The City of God, Volume II

i. 124;

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time of the migration of, 127, etc.; the order and nature of God's promises to, 129, etc.; the three great kingdoms existing at the time of the birth of, 130, 131; the repeated promises of the land of Canaan made to, and to his seed, 131; his denial of his wife in Egypt, 132; the parting of Lot and, 132, 133; the third promise of the land to, 133; his victory over the kings, 134; the promise made to, of a large posterity, 135; the sacrifices offered by, when the covenant was renewed with, 136; the seed of, to be in bondage 400 years, 138; Sarah gives Hagar to, 139; the promise of a son given to,--receives the seal of circumcision, 140; change of the name of, 143; visit of three angels to, 144; his denial of his wife in Gerar, 146; birth of his son Isaac, 147; his offering up of Isaac, 147; death of his wife Sarah, 149; what is meant by marrying Keturah after Sarah's death? 150; the time of the fulfilment of the promise made to, respecting Canaan, 166.

Abyss, casting Satan into the, ii. 358.

Achior, his answer to Holofernes' inquiry respecting the Jews, ii. 126.

Adam forsook God before God forsook him, i. 535; in Paradise; his temptation and fall, ii. 22, etc.; nature of his first sin, 25; an evil will preceded his evil act, 25, 26; the pride involved in the sin of, 28; the justice of the punishment of, 28, etc.; the nakedness of, seen after his base sin, 32; the fearful consequences of the sin of, i. 515, 521, ii. 1, 2.

Æneas, i. 94; time of the arrival of, in Italy, ii. 238.

Æsculanus, the god, i. 159.

Æsculapius, sent for to Epidaurus by the Romans, i. 115, 116; a deified man, 349.

Affections of the soul, right or wrong according to their direction, ii. 10, 12, 15.

Africa, a fearful visitation of, by locusts, i. 134.

Ages of ages, i. 508, etc.

Αἰώνιον, ii. 141.

Albans, the wickedness of the war waged by the Romans against, i. 105.

Alcimus, ii. 276.

Alexander the Great, the apt reply of a pirate to, i. 140; and Leo, an Egyptian priest,--a letter of, to his mother Olympias,