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Authors: Saint Augustine
Antichrist, final persecution of,
835
f.,
910
–14,
921
ff.
Antipodes, ridiculed,
664
f.
Apocryphal books, why excluded from canon,
641
,
812
f.
Apuleius, Lucius,
136
f.;
on demons,
318
–30;
Bk IX,
passim
Aristotle,
315
f.
Ark, Noah’s, as symbol of the Church,
643
–8;
historical criticism of,
645
–8
Attis, mutilation of, rationalized,
285
battle of the gods,
81
beauty, in man and nature,
1073
ff.
Berecynthia, obscenities in honour of,
51
ff.
blessings, of this life,
1070
–76
bodies, immortal,
526
ff.;
‘animal’ and ‘spiritual’,
536
–40 (
see also
Resurrection)
Caesar, Julius, and M. Cato, moral qualities of,
197
–201
Camillus, M. Furius, shameful treatment of,
67
,
113
,
208
candle, Augustine’s poem to,
636
f.
Capitol, at Rome, temple on,
100
,
108
certainty, of one’s existence,
360
;
Christian,
879
Christ, acknowledged by pagan oracles, and by Virgil,
411
;
by Porphyry,
484
–7;
his incarnation,
992
;
ascension,
1029
ff.;
‘that one Mediator’,
359
ff.;
Church, visible and invisible,
45
f.;
elect and reprobate in,
831
f.;
Cicero, M. Tullius, on freewill and divine foreknowledge,
190
–94
on stories about the gods,
167
;
his scepticism about auguries,
172
Cities, the two contrasted, their nature and origin,
593
–7;
symbolized in the family of Abraham,
597
ff.;
Bk XV,
passim
Civil Wars, the Roman,
127
–32
commonwealth, defined,
73
f.;
did not exist in Rome,
881
ff.
Constantine, his felicity,
220
f.
Creation, ‘days’ of,
436
ff.;
the work of God, not of ‘gods’,
504
f.;
Cybele (Berecynthia, ‘Heavenly Virgin’ ‘Mother of God’), image brought to Rome,
41
f.
of man, by ‘breath of God’,
540
–45
Cycles, doctrine of, in history,
483
,
485
,
487
ff.
contrasted with God’s eternal purpose,
494
ff.
Cynic philosophers,
581
f.
David, Nathan’s prophecy to,
735
–9 dead, pagan cult of,
338
ff.
prayers for,
1003
death, an evil turned to good,
514
f.
‘first’ and ‘second’,
522
ff.
of soul and body,
510
, Bk XXI,
passim
‘death’ ‘dying’, ‘dead’), meaning of,
517
–21
deification, of great men, Bk XVIII,
passim
e. g., Codrus,
785
Diomede,
780
f.
Picus,
780
Romulus,
106
f. (
see also
Euhemerism)
‘Demon’, of Socrates,
318
,
325
–30
Demons, Bk IX and X,
passim
good and bad ‘demons’,
344
f.
Neoplatonic ‘mediators’,
324
f.
Descartes, anticipation of,
460
and n.
Devil, his nature,
445
ff.’binding’ and loosing’ of, in Apocalypse,
910
–14
Devotion, of self to death, by pagans, Codrus,
785
Eden, allegorical interpretation of,
534
Eli, prophecy to, expounded,
724
–8
emotions, determined by will,
555
of the righteous,
561
–7
Stoic view of,
558
emperors, felicity of Christian,
219
–23
empire, extension of, no blessing,
137
ff.
155
f.
Empire, Roman, under God’s providence,
179
,
215
f.
moral qualities supporting,
196
–201
empires, chronology of,
484
f
history of, Bk XVIII,
passim
Epicurean philosophers,
214
f.
atomic theory,
306
cosmology,
434
.
epistemology,
309
ethics,
548
theology,
235
Euhemerism,
52
,
169
n.,
239
,
276
,
288
,
770
Eve, creation of, as allegory,
1057
evil, is negative (‘the privation of good’),
440
,
454
,
479
f.,
568
evil will, causation inexplicable,
477
–80
precedes evil act,
571
f.
evils, physical and material, in universe,
453
f.
Stoics on,
855
ff.
existence, naturally desirable,
460
ff.
certainty about,
460
depends on God,
506
Fall, of Adam,
510
,
522
ff.,
560
–75
affects all mankind,
525
result of,
575
fate, and will of God,
188
f.
fish, Christian symbol,
790
flesh, not cause of sin,
550
ff.
‘flesh’, biblical meaning of,
548
–54
freedom, of will, and astrology,
187
f.
and God’s foreknowledge,
190
–94,;
1022f.
and necessity,
194
ff.
in heaven,
1089
Galli
(priests of Cybele),
55
,
241
f.,
283
f.
God, activity in Creation,
202
f.
defined by Cicero,
1062
his judgement inscrutable,
216
,
422
,
489
f.,
509
f.,
783
,
896
,
897
,
999
his knowledge infinite,
494
ff.
his substance identical with his attributes,
440
ff.
his will unchangeable,
1023
ff.
source of all existence,
506
vision of, in heaven,
1081
–7
gods, of paganism, delight in obscenities,
107
,
170
,
247
, etc.
division of elements between,
146
ff.
‘naturalistic’ explanation of,
241
f.