Matthias, ii. 365.
Meaning of Scripture, reasons for veiling the, ii. 378, etc.
Meats offered in sacrifice to idols, to be rejected, i. 193.
Mediator, the, i. 274.
Megasthenes quoted, i. 399.
Melampus, i. 28.
Melanippides quoted, ii. 287.
Men, the folly of, in forsaking God for idols, i. 87; and women, under the Instructor's charge, 121; who embellish themselves, 284; effeminate, 284, 289, 293, 294; employments of, 310–312.
Menander, his description of the superstitious man, ii. 422–424; quoted variously, i. 70, 74, 120, 277; ii. 227, 290 bis, 295, 427.
Menelaus and Helen, ii. 61, 62.
Merciful, the, ii. 156.
Methods, the, used by God in bringing men to salvation, i. 23.
Metrodorus, the Epicurean, quoted, ii. 300.
Midas, i. 27.
Midianite women, the, seduce the Israelites, ii. 49, 50.
Milk, feeding with, i. 138, 145, 146, 147; and water and wine, 147.
Milk and meat, ii. 260, 261.
Miltiades, i. 457.
Mind, the culture of the, i. 371.
Minerva, i. 30.
Ministers of idols, the, i. 86.
Minos, ii. 12.
Miracles, the, related in Scripture, plagiarized by the Greeks, ii. 319, etc.
Miriam, ii. 194.
Mirrors, the use of, reprobated, i. 280, 281.
Mistake, ii. 39.
Model maiden, the, i. 325.
Money, the love of, i. 214.
Mosaic law, the, the fourfold division of, i. 467; the source of all ethics, ii. 47–57.
Moses, an instructor, i. 152; the law given by, 153; the antiquity of the philosophy of, 421; the birth and education of, 451; meaning of the name, 451; as a military leader, 455; his strategy, 457; Plato an imitator of, 459; rightly called a divine legislator, 461; his dignity, ii. 12, 13; erected one temple to and no image of God, 265; ascends the mount, and enters the darkness by himself, 267; the shining of the face of, 364.
Moses, the prophet like unto, i. 153.
Muses, the, i. 38; and Syrens, 383.
Music, the inventors of, i. 424.
Music to be banished from feasts, i. 215.
Music, the mystical significance of, ii. 354; its use, 355, 386.
Mustard, i. 179.
Mysteries, the, of the Christian faith, not to be divulged to all, i. 388; celebrated in the night, ii. 204; reasons for veiling, 254, 255; opinion of the apostles about veiling the 257, etc.
Mysteries, the heathen, i. 26, 27; derivation of the word, 27; of Demeter, 28; the Sabazian, 29; of Dionysius, 29; the Eleusinian, 32; of Plato, Pythagoras, and the Epicureans, ii. 255.
Mystical meanings in the proportions of numbers, etc., ii. 352–359.
Nabla, the, i. 402, and note.
Nard, i. 232.
Nations, the number of, i. 443.
Nature possesses an adaptation for perfection, ii. 359.
Neanthes of Cyzicum quoted, ii. 249.
Necessaries and luxuries, i. 267.
Nechephres, king of Egypt, i. 452.
Neglect of God's gracious calling, the sin of, i. 80.
Nicagorus, i. 59.
Nightingale, the, i. 245.
Noah, his drunkenness, i. 210.
Nobility, ii. 58.
Noses, making sounds of lewdness or of provocation through, censured, i. 294.
Νουθέτησις, i. 177.
Numa, i. 398.
Numbers, the mystical meaning in the proportions of, ii. 352, etc.
Numenius quoted, i. 449.
Nymphodorus quoted, i. 424.
Oath, the, avoided by the true Gnostic, ii. 442–444.
Objurgation, i. 168.
Offence, avoiding, ii. 183.
Oil, the use of, i. 234.
Ointments, the use of, not necessary to Christians, i. 230; varieties of,
