City of God (Penguin Classics) (182 page)

 

‘select’ gods,
255
–61

 

‘tiny’ gods,
143
ff.,
149
ff.,
243
–8,
256
–8.

 

Gog and Magog, in Apocalypse, meaning of,
919
f.

 

Good, the Supreme,
see
Summum Bonum

 

Grace, in Plato and Porphyry,
414

 

Hanna, song of, expounded,
716
–24

 

happiness, based on hope, in this life,
881

 

unattainable fully in this life,
589
ff.

 

Hebrews, Epistle to, authorship of,
680
.

 

Hedonism, criticism of,
214
f.

 

Heretics, a source of strength to the Church,
833
f.

 

Hermes Trismegistus, on idols (‘manmade gods’),
330
–37

 

413n.

 

Hydromancy, practised by Numa,
214
f.

 

‘intelligible’, contrasted with ‘sensible’ by Plato and his followers,
308

 

Isaac, the symbolism of his sacrifice,
694
f.

 

Isis and Osiris, Egyptian divinities,
53
n.,
250
n.,
339
f.,
341
,
388
,
658
,
812

 

Jacob, blessing of, by Isaac, its meaning,
700
f.

 

Jacob, blessing of Judah by, meaning of,
7
o6f.

 

Jacob, vision of, at Bethel, its meaning,
703

 

Janus,
96
f.,
150
n.,
260
,
263
–8

 

Jerome, on fall of Rome,
44
n.

 

‘Jesus’, meaning of,
752
n.

 

Jews, dispersion of, under God’s providence,
178
;

 

Jews, Seneca on,
251
f.

 

Job, a Gentile citizen of God’s city,
829

 

Jupiter, supreme god,
145
f.,
265
ff.

 

identified with other gods,
148
–52

 

identified with the ‘World-Soul’,
271

 

scandals about,
167
f

 

titles of,
102
,
268
ff.

 

Judgement, the Last, Bk XX,
passim

 

foretold in Scripture: Apocalypse,
906
–30

 

Daniel,
944
–7

 

Isaiah,
938
–43

 

Malachi,
951
–8

 

2 Peter, 930f.,
948

 

Thessalonians
931
–5

 

various old Testament passages,
958
–61

 

Justice, human, fallibility of,
859
ff.

 

Justice, necessary to a community (Cicero’s discussion),
72
–5,
882
f.

 

killing, not always murder,
31
,
37

 

kings, of Rome, their lives and deaths,
106
–9

 

knowledge, ‘daylight’ and ‘twilight’,
437
,
464

 

knowledge, of infinity,
494
ff.

 

Labeo, Cornelius, on ‘good’ and ‘bad’ gods,
59
f-,
63
,
125
,
317

 

languages, barrier of,
861

 

lectisternia
, Roman ceremony of,
60
n.,
112
f.

 

libel, Roman law of,
57
,
6
of.

 

Liber, Roman divinity, obscene rites of,
278
f.,
284
f.

 

light, meaning of, in Creation story,
436
f.,
450
f.

 

Logos and logas, in Stoic and Christion teaching,
464
n.

 

love, scriptural words for,
558
ff

 

Lucretia, suicide of,
28
ff.

 

Lupercalia, Roman festival,
774
n.

 

lust, sexual, an evil,
577

 

associated with shame,
579
ff.

 

586
f.

 

cynics shameless about,
581
f.

 

deplored by Platonists
580
, lust and procreation
583
ff. the result of sin,
58
of.

 

Manicheans,
31
,
446
,
454
,
554

 

mankind, created from one person,
502
f

 

whether eternal,
483
ff magic

 

Porphyry exposes,
386
–90

 

Porphyry inconsistent about,
409
–13

 

the work of demons,
325

 

‘theurgy’, ‘magic’, ‘sorcery’,
383
ff.

 

Marius C,
77
f.

 

marriage, reason for ‘prohibited degrees’ in,
623
ff.

 

martyrs, Christian cult of,
340
ff.,
1034
f.,
1041
–7

 

marvels, human and demonic,
974
–6, natural,
968
–74,
976
–83

 

marvels

 

of man’s body,
103
f.

 

of man’s mind and ingenuity,
1072
f.

 

metamorphosis, of human beings into animals,
781
–4

 

miracles, in Augustine’s time,
1033
–49

 

in the Church, testifying to Christ’s resurrection,
1028

 

of the pagan ‘gods’,
395
,
1048
f.

 

relating to Abraham and Moses,
381
ff.

 

relating to the Ark and the Law,
397

 

testifying to Christ’s resurrection,
1028

 

the greatest miracle: the world itself, and especially man,
976
,
985

 

Millennium,
907
–10,
914
–18,
921
f.

 

monstrosities,
661
ff.

 

moral teaching, absent from pagan religion,
53
,
56
,
65
f.,
70
,
78
,
80
–86

 

‘natures’, all good in themselves,
448
,
472
–6

 

Neoplatonism,
see
Platonism, Plotinus, Porphyry

 

Nigidius, the illustration of the potter’s wheel,
182

 

Noah, drunkenness of, an allegory,
649
,
652

 

sons of, symbolically explained,
650
–53

 

Numa,
66
,
96

 

his books on pagan rites, destroyed,
294
f.

 

practised hydromancy,
206
f.

 

number, of elect, predestined,
567

 

equals number of fallen angels,
1023

 

numbers, finite and infinite,
494
f.

 

numbers, significant: six,
465

 

seven,
465
f.,
634
,
901
,
946

 

ten, eleven (Law and sin),
633

 

twelve,
634
,
901

 

hundred, thousand,
908
,
946

 

Origen, his error about creation,
455

 

and about universal salvation,
99

 

Original sin, in infants,
688
f. (
and see
Fall)

 

Osiris,
see
Isis

 

pagans, citizens of God’s City, among,
829
f.

 

pagans, models of virtue, Brutus, L.

 

Junius,
109
;

 

Cato of Utica,
34
;

 

Codrus,
785
;

 

Curtii,
159
,
209
;

 

Decii,
159
,
209
;

 

Fabricius,
210
;

 

Regulus,
24
,
35
,
86
,
120
;

 

Scaevola,
159
,
208
f.

 

Pantheism,
148
,
152
f. (see
also
World-Soul)

 

paradise(Eden), before Fall,
567
,
590

 

passions, Christian attitude to,
349

 

peace, perfect peace unattainable here,
892
f;

 

the aim of all even in war,
599
f.,
866
–70;

 

the peace of final felicity,
865
;

 

the peace of society under law,
873
f.;

 

of the universe,
820
f;

 

of victory over evil,
864
f.

 

Peripatetic philosophers,
249
,
315
,
346

 

persecutions, of the Church,
833
ff.

 

Peter, St, pagan calumny of his ‘magic’,
839
–42

 

Philosophers, attitudes of, to pagan ‘gods’,
172
ff.;

 

conflicting opinions of,
816
ff.

 

Philosophers, mentioned, Anaxagoras,
300
;

 

Anaximander,
300
;

 

Anaximenes,
300
,
306
;

 

Antisthenes,
302
;

 

Archelaus,
301
;

 

Chrysippus,
347
;

 

Diogenes of Apollonia,
30
;

 

Diogenes of Sinope,
581
f.;

 

Epictetus,
347
f.;

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