lated, 220; excessive, forbidden, 227.
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; four-fold 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.
