i. 23, 50, 51;

the effrontery of such an imputation to, 132.

Christians, why they are permitted to suffer evils from their enemies, i. 39; the reply of, to those who reproach them with suffering, 41; ought to be far from boasting, 209; the God whom they serve, the true God, to whom alone sacrifice ought to be offered, ii. 333, etc.

Chronology, the enormously long, of heathen writers, i. 494, 495, 496; the discrepancy in that of the Hebrew and other MSS. in relation to the lives of the antediluvians, ii. 65, etc.

Church, the sons of the, often hidden among the wicked, and false Christians within the, i. 46; the indiscriminate increase of, ii. 281, 282, 283; the endless glory of, 377, etc.; the body of Christ, 511, etc.

Cicero, his opinion of the Roman republic, i. 74; on the miseries of this life, 302; his definition of a republic,--was there ever a Roman republic answering to it? 330, 331; variously quoted, 57, 58, 62, 63, 87, 109, 117, 129, 165, 170, 171, 173, 205, 256, 511, ii. 480, 482.

Cincinnatus, Quintus, i. 213.

Circe, ii. 235, 237.

Circumcision, instituted, ii. 141; the punishment of the male who had not received, 141, 142.

City, the celestial, i. 207.

City of God, the, i. 418; the origin of, and of the opposing city, 436; nature of, and of the earthly, ii. 47; Abel the founder of, and Cain of the earthly, 50; the citizens of, and of the earthly, 51; the weakness of the citizens of, during their earthly pilgrimage, 56; and the earthly, compared and contrasted, 292; what produces peace, and what discord, between, and the earthly, 326, etc.; the eternal felicity of, 540-545.

Claudian, the poet, quoted, i. 225.

Cœlestis, i. 52, and note; the mysteries of, 86.

Collatinus, Tarquinius, the vile treatment of, by Junius Brutus, i. 68, 111, etc.

Concord, the temple of, erected, i. 126; the wars which followed the building of, 128, etc.

Confession of Christ, the efficacy of, for the remission of sins, i. 527.

Conflagration of the world, the, ii. 377; where shall the saints be during? 380.

Confusion of tongues, the, ii. 111, etc.; God's coming down to cause, 113, etc.

Conjugal union, the, as instituted and blessed by God, ii. 38.

Constantine, i. 219, etc.; the prosperity granted to, by God, 223, etc.

Consuls, the first Roman, their fate, ii. 111, etc.

Corn, the gods which were supposed to preside over, at the various stages of its growth, gathering in, etc., i. 144.

Creation, i. 439, 443; the reason and cause of, 461, 462; the beauty and goodness of, ii. 258.

Creation, the, of angels, i. 445; of the human race in time, 500; of both angels and men, ii. 472, etc.

Creator, the, is distinguished from His works by piety, i. 297, etc.; sin had not its origin in, 456.

Creatures, the, to be estimated by their utility, i. 455.

Cumæan Sibyl, the, i. 421.

Curiatii and Horatii, the, i. 105.

Curtius leaps into the gulf in the Forum, i. 211.

Curubis, a comedian, miraculously healed, ii. 490.

Cybele, i. 52, 53; the priests of, 56.

Cycles of time maintained by some, i. 498, 505, etc., 511, 513.

Cynics, the foolish beastliness of the, ii. 36; further referred to, 297.

Cynocephalus, i. 65.

Damned, the punishment of the, ii. 432.

Danäe, ii. 232.

Darkness, the, when the Lord was crucified, i. 108, 109.

David, the promise made to, in his Son; Nathan's message to, ii. 189, etc., 193, etc.; God's "ancient compassions" sworn to, 195, etc., 198; his concern in writing the Psalms, 199; his reign and merit, 209.

Day, the seventh, the meaning of God's resting on, i. 444.

Days, the first, i. 443.

Days, lucky and unlucky, i. 186, 187.

"Days of the tree of life," the, ii. 402.

Dead, the, given up to judgment by the sea, death, and hell, ii. 375.

Dead, prayers for the, ii. 453.

Dead men, the religion of the pagans has reference to, i. 347.

Death, caused by the fall of man, i. 521; that which can affect an immortal soul, and that to which the body is subject, 521, 522; is it the punishment of sin, even in case of the good? 522-524; why, if it is the punishment of sin, is it not withheld from the regenerate? 524; although an evil, yet made a good to the good, 525; the evil of, as the separation of soul and body, 526; that which the unbaptized suffer for the confession of Christ, 527, etc.; the saints, by suffering the first, are freed from the second, 528; the moment of, when it actually occurs, 528, 529; the life which mortals claim may be fitly called, 529, 530; whether one can be living and yet in the state of, at the same time, 531; what kind of, involved in the threatenings addressed to our first parents, 533; concerning those philosophers who think it is not penal, 536; the second, ii. 343, etc.

Death, when it may be inflicted without committing murder, i. 32.

Deborah, ii. 233.

"Debts, forgive us our," ii. 467, 468.

Decii, the, ii. 212.

Deliverance, the way of the soul's, which grace throws open, i. 430.

Demænetus, ii. 235.

Demon of Socrates, the, Apuleius on, i. 326, 327.

Demoniacal possessions, ii. 303.

Demonolatry, illicit acts connected with, i. 394.

Demons, the vicissitudes of life, not dependent on, i. 79; look after their own ends only, 82; incite to crime by the pretence of divine authority, 83; give certain obscure instructions in morals, while their own solemnities publicly inculcate wickedness, 85, etc.; what they are, 326; not better than men because of their having aerial bodies, 327, etc.; what Apuleius thought concerning the manners and actions of, 329, etc.; is it proper to worship? 331, etc.; ought the advocacy of, with the gods, to be employed? 332, 334; are the good gods more willing to have intercourse with, than with men? 335; do the gods use them as messengers, or interpreters, or are they deceived by? 335, etc.; we must reject the worship of, 338; are there any good, to whom the guardianship of the soul may be committed? 354; what Apuleius attributes to, 354, 355; the passions which agitate, 360; does the intercession of, obtain for men the favour of the celestial gods? 363; men, according to Plotinus, less wretched than, 364; the opinion of the Platonists that the souls of men become, 365; the three opposite qualities by which the Platonists distinguish between the nature of man, and that of, 365, 366; how can they mediate between gods and men, having nothing in common with either? 366; the Platonist idea of the necessity of the mediation of, 371; mean, by their intercession, to turn man from the path of truth, 375; the name has never a good signification, 375; the kind of knowledge which puffs up the, 376; to what extent the Lord was pleased to make Himself known to, 376, 377; the difference between the knowledge possessed by, and that of the holy angels, 377; the power delegated to, for the trial of the saints, 411; where the saints obtain power against, 412; seek to be worshipped, 419; error of Apuleius in regard to, 419, etc.; strange transformations of men, said to have been wrought by, ii. 235, 238; the friendship of good angels in this life, rendered insecure by the deception of, 313, etc.

Demons, various other references to, i. 174, 222, 223, 281, 288, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 312, 326, 327, 345, 370, 411, 420, ii. 223, 289, 347.

"Desired One, the," of all nations, ii. 275.

Deucalion's flood, ii. 228.

Devil, the, how he abode not in the truth, i. 454; how is it said that he sinned from the beginning? 454, 455; the reason of the fall of (the wicked angel), ii. 46, 47; stirs up persecution, 284; the nature of, _as nature_, not evil, 320, 321; the binding of, 357; cast into the abyss, 358; seducing the nations, 359; the binding and loosing of, 360, etc.; stirs up Gog and Magog against the Church, 369, etc.; the damnation of, 373; of those who deny the eternal punishment of, 450.

Devil, a young man freed from a, at the monument of Protasius and Gervasius, ii. 491; a young woman freed from a, by anointing, 492.

Devils, marvels wrought by, ii. 424.

Diamond, the, the peculiar properties of, ii. 419.

Diana, and Apollo, i. 279.

Dictator, the first, i. 116.

Diomede and his companions, who were changed into birds, ii. 234, 238.

Dis, i. 279, 288, 296.

Discord, why not a goddess as well as Concord? i. 127.

Divination, i. 302.

Doctor, a gouty, of Carthage, miraculously healed, ii. 489.

Duration and space, infinite, not to be comprehended, i. 441.

Earth, the, affirmed by Varro to be a goddess,--reason of his opinion, i. 286.

"Earth, in the midst of the," ii. 176, 177, 178.

Earth, holy, from Jerusalem, the efficacy of, ii. 490, 491.

Ecclesiasticus and Wisdom, the Books of, ii. 209.

Eclipses, i. 108, 109.

Education, the divine, of mankind, i. 402.

Egeria, the nymph, and Numa, i. 303.

Egypt, a fig-tree of a peculiar kind found in, ii. 421.

Egyptians, the mendacity of, in ascribing an extravagant antiquity to their science, ii. 266, 267.

Eleusinian rites of Ceres, the, i. 283.

Eleven, the significance of the number, ii. 88.

Eli, the message of the man of God to, ii. 179-183.

Elias, the coming of, before the judgment, ii. 405.

Elisha and Gehazi, ii. 536, 537.

Emotions, mental, opinions of the Peripatetics and Stoics respecting, i. 355, 356.

Emotions and affections, good and bad, ii. 10, 12, 15.

Emperors, the Christian, the happiness of, i. 222, etc.

Empire, a great, acquired by war,--is it to be reckoned among good things? i. 138; should good men wish to rule an extensive? 152, 153, 154.

Empire, the Roman. _See_ Roman Empire.

Enemies of God, the, are not so by nature, but by will, i. 484.

Enlightenment from above, Plotinus respecting, i. 385.

Enoch, the seventh from Adam, the significance of the translation of,