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, con-
