ the, of all things; the Word the, 166
the words, "In the beginning," interpreted differently, 183, 187
literary, merit of the, 62 (note), 81 (note)
the Psalms "a Bible in little," 131 (note)
Birds of the air symbolical of pride, 80 (note)
Blessedness, true, to be attained only by adhering to God, 190 (note)
Blindness, Augustin compares sin to, 192 (note)
Body, soul, and spirit, 111 (note)
as distinct from soul, 111, 112
Boyhood, Augustin's fondness for play in, 50
Caesar, Christ paid tribute to, 80
Carthage, Augustin sent by his father to pursue his studies at, 56, 60
he leaves that city on account of the violent habits of the students there, 84
Cassiacum, Verecundus' villa at, 130
Catechumens, seasoned with salt, 50 and note, 89 (note)
or "Hearers" of the Manichæans, their privileges, 66 (note)
Augustin resolves to become one in the Catholic Church, 88
customs of, at baptism, 119 (note)
when ready p. 599 for, they were termed Competentes, 197(note)
Categories of Aristotle maybe classed under two heads, 77and note
Catiline loved not his villanies, but had a motive for committing them, 58
Celibacy, discussion of Augustin and Alypius concerning, 98, 99
Augustin's conception of the, 75
Varro gives 288different opinions as regards the, 75(note)
the sins of, found in manhood; an emblem of humility, 54
Christ, the fulness of the Godhead is in, 62
perfect human sympathy of, 71 (note)
humiliation of, for us, 74and note
Manichæan belief as to the human birth of, 87(note)
the two natures of, 113 (note), 161 and note, 162
as God, the country to which we go, as man, the way by which we go, 114
the Victor and Victim, Priest and Sacrifice, 162
Christian, certainty of the faith of the, as compared with the uncertainty of the teaching of the philosophers, 86(note)
the almost and altogether, 121(note)
Christianity gives the golden key to happiness, 75(note)
Augustin's erroneous views as to, 86(note)
history of, creation type of the, 194
music of, its effect on Augustin, 156
Circensian games, Alypius' love of the, 94
he becomes Augustin's pupil, and is involved in the same superstition as his friend, 95
Augustin becomes carried away by the love of the, 95
they were put a stop to by the sacrifice of Telemachus the monk, 96 (note)
Cicero's writings as compared with the Word of God, 81(note)
his opinion concerning Arcesilas' teaching, 86(note)
Augustin studies his Hortensius, 61, and is stimulated to wisdom thereby, 107(note), 123, 124
Circus, games of the, 95and note, 158(note)
Classics, highly esteemed in Augustin's day, 51
objections to the study of the, 53
Commandments, modes of dividing the Ten, 65and note
Community, Augustin and his friends propose to establish a, 99, 100
Companions, influence of bad, 59
Competentes, name given to catechumens when ready for baptism, 197
Conception of Christ, Augustin's, 112
of God, 102 and note, 103, 104
Confession to God, Augustin urges the duty of, 79
Confirmation sometimes called a sacrament by the Fathers, 118(note)
Constantine was not baptized till the end of his life, 50(note)
his controversy with Sylvester, 69(note)
Constantius enacted laws against Paganism, 120
Contemplation, the Christian ascends the mount of, by faith, 181(note)
the reward of practical duties, 197
Continency, false and seducing, of the Manichæans 95and note
Continentia and Sustinentia, difference between, 153(note)
Conversion, Monica's dream of her son's, 66
of Paul, 120 and note, 138(note)
Converts, how received in Justin Martyr's time, 118 (note)
Corporeal brightness, Augustin thought of God as a, 71(note), 77
forms, Augustin's mind ranges through, 75, 76, but later on he repudiates the notion of a, 92
Corruption, the five regions of, 103
Courtiers, history of the two, 122‑123
time began from the not it from time, 188 (note)
doctrine of the Trinity emblemized in the, 191
history of the, a type of the Church,
Creator, true joy to be found only in the, 58
putting the creature above the, 81
Credulity of the Manichæans, 93(note)
Cross of Christ symbolized, 52(note)
Curds, the mountain of, 130and note
Curiosity, a help to learning, 52
affects a desire for knowledge, 58
fishes of the sea symbolical of, 80(note)
temptation of, stimulated by the lust of the eyes, 157, 158
Curtain of Ps. civ. 2, rendered "skin," 195(note)
true inner righteousness doth not judge according to, 64
Customs, human, to be obeyed, 65
Cyprian, oratory in memory of, 84
Daniel praying in captivity, 181(note)
Darkness and light, 103 (note)
Dead, prayers for the, 90 (note), 139, 141 (note)
festivals in honour of the, 90
origin of the custom, 90 (note)
Death, origin of the law of, 73 (note)
Augustin says Adam was able to avert it by partaking of the tree of life, 73 (note)
Death‑bed baptism of Nebridius, 70
Declamation, Augustin's, applauded above that of his fellow‑students, 53
"Deep, the great," Augustin's interpretation of the, 191 (note), 194 (note)
Distentio, distraction, 174 and notes
Divination, the soothsayers used sacrifices in their, 68
the mathematicians did not do so, 69
Augustin's obstinate belief in, but his friend Nebridius scoffs at it, 70
afterwards influenced by Augustin, he too believes in it, 70
Divinity of Christ, 113 (note)
Docetae, belief of the, 113 (note)
Donatism, how developed in Augustin's time, 90 (note)
spiritual pride of the Donatists, 162 (note)
Drachma, the woman and the, 119, 149
of Monica concerning her son's conversion, 66
Augustin's view of, 154 (note)
Thorwaldsen's, result of, 154 (note)
Drunkenness forbidden by God, 154, 155
how this dualistic belief affected the Manichæan notion of Christ, 87 (note)
Dust, the mathematicians drew their figures in, 77 (note)
Earth, beauty of the, 144 (note)
East, turning to the, at baptism, 119, (note)
Education, Augustin disapproves of the mode of, in his day, 52
Faustus' objection to the spoiling of the, 66 (note)
gold of the, belongs to God, 109 and note
"Elect" of the Manichæans, 66 and note, 68, 83 (note)
Augustin becomes one of the, 86
divine substance in the, 103, 104, 155 (note)
baits to draw man to the Word, 45 (note)
Greek and Latin, Hierius' knowledge of, 75
Ἐνδιάθετος, "in the bosom of the Father," 108 (note), 166 (note)
Enemies of God, who are the, 79 (note)
Eraclius, Augustin designates, as his successor, 163 (note)
p. 600Esau, Jacob and, illustrations concerning, 106
his longing after the Egyptian food, 108 and note
Eternal, on comprehending the, 167, 175 (note)
Eternity, of God, 48, 109 and note;
relation of, to the mutable creature, 179
reason leads us to the necessity of a belief in, 173 (note)
Eucharist, oblations for the, 85 (note)
regeneration necessary before the reception of the 118 (note), 138 (note)
called by the ancients "the sacrament of perfection;" maintains life which baptism gives, 200
Augustin's interpretation of the, 200 (note)
Eunuchus, Terence's, 53 and note
Eversores, or subverters, 61 and note
Augustin's notions concerning, 64 (note)
the chief Augustin calls a Duad, 76
Manichæan doctrine of, 83 (note), 86, 87
Augustin's notion of, 110 (note)
Evil habits bind like iron, 120 and note, 121
conviction powerless against, 121
became associated with Augustin, 135
he leads the singing at Monica's funeral, 139
Augustin's endeavours to unravel his difficulties as to the spirits in prison, 164 (note)
Excess, by grace we avoid, 155
Eyes, the lust of the, 157, 158
Fables, Manichæan, 83 and note
the use of, common with mediaeval writers, 164 (note)
"Fair and Fit, Augustin's book as to the, 74, 76
the Manichæans exalted reason at the expense of, 63 (note)
Fame, the emptiness of popular, 68
Fasting enjoined by Justin Martyr as a preparation for baptism, 118 (note), 154 (note)
Faustus, a bishop of the Manichæans,
his knowledge superficial, 82, 83
distinction between his teaching and that of Ambrose, 88
joy in proportion to past 119, 120
Fever, Nebridius falls sick of a, and dies, 70
Fichte's strange idea as to St. John's teaching concerning the word, 185 (note)
Fictions, Augustin's love of, 52, 53
Augustin's reply to Faustus as to Manichæan 93 (note)
Fig‑tree, Manichæan delusions concerning, 66
Firmament, allegorical explanation of the, 195, 196, 199 (note)
studies the constellations, and relates a story to disprove astrology, 105, 106;
Fish of the sea, symbolical interpretation of the, 80 (note), 200 (note)
the Word made, 107 and note, 108, 112‑113, 162
as distinct from body, 164 (note)
Forgetfulness the privation of memory, 148, 149
Fortunatus, Augustin's controversy with, 103
absence of, the punishment of former sin, 125
the Pelagians held that through the power of, they could attain perfection, 140 (note)
of the world enmity to God, 51
between Augustin and Nebridius, 70
Lord Bacon's sentiments as to, 72 (note)
Fruit, distinction between the "gift" and the, 203, 200
rites at Monica's, 139 and note
Gassendi vitalized Epicureanism, 100 (note)
what Moses meant in the book of, 186
repetition of the allegorical interpretation of, 206
Gibbon, his description of the amphitheatre of Titus, 95 (note)
his charge of Platonism against Christianity, 107 (note)
diversities of, given by the Spirit, 197
distinction between the "gift" and the "fruit," 203‑204
Gnostic opinion as to the origin of the world, 205
man desires to praise Him, His power and wisdom, 45
true rest in Him only, 45, 59, 74, 161
Augustin longs for that knowledge, 158 (note)
by filling them He created them, 72
unchangeableness of, 46, 63, 73, 79 (note), 116
always working, yet always at rest, 46, 207
imperfect man cannot comprehend the perfect, 46 (note)
is Truth, 62, 72, 81, 109 and note, 151, 152, 187 and note
sought wrongly not to be found, 63
held by the Manichæans to be an unmeasured light, 68 (note)
the true light, 76 (note), 109 and note, 157
the source of light, 112 (note)
the architect and artificer of His Church, 72 (note)
wounds only to heal, 72 (note)
should be our highest love, 72
our supreme good, 78, 151 (note)
to be preferred to learning, 87
Augustin's conception of, 102 and note, 103, 104
incorruptibility of, 103 and note, 104
subjection to, our only safety, 107
"I am that I am," 109, 110 (note)
hope and joy in Him alone, 142,153
the Immutable Light of wisdom, 190 (note)
the mercy of, in conveying His truth by symbols, 199
Gods, why the poets attributed wickedness to the, 52
Homer transfers things human to the, 52
the Manichæans taught that good and evil were primeval, and had independent existence, 64 (note)
Augustin's conception of the chief, 75, 105
God our Supreme, 78, 151, 190 (note)
and evil illustrated, 110 (note)
God saw that everything in creation was, 204, 205
Grace, the fulfilment of love, 183 (note)
Grammar, the Christians forbidden by Julian to teach, 120
Grammar schools entrances of, covered with veils, 51 and note
joy in the conversion of the, 120 and note
the reason of his dislike, 51, 52
eloquence, Hierius' knowledge of, 74, 75
Greeks, led to Christ by philosophy, 107 (note)
at the death of his friend, 70-71
at his mother's death, 139, 140
silence a good consoler in, 127 (note)
at the death of friends natural, 139 (note)
Habits, evil, bind like iron, 120 and note
conviction powerless against, 121
Christianity gives the golden key to, 75 (note)
knowledge of God the highest, 81
the Word of God a fount of, 81 (note)
consummation of, in heaven only, 131 (note)
not joy merely, but joy in God, 152
Harts of the forests, 164 and note
p. 601why Augustin never went beyond the rank of a, 68 (note)
did not practise abstinence, 155 (note)
Heart, the law written on the, 74 (note)
humility exalts the, 74 (note)
of man, Augustin interprets the "deep" to mean, 194 (note)
fulness of reward in, 76 (note)
consummation of happiness only in, 131 (note)
a prepared place for prepared people, 192 (note)
and earth shall pass away, but not the Word, 196
Heaven and earth, different interpretations of, 182, 183
Heavenly bodies, motions of the, not time, 171, 172
Hebrew, Augustin had no knowledge of, 164, 165 and note
Hedonism and Epicureanism, 100 (note)
Hedonists, their "good" is their own pleasure, 75 (note)
Helpidius, disputes with the Manichæans, 87
Heresies confirm the truth, 113
a native of Syria, an orator of Rome, 74
Augustin dedicates his books on the " Fair and Fit " to, 74
Hippocrates, Vindicianus early understood, 70
Holy City, light, life, and joy of the, is in God, 191 (note)
why spoken of in Genesis as "borne over," 191, 192
distasteful to Augustin because it was Greek, 51
Honoratus, a friend of Augustin, at one time a Manichæan 88 (note)
we are saved and made happy by, 76 (note)
all, is in the mercy of God, 153
Hope and joy in God alone, 142
Horoscope‑casters, Vindicianus begs Augustin to throw away the books of the, 69
he is stimulated to wisdom thereby, 107 (note), 123, 124
Hour‑glasses of Augustin's time, 163
Humanity of Christ, 71 (note), 85 (note), 113 (note)
Augustin thinks it profane to believe in the, 87
Manichæans' belief as to the, 87 (note)
Humiliation of Christ for us, 74
to draw us to Himself, 74 (note)
Hyle, or matter, the evil principle of the Manichæans 76 (note)
Ἰχθὺς emblem of the, 200 (note)
Ignorance, danger of, 47 (note)
Illumination, the washing of baptism, 118 (note), 194 (note), 198 (note)
Image of God, man created in the, 91 (note)
Importunity, Monica's, to the bishop, 67
Manichæans, notion of the, 87 (note)
a mystery to Porphyry, 161 (note)
its innocence is not in its will, but in its weakness, 48
Injury man does himself by sin, 79 (notes)
Intuitionists, their "good" lies in following the dictates of conscience, 75 (note)
Jacob and Esau, illustration concerning, 166
Jerome, his knowledge of Hebrew, 165 (note)
Augustin longs for the heavenly, 182 and note
the mother of us all, 192 (note)
their influence on Neo‑Platonism, 118 (note)
Julian the Apostate favoured the, and encouraged them to rebuild the temple, 120 (note)
true, to be found in the Creator only, 58
in proportion to past fear, 119
in the conversion of the great, 120 (note)
forbade the Christians to teach grammar and oratory, 120
he favoured Paganism, the Donatists, and the Jews, 120
Justice and mercy, illustration of God's, 133 (note)
how converts were received in his time, 118 (note)
Justina, persecution of Ambrose by, 134 and note
קָנָא and בָּרָא distinguished, 115 (note)
Augustin's great aim was to attain, 158 (note)
more sought than divine, 53, 54
curiosity affects a desire for, 58
Augustin's desire for, made him join the Manichæans, 64 (note)
has to do with action, 197 (note)
difference between that and divine, 207
Latin, Augustin's love of, 51, 52
the same in itself, but different in application, 64
of development in Scripture, 64
written on the heart (lex occults), 74 (note)
Levitical, concerning the division of beasts into clean and unclean, 91 (note)
God to be obeyed in, or contrary to laws, 65, 66 and note
rudiments of, distasteful to Augustin, 51
knowledge of God to be appreciated above secular, 81
to be preferred to money, and God to it, 87
Lentile, the Egyptian food, 108 (note)
Liberal arts and sciences, 68, 77, 80
Faustus had no knowledge of the, 82
Augustin sees that a knowledge of, does not lead to God, 158 (note)
Licentius' notion concerning truth, 123 (note)
longing after the blessed, 150‑152
Light, the Manichæans held God to be an unmeasured, 68 (note)
God the true, 76 and note, 157
God the unchangeable, 109 and note, 112
that seen by Isaac and by Jacob, 157
what Augustin understood by the Word in Gen. 1:3, 191
Likeness to God, our, 91 (note)
Little things, the power of, 135 (note), 136
Λόγος, the, 107 (note), 113, 166
love not to be condemned, but love in God is to be preferred, 73
grace the fulfilment of, 182 (note)
supremacy of the law of, 188 (note)
Loving God purely, 69 and note
analogy between, and one of our Lord's temptations, 153 (note)
eating and drinking a, 154, 155
of the eyes, curiosity stimulated by the, 157, 158
difference between it and love, 153 (note)
Luther's Bible in Little, 131 (note)
Madaura, formerly an episcopal city, now a village--Augustin learnt grammar and rhetoric there, 56
moved by God to delight in praising Him, 45
his existence from God, 45, 46
imperfect, cannot comprehend the perfect, 46 (note)
made in God's image, 64, 91 (note)
injures himself, not God, by sin, 79 (notes)
the trichotomy of, 111 (note), 113 (note)
the Mediator between God and, 112
Christ a perfect, 113, 114 (note)
knoweth p. 602 not himself, 144
God does not need, although He created him, 190, 191 and note
faint signs of the Trinity in, 193 and note
how Augustin interprets the dominion of, over the beasts, 200
is renewed in the knowledge of God after His image, 201
knoweth nothing but by the Spirit of God, 205
difference between his knowledge and God's, 207
Manichæans, their materialistic views of God, 46 (note), 68 (note), 76, 86
Augustin falls into the errors of the, 62
the Scriptures obscured to their mocking spirit, 62 (note), 67 (note), 88 (note)
Augustin later on accused them of professing to believe in the New Testament to entrap the unwary, 62 (note), 83 (note)
their system peculiarly enthralling to an ardent mind like Augustin's, 63 (note)
kindred in many ways to modern Rationalism, 63 (note)
Augustin attacks their notions concerning evil, 63
cavillings of the, 64, 87, 93, 167, 174
their doctrine concerning good and evil, 64 (note), 76 (note), 83 (note)
their delusions concerning the fig‑tree, 66
their reason for refusing to give bread to any but their own sect, 66 and note, 68
they held that God was an unmeasured light, 68 (note)
their notion concerning the soul, 76 (note)
when opposed, they pretended the Scriptures had been corrupted, 81 (note), 87 and note
their belief as to the humanity of Christ, 87 (note)
their false and seducing continency, 95 and note
Romanianus falls into the errors of, 100 (note)
Augustin's anger against the, 132
Augustin refutes they opinions as to the origin of the world, 205
a strange mixture of the pensive philosophy of Persia with Gnosticism and Christianity, 64 (note)
asserted that the Holy Ghost was personally resident in him, 81
asceticism of his followers, 122 (note)
Manna, meaning of, 48 and note
Marriage, Augustin desires, but his parents oppose it, 57
Martyrdom, reason for exalting, 90 (note)
described as a second baptism, 90 (note)
honour done to the, 90 and notes
two of the, buried in the Ambrosian Basilica, 134 and note
Materialists, the, seek the common "good" of all, 75 (note)
used no sacrifices in their divinations 69
they drew their figures in dust or sand, 77 (note), 106 (note)
Matter, or Hyle, the evil principle according to Faustus, 76 (note)
the Platonic theory concerning, 76 (note)
God did not create the world from but by His word, 165
the world not created out of, but by God's word, 165
Augustin's old notion as to, 177
not created out of God's substance, 177
Augustin discusses whether it was from eternity or was made by God, 184
privation of, is forgetfulness, 149
God cannot be attained unto by the power of, 149
possessed, by beasts and birds, 149
manifoldness of, 149, 150, 161
of God, all hope is in the, 153
Augustin is sent to teach rhetoric at, 87, 88
he recites his panegyric to the Emperor at, 94 (note)
Church hymns and psalms first introduced at, 134
Augustin turns his attention to the nature of the, 75
Augustin refutes the Manichæan notion of two kinds of, 125
four perturbations of the, 148
time the impression of things on the future and past things in relation to the, 173
Ministers, how they should work, 200
the cessation of, and its probable result, 69 (note), 106 (note)
wrought in behalf of Ambrose, 134 and note
necessary to some ignorant men, 200
Misery of the angels and their former excellence, 192
Moderation in eating and drinking, 154
Monachism, Antony the founder of, 122 and note
Money, learning to be preferred to, 87
the mother of Augustin, her obedience to her husband, 50
her dream concerning her son's conversion, 66
the wooden rule therein symbolical of the rule of faith, 66
she goes to consult a certain bishop, 67
how her prayers for her son were answered, 67, 84
her sorrow at his deception, 84
she never failed to make oblations at God's altar twice a day, 85
she follows her son over sea and land, and encourages the sailors in danger, 89
her confidence that she could not die without seeing her son a Catholic Christian, 89
her love for and her obedience to Ambrose, 89, 90
she gives up making offerings at the oratories, 90
she urges her son to marry, and chooses a wife for him, 99
early training and life of, 135, 136
her youthful love of wine, 135
her peace‑making and endurance, 137
she gains her husband to God, 137
her last conversation with her son, 137, 138
Monophysites, still turn to the west in renouncing Satan, 118 (note)
Montanus, the pretensions of, similar to that of the Manichæans, 82 (note)
Moon, sun and, Manichean belief as to the, 63
Morality of the Manichæans, 95
Mortality, skins the emblem of, 112 and note, 195
Mortification, pain better than, 100 and note
what he meant in book of Genesis, 186
he is supposed to have perceived all the truth in its words, 188
Mountain of milk and curds, 130 and note
Mountains of God, Augustin's interpretation of the, 191
Music, church, effect of, on Augustin, 156
Mysteries, of Scripture, God's reason for the, 48 (note)
the mystery and simplicity of Scripture, 62, 93
the unfolding of God's, in the future life only, 124 (note)
well-regulated minds do not seek to pry into the, 193
when revelation is clear and devoid of, 196 (note)
of God can be revealed by Him alone, 207
Mystery or "sacrament," 118 (note)
Nebridius, a goodly youth Augustin's friend, 70, 105, 130
he left Carthage for Milan to be near Augustin, 97
tried to dissuade Augustin from belief in the astrologers, 70, 105
his argument against Manichæanism, 103
consented to teach under Verecundus, 122
dies in Africa after the conversion of his household, 131
Neo‑Platonism, Aristotle and Zeno prepared the way for, 86 (note)
Amelius developed and formulated, 107 (note)
doctrine of, as to the "Word," 107 (note)
as to the soul's capacity, 198 (note)
Augustin speaks with admiration of, 117 (note)
p. 603New Song, the, of Praise 45 (note)
New Testament, the Manichæans professed to believe in the, to entrap the unwary, 62 (note)
adversity the blessing of the, 76 (note)
the Manichæans asserted that the writings of, had been corrupted, 87 and note
Obedience, to teachers enjoined, 49
to God, in or against human laws, necessary, 65, 66
Oblations, what they are, 85 (note)
Monica made them twice a day, 85
offered at Queen Victoria's coronation, 85 (note)
at the tombs of the martyrs, 90 (note)
Odours, the attraction of, 156
Old Testament, its histories, typical and allegorical, 65 (note)
prosperity the blessing of the, 76 (note)
Onesiphorus, hospitality of, 203
in memory of the saints and martyrs, 90 and note
offerings at the, forbidden by Ambrose and afterwards by Augustin, 90
Monica discontinues hers, 90 and note
the Christians forbidden by Julian to teach, 120
Origen's knowledge of Hebrew, 165 (note)
of the law of death, 73 (note)
of the human soul, Augustin on the, 183 (note)
of the world, the Manichæan notion concerning the, 205
Ostia, Augustin and his mother stay at, 137
she dies at, and is buried there, 138
Ovid, quotations from, 71 (note)
Pachomius, the good done by the monks of, 122 (note)
Paganism, Constantius enacted laws against, but Julian the Apostate reinstated it in its former splendour, 120 (note)
Pain, spiritual and physical, better than mortification, 100 and note
Paraclete, the, of the Manichæans 62
Manichæus asserted that He was personally resident in him, 81 and note
Paradise, allegorized by some, 92 (note)
Parents, make light of the childish troubles of their offspring, 5
ambition for their children's progress often injudicious, 50
our first, doctrine of the early Church concerning their immortality had they not sinned, 73 (note)
Past and future, in the, there is time, 169
they exist only in the soul, 170
Patriarchs, actions of the, prophetic, 65 and note
Patricius, the father of Augustin,
a poor freeman of Thagaste, he was only a catechumen when his son was to his sixteenth year, 56
he dies when Augustin is sixteen, 61
was at first unkind to his wife, but was melted by her enduring meekness, etc., 136
is gained over to God by her, 137
Paul, St., Augustin studies the writings of, 114
his rejoicing at the good works of the Philippians, 203
Paul of Thebais, asceticism of, 122 (note)
Peace of heaven, the only true, 207 (note)
Pearl of great price, Augustin compares Christ to the, 117 (note)
Πειρατηριον a "warfare," 153 (note)
Pelagians, they laid claim to the attainment of perfection through power of freewill, 140 (note)
Pelagius and the bishop, dispute between, 155
Pelican, the fable of the, 164 (note)
poetical fictions less dangerous than, 63
Phantasm, Augustin thinks of God as a, 71, 72
and of Christ also, 85 (note), 86, 87
Augustin ceases to look upon God as a, 111
Philo, the Therapeutae of, 122 (note)
Philosophy, made the beginning of Augustin's conversion, 61
in Greek, the love of wisdom is called 62
effect of, on the writings of the Fathers, 61 (note)
the various schools of, 75 (note)
revelation alone can reconcile the different systems of, 75 (note)
the academic and other schools of, 86 (note)
led the Greeks to Christ, 107 (note)
Augustin's opinion of the various schools of, 107 (note)
Plato's, the nearest to Christ, 117
Pyrrhonists, doctrine of the, 86 (note)
Piety, confession to God is, 81
Plato, works of, compared with the Word of God, 81 (note)
dogmatic and sceptical sides of his philosophy, 86 (note)
doctrine of, in connection with Christianity, 107 (note), 114
parallels between his doctrine and that of God, 109
much in Platonism in common with asceticism, 122 (note)
Platonic theory of matter, 76 (note)
Platonists, Augustin studies the books of the, probably those of Amelius, 107 and note
Pleasures, carnal, the beasts of the field symbolical of, 80 (note), 81
Plotinus, theories of, 107 and note, 112
Πνεῦμα the, 111 (note), 113 (note)
Poetry, classical, evils of, 51‑53
Pompey, the ruse of, 135 (note)
Pontitianus, a countryman of Augustin's, 122
Augustin reading St. Paul's writings, 122
he relates to him the history of Antony, 122
Porphyry's pride in regard to the Incarnation of Christ, 161
Poverty, in what that which displeases God consists, 123 (note)
Augustin begins his book with, 45 (note)
man desires to praise God, 45, 79
God's, is inexhaustible, 45, 46 and note
silence the highest, to God, 46 (note)
love of worldly, 159, 160 and note
sometimes not to be avoided, 160
Prayers, the manner of Easterns when at, 66 (note), 84
Augustin's faith strengthened by answer to, 133
Pretium regium, meaning of, 97 (note)
Pride, debases the heart, 74 (note)
birds of the air symbolical of, 80 (note)
Priority of origin illustrated, 187
Prodigal son, the, allusions to, 53, 63, 77
Progress, the law of, in Scripture, 64
Προφορικός i.e. "made flesh," 107 (note), 166 (note)
Prosperity the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity of the New, 76 (note)
Psalms and hymns first sung in church at Milan, 134
sung at death‑beds and burials, 139 (note)
Psaltery of ten strings, 65 and note
Ψυχή the, 111 (note), 113 (note)
Ψυχικὸς "soulish" or "natural," 112 (note)
Punishment of sin, 72, 79 (note)
the absence of free‑will a, 125
Purgatory, prayers for the dead imply a belief in, 141 (note)
Rationalem, term applied to holy things, 203 (note)
Rationalism, modern, Manichean system kindred to, 63 (note)
the Manichæans exalted it at the expense of faith, 63 (note)
leads us to a belief in the necessity of eternity, 173 (note)
Reddere, used of the creed 118 (note)
necessary before receiving the Eucharist, 118 (note)
Rest, true, in God alone, 45, 58, 59, 74, 94 (note)
in heaven, ours here an earnest of the future, 45 (note)
God ever worketh and yet is always at rest, 207
Retirement, Augustin finds in, preparation for future work, 131 (note)
Revelation, law of the development of, 64 (note)
can alone reconcile the difficulties of the various p. 604 systems of philosophy, 75 (note)
is like a broad and deep river, 178 (note)
Rhetoric, Augustin becomes head in the school of, 61
he teaches it at Thagaste, 68,
Romanianus, a relative of Alypius,
rich and talented, and good to Augustin, 100 and note
is influenced by Augustin to embrace the Manichæan, heresy, 100, (note)
Augustin's explanation of his conversion to, 115 (note)
Rome, Augustin's motive for wishing to go to, 83, 84
Rule, the wooden, seen by Monica in her dream, 66
symbolical of the Rule of Faith, 67, 128
the, or "line," of Ps. 19:3, 4, 199 (note)
Rumination, spiritual, 91 (note)
Sacrament, or mystery, 118 (note)
confirmation, etc., sometimes spoken of by the Fathers as a, 118 (note), 197 and note
Sacrifices were used by the soothsayers in their divinations, 68
Saint, a Manichean 66 and notes
Salt, seasoning with, on admission as a catechumen, 52 and note, 89 (note)
Satan, renunciation of, before baptism, 118
Augustin disapproves of the method of instruction in, 52, 53
the different, of philosophy, etc., 107 (note)
Science does not lead to God, 80, 158 (note)
Augustin read the books concerning, unaided, 77
Faustus was reputed to be skilled in, 80, but had no real knowledge of them, 82, 83
Scipio's change of name, 120 (note)
Scripture, God's reason for the mysteries in, 48 (note)
made plain to the "little ones," being obscured to the mocking spirit of the Manichæans, 62 (note)
Manichean perversion of, 62 (note), 67 (note)
they tried to deprive it of all authority, 63 (note)
the law of progress in, 64 and note
the Manichæans, when opposed, pretended that the, had been corrupted, 81 (note)
Ambrose expounded the, every Lord's day, 91
plainness and depth of, 93 and note
Augustin rejoices that he studied Plato before, and not the reverse, 113, 114
Augustin entreats of God that he may be led to the truth through the study of, 163, 164, 178 and note
mysteries and right use of, 164 (notes)
truth to be seen in, but not by all, 182
Sea, allegorical explanation of the, 196 and notes
Self‑deception, Augustin's, 123
Self‑knowledge to be preferred to ignorance, 47 (note)
Self‑love and pride the sources of sin, 65
Sense, God has given to each its proper pleasure as well as use, 79 (note)
Sermons, Goodwin's description of the effect of, 89
Shakespeare, quotation from, 69 (note)
Sight, the allurements of, 156
the highest form of praise to God, 46 (note)
a consoler in grief, 127 (note)
Simplicianus, and the Platonist, 113 (note)
Augustin consults him about the renewing of his mind, 116,117
he succeeded Ambrose as Bishop of Milan,. 117
the Manichæans, denied, 76 (note)
guilt of, after baptism, greater than before, 50
love of, for the sin's sake, 59
self‑love and pride the sources of, 65
its own punishment, 72, 79 (note), 143 (note)
the absence of free‑will the punishment of former sin, 125
forgiveness of, after baptism, 140 and note, 141
has not substance, only weakness, 192 (note)
Augustin compares it to blindness, 192 (note)
injure themselves, not God, 79 (notes)
Skins, Augustine makes, the emblems of mortality, 112 and note, 195 (note)
Sodom, the sea of, 60 and note
Song of Ambrose and Augustin, 134 (note)
Soothsayer, the, promises Augustin victory on certain conditions which he despises, 68
Sorrow, why sent to us, 72 (note)
effect of time and consolations of friends on, 72
effect of silence in, 127 (note)
Soul, Augustin fancied that he and Nebridius had only one soul between them, 71
invocation to it to return to God, 73
the Manichæan, notion concerning the, 76 (note)
speculations concerning it after death, 164 (note)
Augustin on the origin of the human, 183 (note)
Neo‑Platonic idea as to its capacity for seeing God, 198 (note)
Sozomen's account of the origin of Monachism, 122 (note)
the letter and the, of Scripture, 92 and note
Spiritual body, the, 112 (note)
reprobated by the Fathers, those who went to them being excluded from baptism, 60 (note)
Stars, knowledge of the, etc., 80, 81
Manichean teaching as to the, false, 82
the catechumen to be content with the light of the moon and the, 197, 198
Στερέωμα the firmament, 199 (note)
Stoics, the great year of the, 202 (note)
Augustin's distaste for, in boyhood, 50
Substance, corporeal, Augustin's idea of God as a, 102 and note, 103
God's substance incorruptible, 104
Augustin thinks of God as an incorruptible, 116
matter not created out of God's, 177
Subverters, Augustin delighted in their friendship, although he abhorred their acts, 61
the name of a pestilent and licentious set of persons, also termed Eversores, 61 and note
Sun, the Christian should always aspire to look at the, 108
Christ the central, 198 (note)
Manichean belief as to the, 63,
Sustinentia and continentia, difference between, 153 (note)
Sylvester, bishop of Rome, before Constantine, 69 (note)
God's goodness in conveying His truth by, 189
Symmachus the prefect sends Augustin to Milan, 87, 88
Sympathy, real and false, 51, 60, 61
Christ's perfect human, 71 (note)
Syria, Hierius a native of, 74, 75
Tablets, matrimonial, 136 and note
Talmud, illustrations of God's majesty, in, 46 (note)
of His mercy and justice in, 133 (note)
Tears, why sweet to the unhappy, 71
Τεχνίτης, or artificer, God a, 72 (note)
Te Deum, the song of Ambrose and Augustin, 134 (note)
Telemachus the monk sacrificed his life to put an end to the circus fights, 96 (note)
Temptation, the winds and waves of, stilled by Christ, 144 (note)
p. 605we should not court, 156 (note)
Christ's, typical, 80 (note), 153 (note)
Testament, the Old and New, 76 (note), 180
Thagaste, Augustin's father a poor freeman of, 56
Augustin taught rhetoric there, 68
it was there Augustin met Nebridius, 70
Augustin leaves to go to Carthage, 72
Paul the hermit of, 122 (note)
Theft, Augustin commits, from his parents' table, 54
and later, he steals not from poverty, but the love of wrong‑doing, 57‑59
innocent Alypius is apprehended for, 96
Theophilus of Antioch's opinion concerning Adam's immortality, 73 (note)
Theraputæ of Philo, the, 122 (note)
Thorwaldsen, the Danish sculptor, dream of, 153 (note)
has no relation to eternity, 167
itself a creature, therefore not before creation, 167, 168
cannot be measured, 169,172,173 and note
nevertheless, there is past and future, 196
motions of the heavenly bodies not, 172
of what is it the protraction? 172
the impression of things on the mind, 173
regarded as an agent, 174 (note)
Augustin argues that it and the world had one beginning, 175
begins from the creation, not the creation from it, 188 (note)
has no relation to God and His Word, 205
Titus, amphitheatre of, 95 (note)
Tobias, the light seen by, 157
Toothache, Augustin suffers from, 133
Tradition, Rabbinical, concerning the children of Israel, 64 (note)
Tree of life, able to avert death from Adam, 73
Trichotomy of man, doctrine of the, 111 (note), 113 (note)
Trinity, the Manichean notion of the, 62 (note)
doctrine of the, conveyed in creation, 191
types of, in man, 193 and note
mystery of the doctrine of the, 193 (note)
illustrations of the, 193 (note)
Trouble, why sent to us, 72 (note)
Truth, Augustin's desire and longing for, 62, 63
the Manichæans abused the word truth, 62
God is, 62, 72, 81, 151, 152, 186 and note
Augustin's despair of finding the, 86
Licentius' and Trygetius' notions concerning
the search after, and the finding, 123 (note)
Augustin begs that God will lead him to the, through the Scriptures, 163‑164
the discovery of, difficult, 176
to be seen in Scripture, but not by all, 183
Trygetius' notion concerning truth, 123 (note)
Augustin at one time thought the Holy Scriptures not to be compared in dignity to, 62
his contrary opinion, 81 (note)
Universe, beauty of the, 79 (note)
Victorinus, conversion of, 117
Way, Christ the, 114 (note), 116
Weeping, why sweet to the unhappy, 71
West, custom of turning to the, 113 (note)
Wife, Monica fears that a, would prove an encumbrance to her son, 57
but afterwards seeks for one for him, 99
Will, evil a perversion of the, 111
Ambrose forbids it at oratories, 90
Wisdom, Augustin's love of, 62, 98
the love of, called philosophy in Greek, 62
Augustin stimulated to the love of, by Cicero's Hortensius, 107 (note)
the word of, given by the Spirit, 197 and note
Wizards, Augustin's opinion of, 68 (note)
Woman, creation of, 206 and note
Wood, the cross called a ship of, 52, 53 (note), 114 (note)
wit and eloquence baits to draw man to the, 45 (note)
the written, likened to the swaddling-clothes of the child Jesus, 64 (note)
God created the world by His, 165
God speaks to us eternally in His, 166
the beginning of all things, 166
happiness of the spiritual creature to be found only in the, 190
the firmament the type of the, 195, 196
heaven and earth shall pass away, but not the, 196
a fount of happiness, 81 (note)
the things of this, are fleeting, 73
the sea ened to the wicked, 196 and notes
the Manichæan, and Gnostic opinion as to the origin of the, 205
the, was created out of nothing, 206
Zeno and Aristotle prepared the way for Neo‑Platonism, 86 (note)
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