II.—INDEX OF SUBJECTS FORMALLY OR INCIDENTALLY CONSIDERED.
- Abandoned, the, i. 190.
- Abimelech, what he represents, i. 128, 129.
- Abodes granted to believers according to their respective merits, ii. 370.
- Abraham, the lesson taught him by God, i. 281;
- and Isaac and Jacob, ii. 12;
- and Sarah, 362.
- Abraham, the three days’ journey of, to Moriah, ii. 264, 265.
- Abstinence enjoined, i. 201.
- Abstraction from material things necessary to obtain a true knowledge of God, ii. 261, etc.
- Accusation, employed by the Instructor, i. 168.
- Acephalus, the star so called, i. 209.
- Acrothorakes, i. 202, and note.
- Act well, to, better than to speak well, i. 381.
- Adages, the, of philosophers, ii. 392.
- Adam, the state in which he was created, ii. 359.
- Admonition, i. 164, 177.
- Adornment, in what case permitted to women, i. 315.
- Adornment, the true, i. 268.
- Advent, the, of Christ, the benefits conferred by, i. 100.
- Advent, the, of the Instructor, pre-intimations of, ii. 404.
- Æacus, and the Delphic oracle, ii. 319.
- Ægis, the, of Jove, described poetically, ii. 69.
- Æsop quoted, ii. 429.
- Æschylus quoted, ii. 288, 296.
- Afflictions, voluntary, i. 304.
- Agapæ, i. 188, 189.
- Agatho, the tragedian, quoted, ii. 300.
- Αἰῶνες, i. 342, note.
- Alcmæon, i. 403.
- Alexander the Great, canonized as a god, i. 90;
- and the Indian Gymnosophists, a curious story of, ii. 324, 325.
- Alexander, the philosopher, referred to, i. 397.
- Alexander Polyhistor quoted, i. 436.
- Alexarchus, i. 59.
- Alexis, the comic poet, quoted, i. 271.
- Altar, the true, ii. 428, 429.
- Amaranth, i. 237.
- Ambiguity prevented by definition, ii. 496, etc.
- Amosis, i. 421.
- Amours of the gods, the, i. 39, etc.
- Amphion of Thebes, i. 17;
- quoted, ii. 286.
- Amusements, i. 325.
- Anacharsis, king of the Scythians, a story of, i. 33.
- Anacharsis, the philosopher, i. 399, 403; ii. 247.
- Anacreon quoted, i. 322.
- Analysis and demonstration, ii. 495.
- Anaxagoras, i. 403.
- Anaxarchus, i. 373.
- Androcydes quoted respecting the Ephesian Letters, ii. 247;
- on drunkenness and gluttony, 430.
- Angels, ii. 275;
- distributed to the nations, 398;
- good things given by God through, 400;
- other references to, 412, 414.
- Angels that fell, i. 283.
- Anger of the gods, the, i. 159, 163.
- Animal-worship, i. 45, 46;
- superior to image-worship, 56.
- Animals, the sort forbidden to the Jews as food, i. 326;
- distinction between, of clean and unclean, its symbolical significance, ii. 488, 489.
- Animals, the dialect of, i. 443.
- Animals and plants, ii. 497.
- Anointing the feet of Jesus, i. 230.
- Anointing of Jesus by God, i. 233.
- Antinous, i. 55.
- Antiochus of Cyzicus, i. 57.
- Antipatrus quoted, ii. 278.
- Antiphanes, the comic poet, quoted, i. 278.
- Antiphon, i. 404.
- Antiquity, the, of the Hebrew philosophy, i. 421, etc.
- Antisthenes quoted, i. 71, 74; ii. 62.
- Anxiety, i. 256.
- Aod, i. 425, 426.
- Apelles, an anecdote of, i. 270.
- Aphrodite, i. 28, 42, 44, 45.
- Apion quoted, i. 421.
- Apis, an Egyptian god, i. 54, 57, 424.
- Apollo, i. 42, 44;
- meaning of the name, 488.
- Apollodorus of Corcyra quoted, ii. 250.
- Apollodorus of Cuma, i. 404.
- Apostles, the opinion of the, respecting veiling the mysteries of the faith, ii. 257–261;
- why chosen, 365.
- Appetite, the third division of the soul, i. 273;
- what, ii. 37.
- Arabs, the, i. 290.
- Aratus quoted, i. 73, 102; ii. 81;
- quoted by St. Paul, i. 413.
- Archilochus quoted, ii. 294.
- Archons, the, of Athens, i. 257.
- Ares, derivation of the name, i. 66.
- Arion of Methymna, i. 17.
- Aristippus, the Cyrenean, quoted, i. 232, 234; ii. 67.
- Aristo quoted, ii. 62.
- Aristocritus, his Positions against Heracliodorus quoted, ii. 239.
- Aristophanes quoted, i. 269, 278; ii. 159, 160, 370.
- Aristotle quoted, ii. 10, 272.
- Ark, the, of the Covenant, ii. 242.
- Armour of God, the, i. 104.
- Ἄρνες, i. 121.
- Art, i. 60, 61, 65, 90.
- Artapanus quoted, i. 451.
- Artist, the great, i. 90, 91.
- Artorius, i. 202.
- Arts, the, proceed from God, i. 364.
- Arts, the Barbarians inventors of the, i. 401.
- Arts, sophistical and useless, i. 376.
- Asclepius, i. 37.
- Asking, ii. 490.
- Ass, the fish so called, i. 198.
- Assent, the causes of, ii. 505.
- Assimilation to God, according to Plato, the chief good, i. 74–78.
- Associates, i. 325.
- Association, with whom to be sought, i. 292.
- Ἀστραγάλοι, i. 325, note.
- Astronomy, the influence of the study of, ii. 356.
- Ἀσωτία and ἄσωστον, i. 206.
- Ἀσώτους, i. 190.
- Athene, i. 30;
- six so named, 36.
- Athenodorus, i. 54.
- Atheist, the, and the superstitious man, ii. 408.
- Atheists, who were so called among the heathen, i. 33, 34, 66.
- Athlete, the ancient, i. 297.
- Athlete, the true, described, ii. 419.
- Attica, the, quoted, i. 423.
- Attis, i. 30.
- Authors and speakers compared, i. 349–359.
- Bacchic Orgies, the, i. 27.
- Bacchylides quoted, ii. 262, 286, 299.
- Balance, stepping over the, forbidden by Pythagoras, ii. 238.
- Banquets, proper conduct at, i. 225.
- Baptism, various references to, i. 91, 132, 133, 134, 135, 147, 181, 417; ii. 7, 208.
- Baptism, the, of Christ, i. 131.
- Barbarian philosophy, the, the Greeks pilferers of, ii. 1;
- perfect, 3.
- Barbarians, the, hate luxury, i. 290;
- the Greek philosophy in great part derived from, 395, etc.;
- inventors of the arts, 401.
- Barnabas quoted, ii. 19, 22, 41, 50, 66, 258, 340.
- Basilides, and Valentinus, and their followers, their views of faith, ii. 6, 7, 17;
- the vagaries of, as to fear being the cause of all things, 22, 25;
- his opinions respecting continence and marriage refuted, 84–86;
- his idea of martyrdom refuted, 175–179;
- and Valentinus, and Marcion, 486, 487.
- Βατάλοι, i. 289.
- Baths, shameful behaviour in, i. 296, 297;
- why we should use, 308, 309.
- Barley loaves, the five, and the two fishes, the mystical significance of, ii. 358.
- Baubo and Demeter, i. 31.
- Beard, the, the ornament of the man, i. 286;
- not to be plucked, 289;
- as to shaving, 317.
- Beatitudes, the, some points in, ii. 150.
- Beauty, the true, i. 268, 271, 273–275, 319, 320.
- Beds, luxuries to be avoided, i. 240–243.
- Bedu, ii. 248, 249.
- Believer, the, the most punished of all men, ii. 367.
- Belly-demon, the, i. 197.
- Beneficence, i. 302; ii. 57.
- Benefits, the many, conferred by the advent of Christ, i. 100.
- Benevolence, ii. 18.
- Berosus’ Chaldaics quoted, i. 67.
- Bewailing one’s fate, i. 168.
- Bezaleel, i. 364.
- Bion, i. 60.
- Birds, the voices of, i. 244.
- Birds of prey, and ravenous, forbidden the Jews as food, i. 326; ii. 252.
- Blackbird, the, i. 245.
- Blame and praise, i. 177.
- Blood of Christ, the, i. 140, 200.
- Blood, the, of the Word, ii. 141, 142, 143, 145.
- Bocchoris, the just decision of, ii. 192.
- Body, the proper care of the, i. 186;
- against embellishing the, 276–283.
- Book, who first published a, i. 403.
- Boys and girls to be denied wine, i. 201.
- Bread from heaven, the, i. 144.
- Breastplate, the, of the high priest, its symbolical importance, ii. 242, 243.
- Brimo, i. 28.
- Britain, a curious cave in the island of, ii. 322.
- Bryaxis, i. 54.
- Buddha, i. 399.
- Burning bush, the, i. 238.
- Butter, its spiritual significance, i. 148.
- Buying and selling, i. 328.
- Cabiri, the orgies and mysteries of the, i. 30.
- Cadmus, i. 401, 402, 424.
- Callimachus quoted, i. 37, 43; ii. 262, 280, 281, 284, 285.
- Calling, the sin of neglecting God’s, i. 80, etc.
- Calves, believers figuratively called, i. 123.
- Camels, the, of the Arabs, i. 290.
- Cambyses, i. 57.
- Captivity, the, of Israel, i. 433, 434.
- Carpocrates and Epiphanes, their opinion respecting a community of women refuted, ii. 86–89.
- Castor and Pollux, i. 38.
- Cause and causation, i. 406–408, 418, 419.
- Causes, different kinds of, ii. 508–514.
- Censure, i. 157.
- Cernos, the, i. 29, note.
- Chains of gold, fetters, i. 269.
- “Chair of pestilence, the,” ii. 41.
- Charioteers, the two, in which Heaven delights, i. 282.
- Charity, the kiss of, i. 329.
- Charon, the centaur, i. 400.
- Chastisement, i. 465.
- Cherubim, the golden, ii. 242.
- Chickens, believers so called, i. 124.
- Chiding, i. 177.
- Chief good, the, various opinions of the philosophers respecting, ii. 71–74;
- Plato’s opinion of, 74–78.
- Child, the, and the man, i. 136.
- Child, the little, who, i. 125.
- Child born, Christ the, i. 130.
- Children of God, who are, i. 122, etc.;
- the name does not imply instruction in elementary principles, 131, etc.;
- mode of disciplining, 164.
- “Chrestoi,” ii. 11.
- Christ the Saviour, a hymn to, i. 343.
- Christ, the many benefits conferred by the advent of, i. 100–105;
- the Word, 104;
- the Son of God, in the form of man, free from human passions, 115;
- typified by Isaac, 129;
- the voice from heaven to, at His baptism, 131;
- in what sense all who came before Him were thieves and robbers, 406;
- free from all human affections, ii. 344.
- Christian, the, alone rich, i. 298.
- Christian life, the, a compendious view of, i. 213, etc.;
- general precepts for the regulation of, 332, etc.
- Christians, ii. 11.
- Chronology in relation to Greek and Hebrew philosophy, i. 421, etc., 447.
- Church, the, a mother, i. 142.
- Church, the traditions of, prior to heresy, ii. 485.
- Church, the true, ii. 487.
- Church, the grades of dignity in, imitations of angelic glory, ii. 366.
- Church, going to, i. 328;
- behaviour out of, 329.
- Cinyras, i. 28.
- Classification, ii. 506.
- Clean and unclean animals, the symbolical significance of the distinction between, ii. 488.
- Cleansing, spiritual, i. 309.
- Cleanthes quoted, i. 72; ii. 231, 286, 429, 430.
- Clemens, Titus Flavius, a sketch of the history of, i. 11;
- an account of his works, 12–16;
- refers to his own writings, 355–359.
- Clement of Rome, passages from his Epistle to the Corinthians respecting martyrdom, ii. 187–190;
- other quotations from, 340, 341.
- Clothes, considerations and counsels respecting, i. 255, etc.;
- anxiety about, 256;
- given for a covering, 258;
- foolish kinds of, 258;
- dyeing of, forbidden, 258, 259;
- gorgeous, 259;
- of the primal man, 261;
- of John the Baptist, 261;
- long, 261, 262;
- extravagance in, to be avoided, 262;
- purple, prohibited, 262, 263;
- shoes, 264, 265;
- plain, 313;
- white, 314;
- substantial, 314;
- suited to sex, age, etc., 315.
- Cnaxzbi, ii. 250.
- Coat, Joseph’s, of many colours, interpreted, ii. 253.
- Colour in clothes, i. 258, 259;
- white, 314.
- Colts, untamed, i. 124.
- Comic poets, nameless, quoted, i. 322.
- Command, the universal, i. 101.
- Commandments, the, expounded: the first and second, ii. 383;
- the fourth, 386–391;
- the fifth, sixth, and seventh, 391;
- the eighth and tenth, 392.
- Communion, the innate and original, of man with heaven, i. 34.
- Community of women, Carpocrates’ and Epiphanes’ opinions respecting, refuted, i. 86–89.
- Complaint, i. 165.
- Compositions, written and spoken, compared, i. 349–359.
- Concupiscence, the Lord free from, ii. 458.
- Conjecture, ii. 10.
- Contempt for pain and poverty, ii. 148.
- Continence, in what respect that of Christians excels that claimed by the philosophers, ii. 110, etc.
- Conversation, the regulation of, i. 228.
- Coveting, the mandates of the law and of Christ prohibiting, ii. 117.
- Corybantes, the orgies of the, i. 30.
- Costly vessels and furniture, i. 211.
- “Counsel of the ungodly, the,” ii. 41.
- Counsels, the, of the Instructor, i. 174, 175.
- Courage and cowardice, ii. 453, 454.
- Crapulousness, i. 204.
- Crates, the Theban, quoted, ii. 68, 69.
- Cratinus quoted, i. 363; ii. 249.
- Criterion, the, for distinguishing between truth and error, ii. 476.
- Crœsus, i. 49.
- Cropping the hair, i. 317, 318.
- Crowns, the use of, as ornaments, disapproved, i. 235–237.
- Cruelty, the, involved in sacrifices to the gods, i. 48.
- Cud, chewing the, i. 326; ii. 251, 252, 448.
- Custom, the, of forefathers, objections to abandoning, refuted, i. 85, 89;
- to be abandoned, 106, etc.
- Culture, the benefits of, i. 371, 379.
- Cups of gold and silver censured, i. 211.
- Dactyli, i. 400.
- Daniel, i. 432;
- the chronology of the book of, 445, etc.
- Dardanus, i. 27.
- Darkness hides not the fornicator from God, i. 253.
- Day, the seventh, ii. 386, etc.
- Death, Valentinian’s vagaries about the abolition of, refuted, ii. 179–182.
- Deborah, i. 426.
- Decalogue, the Gnostic exposition of the, ii. 383, etc.
- Definition, the need of perspicuous, ii. 491, 492;
- prevents ambiguity, 496, etc.
- Degrees of glory in heaven, ii. 365, etc.;
- more than salvation, 366, etc.
- Degrees of knowledge, ii. 371.
- Deities, female, their vile character, i. 40.
- Deluge, the, ii. 334.
- Demeter, i. 28;
- the mysteries of, 28;
- and Baubo, 31.
- Demetrius, king, raised to the rank of a god, i. 59.
- Demetrius of Phalerus, i. 448.
- Demetrius, his book on the kings in Judæa quoted, i. 442.
- Democritus, i. 397.
- Demons, i. 60; ii. 271, 294;
- plagues, etc., attributed to, 321.
- Demonstration, ii. 472, etc.;
- and syllogism, 493;
- and analysis, 495.
- Denunciation, i. 168.
- Desire, the duty of repressing, ii. 192, 193.
- Devil, the, matched by our Lord, i. 380;
- a thief and a robber, 408;
- a wicked spirit, referred to by Plato, ii. 276;
- transformed, 341.
- Dialects of men, gods, and animals, i. 443; ii. 380, 381.
- Dialectic, the true, i. 467.
- Dice prohibited, i. 325.
- Didymus, the grammarian, quoted, ii. 248.
- Diogenes quoted, ii. 68.
- Dino, i. 67.
- Dion, the philosopher, cited, ii. 194.
- Dion Thytes quoted, ii. 248.
- Dionysian mysteries, the, i. 29;
- a vile story of, 41.
- Dionysius, i. 41, 45.
- Dionysius Iambus quoted, ii. 249.
- Dionysius, the tyrant, i. 57.
- Dionysius Thrax quoted, ii. 248.
- Diphilus, the comic poet, quoted, ii. 291, 423.
- Directions for those who live together, i. 225.
- Discipline, various modes of, adopted by the Instructor, i. 164, etc.
- Dives and Lazarus, i. 257.
- Divination, i. 26, 27.
- Divine things wrapped up in figures, ii. 232, etc.
- Division, logical, ii. 503.
- Dogs, giving holy things to, ii. 5.
- Δόξα, i. 257.
- Doubts, the causes of, ii. 505.
- Draco, i. 404.
- Dreams, i. 243; ii. 192, 193.
- Dress. See Clothing.
- Drinking, water most suitable for, i. 199;
- water to be preferred to wine for, 201;
- intemperance in, censured, 205, etc.;
- decency in, 207;
- the example of Jesus as to, 208;
- considered in relation to women, 209.
- Drunken bouts, and drunkards, i. 204.
- Dyeing of the hair, the impropriety of, i. 235;
- and the clothes, 257.
- Earrings, i. 315.
- Ears, the, not to be bored for rings or drops, i. 272.
- East, turning to the, ii. 436.
- Eating, the regulation of ourselves in, i. 186;
- the end of, is to live, 186, 187;
- epicurism in, to be avoided, 187, etc.;
- moderation in, 192;
- viewed in relation to things sacrificed to idols, 193;
- temperance in, 193, 194;
- speaking while, to be avoided, 195;
- proper food for, 196.
- Eating the flesh of Christ, i. 140, 143.
- Eclectic philosophy, the, paves the way to virtue, i. 374.
- Eetion, i. 27.
- Effeminacy in men described and condemned, i. 284–291.
- Egyptian styles of writing, ii. 233.
- Egyptian symbols of sacred things, ii. 245, 246.
- Egyptian temples, i. 276.
- Egyptians, their various objects of worship, i. 45;
- inventors of arts, 401;
- gods of the, 438;
- temples of the, i. 276;
- sacred symbols of the, ii. 245, 246;
- styles of writing of the, 233;
- the Greeks drew many of their philosophical tenets from, 323, 324;
- did not allow their priests to feed on flesh, 430.
- Egyptians, the, spoiled by the Israelites, i. 453;
- overthrown in the Red Sea, 457.
- Elements, the, worshipped by the heathen, i. 386.
- Eleusinian mysteries, the, i. 32.
- Elias, i. 301.
- Embellishing the body, considerations condemnatory of, i. 276–284.
- Empedocles quoted, i. 36; ii. 209, 225, 231, 249, 250, 269, 283, 292, 301.
- Emperors, the Roman, i. 444.
- Empirics, the, i. 379.
- Employments, useful, the propriety, decency, and profitableness of, i. 310–312.
- Encouragement, i. 175.
- Enemies, loving our, ii. 181, 182.
- Enigmas, ii. 233.
- Ephesian Letters quoted, the, ii. 247.
- Epicharmes quoted, ii. 15, 217, 381, 389, 424.
- Epicurism, i. 187.
- Epicurus, i. 68;
- his view of faith, ii. 10;
- of pleasure, 71, 72.
- Epigenes on the Poetry of Orpheus, quoted, ii. 351.
- Ἐπιστήμη, ii. 205, 206.
- Equivocal terms, ii. 507.
- Eratosthenes, i. 404.
- Eros, i. 50.
- Errors, an exhortation to forsake old, i. 106, etc.
- Esoteric and exoteric, ii. 55.
- Esther, adorns herself for her husband, i. 281;
- her influence, ii. 194.
- Eternity, i. 389.
- Eubulus, the comic poet, quoted, ii. 427.
- Eucharist, the, i. 201, 416.
- Εὐκράσια, i. 179.
- Εὐλάβεια, ii. 20.
- Eumolpidæ, the, i. 31.
- Eunomos, the Locrian and the Pythic grasshopper, i. 17.
- Eunuch, a, forbidden by Moses to enter the congregation, i. 34.
- Euphorbion, the poet, quoted, ii. 239, 249.
- Eupolemus quoted, i. 442, 451.
- Euphrone, night so called, why? ii. 204.
- Euripides quoted, i. 34, 38, 70, 75, 107, 281, 282, 283, 305, 377, 400, 468; ii. 39, 62, 91, 163, 196, 197, 263, 266, 287, 300.
- Eurysus, the Pythagorean, cited, ii. 238.
- Εὐτέλεια, i. 304, note.
- Eva, the bacchanal cry of, i. 27.
- Eve, i. 286.
- Evil, hatred of, i. 160.
- Excellence, the true, of man, ii. 142.
- Excess forbidden, i. 194, 206.
- Execestus, tyrant of Phocis, i. 438.
- Exercises, the, suited to a good life, i. 310–312.
- Exhortation, i. 175.
- Exhortation, to turn to God from idols, i. 87–99;
- to abandon old errors, 106, etc.
- Exodus, the, of Israel from Egypt, i. 439, 452, 453.
- Expectation, ii. 16, 17.
- Experience, ii. 43.
- Eyes, the improper movements of, i. 322;
- the government of, 230.
- Ezekiel, the Jewish tragedian, quoted, i. 452, 453.
- Face, painting the, censured, i. 319.
- Face of God, the, i. 152.
- Faith, connected with salvation, i. 133, 134, 135;
- the knowledge of God attained through, ii. 3–6;
- not a product of nature, 6–8;
- the foundation of all knowledge, 8–12;
- its excellence, 16–20;
- the knowledge which comes through, the surest of all, 30–33;
- twofold, 33–35;
- further and fuller discussion of, 220, etc.;
- the objects of, perceived by the mind alone, 229, etc.;
- must be followed by works, 367;
- the foundation of knowledge, 446;
- itself a comprehensive knowledge, 447.
- Falsehood and theft, i. 420.
- Fast, and fasting, the true, i. 335; ii. 363;
- as practised by the true Gnostic, 461.
- Father, God recognised by the heathen as, ii. 297, 298.
- Father of the universe, the, i. 128.
- Fear, the influence of, i. 168;
- two sorts of, 171, 172;
- the utility of, ii. 20–22;
- the silly notion of Valentinian and Basilides respecting, 22–25;
- good, 25.
- Feasts, reason to rule at, i. 204;
- the conduct to be observed at, 215.
- Feet, bare, recommended, i. 264, 265.
- Feet of the Lord, the, i. 230.
- Fetters, gold chains asserted to be, i. 269.
- Figures, divine things enveloped in, ii. 232, etc.
- Filthy speaking condemned, i. 222–224.
- Finery, the evil of love of, i. 279, 280.
- Fire corrects superstition, i. 58.
- Fire, the pillar of, i. 458.
- Fire-worship, i. 67.
- First-born sons, i. 81.
- First Cause, the, of the universe, to be apprehended by faith only, ii. 9.
- First principles, ii. 8, 9, 494.
- Five loaves, the, broken by Christ, the mystical signification of, ii. 240, 241.
- Flesh, animal, its effects as food, ii. 429, 430.
- Flesh of Christ, eating the, i. 140, 143, 145.
- Flock, the, of the Lord, i. 462.
- Flowers, not to be woven into a crown, i. 235, 236;
- the peculiar properties of some, 236;
- the beauty of, 255.
- Food, discrimination to be used as to, i. 186, 187;
- epicurism in, to be avoided, 187, 188;
- the proper kinds of, 196, etc.
- Forefathers, the objections against abandoning the customs of, refuted, i. 85–99.
- Forgiveness, i. 336.
- Fornication, the sin of, i. 253.
- Fortitude, ii. 454.
- Fortune, the goddess of, i. 56.
- Friendship, three kinds of, ii. 59.
- Frugality, i. 95;
- enjoined on the Jews, 197;
- a good provision for the Christian, 301–304.
- Games, the Grecian, i. 41.
- Γαστριμαργία, i. 194.
- Generalization and induction, ii. 502.
- Generalship, the ideas involved in, i. 456.
- Geometry, the mystic meanings in the ratios of, ii. 353.
- Germans, the, i. 399.
- Gideon, i. 426.
- Glory, degrees of, in heaven, ii. 365, 366, etc.
- Gluttony, i. 193, 194.
- Gnosis, ii. 43.
- Gnostic, the true, an imitator of God, ii. 57;
- exercises patience and self-restraint, 60;
- described, 199–202;
- does good for the sake of the good, 202, etc.;
- erudite, 340, 344;
- free from all perturbations of the soul, 344–348;
- avails himself of the help of all human knowledge, 449–451;
- the extent of his knowledge, 357;
- how he benefits men, 400;
- the use of philosophy to, 401, etc.;
- a true worshipper of God, unjustly calumniated, 406, etc.;
- aims at the nearest likeness to God, 414, etc.;
- the sort of prayer employed by, and how it finds acceptance with God, 431, etc.;
- is kingly and priestly, 432;
- magnanimous, 438;
- mild, meek, and contented, 439;
- self-trained, 439, 440;
- rejoices in present good, 440;
- helped by God, 440, 441;
- demands his reward like a successful athlete, 441;
- prays always, 442;
- is far from being ready to lie and swear, 442, 443;
- a description of the life of, 449, etc.;
- beneficent, content, and despising worldly things, 455, etc., 465, etc.;
- further description of, 466, etc.;
- description of, furnished by an exposition of 1 Cor. vi. 1, etc., 468–472;
- abides by Scripture, and prospers, 484.
- Gnostic exposition of the Decalogue, ii. 383–393.
- Goats, and goats’ flesh, ii. 430.
- God, alone to be worshipped, i. 65;
- opinions of the philosophers respecting, 66, etc.;
- the sin of neglecting the calling of, 80;
- the folly of forsaking, 87;
- the great Artist, 90, 91;
- the image of, 91, 109, 110;
- sin and misery of ignorance of, 92, 93;
- why He created man, 118, 119;
- the children of, described, 122;
- His love, 155, 156;
- is good, 159, 161;
- His anger, 159, 163;
- seeks to lead men to repentance, 160;
- one, 161;
- no darkness hides from, 253;
- the arts proceed from, as well as divine knowledge, 364, etc.;
- not the author of evil, 407;
- seeing Him, 415;
- the knowledge of, to be obtained only through faith, ii. 3;
- near and far off, 4;
- explanation of the Scriptures which ascribe human affections to, 43–45;
- abstraction from things material, necessary to obtain a true knowledge of, 261, etc.;
- a conception of, how to be reached, 264;
- not capable of being expressed, 264;
- one temple erected to, by Moses, and no image of, 265;
- made the world, not from need, being all-sufficient, 266;
- cannot be embraced in words, or by the mind, 268–270;
- difficult to discourse of, 269, 270;
- the knowledge of, a divine gift, 270–273;
- the ever-existing manifestation of, to all right-thinking men, 273;
- man made in the image of, 277;
- heathen testimonies to, 285;
- not to be thought of, according to the opinion of the multitude, 286, 292, 293–297;
- some knowledge of, possessed by the Greeks, 326–328;
- an imperfect knowledge of, conveyed by philosophy, 393, etc.;
- the sacrifice required by, 415;
- self-sufficient, and not influenced or warped by sacrifices, 416;
- the soul of the righteous an image of, 417;
- not to be localized or circumscribed, 425, 426;
- hears prayer in every place, 433;
- is good, not involuntarily, but of choice, 436;
- hears prayer, although unuttered, 437.
- God, seeing, i. 25.
- Gods, the, the origin of, i. 34, 35;
- human, 37;
- the loves of the, 39, etc.;
- vile conduct of, 41, etc.;
- cruelty involved in the sacrifices offered to, 48;
- tombs of, 50, 51;
- shameful images of, 52, etc.;
- opinions of the philosophers respecting, 66–68;
- the ministers of, 86;
- ideal and imaginary, 93;
- of the Egyptians, 438;
- dialect attributed to, by Plato, 443;
- made by the heathen like themselves, ii. 421, etc.
- Gold and silver, the symbolical import of, i. 232.
- Gold and silver cups and vessels, condemned, i. 211;
- against fondness for, 266, etc.
- Good, the chief, various opinions of the philosophers respecting, ii. 71–74;
- Plato’s opinion of, 74–78.
- Good life, a, the exercises suitable to, i. 310, etc.
- Good man, the, without passions, ii. 453.
- Good manners at feasts, i. 229.
- Gospel, the, preached to Jews and Gentiles in Hades, ii. 328–335.
- Gospel, the, the universal diffusion of, in contrast to philosophy, ii. 405.
- Gothoniel, i. 425.
- Grasshopper, the Pythic, i. 17.
- Greece, a succession of philosophers in, i. 391.
- Greek philosophy, derived in great part from the Barbarians, i. 395;
- gave utterance to some truth, 413, 415;
- its use in contributing to the comprehension of divine truth, 418–420.
- Greek translation of the Old Testament, i. 448.
- Greeks, the, imitated Moses’ generalship, i. 456, 457;
- but children compared with the Hebrews, 469;
- pilferers of the Barbarian philosophy, ii. 1;
- drew from the sacred Scriptures, proved, 12–15;
- derived their ethics from the Mosaic law, 47–57;
- plagiarisms of, from the Hebrews, 272;
- plagiarisms from one another, illustrated at large, 304, etc.;
- plagiarism of the miracles related in Scripture, 319, etc.;
- derived many of their philosophical tenets from the Egyptians and Indian Gymnosophists, 323–325;
- possessed some knowledge of the true God, 326–328.
- Guidance, divine, i. 150.
- Γύνιδες, i. 289.
- Gymnosophists, the, i. 398, 399;
- the Greeks indebted to, for some of their philosophical tenets, ii. 324, 325.
- Hades, the gospel preached to Jews and Gentiles in, ii. 328–335.
- Hagar, i. 368, 369.
- Hair, the, the impropriety of dyeing, i. 235;
- the custom of eradicating, by pitch plasters, censured, 284–287;
- regulations as to, 317;
- false, forbidden, 318.
- Hatred of evil, i. 160.
- Hay, the figurative import of, i. 257.
- Head, a cropped, commended, i. 318.
- Health and knowledge, the difference between, i. 114.
- Heart, eating the, ii. 239.
- Heart, an uncared, ii. 65.
- Heathen, the, exhorted to forsake impious rites, i. 17, etc.;
- the abominable rites practised by, described, 26, etc.;
- the gods of, 34, etc.;
- cruel sacrifices among, 48, etc.;
- absurdity of the images of their gods, 52, etc.;
- the objections of, to abandoning the customs of their forefathers, refuted, 85, etc.;
- treated righteously by God, ii. 368;
- made gods like themselves, 421, etc.
- Heaven, degrees of glory in, ii. 365.
- Heavenly bodies, the, given by God to the Gentiles to be worshipped, ii. 368.
- Hebraic character, the, of the Greek philosophy, i. 392.
- Hebrew dialects, ii. 380.
- Hebrew philosophy, the, of higher antiquity than that of the Greeks, i. 421, etc.
- Hebrew prophets, the, i. 425, 435, 439.
- Hebrews, the Greeks but children compared with, i. 469, etc.;
- the plagiarisms of the Greeks from, ii. 274, etc.
- Hellenic philosophy, the multitude frightened at, ii. 350.
- Hellenic truth, i. 419.
- Helots, the Lacedæmonian, i. 305.
- Hephæstus, i. 37.
- Heracleon, the Valentinian, quoted, ii. 171.
- Heraclitus, the Ephesian, quoted, i. 32, 67; ii. 11, 15, 162, 204, 205, 226, 301.
- Hercules, i. 38, 40, 400.
- Heresies, the diversities of, made an objection to join the church, ii. 472–474.
- Heresies and philosophy, aids in discovering truth, ii. 376, etc.
- Heresy, i. 416;
- the criterion of distinguishing between, and truth, ii. 476, etc.;
- the traditions of the church prior to, 485, etc.
- Heretics, the pretexts used by, for indulging licentiousness and lusts of every kind, ii. 95, etc.;
- two sorts of, 102–105;
- passages of Scripture perverted by, to the disparagement of marriage, 112, etc., 116, etc., 121, 129, etc., 130, 132.
- Hermas quoted, i. 408, 467, 470; ii. 27, 28, 34.
- Herodotus quoted, ii. 91.
- Hesiod quoted, i. 46, 73, 290, 296, 305, 364, 372, 424, 470; ii. 230, 280, 295, 427.
- Hevia, i. 27.
- Hiccup and sneezing, i. 229.
- High priest’s robe, the, its symbolic import, ii. 243.
- Hipparchus, the Pythagorean, quoted, ii. 255.
- Hippias, i. 457.
- Hippo, immortalizes his own death, i. 59;
- Euripides quoted respecting, 400.
- Hippocrates of Cos quoted, ii. 71.
- Hippodamus, the Pythagorean, quoted, ii. 59.
- Hiram, i. 436.
- Holy place, the, of the tabernacle, ii. 240.
- Holy things not to be given to dogs, ii. 5.
- Holy women among the Germans, i. 399.
- Homer, time of the birth of, i. 429;
- quoted, 37, 39, 40, 47, 49, 51, 60, 63, 75, 93, 103, 106, 147, 228, 268, 282, 364, 392, 468; ii. 281, 284, 288, 289, 295, 305, 306, 393, 401, 421.
- Honey, its spiritual import, i. 147, 179.
- Hoof, dividing the, i. 326; ii. 251, 488.
- Hope, ii. 17, 228, 229;
- the objects of, perceived by the mind, 229.
- Horse, the, forbidden to be eaten, ii. 252.
- Hosanna, i. 122.
- Hospitality, ii. 26.
- Human affections, how ascribed to God, ii. 43–45.
- Human sacrifices among the heathen, i. 48.
- Husband and wife, i. 304, 332, etc.
- Husband, the, of the barren woman, i. 25.
- Husbandry, twofold, i. 352.
- Husbandry, the, of the Mosaic law, its typical import, ii. 56.
- Hyena, the, i. 246, 247.
- Hylobii, the, i. 399.
- Hymn to Christ the Saviour, a, i. 343–345.
- Hymn, a noble, of God, i. 96, 97.
- Hypotyposes, the, of Clement, i. 15.
- Idanthuris, king of the Scythians, his symbolic message to Darius, ii. 247.
- Idolatry, the origin of, i. 34, 35.
- Idols to be rejected, ii. 402.
- Idols, the ministers of, i. 86.
- Idols, things sacrificed to, to be rejected, i. 91.
- Illumination, i. 132; ii. 259.
- Image of God, the, i. 91, 109, 110; ii. 277.
- Images of the gods, the, the absurdity and shamefulness of some, i. 52, etc.;
- the stupidity of the worship of, 56, 57;
- often of beautiful material and form, but senseless and shameful, 61, 91.
- Immodesty of women in baths, i. 296, 297.
- Indignation, i. 168.
- Indians, the philosophy of the, ii. 324, 325.
- Induction, ii. 502.
- Inquiry, philosophical and theological, its object, ii. 490.
- Instructor, the, the office of, i. 113;
- His treatment of our sins, 115;
- the philanthropy of, 118;
- men and women alike under the charge of, 121;
- who He is, 149–151;
- deals with us as we do with children, 164;
- mode of His discipline, 165;
- instructs by the law and the prophets, 179, 180;
- His severity and benignity, 181.
- Instructors among the Persians, i. 150.
- Insult, the fruit of drunkenness, i. 225.
- Intellect, the, i. 273.
- Intemperance, i. 204.
- Intercourse, the regulation of, i. 225.
- Intoxication, i. 204, 208, 210.
- Invective, i. 166.
- Inventors, and inventions among the Barbarians, i. 402.
- Invitation addressed to the heathen to come to Christ the Word, i. 107, etc.
- Involuntary, how a thing may be, ii. 37.
- Ionic Muses, the, quoted, ii. 56.
- Iophon, the comic poet, quoted, i. 363.
- Iota, i. 171.
- Ipse dixit, the, of the followers of Pythagoras, ii. 15.
- Isaac, the import of the name, i. 128;
- a type, 129, 369; ii. 12.
- Isidore, son of Basilides, quoted, ii. 65, 334.
- Isis, i. 424.
- Isocrates quoted, ii. 262.
- Israel, ii. 12.
- Jacob, i. 24, 369.
- Jerusalem, i. 367.
- Jerusalem, the heavenly, its garniture, i. 266, 267.
- Jesting, i. 227.
- Jesus Christ, the Instructor and Shepherd, i. 149, 151;
- as an example in eating and drinking, 208;
- anointed by the woman who was a sinner, 230, etc.;
- anointed by the Father, 233.
- Jesus, the son of Nave, his vision of Moses ascending to heaven, ii. 382.
- Jewels, excessive fondness of, censured, i. 266.
- Jewish laws, of higher antiquity than Greek philosophy, i. 421, etc.
- Jews, frugality enjoined on, i. 197, 198;
- antiquity of the philosophy of, 399.
- Jibing condemned, i. 226.
- John the Baptist, the forerunner of the Word, i. 24;
- his clothing, 261;
- his confession, ii. 253, 254.
- Joking, i. 227.
- Joseph, his chastity, i. 321, 322;
- envied by his brothers, his coat of many colours, ii. 252, 253.
- Josephus, i. 446.
- Joshua, i. 425.
- Judas, i. 231.
- Judges, the, of Israel, i. 425, etc.
- Judgment, the, Diphilus the comic poet quoted on, ii. 291.
- Judith, ii. 194.
- Julius Cassianus, De Continentia vel Castitate, a reply to, ii. 128, etc.
- Jupiter, three of the name, i. 36;
- character of, 43;
- the image of, stripped by Dionysius, 57.
- Just One, the, is also good, i. 155, etc.
- Κιναίδες, i. 294.
- King, Christ the, typified by Abimelech, i. 129.
- Kingly office, the, i. 455.
- Kings, the, of Israel, i. 426, etc.;
- of Persia, 435;
- of Macedon, 435.
- Kiss, the, between husbands and wives, i. 332.
- Kiss of charity, the, i. 329.
- Knocking, ii. 490.
- “Know thyself,” the adage, ii. 234, 420.
- Knowledge, i. 343;
- objections to, answered, 357;
- the advantage of, 361;
- different degrees of, 371;
- and love, 374;
- true, found in the teaching of Christ alone, 375, 403;
- human, necessary to the understanding of the Scriptures, i. 379, 380;
- the primary, 403;
- of the truth, whence it is, 403;
- of God, to be attained only through faith, ii. 3;
- faith the foundation of all, 8, etc.;
- that which comes through faith, the surest of all, 30–33;
- of things predicted, 33;
- various kinds of, 45, 46;
- of God, to be obtained only through abstraction from material things, 361;
- an imperfect kind of, conveyed by philosophy, 393.
- Knowledge and health, the difference between, i. 114.
- Knowledge of God, a divine gift, ii. 270, etc.
- Kore, i. 29.
- Κραπάλη, i. 204.
- Lacedæmonian helots, the, i. 305.
- Laertius cited in reference to the celebrated αὐτὸς ἔφα, ii. 15.
- Λαγνεία, i. 249.
- Lambs, the, of Christ, i. 123, 125.
- Lamp, the golden, of the tabernacle, ii. 241.
- Language, the proper regulation of, i. 222–224.
- Laughter, i. 219;
- how to be regulated, 220;
- excessive, forbidden, 227.
- Laughter, spiritual, i. 128, 129.
- Law, its dignity, ii. 12.
- Law, the, given by Moses, i. 153;
- designed to restrain transgression, 179;
- aims at the good of men, 464;
- the beneficent action of, 466;
- fourfold division of, 467;
- how to be interpreted, 468;
- the terrors of, ii. 21;
- the source of all ethics, 47–57;
- the humanity of, 51;
- the mercy of, 53.
- Laws, divine, i. 97.
- Laws, the Jewish, more ancient than the philosophy of the Greeks, i. 421, etc.
- Lazarus and the rich man, i. 257.
- Learned, the truly, i. 379.
- Learning, the necessity of, i. 372, 373.
- Leaven, the parable of the, ii. 269.
- Legislator, Moses a divine, i. 461, etc.
- Liberorum, de procreatione, quænam tractanda sint, i. 244, etc.
- Licentiousness, i. 288.
- Life, religion in ordinary, i. 327, 328.
- Light, i. 133.
- Likeness of God, the, i. 109, 110.
- Little Iliad, The, quoted, i. 421.
- Lord, the, our Helper, the methods He employs to bring men to salvation, i. 23.
- Lord Christ, the, the Redeemer, i. 98;
- the temptation of, 380;
- the duration of His teaching, ii. 486.
- Lord’s Day, the, Plato speaks prophetically of, ii. 284.
- Lot, i. 243.
- Lot’s wife, i. 94.
- Love, celestial food, i. 189.
- Love a part of the true beauty, i. 274.
- Love and the kiss of charity, i. 329.
- Love, the many forms of, ii. 52.
- Love, Christian, commended, ii. 190.
- Love, its influence, ii. 454.
- Love, the divinity of, ii. 346.
- Love due to God from us, i. 119.
- Love and knowledge, ii. 374.
- Love, God is, i. 156.
- Love, is punishment inconsistent with? i. 156.
- Love of money, i. 214.
- Loving our enemies, ii. 181, 182.
- Lust, i. 274.
- Lustrations, ii. 263.
- Lusts, unnatural, forbidden, i. 248.
- Lusts, pretexts of the heretics for indulging in, ii. 95.
- Luxury, i. 187, etc., 212, 213.
- Luxury, the true, i. 267.
- Lycurgus, i. 404.
- Lyre, the, its mystical significance, ii. 355.
- Macedonian kings, the, i. 435.
- Mænades, the, i. 107.
- Magi, the, fire-worshippers, i. 67;
- they foretold the Saviour’s birth, 398.
- Magi, the, three curious mountains in the country of, ii. 322.
- Maiden, the model, i. 325.
- Makar and Megaclo, i. 38.
- Man, the, made in the image of God, ii. 277;
- his fall and redemption, i. 100.
- Man, the responsibility of, i. 92;
- why created by God, 118.
- Man, the true excellence of, ii. 142, etc.
- Man, an immortal, a noble hymn to God, i. 96, 97.
- Man, the Lord called a, i. 126.
- Manliness and modesty, i. 272; ii. 48, 49.
- Marcionites, the, why they abstain from marriage, ii. 86, etc.
- Marriage, its use and importance, ii. 78–83;
- Basilides’ opinion respecting, refuted, 84–86;
- why the Marcionites and other heretics abstain from, 89–94;
- passages of Scripture perverted to the disparagement of, vindicated, 112, etc., 116, etc., 129, 130, 132, etc.;
- those who vituperate, vituperate the Creator and the gospel dispensation, 133, etc.;
- two extreme opinions respecting, to be avoided, 135, etc.
- Married women not to be associated with at banquets, i. 226.
- Mars, i. 37.
- Martyr, the blessedness of the, ii. 158.
- Martyrdom eulogized, ii. 145;
- why called perfection, 146;
- the confession of God, ibid.;
- women and slaves, as well as men, candidates for the crown of, 165;
- Christ’s sayings respecting, 170;
- those who needlessly offer themselves to, reproved, 173;
- Basilides’ idea of, refuted, 175–179;
- passages from Clement’s Epistle to the Corinthians respecting, 187–190.
- Martyrs, passages of Scripture respecting the patience, constancy, and love of, ii. 184–187.
- Matthew, traditional words of, ii. 466.
- Matthias, ii. 365.
- Meaning of Scripture, reasons for veiling the, ii. 378, etc.
- Meats offered in sacrifice to idols, to be rejected, i. 193.
- Mediator, the, i. 274.
- Megasthenes quoted, i. 399.
- Melampus, i. 28.
- Melanippides quoted, ii. 287.
- Men, the folly of, in forsaking God for idols, i. 87;
- and women, under the Instructor’s charge, 121;
- who embellish themselves, 284;
- effeminate, 284, 289, 293, 294;
- employments of, 310–312.
- Menander, his description of the superstitious man, ii. 422–424;
- quoted variously, i. 70, 74, 120, 277; ii. 227, 290 bis., 295, 427.
- Menelaus and Helen, ii. 61, 62.
- Merciful, the, ii. 156.
- Methods, the, used by God in bringing men to salvation, i. 23.
- Metrodorus, the Epicurean, quoted, ii. 300.
- Midas, i. 27.
- Midianite women, the, seduce the Israelites, ii. 49, 50.
- Milk, feeding with, i. 138, 145, 146, 147;
- and water and wine, 147.
- Milk and meat, ii. 260, 261.
- Miltiades, i. 457.
- Mind, the culture of the, i. 371.
- Minerva, i. 30.
- Ministers of idols, the, i. 86.
- Minos, ii. 12.
- Miracles, the, related in Scripture, plagiarized by the Greeks, ii. 319, etc.
- Miriam, ii. 194.
- Mirrors, the use of, reprobated, i. 280, 281.
- Mistake, ii. 39.
- Model maiden, the, i. 325.
- Money, the love of, i. 214.
- Mosaic law, the, the fourfold division of, i. 467;
- the source of all ethics, ii. 47–57.
- Moses, an instructor, i. 152;
- the law given by, 153;
- the antiquity of the philosophy of, 421;
- the birth and education of, 451;
- meaning of the name, 451;
- as a military leader, 455;
- his strategy, 457;
- Plato an imitator of, 459;
- rightly called a divine legislator, 461;
- his dignity, ii. 12, 13;
- erected one temple to and no image of God, 265;
- ascends the mount, and enters the darkness by himself, 267;
- the shining of the face of, 364.
- Moses, the prophet like unto, i. 153.
- Muses, the, i. 38;
- and Syrens, 383.
- Music, the inventors of, i. 424.
- Music to be banished from feasts, i. 215.
- Music, the mystical significance of, ii. 354;
- its use, 355, 366.
- Mustard, i. 179.
- Mysteries, the, of the Christian faith, not to be divulged to all, i. 388;
- celebrated in the night, ii. 204;
- reasons for veiling, 254, 255;
- opinion of the apostles about veiling the, 257, etc.
- Mysteries, the heathen, i. 26, 27;
- derivation of the word, 27;
- of Demeter, 28;
- the Sabazian, 29;
- of Dionysius, 29;
- the Eleusinian, 32;
- of Plato, Pythagoras, and the Epicureans, ii. 255.
- Mystical meanings in the proportions of numbers, etc., ii. 352–359.
- Nabla, the, i. 402, and note.
- Nard, i. 232.
- Nations, the number of, i. 443.
- Nature possesses an adaptation for perfection, ii. 359.
- Neanthes of Cyzicum quoted, ii. 249.
- Necessaries and luxuries, i. 267.
- Nechephres, king of Egypt, i. 452.
- Neglect of God’s gracious calling, the sin of, i. 80.
- Nicagorus, i. 59.
- Nightingale, the, i. 245.
- Noah, his drunkenness, i. 210.
- Nobility, ii. 58.
- Noses, making sounds of lewdness or of provocation through, censured, i. 294.
- Νουθέτησις, i. 177.
- Numa, i. 398.
- Numbers, the mystical meaning in the proportions of, ii. 352, etc.
- Numenius quoted, i. 449.
- Nymphodorus quoted, i. 424.
- Oath, the, avoided by the true Gnostic, ii. 442–444.
- Objurgation, i. 168.
- Offence, avoiding, ii. 183.
- Oil, the use of, i. 234.
- Ointments, the use of, not necessary to Christians, i. 230;
- varieties of, 232, 239;
- render effeminate, 233;
- not to be wholly laid aside, 234.
- Old age, i. 319.
- Old men may drink wine, i. 202.
- Old Testament, the Greek translation of, i. 448.
- Olive, the wild, ii. 372, 373.
- Oracles of divination, i. 26, 27.
- Orgies, the Bacchic, i. 27;
- derivation of the word, ibid.;
- full of imposture and quackery, 28;
- of the Corybantes, 30.
- Ornamentation, the, of the body, i. 276, etc.;
- when permitted, 315.
- Ornaments, i. 256;
- excessive fondness for, censured, 266;
- excuses for wearing, 267;
- the true and the false, 268, 269, 271;
- Aristophanes’ catalogue, 269, 270;
- the love of, 273, etc.
- Orpheus, i. 19;
- quoted, 30, 31, 73; ii. 248, 267, 292, 293, 294, 295.
- Osiraphis, i. 54.
- Osiris, i. 54.
- Ox, the, and the bear dwelling together, ii. 333.
- Ox, the, and the ass forbidden to be yoked together, ii. 55, 56.
- Ὀψοφαγία, i. 194.
- Pactolus, the, i. 82.
- Pædagogus, the, a prayer to, i. 342;
- verses to, 346.
- Pædagogy, i. 121, 125.
- Παιδάριον, i. 121.
- Pain and poverty, contempt for, ii. 148.
- Painting the eyes, etc., condemned, i. 277.
- Painting the face censured, i. 319.
- Palladium, the, i. 53.
- Pallas, i. 30.
- Pantænus, the teacher of Clement, i. 11;
- referred to, 355.
- Pantarkes, i. 58.
- Panyasis quoted, i. 42.
- Parabolic style of Scripture, the, ii. 379.
- Parmenides, the Eleatic, quoted, ii. 256, 287, 300.
- Passions, the, ii. 37;
- how called by Basilides, 64;
- to be subdued, 66, 67;
- the true Gnostic free from, 346.
- Patience or endurance, ii. 60.
- Peacemakers, ii. 157.
- Pearls, the wearing of, i. 266, 358.
- Pearls, casting, before swine, i. 388.
- Penitents, ii. 156.
- Pentheus, i. 389.
- People, the new and the old, i. 128.
- Perfection, i. 126, 131, 182;
- women as well as men capable of, ii. 193, etc.;
- consists in the knowledge and love of God, 212–215;
- nature adapted to, 359, etc.;
- the Gnostic alone attains, 362–364;
- steps to, 446, etc.
- Perfect man, the, described, ii. 199–202;
- does good for the sake of the good, 202, etc.;
- how he treats the body and the things of the world, 215.
- Peripatetics, the, i. 68.
- Persian kings, the, i. 455.
- Persians, the, fire-worshippers, i. 67;
- instructors among, 150.
- Perturbations of the soul, the true Gnostic free from, ii. 344–348.
- Peter, the Preaching of, quoted, i. 470; ii. 326, 379, 380.
- Peter, the story of his wife’s martyrdom, ii. 451, 452.
- Petulantia, i. 247.
- Phalloi, i. 41.
- Phanothea, i. 404.
- Phemonoe, i. 424.
- Pherecrates, the comic poet, quoted, ii. 427.
- Pherecydes quoted, i. 392; ii. 247.
- Pherephatta, i. 29.
- Phidias, i. 58.
- Philanthropy, ii. 26.
- Philanthropy, the, of our Instructor, i. 118.
- Philemon, the comic poet, quoted, i. 269, 324; ii. 294, 423.
- Philip of Pella, i. 59.
- Philo, his interpretation of Sarah and Hagar, i. 368.
- Philolaus quoted, ii. 91.
- Philosopher, the, to what he applies himself, ii. 29, 30.
- Philosophers, the variety of, respecting God, i. 66–68;
- by divine inspiration, sometimes hit on the truth, 69;
- objections to extracts from the writings of, answered, 360, 361;
- a succession of, in Greece, 391, etc.;
- their philosophy Hebraic, 392;
- the first so called, ibid.;
- thieves and robbers—how? 406;
- attained to some truth, 413, ii. 396;
- varieties of opinions among, respecting the chief good, 71–74.
- Philosophical inquiry, its object, ii. 490.
- Philosophy, i. 361;
- the handmaid of theology, 366;
- what it is, 368, 369;
- the eclectic, paves the way to virtue, 374;
- that which the apostle bids us shun, 384;
- all sections of, contain a germ of truth, 389;
- schools of, 392;
- the Grecian, derived in great part from the Barbarian, 395;
- prepares the way for higher teaching, 405;
- a true spark of divine fire in, 409;
- how it contributes to the comprehension of divine truth, 418;
- the Jewish laws of higher antiquity than, 421, etc.;
- given by God, ii. 339–344;
- the study of, 366;
- an imperfect knowledge of God conveyed by, 395, etc.;
- absurdity of those who say it is not from God, 397–399;
- given to the Greeks as the law was to the Jews, 399;
- use of, to the Gnostic, 402, etc.
- Philosophy, the Barbarian, followed by Christians, perfect, ii. 3.
- Philosophy, the true, ii. 335–339.
- Philydeus, the comic poet, quoted, ii. 248, 249.
- Phocylides quoted, ii. 294.
- Phœbus, i. 149.
- Phœnix, i. 150.
- Phoronis, The, quoted, i. 458.
- Φῶς and φώς, i. 133.
- Φρένωσις, i. 168.
- Phryne, the courtesan, i. 58.
- Piety, i. 185.
- Pigeons to be offered to God, i. 124.
- Pilferers, the Greeks, of the Barbarian philosophy, ii. 1;
- and of each other, 304, etc.
- Pillar of fire, the, i. 458.
- Pindar quoted, i. 37, 323, 383, 420, 424, 470; ii. 162, 282, 295, 299.
- Pit, opening a, ii. 253.
- Pitch plasters to eradicate hair, censured, ii. 284, 285, 287.
- Pittacus, king of Miletus, i. 311.
- Plagiarisms, the, of the Greeks, from the Hebrews, ii. 274, etc.;
- from one another, 304, etc.
- Plants and animals, ii. 497.
- Plasters of pitch to eradicate hair, i. 284, 285, 287.
- Plato an imitator of Moses, i. 459.
- Plato, his view of the chief good, ii. 74–78;
- respecting marriage, 89–94;
- variously quoted or referred to, i. 69, 70, 71, 198, 248, 254, 314, 378, 382, 385, 395, 396, 397, 414, 443, 469; ii. 13, 14, 58, 91, 92, 93, 147, 151, 163, 226, 230, 231, 252, 260, 266, 267, 271, 275, 276, 279, 282, 283, 284, 285, 297, 299.
- Plato, the comic poet, quoted, ii. 429.
- Pleasure, ii. 61, 62, 63;
- not a necessity, 67, 68.
- Plutus, i. 280.
- Poets, the, their testimony to the truth, i. 73–75;
- their employment of the symbolic style, ii. 247.
- Polemo, the disciple of Xenocrates, cited, i. 76.
- Poseidon, i. 66.
- Pot, the mark of, not to be left on the ashes, according to Pythagoras, ii. 237.
- Praise to God, ii. 216, 217;
- and prayer, 426.
- Praise and blame, i. 177.
- Prayer to the Pædagogus, i. 342.
- Prayer, such as employed by the Gnostic, and how it is heard by God, ii. 431, etc.;
- the right sort of, 434;
- hours of, 435;
- the false doctrine of certain heretics respecting, ibid.
- Prayer and praise the best sacrifices, ii. 426, etc.
- Praxiphanes, i. 404.
- Praxiteles, i. 50.
- Preaching, the, of Peter, referred to or quoted, i. 470; ii. 326, 379, 380.
- Presbyter, who is a true? ii. 365.
- Procreatione liberorum, de, i. 244, etc.
- Prodicus, the Ceian sophist, his delineation of vice and virtue, i. 260.
- Prophecy, ii. 34;
- is full knowledge, 343;
- why it employs figurative forms of expression, 380.
- Prophet, the, like unto Moses, i. 35.
- Prophets, the, the truth to be found in, i. 76–79;
- their knowledge, 380;
- the antiquity of, 425, 435, 439.
- Propriety of conduct, i. 293.
- Proserpine, i. 27.
- Prosymnus, i. 41.
- Proteus, i. 273.
- Pruning-hook, the, ii. 341.
- Ptolemy Philadelphus, i. 448.
- Ptolemy, the priest, referred to, i. 421.
- Punishment, the reason and end of divine, ii. 210, 211.
- Punishment after death, ii. 275.
- Punishment and love reconciled, i. 156, 157;
- aims at the good of men, 464.
- Punishments and threatenings, i. 306, 307.
- Πῦρ, i. 443.
- Pure in heart, the, ii. 157.
- Purification, i. 91, ii. 263;
- a sufficient, 205.
- Purple colour in dress forbidden, i. 262.
- Pyrrhonism, its self-contradictions, ii. 500.
- Pythagoras, his symbols, ii. 236.
- Pythagoras referred to or quoted, i. 393, 394, 395, 397; ii. 54.
- Pythagoreans, the, i. 72, 177, 383.
- Pythic grasshopper, the, i. 17.
- Reason to rule at feasts, i. 204.
- Rebecca and Isaac, i. 128, 129.
- Redemption through the Word, i. 100–105.
- Religion in ordinary life, i. 327.
- Repentance, an earnest exhortation to, i. 87, etc.;
- the nature of, ii. 17;
- first and second, 35–37.
- Reproach, i. 157.
- Reproof, i. 157, 158, 166, 169.
- Reprover, the, i. 172.
- Respect of persons, none with God, ii. 340.
- Responsibility, the, i. 92.
- Revelling, i. 215.
- Revenge, i. 160.
- Rhetoric, i. 376.
- Rich, the believer alone is, i. 298; ii. 13.
- Rich man, the, and Lazarus, i. 15.
- Riches, i. 212–214, 298.
- Righteous man, the, ii. 285, 331.
- Righteousness, true riches, i. 299.
- Righteousness, the Sun of, i. 102.
- Ring, a, engraven with the images of the gods, prohibited by Pythagoras, ii. 237.
- Rings, on the wearing of, i. 315–317.
- Robe of the high priests, its symbolic import, ii. 243, 244, 245.
- Roman emperors, the, i. 444.
- Ῥόμβος, i. 30, note.
- Royalty, different kinds of, i. 455, 456.
- Sabazian mysteries, the, i. 29.
- Sacrifices, the, of the law, ii. 429.
- Sacrifices, the, of the heathen to their gods, the absurdity of, ii. 427, etc.
- Sacrifices, the cruelty of some of the heathen, i. 48, etc.
- Sailing on land forbidden by Pythagoras, ii. 237.
- Salvation, i. 82, 132, 382;
- one unchangeable gift of, ii. 366.
- Sambuca, the, i. 402, and note.
- Samson, i. 321.
- Samuel sent to anoint David, i. 281.
- Sappho, i. 237.
- Sarah, i. 368, 369;
- her laughter, ii. 262.
- Sardanapalus, i. 322, 323; ii. 67.
- Sarmanæ, i. 399.
- Sauromatæ, the, i. 67.
- Saved, something greater than being, ii. 367.
- Saviour, the, i. 98;
- His supreme dignity, ii. 13;
- free from human affections, 344;
- the Son of God, 410.
- Scents, i. 234.
- Scripture, the criterion for distinguishing between truth and heresy, ii. 476, etc.
- Scriptures, the, i. 82;
- the Hebrew, translated into Greek, 375;
- human knowledge necessary to the understanding of, 379.
- Scythians, the, i. 290.
- Seal-rings, i. 315–317.
- Sects or schools of philosophy, i. 392.
- Seducer, the, i. 23.
- Seeing double, an effect of much wine, i. 203.
- Seeing God, i. 25, 415.
- Self-conceit, the cure of, ii. 480.
- Self-restraint or self-control, ii. 48, 61, 454.
- Self-sufficiency, Christian, i. 182.
- Selling and buying, i. 328.
- Sepulchres of the gods, i. 50, 51.
- Serapis, i. 54, 424.
- Serpent, the, that deceived Eve, i. 23, 100;
- why called wise, ii. 396.
- Servants, the numerous, pandering to luxury, i. 292.
- Sesostris orders a statue of Serapis to be made, i. 54.
- Seven, the number, ii. 388–390.
- Seventh day, the, ii. 386, 390;
- testimonies from heathen authors to, 284, 285.
- Shaving, ignoble, i. 285, 317.
- Shades and demons, i. 50.
- Shechemites, the, i. 283.
- Shepherd, Jesus the, i. 149;
- the good, 462.
- Shoes, what sort to be worn, i. 264, 265.
- Sibyl, the, quoted, i. 36, 55, 64, 72, 76, 284, 425; ii. 90, 285, 288;
- her power of divination, i. 398;
- others of the name, 425.
- Silk and the silk-worm, i. 258.
- Similitudes an important part of instruction, i. 304.
- Simmias of Rhodes quoted, ii. 249.
- Simonides, i. 232.
- Simplicity of dress recommended, i. 271.
- Sin, irrational, i. 184;
- condemned by the Gnostic, ii. 360;
- the source of, 482.
- Sins, how the Instructor treats our, i. 115;
- resulting from voluntary action, ii. 38, etc.
- Six, the number, ii. 388.
- Sleep, the regulation of, i. 240, etc.;
- Christians not to indulge in, as others, 241–243.
- Smiling, i. 220.
- Sneezing at banquets, i. 229.
- Socrates quoted or referred to, i. 393, 414; ii. 68, 175.
- Sodomites, the, i. 306.
- Solomon, i. 427, 436.
- Solon quoted, i. 49, 50, 362; ii. 269, 389, 390.
- Son, the, the Ruler and Saviour of all, ii. 409, etc.
- Son of God, the Instructor, i. 114.
- Songs, amatory, prohibited, i. 218.
- Songs of praise to God, i. 216.
- Sophistical arts useless, i. 376.
- Sophistry, i. 376.
- Sophists, the, condemned, i. 362, 363.
- Sophocles quoted, i. 73, 86, 203, 313; ii. 141, 234, 286, 287, 291, 294.
- Soul, the, the threefold division of, i. 273.
- Soul, the pure, an image of God, ii. 417;
- of a most excellent temper, 427.
- Sow, the, forbidden to be eaten, ii. 251.
- Speaking, filthy, i. 222–224.
- Spectacles, public, to be discountenanced, i. 326, 327.
- Speech, the regulation of, at banquets, i. 228.
- Speech and writing compared, i. 351, etc.
- Speech, good, inferior to good action, i. 381–383.
- Speusippus quoted, ii. 12.
- Sphynxes, the Egyptian, their symbolic import, ii. 239, 249.
- Sports, divine, i. 128, 129.
- Stoics, the, i. 385; ii. 59.
- Stones, the, in the robe of the high priest, ii. 243, 244.
- Stones and stocks, silly people, i. 19.
- Stromata, the, of Clement, i. 361;
- meaning of the word, ii. 140, etc.
- Sun, the, and stars, given to the Gentiles to worship, ii. 368.
- Superstition, i. 50, 57, 58, ii. 25;
- the source of, 421.
- Superstitious man, the, described, ii. 422, 423.
- Susanna, i. 194.
- Swallow, the, of Pythagoras, ii. 236.
- Swearing avoided by the Gnostic, ii. 442–444.
- Swine, the flesh of, forbidden to the Jews, i. 326, ii. 429.
- Swine, casting one’s pearls before, i. 388.
- Syllogism and demonstration, ii. 493.
- Symbolic style, the, employed by poets and philosophers, ii. 247.
- Symbols, the reasons for veiling the truth in, ii. 254.
- Symbols, the, of the Egyptians, of sacred things, ii. 245, etc.
- Symbols, the, of Pythagoras, ii. 236.
- Syrens, the, i. 383.
- Tabernacle, the, and its furniture, the mystical meaning of, ii. 240;
- and its geometrical proportions, 354.
- Table of shew-bread, the, ii. 42;
- its geometrical proportions, meaning of, 354.
- Tables, the two, of the law, their mystical significance, ii. 383, 385.
- Tact, the importance of, in king or general, i. 456, 457.
- Tatian referred to, i. 355.
- Taxes, ii. 342.
- Teaching, motives in, to be examined, i. 352.
- Teacher, the, intimations of the advent of, ii. 404.
- Teachers of others ought to excel in virtue, ii. 444–446.
- Teaching, the, of our Lord, its duration, ii. 486.
- Temperance, i. 193, 201, 202, 242; ii. 248.
- Temples, the Egyptian, what they illustrate, i. 276.
- Temptation, the, of our Lord, i. 380.
- Ten, the number, ii. 383, 384.
- Terrors of the law, the, ii. 21.
- Thales, i. 394, 395; ii. 278.
- Thamar, i. 369.
- Thanksgiving, ii. 436.
- Theano referred to or quoted, i. 404; ii. 159, 195.
- Thearidas’ book On Nature quoted, ii. 296, 297.
- Theft and falsehood, i. 420.
- Theocritus quoted, i. 90.
- Theognis quoted, ii. 252.
- Theological inquiry, its object, ii. 490.
- Theology, philosophy the handmaid to, i. 366.
- Theophrastus, i. 68;
- quoted, ii. 6.
- Thersites, i. 228, 237, 294.
- Thespes quoted, i. 404; ii. 250.
- Thrasubulus, i. 457.
- Threatening, i. 174.
- Thieves and robbers, all who came before Christ were—how? i. 406, etc.
- Timæus the Locrian, ii. 288.
- Timocles, the poet, quoted, ii. 141, 142.
- Timon of Phlius quoted, ii. 227.
- Timotheus, i. 403.
- Titans, the, and Dionysius, i. 30.
- Tombs of the gods, the, i. 50, 51.
- Tradition of the church, the, prior to heresies, ii. 485.
- Tragedy, its inventors, i. 404.
- Training, i. 182, 371.
- Translation, the, of the Old Testament out of Hebrew into Greek, i. 448.
- Trojan war, the, how caused, i. 282.
- Troy, when taken, i. 421.
- Truth, i. 18;
- poets bear witness to, 73;
- found in the prophets, 76, etc.;
- and custom contrasted, 98;
- a germ of, found in all sects of philosophy, 389;
- how philosophy contributes to its comprehension, 418;
- is one, ibid.;
- four things in which it resides, ii. 8;
- the Scripture the criterion for distinguishing between heresy and, 476, etc.
- Truth, reasons for veiling the, in symbols, ii. 254, etc., 257.
- Truth, the true searcher after, i. 379.
- Two tables, the, of the law, the mystical significance of, ii. 283, 285.
- Υβρις, i. 247.
- Ulysses, i. 241.
- Unbelief, i. 462.
- Understanding, the human, ii. 340.
- Unicorn, the, i. 25.
- Unnatural lusts forbidden, i. 248.
- Upbraiding, i. 165.
- Usury, ii. 50.
- Valentinus, quoted, ii. 65;
- his vagaries about the abolition of death refuted, 179, etc.;
- his work, On the Intercourse of Friends, quoted, 334;
- the time of, 486.
- Vaphres, i. 436.
- Veiling the truth in symbols, reasons for, ii. 254–256;
- opinion of the apostles respecting, 257–261.
- Veiling the meaning of Scripture, reasons for, ii. 378–382.
- Veils, the, of the tabernacle, ii. 240, 244.
- Vessels of gold and silver, i. 211;
- to be rejected, 302.
- Vice and virtue, as delineated by Prodicus, i. 260.
- Vine, the, i. 158;
- its symbolical character, 200.
- Vipers, i. 19.
- Virtue, rational, i. 184;
- and vice, as delineated by Prodicus, 260;
- one, 418.
- Virtues, the Christian, their connection, ii. 26–29.
- Visitation, i. 167.
- Voice from heaven, the, at the baptism of Christ, i. 131.
- Voices, the, of birds, i. 244.
- Voluntary actions, of different kinds, ii. 38, etc.
- Waggery censured, i. 219.
- Walking, i. 324.
- Washing, the, of the soul, i. 309.
- Watching, i. 241.
- Water, the natural beverage for the thirsty, i. 200.
- Water, the, of the Word, i. 91;
- and milk, 147;
- regeneration by, 181.
- “Way of sinners,” the, ii. 41.
- Wealth, i. 212–214, 298;
- the love of, 301.
- Well trained, the, ii. 262.
- White dress recommended, i. 259, 264.
- Wife, a, ii. 80.
- Wife and husband, both to be equipped for heaven, i. 302;
- how to live with each other, 304;
- the kiss between, 382.
- Wife, a thrifty, i. 321;
- a good, ii. 196.
- Wills, observances of the Romans respecting, ii. 254.
- Wine, to be avoided by boys and girls, i. 201;
- when and by whom to be used, 202;
- to be taken moderately, 203;
- the ill effects of much, 203, 204;
- excessive drinking of, condemned, 204–206;
- various kinds of, 207;
- how Jesus drank, 208.
- Wine and milk, i. 147.
- Wine-bibber, the, i. 205.
- Wisdom, i. 97, 203, 242;
- the queen of philosophy, 368;
- of the wise to be destroyed, 410;
- its nature, ii. 15, 453;
- the panacea, 262;
- different forms of, 397;
- and knowledge, 446.
- Wisdom, the, of God, magnified, i. 365.
- Wise, the, i. 365.
- Wise man, the, ii. 12, 13, 14, 15.
- Wolves in sheeps’ clothing, i. 20.
- Woman, the thrifty and virtuous, i. 321;
- the foolish, 323;
- the wise, ii. 196.
- Woman’s clothing, men forbidden to wear—why? ii. 49.
- Women, married and unmarried, the duty of, in relation to banquets, i. 266;
- in regard to dress, 260;
- ornaments worn by, described, 269, 270;
- externally adorned only, compared to Egyptian temples, 276;
- some, fond of dress and extravagance, 277–279;
- improper behaviour of, condemned, 293, 294;
- employments of, 310;
- permitted to adorn themselves to please their husbands, 315, 316;
- the Instructor’s orders to, 320;
- should clothe themselves with their homemade work, 321;
- voluptuous movements of some, 221, 222;
- lascivious tricks of, 323;
- how they should go to church, 328;
- refutation of Carpocrates’ and Epiphanes’ doctrine of a community of, ii. 86–89;
- candidates for the martyr’s crown, 165–170;
- capable of perfection, illustrious examples of, 193–196.
- Women, holy, among the Germans, i. 399.
- Word, the, various references to, i. 21, 22, 24, 98, 100, 101, 104, 108, 109, 113, 114, 116, 145, 147, 151, 152, 157, 162, 179, 180, 274, 299, 380, 385.
- Word, the, our instructor, i. 113.
- Word, water of the, i. 91.
- World, the, Moses teaches, was created, ii. 275.
- World, the, of thought and of sense, ii. 276.
- Written compositions, the value of, i. 349;
- and spoken, compared, 351–359.
- Xenocrates quoted, ii. 14.
- Xenophanes cited, i. 394; ii. 285, 286.
- Xenophon quoted, i. 71; ii. 62, 285.
- Χόρτασμα, i. 179.