story, 345–347; Peter's reflections on her story,—recognised by Clement, 348, 349; recapitulation of her story, 351, 352; recognised by Aquila and Niceta, 352–354; seeks baptism, 353, 355; baptism of, delayed, 356, 357; baptized, 358; recognises her husband, 423; accompanies her husband to Antioch, 465, 466.
Medea, 439.
Medicine, the vanity of, 23, 24.
Melchizedek, 97.
Men, naturally enemies of God, 203; the responsibility of, notwithstanding the arts of deception practised on, 204.
Menander, the poet, quoted, 73.
Menander, the Ephesian, quoted, 125.
Mesraim, 297.
Metamorphoses, 443.
Minerva, 447.
Miracles, false, 266; of the magicians of Egypt, 289; the uselessness of false, 271.
Moon, the, its typical character, 82; motions of, 388.
Morality, Christian, its superiority, 335.
Moses, and Homer compared, 35; testimony of the Chaldæans to the antiquity of, 40; testimony of the Phœnicians to the antiquity of, 41; testimony of the Egyptians to the antiquity of, 42; more ancient than the heathen heroes, 43; summing up of the argument for the antiquity of, 44; antiquity of, evinced by the reign and succession of the Egyptian kings, 122, 123; Manetho's inaccurate and nonsensical statement about, 123, 124; older than all other writers, 132; allows the Israelites to offer sacrifices, 168; and Christ, 285.
Mother of Clement. [See Matthidia. ]
Motions of the sun, moon, and stars, 388.
Muses, the, invoked by Hesiod, 69.
Music, the invention of, 95.
Mythology, heathen, 437, etc.; explanation of, 451.
Nativities, the supposed control of the constellations over, 14. [See Genesis. ]
Nature, the folly of speaking of, as making, 380, 381.
Necromancy, 200.
Niceta, deceived at first by Simon Magus, bears testimony to the formidableness of the magician, 195; leaves Simon Magus and becomes a Christian, 205; and Aquila, discovered to be Clement's brothers, 352, 354; tells the story of his own and Aquila's shipwreck, 354, 355; pleads for the baptism of his mother, 356; discussion with the old workman, 362–381; recognises the old workman as his father, 420–423; pleads for his father's reception to the church, 427; admonition to Clement, 436; explains the allegories of the heathen, cosmogonical and mythological, 445–449, 451–453.
Nimrod, 298.
Oil from the tree of life, the, with which Christ was anointed, 173.
Olympus, 67.
Oracles, the heathen, 293, 294.
Orcus, 438.
Order, and disorder, 387.
Order, in instruction, 255.
Origin of the world, Hesiod on the, 69, 70.
Orpheus, the cosmogony of, 445, 446.
Osiris, 60.
Paganism, the enormities of, 322.
Pairs, good and evil, 270; ten, 272.
Paradise, man placed in, 84; the Scripture account of, 85, 86; the beauty of, 89; the goodness of God in expelling man from, 91.
Parents, God to be loved more than, 330.
Peace, and strife, proclaimed by Christ, 211; to the sons of, 212; and war, 213; and the sword, 229.
Pearls not to be cast before swine, 240.
Persephone, 439.
Persians, the fire-worship of, 298; unnatural customs among, 413, 414.
