Letters of St. Augustin- Index of Subjects

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Letters of St. Augustin- Index of Subjects

Acclamations in ecclesiastical meetings, Ambrose, conversation of Monica with, 270, Anaxagoras refuted 446 Anaximenes refuted, 446 Anecdote of Vendicianus 482 Anecdote of Gennadius, 514, Anecdote, humorous, 533 Anecdote of Dioscorus, 576 Anger, remarks on, 271 Apuleius of Madaura, 487 Baptism not to be repeated, 243 Bishop, the office of its nature, 277 motives to resign or accept it, 325, 326 Catholic faith, restoration of Leporius to, Christ commended to Licentius, 248 to Dioscorus, 445 to Volusianus, , 478 Christ, name of, known throughout the world, Christ preaching to the spirits in prison, 515-521 Christian churches, social influence of, 377, resorted to in time of trouble and distress, Christian Dispensation, epoch of, 416-418 Christian Dispensation, peculiarities of, 418-420 Christian excellence, a fine example of, Christianity favourable to national prosperity, 485-487 Conscience, cases of, resolved, 290, 294 Consolation to a bereaved sister, 591-593 Conversion of Dioscorus, marvellous, 576 Councils, authority of, 282 Cross, symbolical significance of the, 311 Cutzupits or mountain men, 298 Danger, bishops should not desert their sees in time of, 577-581 Debate between Fortunius and Augustin, 285-290 Deliverance of Christian captive, remarkable, Disinterestedness of Augustin, 362 Dispensations, unity of Old and New Testament, 481-483 Donatists, controversy with 276-285 Dove, the form of a, symbol of the Holy Ghost, 541, 542 Dreams, phenomena inexplicable, 513, 514 Election of Augustin's successor, record of proceedings at, 568-570 Epicureans refuted, 443 Epicureans extinct in fifth century, 442, Epicurus refuted, 448 Eucharist to be taken fasting, 301 Excommunication, example of rash, 589, 590 Fasting before taking the Eucharist, 302, God not seen with the bodily eyes, 498, Greek, Augustin's imperfect knowledge of, 251, Hebrew, Augustin's ignorance of, 303, 327 Humility commended, 454 Hymn of Priscillianists, 457 Infantile protest against idolatry, marvellous, 408 Infants, sufferings of, difficult to account for 526, 528-531 Jonah's gourd, discussion as to, 327, 342, Jonah's history defended and allegorized, 422, Jupiter, Apollonius more respectable than, Latin clerks scarce in Palestine, 544 Lent, observance of, 312 Letter to Jerome, tedious journey of, 328 Loaf exchanged between Christian friends, 246, Manuscripts stolen from Jerome, 544 Martyrs of Suffectum, 295 Maundy Thursday, how observed, 302, 303 Mercy to man recompensed with mercy from God, Moon, the, a symbol of the Church, 305, Murder, judicial, of Marcellinus, 505-508 Nun, on Demetrias becoming a, 504 Nuns rebuked for unseemly strife, 563, 564 Nunneries, rule of Augustinian, 564-568 Ordination of Augustin, reference to, 238, Patience of

Augustin, 271 Pelagianism, warnings against, 549-552 Pelagianism, measures against, 554-556 Peter, successors of St., 298 Praise should not be vehemently desired, Preaching, example of Augustin's power in, 253-255 Preaching of presbyters, 275 Presents received by Augustin, 504, 572, Punic language, preaching in, 364 Reading of Scripture in churches, 327 Rebuke of worldliness in a priest, 364, Relics of St. Stephen, 568 Remorse, pangs of, 508 Resurrection of Christ and of Lazarus compared, 414-417 Riotous election of Pinianus at Hippo, 455, Rites and ceremonies of the Church, 300-315 Rome, sieges of, referred to, 410 Sabbath, law of the, typical, 310 Saints, miracles wrought at tombs of, 346 Scriptures, Augustin's study of the, 238, Scriptures superior to all other writings, 413, 470, 480 Scriptures, authority of, 490 Septuagint version, Augustin's undue reverence for, 347 Souls, condition of disembodied, 512-514 Spirits in prison, who were the, 519-521 Stoics extinct in fifth century, 442, 445, Torture, examination by, 470 Ward of the Church, concerning marriage of, Widows especially called to pray, 468 World, vanity of this, 558 Worldliness, warnings against, 573-576 Zeal, an example of Christian, in Orosius,