Index rerum et verborum; Elenchus rerum quae in hoc tomo continentur

INDEX OF MATTERS AND WORDS

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Aaron, his sons destroyed, 151, 201.

Abbir Germaniciana, 332.

Abel the just, slain by his brother, 80, 164, 256, 269. He began the martyrdoms, 91, 250. God looked upon the heart of Abel, 211.

Abortion hastening into parricide, 64.

Abraham believed God, 105. He pleased God, 232, 348. Those who are of faith are sons of Abraham, 105. He first established the root of faith, 250.

Excluded [from communion], 51, 83, 84, 115. The excluded and non-communicants, 209. To exclude from communion, 67, 105, 115.

Acca the harlot, 226.

Summons, 30. The Lord's summons, 234.

We must be girded, 203.

Criminal provocations, 56.

Battle at close quarters, 67. The battle is still being waged, 23.

Ahab tries to crush Elijah, 269.

Ahijah tore his garment, 196.

Each bishop orders his own conduct, 72.

Adam, unmindful of the precept, 250. Impatient for the deadly food, 233. He lost the divine likeness, 248. He did not keep by patience the grace received from God, 233. Cast out of paradise, 273.

Adelphius, a bishop, 117. Adelphius of Thasvalte, 334.

Hadrumetum, 330.

Pernicious flattery, 328.

The adulterer violates God, 74. Adultery is learned while it is watched, 4. Defiled by adulteries, 86. It is a mortal crime, 251. It is admitted through the eyes, 341. Adulteress against Christ, 103.

Spiritual adulteries, 110. An adulterous and alien bishop, 73. An adulterous chair, 115. Adulterine doctrines, 53. An adulterous head, 56. Adulterations of colours, 178.

The one body of our union, 99. The union of brotherhood, 94.

Christ our Advocate, 204.

The sick man impatient through pain, 186. The sick spit out wholesome foods, 39, 41. He who seizes the property of a dying man wanted the sick man to perish, 219.

Egyptian monsters, 226. The kingdom of the Egyptians, ibid.

Aemilius, 183.

There ought to be no rivalries among Christians, 12, 13. The fury of rivalry, 236.

The air quickening all things, 342.

Aeneas brought the Penates, 226.

The equality of the divine gift, 98. We enjoy the gifts of God equally, 246.

With quantities made equal, 48.

Aesculapius is struck by lightning, 225.

Life begins from old age, 217. Frightened by age, 94.

Eternal things succeed perishable ones, 229.

The Ethiopian, the eunuch, 356.

The Africans are in the south, 150.

Agape and brotherly love, 304.

Aggya, 336.

The wool of the Lamb, through Whom we have been redeemed, 262. The eating of the lamb at the Passover, 153. The lamb is slain as a figure of Christ, 196. Christ calls His flock lambs, 259.

The contest is held daily, 25, 67. The blow of the contest, 165. The contest of the justice of God, 246. The heavenly contest, 17; spiritual, 66; worldly, 93; one, 26.

Agrippinus, a man of good memory, 127, 130.

Ahymnus of Ausvaga, 355.

Alexander the emperor, 146. The Great, 223.

Alexius, 31.

The derangement of a mind pierced through, 102.

Foreigners are burned, 223.

The provisions of the Church, 101.

One altar, 53. A new one cannot be set up, ibid. The altar of the holy one, 129. With the altar set in place, 56. To set up another altar, 200. A profane altar is placed outside, 113. Profane altars, 152; of the devil, 85, 184. The altars of God are none, or hidden, 220.

Amaccora, 334.

Amalek a figure of the devil, 267.

Amantius the acolyte, 161, 162.

Love songs are not to be sung, 176.

Ambition for the episcopate, 73. Ambition must be checked, 348.

Jealousy cuts off friendship, 230.

Ammedera, 334.

Amplus the bishop, 77.

Ananias, Azarias, Mishael, 91, 96, 164, 191, 269.

Anaxilaus, 365.

The angels have been united with us, 143. Hostanes acknowledged the angels, 226. The angels baptize, 262.

The apostate angels taught empty adornment, 177.

The greater serpent, 30.

Souls living and unharmed, 70. The soul devoted to its God, 120. Secure about its God, 222. Let the soul prostrate itself before God, 191. None is to be lost, 98. The moth of the soul, 257. The soul as death withdraws, 345. The untrained soul, 189, 194, 251. The soul stood unmoved, 185. The soul slippery and changeable, 151. Hemmed in and shut up, 219. The various states of souls in the other life, 72. The souls of the slain martyrs, 187. Glorious, 37. Souls are kept for endless torments, 224.

Animals bent downwards, 221.

Anna, the barren one, mother of Samuel, 281. She prayed silently and modestly, 205. She asked without ceasing, 215. Bearing a type of the Church, 205.

Annotation, 52.

The changes of the year, 342.

The yearly commemoration of the martyrs, 47.

An anonymous author's book On Rebaptism, 313.

Front-rank soldier, 47.

Anthropiani, 130.

The coming of Antichrist, 329. The threats of the coming Antichrist, 233. Antichrist draws near, 89, 90, 92, 96, 120. The camp-marker of Antichrist, 30. Antichrist portrayed in Antiochus; the spirit of Antichrist, 270, 134.

The prelates of God, 29, 188. Prelates spotless and blameless, 118.

Antiochus a type of Antichrist, 270.

Antonianus, 66, 124. At first he rejects Novatian, then is swayed by his letters, 66.

The cave of Jupiter in Crete is visited, 225.

Apelles the heretic, 144. The baptism of Apelles, 140. The Apelletians, 130.

Aphronitrum, 156.

Bees have one king, 122, 227.

Apollo pastured the flock of Admetus, 225.

Apostates and deserters, 75.

The apostles did not at once receive the Holy Spirit, 355. They deserted Christ, 337. Whether they thought rightly about Christ when they were baptized, 359, 360. They believed that Jesus would not die, 359. They persevered in prayer with one mind, 206. Baptized in the Spirit after the resurrection of the Lord, 358. They abhorred the sacrilegious depravity of the heretics, 133, 138. The apostles running swiftly in the spirit of unity, 143. Authority to bind and to loose granted to the apostles, 131. Christ entrusted to the apostles alone the power given Him by the Father, 337. The other apostles too were what Peter was, 195. Equal power given to the apostles, 195. But the origin of unity begins from one, ibid. See Peter. Apostles, that is, bishops, 113. See Bishop.

Apostles sent by Novatian into the cities, 73.

The staging of shows, 244.

One arrested and handed over ought to speak, 166. Those arrested went up, 183.

Water by measure, 30. Water brought in for the use of the city, 141. The hosts of the waters held in check, 343. The water of baptism is not shared with schismatics, 154. The water of baptism is to be cleansed,

125. The water of the Church, faithful and saving, 132. It cannot operate without the Spirit, 330. Alone it cannot cleanse sins, 139. Life-giving water, 152. Saving, 157, 197. The bath of saving water, 2. The water of the saving bath, 147. Adulterous and profane water, 129, 136, 158. Adulterous and fornicating, 140. Lying and faithless, 131, 132. Alien, 132, 150. Waters signify peoples, 108. Water in the Scriptures signifies baptism, 106. One water in the Church, 127.

Altars of the devil, 70, 186.

The choice of one's own freedom, 197. Free choice, 319.

A storm does not overturn a sturdy tree, 197. Foliage clothes a tree, 350. A tree disfigured by barren old age, 217.

The ark of Noah, 142. A type of the one Church, 152, 195. A sacrament of the Church, 148.

To purge the threshing-floor, 74.

Bankers, 31.

Aristo, martyr, 30.

Heavenly arms, 96. The arms of ordination and honour, 128. Of devotion and faith, 185. Of confession, 96. He bears arms against the Church, 200.

One ruler of the herds, 227.

Bracelets, 179.

The teaching of a shameless art, 101.

Contrivers of the corruption of the truth, 197.

To temper thirsting fields, 350.

The ascent to great things is not easy, 180.

The she-ass speaks against Balaam, 268.

The sprinkling of baptism, 156.

We grow accustomed to the things we see and hear, 342.

Assuras, 336.

The kingdom of the Assyrians, 226.

Choirs of twinkling stars, 342.

Asturica, 117.

An asylum established, 226.

Black garments, tokens of grief, 234.

The darkness of avarice, 241. Avarice to be checked, 348. It gapes after the dead, 219.

Hearers, that is, catechumens, 22. A hearer, 362. Teacher of the hearers, 33. Hearers are to be helped at their departure, 8, 22. See catechumeni.

Augendus, schismatic, 51, 52. Augendus, deacon, 55. Augendus, confessor, 62.

Auguries forbidden, 325.

From Avitini, 336.

Aurelius, bishop, 77, 117. Aurelius from Chullabi, 337. From Utica, 335. Aurelius, confessor, 32, 46, 48. Aurelius is ordained lector, 46.

Wounds are not to be inflicted on the ears, 177, 179. Allurements of the ears, 342.

A comparison of gold with Christians, 348.

Ausafa, 337.

He made a beginning of peace, 46.

Omens of victory, 33.

Ausvaga, 335.

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Babylonian fires, 120.

Badi, 332.

Bagal, 332.

Supporting reeds, 1.

Balaam, prophet, 268.

Baths, 159. Mixed baths fouler than the theatre, 179.

Baptism, a spiritual circumcision, 99. The effect of the life-giving wave, 2. The bath of saving water, 2. The Red Sea a sacrament of baptism, 157. The devil is overpowered in baptism, 157. He often returns when the baptized person sins, ibid. Baptism cleanses in all the filth of the ancient contagion, 180. All in the bath put off the old man, ibid. In baptism past sins are forgiven, 32. Baptism blots out all sins, 135. It profits nothing without works, 314. One is not born through the imposition of hands, but in baptism, 140. Grace in baptism is equal, 157. In conduct it is afterwards diminished or increased, ibid. The baptized person loses the grace he has obtained unless he preserves innocence, 314. Through baptism the Holy Spirit is received, 106, 125, 131, 139, 147, 154. The interrogation in baptism, 125, 154. The water is to be sanctified so that it can wash away sins, 125. The baptized have renounced the world, 12.

The necessity of baptism, 122. Infants baptized at the very beginning of their birth, 184. Fidus thought that infants were not to be baptized within the eighth day, 98. He relied on the law of circumcision, ibib. He said that an infant's footprint was not clean and that everyone shrank from kissing it, ibid. He is refuted, 98, 99. Much

less is the grace of baptism to be denied to infants than to adults, 99. To infants themselves the kiss is given in conferring grace and making peace, 98. In the kiss of an infant we kiss the fresh hands of God, ibid. No one ought to shrink from kissing an infant new from birth, ibid. Sprinkling with water holds the place of the saving washing, 156. Clinics [those baptized on the sickbed] are not to be ranked below others, 158. It matters little whether one is sprinkled or poured over, ibid. Those baptized in sickness are set free, if they were previously moved by an unclean spirit, 157. The baptized complete the number of the Church, 148. Baptism is one in the Church, 125, 126. One baptism in the holy Church, 125, 129, 133, 139, 149, 197, 330. All confess that baptism is one, 334. There cannot be two baptisms, 126. Baptism is not repeated, 106. It belongs to the Church alone, 144. The baptism of the Jews, 147. The baptism of John, 145.

Threefold baptism. 355. Baptism in the Holy Spirit alone. Baptism of the spirit and of water. Baptism of the spirit and of blood, ibid. These often separated, ibid. Baptism of water sometimes before baptism in the Holy Spirit, sometimes after, 356, 357. Baptism in the Holy Spirit expiated the offences of Peter and the other apostles, 357. Baptism of the spirit is greater than baptism of water, 358. Baptism of the spirit, 355, 364. The power of baptism is not greater than confession or suffering, 136. The baptism in which angels baptize, 262. Those who are baptized with the baptism of blood are not deprived of the sacrament of baptism, 136. The baptism after which no one sins, 262. The form of baptism in the Church, 132. On those who in the handing on of the sacrament speak otherwise than they ought, 360. The old baptism and the new baptism, 279. Baptism is proclaimed whenever water alone is named, 106. Foreign and heretical baptism, 130. Adulterous baptism, 365. Mutilated and curtailed baptism, ibid. The majesty of ecclesiastical baptism, 158. Twofold baptism, 363. Baptism in the Holy Spirit and in fire, 365. The baptism of martyrdom, 262.

The controversy among the brethren concerning baptism, 353. Writings and rejoinders on this question, ibid. Cyprian and other Africans held that baptism is separated neither from the Church nor from the Spirit, 139, 140, 147, 355. That all things among heretics are empty and false, 126. That they are to be held as profane, ibid. That heretics have no power, 144. That where the Church is not, sins cannot be forgiven, 125. That for heretics either nothing is lawful or everything is lawful, 332. That the things done outside have no saving effect, 330. That those returning from heresy are to be baptized, so that original sin and heresy may be purged, 125, 332. That he who approves their baptism is a partaker with the heretics, 135, 138, 144, 148, 150. That those who are called adversaries of the Lord and antichrists cannot give the grace of Christ, 126, 127, 128, 134, 138. That those whom John had baptized were baptized, 157, 145. How much more are those to be baptized who were baptized by heretics, 145. That not even the baptism of blood profits in heresy, 136. That one who has lost the Holy Spirit cannot perform spiritual acts, 125. That no one can give what he does not have, ibid. That one who does not himself live cannot give life, 126. That a sacrilegious man and a sinner cannot make prayer for the one baptized, 125. That the adversaries of the Lord cannot give the grace of Christ, 126. That water cannot be sanctified by one with whom the Holy Spirit is not, 125. That one who cannot lay down his own sins outside the Church cannot forgive another's sins, ibid. That one who is not in the Church cannot water from the Church's fountains. 132. That judgement is to be made in one way about the wicked in the Church, in another about heretics, 133. That heretics would return more willingly if they were baptized, 137. That no heresy is to be excepted, 142, 151. That those returning from heresy must be born by both sacraments, 128, 136, 331. Except those who were baptized in the Church: on these hands are only to be laid for penance, 127, 132, 142, 331, 333. On those who have been admitted from heresy to the Church without baptism, 136, 149. God is able to grant them pardon, ibid. The Africans are accused of rebaptizing, 334. They say that they do not rebaptize but baptize, 126, 129, 334.

Stephen's opinion on the baptism of heretics, 138. He forbade one coming from any heresy whatever to be baptized, 138. He holds that the presence and holiness of Christ are at hand for those who are baptized among heretics, 147. That it is enough to invoke the Trinity of names, 145. That nothing is to be innovated, 138. That heretics do not properly baptize those who come to them, ibid. That they agree in baptism, 144. Cyprian refutes these things, because Marcion does not hold the same Trinity as the Catholics, 131. Because they do not believe in the same Father and Son and Holy Spirit, 130, 133, 136. That there are as many baptisms as there are heresies, 138, 334. Cyprian and Firmilian refute their opponents thus, as if they were saying that those baptized outside the Church are sanctified, 130, 131, 135, 145, 151. According to Stephen heresy gives birth and exposes; the Church takes up the exposed, 147. For heretics the name of Jesus does not suffice for salvation, 337. The invocation of the name of Jesus in error does not furnish salvation, 337. It is otherwise if right faith and the laying on of hands are added afterwards, ibid., 338. Baptism in the name of Christ, 130, 133, 134, 356, 357, 358, 360, 365. Cyprian rejects baptism in the name of Christ unless it is of Christ in truth, 134.

He contends that one must baptize in the full and united Trinity, 134, 135. Because, when the Father is blasphemed, the Son is of no avail, ibid. The tradition of the Apostles is set against Cyprian, 133, 138, 139, 144. The venerable authority of all the churches, 353. The ancient observance of all the saints and faithful, ibid. The matter is said to have been settled and ordered long ago, ibid. Cyprian and Firmilian deny that this was handed down by the Apostles, 127, 130, 132, 133, 138, 144. They set another tradition against it, 133, 141. The Africans abandoned the custom, 149. The baptism of heretics long since rejected in Africa, 124, 127, 130. Many thousands of returning heretics willingly received baptism, 130. Firmilian denies that the baptism of heretics was ever held valid in Cappadocia, 149. Those who had been baptized by deposed bishops are baptized in Cappadocia, ibid. The Council of Iconium rejects the baptism of heretics, 145. Some were in doubt about this matter, ibid. and 149. The bishops of Numidia rejected baptism given in heresy or schism, 124. They consult Cyprian and his council, ibid. Some in Africa oppose Cyprian's opinion on the baptism of heretics, 125, 126. They say that baptism is one, 126. They say that they follow the old custom, 127. The Africans thought that a revelation of the truth had been made to them, 127, 133, 336. That the custom of not baptizing heretics had crept in among some, 141.

The beard is not to be plucked, 191, 325. The beard spoiled in men, 182.

The hands of the barbarians, 100.

Baruch, a town of Africa, 333.

Basilides, a libellatic bishop, 117, 119. He confesses that he blasphemed, ibid. He lays down the episcopate and does penance, ibid. When Sabinus has been ordained in his place, he deceives Stephen so as to be restored, ibid. The opinion of Cyprian and other bishops on that matter, ibid. Basilides the heretic, 144.

Bassianus, 8, 31.

Bassus in the pejerarium, 30.

Wars continue more frequently, 217. To sound the war-signal, 44.

Benedictus the Martyr, 30.

Divine benefits are not mutilated, 156.

Thrown to the beasts, 199.

Bilta, 330.

The sins of blasphemies, 135. A bishop deposed for blasphemy, 119. The blasphemy of persecutors, 16. Of heretics, 131. The crime of a blaspheming tongue, 135.

Imitate the good, 261. The good cannot depart from the Church, 197. From the beginning slain by the unjust, 263, 268. They labour more, 305. The good and the wicked are contained within one house, 222.

Bona, dragged by her husband to sacrifice, 27.

Botronatus, 177.

A compendium of the heavenly precepts, 298. The dignity of confession is not diminished in a bishop, 96.

Brutus kills his sons, 226.

Budinarius, 52.

Bulla, 336.

Bustacena, 336.

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Perishable things ought not to move us, 351.

Caecilius, bishop, 77, 102, 104, 117, 124. Caecilius of Bilta, 330.

Caesar, 226, 227.

The Caesariani, 165.

God looked into the heart of Cain, 211. The unjust Cain envies the just Abel, 256. Impatient, he slew his brother, 234, 253. He does not enter paradise, 261.

Calamities in the age of Cyprian, 217, 218, 219. Arising from the fact that God is not worshipped, 217. On account of sins, 218, 318. Demetrianus said that things turned out badly because the Christians do not worship the gods, 217. Calamities either for the correction of the stubborn or for the punishment of the wicked, 218. The wrath of God is a censure, so that He Who is not understood through benefits may at least be understood through blows, 223. Calamities foretold, so that unexpected fear should not shake [us], 229. Crimes uncovered or increased by plague and pestilence, ibid., 219. God is the more provoked when men are not amended by blows, 218. The plague compels one to seek martyrdom, 345. It tests the justice of each person, 233. Virtue is perfected in adversities, 232. One must rejoice in adversities, 233. They flee the wounds of the dying and seek the spoils of the dead, 219. The difference between the good and the wicked in bearing adversities, 222. It is a calamity without remedy to hate one who is happy, 258.

Shod feet, 93.

Caldonius, bishop, 27, 28, 32, 51, 52, 53, 56, 57, 59, 77, 124.

The darkness of eternal night, 45. Of thick night, 349. Of avarice, 241.

The Lord's cup, 104. Its figures, ibid. It is not water alone, 108. We offer the mixed cup at the supper, 109. The deacon pours [some] of the sacrament of the cup into the mouth of infants, 189.

The warmth of faith, 67. The warmth of glory, 19.

Calphurnius, 30, 31.

Calumny in the courts, 243.

Cancer, and the wrath of damnation, 332.

Candida, 30.

Candidate of virginity and modesty, 175.

Hair flame-coloured, 178. Coloured with a lie, 183. To dye the hair, 191. Hairs fail before they grow, 217.

The Capitol, 85, 88, 183. To go up to the Capitol, 189.

The Lord's heads [of teaching], 262. Excerpted heads, 274.

Cappadocia, 146.

Jars of oil, 243.

Capsa, 336. The city of Capsa, 76.

Captivity lays waste all together, 231. The captivity of brothers and sisters, 99.

A head half-shorn, 159.

An eternal prison and a perpetual flame, 218. The bars of prisons, 158. The praise of prisons, 163.

To bring the executioners up to one's breast, 257. The fury of torture, 220.

The weakness of the flesh, 76. The resurrection of the flesh, 131.

Carpi, 333.

Carthage. Rome ought to take precedence of Carthage, 64. The provinces of Numidia and Mauretania are joined to the bishop of Carthage, 59. Praise of the church of Carthage, 41. The quiet and the fear of the people of Carthage, 21. Vices before the persecution, 182, 183. The supply of presbyters left desolate through the lapse of some, 49. A portion of the clergy lapsed in the persecution, 9. Some clerics withdrew in the persecution, 39. Five presbyters conspired against Cyprian, 51. They corrupted the confessors and the lapsed, 52. The clergy removes a presbyter from its communion, 38. All the clerics ready for the fight, 165. They refuse to withdraw, ibid. The charity of the clergy and people in ransoming captives, 100. The joy of the church of Carthage at the confession of the Roman [church], 94. At the return of the Roman confessors into the Church, 62.

Cassius, bishop, 124. Cassius of Macomades, 332.

Chastity keeps the course of its glory, 72. The laborious chastity of widows, 253.

The Castors, 225.

The camp of God, 93. The Lord's camp, 77. The camp of Christ, 61, 79, 88, 95, 97. To return to the camp of Christ, 65. The heavenly camp, 18, 44, 140, 141, 229, 262. Divine, 136. Domestic, 58. To defend the emperor's camp, 132. The camp of the devil is not to be feared, 267.

Castra Galbae, 331.

Castus, 185. Castus of Sicca, 333.

The Cataphrygians, 145.

Catechumens, 136. That a catechumen ought not to sin. 327. Catechumens overtaken by illness are to be helped, 8, 22. On catechumens who died without baptism, 136, 149.

The chains of greed, 241. Chains binding the hands, 347. Clanking chains, 349.

One chair founded upon the rock, 53. The chair of Peter, 148. The priestly chair, 68, 69, 130. Exiled from chair and people, 63. An adulterous chair, 115.

A case is to be heard where the crime was committed, 86. The case has been heard, 87.

Caution is easier where the fear is plain, 193.

Cedias, 332.

Celerinus, 24, 32. The first to suffer in the persecution, and he contended with the very author of the persecution, 47. Renowned by the testimony of the persecutor, ibid., 48. He weeps day and night in sackcloth and ashes for the sin of his sisters, 29. His letter to Lucianus, 28, 32.

Celerina, martyr, 47.

Celsus, CCXLII.

Heavenly censure, 182. Evangelical, 67. Priestly, 80.

The hundredfold fruit, 180.

Cerdo, teacher of Marcion, 138, 144. He came to Rome under Hyginus, 158.

The heavenly contest, 15. Spiritual, 33. Heavenly and spiritual, 261. The contest of the heavenly warfare, 77. God watches those who contend, 93.

A neck held high and erect, 188.

The endowments of charity, 199. The unity of charity, 151. Mutual charity, 96. Charity is the bond of brotherhood, 231. The bond of Christian charity, 56.

Korah, Dathan and Abiram, 113, 118, 131, 148, 154, 155, 200.

Christians succeeded the Jews, 274. The new name of Christians, 262. Philosophers not in words but in deeds, 247. They do not speak great things, but live them, ibid. They ought to be simple and prudent, 326. There ought to be no contentions among Christians, 12. It is not lawful for a disciple of Christ to be jealous, 258. It is not lawful for a Christian to think on vices, 441. It is not lawful for Christians to hate, 224. They return goodwill for hatred, ibid. They have renounced the world, 236. To their carnal father, 206. They will be glorious with

Christ, 225. Who is truly a Christian, 199. The false Christian, 190, 194, 241.

He is not a Christian who is not in the Church of Christ, 73. The eyes and ears of Christians are to be guarded, 342. It is wrong for Christians to frequent the shameful banquets of the gentiles in a guild, 119. To bury their sons with heathens, ibid. They ought not to have recourse to a gentile judge, 318. Marriages with unbelievers are to be avoided, 183. They ought to imitate Christ, 175. A Christian ought to admire nothing except the Lord, 342. The opinion of Christians on sins differs from that of the Stoics, 70. The vices of many Christians before the persecution of Decius, 182. Cyprian longs for unanimity, 203. He compares the morals of his own age with the age of the Apostles, 205. He complains that generosity in good works is broken down in his own age, ibid. The servants of Christ are compared with the servants of the devil, 244. A Christian ought to think only of heavenly things, 307. A Christian must wrestle with the devil, 231, He is forbidden to think of the morrow, 210.

A Christian ought not to perish as one guilty, 12. He ought not to be punished except on account of the name of Christ, 317. Demons drive the mob into hatred of the Christian name, 227. The world hates Christians, 263, 268. Hatred of the name of Christ foretold, 315. Christians are attacked in contempt of God, 220. The worshipper of God alone gives offence, ibid. Power is given against us either for punishment or for glory, 212. It was established from the beginning of the world that righteousness should suffer, 164. To be a Christian is a crime, 220. Long tortures are applied to Christians, ibid. Punishments are multiplied, ibid. New penalties are devised, ibid. Christians ought to be tortured if they denied, 220. He who confesses himself to be a Christian ought to be put to death, not tortured, ibid. No Christian when arrested resists, 221. No one avenges himself, although the people is numerous, ibid. A Christian can die, he cannot be conquered, 95. Christians provoke the enemies of the truth, 36. Security about the vengeance to follow makes Christians patient, 221. Never is there a rising against the Christian name without divine vengeance following at once, ibid. The vindication of Christians that lately followed on a grand scale, 222. All evils are imputed to Christians, 216. Very many Christians are not conquered by temptations but proved, 229. Some stand less bravely, ibid. Calamities common to Christians with heathens, 231. This matter troubles some, ibid. Christians must labour in the world more than others, ibid. Why the condition of labours is meanwhile common to Christians and profane, 223. These things from the indignation of God happen not through Christians but for Christians, 222. By them Christians are avenged, even though they themselves seem to suffer them, ibid. Christians are not broken nor do they murmur, ibid. They know that they are proved by the very things which torment them, ibid. They do not suffer adversities equally with heathens, because they do not grieve equally, ibid. Adversities strengthen Christians in pain, 232. Christians will receive the promises of God only when they have come to God, 225. The difference between Christians and those who do not know God, 232. Christians must rejoice when they are called to Christ, 229, 230. Dead Christians are not to be mourned, 234, 168. Why a Christian is corrected, 320. Christians always pray for the good condition of the state, 223. Christian truth, 134. Christianity is a matter of faith and hope, 251.

CHRIST from the beginning the Son of God, 288. He is called the Holy Spirit, 228. The Firstborn and Wisdom of God, 284. The Word of God, 215, 285. The Word and Power and Wisdom of God, 201. The Power of God and Reason and Wisdom, 228. He is called God in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, 286. Jesus Christ our Lord and God, 15, 61, 92, 94, 99, 104, 109, 115, 138, 140, 158, 204, 206, 228, 235, 248, 255, 287, 332, 333, 335, 349, 353. Angel and God, 286. God not of all, but of the faithful and believing, 235. God who is to come, 287. The venerable majesty of our Lord Jesus Christ is to be adored, 332. Christ cannot be put on without the spirit, 139. He cannot be a temple of Christ who denies that Christ is God, 133. Christ is adored in the heavens, 235. God the Father commanded His Son to be adored, ibid.

Christ man and God, 288. He descends into a virgin, 228. The Holy Spirit is clothed with flesh, ibid. God is mingled with man, ibid. The Son of God put on the flesh of man, 249. Made man for us, ibid. He put on man, 228. The man whom He put on He set, as victor, before the Father, ibid. The Father both Lord and God of Christ, 135. The Son obeyed so as to do the Father's will, 208. Christ the son of man so that He might make us sons of God, 237. He said the Father was greater, 135. He asked to be glorified by Him, ibid. He received all power from the Father, 295. From the Father He received the power by which we are baptized and sanctified, 135. He alone received all judgement from the Father, 187. He alone has the power of judging bishops, 330. He fulfilled the Father's will, 135. The birth of Christ from David, 250. Miracles, 228. Humility, 10. Patience, 254. All the acts of Christ are marked by patience, 249. He prayed not for Himself but for our sins, 213. He gave us an example of living, 317. The manner of life of Christ, 359. He did not disdain to wash His body in the laver of regeneration, 249, The baptism of Christ, 137, 148, 155. Heretics say that He was compelled to baptism

by Mary, 365. He wept for Lazarus, 169. He humbled Himself in order to raise up a fallen people, 237. The prophets foretold the death of Christ, 228. He foretold His own death, ibid. The Lord showed the weakness of the man whom He bore, 208. Christ had to suffer, not in order to feel death, but in order to conquer it, 228.

Christ suffered so that He might make us sons of God, 92. The passion of Christ, 294, 352. By the blood of Christ even he who shed the blood of Christ is given life, 249. He bore our sins, 187. He suffered for our sins, 265. Our advocate, 15. We have been redeemed by the blood of Christ, 265. Mediator between us and the Father, 288. Priest of the most high God, 105, 109. He often suffered for us, 352. In Isaiah a crime, in Abel slain, ibid. He gave up His spirit of His own will, 228. He was not going to remain among those below, 295. He appeared to the disciples, at the same time bound; 228. Returned to those above, ibid. The tunic of Christ is not divided, 196. Christ sent to restore us, 221. By the coming of Christ the enemy was exposed and laid low, 194. He came for all, 215. To learned and unlearned, to every age and sex He gave out the precepts of salvation, ibid. King for ever, 296, 297. Enlightener and Saviour of the human race, 287. The saving light of Christ for preserving men, 194.

Christ is light and day, 258. The true sun and the true day, 157, 215. He is unconquered, 262. The way and the truth, 314. The fullness of truth, 105, 141. He did not say: I am custom, 335. He governs His Church, 124. He first showed in Himself what He would crown in others, 345. Christ is the bread of life, 209. House and temple of God, 279. Hand and arm of God, 285. He is the kingdom of God, 208. Not yet avenged, 255. The twofold coming, 228. The second coming draws near, 110. Hence Christ enlightens the more, ibid. Teacher of humility, 91. He had to come humble, 289. He is to come as judge, 296, 297. He will come manifest in power, 255. Christ is to be redeemed in captive brethren, 100. He allows some to be afflicted, so that the charity of others may be tested, 100. Let Christ receive what the adversary was taking away, 192. The name of Christ is not to be abused, 134, 139. Christ called sheep and lamb, 290. Rock, 106. Stone, 291. The garment of Christ, 191, 192, 193, 196, 262. To put on Christ, 147, 159, 196, 249. To put on the name of Christ, 259. Co-heirs of Christ, 203, 208. Christ is the head of the man, 270. Teacher of discipline, 14. Teacher of peace and master of unity, 203. The light yoke of Christ, 329. Christ watches and prays, 213. He looks on those who fight, 93. With Christ looking on, 246. The flesh of Christ and the holy thing of the Lord, 196. The holy body of Christ, 341. To drink the blood of Christ daily, 90. Christ alone is to be heard, 108. Nothing is to be preferred to Christ, 208, 263, 265, 311. Christ denies him who denies Him, 188. Christ is one, 53. The flock of Christ, 58. Christ calls His flock sheep, 259. Christ is our resurrection, 208. They cast lots for the garment of Christ, who should put on Christ, 196. One must come to Christ without delay, 236. The Jews thought Christ a magician, 228, 259.

Chullabi, 337.

Cibaliana, 336.

Deadly food, 70. The food of the devil, 192. The death-bringing foods of idols, 186. Wicked food, 189, 190.

The scar of health closed over, 339. To close over a scar, 43. The glory of scars, 47.

Haircloth and ashes, 238.

To carry ashes, 189.

The circus games consecrated to Consus, 340. On account of the carrying off of the Sabine women, ibid.

The eighth day appointed for circumcision was a shadow and image, 98. Carnal circumcision made void, 277, 278. It does not profit women, 277. Spiritual circumcision promised, ibid. Carnal circumcision, 98. Spiritual, 99. Carnal and spiritual, 103.

Cirta, 331.

Cittinus, 124.

Cities swallowed up by a gaping of the ground, 146. The harlot city, 177. The wrongs done by citizens rage more grievously than enemies, 219.

Clarus of Mascula, 337.

With the trumpet of our voice, 261.

Clementianus, 76.

Cleopas, disciple of Christ, 360.

The minor clergy, 360. Those next to the clergy, 33. Cornelius ascended through all the grades of religion to the summit of the priesthood, 68. Appointed to the clerical ministry, 114. Clerical ordination 46, 144. Clerics ought to serve nothing but the altar and the sacrifices, 114. It is forbidden to appoint one of the clergy as guardian or trustee in one's will, ibid. Cyprian consults the clergy in ordinations, 33, 46. He does nothing without the counsel of the clergy, 11. The bishop ought to write through the clergy, 33. The clergy presides together with the bishop, 89. The clergy of the city, 53. The Roman clergy deliberated with the bishops on the case of the lapsed, 45. It defers the case of the lapsed while the see is vacant, 29, 43. The clergy of Carthage removes Gaius of Didda from its communion, 38. Clerics in the honour of the brethren who receive the dividends, 114. Clerics, from the distribution

made each month, barred until they are judged, 39. Yet not deprived of their ministry, ibid. To certain readers the honour of the presbyterate and the same allowance, 48.

Clinomeni, 8.

Clinici [those baptized on the sickbed], 156, 158.

Tatius found Cloacina, 226.

The shield of faith, 36, 44.

Cemetery, 165.

The Supper of the Lord, 109.

Contributions, that is, alms, 15.

The day of the hearing was at hand, 64.

Collection, 31.

The honour of the college, 137. The concord of the priestly college, 66, 68. Profane burial places in a college, 119.

Conversations with the wicked forbidden, 89. Unchaste conversations, 179.

The eye-salve of Christ, 241.

Colonica, 31.

God did not teach the dyeing of wool, 177. The strife of colours, 341.

The dove a simple creature, 196.

To pray for leave for oneself, 234. To give leave, 47. Leave is given by God, 70. Leave having been received, 18.

The anniversary commemoration of the martyrs, 47.

Records, 166.

Dealings with the wicked forbidden, 89.

Communion according to the Gospel, 40. Communion against the Gospel, ibid. Sacrilegious, 69. Rashly usurped, 149. Lay, 128. Communion of those not in communion, 192. No communion outside the Church, 123, 129. The right of communion is received through the laying on of hands of the bishop and clergy, 19. The order of attaining to the right of communion, 19, 20, 21. The salutary remedies of delay, 41. The ruinous remedies of hastened communion, 41, 43. Communion is not to be relaxed rashly, 71. Communion is relaxed for the unwary, 186. It must not be given at an unripe time, 19. Those who give the holy thing of the Lord to dogs are censured, 36. Rash haste to obtain peace is censured, 22, 23, 36, 37, 39. Unworthy communions punished by miracles, 189, 190. Communion under one kind, ibid. The fruit of communion, 117. See Eucharist and Lapsed.

An actor is not to be admitted to communion, 101. Those who gave peace to adulterers did not break communion with those who did not give it, 72. On account of differing customs there was never a departure from the peace and unity of the Church, 144. Cyprian imposes a law on no one in the controversy over baptism, 129, 137, 156, 158, 329. A people communicating with a sinful priest who has been lawfully deposed is not free from the contagion of the offence, 148.

The joining together of the ecclesiastical body, 74.

The partners of Christ, 352.

Golden fetters, 179.

Councils before Cyprian, 114, 127, 130. A council when persecution had been laid to rest, 67. Frequently held at Carthage, 85. The bishops are accustomed to meet at Carthage after Easter, 76, 77. Cyprian reads the certificates concerning the lapsed in council, 66. In the council of Carthage the cases of individuals were examined, 70. Consultation with bishops, presbyters, deacons, confessors and the laity who had stood firm, 22, 23, 33, 43. It has pleased us, at the prompting of the Holy Spirit, 79. A council on the Ides of May, 84, 97. A council on granting peace to the lapsed, 77. Cyprian with his colleagues replies to Rogatianus, 112. With his colleagues and the fellow presbyters of the church of Furni, 114. The first council of Carthage on baptism, 124, 126. The second, 128. The third, 329. An opinion is given on behalf of absent members who had sent instructions, 337. Cyprian urges that each should state what he thinks, judging no one, 329. He gives his opinion last of all, 338. Very many bishops had assembled with presbyters and deacons, the greatest part of the people also being present, 329. Councils every year in Cappadocia, 143. The council of Iconium, 145, 149. The Roman council, 68.

Concision, 89.

Saving concord, 76. Concord joined together cannot be overcome, 95. Concord commended, 14. Undivided concord, 94. The bond of concord, 129. The bond of concord remaining, 72. The concord of the priestly college, 66, 68. The divine concord of the bishops, 137. The concord of the priesthood, 142. The glue of mutual concord, 116, 202.

Lusts compel men to serve the devil, 75.

The condition of the place, 9, 110, 112, 163. The common bodily condition, 222.

The confession of the name, 78. The confession of Christ, 344, 346. The confession of the Lord, 262. The arms of confession, 96. The crown of the confession of the Lord, 90. Flourishing confession, 28, 29. The virtues of confession, 350. The dignity of confession, 362. Confession does not make one immune from the snares of the devil, 201. Confession the beginning of glory, not the earning of the crown, ibid.

Confessors are praised, 50. How great the caution of confessors

ought to be, 201. They are to be visited with caution, 9. Among the confessors the presbyters offer one at a time, each with one deacon, by turns, 9. More attentive care is to be given to the confessors, 10. Very many confessors received by the brethren, ibid. Sixty-five come to Rome, 29. The Roman confessors join the glory of confession with zeal for discipline, 34. This is truly to be a martyr and confessor, ibid. How useful Cyprian's letters were to the Roman confessors, 43. In heresy confession cannot profit, 361, 362, 363. The confessor speaks with God inspiring him, 166. The Lord speaks in the confessors, ibid. God inspires constancy in the confessor, 268. Confessors a spectacle to God, an example to the brethren, 181. The people following their pastors in confession, 159, 160. Women and children among the confessors, 160, 164, 181. The joy of the Church at the return of the confessors, 181. Pardon is given to one who confesses God, 224. A distinguished and true confessor, 41. To none is the vigour of the Gospel more fitting than to confessors, 43. The dignity of those who confess is uncorrupted, 61. Nothing is more fitting for a confessor than to read the Gospel, 46, 48. More attentive care is to be given to the bodies of those who die in prison without torments, 50. The days of those who die in prison are to be noted, ibid. Whoever did not declare himself within the appointed day has confessed, 182. He is honoured among the martyrs, 273. This is private confession, 182.

The duties of confessors, 11. The vices of some, 10, 12, 52. The minds of certain ones corrupted by five presbyters, 52. Frauds, debaucheries and adulteries in certain confessors, 201. Some have defiled with shameful intercourse the temples of God, sanctified even after confession, 12. Some destroy the glory of the name, ibid. Exiles who return to their homeland without leave are censured, ibid. Confessors ought to obey the presbyters and deacons, 10. They ought to fear the adversary, ibid. They ought to be admonished by the presbyters and deacons, 19, 20. The divine chastisement instructs very many in prison, 20. The broken faith of some does not lessen the holiness of the confessors, 201. The greater part stands firm, ibid. Their praise is the fuller from the fall of others, ibid. Confessors led astray by Novatus and Novatian withdrew from the Church, 58. Schismatic and heretical error caught them as they came out of prison, 65. Good and glorious confessors could not long be held outside the Church, 62. Certain persons remained in schism on account of communion with the confessors, ibid. The return of the Roman confessors from schism, 60. They confess what they had done outside the Church, 60, 61. They ask that all things be blotted out by forgetfulness, ibid. They are received each in his own rank, 61. All things are remitted to God, ibid.

The sacrament of CONFIRMATION, 132. What was lacking to the baptized was done by Peter and John, ibid. When the hand was laid on, the Holy Spirit was invoked and poured in, ibid. Those baptized in the Church are presented to the Church's prelates, that they may be perfected by the Lord's seal, 132. Confirmation is given by bishops alone, 356. Many die after baptism without the imposition of the bishop's hand, 355. They are nevertheless held to be perfect faithful, ibid. If confirmation were necessary for salvation, salvation would be taken away from all bishops, 356. The one baptized must be anointed, 125. The Eucharist is that whence the baptized are anointed, 125. The oil sanctified on the altar, ibid.

To confess before the priests of God, 190. One must confess with sorrow and simply, 190. The burden of the mind is to be laid open, ibid. Let each confess his offence while confession can be admitted, 191. Basilides the bishop confessed that he had blasphemed, 119. Many who do not confess the consciousness of their offence are filled with unclean spirits, 189, 190. The crime of a dissembled conscience, 189. Confession of secret thoughts is necessary, 190. Those who had thought of sacrificing or of the crime of the certificate confessed this very thing before the priests, ibid. Knowing that it is written, God is not mocked, ibid. There is no confession among the dead below, 75.

Struggle in adversity is the proof of truth, 232.

Unlawful and dangerous unions, 102.

A spouse is spurned in martyrdom, 347.

Conscience has much weight, 340.

The vigour of a victorious conscience, 160. God the judge of our conscience, 271. Conscience is crowned in peace, 274, 219. The hiding places of conscience, 219, 258. The wounds of conscience, 220, 258. A tolerable conscience, 70; a polluted one, ibid.

The laws have consented to sins, 5, 44.

Our assembly, 49.

Factious conspiracies, 53.

Custom without truth is the antiquity of error, 141. Truth is to be preferred to custom, 149, 333, 337. Christ did not say, I am custom, 333. One must not plead prescription from custom, but win by reason, 127, 133. Reason and truth always exclude custom, 336. One ought to follow not the custom of man but the truth of God, 108, 127. The various customs of the churches, 144. The custom of the Romans, 149. On account of various customs there has never been a departure from the peace and unity of the Church, 144.

The consulship the highest honour among the Romans, 226. The fasces of the consuls, 25.

The consummated glory of a martyr, 50.

God as sharer of counsel, 340.

The contagion of poisoned speech, 89. Contagion base and infamous, 101. The contagions of deadly food, 70.

Virginal continence, 68. The glorious resolve of continence, 72. The strength of continence, 236. The palm of continence, 260. The good of continence, 315.

The mockeries of insults, 249.

The obstinacy of the wicked to be curbed, 59.

Reckless assemblers, 197.

Conventicles, 167. The conventicle of an abandoned faction, 86, Conventicles of heretics, 198.

Abuse to be avoided, 12. to be despised, 83.

Let a sober banquet resound with psalms, 7. Wanton banquets to be avoided, 179. Shameful, filthy banquets in a fellowship, 119. Banquets with the wicked forbidden, 89.

You do not regard the corban, 242.

The heart of a man devoted to God, 268. Hearts are cleansed by faith, 366.

Cornelia, 29.

Cornelius, bishop of Rome, 55, 56, 58, 59, 64, 66, 77, 79, 94, 115, 117, 120, 152. Chosen by God Almighty and our Lord Jesus Christ, 60, 61. Ordained by sixteen bishops, 73. Factious men obstruct the ordination of Cornelius, 55, 56, 59. Envoys from both sides into Africa, 53, 55. The letters of Cornelius' adversaries are not read, 56. Envoys are sent to Rome, 55, 56. Meanwhile everything remains in suspense. Letters are written not to Cornelius but to the Church, 59. Cyprian advises the people of Hadrumetum not to address their letters to Cornelius but to the Roman Church, 59. The envoys of Novatian are rejected, 55. Those who ordained Cornelius write to Africa, 55, 56. The African envoys return, ibid. Cyprian in council writes to all the bishops of Africa on behalf of Cornelius, 59. He writes also to Cornelius, 56. Letters to Cornelius from the whole of Africa, 59. The episcopate of Cornelius is acknowledged by all in Africa, 59. The character of Cornelius is praised, his election defended, his unconquered constancy in the episcopate proclaimed, 68, 69. Cornelius ascended through all the grades of religion to the lofty summit of the priesthood, 68. To be in communion with Cornelius, that is, with the Catholic Church, 66. The judgement of Cornelius and his colleagues on the lapsed, 68, 117. With very many colleagues he deliberates about receiving Trophimus 69. Crimes falsely imputed to Cornelius, 69. He is accused by some of being in communion with those who offered incense, 66. They keep saying that Cornelius is stained with the blot of a certificate and is in communion with bishops who sacrificed, 69. He is stirred by the threats of Felicissimus, 80. To be reckoned among the martyrs, 69. As leader of confession he persuaded the people to become confessors, 94. The whole Roman Church confessed, ibid. A blessed martyr, 97, 117.

Letter of Pope Cornelius to Cyprian, 60, 62, 167.

Cornelius the centurion, 128.

A white crown for works, 246. White and purple crowns, 18. The crown of contest, 262. The baptism of blood the crown of virtues, 262. The crown comes down from the condescension of God, 184. The crown of faith, 199. The crown of the Lord's confession, 90, 97. Of the passion, 95. Of righteousness, 201. A purple one for the passion, 246. The crowns of the martyrs, 188. The crown of the Lord's discipline, 34. The reward of heavenly crowns, 93. Crowns put an end to pains, 16. He who is divided from the Church cannot be crowned in death, 71. Those who sacrifice wear the devil's crown, 181.

The one body of our union, 99. The body of the Lord's flock, 58. The body of the Catholic Church, 55. The framework of the ecclesiastical body, 74. They assail the Body of the Lord, 186. The protection of the Body and Blood of Christ, 77. Our bodies are members of Christ, 74. The fellowship of our body, 76. A body enfeebled, 101. The like matter of bodies, 218. A common condition, 222.

The good listen to correction, 327.

Corrupters of the Gospel, 198.

To belch out drunkenness with indigestion, 111.

Even the persecutor is compelled to believe, 348. The living father of believers, 206. How great is the power of believing, 317. He had taught the creditor to recover what was lent, 168.

A believing martyr, 30.

Crementius the subdeacon, 7, 8, 24.

Crescens of Cirta, 331.

A crime to alter with counterfeit colours, 177. To dye the hair 178.

The crime of the will, 185. He who commanded is a sharer in the crime, 42.

The crests of mountains, 312.

Crocodiles, 220.

The sign of the cross, 294. The sign of the cross on the forehead, 201. The upturned hands of Moses in the sign and sacrament of the cross, 267.

Ingenious cruelty, 220.

Washed in their own blood, 350.

Cuicul, 336.

Rich stalks, 350.

Desire for heavenly glory, 43.

A cleric cannot be the trustee of a will, 114.

Cynocephali, 220.

CYPRIAN, who is Thascius, 121. Caecilius Cyprianus, 122. He lay in darkness and vices, 2. Conversion did not seem possible to him, ibid. How he was changed, ibid. At Carthage he believed and grew, 49. Bishop by the vote of the people and the judgement of God, 52. Five presbyters conspire against his episcopate, 52. The people are indignant against them, 54. Cyprian passes over in silence the insults to his episcopate, 18. He does nothing without the counsel of the clergy and the consent of the people, 11. He consults the clergy and the people in ordinations, 46. In peace chosen bishop by the vote of the whole people, 82. In quiet serving discipline, in the storm proscribed, ibid. Demanded by the violent clamour of the people, 23. How he was proscribed, 122. His withdrawal was blamed by some, 7, 23. He defends himself, 23, 24. He withdrew out of regard for the quiet of the brethren, 23. He avoids public view out of regard for the interests of the Church, 10. The Lord ordered him to withdraw, 19. On withdrawing he left a sum of money with the clergy, 9. He was absent in body only, 23, 36. He appointed deputies for himself while absent, 50. No rest for Cyprian, 40. He does not return, lest he be the cause of breaking the peace, 49. Lest he should seem to have exasperated the persecution, 53. He hopes to return soon, 50. He commends the confessors placed in prison, 50. He would wish to be present to fulfil the services of love towards them, ibid. Five presbyters delay Cyprian's return, 53. How irksome to Cyprian was an exile of two years, ibid. He desires that all the churches agree among themselves in their judgement on the lapsed, 24, 28, 39, 45. He is indignant against the presbyters who had given peace to the lapsed, 19 and following. He keeps from his communion anyone who communicates with the lapsed, 39, 67. He does not think it should be passed over in silence in a matter of such importance, 18. His grief at the fall of his own people, 182. He seems to himself laid low in his brethren who have been laid low, ibid. He yields something to the certificates of the martyrs, 22, 23. He relaxes something to soften the violence of the lapsed, 24. Certain things thrown out rather harshly against Cyprian in the letter of the lapsed, 41. He communicated with none of the lapsed as long as the persecution raged, 68. He was more severe towards the lapsed as long as they could have conquered, 23, 67. His strictness is praised, 36, 40. After Easter he deals with the case of the lapsed with his colleagues, 53. See Lapsed, he yields to the necessity of the times, 68. He does not depart from what was decreed in the council, 68. He maintains that lapsed bishops ought to be deposed and submitted to penance, 120. That those are not to be restored who had deceived Stephen so as to be restored, 119.

Through Cyprian's work the episcopate of Cornelius is acknowledged in all Africa, and Novatian is condemned, 59 and following. He counts the glory of the confessors as his own, 34. He sends the book On the Lapsed and On the Unity of the Church to the confessors, 66. His grief at the schism of the confessors, 65. Joy at their return from schism, 61. The schismatics wander through the province and do not dare to approach Cyprian, 87. Cyprian, fearless, does not think it matters to him by whom he is put to death, 89. Cyprian's fearless spirit, 80. He maintains that a case must be heard there where the crime was committed, 86. That the authority of the bishops established in Africa is no less, ibid. He was thinking of coming to the Thibaritans to exhort them, 90. He serves God and Christ, and offers sacrifices with pure lips, both in persecution and in peace, unceasingly, 121. He prays in the sacrifices and in the prayers for Pope Lucius, 97. Cyprian's candid heart, 162. The abuse and slanders of Pupianus against Cyprian, 121 and following. His manner of dealing with the schismatics, 88, 89. He closes the Church to no one, remits all things, passes over much in silence, 88. He says that by forgiving offences more than he ought he himself almost offends, ibid. He receives individually those who come to the Church, 122. One or two received by Cyprian, against the resistance of the people, turned out worse, 87. He serves the brethren daily, 122.

Cyprian's humility, 42. He exhorts by affection rather than by authority, 174. He calls himself the last and least, ibid. The brethren and the gentiles know and love his humility, 121. He is accused of excessive leniency in the case of the lapsed, 66. Cyprian's charity towards the poor, 49, 50. In redeeming captives, 100. In relieving martyrs, 161, 162, 163. He sends from his own small means for relieving the confessors, 13. He invites to Carthage the poor whom their own Church cannot support, 101. Cyprian's own amount, 49. By revelation he knows of the coming persecution, 14, 77, 79. He foretells a persecution more cruel than before, 90. God reveals to Cyprian that peace will come shortly, 12, 15. A revelation shown to Cyprian, 124. By revelation he knows that the day of contest is drawing near for himself and Cornelius, 96. That the brethren are not of one mind in praying, 14. That they doze in prayers, ibid. Divine admonitions about sparing food and sober drink, 15. It was often revealed to Cyprian that he should preach that the dead are not to be mourned, 234. He consults God 124. He imposes no law on others in the controversy over Baptism, 129, 137, 156, 158, 329. To some he seems a prevaricator of the truth and a betrayer of unity, 132. He is called a pseudochrist, 151. He is attacked without being named, 333. He is said to be endowed with the stupor of heretics, ibid. He is accused on the ground that the errors of all the churches

he wished to correct, 353. Cyprian's complaints concerning Stephen, 140. Chiefly that he thinks priests who hold the truth and unity are to be kept away from, ibid. He fights for the honour and unity of the Church, 132. It seems too little to Cyprian to rouse the people with his voice unless he also strengthens them with the divine reading, 261. In his books he designates himself, 161. The usefulness of Cyprian's writings, ibid. He always speaks with great thoughts, ibid. Firmilian received the writings sent by Cyprian as if they were his own, 143. He did not read them in passing, but often committed them to memory, ibid. Cyprian banished for confessing the Name, 158. He is the first to confess in the proceedings before the proconsul, 161, 162. First among the martyrs, because he confessed first, 161, 162. Cyprian's withdrawal before his passion, 166. He wishes to suffer at Carthage, ibid.

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A demon cannot move the earth, but, foreknowing earthquakes, pretends that it will do so, 146. Demons are put to flight by Christians, 227. The poets know the demons, 226. The principal demons, 146.

The various punishments of the damned, 349.

Daniel devoted to God, 269. He would not worship Bel, 92, 96. He is praised, 187, 191. A meal is divinely prepared for Daniel, 210, 240. Daniel consulted by Nebuchadnezzar, 238. He overcame the king's threats, 346.

Dativus of Badis, 332. Dativus placed in the mines, 158, 161.

Dativa, 31.

Saul persecutes David, 257, 269. David danced before the ark, 339, 340.

The Lord calls sins debts, 211.

Tithes granted to the Levites, 114. From our patrimony we do not give even tithes, 203.

Decimus, presbyter, 27.

Decius the tyrant, 69. Conquered by war and arms, ibid. His hatred towards priests, ibid. He heard with more patience that a rival emperor was being raised up against him than that a priest of God was being established at Rome, ibid. He marvels at the constancy of Celerinus, 47.

The faces of the dead are retained by means of an image, 225.

Delicate boasting, 252. The sloth of a delicate mind, 229. Offences blaze everywhere, 5. The vapour of seething offences, 37. Let us reckon up our offences, 188. Offences become religious, 4.

Delimare [to file away], 10.

Charms for the ears, 342.

No fear of offending, 219

Demetrius, bishop, 77, 124. Demetrius of Leptiminus 334.

Demetrianus used to come often to Cyprian, 216. With a zeal for contradicting rather than for learning, ibid. He sowed hatred against the Christians, ibid. He said that all the calamities of the world ought to be imputed to them, ibid.

Denotata [things marked out], 104.

Deposits offered to the Church, 62, 63, 64.

Matrimony is laid waste, 79.

Fabled lusts are danced out, 341.

Detraction forbidden, 328.

Detriumphare [to triumph over utterly], 343.

"God" is His name, 227. The gentiles acknowledge God as Father, 335. God has no name, 227. The sayings of the common people: "God sees", ibid. God is the Lord of all, ibid. He cannot be seen, ibid. The vision of God is everlasting. 225. He is lent to at interest through alms to the poor, 242. He sees the hearts and breasts of each individual, 190. Ruler and Lord of the world, 217. Nothing can come about except what God has either done or permitted to come about, 217. Nothing happens without God's knowledge or without His permission, 188. He cannot be deceived, 271, 320. He is to be feared for the majesty of the Judge, 193. He is angry, 218. He is not mocked, 190, 271. He cannot be mocked, 271. He is to be appeased by long satisfaction, 53, 186. The wrath of God is to be appeased by fasts and weeping, 191. God indulgent and severe, 44. A diligent exactor of His precepts, ibid. The Lord's indulgence, that we may call God Father, 207. The patience of God, 248. Why God is patient, 316. Always indulgent and good, 192. He defers judgement so that man may be converted, 248. He is the hearer of the heart, 205. He penetrates into hidden and secret things, 204. To him who has God nothing will be lacking, if he himself is not lacking to God, 210. God is one not in number but in universality, ccii. Almighty because He holds dominion over all things, ibid. All that we are able to do is of God, 2. He watches us as we contend, 93. Christ, God and teacher of peace and concord, 206. God is to be prayed to, 13. He alone is to be worshipped, 263, 264, 265. Father of those who believe and understand, 209. He does not have God as Father who does not have the Church as mother, 195. Acknowledge God, even if late, 224. God is to be believed, ibid. Man exacts servitude from his slave, and does not acknowledge the Lord his God, 218. God is neither known nor feared, 219. He is not worshipped, 225. He is neither sought nor feared, 220. The secrets of God cannot be perceived, 319. God speaks in us, 92. Of our conscience

He is judge, 271. God is to be consecrated in our mind, 227. He makes priests, 68, 121. The works of God are perfect, 98. He is no respecter of persons, 98. Nothing is to be put before the love of God and of Christ, 311. The unknown God, 144.

The gods whom the gentiles worship are adjured and tormented by Christians, 221. They are cast out of bodies, wailing, ibid., and 227. They tremble under the hand of Christians, ibid. When questioned as to what they are, they answer in the hearing of the gentiles, ibid. Christians destroy the gods openly and in the very forum, 220. They confound them publicly when they declare themselves to be Christians, ibid. A guard keeps the gods locked up lest they perish, 221. It is shameful to worship those whom you yourself defend, 221. Profane gods, 253. The Idaean mother of the gods, 226. The native gods of the Romans, 226. That those whom the common people worship are not gods, 225.

Bracelets, 177.

The devil perished through envy and brought others to ruin, 253, 256. He could not bear that man was made in the image of God, 253. He can do nothing without the permission of God, 325. Power is given to the devil against us, 212. In peace crafty, in persecution violent, 256. His hidden darts are the more frequent, ibid. Seeing idols abandoned, he devised heresies and schisms, 194. He does not attack heretics, but those whom he sees standing firm, 97. He assails each stronger man the more, 10. He is not eager to overthrow those whom he has already made his own, 95. He provokes those in whom he perceives that Christ dwells, ibid. This is always the work of the devil, to tear the servants of God with lying, 69. He had triumphed over the whole world, 343. Always lying and deceitful, 54. He flatters in order to deceive, 180. The cunning and arts of the devil, 193. He goes about us, 256. He frequently creeps in and penetrates, 213. Altars of the devil, 85, 184. Comparison of the devil with Christ, 244. He is tormented by exorcists, 157. The devil is to be resisted, 328. How he is to be overcome, 262. To slay the devil, 161.

The Apostles appointed deacons for themselves as ministers of their episcopate and of the Church, 113. When the solemn rites are completed the deacon offers the cup to those present, 189. Deacons together with presbyters are accustomed to guide the confessors, 19, 20. Individual deacons minister to presbyters among the confessors, 9. Confession before a deacon, 22. A deacon insolent towards his bishop, 112. How ordinations of deacons are to be made, 118. A deacon excluded from communion because he was caught in the same bed with virgins, 103.

Tauric Diana, 226.

The day rises equally for all, 157. It gives light equally, 246. Feast days, 225.

The eighth day, that is, the first after the sabbath, 98. A day appointed for Christians to deny [the faith], 182. The course of the days of the world, 98.

To speak with the fingers, 342.

Dioga of Leptis Magna, 338.

Dionysiana, 335.

Dionysius the schismatic, 62.

Ecclesiastical discipline, 46, 52, 64, 80, 102. The vigour of ecclesiastical discipline enfeebled, 339. Divine discipline, 120, 260. Evangelical, 43, 53. Christian discipline is corrupted by long peace, 182. The crown of the Lord's discipline, 34. The discipline of innocence, 219. The severity of discipline, 158. The discipline of religion and of truth, 109. The robust discipline of the Lord's law, 32. The teaching of discipline, 48. The examination of discipline, 68. The discipline of God is to be observed, 324. The observance of discipline, 102. The foundation of religion and faith from observance and discipline, 173. Discipline the guardian of hope, 173. Nothing is so necessary as the due severity of divine vigour, 42. The welfare of the Church cannot be provided for unless the order of discipline is always kept and preserved, 42. The severity of discipline among the Romans, 42. Gladiatorial training, 3.

The disciples abandoned Christ, 82. They are called the salt of the earth, 209.

Those in discord condemned, 212. Those in discord are adversaries of Christ, 195. Discord cannot attain to the kingdom of heaven, 199, 213. Discord cannot be washed away even by the baptism of blood, 198, 212. The sowing of discord, 74. Discord breaking out afresh, 56. The fury of discord, 96, 129, 196, 198, 199. The poison of discords, 261. A quarrelsome pen, 56. A quarrelsome speech, 198.

Hair-pins, 477.

Divine ordering, 51, 56, 136, 139, 155. Ecclesiastical ordering, 58.

The evil of dissension, 202. The madness of dissension, 95.

There is no room for dissembling when the brotherhood is being deceived by certain persons, 18.

The barren rich man, 242. No one is rich in this world, 241. The rich are always fearful, 6. Their misery, 6.

The truth of the Godhead rejected, 144.

Monthly distributions, 48.

The rich perish through their riches, 184. The mouth and tongue of the sinful rich man were tormented the more, 81. Riches are not only to be despised but are also dangerous, 210.

Adulterous doctrines, 53.

Teacher of the hearers, 33. Presbyters as teachers, ibid.

Grief a witness of the truth, 228. To count a brother's grief as one's own, 99. One must grieve wisely, 171.

The deceitful workman, 151.

Care of the members of one's household, 325.

The Lord greater than the devil, 263, 367. The Lord's peace, 137. To celebrate the Lord's [sacrifice], 109, 242. To read at the Lord's [service], 46. Christians dismissed from the Lord's [service], 341.

The house of the church, 196.

The dwelling-place of unity and truth, 61.

Donatus 1 and following. Donatus the presbyter, 11. Donatus bishop of Carthage, 84. Donatus the bishop, 77, 124. Donatus of Cibaliana, 356. Donatus the martyr, 39.

Donata, 31.

Donatulus, 76. Donatulus of Capsa, 338.

Falling asleep, 103, 114.

Legitimate doubt ought not to be censured, 66.

A ducenarian procurator, 119.

If two or three have gathered in the name of Christ, how it is to be understood, 198.

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The Church is extended more widely into a multitude, 195. She stretches out her branches through the whole world, 195. She extends her branches into the whole earth, ibid. One mother, abundant in the increase of her fruitfulness, 195. The body of the whole Church, whose members are distributed through the various provinces, 41. One Church throughout the whole world, 73. The Catholic Church, 66. The Church is in the bishop and the clergy and all who stand fast, 38. The number of the lapsed is not [the Church], ibid. They are the Church who remain in the house of God, 83. The Catholic Church, which is one and true, 124. Who they are that cannot remain in the Church, 64. Only he who is not planted in the precepts of God the Father can depart from the Church, 64. And remain with heretics, ibid. Those who depart from the Church have not been planted by God, 83. The root and womb of the Catholic Church, 59. In the Church wheat and tares, 14, 65. Christ did not grant even to the Apostles this power, that they should separate the chaff from the wheat, 65, 74. Christ presides and watches in the Church, 244. Christ instituted and made the Church, 198. A human church, which is instituted by schismatics, 73.

The body of the Catholic Church, 55. The Church is a people united to its priest, 125. Christ prayed that we might be one as the Father and the Son [are], 213. It is another confession to confess that the Church is one, 65. One Church, 53, 62, 123, 152, 195, 202. She is one and alone, 112. In Christ one body, into which our number has been united, 108. The Church one body, 201. The lodging of unanimity, 196. Christ attributed most not to a multitude but to unanimity, 198. The unity of the Church coheres with heavenly sacraments, 193. A people united from the unity of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 211. The unity of the Church coming from divine firmness, 195. Coming from the ordering of the divine dispensation, 128. The Lord, intimating a unity coming from divine condescension, says, I and the Father are one, 155. The unity of Christ and likewise of the Church cohering with indivisible bonds, 63. One God and one Church, 202. The house of God is one, 103. One Christ and one Church, 132. There is no other house besides the one Church, 196. Why the tunic of Christ was not torn, 196? Of the Lord's flock one mind and one body, 58. The Novatianists lie in the [baptismal] interrogation, since they do not have the Church, 154. If the Church was with Novatian, it was not with Cornelius, 152. The devil promises the Church in order to tear [men] away from the Church, 54. The Church is not among heretics, because she is one and cannot be divided, 139. The schismatics kept telling their followers that they would return to the Church together, 87. Unity is to be firmly held and defended, 195. Especially by bishops, ibid. The one Church which lives for ever and gives life, 124.

The Church cannot be torn or divided, 62, 139, 155. She does not withdraw from Christ, 125. Unity cannot be separated at all or divided, 151. The unity of the Church cannot be torn, 74, 196. The unity of the Church comes from heaven and from the Father, 196. Wicked is he who thinks that the unity of God can be torn, 196. Nothing will be able to separate the Church from Christ, 108. The Church cannot be adulterated, 195. She is uncorrupted and chaste, ibid. The Church uncorrupted, 152. The water of the Church cannot be adulterated and corrupted, 152. The Church never withdraws at all from the doctrine of Christ, 83. The Church not torn nor divided, but joined by the glue of priests cohering with one another, 124. All the Churches joined with Cyprian by the bond of unity, 123. The consensus of all the Churches in condemning Novatian, 115. In deferring the case of the lapsed, 53. In judging the same case, 120. The venerable authority of all the Churches, 353. The Church alone possesses the grace of Christ and the truth, 334. All power and grace has been established in the Church, 145. In the Church is all grace and [all] of truth, 126.

The Church holds and possesses all her Bridegroom and Lord's

power, 132. The Church formerly barren, 280. The marriage of Christ and the Church, 108. The people of the Gentiles, the Jews falling away, flowed together to the marriage of Christ and the Church, 108. The Church alone is the bride of Christ, she alone can beget sons to God, 140. The Church the bride of Christ, 195. The Church alone bears sons to Christ, 147. Christ is not with those who are gathered outside the Church, 198. No salvation outside the Church, 195. Outside the Church they perish without communion and peace, 129. Those who depart from the Church are condemned by themselves, 52, 64. One separated from the Church is condemned by himself, 132, 200. The head and root of the one Church, 130. One who resists the Church is not in the Church, 195. No peace outside the Church, 129. One must rejoice when wolves and dogs are separated from the Church, 197. Lest they prey upon the doves and sheep, ibid. He is an alien and profane who does not dwell in the house of God, 153. Neither life nor salvation outside unity, 105, 196. One escapes no more easily outside the Church than outside Noah's ark, 195. He is not with Christ who separates himself from the fellowship of His clergy and people, 200. Whatever has departed from the mother will not be able to live, 201. Those who are outside the Church are dead, 126. Outside the Church nothing can be loosed or bound, 131. The stain of heresy is not washed away even by blood, 198. No one is a martyr outside the Church, ibid. Martyrdom in heresy is not the crown of faith but the punishment of faithlessness, 199. Such a man can be killed, he cannot be crowned, 75, 136, 199, 201. One killed outside the Church for the Name is not crowned, 71. Death in confession of the Name outside the Church is not the crown of faith but the punishment of faithlessness, 95. Those who persevere in shameless obstinacy can never be admitted into the Church, 103. Christ built His Church upon a rock, 148, 332. Built upon Peter, 83, 123, 127, 132, 250. One, founded by Christ the Lord upon Peter by the origin and principle of unity, 125, 127, 131. She is one and upon one, who also received her keys, 132. The foundations of the Church laid upon Peter, 148. The Church first and one, founded upon Peter, 270. Upon Peter, one man, 195. The principal Church, 86. The Church a mother, 57, 58. She is closed to no one, 249. The Church like paradise, 152. Anna a type of the Church, 205. What heretics and schismatics contrive among themselves does not touch the majesty of the Church, 83. Mother Church mourns the downfall of very many, 17. Sons of the Church, 154. The glory of the Church is the glory of the one set over it, 11. The Church white and purple, 18. The framework of the ecclesiastical body, 74. The balance of governing the Church, 115. Seven churches, 281.

Ecstasy, 19. The ecstasy of a woman seized by a demon, 146.

Deadly edicts, 69, 93. The edict of the secular lord. 190.

The giving of a public show, 244.

Egnatius, martyr, 47.

Chosen for the reward of glory, 201.

Almsgiving commanded by Christ, 239. The good of almsgiving, 302. Almsgiving commended, 214, 237. It is to be denied to no one, 303. By almsgiving souls are freed from death, 192. Almsgiving cleanses sins, 237. It should not be done for display, 317. To persevere in almsgiving, 192. He who gives to the least lends at interest to God, 214. He who helps the poor prevails by the prayers of many, 176. Whatever is given to the poor man is given to Christ, 245. One must lend to the Lord at interest with one's wealth and resources, 193. In almsgiving and in a modest work the will is enough, 304. Christ is to be fed. 176. The poor widow preferred Elijah to her sons, 242. He sins who puts himself and his sons before Christ, 243.

The elements are not to be worshipped, 265.

The eloquence of the world is not the kingdom of God, 324.

Emerita, 29 31.

The people of Emerita, 117.

He buys with his means so that he may shine, 5.

Enoch translated, 255, 278.

Epictetus, bishop of Assuras, 110.

God makes bishops, 59, 68, 82, 113, 114, 121. The bishop given by God as judge for the time, 122. The Church established upon the bishops, 58. This founded by divine law, ibid. The Church over which by the Lord's indulgence we preside, 100. God and His Christ made Cornelius bishop, 68, 69. Bishops must guard the camp divinely entrusted to them, 141. Christ entrusted His bride to the bishops, †. The Lord chose apostles, that is, those set over [the Church], 115. They preside in the Church, 195. They are the successors of the apostles, 57, 148, 337. They govern the Church with the same power as the apostles, 337. One priest and judge in the Church for the time in the stead of Christ, 82.

The bishop is one, 122. One in the Church, 82. One chosen by divine ordinance, 97. One in the Catholic Church, 61. An adulterous and foreign bishop is not a bishop, 73. The bishop in the Church, and the Church in the bishop, 123, 113. To set up another bishop is to set up another Church, 58. If anyone is not with the bishop, he is not in the Church, 123. The episcopate is one, 195. A part of which is held by each in its entirety, ibid. The episcopate of Cornelius having been confirmed by the consent of all the bishops, whoever has wished to be bishop is outside, 68. The one episcopate of many bishops, in a harmonious

multitude diffused, 73. To each shepherd a portion of the flock is assigned, 86. Episcopal unity, 74. The body of priests joined by the bond of unity, 116. Many priests feed one flock, ibid. They ought to cherish all the sheep, ibid. The decree of Cornelius together with absolutely all the bishops established throughout the whole world, 120. See 53 and 115. If any bishop has attempted to make heresy and lay waste the flock, the rest ought to come to the rescue and gather the sheep, 116. How great a crime it is to speak evil of priests, 81. How much reverence is owed to priests is proved from the Scriptures, 113. Bishops are avenged by God, 113. He who despises bishops is not with Christ, 200. One must rise before a bishop, 325. The authority of bishops, 38. Schisms arise from contempt of bishops, 122. A bishop can at once take action against an insolent deacon, 112. All his colleagues would welcome this, ibid. A deacon insolent towards a bishop ought to do penance for his audacity, 113. A bishop, even if lawfully ordained, is no longer a bishop if he withdraws from unity, 74. If bishops deposed for idolatry persist in their madness, the people must be separated from them, 112. An adulterous and alien bishop, 73. Freedom granted to bishops in matters not decided, 72, 86, 129, 137, 158, 330. They will render an account of their conduct to the Lord alone, ibid.

How the elections of bishops are to be made, 118. The form of episcopal election, 68. Bishops set up without the law of ordination, 197. [Holding] the episcopate with no one conferring it, 197. Which men are to be chosen as bishops, 118. Bishops are priests of God and of Christ, 110. A bishop should not be quarrelsome or contentious, 141. Bishops sound and unimpaired, 112. Bishops ought to be humble, 121. The bishop's share in the common joy is the greater, 11. Annual assemblies of bishops 143. The vigour of the episcopate, 80, 112. Nothing ought to frighten a bishop, 80. It will be charged to bishops on the day of judgement if they have not cared for the wounded sheep, 70. A bishop ought not only to teach but also to learn, 141. He teaches better who daily grows and advances by learning better things, ibid. It befits a bishop to be sacrificed in the presence of the brethren, 97. A bishop ought to provide for peace and tranquillity, 53. Bishops submitted to penance, 119, 120. The vices of very many bishops before the persecution of Decius, 183. Bishops of the worst manner of life, 360. Certain bishops sacrificed to idols, 69. The condemnation of bishops who live wickedly, 111. A bishop of a bishop, 122. No one is bishop of bishops, 329. The authority of the bishops in Africa is no less, 86.

A letter of the clergy, 8; authentic, 8.

Over-lavish feasts are to be avoided, 15. To gape after feasts and dinners, 111.

The rack that stretches, 4, 185. The body stretched on the rack, 347.

Wandering spirits, 3.

Error in place of truth, 192. One must not err because error was once committed, 136. One who errs in simplicity can be pardoned, 133. He who clings to error sins knowingly and wittingly, 133. One must not follow those who err, 144. A partaker in another's error, 65. The error of custom, 149. The dye of error, 332. Schismatic and heretical error, 65.

Esau lost his rights of the firstborn, 137, 255; hostile to his brother Jacob, 246.

Heathens and publicans, 152. The corrupt morals of the heathen, 4. They hated Christians before they knew them, 227.

Etecusa, 29.

The law of the Gospel, 109, 131. Corrupters of the Gospel, 198. The law of the Gospel and the tradition of the Lord must be kept, 109. Through the Gospel men become martyrs, 40. Martyrs can do nothing against the Gospel, 188. The Gospel cannot stand firm in part and totter in part, 188. The unity of the Gospel sacrament, 65. In vain do those who separate themselves from the Church wish to lay claim to the Gospel, 58.

Evaristus, from being a bishop, now not even a layman, 63. Evaristus a schismatic, 62, 63.

The Eucharist is the holy body of the Lord, 20. The institution of the Eucharist, 105. To make the Eucharist, 330. To make the Eucharist with an invocation not to be despised, 146. Christ offered His body and blood, 105. He first offered Himself as a sacrifice to the Father, 109. He commanded that it be done in commemoration of Him, that He Himself might be offered to the Father, 109. To give the Eucharist to the unworthy is to profane the holy body of the Lord, 20. To receive the body of the Lord with defiled hands, 188. To drink the blood of the Lord with a polluted mouth, ibid. They approach the holy thing of the Lord with filthy hands, 186. With throats breathing out crime they assail the body of the Lord, 186. Violence is done to the body and blood of the Lord, ibid. They sin more against the Lord with hands and mouth than when they denied Him, ibid. See Lapsed. In a violated body the Eucharist did not remain, 189. So great is the power of the Lord, so great His majesty, 189. In the Eucharist the body and blood of the Lord, cx. Ashes instead of the Eucharist in the hands of a man who had denied, 189. The Lord departs when He is denied, ibid. The Eucharist carried in the hand, 189, 251, 341.

The right hand that has received the body of the Lord should embrace it, 95. The holy thing of the Lord is stored in a box for communions at home, 189. Firmilian is indignant that the unbaptized touch the body and blood of the Lord, 149. How cautiously those who carry the body of Christ with them ought to proceed, 341. The Eucharist is received daily, 90. We receive the Eucharist daily, 209. The Eucharist cannot be performed among heretics, 125.

In the Eucharist the blood of Christ, 108. Mention of wine, so that the blood of the Lord may be understood, 106. If anyone offers wine only, the blood of Christ begins to be without us, 108. If there is water alone, the people begin to be without Christ, ibid. The blood of Christ is not offered if wine is lacking in the cup, 107. The blood of Christ cannot be seen to be in the cup when wine is lacking in the cup, 104. By wine the blood of Christ is shown, 104. Christ called wine His blood, 107. Water alone cannot express the blood of Christ, 107. We could not drink the blood of Christ unless Christ had first been trodden [as in a winepress], 106. To be fragrant of the blood of Christ through the taste of wine, 109. We cannot shed blood for Christ if we are ashamed to drink the blood of Christ, 109.

The effect of the Eucharist, 107. When the blood of Christ has been drunk, the memory of the old man is laid aside, 107. The blood of Christ is to be given to the penitent, so that they may shed their own for Christ, 78. The faithful drink the blood of Christ daily, so that they may shed their blood for Christ, 90. He is not fit for martyrdom whom the Eucharist, not having been received, does not raise up, 78. The Eucharist a protection to those who receive it, 77. Mouths after the body and blood of the Lord spat out the remnants of idols, 181. Mouths sanctified by heavenly food, 181. The Eucharist to be received with fear, 326. We pray that we may not, through some graver offence intervening, be kept away and separated from the body of Christ, 209. The Eucharist does not profit the unworthy, 190. Christ is the bread of those who touch His body, 209. Christ our bread, 209, 210. The very sacrifices of the Lord also declare Christian unanimity, 108, 153. The Eucharist profits nothing without works, 314. The Eucharist is that from which the baptized are anointed, 125.

Euchratius, bishop, 101. Euchratius of Thenae, 333.

Eugenius of Ammedera, 334.

Eutycianus, bishop, 124, 163.

Contention for exaltation cannot exist among Christians, 238.

What has been committed by many must be examined by many, 44.

The faith of the people is disarmed, 86.

Departure [from life], 8.

To be removed from the presbyterate, 64.

Things that have ceased to be crimes become examples, 4. To set an example for the future, 39.

Straying from the way of the true road, 202.

The departure of a glorious death, 50.

Exomologesis, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 30, 75, 103, 186, 190, 191, 328. One comes to exomologesis according to the order of discipline, 19, 21. Daniel after the grace of innocence makes exomologesis, 191.

The power of exorcists, 157. Praise of a certain exorcist, 146. The force of exorcisms, 3, 221, 222. To exorcize demons, 340.

The day of the campaign, 203.

The testing of discipline, 68. The testing of God, 111.

To discharge the necessities of the brethren, 51.

An assailant within the household, 184.

To love self-exaltation, 201.

Exile, 23, 24, 27, 28, 29, 52. Exiles and fugitives, 70. Exiles despoiled of all their goods, 25. An exile from the see and the people, 65.

Exultation in sense, 160.

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Fabian, a man of most noble memory, 43. Fabian the pope, 84. The death of Pope Fabian, 45. Fabian, Roman bishop, 152. The place of Fabian, that is, the chair of Peter, 68.

A tale of Greek lust, 340. To those devoted to tales, 1.

An uncorrupted face, 179.

Troublesome through his own leniency, 32.

The truth of a crime is extracted by pain of the body, 220.

A faction of heretical depravity, 63. A dissenting faction, 57.

The handiwork of God ought not to be adulterated, 178.

The opportunity of transcription, 45.

Poisoned eloquence, 95.

Deceit hateful to the faithful, 271. Deceit blind and lurking, 193.

Forgers, 219, 257.

Eternal hunger, 101.

The fasces of twelve consulships, 25.

The respite of the flagging year, 1

The three fates, 29.

Favorinus, acolyte, 39.

Faustinus, bishop, 77. Faustinus of Lyons, 115.

Faustus, bishop, 117. Faustus of Timida Regia, 336.

Torches for kindling faith, 36.

Fever consecrated [as a deity], 226.

Felicianus, acolyte, 84.

Felicissimus, schismatic, 51, 52, 79, 83, 87. He threatens that those who obey Cyprian will not have communion with him in death, 51. His presbyterate 57. Five presbyters joined to him, 52. Excluded from communion by Cyprian, 51. A henchman of Novatus, 63. He threatens clubs and swords and stones, 80. Long since excluded from communion by very many bishops, 79. He comes to Rome, but is driven out by the Church; his crimes, 79, 80. The party of Felicissimus is neither of those who sacrificed nor of the heretics, 25. He is able to gather bishops, 85. Those who were present at the judgement of the schismatics are more than those who follow them, 87.

Felicissimus, a Catholic, 165.

Felix, bishop, 76, 77, 117, 124. Felix of Caesaraugusta, 119. Felix, placed in the mines, 158, 161, 163. Felix of Bagai, 332. Of Uthina, 333. Of Marazana, 335. Of Bussacenae, 336. Of Gurgites, 337. Of Amaccora, 334. Felix, presbyter, 27, 117. Felix, schismatic, 84.

A woman stronger than the men torturing her, 175. Praise of Christian women, 164. God has bidden that in the Church we triumph together with women, ibid. He bids that we beware of women's combats in private, ibid.

The body is thrown to wild beasts, 350. Wild beasts overcome by religion, 343. Wild beasts spare, 211. A raging wild beast is fed for the punishment of a man, 341.

Faith: [believers] are sons of Abraham, 105. That the faithful man ought to be innocent, 317. Why the faithful man is corrected, 320. The faithful man ought not to live in the manner of the gentiles, 316.

Our faith ought to be simple, 319. The first outlines of faith, 274. The majesty of faith, 43. The unanimity of faith and truth, 143. Faith is one, 151. The unity of faith coming from God the Father and from the tradition of Jesus Christ, 139. According to the merits of his faith each receives as much as he believes he receives, 268. God does not desire our blood, but seeks faith, 234. Faith profits much, 317. The immovable strength of faith, 80. Unconquered faith, 76. The sincere vigour of faith, 26. The faith of Christ must be held, 37. One cannot come to God the Father except through His Son Christ, 295, 314. The people did not escape from Egypt except by the blood and sign of the lamb, 223. At the end of the world he alone will escape who has been found in the blood and sign of Christ, 123. Among schismatics faith cannot be sound, 362. Faith cannot be sound among heretics, 360. There can be no fellowship of faith and faithlessness, 89. To recover faith, 27. Faith lying prostrate and almost asleep, 182. Scabby faith, 358. The failing faith of the receiver, 268. Faith certain of things to come, 275. Hearts are cleansed by faith, 366.

One must trust in God alone, 306. The strength of those who trust, 72.

Confidence under examination, 208.

Fidus, bishop, 97.

Earthly fictions, 248.

Love of sons, 169. Sons to be treated well by their fathers, 324. It does not befit sons to be degenerate, 247. A son avenges the wrong of an injured father, 135. Description of a bad son repenting, 73. Sons of the Church, 54.

Son of God. See Christ.

We are called sons of God, 207. Made sons of God through Christ, 225. Who the sons of God are, 248, 261. The sons of God ought to be peaceable, 203.

The end of the age approaching, 200.

Firmilian, bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, 142. He receives Cyprian's writings as if his own, 143. His zeal and love for unity, 143, 150, 151. Insulting words against Stephen, 148, 149, 150, 151. He wrote back to Cyprian about twenty-two years after the emperor Alexander, 146.

Firmus, martyr, 30.

The goods of Christians claimed for the treasury, 166. The treasury seizes, 243. The treasury holds the possessions of exiles, 27.

Spiritual scourges, 221.

The perpetual flame, 218.

Flame-coloured hair, 178.

Flora the harlot, 226.

Florentius Pupianus, 121.

The ministry of the more flourishing, 29.

Florus. 76.

The four rivers, that is, the four Gospels, 132.

At the flow of blood the world trembled, 352.

It is not lawful to lend at interest, 318. Lend your patrimony at interest to God, 176.

The sealed fountain, 152. The sealed fountain of the Church, 150. The fountain barely trickles with a slight sweat, 217.

Painted beauty in women, 182.

Timidity, 346.

Fornication a grave offence, 323.

Fortunata, martyr, 30.

Fortunatianus, bishop, 110.

Fortunatus, bishop, 55, 59, 76, 77, 117, 124. Fortunatus, 110, 261. Fortunatus of Tuchabori, 332. Fortunatus, presbyter, 11. Fortunatus, schismatic, 85, 87. Fortunatus, subdeacon, 39, 40.

Fortunio, martyr, 30.

The vices of the forum, 4.

To break a man down into a woman, 4.

Brotherhood broken, 52. Charity the bond of brotherhood, 251. A brother is not to be defrauded, 326.

Fraud is a mortal crime, 251. Those entangled in frauds, 86. Defrauders and adulterers, 74.

The gnashing threats of the people, 351.

Leafy roofs, 1.

Fructus, martyr, 30.

The fruits of good work, 55.

We can be wheat, 65.

Counterfeit colourings, 178.

One must flee in persecution, 184. Homeland and patrimony are to be left behind, ibid. Flights of Christians in persecution, 146. Flight in persecution praised, 78. The glory of those who perish in flight is no less, 91. Those who are meanwhile separated from the flock in body, not in spirit, by the necessity of the time ought not to shrink from flight, 91. On clerics who withdrew in persecution, 39. A penalty imposed on them, ibid.

You have begun to carry your own funeral, 191.

The hatred of a maddened mind, 258.

Furni, 336. The people of Furni, 114.

Incurable madness, 111.

Spiritual thefts, 110.

Beaten with clubs, 159. To bruise with clubs, 185.

Futurus, standard-bearer of Privatus, 41.

Faith in things to come, 189. No one thinks on the fear of things to come, 203.

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Gaius of Dida, 38.

Galatia, 145.

The helmet of salvation, 36. The saving helmet, 93.

Gargilius, bishop, 124.

Expressing the joy of the heart with tears, 60. Joy always hastens, 46. We must rejoice when our dear ones depart, 230. One must rejoice at the deaths of Christians, 169. Rejoicing, 160.

Gazaufala, 337.

Description of everlasting Gehenna, 349.

Gemelli, 337.

Geminius Victor, 114. Geminius, bishop, 117. Geminius of Furni, 336.

To drink from a gem, 5.

To stain the cheeks with a lying blush, 177.

Genealogy of horses, 341.

The calling of the nations foretold, 227. The conversion of the nations to Christ, 106, 108. The unhappiness of the Gentiles, 78, 222, 316. To live in the manner of the Gentiles, 67, 71, 78, 316. The condition of the Gentiles other than the reckoning of the Jews, 134. The nations would believe in Christ more, 281. The nations will attain to the kingdom of heaven more than the Jews, 282. The Gentiles acknowledge God as father, 333. The Gentiles often despise pains, 170. Marriages with Gentiles forbidden, 325.

Loftiness of birth, 48.

Germaniciana, 333.

Shameful and effeminate gestures, 101.

Getulicus, 31.

Girba, 331.

The spiritual sword, 103. The sword of the spirit, 36. Swords for overturning the truth, 130.

The unhappiness of gladiators, 244.

Barren soil, 218.

In throngs, 9.

One must glory in nothing, 305. One must glory in God alone, 306. The lofty summit of glories, 158. Traces of glories, 25. Desire for heavenly glory, 43. We reckon your glory as ours, 54. Twofold glory, 160.

The glue of concord, 202. The glue of mutual concord, 116. The glue of bishops holding together, 124.

The gomor was gathered equally by each person, 157.

Gor, 334.

Gordius, presbyter, 11.

The frail hearts of the brethren, 55.

Greek contests, 340. A tale of Greek lust, 340. The kingdom of the Greeks, 226.

Many grains make one loaf, 108. Precious stones hanging from the ears, 177. Strong grains despise the winds, 252. The uniting of many grains, 153.

Thanksgivings did not cease even in persecution, 181.

GRACE, heavenly and spiritual, 266. The Lord's grace, that is, baptism, 136, 157, 158. The short way of hastening grace, 2. The consummation of grace, 149. Grace and truth are one, 126. The birth of spiritual grace, 206. The grace of God is free, 327. God does not respect person or age, but offers Himself as father to all for the attainment of grace, 98. Heavenly grace without respect of person, 157. Grace is not given greater or less according to age, 98. The Holy Spirit is bestowed not by measure, but equally on all, out of fatherly goodness and indulgence, 99. A free gift from God, and easy, 6. Conversion of heart did not seem possible to Cyprian, 2. How was he changed? ibid. Restored by the birth of spiritual grace, they began to be sons of God, 206. The deaf have received the hearing of spiritual grace, 194. The blind have opened their eyes to God, ibid. The devil can do nothing against us unless God has first permitted it, 212. The Lord is greater to protect than the devil to attack, 262, 267. Greater is He Who is in us than he who is in this world, 16. An earthly blow can do no more than divine protection, ibid. Blows could not overcome an unconquerable faith, ibid. Human efforts avail no more than divine protection, 88. Nothing can separate those who believe and cleave firmly to Christ, 15. Help has never failed believers in their trials, ibid. Courage ready for battle cannot be conquered, 273. See 197. Yet the choice of one's own freedom remains, ibid. He who cleaves to Christ conquers the devil, because Christ is unconquered, 262. Schismatics, with the Lord's help, can return through His mercy, 64. It is not difficult for God to inspire constancy in a confessor, 268. The power of grace in the martyrs, 17. Martyrdom is granted from on high, 352. It is wholly of the Lord's promise and gift, ibid. It comes about by divine condescension, 35, 233. One must consider not the danger but the help of God, 268. To Christ are owed both the victory and the fight, 344. Victory is given by God, 79. God makes victors by His condescension, 162, 185. With the Lord standing by them they have blotted out their former stain by greater courage, 28. Virginity is from the gift of God, 111. God offers what it would have been wrong to wish for, 349. Each is tempted as much as he can bear, 326. God rewards in us whatever He Himself has bestowed, 160. He honours what He Himself has made, ibid. No one perishes except him who is certain to perish, 64. Let no one claim anything for himself, 212. Let no one reckon the glory of confession or of suffering his own, ibid. All must be given to God, ibid. What fear of the world has he whose guardian in the world is God? ibid. It is Christ's power by which we resist, 345. Nothing is ours, 305. Let all our observance be turned towards God, 212. We have received spirit and truth from the sanctification of Christ, 204. As God has made us in the second birth, so He wills that the reborn persevere, 211. No one is strong by his own powers, 208. Who resists God so that He may not do what He wills? 208. We ask that the name of God be hallowed in us, 207. That sanctification and quickening may be preserved in us by God's protection, 207. That the will of God may be done in us, 208. That the will of God may be done in body and spirit, 209. That the will of God may be done in those who do not believe, ibid. That we may be able to do what God wills, 208. In us through our faith the will of God has been done, that we might be from heaven, 209. There is need of God's will for the will of God to be done in us, 208. Sanctification is conferred on us by God's condescension, 207. We ask that we may persevere in what we have begun to be, 207. It is a greater thing to be able to keep what you have obtained, ibid. Faith and saving birth give life not by being received but by being kept, ibid. When the Lord's discipline departed from Solomon and Saul, grace too departed, ibid.

Priestly gravity, 56.

Their own laps, 309.

The body of the Lord's flock, 58. The Roman clergy guards the flock in place of the shepherd, 7. One flock is fed by all the bishops, 116. To tear apart the flock of Christ, 70.

The helmsman of a ship is recognized in a storm, 232.

Whirlpools, 337.

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Many dwellings with the Father, 351.

The colony of Hadrumetum, 59.

That inheritance is safe which is kept with God as guardian, 243.

Heresies and schisms, 198. The faction of heretical depravity, 65. The poisonous bane of heresies and schisms, 199. The obstinacy of heretical depravity, 61. The darkness of heretical night, 150. Heretical temptation, 57. Heretical plagues, 138. Whence heresies have arisen, 82, 122, 197, 198. Heresies arise from contempt of the priests, 82, 115, 122. Because there is no return to the source of truth, 194. From jealousy and envy, 257. On one coming from heresy a hand is laid, that he may receive the Holy Spirit and be sealed, 131. A hand is laid on for penance, 138, 139.

Thus it was done under the Apostles, 127. Presbyters and deacons who embraced heresy are admitted to communion as laymen on returning, 120. Heresies foretold, 200, 326. God permits heresies, so that the faith of the approved may shine out, 197. Heresy begets not for God but for the devil, 197. It bears and casts out, 147. It is not the bride of Christ, 140. Confession [of the faith] in heresy cannot profit, 361, 362, 363.

Heretics condemned by themselves, 32, 64, 132, 135, 266. Impatience makes heretics, 255. The follies of heretics, 85, 138, 145, 151, 155, 331. Corrupters of the Gospel by false interpretation, 198. Enemies of the truth, 335. It is the way of heretics to weave slanders against the Church, 335. The custom of heretics, 113. The prelates of heretics are false Christians, 330. The Apostles detested the depravity of heretics, 133. They have neither the Father nor the Son nor the Holy Spirit, 331. It is denied that heretics can make the Eucharist, 330. They do not have the power of loosing or binding, 335. They have no power, 145, 151. They have nothing, 336. No hope and false faith among heretics, 330. Worse than the heathen, 334. Cyprian's opponents admit that no heretics at all have the Holy Spirit or can give Him, 139, 155. Stephen admits that the Holy Spirit is not among heretics, 145. No difference between a false prophet and a heretic, 145. All heretics and schismatics, without exception, are adversaries of Christ, 152. All are antichrists, ibid. Offspring of antichrist, 333. They are adversaries and antichrists, 138. Enemies of Christ, 331. They are not Christians, 333. Heretics fashioning for themselves phantasms of an unknown God, 144. The agreement of heretics in blaspheming the Creator, 144.

Heretics are to be avoided, 200, 325. Greeting is not to be given [to them], 337. They ought not to be admitted into our private house, 337. Rivals of the priests, 198. They are not gathered in the name of Christ, 198. They believe they celebrate sacrifices, 198. A heretic may not ordain or lay on hands, 145. They put themselves in charge of their own accord, 197. Their priesthood is not by divine appointment, 197. Bishops with no one giving them the episcopate, 19, ibid. The baptism of blood does not profit a heretic for salvation, 75, 156. Heretics cannot be martyrs, 199. Martyrdom in heretics is not the crown of faith but the punishment of faithlessness, ibid. One slain outside the Church is not crowned, 201. A heretic cannot be granted the honour of martyrdom, 361, 363. Even if heretics work miracles, it will profit them nothing, 199. Mighty works are done by heretics in the name of Jesus, 362. The gift of prophecy would profit heretics nothing, 199. Something is not to be left undone merely because it is done by heretics, 130.

Ahab tries to crush Elijah, 269. Elijah fed by a poor widow, 242. Elijah the charioteer of Israel, 339, 340. He is fed in the wilderness, 240. Bearing a type of Christ, 241.

Elisha brings the widow's child to life, 98.

Elkanah had two wives, 281.

Enoch uncircumcised, 277.

Herculaneus, a bishop, 77, 51, 52, 124.

Hercules is burned up, 225.

Herena, a martyr, 30.

Herennius, a martyr, 30.

Herennianus, a subdeacon, 161, 162, 163.

Hermes Trismegistus, 226.

Cities swallowed by a gaping of the ground, 146.

Winter, 25.

The winter of persecution, 25.

Hippocrates, 156.

Hippo Diarrhytus, 337.

Hippo Regius, 332.

An actor teaching his art, 101. He ought not to be admitted to communion, ibid. Theatrical gestures, 4.

Homicide is a deadly crime, 251. He who hates his brother is guilty of homicide, 258. Homicide is a crime when individuals commit it, 5.

Man cannot be greater than God, 187. That a man stands and is not moved, 351. Man left to his own freedom, 85. The new man reborn, 206. A man dissolved into womanish softness, 341. Men are tried by God so that they may be proved, 309. Men lie in wait and rage, 211.

Honoratus, a bishop, 77, 99, 117, 124. Honoratus of Thucca, 337.

Honour father and mother, 135. Honour doubled, 96. Ecclesiastical honour, 47. The honour of the priestly chair, 130.

The intervals of the hours, 342. The third, sixth and ninth hour, 214, 215.

Horrea Coelia, 336.

Barns are shut up on earth, 219.

Hortensianus, a bishop, 77, 124. Hortensianus of Lares, 332.

A garden enclosed, 152. Cyprian's gardens, 166.

The opinion of Hostanes on the form of God, 226.

A clean victim, 168. The truth of the Lord's sacrifice, 200. A man becomes a victim through the robbery of the priest, 340. The pyres of victims, 220.

Hostilius invented Fear and Pallor, 226.

Enemy of the altar, 200. The enemy rises up, 219. Enemies of the truth, 36.

Humility to be held to in all things, 303. Humility is commended, 10, 11, 12. Example of humility and patience, 115. Christ the teacher of humility, 91.

Hyginus, ninth bishop in the City, 158.

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One lying down higher than those standing, 47.

Jacob is put to flight by his brother, 269.

Dainty boasting, 232.

Jader, placed in the mines, 158, 163, 335.

Jambus, bishop, 77, 117. Jambus of Germaniciana, 335.

Januarius, bishop, 99, 117, 124. Januarius of Lambaesis, 331. Januarius of Vicus Caesaris, 333. Januarius of Muzula, 334.

The month of January was instituted, 225.

Januaria, 51.

Janus received Saturn when he had been put to flight, 223.

Whence the Janiculum is named, 225.

Iconium, 145, 149.

The blow of the contest, 165.

Idea, mother of the gods, 226.

Idolatry the mother of all the games, 340. God does not readily forgive idolaters, 263, 264.

Idols abandoned through the coming of Christ, 194. Idols are not gods, 262. Idols, which the gentiles think to be gods, 321. Idols are adjured and scourged by Christians, 221.

Fasts commended, 96. To win God's favour by fasts, 191. The fast of Christ, 249.

Eternal fire, 345, 346. The torments of hell will have neither rest nor end, 224. Souls will be kept with their bodies for endless tortures, 224. Eternal flame torments the wicked when they depart, 233. They are snatched away to punishment, ibid. They pass from this death to the second death, ibid. The chaff is burnt with unquenchable fire, 25. Eternal punishments, 86, 89, 94. Eternal prison, 218. Unceasing flame and perpetual punishment, ibid. Fire will consume the enemies of the truth, 346. Fires of punishments, 349. Fire going before on the day of judgement, 366. Fire appears above the water in baptism, 365.

One who errs in simplicity can be forgiven, 133. He who persists, knowing and aware, sins without the excuse of ignorance, ibid.

Worldly allurement, 15.

The sacrifice of the perishing, 189. You have sacrificed your salvation, 184.

Immortality to be pondered, 166. How we can attain immortality, 193. The immortality of a glorious death, 50. The immortalities of the martyrs, 35. God promises immortality, 230, 235, 237.

An impulse growing old, 41.

Disobedience, 39.

Incestuous unions, 103. The wisdom of incestuous foulness, 4.

Indulgence and the privilege of fellowship, 40. The privilege of indulgence, 40. The indulgence of the Church, 136. The indulgence of the Lord, 26. Divine indulgence, 43. The grace of divine indulgence, 131. Indulgence not to be denied to penitents, 75. The medicine of indulgence, 43. Saving indulgence is given to the one who believes, 224. The Lord promises indulgence to penitents, 72, 75. Indulgence is obtained from God, 211. Human indulgence, 118.

The garment of Christ, 191, 192, 193, 196.

The sleep of old sloth, 203.

Infants weeping at their first birth do nothing other than plead, 99. Infants being born begin with tears, 250. Infant girls were brought to the sacrifices, 189. Before the idol, bread mixed with wine, which was left over from the sacrifice, was given to infants, 189. Infants placed by their parents' hands on the images, or dragged to them, 184. They lost what they had obtained at the very beginning of their birth, ibid. Their complaints on the day of judgement against their parricide parents, ibid. Parricide parents who drag infants to the sacrifices, 184. The baptism of infants, 98. The martyrdom of infants, 92.

The care of the sick is commended, 49. The sick are to be helped at their departure, 76, 77. The sick to be visited, 328.

The fillets of honours, 6.

Inhumanity blameworthy in bishops, 70.

The enemy to be feared when he creeps up secretly, 193. Enemies to be loved, 319.

To make a start on the first beginnings of confession, 159.

Those who believe they are doing injury suffer injury, 85. They call injury a kindness, 186. Every injury to be disregarded, 232. Injuries to be forgiven, 314.

No one is innocent, 205. The innocent hold the first place in the order of the saints, xcii. Fear the guardian of innocence, 2.

Kissing, 103.

Holiness of the Church's institution, 56.

Lamentation of penance cut short, 186.

Interrogation in baptism, 114, 125, 146.

Deadly baptism, 365.

Onslaught of envy, 32. Envy runs riot on earth, 256.

The envious man is his own enemy, 258.

Invocation of the name of Jesus Christ, 358, 361.

Junius, bishop, 77.

John's baptism, 145. He received the Holy Spirit before he baptized Jesus, 155. He announced a spiritual baptism to come, 354. Sanctified in his mother's womb, 365.

Job, 187, 231, 233. Job raised to the highest summit of praise, 255.

Joseph sold by his brothers, 250, 257, 269. A type of Christ, 281.

Jovinus, schismatic, 84.

Irenaeus of Ululi, 336.

Irenes of Rutili, 52.

Isaac a type of Christ, 281. Prefigured after the likeness of the Lord's sacrifice, 250.

Jubaianus, bishop, 129, 329, 331.

Judas betrayed the Lord, 143, 202. Christ bore with Judas the traitor, 249.

The Jews withdrew from God, 274, 276. They killed the prophets, 276. Christ, 206, 208. They have a zeal for God, 148. Grace was first with God for the Jews, 227. That they were unable to understand was the desert of their offences, 228. Punished with blindness so that they had life before their eyes and did not see it, 228. They lost the grace given to them, 227. They lost all grace, 282. They forsook the light, 215. They cannot understand the Scriptures unless they believe in Christ, 277. They cannot receive pardon unless they are baptized, 283. It was foretold that they would lose Jerusalem, 277. That they would lose the light of the Lord, ibid. Christ wished to gather the Jews, 249. The Jews would not recognize Christ, 276. The priests of the Jews, once the Lord had been crucified, retained nothing of priestly honour and authority, 81. Their priests false, 113. The Jews did not distinguish the twofold coming of Christ, 228. They can no longer call God Father, 206. The Jews would drink among the Christians, 106. They would obtain grace, 106. They accept only the old Scriptures, 362. On those who stood firm and fought when the Jews were failing, 120. The people of the Jews rather often murmured against God, 232. They demand profane gods, 253. A most ancient custom of the Jews, 149. The Jewish people prefigured as a shadow of us, 266. Baptism of the Jews, 147.

The judge sells his sentence, 5. One must not judge rashly, 313. You who judge others, be at some time a judge of yourself too, 219. A gentile judge is not to be approached, 318.

The judgement of God just, because late, 248. The day of judgement, 93. The last judgement, 187. In ecclesiastical judgements charges are proved by men of weight, 51. Persecution did not allow sentence to be passed on the crimes of Novatus, 64. At the brethren's urging the day of the hearing was at hand, 64. It was decreed by all that a case be heard where the crime was committed, 86. A case to be conducted where accusers and witnesses can be had, 86. Privatus is condemned by ninety bishops, wishes to plead his case again in council, but is not admitted, 84. Jovinus and Maximus, condemned by nine bishops, are condemned again in the Council of Carthage, 84.

The old yoke and the new yoke, 279.

Julia, martyr, 30.

Julianus of Marcelliana, 336. Of Telepte, ibid.

Junius, bishop, 124. Junius of Neapolis, 338.

Argive Juno, 226.

Cretan Jupiter, 226. The loves of Jove, 4. The cave of Jove is visited in Crete, 225.

One ought not to swear, 308. It is not lawful to swear, 230.

The laws have consented to sins, 5.

When righteousness departs, the crown departs too, 201. There is need of righteousness for anyone to be able to win God's favour, 199. The righteous are called to refreshment, 233. Whoever has believed God and lives by faith is found righteous, 105.

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Those in hardship, that is, the poor, 49, 101.

Laelius, deacon of Emerita, 117.

Joy cannot bear delays, 46.

Lay communion, 119, 128. Laymen who stood firm, 36, 45, 67.

Lamusba, 337.

Lambaesis, 331.

The wool of the Lamb by Whom we have been redeemed, 262. God did not teach the dyeing of wool, 177.

Neptune built walls for Laomedon, 225.

Stones are worshipped, 220.

The lapsed held in suspense until a bishop is given, 29, 43, 48. For the lapsed

a remedy is sought in councils, 144. The case of the lapsed is judged in council, 55. Deliberation about the lapsed with several fellow bishops, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 36, 39. Cyprian agrees with all the bishops of his province and across the sea that the case of the lapsed is to be deferred, 53. Many bishops write back to Cyprian about deferring the case of the lapsed to a council, 27. Excessive leniency takes from the lapsed the comfort of eternal hope, 186. How they ought to seek peace, 44. Let them seek peace, but all this within the sacrament, ibid. Peace granted to the lapsed at death, 45. On what conditions? ibid. God knows what He is to do with such, ibid. The lapsed are not to be abandoned, 8. If they do penance, those who are dangerously ill are to be assisted, ibid., 69, 77. It is not taken away if they recover, 69. To the lapsed who have received certificates from the martyrs and can be helped by the martyrs' privilege with God, peace is to be given when death is pressing, 22, 23, 24. The lapsed corrupted by five presbyters, 52. Some do not seek peace but claim it for themselves, 40. They say that they already have it in heaven, ibid. They say that Paul gave peace to all, ibid. The insults of some against the bishops, against the confessors, against the virgins, 83. Cyprian threatens them unless they are quiet, 40. An assault made upon the prelates by a crowd, 31 and 32. The less steadfast prelates were compelled to give peace, 32. Some lapsed dare to write to Cyprian in the name of the Church, 38. The case of the lapsed long and much deliberated in the Council of Carthage, 66. In the matter of the lapsed the Council of Carthage weighed out a balance with wholesome moderation, 67. In the case of the lapsed the Scriptures weighed on both sides, 67. The causes, wills and necessities of individuals examined, ibid. The individual heads of the decisions written down in a little book, ibid. It was decreed in council that the lapsed should do full penance for a long time, 77. The council of Cornelius decreed the same as the African one, 68. Cornelius yielded to necessity in gathering in the lapsed, 69. So our predecessors did, says Cyprian, 69. The salvation of the lapsed is to be provided for not by flattery but by sincere faith, 38. The sudden punishments of some who had denied Christ, 189. Those who take away penance for a crime close the way of satisfaction, 192. They kill worse than persecution itself, ibid. Excessive indulgence another kind of persecution, 186. The Lord is not quickly appeased towards those who have denied Him, 192. Those who communicate with the lapsed who are not penitent are polluted by contact with the guilty, 120. It is the wrath of God not to understand one's offences, so that penance does not follow, 85. To cut off the remedy of penance is not to heal but to kill 45. He who is angry with the priest healing his wound heaps up his crime, 188. The priests feel the wounds which the lapsed themselves do not feel, 188. They shed tears for the lapsed, ibid. The way of healing the wounds of the soul, 186. The impatient sick man gives thanks when he has felt his health return, ibid. He who flatters a sinner nourishes his sins, 185. He who rebukes advances him towards salvation, ibid. One must not cease caring for the souls of the lapsed, although they reject the medicine, 41. They will rejoice afterwards that they were put off for a faithful medicine, 41. The things of the healthy are not to be given to the sick, 37. In the secret places of the heart the mind must be renewed and consecrated, 37. He who remits sins against the Lord's precept harms the lapsed, 187. The wounds of the dying ought not to be covered over, 186. On those who arm the lapsed to their own peril, 41. By the very delay the lapsed are better provided for, 37. From slowness remedies are furnished, ibid. Those who wish to be popular with the lapsed harm them the more, 18, 20. Against those who entice the lapsed with the lie of a deceitful voice, 53, 54. Some bishops neglect the divine discipline and communicate with lapsed bishops, 120. The schismatics gave communion to the lapsed while their hands were still smoking, 85. The presbyters who gave peace to the lapsed without consulting him were insulting towards their bishop, 19, 20, 21. Care must be taken that neither the wicked praise a ready leniency, nor the truly penitent accuse cruelty, 45. Firmness towards the wicked, gentleness towards the penitent lapsed, 59. Just moderation in handling the case of the lapsed, 66. Censure and medicine, ibid. Bishops ought to be neither harsh nor lax in caring for the lapsed, 74. The censure of firmness is to be shown to sinners in such a way that medicine is not denied, 115. The fruit of penance is to be granted to all penitents, 75. The penance of the lapsed is not to be rejected, lest they be swept away with wife and children into heresy or schism, 70. It is proved from the Scriptures that peace is to be given to the penitent lapsed, 73, 75. The mercy of God towards the penitent lapsed, xi, xii. God shows tenderness to all penitents, 75. Cyprian congratulates the meek and humble lapsed, 38. God reveals to him what such servants deserve from His goodness, ibid. From the lapsed confessors and martyrs are made, 71. The lapsed restored by a glorious confession, 95. Conquered first, then conquerors in the second battle, 185. Lapsed in the Decian persecution, conquerors in the following one, xi. Those who were wounded in persecution are not dead but half-alive, 71. Cornelius and Lucius judged that peace is to be given to the penitent lapsed, 117. Pardon is sought for lapsed women because the confessors had received them, 29. A lapsed man who receives exiles in hospitality offers many living souls to intercede for one wounded [soul], 70. The lapsed have washed away every offence who, seized a second time, exiles

were made, 28. Peace to be restored to them, ibid. The various conditions and causes of those who sacrificed, 70. Of a woman who counted out gifts so as not to sacrifice, 29. Those who yielded to tortures do penance, 76. Cyprian is consulted whether the penance of a three-year period now beginning is sufficient for them, ibid. He is asked to deliberate on that matter in council, ibid. He answers that it is sufficient, yet that he will deliberate in council, ibid. Those who yielded to torments have an excuse, 185. Certain of the lapsed and afterwards victors through wounds and laceration were making supplication, 185. The lapsed promise Cyprian that they will fight bravely, 78. The hope of obtaining peace arms the lapsed for battle, 71. When persecution is impending, peace is given to those who have done penance from the first day of their lapse, 77. The cases of individuals examined, 79. Those who have not yet obtained peace lie under the devil as though laid prostrate, 28.

Panelled ceilings gleaming with gold, 342.

Lares, 332.

Latium, whence so called, 225.

The robber crucified with Christ, a martyr, 117, 128. Robbers obey their ringleader, 122.

A side protected, 6.

Self-praise is odious, 2.

Laurence the martyr, 47. Laurence the pope, 197.

The sanctification of the divine washing, 148. The sanctification of the life-giving washing, 173. The grace of the life-giving washing, 189. The saving washing, 144. The washing of regeneration, 139, 140, 249. Baths together with women, 191. The carnal and worldly washing, 156.

Christ wept for Lazarus, 169.

Divine reading, 260.

The office of reader, on account of age, for those who merit higher grades, 46, 48. To some readers the same monthly distribution as to presbyters, 48. The honour of the presbyterate designated, 48. Readers read the Gospel, 46. A reader ordained by Cyprian and the colleagues who were present, 46, 47.

Legio, 117.

Leptis Magna, 337.

Leptis Minor, 334.

Leucothea, 225.

The law of the Gospel, 109. The heavy yoke of the law, 329. Among the very laws is taught whatever is forbidden by the laws, 341.

Leah a type of the synagogue, 281.

Libellatici, 42, 67, 69. The evil gift of a certificate, 271. The declaration of wicked certificates, 42. The libellatici seemed to themselves to escape the snares of the devil, ibid. They attested that they had gone up to the altars, although they had not gone up, ibid. Conscience polluted by abominable certificates, 24. The conscience of the libellatici polluted, 190. The libellaticus said that he had done whatever another committed by doing it, 190. The libellatici are far removed from the sacrificers, 70. He who accepted a certificate was deceived by error rather than by crime, ibid. His hand is pure, nor is his mouth polluted, ibid. He weeps when he hears that his conscience is polluted, ibid. See 119. The libellatici come to the magistrate, or send another, 70. The libellaticus sinned out of necessity, 74. He was deceived by error, ibid. Some made the records although they were absent when they were made, ibid. By their consent a crime not committed by them is publicly read out, 43. They wished to seem to have obeyed the edicts, ibid. The example of Eleazar is set against the libellatici, 271. Penance to be done by the libellatici, 190.

Certificates given by the martyrs, 22, 23, 24. They were given out in droves in the name of Paulus, 31. Likewise of Aurelius, 31. They were written in the hand of Lucianus, ibid. Thousands of certificates were given out daily without examination, 24. A certificate of the martyrs framed thus: Let such a one be in communion with his family, 21. It is censured, ibid. The confessors submit their certificates to the judgement of the bishop, 20, 21, 26, 30. The martyrs did not dare to give peace, but sent the lapsed back to the bishop, 41. The martyrs asked that peace be given to the lapsed when Mother Church should first have obtained peace from God, 19, 20. Certain of the lapsed, having received a certificate from the martyrs, commit themselves to the judgement of Cyprian, 38. The words of the martyr Paulus to Lucianus: If anyone asks for peace, give it in my name, 30. They are censured by Cyprian, 32. Some hunt for a market in the favours of the martyrs, 20. The facility of the martyrs is excused by a kindly interpretation, 41. Conditions to be attached to the petitions of the martyrs, 187. Martyrs ought to be cautious in giving certificates, 20. They ought to designate by name those for whom they ask peace, ibid. They ought to choose those whose penance they see to be nearest to satisfaction, 21. They ought to weigh the individual circumstances, 20. Presbyters ought to reserve the petitions of the martyrs for the bishop, ibid. The lapsed can be helped before God by the prerogative of the martyrs, 22, 23, 24. The merits of the martyrs on behalf of one truly penitent, 195. The martyr Mappalicus directed that peace be given to his mother alone, 31.

Liberalis, a bishop, 59, 77, 124.

The one set free owes obedience to his liberator, 174.

The free choice of one's own liberty, 197.

Libosus, a bishop, 117. Libosus of Vaga, 333.

The balance for governing the Church, 115. The Lord's balance con-

† spiritual volumes, 274.

templating, 66. With counsel long weighed among us, 97. With counsel weighed from the conferring of all, 67.

That is lawful which is public, 5. Not everything that is lawful is to be done, 326. Things bound on earth are bound in heaven also, 77.

Lilies are not lacking to the Church, 18.

To file down (refine) a counsel, 22.

First outlines of the faith, 274. Native features, 178. A father's features in his offspring, 260. To paint the outlines of the eyes, 191.

The poisoned tongue of the devil, 54. The tongue that has confessed the name of God, 270. The tongue that has confessed Christ ought to be pure, 12.

Contests over colours, 341.

Letters written in another's stead, 97, 165. Letters of communion, 41, 57, 59, 117. Very full letters, 115. Sober letters, 28. Letters in agreement, 43. A bishop ought to write by means of clerics, 33, 165. The Roman bishop writes to other Churches after his ordination, 57. Why the African bishops wished for letters from the bishops who had ordained Cornelius, 56, 57. The African bishops for some time wrote to the Roman presbyters and deacons, not to Cornelius, 57. Why they adopted this plan, ibid. Cornelius is accustomed to read the letters of Cyprian to the clergy and people, 89. Cyprian asks Cornelius to order his letters to be read to the brethren, 57. Cyprian orders his letter to be read to the brethren, 15. Cyprian directs that the letters of the Roman clergy and of the confessors be read to the brethren and to strangers, 45. That all may be given the opportunity of copying them, ibid. Cyprian asks that his letters be read to all, 39. Cyprian sent Cornelius the names of the sound and uncorrupted bishops, so that he might know to whom he ought to write and from whom he ought to receive letters, 84. Novatian wrote the letter of the Roman clergy, and recited with his own voice what he had written. Moyses the presbyter signed it, 67. Letters read in council, 329, 331. Cyprian orders that whoever write to him should add their names to the letter, 38. Letters sent throughout the whole world, 67.

Saturn taught the impressing of letters, 225.

Litteus, placed in the mines, 150.

The evil of envy, 256.

The condition of a place, 9, 110, 112, 165.

Longinus, 55, 62.

The breastplate of righteousness, 36.

Lot's wife, 362.

Lucianus the bishop, 77, 124. Lucianus of Rucuma, 335. Lucianus the presbyter, 126. Made a prelate of God in prison, 29. Lucianus after Cyprian's admonition writes a more absurd letter, 31. He stirs up ill will against Cyprian, ibid. The letter of Lucianus to Celerinus, 30, 32. He grants peace to all the lapsed, 26, 30. Lucianus the acolyte, 161, 162, 163.

Lucilianus the bishop, 117.

Pope Lucius returned from exile, 96. Lucius the bishop, 117, 124. Lucius of Thebeste, 334. Lucius, confessor and bishop at once, 96. Lucius placed in the mines, 158, 162. Lucius of Castra Galbae, 331. Of Membresa, 336. Of Ausafa, 337.

Marks of mourning at the death of loved ones, 191. Christian dead are not to be mourned, 168, 234.

Idolatry the mother of all games, 340. Stage plays dedicated to Ceres and Liber, 340. They were procured for the diversion of the people, 340. Warm blood from the throat is offered as a drink to the idol in the games, 340. It is flung in the idol's face, ibid. Gladiatorial games are condemned, 3.

Enlightened by the light of grace, 204.

The moon wanes with its horns worn away, 217.

The marks of brothels, 177. Those who do not fear brothels, 233.

Luperciana, 335.

Wolves separate the sheep from the shepherd, 54.

Luteus of Gemellae, 337.

The bright light of true religion, 224.

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The seven Maccabees a figure of the seven churches, 269, 270. The Maccabees as martyrs, 92, 346. The mother exhorts her seventh son, 271. She does not believe that the brothers' prayer would avail for the salvation of one who denied, 271. She offers God a great martyrdom by the strength of her eyes, ibid.

Machaeus, 55, 62.

Macharius, 29. Macharius the confessor, 60, 61, 64, 65.

Macomades, 332.

Mactari, 334.

Divine teachings, 298. The teaching of discipline, 48. The teaching of obscenity, 341. Of a shameless art, 101.

The mighty works of divine protection, 96.

Magnus, 151.

The majesty of the Gospel, 40. The majesty of the Church, 83. Struck by the majesty of censure, 115. The majesty of the protecting Lord, 69. The majesty of faith, 43. Upheld by angelic majesty, 256.

Elders are not to be accused rashly, 525.

The wicked must not harm the good, 78. Evil is not to be repaid to the wicked, 514. When the wicked are separated from the Church, one should rejoice, 197. Whoever does not imitate the wicked offends them, 5. The wicked are to be avoided, 526.

The divine law forbids cursing, 230. One must not curse, 508. Curses are to be avoided, 12.

A lover of mammon, 240.

Mancinus held to religion, 226.

Life-giving, heavenly commandments, 34.

Manna a figure of the grace of the sacraments, 157.

Manthaneus, a bishop, 77.

Unclean hands, 186. Hands polluted by sacrifice, 43. A hand held captive to sacrilege and crime, 111. It cannot be repeated, ibid. The laying on of the hand on those baptized in heresy, for receiving the Holy Spirit, 128, 131. The laying on of the hand so that the Holy Spirit may be invoked and poured in, 132. The hand laid on penitents, 127. The laying on of the hand by the bishop and clergy, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24. To receive the body of the Lord in the hands, 188.

Mappalicus, a martyr, 17, 30.

Marazana, 335.

Marcellus, a bishop, 117. Marcellus of Zama, 336.

Marcelliana, 336.

Marcianus, bishop of Arles, joins himself to Novatian, 115. He separates himself from all the bishops, ibid. Many of the brethren depart without peace, 116. Faustinus, bishop of Lyons, writes once and again to Cyprian about this matter, 115. Cyprian urges Stephen to write to the province and to the people of Arles, 116.

Marcion of Pontus, 138. The baptism of Marcion, 130. Marcion a disciple of Cerdo, 144. The heresy of Marcion, 336. Marcion does not hold the same Trinity as the Catholics, 131, 133, He does not think the same about the Incarnation, ibid. Marcion and other heretics came late, after the Apostles, 144.

Marcus, a bishop, 124. Marcus of Mactaris, 334.

Males are emasculated, 4.

Pearls are not to be given to swine, 36. The precious pearl, that is, eternal life, 259.

Seas dried up, 543.

Maria, 31.

Maris, 31.

Marble facings, 217.

Marrutius, a bishop, 77, 124.

Thracian Mars, 226.

Martialis, a bishop, 117, 119.

Martialis, a martyr, 30.

The martyr the judge of his own judge, 35. Praises of the martyrs, 35, 43. The martyrs confess Christ the Son of God with a spirit that, though departing, is yet free, 35. Clubs begin the confession, 159. Glorious for men redeemed by the wood, ibid. Chains are ornaments to Christians, 159. Torments customarily inflicted on martyrs, 69. Torments inflicted on Celerinus, 47. Martyrs in the mines, 159. With feet fettered, ibid. Without bed and mattresses, ibid. With scanty bread, ibid. With head half-shaven, ibid. Clothing is lacking to them in the cold, ibid. They cannot offer sacrifices, ibid. Martyrs burned, 49. A description of the constancy of the martyrs, 331. The constancy of the martyrs in torments, 16. Sayings of the heathen on the constancy of martyrs, 347. The martyrs strengthened the wavering faith of many by the truth of their martyrdom, 26. Their martyrdoms set examples, ibid. Martyrdom is not in your power, 233. Nothing happier befalls men by divine favour than martyrdom, 35. The crown cannot be received unless it is the hour for taking it, 184. The Holy Spirit speaks in the martyrs, 92. Christ works in martyrdom, 545. Christ Himself suffers more than he who suffers for Him, 544. Christ fights and conquers in the martyrs, 17. He wrestles, crowns and is crowned, ibid. The martyrs contend under the eyes of the Lord, ibid. On the arms necessary for enduring martyrdom, 93. Martyrs do not make the Gospel, but through the Gospel martyrs are made, 32. The martyrs shed their blood for this reason, that they may not lose the peace and salvation of the Church, 41. Martyrs do not pay back to the last farthing, 547. Those who have overcome the desires of life are free from all pain, 347. The martyr is baptized in his own blood, 78. Christ crowns the martyrs with flowers, 249. The bodies of martyrs, 8.

The martyrs will judge the nations, 164. The vindication of the martyrs, 187. The hundredfold fruit of the martyrs, 180. The merits of the martyrs avail much, if they ask nothing against the judge and against the law of the Lord, 187. God credits to account whatever the martyrs have asked on behalf of a penitent who works and prays, 193. The prayer of the martyrs obtains what it asks, 160. The merits of the martyrs and the works of the righteous will have great power on the day of judgement, 187. Peace in the name of the martyrs after their summoning away, 29, 30. The martyrs obtain from the Lord's goodness what they request, 26. Nothing is denied to the martyrs, 350. Celerinus asks that those who have been crowned first should grant pardon to his sisters, [that] as to the sin

they remit and pardon [it], 29. The author of the book On the Praise of Martyrs asks the martyrs to remember him when they have been crowned, 352. Virginity yields to martyrdom, 351. Martyrdom does not profit outside the Church, 75, 136, 198, 212, 361, 363. Exhortation to martyrdom, 261. To make a martyrdom, 78. Not the punishment but the cause makes a martyr, 198, 199. Boys among the martyrs, 160, 164. Twofold glory of virgin martyrs, 160. Martyrs innumerable, 236, 269, 272. Confessors dying in prison are to be held as martyrs, 50. Their commemorations are celebrated among the memorials of the martyrs, 50. Martyrdom conceived in the mind is crowned, 234. Cornelius, who sat so long awaiting the executioners, is to be reckoned among the martyrs, 69. Peace arriving before the day of the contest does not take the crown from martyrs, 17. Unconquered faith is crowned among the martyrs, 273. He who has not consented to the sacrilegious edicts will reign with Christ, ibid.

Reward of martyrs, 93, 94, 158. Any sins whatever are expiated by martyrdom, 344. Some, noble in faith, come to martyrdom, 350. Some, to redeem their sins, ibid. Martyrdom for the merit of faith, 158. Martyrs hasten to the divine dwellings, 160. Leaving the world behind, they seek heaven, 35. They stand among the Angels, ibid. They hold the heavenly kingdom without any delay, 33. The heavens lie open to martyrs, 91. Apostles and martyrs in paradise, 236. Virgins and the just, ibid. Martyrs see God at once, 275. Martyrs behold God and His Christ, 123. They have come to the embrace and kiss of the Lord, 25, 165. They have come to the Lord, 17. God has promised everything to martyrdom, 349. By confession of the voice the kingdoms lie less open, 350. Cup of martyrdom, 78.

Mascula, 337, 101.

Mattathias, 265.

Marriages with Gentiles forbidden, 183, 323. A wife withdrawing from her husband must remain unmarried, 326. Assailant of another's marriage, 74. Ravager of marriages, 79.

Womb of the Catholic Church, 59.

Mauretania, 128. It is joined to the province of the bishop of Carthage, 59.

The Moors worship their kings, 225.

Maximus, bishop, 99, 124. Maximus, confessor, 24, 52, 33, 34, 45, 55, 58, 60, 61, 64. Maximus, presbyter, sent as envoy by Novatian, 62, 83. Maximus, schismatic, 84. Maximus, acolyte, 161, 162, 163.

Kingdom of the Medes, 226.

Melchizedek bore the type of Christ, 105. Why did Melchizedek bless Abraham? 105. Melchizedek the priest, 278.

Melicertes, 225.

Membresa, 336.

Memorials of the martyrs, 50.

Wicked lies, 144. Lying forbidden, 327.

Hirelings are censured, 7. The hired man's wage must be paid, 325.

Harlots blush to be seen, 341. The harlot of the Apocalypse, 177.

Merits of works, 327 and following. They often won the Lord's favour by the obedience of faith and fear, 191. To win God's favour by patience, 231. To win the Lord's favour by obedience and just works, 23. To win the Lord's favour by true penitence and complete humility, 26. To win Christ's favour by obedience, 100. Cornelius the Centurion deserved to be heard, 214.

Merrha, 261.

Harvests coming down from heaven, 343.

Exhausted mines, 217. The Signensian mine, 165.

Your quartermaster, 163.

Mettius, subdeacon, 57, 58.

Midila, 335.

Soldier of God, 24, 273. Soldier of Christ, 16, 18, 19, 34, 47, 62, 65, 79, 90, 94, 95, 97, 160, 166. The soldier's oath, 365. Christ watches His soldier, 91. Duty of the good soldier, 132. The soldier will renew his contest, 193. The soldier is proved in the battle line, 232. Triumphing, he rejoices in his wounds, 346. Oaths of the divine warfare, 140. Warfare is crowned in persecution, 274.

Milevum, 332.

Indecency of the mimes, 4.

Miracles, 189 and following. To work miracles, 199. Miracles customarily performed by Christians, 3. False miracles, 146. Miracles are sometimes done by outsiders, 358, 362.

Mercy is not shown to the sick, 219. Commendation of mercy, 237. False mercy, 43, 186.

Misgirpa, 330.

Modianus, bishop, 99, 124.

The adulterer's case is worse than the libellaticus's, 74. Penance is granted to adulterers, 72, 74.

Necklaces, 179, 180. God did not institute necklaces, 177. Elaborate necklaces, 191.

Montanus, 28. Montanus the heretic, 145. The Montanists seem to know the same Father and Son as the Catholics, 149.

The Cataphrygians say that the spirit sent by Christ spoke through Montanus and Prisca, 145. They have neither the Father, nor the Son, nor the Holy Spirit, ibid.

A Christian can die, he cannot be conquered, 95, 320.

Death is to be despised by a Christian, 320, 346. A precious death which buys immortality, 16. The outcome of a glorious death, 50. The snares of eternal death, 221. It is perverse not to obey God at once when He summons, 234. It belongs to him to fear death who would not go to Christ, 229. Let him fear to die who is not counted with the cross and passion of Christ, 235. A bishop fearing to die is rebuked by God, 234. Those who mourn the dead as lost are transgressors, 235. Black garments are not to be taken up at the death of dear ones, 234. One should rejoice rather than grieve when dear ones depart from the world, 230. To those departing from this world immortality and eternity are promised, 230. To set out for the joy of eternal salvation, ibid. The just are called to refreshment, 233. To come to immortality when death has been blotted out, 230. On those who at once receive their reward and are crowned, 72. Nothing else in the world but a fight against the devil, 230. A perpetual combat with vices in this life, 230. It is contradictory that we who pray for the kingdom of God to come swiftly should seek to live long in the world, 210. Death is not feared, but desired, †. Death is to be despised by him for whom Christ was slain, 346. The condition of dying is one, 218. To subdue death by dying, 35. Death common to all, 170, 171. The dying are to be helped in sickness, 77. Death subdued by the trophy of the cross, 225. Death pledged in a lethal cup, 184. The second death, 235. Mortality brings it about that martyrdom is sought, 233. Mortality a salutary departure for the servants of God, 233.

Morula, 15.

Very many earthquakes, 146.

The most ancient baptism of Moses, 134. Moses prayed for the sins of the people, 187. The law of Moses has ceased, 278. Moses could not obtain what he asked, 187. He is despised by the ungrateful, 250. He overcomes Amalek, 267.

Moses, presbyter and confessor, 24, 32, 33, 34, 45. Presbyter and martyr, 67.

Sweetness, 7.

Christian women who love worldly adornments, 191. A woman baptizing, 146. Let women be silent in the church, 318. A woman ought not to be adorned in a worldly manner, 317. It is not lawful for men to put on women's clothing, 101.

The manifold ruins of the world, 190.

The consent of the multitude, 339. The numerous multitude of those who sin, 190.

The world is the temple of God, 227. The world one house in which are good and bad, 222. The world is not to be loved by a Christian, 352.

This sentence has been given to the world, that all things that have arisen should perish, 217. This is the law of God, ibid. Whatever declines towards its setting is diminished, 217. Six thousand [years] now almost completed since the devil has been assailing man, 262. The first seven days containing seven thousand years, 269. The world is collapsing no longer from old age but from its end, 236. The world has grown old, 216. The world totters, 236. God will send Angels for the devastation of the world, 223. The settings of the world are approaching, 90, 110, 199, 217, 223, 229, 326, 345, 347. Heresies sprouting more at the setting of the world, 200. God then illumines hearts more with the light of truth, 110. Calamities foretold at the end of the world, 217. The world has one ruler, 227.

The defence of the Lord's satiety, 78.

Munnulus, bishop, 77. Munnulus of Girba, 331.

A show presented with God as spectator, 244. The dignity of the office, 347. Givers of shows, 244.

One must not murmur in adversities, 232.

The wall of faith pierced by the wounds of bereavement, 168.

Melodious music, 256.

To mutter, 222. One must not mutter amid adversities, 232, 30⟨ ⟩.

The bishop of Muzula, 334.

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Nabla, 339.

Nebuchadnezzar punished, 91, 238.

Nampulus, bishop, 99, 124.

Naricus, acolyte, 49.

Natalis of Oea, 337.

The second birth, 2, 139. Spiritual birth, 246. The birth of spiritual grace, 206. Spiritual birth cannot exist without the Spirit, 145. Heavenly birth, 248, 259. Divine birth, 260. Earthly birth set forth, 223.

The helmsman of a ship is recognized in a storm, 232. A ship to be freed from dangerous places, 102. The ship of the Church's salvation, 42. The ownership and use of ships, 75.

Shipwrecked in faith, 65. The shipwrecks of the Church, 82. Unspeakable shipwrecks, 29.

Neapolis, 337.

The necessity of the times, 68. The necessity of persecution, 149.

Nemesianus, bishop, 99, 124. Nemesianus of Thubunae, 330. Nemesianus placed in the mines, 138, 161.

Neptune built walls for Laomedon, 225.

Feet bound in the stocks, 47. The stocks and iron, 47.

Nicephorus, acolyte, 57, 58, 61, 63.

Nicomedes, bishop, 77, 117, 124.

Nicostratus, confessor, 32, 34, 45, 58. Nicostratus a schismatic, 62.

The reek of altars, 226.

Ninus, 76.

Noah alone was found just, 187. He offered to God, 162. A figure of the Lord's passion, 104. The ark of Noah was a type of the one Church, 152, 195.

The name of Jesus Christ is above every name, 337. Confession of the name, 78. Hatred of the name of Christ foretold, 315. An ecclesiastical name, 44.

Nova, a city of Africa, 336.

Novatian had written the letter of the Roman clergy on the lapsed, 67. Made bishop, 55. A schismatic and heretic, 61, 62, 63, 65. Envoys sent by Novatian into Africa, 55. They accuse Cornelius, ibid. Rejected, they run about from door to door and from town to town, ibid. The ways and the schism of Novatian, 73. He is compared to apes, 130. His leaders and protectors, 62. It is asked what heresy Novatian introduced, 66. Novatian is depicted, 95. He tries to create pseudo-bishops where there are lawful bishops, 73, 74. He sends his apostles into the cities, 73. He assumes the primacy for himself, 154. Novatian succeeding no one, 152. They use these words: Whoever denies me, etc. The Novatianists new heretics, 74. The Novatianists rebaptize those whom they entice away from the Catholics, 129. Novatian rebaptizes, so as to say that the Church is with him and to make us heretics, 130. The Novatianists say that they do not communicate with idolaters, 74. Adulterers among them, 74, 75. They exhort to penance and deny peace, 75. They acknowledge the Trinity as Catholics do, 154.

Novatus of Thamugadi, 330.

Novatus, presbyter, 11. At Carthage he first sows the fire of schism, 63. Sailing to Rome he attempted similar things, 64. His crimes against orphans, against widows, against the Church, against his father and his pregnant wife, 63, 64. He forestalled his impending deposition and excommunication by a voluntary departure, 64. He deserved to be driven from the Church by God, ibid. Condemned by himself, ibid. He condemns the hands of those who sacrificed, ibid.

The mind to be made new, 37. Young in years, 46.

A novice, 171.

The boldness of nakedness, 179.

Numeria, 29, 30.

Number avails nothing towards extenuating an offence, 36.

Numidia belongs to the province of the bishop of Carthage, 59. Bishops of Numidia, 99, 128.

Numidicus, presbyter, 48, 51, 52.

A sum of money, 100.

Markets of illicit trading, 20.

The marriage of Christ and the Church, 108. Shameless wedding feasts to be avoided, 179.

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Obba, 335.

The offering cannot be sanctified where the Holy Spirit is not, 112. The offering for the dead, 115. To offer and to give the Eucharist, 19. To offer their oblations, 38. The faculty of offering is not granted, 159. To offer for them, 21. They offered the prices for the uses of the needy, 203. Their name is offered, 19.

The hands of midwives are often deceived, 102.

Obstinacy of heretical depravity, 61.

It is not lawful to kill even a guilty person, 95.

Octavum, 337.

To paint the outlines of the eyes, 191. To colour the eyes with black, 177. Adulterated eyes, 182. Reddened and painted, 102, 178. Eyes worthy of beholding God, 179.

It is not lawful for us to hate, 224.

Oea, 337.

The fires of Oeta, 225.

The dye of error, 332.

To be suffocated, 69.

The whirlwind strips the olive, 218.

Oil sanctified on the altar, 125.

Good works commanded by Christ, 244. Reward for those who work, 245. Punishment for the barren, ibid. The merits of good works, 160, 162, 174, 175. To win God's favour by works, 242. Eternal life is granted for good works, 244. Works of righteousness are rewarded, 236. Sins are purged by the merits of mercy, 238. Sins are purged by righteous works, 192. God, Who in the day of judgement will render a reward for works and almsgiving, 214. Prayers alone avail little without good works, 238. Good works are sacrifices, 214. Sacrifice from

every clean work, 162. The merciful cannot be in want, 4.

Those who work, 240. The service of working, 50. Good works: good and necessary working, 100. Saving working, 260. One must work in secret, 317. The generosity of working, 203. Let working be done generously, 193. One must work by deeds, not by words, 27. Even the poor ought to work, 242. The more children there are, the more one must work, 243. Those are blamed who do not work for fear of want, 241. Barren men will be sent into the fire, 240. We ought not to suffer the temples of God to be captive, 99. All contributed freely and generously money as aid for redeeming the captives, 100. A hundred thousand sesterces collected from the contribution of the clergy and people, 100. Cyprian appends the names of each, that prayer may be made for them, ibid. Moreover, some bishops contributed in their own name and that of their people. Their names are added, ibid.

Ophites, 130.

Optatus, 76. Optatus the subdeacon, 33, 39.

Prayer peaceable and simple, 206. The conditions of prayer, 13, 14, 15, 198, 206. Why God does not hear, 14. Those who keep watch in prayer obtain what they ask, 214. Those are blamed who sleep in heart, ibid. Who do not hear themselves, ibid. Christ gave the form of praying, 204. The prayer which Christ God taught, 212. We obtain more easily if we ask with Christ's prayer, 204. A friendly and familiar prayer, to ask God with His own [words], 204. Our Father, that is, of those who believe, 206. When we call God Father, we ought to act as sons of God, 207. To pray otherwise than Christ taught is not only ignorance but also fault, 204. In the Lord's Prayer heavenly doctrine is comprehended in summary, 206. Supplication in someone's name in the church, 115. Prayers which the merits of works set upon their way to God ascend swiftly, 214. Prayer ineffectual without works, 214. Private prayers, 25. Prayers with many at the sacrifices, ibid. Our prayer is public and common, 206. One must pray for all, 15. We pray for the salvation of all, 209. One must pray for the lapsed and for those who stand, 44. Prayers for heretics, 88. Christians always pray for the fruits of the earth, 223. For the peace and safety of the citizens, ibid. One must pray that no one who has been excluded may remain far from salvation, 210. In the hours of the night let there be no losses of prayers, 215. Let us reckon the night as day, 215. For Christians the times and increases of praying have grown, 215. One must pray in the morning, ibid. At the decline of day, ibid. Likewise at night, ibid. One must pray through the whole day, ibid. One must pray in the morning that the resurrection of the Lord may be celebrated, 215. At the decline of day we ask that the light may come upon us again, 215. The worshippers of God of old observed the third, sixth and ninth [hours] in celebrating prayers, 214, 215. There is need of continual prayer, 208. To pray by day and by night, 223. Let us consider that we stand in the sight of God, 204. The adversary calls our prayers away from God, 213. One must please the divine eyes by bearing of body and manner of voice, 204. Christ did not wish anyone to pray for himself alone, 205. At the sacrifices prayers are not to be tossed about, 205. A petition to be commended to God modestly, 205. Prayer with discipline, containing quietness and modesty, 204; not the sound of the voice but the mind and sense ought to pray, 215.

A bronze disc thrown into the air, 242.

Clerical ordination, 46, 114, 159. Ordination in place of another, 148. The method of clerical ordinations, 46. Substitute ordination, 153. In ordinations the clergy is consulted, 45, likewise the people, ibid. Cyprian ordains clerics with his colleagues, 46, 47. Cyprian examined all things which ought to be in those who are prepared for the clergy 53. The ages and conditions and merits of each are discerned, that the worthy may be promoted to the ecclesiastical grades, 51. Human testimonies are not to be awaited when divine votes go before, 46. Sabinus substituted in the place of Basilides by the vote of the whole brotherhood and by the judgement of the bishops who were present or had written, 119, see 68. What ordination is just and lawful 118. It is decreed that those ordained by heretics be received as laymen, 330. No ecclesiastical ordination where there is not the unity of the Church, 68. The ordination of heretics is rejected, 128.

Shameless adornment, 176. Chastity placed also in dress and adornment, 174. The face assailed by falsehood, 178. They lay hands on God who transform what He has formed, 178. One is to glory in the flesh only when it is tortured, 175. Costly dress, of those whose modesty is cheap, 176. Wounds are not to be inflicted on the ears, 178, 179. She who is clothed in a costly garment does not weep for the lost garment of Christ, 191. Flame-coloured hair, an evil presage of things to come, 178.

Showings, 124. Showings frequent and continual, 77.

Christ calls His flock sheep, 259. God did not make scarlet or purple sheep, 177.

Ozias spotted with the mottling of leprosy, 200.

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Paconius, 102.

The unhappiness of the pagans, 222.

Wandering and straying, 60.

Wandering sheep, 57.

To separate the chaff from the wheat, 74.

Pallor, 226.

The straying fall of the vine-shoots, 1.

Pernicious caressings, 39. To caress with fawning blandishments, 185.

Christ is the bread of life, 209. Many grains make one bread, 108. Bread mixed with wine, 189. To eat bread with sweat and toil, 250. The heavenly bread, 249.

Pope Cyprian, 7, 26, 27.

Paradise flourishes with the witnesses of God, 346. The wholesome and saving drinks of paradise, 152. Paradise the fatherland of Christians, 236. Death restores Christians to paradise and to the kingdom, 236. By death we pass over to immortality, 235; we come to the seat of Christ, to the brightness of the heavenly kingdoms, 235. See Martyrs and death.

The paralytic of the Gospel, 156.

Parents are to be obeyed, 324.

Parricidal arms, 85. Parricidal words, 80.

A little girl carried to the idols, 189.

The solemnities of Easter, 76. The day of Easter, 144. Divine nourishment is supplied to the sparrows, 241. Examples of the Lord's passion, 346. The likeness of the Lord's passion, 270. The passion of Christ, 294. The crown of suffering, 95. The crown of suffering is not to be assigned to heretics, 136.

The book of the Shepherd, or of Hermas. CCXXIV.

Shepherds through whom the Lord's sheep are neglected and perish, 176. Shepherds old and new, 279.

The Father is to be known before the Son, 134. The Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are one, 195. The Father judges nothing, 316. He does not have God as Father who does not have the Church as mother, 191.

The honour due to fathers, 135. The affection of fathers towards their sons, 169.

Patience necessary for the lapsed, 44. Patience to be kept in injuries, 327. On patience in adversities, 232. Christians have patience in common with God, 247. Patience is a thing of God, 248. The patience of God is described, ibid. The crown of patience, 260. Patience brings it about that we persevere, 252. Religious patience, 222. The good of patience, 137. The virtue of patience extends widely, 253. Tolerance of incestuous foulness, 4.

The patriarchs bore the figure of Christ, 250.

The patrician [rank] is a matter of praise, 48.

A great patrimony is a temptation, 176. Each was intent on increasing his patrimony, 182. To put one's patrimony before God, 192. The bond of patrimony, 185. Lend your patrimony at interest to God, 176. Love of patrimony is condemned, 240. To love one's patrimony more than Christ, 243.

Patripassians, 130.

Punishments that act as protection. 344.

Paula the seamstress, 52.

Paul caught up into the third heaven, 273. A passage of the apostle Paul explained, 133. The humility of the apostle Paul, 10.

Paulus of Obba. 335. Paulus the martyr, 30, 32. 40. Paulus had greedy chickens, 226.

The poor are to be fed, 214. Care of the poor is commended, 9, 10, 13, 49, 50. Greater care and love are to be shown to the poor who stand firm, 50. Let those who are fed by the Church be content with more frugal food, 101. The corban in the church, 242.

Dread, 226.

Peace given by the martyrs, 26, 27, 28, 30. A peace worse than persecution, 188. A captious peace, 53. True peace is cheated by the lie of a false peace, 85, 86. A void and false peace, 186. If they ask for peace, let them lay down their arms, 88. To seek peace deceitfully, 78. Peace is necessary for the strong, 77. Peace is not to be given rashly, 21, 22, 36, 37. A false peace is dangerous to those who give it and will profit those who receive it nothing, 186. That they may not lose the peace of the Church, the martyrs shed their blood, 41, Peace is given not to delights but to arms, 78. The bond of peace and concord, 129. The bond of the Lord's peace, 257. The Lord's peace, 137. Peace and the battle-line have their own flowers, 18. Diversity of opinions with the bond of peace preserved, 129. Stephen's predecessors kept peace with the Africans, 144. Peace has its own crowns, 260. Peace restored to the Church, 181. Among the incredulous and faithless it seemed impossible, ibid. The sons of God must be peacemakers, 203.

The sin of unbelief, 230. The laws have consented to sins, 5. Each is held by his own sin, 75. The remission of sins, 150. To purge all sins by suffering, 72. All sins are remitted in baptism, 32, 155, 323. Remission of sins is not given except in the Church, 125, 127. Sins of death, 148. Mortal sins, 323. An enumeration of grave sins, 230. There can be no sin greater than schism

129. Original sin, 99. The filth of the ancient contagion, 180; the ancient venoms of the serpent, 257. The wounds which Adam bore, 257. We all have sin, 319. We offend daily, 207. We have need of daily sanctification, 207. We sin daily, 221. It cannot be that something sinful is lacking daily, 245. No one can be without sin, 258. He who calls himself blameless is proud or foolish, 258. We cannot be without some wound of conscience, 258. Let no one be pleased with himself as though innocent, 241. Those who have been healed do not lack certain wounds afterwards, 258. To one who offers water in the sacrifice in ignorance and simplicity, pardon can be granted from the Lord's indulgence. Otherwise after admonition, 109. Christ instructs for the future; for the past He pardons what was erred in simplicity, 110. The power of remitting sins granted to the Apostles, and to the churches which they established, 148. Not as though they obtain remission from us, 144. That one who has offended against God cannot be forgiven in the Church, 314. Christ alone can forgive sins committed against Himself, 187. No pardon for sinning after God has been known, 173. See Penance. Another view of Christians and of the laity concerning sins, 70. Obstinate sinners, 192. One who sins publicly is to be rebuked, 325.

The shameless display of a bared and half-naked breast in philosophers, 247. To set executioners against one's own breast, 237. The hiding-places of a closed breast, 190. The obstinate savagery of the breast, 345.

Those enslaved to money, 185. Money not to be coveted, 322. The captive and slave of money, 241.

Feet happily bound, 159. Feet shod, 93. Why Christ washed the Apostles' feet, 249.

To perjure oneself, 183.

Perjury, 30.

The Penates conquered, 226.

Pentecost, 357. The day of Pentecost, 366.

The care of strangers is commended, 49.

There can be no fellowship between faithlessness and faith, 89. Discordant faithlessness does not keep unity, 197. The penalty of faithlessness, 199.

Those poured upon in baptism, 156.

The grief of those in peril, 99. No one near to danger is long safe, 103.

The kingdom of the Persians, 226.

Persecution of the Christian name on account of public calamities, 146. Persecutions foretold, 90, 263, 268. The cause of persecution, the corruption of discipline in peace. 182. Persecution comes on account of sins, 13. Torments came while some grew proud on account of their confession, 13. Persecution from enemies of one's own household crowns no less than from those outside, 80. One of the Maccabees ascribes to his own sins that he suffers persecution, 270. He left it to God that he should afterwards be avenged, ibid. Persecutions happen that we may be proved, 228, 263, 267. Persecution arose that God might raise up a prostrate faith, 182. It was a testing rather than a persecution, ibid. Persecution arose that it might appear which is the Church, 97. Persecution is the examination of our breast, 15. Let no one be terrified by fear of persecution, 92. The reward of persecutions, 272. The fruit of persecutions, 94. What good can you think of him whom persecution itself has not reformed? 188. Unless a battle has gone before, there cannot be victory, 232. Greater hope in war, 267. No excuse for a man not to suffer for Christ, 265. Let no one offer himself to persecution of his own accord, 166. The persecutor is compelled to believe, 348. Some hasten too much to their own vengeance, 255. Let them consider that He Himself Who avenges has not yet been avenged, 255. Persecution not throughout the whole world, but local, 146. The falls of the brethren throughout almost the whole world, 34, 36. They still fall, 43; falls throughout the whole world, 44. The greatest number laid low at the first words of the enemy, 183. Of their own accord they ran to the forum, ibid. They asked not to be put off, ibid. Driven to destruction by mutual encouragements, ibid. Love of patrimony drove many to sacrifice, 184. Days were fixed beforehand for testing faith, 182; a day appointed for those who denied, 182. In the persecution of Decius torments came after exiles, 46. Persecution did not allow the case of Novatus to be pursued, 64. The persecution under Valerian, 165.

Perseus, bishop, 84.

Perseverance in faith, 6. One must persevere in faith, 263, 266. See Grace.

God is no respecter of persons, 98.

A harmful and poisoned persuasion, 192.

The plagues of the heretics, 130. Plagues and pestilences of the faith, 197. Description of the plague, 232, 233, 345.

The rock of Christian truth, 148.

Peter readily agreed to the lawful reasoning which Paul was upholding, 127. He did not say that he held the primacy and that he ought rather to be obeyed by newcomers and those later than himself, ibid. To Peter first the Lord gave the power of binding and loosing, 131. The Church founded upon Peter by the origin of unity, 123, 127, 131, 132. The Church to be built upon Peter, 123. Peter speaks in the name of the Church, 123. The Lord chose Peter first, and upon him built the Church, 127. Christ established the origin of unity from Peter, 131. Unity's

origin beginning from one, 195. To Peter alone Christ said: Whatsoever you shall bind, etc., 148. Peter, one for all, speaks and answers with the voice of the Church, 83. Christ entrusts His sheep to Peter, 176. Peter's confession concerning Christ, 359. Peter denied Christ, 357, 360. Peter raises Tabitha, 239. Peter and Paul the apostles, 144. Peter and Paul knew each other in the City, 366. A passage of the apostle Peter explained, 134. Peter's preaching, 365. Peter's chair, 86, 148. Peter's succession, 148.

Peter of Hippo Diarrhytus, 337.

Pharaoh's example, 157. Pharaoh's most harsh servitude, 266.

The difference between the Pharisee and the publican, 205.

Philip the deacon, 132.

Phinehas pleased God, 152.

Picus, 220, 226.

The pledge of life, 69.

God is to be pleased, not men, 319. The heads of the decisions, 67.

An evident wound is easily healed, 258.

One who laments calls forth mercy, 73. The groaning of those who lament is to be admitted, 75. The tears of those who lament, 77.

The divine handiwork, 101.

God's moulding ought not to be adulterated, 178.

Plato acknowledged one God, 226. The Platonists, although they perceived something concerning the Father and the Son.

The people joined to the bishops in danger, 95. The uncorrupted majesty of the faithful people, 88. The most holy and most ample Roman people, 89. The presence of the people in synods, 19, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 36, 39, 43, 55. A council held with the greatest part of the people present, 329. Cyprian does not number the people among those who judged in council, 87. Cyprian does nothing without the consent of the people, 11. Cyprian consults the people in the ordinations of clerics, 45. To the people of those who stood firm honour is to be paid for their faith and fear, 23. Every proceeding made known to the people, 60. The people resist the reception of the shameless, 87. Bishops are chosen with the people present, 118. In its presence either the crimes of the wicked are exposed or the merits of the good are proclaimed, ibid. A people that consents to an unjust and unlawful episcopate is not free from the contagion of the offence, 118. It ought to separate itself from a sinful prelate whom the bishops have deposed, ibid.

Rains indiscriminate to the just and the unjust, 248.

The punishment began from where the crime also began, 189.

The cup of the martyr, 78.

Penitence has been shaken out of hearts, 186. The way of penitence, 67. The feigning of penitence, 71. Penitence necessary for the lapsed, 85. Let penitence not be less than the crime, 192. The penitence of the lapsed to be fostered, 59. To be drawn out long, 67. How it is to be proved, 37. The marks of the true penitent, 23, 37, 38, 191, 192. The fruit of penitence, 224. Penitence strengthens for renewing the contest, 193. The true penitent made stronger for battle through sorrow, 193. True penitence earns not only pardon but also a crown, 193. No penitence is too late, 224. The Lord promises indulgence to penitents, 72, 73, 75. Penitence is taken away if the fruit of penitence is cut off, 75. In the Church the contumacious are slain with the spiritual sword when they are cast out of the Church, 103. When some graver offence intervenes, the faithful are kept away and separated from the body of Christ, 209. The penitence of the libellatici not to be rejected, 70. The penitence of those returning to the Church, 365. Hands laid on penitents, 127. Penitence decreed in council not only by agreement but also with threats, 85. Against those who grant peace without penitence, 85, 86.

A time of penitence is granted to adulterers and peace is given, 72. In offences lesser than idolatry penitence is performed for a due time, 18, 21. Full penitence, 77, 97, 103, 191, 192. The libellatici subjected to penitence, 190. Likewise those who contemplated the crime of sacrifice or of the certificate, 189. Concerning the woman who did not consent when men held her hands to make her sacrifice, 27. Full penitence for virgins who have been corrupted, 103. Lighter penitence for those who were caught with men but were found intact, 103. Let them be cast out with a heavier censure if they have lived under the same roof with them, ibid. In the council of Carthage it was decided that the lapsed should be helped at their departure, 71. That the libellatici be admitted meanwhile, ibid. Penitence is rightly drawn out longer while there is quiet, 77. Otherwise when persecution presses, ibid. Pardon can quickly be granted to the lapsed amid tortures, 185. For these, penitence begun three years before can suffice, 76. Peace is given to the lapsed who afterwards confess, 28. Bishop Therapius is rebuked for granting peace before the time, 98. Yet the peace once given is not taken away, ibid. God knows what He does with those who die before their penitence is completed, 45. Schismatic confessors are received without penitence, 61. Bishops submit themselves to penitence, 119. The Carthaginian

council decreed that lapsed bishops may be admitted to do penance, but are to be barred from the priestly honour, 120. Cornelius decreed the same with absolutely all the bishops, 120. To a bishop deposed for idolatry, lay communion [is granted] as a favour, 119. A deacon is to be deposed or suspended if he persists in insolence against the bishop, 115. Trophimus, a bishop, returning with his people, communicates as a layman, 69. Penance denied to adulterers under Cyprian's predecessors, 72. Those not doing penance are barred from the hope of communion and peace if they begin to beg for it in danger, 73. Cyprian threatens that whoever joins himself to Felicissimus will not communicate in the Church, 51. [That he] cannot afterwards return to the Church and communicate, 55. Cyprian anxiously weighs who ought to be received and admitted into the Church, 85. The people resist whenever the incorrigible return to the Church, ibid.

Necessity of the sacrament of penance, 122. The priest is guilty if a good soldier, while he flees, should depart without peace and communion, 78. The sacrament of penance to be administered to the dying, 8. In danger of sickness, confession (exomologesis) is to be made before any presbyter present, or before a deacon if no presbyter is found, or if death begins to press, 22. Many in the church of Arles have departed without peace, 116. No place for penance after death, 224. Here life is either lost or held, ibid. Things loosed on earth are loosed in heaven, 77, see 148. Satisfaction and remission made through priests is pleasing before the Lord, 191. Whatever priests do for a true penitent, God accepts it as done, 195. Penitents receive the Spirit of the Father when they receive peace, 78.

POLIANUS, 158, 163. Polianus of Mileum, 332. — POLYCARPUS, bishop, 77, 117, 124. Polycarpus, bishop of Hadrumetum, 59. Polycarpus of Adrumetum, 330. — POMPEIUS, bishop, 55, 56, 59. Pompeius of Sabrata, 337. — POMPONIUS, bishop, 77, 102, 117, 124. Pomponius of Dionysiana, 335. — The bishop (pontifex) is to be honoured, 81. — PONTIUS PILATE was procurator of Syria, 228.

The people of Christ cannot be split, 196. The Christian people, united, is compared to the Lord's bread, 155. The people is united to Christ when water is mixed with wine in the chalice, 108. As a whole people we are one, 206. The onslaught of a raging people, 76. A people of perdition and death, 244. A sinful people cannot be a son of God, 207. Two peoples foretold, the elder and the younger, 280.

Monstrosities are worshipped, 220. — A vine-covered portico, 1. — Those who are possessed will believe that they possess, 185. — The power of heavenly grace, 149. — The divine precepts are not impossible, 97. — Predictions of a woman seized by a demon, 146. — The battle of a glorious contest, 67. God watches those who fight, 93. — To despise those set over one with proud swelling, 183. Prelates appointed without the law of ordination, 197. — The prerogative of communion, 40. — Deceitful tricks in excuse, 43. Tricks of demons, 221. — The presumption of a harsher philosophy, 71. Presumption condemned, 133. — Betrayers of the truth, 132. — Prayer with discipline, 204. The trumpet of prayers, 44. To make prayer at the sacrifices, 25.

Presbyters sit with the bishop in the clergy, 48, 49. Presbyters are called priests (sacerdotes) by Cyprian, 49, 53. They are called prelates, 13, 20, 21, 29. Presbyters and deacons ought to cherish the sheep entrusted to them, 21. They ought to guide and teach the confessors, 19, 20, 21. One must rise for presbyters, 325. The honour of the presbyterate is marked out for some readers, 48; the same monthly allowance as for presbyters, ibid. Numidicus, a presbyter, is enrolled in the number of the presbyters of Carthage 49. Presbyters, when the see is vacant, reserve certain matters for the election of a bishop, 29, 43. Five presbyters delay Cyprian's return, 53. Certain presbyters claim everything for themselves, 18, 20. Rash presbyters are to plead their case before the bishop and clergy, before the confessors and the people, 19. Rash presbyters are meanwhile to be forbidden to offer, 19. Presbyters and deacons who depart from the Church communicate as laymen when they return, 129. Those ordained outside communicate as laymen when they return, 128. Presbyters and deacons ought to preside over purity and continence, 103. To assemble the presbytery, 60.

Afflictions happen so that we may be tested, 263, 267. Afflictions from the gentiles, 161, 164. — To assume the primacy, 154. — To hold the primacy, 127. — Esau lost his birthright, 25. — PRIMITIVUS, presbyter, 55. — PRIMUS, bishop, 117, 124. Primus of Misgirpa, 339. Primus, a schismatic, 62. — PRISCA, companion of Montanus, 145. — PRISCUS, bishop, 72. — PRIVATIANUS, 76, 77. Privatianus of Sufetula, 332. — PRIVATUS of Lambaesis, 41, 48. Privatus of Sufes, 332. — The storm does not overturn a sturdy tree, 197. — PROCULUS, bishop, 99, 124. Proculus, a perjurer, 226. — Betrayers of unity, 132. — Another prophet like Moses promised, 280. The prophets bore the figure of Christ, 230. Christ foretold His coming through the prophets, ibid. — The resolve of continence, 72. —

The formula of proscription, 122. The burden of proscription, ibid. To prostitute the members of Christ to the gentiles, 183. The boldness of a prostituted voice, 5. The protection of the body and blood of Christ, 77. A protected flank, 6. A province spread rather widely, 59. Psalms at the banquets of Christians, 7. Our prayer is public and common, 206. The difference between the publican and the pharisee, 205. Pudentianus of Cuiculi, 236. She keeps the tenor of chastity to her glory, 72. The modesty of the marriage bond, 100. The virtue of boys greater than their age, 160. Boys crowned with martyrdom. 164. A teacher of boys who are to be ruined, 101. Voracious chicks, 226. The pulpit, that is, the tribunal of the Church, 46, 48. Orphans to be protected, 328.

Purgatory. To those who are crowned at once others are set in contrast, who stand waiting for pardon and pay the last farthing, 72. These, tormented with long pain for their sins, are cleansed and purged for a long time by fire, ibid. They hang in suspense until the day of judgement, ibid. On the day of judgement the merits of the martyrs and the works of the just will benefit many, 187. Apostates and deserters, even if they have been killed for the Name, will not then be able to be admitted to the peace of the Church, 73. A sacrifice for someone's falling asleep, 114.

Let Christian women not put on purple, 177. The purple of the Lamb through Whom we have been redeemed, 262. Purple runs into images, 348. Pusillus of Lamasba, 357. A well of living water, 152. Rotten matter, 87. The rotten parts having been cut away, 186.

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Cyprian supplies expenses from his own funds, 49. The weapons of testing interrogations, 347. A most harsh interrogation, 16, 17. The tortures of interrogations, 220. Quietus of Baruch, 335. Quintianus, 31. Quintus the bishop, 77, 117, 124, 126, 128, 129. Quintus of Aggya, 336. Quintus the presbyter, 66. Quirinus, 161, 162, 274.

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The madness of the mouth is armed, 189. Rachel a type of the Church, 281. The root of the Catholic Church, 59. Rahab, in whom the Church was prefigured, 196. Rahab bore the type of the Church, 153. A broken branch cannot bud, 195. Rapacity makes a greater famine than drought, 219. Bloody plunderings, 220. The rebaptism of Novatian, 130. It is not fitting to rebaptize, 167. God made you upright, 221. The majesty of the Name is amplified again, 344. Share your revenues with God, 241. The command of the Redeemer must be obeyed, 173. The members of the brethren must be redeemed, 99. What can be redeemed is not feared, 5. Brotherly reconciliation, 65. The hosts of the waters reined in, 343. The flames gave refreshment, 164. God has prepared refreshments, 44. Heavenly regeneration, 148, 149, 225, 260. The regeneration of the saving washing, 147. The regeneration of the second birth, 147. The washing of regeneration, 139, 140, 249. Divine regeneration, 136.

No one can have the kingdom of God unless he is baptized, 314. We desire the kingdom of God to be made present to us, 207. The kingdom of God has begun to be near, 229. The kingdom of God is not in the wisdom of the world, 324. Kingdoms change by lot, 226. Regulus observed the auspices, 226. True and divine religion is trampled upon, 339. True religion is not recognized, 217. Remission of sins, 99, 131, 133, 134, 135, 150, 237, 249, 262. Remission of sins in baptism, 155. It is not given except in the Church, 125, 127, 134. Remission made through priests, 191. The power of remitting sins, 148. Repostus the schismatic, 52, 84. Certain disciples were unwilling to believe the resurrection of Christ, 360. We celebrate the resurrection of the Lord in the morning, 109. Christ is our resurrection, 208. The resurrection of the dead, 315. The resurrection of the flesh, 131. The hope of the resurrection, 168. Revelations, 14, 15, 19, 20, 38, 47, 77, 79, 96, 234. A stream cut off from its source dries up, 195. Very many streams from one source, ibid. Rogatianus the deacon, 142, 144, 147. Rogatianus the bishop is harassed with insults by a deacon, 112. He complains to Cyprian, ibid. Rogatianus the bishop, 77, 117, 124. Rogatianus of Nova, 336. Rogatianus the presbyter, 11, 49, 51, 52. Rogatianus the presbyter, a glorious old man, 163, 165. Rogatus the bishop, 77. Pyres at variance, 227. Pyres of cattle, 220, 226.

Rome ought to go before Carthage, 64. The Roman Church is the principal Church, 86. It keeps watch for all, 8. The authority of the Roman see, 144. From the Roman Church the origin of unity, 86, 125, 131. Letters of the Roman clergy sent through the whole world, 67. Stephen holds the succession of Peter, 148. Through succession he has the chair of Peter, ibid. Basilides, having been deposed, fled to Pope Stephen in order to be restored, 119. Cyprian denies that Sabinus, substituted for him, can be deposed, ibid. The Romans count it the greatest crime to fall away from the praises of the Apostle, 42. Faithlessness has no access to the Romans, 86. The Roman Church stands strong in the faith, 7. Some have lapsed, ibid. At Rome martyrdoms were consummated through tortures before they were at Carthage, 33. The severity of discipline among the Romans, 42. The Romans do not observe certain ancient institutions, 144. The Roman clergy, most flourishing, with the bishop

presiding, 89. The Roman clergy greet Cyprian as pope and brother, 40, 42, 44. Letter of the Roman clergy to Sicily, 43; it is sent to Cyprian, ibid. The Roman clergy deliberate with the bishops, 45. The Roman clergy are under greater necessity to defer the case of the lapsed, because they have no bishop, 43. Cyprian's counsel that the matter of the lapsed be dealt with in a council pleases the Roman clergy, ibid. The full vigour of the Gospel in the letters of the Roman clergy, 52. They helped Cyprian in his labours, ibid. The Roman Church praised, 94. The faith of the Romans praised, 86. — One kingdom does not hold the Roman twins, 227. The native gods of the Romans, 226. The beginnings of the Roman kingdom, ibid. — Romulus first consecrated the circus games, 340. Romulus a parricide, 226. Romulus made a god, ibid. — Roses are not lacking to the Church, 18. — Rust of the heart, 237. — To belch out drunkenness, 111. — To live on one's own belching, 102. — Rucuma, 335. — Ruffinus, deacon and confessor, 34, 45. — Let one fall suffice for the lapsed, 54. Falls of the brethren, 45. Manifold ruins of the world, 190. — Rusiccade, 336. — Rusticus, presbyter, 146. Let the countryman till the field, 75. — Rutilus, 52.

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Sabinus, bishop, 117, 119. — Sabina, 31. — The rape of the Sabine women, 226, 340. — Sabrata, 337.

Priests of God and of Christ, 72. The priest acts in [Christ's] stead, 109. To act as a priest of God, 111. God makes priests, 68, 121. How great an honour is owed to priests, 81, 122. Priests are avenged by God, 113. They ought to be blameless and spotless, 128. They ought to be humble, 121. Against priests who covet contributions, offerings and gains, 111. The portion of priests who did not succumb at all, 120. A priest rejoices in the praises of his fellow priest as in his own, 94. The sacrilegious man is angry with priests, 188. A sacrilegious priest, 118. A judgement weighed by the counsel of many priests, 77. A priest can be killed, he cannot be conquered, 88. The sublime eminence of the priesthood, 68. Those who have offered sacrilegious sacrifices to idols cannot claim for themselves the priesthood of God, 111. The vigour of the priesthood in admonishing presbyters and deacons, 24. The concord of the priesthood, 137, 142. Unlawful priesthoods, 148, 152. Priestly gravity, 56. The sanctity of the priestly office, 140. Priestly authority, 88, 113. The one priesthood, 53. The old and the new priesthood, 280.

Sacrament, 44. The sacrament of unity, 132, 153, 195, 196. The sacrament and devotion of the soldier of God, 16. The soldier's oath, 365. The sacrament of the divine warfare, 140. The sacrament of faith, 43, 319. Faithful in the sacrament, grave in the conduct of life, 339. Mindful of my sacrament, 185. The sacrament of salvation, 159. The sacrament of truth, 135. The sacrament of the customary proclamation, 146. Heavenly sacraments, 139, 141. Hidden sacraments, 161. The sacrament of the Church of Christ, 148. The sacrament of unanimity, 80. The sacrament of the Trinity, 213. The unity of the sacrament of the Gospel, 65. The sacrament of the divine tradition, 142. The sacrament of Christ, 183, 274. The sacrament of the chalice, 189. The sacrament of the Catholic Church, 72. The sacraments of the Lord's Prayer, 206. The sacrament of life, 213. The sacrament of the Pasch, 196.

Christ the author and teacher of our sacrifice, 104. Why Christ offered in the evening, 109. We celebrate the divine sacrifices with the priest of God, 205. Sacrifices are offered unceasingly both in peace and in persecution, 124. We celebrate the sacrifices of God daily, 78. The priest says: Lift up your hearts; the people answer: We have them to the Lord, 213. The truth of the Lord's victim, 200. Christ offered this same thing that Melchizedek did, 105. He first offered Himself, and commanded that this be done in His commemoration, 109. When the sacrifice had been celebrated, he dared to receive a portion, 189. Our oblation and sacrifice ought to correspond to the Passion, 107. The Passion of the Lord is the sacrifice which we offer, 109. Melchizedek, offering bread and wine, prefigured the sacrament of the Lord's sacrifice, 105. A type of the Lord's sacrifice in Solomon, ibid. An image of Christ's sacrifice, established in bread and wine, went before, ibid. The Lord, fulfilling the figure, offered bread and a chalice mixed with wine, ibid.

In the sacrifice we must do what Christ did and what He commanded to be done, 108. Yet the Lord's [sacrifice] ought not to be celebrated after supper, 109. The mingling of water and wine cannot be separated one from the other, 108. Water alone cannot be offered, just as wine alone cannot either, ibid. If water alone is offered, a great precept of the Lord is violated, 107. By the blood of the grape the wine of the chalice of the Lord's blood is shown, 105. Water mixed with wine signifies the union of the people with Christ, 108. To offer the sacrifice not without the sacrament of the customary proclamation, 146. The sacrifice at evening hours in Africa, 109. The people were not called to this sacrifice, ibid. Sacrifices of individual presbyters, each with a deacon, among the confessors, 9. The Lord's [sacrifice] is not celebrated after supper, 109, although Christ offered in the evening, ibid. We celebrate the Resurrection of the Lord in the morning, ibid.

In sacrifices and prayers to represent the return for a good work

to those by whom good is done, 100. The conscience of the lapsed is purged by the sacrifice and the hand of the priest, 186. The name of the lapsed ought not to be offered, 19. Sacrifice for one fallen asleep, 114. Sacrifices for the martyrs, 47. On account of their commemoration, 50. Certain rich women come to the Lord's [supper] without a sacrifice, 242; they take part of the sacrifice which the poor man offered, ibid. Our peace and brotherly concord is a greater sacrifice to God, 211. The old and the new sacrifice, 280. Divine sacrifices hindered, 159. The offering cannot be sanctified where the Holy Spirit is not, 112. False and sacrilegious sacrifices outside, 128. Sacrilegious sacrifices, 111, 115, 152. To claim the licence of sacrificing, 200. The sacrifices of the wicked are not acceptable, 328. False sacrifices, 200. False and sacrilegious sacrifices, 128. Unlawful sacrifices, 43.

Deadly sacrifices, 95, 190. Those who sacrificed differ from the libellatici, 70. To communicate with those who sacrificed, 69. Stained by sacrifice, 34, 87. Stained by unlawful sacrifices, 77. The people is ordered by a published edict to celebrate sacrifices, 82. Sacrifices at the games, 340. Unlawful foods from sacrifices, 271. Sacrilegious rites, 248 Hands and mouths stained by sacrilegious contacts, 24.

The world is not lovable to the Christian, 352. The end of the world approaching, 200. — Distended by more abundant fattening, 191. Fattened and fed, 35. Fattened in the world, 101. — An actor not to be redeemed by a salary, 101. — SOLOMON lost the grace of the Lord, 201. — There is no salvation except in the Church, 103, 153. Our salvation established in baptism, 360. — The morning greeter, 5. — SALVIANUS of Gazaufala, 337. Samaria, 132. The city of the Samaritans, 154. — SAMUEL was a type of Christ, 281. — The saints are solicitous for our salvation, 236. Cyprian asks Cornelius that they pray for one another; and that whichever of them goes before first by the divine favour should pray to the Lord for the brethren, 98. Cyprian begs the virgins to pray for him when they have begun to be crowned, 181. Description of the happiness of the saints, 349. The assembly of the saints, 44.

The sanctification of the life-giving bath, 173. Water alone cannot sanctify a man, 139. We have been sanctified in Baptism, 207, to be sanctified by saving Baptism, 155. — Sanctity, 29. The Holy Thing of the Lord, that is, the Eucharist, 186, 189, 196, to carry the Holy Thing into a brothel, 341. To keep the Holy Thing within the conscience, 216.

We have been redeemed by the blood of Christ, 173. The blood of the grape, 105. The blood of Christ is not water, 104. The protection of the blood and body of Christ, 77. To drink the blood of Christ daily, 90. The baptism of blood, 136. Heaven lies open to our blood, 346. God does not desire our blood, 234. Blood flowed in place of tears, 185. — The healthy do not need a physician, 71. — The scar of a healing that has closed over, 339. — The wisdom of the world is not the kingdom of God, 324. What true wisdom is, 247. — SARAH, the barren mother of Isaac, 281. — The bundle to be got clear of the fire, 102. — The seamstress, 52.

SATISFACTION. Peace is restored to the lapsed on account of a repeated confession, 28. On account of the prerogative and help of the martyrs, 22, 23. Pardon is sought on account of confessors having been received, 29. The lapsed can make satisfaction to God by their prayers and works, 18. The lapsed ought to make satisfaction to the Lord through bishops and priests, 53. Satisfaction is made to God by just works, 238. Sins are redeemed by satisfactions, 85. God is to be appeased not by voice alone, but by fasts and tears, 13. Satisfaction must be made for sins, 13. Satisfaction must be made to God the Father through Christ, 15. Long and continual satisfaction, 53. To have sinned and not make satisfaction is a greater offence, 191. To close the way of satisfaction, 192. The three youths, although they had a good conscience, did not cease to make satisfaction to the Lord, 191.

SATIUS, bishop, 77, 117. — SATTIUS of Sicilibba, 334. — SATURNINUS, 29, 31, 32. Saturninus, bishop, 77, 117, 124. Saturninus of Thucca, 335. Saturninus of Avitini, 336, Saturninus of Victoriana, 335. — SATURN put to flight by Jove, 225. Saturn taught [men] to print letters, ibid. — SATURUS, 31. Saturus the reader, 33, 39, 45. Saturus the acolyte, 79. — SAUL persecutes David, 257, 269. Saul the king afflicted the people, 113. — In scandal a great crime, 12, even if debauchery is absent from the conscience, ibid. — He who gave the order is a partner in the crime, 42. Crimes always make haste, 84.

Schisms arising from contempt of priests, 115. Whence schisms arise, 122. He is truly a schismatic who separates himself from the communion of ecclesiastical unity, 130. There can be no greater offence than schism, 129. Those who make schism are without hope, 155. How great a sin schism is, ibid. The crime of schismatics is worse than that of the lapsed, 201. One who does not agree with the Church cannot agree with anyone, 198. He cannot have God at peace who does not have peace with his brother, ibid. Schismatics are not united to the Lord's bread. They are not mingled in Christ's cup, 153. Faith cannot be sound among schismatics, 360. Souls which have divided themselves from the unity of God cannot be united, 143. It profits nothing to be near one another in body if they disagree in mind, ibid. One who is in discord with the brethren is not saved even by martyrdom, 212. Schismatics set up human churches, 73. They inflate their number by a lie, 84, 85.

Condemned by themselves, 64. We did not withdraw from the heretics, but they withdrew from us, 198. Those who are led astray by the leaders of schism perish, 129. He who follows a leader of schism is held guilty of the same crime, 201. The leaders of schism are guilty, and so are those who follow them, 155. A lost faction that will destroy those who agree with it, 63. Schisms ought not to disturb the faithful, since they were foretold, 82. A confessor falling away into schism ought not to disturb [us], 201. For a confessor who embraces schism, the deserts of punishment grow all the more from this very fact, 201. The execrable life of schismatics, 86, 87. Schismatics do not have the Holy Spirit, 155. They make another prayer with unlawful words, 200. The Holy Spirit has departed from the hearts of schismatics, 121. Schism is adulterous, impious and sacrilegious, 54. Whatever the wicked attempt for the destruction of God's ordinance is done against God, 200. Certain schismatics cannot be received without scandal, 87. Schismatic and heretical error, 65. The fire of schism, 63. Schismatics have no power, 151. The baptism of schismatics, 124, 126, 128. A schism made in the City, 59. Schismatics are fervent at the beginning, 74. A schismatic cannot attain to the rewards of the Church, 201. Schismatic and heretic, 61, 62, 64. Schisms and heresies arise, 141. — Rocky crags hem in a ship, 231. — Scorpions and serpents, 157. — The holy and wonderful words of the Scriptures, 334. Betrayers of the Scriptures, 167. To turn the sacred Scriptures into a defence of crimes, 339. — Buffoonery forbidden, 317. — The shield of faith, 93. — Our sect, 298. The sect of our faith, 247. The sect of brotherhood, 48. — Secundianus of Thambei, 337. — Secundinus, bishop, 77, 117. Secundinus of Cedias, 332. — Secundinus of Carpi, 333. — There cannot be a second after the first, 68. — Security firm and perpetual, 230. Security breeds carelessness, 2. — Sedatus, bishop, 102, 117, 124. Sedatus of Tuburbo, 332. — Separated harshly and cruelly from the Church, 71. — The sowing of discord, 74. A pestilent sowing, 89. — A half-shaven head, 159, 161. — With half-scorched entrails, 185. — Let him not pronounce a sentence, but receive one, 117. Let him receive the sentence which he pronounced before, 51, 52. — Separes, 152. — The number seven, 269, 281. — Serenianus, governor in our province, 146. — Whence fair weather comes, 342. — Sergius, placed in prison, 163. — Let Christian women not put on silk, 177. — The Word was made flesh, 131. — Whence the name of the serpent, 193. The serpent trodden underfoot was crushed, 47. Serpents are worshipped, 220. Sprouting with snaky locks, 141. — The servant cannot be greater than his master, 65. Obstinate slaves, 234. That slaves ought to obey their masters, 242, 324. The wretchedness of slaves, 218. Nothing more foul than slavery, 345. — A hundred thousand sesterces, 100. — Severianus, 29. — The severity of divine vigour, 42. Severity in place of precepts, 340. The severity of the Gospel discipline, 43. The sinews of severity, ibid. — The sixtyfold fruit of virgins, 180. — Sex is changed by art, 101. — Assassins in the middle of the city, 219. — Sicca, 333. — Sicily, 43. — Sicilibba, 334. — Sidonius, confessor, 60, 61, 64, 65. — The Lord's seal, 132. To be sealed with the Holy Spirit, 131. The heavenly soldiery seals [men] for the spiritual camp, 6. — The standard-bearer of sedition, 83. — The sign of God, 93. The sign of the cross, 201, 223, 294. All are signed with the sign of Christ, 277. Moses could not conquer except after he persevered in the sign, 267. — The Siguese mine, 163. — Simeon the just, 229. — Apes imitate human things, 130. — The divine likeness is shown in our actions, 248. — Simon Magus, 365. — Images are not to be worshipped, 70. The origin of images, 225. Senseless images, 221. — Enmity ought not to be in a Christian, 252. — The swelling hollows of wounds, 186. — Eternal thirst, 101. The dryness of eternal thirst, 132. — The daemon of Socrates, 226. — The sun is spread over all with equal light, 157. The sun at its setting darts its rays with less bright splendour, 217. — Soliassus, schismatic, 52. — He is not alone who has Christ as his companion in flight, 91. — The Lord's Wisdom, 95. — Sophia, 31. — Sophronius, schismatic, 52. — Soranus, 136. — Filth to be drawn out from within, 237.

Shows forbidden, 339. Shows forbidden to Christians even if they were not dedicated to idols, 342. Shows, even if they had no crime, have vanity, ibid. He who watches cannot be upright or chaste, 4. He learns also to do while he grows used to seeing, 341. Demons preside over the shows, 340. The devil the contriver of the shows, ibid. Gifts are provided for the devil, 344. In the shows of prostitutes obscenity is passed on, 341. No kind of men is spared in the shows, ibid. Certain people defend the shows from the authority of Scripture, 339. They are refuted, ibid. Which shows befit Christians, 342, 343. The givers of shows for Christ are scarcely equalled to the servants of the devil, 344. — Hope does not agree with grief, 168. Our hope ought to be patient, 318. — Spesina, 31. — The Spirit by Whom we are reborn was borne over the waters from the beginning, 330. The Holy Spirit often appeared in fire, 327. Why the Holy Spirit came in the form of a dove, 196. The Holy Spirit is not given outside the Church, 125, 139, 360.

The Spirit cannot work without water, 330. The Holy Spirit is received through Baptism, 106. The Spirit cannot be received unless there first be one who receives, 140. The Holy Spirit poured upon the baptized, 132. The Holy Spirit rests upon those who believe, 365. The Holy Spirit descends upon the disciples of Christ, 366. The Holy Spirit is not to be grieved, 306. The Holy Spirit filled John the Baptist, 365. The Holy Spirit is supplied to all, 98.

Spirit of antichrist, 134. Wandering spirits, 5. Unclean [spirits], 190.—The Bride of Christ an enclosed garden, 132. The Bride of Christ is not heresy, 140.—Allowances, 48. Brethren receiving allowances, 114.—The spittings of those who insult, 249.—The standing, 44. The standing with unshaken faith, 10. Standing laity, 56, 38, 41, 45, 67. The people of the standing, 23. Firmness of the standing, 10, 15, 17. Praise of the standing, 182. The multitude of the standing, 181. Next in praise and almost joined to the confessors, ibid. The prayers of the standing for the lapsed must be aided by their own humility, 41.—A secure post, 116. At their post the envoys of Novatian keep shouting, 55.—Statius, 29.—Praise of Stephen the protomartyr, 252.—Stephen the pope, 115, 119, 128, 138, 143, 144145, 146, 147, 150, 151.—Stephen the bishop, 55, 56, 59.—Barren men, 240, 242.—The devil's eye-paint, 241.—Stipends of the Church, 51.—Contributions and offerings, 111.—Opinion of the Stoics, 70.—To cling prostrate to the ground, 192.—The stupor of heretics, 353.—The debaucheries of pimps and brothels, 100.—A quarrelsome pen, 56.—Subitatus, 95.—Offspring of spare hours, 260.—Monetary aid for redeeming captives, 100.—The substance of salvation, 201.—Substitute actors, 101.—Successions in turn, 37.—Successus the bishop, 77, 117, 124, 165. Successus of Abbir Germaniciana, 332.—Sufes, 332.—Sufetula, 332. Divine suffrages, 46.—The contagion of swine's flesh, 270.—Small sums for redeeming captives, 100.—Expenditure of the Church, 101.—Proud boasting is not born of the teaching of Christ, 81. Pride condemned in confessors, 212. In Christians, ibid.—Superius, 76.—Supersedere, that is, to persevere, 57.—Superstitions against God, 340. Dark superstition, 224.—Punishments more than limbs, 5. Punishments had given way to the martyrs, 16. Eternal punishments, 44.—Chaste Susanna, 53. Susanna escaped both lust and death, v.—Presbyters suspended from their functions, 19.—Incitements to sighing, 176.—Accursed whisperers, 328.—The Creed of the Trinity, 146.—The synagogue of heretics, 147, 148.—Synods celebrated every year, 143.

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Tabitha raised up, 239.—Slowness of tortures, 158.—Tatius found Cloacina, 226.—Roofs in place of prisons, 350.—Weapons that do not know how to be conquered, 36. Hidden weapons, 256. The weapons of testing questions, 347.—Telepte, 336. Rash judgements forbidden, 313.—A master of rashness, 111.—The old temple and the new temple, 279. The Lord has settled in the mind in place of a temple, 6. He who has been sanctified has become a temple of God, 133. Our members are temples of God, 175. We are the worshippers and priests of those temples, ibid. Temples of God defiled by shameful intercourse, 12. Profane temples, 248.—The necessity of the times, 68.—Tenax the bishop, 117. Tenax of Horrea Caeliae, 356.—The darkness at the Passion of Christ, 294. A darkness brighter than the sun itself, 163. The darkness of barrenness, 241.—The course of salvation, 112, The course of evangelical vigour, 43. The course of faith, 141, 158. The course of living, 173. The course of discipline, 53.—We are tempted that we may be proved, 326. Heretical temptation, 57.—One must not cling to earthly things, 184.—Tertullus the bishop, 77, 102, 124. Tertullus the presbyter does not fail in care for the bodies of the confessors, 50. Tertullus, 10. Tertullus, 50.—The New Testament, 278, 280.—No one can be a witness concerning himself, 121. A false witness will not go unpunished, 159.—Thabraca, 335.—Thambei, 337.—Tharussa, 336.—Thasvalte, 334.—The foulness of the theatres, 3.—The brotherhood of the Thebans, 227.—Thebeste, 334.—Theni, 333.—Theogenes of Hippo Regius, 332.—Therapius the bishop, 97. Therapius of Bulla, 336.—Where treasure is to be laid up, 184. Stores of food to be entrusted [to God], 176.—Thibari, 334. The people of Thibaris, 90.—Thubuni, 330.—Thucca, 335, 337.—Censers melted down at the Lord's command, 154.—Those who offered incense, 66.—Tiberinus, 226.—To blow the pipe, 342.—Timisa, 335.—Timida Regia, 336.—Fear is the foundation of hope and faith, 311. Fear the guardian of innocence, 2. He who is feared is constrained by fear, 6.—The dipping of heretics filthy and profane, 126. Profane dipping, 158.—The moth of the soul, 257.—Tobias, 231. Tobias through the affliction of his body grew to praise, 231. The commands of Tobias to his son, 243. The patience of Tobias is praised, 253. Tobias keeps his confession for God, 269.—Togas have no peace, 219.—The treading and pressing of the winepress, 106.

Description of tortures, 13, 16. To overcome tortures, 46. Tortures were lacking for some, 50. Subdued by the force of tortures, 76. Slowness of tortures, 158. The tortures came, 185. The tortures of a few are examples for all, 189. Long tortures, 220. Tortures of words, 221. Tortures

which will have no end, 224. Torments of martyrdom, 251. To despise torments and not to dread them, 346.

Those tortured stronger than those torturing, 16.—A grim look, 258.—Bishops deliberating, 91. With the bishop deliberating, 70. A deliberation having been held, 66, 69.

Tradition, 138, 141, 142. Apostolic tradition, 153, 154, 141, 152. It has been handed down that there is one faith, one Church, 142. The Lord's tradition, 104, 109, 110. Divine tradition, 56, 58, 119. Whatever is judged contrary to the most solemn observance of all the saints ought to be condemned, 333. Pope Stephen decrees that nothing is to be innovated except what has been handed down, 138. How great is the authority of a most ancient observance? 334. Human tradition, 109, 139, 144. Not to be preferred to the divine disposition, 139. A new tradition of sacrilegious institution, 53.

Betrayers of the Scriptures, 167.—In what are tranquillity and security placed? 6.—The means of transcribing, 45.—Derangement of a pierced mind, 192.—Crossbeams, 159. Trembling on the lips, 258.—The three Fates, 29.—The twelve tribes of Israel are split, 153, 196.

TRINITY. The mystery of the Trinity made manifest in the last times, 215. The three are one, 366. Intimation of the Trinity, 131. One God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, 133. The three are one, ibid. Without the Father or against the Father the Son alone cannot profit, 134. Nor can there be hope of salvation unless both are known together, ibid. Those who do not hold God the Father can hold neither the Son nor the Holy Spirit, 145. The Spirit cannot be separated from Christ, 139. The Novatianists acknowledge the Trinity as Catholics do, 154. He Who is sent is not greater than the one sending, 139

The wind does not carry off the wheat, 197.—Triumphs of the martyrs, 33.—The trophy of the cross, 225.—Trophimus, 66, 69.—The trumpet of prayers, 44. The military trumpet, 262.—Blasts of trumpets, 342.—Tuburbu, 332.—Tuchabori, 332.—Swelling pride is condemned in Christians, 12. Proud swelling, 113. Swelling folds of wounds, 186.—Let no one stir up a tumult for the brethren, 166.—The tunic of Jesus Christ is not divided, 196.—Turasius the presbyter, 168.—The base man defames the base, 4.—Divine protection, 88. Protection is given to those who trust, 253. Guardianship does not befit clerics, 114.—No one is safe who is next to danger, 102.—Drums, 339.—A tyrant hostile to priests, 69. Tyrannical terror, 330.

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Vaga, a city of Africa, 333.—Valentinians, 130.—Valentinus the heretic, 144. The baptism of Valentinus, 140.—Valerian the emperor, 165.—The vapour of seething sins, 37.—Gold or silver vessels, 65, 74, 159.—Devastation of herds, 186.—Venantius the bishop, 117. Venantius of Timisa, 335.—The sale of children, 171.—Poisoners, 209.—Poison in place of remedy, 53. Poisons for subverting the truth, 130. Poisons of gall, 261. The contagion of poisoned speech, 89.—The belly loosened into a flux, 232.—We ought not to toss our prayers about, 205.—Venus the Bald, 226.—Venustus the martyr, 30.—Verianus the bishop, 77.

The image of truth, 130. The origin of truth, 194. What the origin and head of truth is, ibid. The head and origin of truth, 198. The mystery of truth, 135. Truth compels to the good, 216. Evangelical truth, 53, 153. The truth of the Holy Spirit, 117. The fullness of truth, 105. Christian truth, 134. Ecclesiastical truth, 130. The light of ecclesiastical truth, 150. To destroy the truth by deeds, 235. Enemies of the truth, 36. Fire will consume the enemies of the truth, 346. The truth of a crime is wrung out by bodily pain, 220.—The native gods of the Romans, 226.—Verulus of Rusiccade, 336.—Traces of kinship, 47. Traces of glories, 25.—Clothing is lacking to those who are cold, 159. The adornment of costly clothing, 191. Insignia of garments, 176. Clothing ought to be fitting, 262. It is not lawful for men to put on women's clothing, 101.—What is coveted from the world is brought to nothing by the passing of time, 348.—Ordination as a substitute, 148. Substitute and successor, 117. The substitutes of the absent Cyprian, two bishops and two presbyters, 51. Letters of substitution, 97, 163.—That evil is not to be repaid to the wicked, 314.—The victim ought to be offered with the brethren present, 97.—He conquers once for all who suffers at once, 25. A Christian cannot be conquered, 95. The conquered refuse to yield, 155.—Victor the bishop, 52, 77, 99, 102, 117, 124. Victor, formerly presbyter, 97. Victor, deacon from lector, 13. Victor, condemned to the mines, 158, 161. Victor of Gor, 334. Victor of Assuras, 336. Victor of Octavum, 337.

Victors in the second battle, 185.—Victoria, wife of Felix the presbyter, 27.—Victoriana, 333.—Victoricus the bishop, 77, 117.—Victorinus the martyr, 30. Victorinus of Thabraca, 333.—Vicus Caesaris, 333.

The care of widows is commended, 49. Widows before they were married, 179. The widow who fed Elijah, 212. Approved widows are to be honoured, 325. Widows are to be protected, 328. The widow of the Gospel, 242.—He keeps watch on a feather bed, 5.—The vigour of the episcopate, 80, 112. Evangelical vigour, 66, 120. The sincere vigour of faith, 26. The vigour of faith, 69, 203. The vigour of a victorious conscience, 160.

Vincentius, bishop, 117. Vincentius of Thibaris, 334.

The bond of Christian truth, 56. The bond of unity, 123, 143. The bond of faith, 137. The bond of the strongest charity, 160. The bond of peace and concord, 129. The modesty of the marriage bond, 100. The chains of Christians are ornaments, 159.

The vengeance of Christians, 255, 272. Vengeance for persecution, 221. The vineyard of the Lord is the house of Sabaoth, 108. Hail weakens the vineyard, 218. A grave man ought not to be easily swayed, 70. The head of the man is Christ, 270. A man lying beneath a man, 342. Men are forbidden to put on women's clothing, 101. The iron rod, 65, 74.

Virgins have dedicated themselves to Christ, 174. They have vowed themselves to God in flesh as well as in mind, ibid. Virgins who have dedicated themselves to Christ out of faith should persevere chaste, 102. If they cannot or will not persevere, it is better that they marry, ibid. Virgins who have once resolved to hold firmly to their state, ibid. Dedicated to Christ and destined for His holiness, 103. The greater holiness of the repeated birth in virgins, 180. Virgins are equal to the angels of God, ibid. They already hold the glory of the resurrection, ibid. The flower of the Church's offspring, 174. The more illustrious portion of Christ's flock, ibid. The image of God, ibid. Through them the fruitfulness of the Church flourishes, ibid. They depart with their glory, 233. The reward of virgins, 174, 180. The praise of virginity, 72, 160, 174. The good of virginity, 315. Christ is the Lord and head of virgins, 180. The Lord does not command but exhorts to virginity, 180. Corrupted virgins are adulteresses not of a husband but of Christ, 103, 172. Full penance is imposed on corrupted virgins, 103. Great punishments for lost virginity, 179. The Church often mourns her virgins, ibid. Very many virgins corrupted through illicit and dangerous associations, 102. Virgins ought not to live with males, ibid. Virgins corrupted by adornment, 177. Those who are too far corrupted are to be kept away from the company of virgins, 178. Lest those who have perished cause others to perish, ibid. Those adorned with gold and pearls have lost the ornaments of the heart, 177. They ought to be adorned for the Lord alone. 174. She is not a virgin who lives so that she can be loved, 176. She is not chaste who draws the sighs of young men after her, ibid. A virgin ought not only to be one but also to be perceived and believed to be one, 174. A virgin, while she delights others, is herself defiled, 179. Against wealthy virgins who maintain that they ought to use their goods, 175. Grief over the danger of captive virgins, 100. Midwives are often deceived in examining virgins, 102. Cyprian orders that virgins be examined diligently, 103. Virginal continence, 68. Immaculate virginity, 351.

Virtius, presbyter, 52. All mighty works are customarily done in the name of Christ, 358, 362. To prefer virtue to words, 235. Poison shut in, 186. The poison of flattering evil men, 5. The poison of discords, 261. The weakness of the bowels gave way, 185. Gaping bowels, ibid. Bowels wearied by labours, 159. A vision granted to Celerinus, that he should not refuse the office of reader, 47. Visions, 79, 234. Dreams and visions seem foolish to some, 124. Nocturnal visions, 19, 20. The eternity of life, 26. Life is here either lost or held, 224. The variety of raging vices, 220. An enumeration of vices, 230. Flattering advocates of vices, 339. The course of living, 173. We live through Christ, 160. Screech owls, 336. Unanimity and concord, 58, 59. Unanimity of faith and truth, 143. Christian unanimity, 153. The unanimity of those who pray, 198. The sacrament of unanimity, 80. Examples of unanimity. 95. There was once unanimity under the Apostles, 203. Waves foaming round about, 344. The baptized person ought to be anointed, 125. The claw digging, 4, 185. Claws striking and tearing, 16. Let the rebounding claw return into the wound, 344.

The origin of unity, 195. The bond of unity, 116, 143. The sacrament of unity, 132, 142, 155, 196. The principle of divine unity, 130. One and the same Lord, Who dwells in us, everywhere joins His own by the bond of unity, 143. Unity handed down by the Lord, 57. The unity of the Gospel sacrament, 65. The unity of the Catholic institution, 58, 59. The unity of the Catholic Church, 56, 61, 66, 68, 72, 73, 74, 75, 127, 128. The origin of unity in Peter, 131. Priestly unity arising from the Roman church, 86. Unity cannot be separated and divided, 151. Unity cannot be rent, 202. He who rends unity sins gravely, 213. An enemy of unity and peace, 89. An enemy of divine unity, 153. The tenacity and firmness of unity, 252. One action and one agreement according to the Lord's precepts, 28. God feeds the birds, 241. May the will of God be done in us, 208. We ought to do the will of God, 234. A vow is to be rendered to God, 315. Members dedicated to God, 100. Members devoted for ever to the honour of continence by chaste virtue, ibid. Bodies dedicated to modesty, 179. A voice made illustrious by the purification of confession, 28 The venal audacity of a prostituted voice, 5. Uranius, 31. Urbanus, confessor, 60, 61, 64, 65. The clergy of the City, 53. Usury is censured, 183. Usury forbidden. 318. Uthina, 333. Utica, 166, 335. Some things in the precepts are more usefully kept silent, 340. The grape is better clothed with bursting vine-shoots, 345. The blood of the grape, 105. Let the wife not depart from her husband, 326. The foolish and credulous mob, 226. The wounds of conscience, 238. The wounds'

glory, 46. The glory of wounds won the victory, 47. Clear signs of wounds, ibid. — A threatening countenance, 258.

X

Martyrdom of Xystus, bishop of Rome, 165.

Z

Zacharias slain in the temple, 88, 269. — Zama, 336. —

To be jealous is no small crime, 255. Zeal for the divine faith, 152. The madness of jealousy, 95. The pain of jealousy, 105. Jealousy cuts off friendship, 230. The destructiveness of jealousy spreads widely, 257. The wounds of jealousy are hidden and secret, 258. — The jealous towards the discipline of Christ, 30. — Zetus, bishop, 62. — Tares in the Church, 65. — Zosimus of Tharassa, 336.

TABLE OF THE MATTERS CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME

Survey of the whole edition.

Explanation of the sigla.

Preface, in which, after the editions of the works of St Cyprian have been enumerated, the doctrine of the holy Martyr is discussed at some length, by Dom Prud. Maran, O.S.B. 10

I. — Cyprian's view on the unity and infallibility of the Church. 15

II. — Those are refuted who deny that in Cyprian bishops are distinguished from presbyters by divine right. 21

III. — The primacy of the Roman Church always acknowledged by St Cyprian. 25

IV. — On the disagreement of St Cyprian with St Stephen. No Baptism was approved by Stephen unless it had been given according to the form prescribed by Christ. 27

V. — St Cyprian did not fully understand the view of his adversaries. On Baptism in the name of Christ. Stephen's view derived from the Apostles. 31

VI. — By what arguments chiefly St Cyprian defended himself. He rejected neither the sacraments administered in the Church by wicked men nor tradition. 35

VII. — St Cyprian does not confuse Confirmation with the imposition of hands upon returning heretics. He counts Confirmation among the sacraments. 39

VIII. — The sacrament of Penance is defended from the testimonies of St Cyprian; it is shown how necessary he judged it, how holily he wished it to be administered. Some of his sayings are explained. 42

IX. — Whether in Africa before St Cyprian communion after penance was denied for the gravest crimes. 47

X. — Whether a new discipline was introduced under St Cyprian, and the former severity retained only towards apostates and deserters. 51

XI. — Whether St Cyprian denied peace to the lapsed dying in the course of their penance, excepting only those who had received certificates from the martyrs. 55

XII. — Whether the council of Carthage imposed penance on those who had sacrificed for the whole of their lifetime. 59

XIII. — On the presence of Christ in the Eucharist. 61

XIV. — On communion under both kinds. 65

XV. — St Cyprian's view on the Sacrifice, on Purgatory and the invocation of the Saints. 71

XVI. — On the divinity of Christ, and His grace. 73

Life of St Cyprian, prepared through the care of Dom Prudentius Maran. 67

I. — On St Cyprian when not yet a Christian. He is to be distinguished from Cyprian of Antioch. 75

II. — On the conversion of St Cyprian. As a catechumen he distributes his goods, and himself by a vow of continence. It is uncertain in what year and at what time he was baptized. 77

III. — On the studies and writings of St Cyprian from his Baptism up to his Ordination. 81

IV. — Cyprian receives the presbyterate and the priesthood at once. In what year he was ordained bishop. Things done and written at the beginning of his episcopate. 82

V. — On the persecution of Decius and its beginnings, and on the great number of the lapsed and of the confessors. 86

VI. In what consisted the offence of those who were called libellatici. 89

VII. — Cyprian withdraws during the persecution for most just reasons. 93

VIII. — On the letter of the Roman clergy sent to Carthage after it had been reported that Cyprian had withdrawn. 95

IX. — On Cyprian's first reply to the letter of the Romans. On the thirteen letters written before the second reply and carried to Rome together with it, of which it is shown that many are missing. 96

X. — The order of Cyprian's letters before the fifteenth, written to the Romans; and first on the fifth and the ninth. The thirty-seventh is to be assigned to another time. 99

XI. — Five letters of St Cyprian on the lapsed. He did not overlook the misdeed of the presbyters who had given communion to the lapsed. — He threatens them not with suspension but with excommunication. 101

XII. — On the fifteenth letter of St Cyprian and several others written shortly afterwards when a new disturbance had arisen. 106

XIII. — On the letter of Celerinus to Lucian and the reply of Lucian. 108

XIV. — St Cyprian writes to the clergy about the ordination of Saturus and Optatus. Various letters of the lapsed to St Cyprian. The clergy remove Gaius of Didda from their communion. At what time Letters 25 and 29 were written. On the letters of the Roman clergy and of the confessors. 110

XV. — The persecution breaks out afresh: future peace is revealed to St Cyprian. The things done and written by him in the meantime at the end of the year 250 are reviewed. 113

XVI. — Cyprian sends deputies in his place. The threats of Felicissimus. 115

XVII. — The schism of Felicissimus, at the beginning of the year 251. Novatus one of the five schismatic presbyters. On Letter 40 of Cyprian. 117

XVIII. — Cyprian returns, the persecution having been laid to rest, and deliberates with his colleagues on the case of the lapsed; but before the council he writes the book On the Lapsed. 119

XIX. — The prudence of St Cyprian in suppressing the schism of Novatian and in confirming the episcopate of St Cornelius. 123

XX. — At what time the schism of Novatian broke out. 125

XXI. — At what time Novatian was ordained. 128

XXII. — The order of the things done by St Cyprian in the case of Cornelius. 131

XXIII. — New attempts of Novatian. The return of the Roman confessors into the Church at the urging of Cyprian: it is shown that this happened before the Roman council of the year 251. 135

XXIV. — On the deeds and writings of St Cyprian in the year 252, before the persecution. 136

XXV. — The persecution is revealed to Cyprian. He exhorts the people of Thibaris to the contest. He restores peace to the penitent lapsed in a council, which must be distinguished from another held on the Ides of May. 141

XXVI. — St Cyprian congratulates St Cornelius on the glory of his confession. He exhorts the Carthaginian confessors through Letter 81, which is shown to have been written in this persecution in the year 252. 142

XXVII. — The wonderful charity of St Cyprian in the calamity of the plague. He defends religion against Demetrianus. The generous liberality of the whole church of Carthage in ransoming captives. 146

XXVIII. — On the books and letters written after the persecution under Valerian and at the beginning of Pope Stephen's [pontificate], in the years 253 and 254. 149

XXIX. — Disputes about baptism arose at the end of the year 255: and St Stephen contended with the Easterners before he did with the Africans. 152

XXX. — The order and sequence of the things done in Africa in the years 255 and 256, up to the third council of Carthage. 155

XXXI. — On the third council of Carthage. Cyprian sends the deacon Rogatianus to Firmilian. On the letter of Firmilian to Cyprian. 160

XXXII. — Some observations are added on this controversy about Baptism. 164

XXXIII. — On Letter 63 of Cyprian against those who used water alone in the morning sacrifice. 166

XXXIV. — The confession and martyrdom of Cyprian. 167

XXXV. — On the books ascribed to Cyprian, and first on the three letters published by Baluze. The books On Spectacles, On the Praise of Martyrdom, On Rebaptism, On Modesty, To Novatian, etc. are reviewed. 171

XXXVI. — On the Singleness of Clerics, the letter of Celsus to Vigilius, and some others. 174

XXXVII. — On the Penitence of St Cyprian of Antioch, and two other little books relating to him. 178

Account of the manuscript codices that were used in preparing this edition. 181

The order of the letters of St Cyprian which Pamelius and Baluze followed is compared with the order of the Oxford edition and of the new Paris edition. 185

Treatises. 187

Little works commonly ascribed to St Cyprian, from the Oxford and Baluze editions. Ibid.

Alphabetical order of the letters. Ibid.

Order of the letters and treatises of St Cyprian, adapted to what Dom Maran discussed in the Life of the holy Martyr. 189

OF SAINT THASCIUS CAECILIUS CYPRIAN, BISHOP OF CARTHAGE AND MARTYR, THE WORKS, FIRST PART. — LETTERS. 191

First Letter. To Donatus. — Cyprian holds a conversation with Donatus on divine things; and, commending the grace of God conferred through Baptism, he indicates how greatly he has been changed by it, and, having shown the errors of the world plainly to the eye, he exhorts him to contempt of it, and finally to constant reading and prayer. Ibid.

Letter II. Of the Roman clergy to the Carthaginian clergy, on the withdrawal of Saint Cyprian. — The Roman clergy, after Cyprian's withdrawal, out of their zeal for the faith, admonish the Carthaginian clergy of their duty, and instruct them what ought to be done concerning the lapsed while their bishop is absent. 223

Letter III. To the presbyters and deacons abiding at Rome. — A familiar letter. 230

Letter IV. To the presbyters and deacons. — Saint Cyprian, now settled in his withdrawal, exhorts his clergy to discharge his office duly in his place, and that nothing be lacking either to those placed in prison or to the other poor; then, to keep the people quiet, lest, if they flock together in crowds to visit the martyrs in prison, this should at length be forbidden them. 232

Letter V. To the presbyters and deacons. — He wishes the confessors to be admonished of their duty by the clergy, that they may devote themselves to humility and comply with the presbyters and deacons; in passing he also gives the reason for his withdrawal. This too is one of the thirteen letters spoken of below in Letter XV. 233

Letter VI. To Rogatianus the presbyter and the other confessors. — He exhorts Rogatianus and the other confessors to observe discipline, lest those who had confessed Christ with the voice should seem to deny Him by their works; in passing he rebukes some of them who, having been made exiles for the faith, nevertheless did not fear to return to their homeland unbidden; and this is what Cyprian says below, in Letter XV, that rebuke was not lacking to the exiles when it was needed: for it is clear that this Letter was written during his withdrawal. 235

Letter VII. To the clergy, on praying to God. — It has almost the same argument as the two preceding, except that here he exhorts to constant prayers. 240

Letter VIII. To the martyrs and confessors. — Cyprian, commending the martyrs of Africa in wonderful ways for their constancy, invites them to perseverance by the example of Mappalicus, their colleague. 245

Letter IX. To the clergy, concerning certain presbyters who rashly gave peace to the lapsed while the persecution was not yet stilled, and without the knowledge of the bishops. 250

Letter X. To the martyrs and confessors who asked that peace be given to the lapsed. — Saint Cyprian, as far as he can, recalls the martyrs and confessors by his counsel to the Lord's precepts. 255

Letter XI. To the people. — Saint Cyprian, as far as he can, calms the mind of the people itself, and instructs them that they be kept in ecclesiastical discipline. 556

Letter XII. To the clergy, concerning the lapsed and the catechumens, that they may not depart [this life] empty. — Since some of the lapsed rushed forward with bold importunity, striving to extort the peace promised them by the martyrs and confessors, Saint Cyprian writes twice to the clergy about this, that it may calm their violence, and that, when the exomologesis has been made, they may be sent on to the Lord with peace. 259

Letter XIII. To the clergy, concerning those who hasten to peace. One must come to peace through penance, and penance is performed by keeping the commandments. Those pressed by sickness, if they are supported by the suffrages of the martyrs, may be admitted to peace; the rest are to be held back until peace has been made for the Church. 260

Letter XIV. To the presbyters and deacons abiding at Rome. — He gives an account of his withdrawal and of what he did during it, having sent to Rome, in his own justification, copies of the Letters he had written to his own people; indeed he uses the very same words as there. Cf. Ep. 22, to the Roman clergy. 261

Letter XV. To Moyses and Maximus and the other confessors. — In this sweet letter Cyprian refreshes with his addresses the souls of the martyrs, made strong by their faith and confession; following their felicity with fitting praises, he kindles them to a far more ardent desire of heavenly glory. 265

Letter XVI. Of the confessors to Cyprian. — A certificate written by Lucianus in the name of the martyrs. 268

Letter XVII. To the presbyters and deacons, concerning the preceding letter and the two following. — No account is to be taken of the certificates of the martyrs before peace has been restored to the Church. 269

Letter XVIII. Of Caldonius to Cyprian. — Since some of the lapsed, when a new persecution pressed upon them, had confessed Christ, and accordingly, before they set out into exile, were asking for peace, Caldonius consults Cyprian whether peace should be given them. 272

Letter XIX. — He replies to Caldonius. — In this letter Cyprian does nothing particular except to agree with the opinion of Caldonius, namely that peace is not to be denied to those lapsed who have merited it by true penance and confession of the name of Christ, and so have restored it to themselves. 372

Letter 20. Celerinus to Lucian. Celerinus asks the Carthaginian confessors for peace on behalf of his sisters who have lapsed at Rome. 274

Letter 21. Lucian replies to Celerinus. Lucian grants Celerinus's petition. 279

Letter 22. To the clergy residing at Rome, concerning many confessors, and concerning the shamelessness of Lucian and the modesty of the confessor Celerinus. In this letter Cyprian informs the Roman clergy of the seditious demand of the lapsed that they be restored to peace, and of the shamelessness of Lucian. So that these things may be better understood, Cyprian has letters sent, both his own and those of Celerinus and Lucian. 282

Letter 23. This letter is missing, not in fact, but in number. 286

Letter 24. To the clergy, concerning the letters sent to Rome, and concerning Saturus made reader and Optatus made subdeacon. By this letter the clergy is informed of the ordination of Saturus and Optatus, and of what Cyprian wrote to Rome. 287

Letter 25. To Moses and Maximus and the other confessors. This letter is one of congratulation to the Roman confessors. 288

Letter 26. Moses, Maximus, Nicostratus and other confessors reply to the preceding letter. The Roman confessors gratefully acknowledge the comfort which they had received from Cyprian's letter. Martyrdom is not a punishment but a happiness. The words of the Gospel are torches for kindling faith. In the matter of the lapsed, Cyprian's opinion is assented to. 290

Letter 27. Cyprian to the lapsed. You have the argument of this letter below in Letter 29. "They have written a letter to me," he says, "not asking that peace be given to them, but claiming it for themselves as though already given, because they say that Paul has given peace to all, as you will read in their letter, a copy of which I have sent on to you, together with what I briefly wrote back to them." But the letter of the lapsed to whom he writes back is missing. 300

Letter 28. To the presbyters and deacons. The argument of this letter agrees well enough with the preceding one, and I think it is the one of which he speaks in the following letter; for he praises his clergy because they had removed from communion Gaius of Didda, a presbyter, and his deacon, who were rashly communicating with the lapsed, and he urges that the very same be done concerning certain others. 302

Letter 29. To the presbyters and deacons residing at Rome. The Roman clergy is informed of the rashness of the lapsed who were demanding peace. 304

Letter 30. The presbyters and deacons residing at Rome to Cyprian. The Roman Church sets out its opinion concerning the lapsed, in agreement with the decrees of the Carthaginian [Church]. The indulgence shown to the lapsed is measured against the standard of the Gospel. That the peace granted by the confessors rests only on favour and goodwill is clear from the fact that the lapsed are sent back to the bishops. The seditious demand for peace is to be imputed to the faction of Felicissimus. 305

Letter 31. [Letter] of the Roman clergy to Cyprian. What it treated in few words in the preceding letter the Roman clergy now treats more broadly and thoroughly, replying also to another letter of Cyprian, from which it quotes some words and which is thought not to survive; in passing it also thanks Cyprian for the letter sent to the Roman martyrs and confessors. It was written, like the preceding letters of the Roman clergy, while the See was vacant, after the death of Fabian. 309

Letter 32. To the Carthaginian clergy, concerning the letters sent to Rome and received from there. The Carthaginian clergy is advised to see to it that the letters of the Roman clergy and Cyprian's replies are made known. 318

Letter 33. To the clergy and people, concerning Aurelius ordained reader. Cyprian announces to the clergy and people that the confessor Aurelius has been ordained reader by him, commending in passing his virtue and constancy of mind, by which he deserved even a higher rank in the Church. 319

Letter 34. To the clergy and people, concerning Celerinus ordained reader. Its argument is almost the same as that of the preceding one, except that it commends at length Celerinus's constancy in the confession of the faith. That both were written in retirement the very circumstances of the text show clearly enough. 322

Letter 35. To the same, concerning Numidicus ordained also a presbyter. He announces to the clergy and people that Numidicus has been ordained presbyter by him, commending his worth in a few words. 326

Letter 36. To the clergy, concerning the care of the poor and of strangers. He warns them not to visit the martyrs in crowds, and not to neglect widows, the sick, the poor or strangers. 328

Letter 37. To the clergy, that every kindness be shown to the confessors placed in prison. He urges his clergy that every kindness and care be applied to the confessors, both the living and those who have died in prison; that the days of their death be carefully noted, so that their memory may be celebrated every year; and finally that they should not forget the poor either. 329

Letter XXXVIII. To Caldonius, Herculanus and the others, on keeping away from Felicissimus. — Felicissimus, together with the associates of his sedition, is to be kept from the communion of all. 331

Letter XXXIX. Letter of Caldonius, Herculanus and the others to Cyprian, on the exclusion of Felicissimus with his followers. — Caldonius, Herculanus and the others carry out what the preceding letter had ordered them. 333

Letter XL. To the people, on the five schismatic presbyters of the faction of Felicissimus. — Just as in the second letter before this one [he announced it] to the clergy, so now Cyprian announces to the people that Felicissimus is to be avoided, together with the five presbyters of his faction, who were both giving peace to the lapsed without discrimination and stirring up sedition and schism against him. 334

Letter XLI. To Cornelius, that he has not accepted the ordination of Novatian. — Messengers sent by Novatian, who had announced his ordination to the Church of Carthage, are rejected by Cyprian. (See vol. III, col. 699.) 341

Letter XLII. To Cornelius, on his ordination as approved by him, and on Felicissimus. — Cyprian excuses himself for not having given undoubting credence to the ordination of Cornelius before the letters of his colleagues Caldonius and Fortunatus reached him, by which it is shown to have been legitimate; and, on account of the opposing faction of the Novatian party, he repeats this in passing, [saying] that he did not adhere to that [party] at once in its very beginnings, but rather to Cornelius, so much so that he declined to entertain accusations against it [the ordination]. (See vol. III, col. 702.) Ibid.

Letter XLIII. To the same, that he has written a letter to the confessors seduced by Novatian. — The title sufficiently indicates the argument of the letter; it is clear, moreover, from the messenger that this letter and the following one were sent together with the present one. (See vol. III, col. 708.) Ibid.

Letter XLIV. To the Roman confessors, that they should return to unity. — He exhorts the Roman confessors, seduced by the faction of Novatian and Novatus, to return to unity. 342

Letter XLV. To Cornelius, on Polycarp of Hadrumetum. — In this letter he clears himself concerning what happened, namely that, while he was at Hadrumetum in the meantime, a letter was written from there by the clergy of Polycarp not to Cornelius but to the Roman clergy, although Polycarp himself had previously written rather to Cornelius. It is clear, moreover, from the context itself that this was written a little after the preceding ones. (See vol. III, col. 709.) 343

Letter XLVI. Of Cornelius to Cyprian, on the confessors who have returned to unity. — Cornelius informs Cyprian of the solemn return of the confessors to the Church, which he describes. (See vol. III, col. 716.) Ibid.

Letter XLVII. Cyprian's congratulatory reply to Cornelius on their return from schism. (See vol. III, col. 730.) Ibid.

Letter XLVIII. Of Cornelius to Cyprian on the faction of Novatian with his followers. — Cornelius gives Cyprian an account of the Novatian faction. (See vol. III, col. 712.) 344

Letter XLIX. Cyprian's reply to Cornelius, on the crimes of Novatus. — He praises Cornelius for having warned him opportunely, inasmuch as he received his letter on the day after the guilty faction had come to him. Then he describes at length the crimes of Novatus, and the schism stirred up by him earlier in Africa. (See vol. III, col. 723.) Ibid.

Letter L. Of Maximus and the other confessors to Cyprian, on their return from schism. — They inform Cyprian that they have returned to the Church. Ibid.

Letter LI. Cyprian's congratulatory [letter] to the confessors, on their return from schism. — Cyprian congratulates the Roman confessors on their return to the Church and replies to their letter. Ibid.

Letter LII. To Antonianus, on Cornelius and Novatian. — Since Antonianus, having received a letter from Novatian, had begun to incline in mind towards his side, Cyprian confirms him in his former opinion, namely that he should continue to communicate with Cornelius, that is, with the Catholic Church. To persuade him of this, he weaves a history of the whole tragedy between Cornelius and Novatian, and shows that Cornelius was an excellent man and legitimately elected, whereas Novatian, guilty of many crimes, usurped an illegitimate election; in passing also, near the beginning of the letter, excusing himself for his changed opinion as regards the treatment of the lapsed, and near the end explaining in what the Novatian heresy consists. 347

Letter LIII. To Fortunatus and other colleagues, on those who are overcome by torments. — Consulted by his colleagues as to whether those who had lapsed, though overcome by torments, should be admitted to communion, Cyprian replies that, since they had already done penance for three years, it seemed to him indeed that they should be admitted, but since a council of bishops was to be held with him after the solemnities of Easter, he would deal with the matter together with them. 348

Letter LIV. To Cornelius, on granting peace to the lapsed. — Whereas the African bishops had previously decided in a certain council that the lapsed should not be admitted to peace except after long penance had been done, unless perhaps the danger of illness pressed; now, with a new persecution imminent, they decided that to all who had done penance

peace should be given, so that they might be stronger for the battle of suffering. This decree of the bishops Cyprian announces to Pope Cornelius in the name of the whole synod, and so this letter belongs not so much to Cyprian himself as to the African synod. (See vol. III, col. 851.) 350

Letter 55. To Cornelius, concerning Fortunatus and Felicissimus, or against the heretics. — In this letter Cyprian first warns Cornelius not to listen to the calumnies of Felicissimus and Fortunatus against him, nor to be frightened by their threats, but to be of brave mind, as befits a priest of God against heretics, inasmuch as they, after the custom usual among heretics, have begun their heresy and schisms out of contempt for the one bishop in the Church; showing also in passing whence heresies and schisms are wont to arise, so that it is rightly entitled by Morel "against the heretics". (See vol. III, col. 795.) 305

Letter 56. To the people of Thibaris, on the exhortation to martyrdom. — Cyprian first excuses himself to the people of Thibaris for not having visited them, and warns them of the impending persecution; then he applies spurs to undergoing martyrdom eagerly. — Next are set forth examples of the godly from the beginning of the world who suffered martyrdom. Foremost is the passion of our Lord, which surpasses all examples. — What of the fact that the contests of the stadium and the theatre, bravely and eagerly endured, are an incitement to the sufferings of martyrdom? — Lastly the future reward is considered, which already and abundantly animates and kindles [us] to endure all things. 351

Letter 57. To Cornelius in exile, on his confession. — Cyprian praises in Cornelius and his people the confession of the name of Christ even unto exile, and exhorts them to constancy and to mutual prayers for one another, both because of the impending day of contest in this life and after death. Damasus mentions this letter in the Life of Cornelius, inasmuch as on account of it, a calumny having been raised, the tyrant took occasion for his death. (See vol. III, col. 829.) 358

Letter 58. To Lucius, Roman pope, returned from exile. Cyprian with his colleagues congratulates Lucius on his return from exile, teaching that the glory of martyrdom, though deferred, is not diminished. Then, showing that the martyrdom of Cornelius and the exile of Lucius came about by divine providence for the confounding of the Novatianists, he foretells to him his imminent martyrdom; God so ordaining that his martyrdom should be consummated not abroad but among his own. (See vol. III, col. 971.) 358

Letter 59. To Fidus, on the baptizing of infants. — Cyprian says that those who thought that a little child ought not to be baptized before the eighth day after birth must be corrected, judging, together with certain of his fellow bishops, that one just born can be rightly baptized. (See vol. III, col. 1011.) 359

Letter 60. To the Numidian bishops, on the redemption of the brethren from captivity among the barbarians. — Having at the outset lamented the captivity of the brethren, announced to him by the Numidian bishops, Cyprian says that he is sending a hundred thousand sesterces, with the names attached of each of the brethren and sisters, and also of the colleagues, who had contributed anything. It is likely that this captivity was brought about by those barbarians against whom Decius, having set out to war, was killed. Manutius and Morel were the first to publish this letter in recent times. Ibid.

Letter 61. To Euchratius, concerning an actor. — He forbids an actor, if he persists in his shameful craft, to communicate in the church. Nor ought he to be excused because he does not himself practise acting, so long as he teaches it to others; nor on account of poverty in his household affairs, since sustenance can be supplied to him at the expense of the church; and indeed, if the means of Euchratius' church are not sufficient, he advises that he come to Carthage. 360

Letter 62. To Pomponius, concerning virgins. — Cyprian with some colleagues replies to his colleague Pomponius: that virgins who had resolved to keep their state continently and steadfastly, but were afterwards found in the same bed with men, are, if they are found to be still virgins, to be admitted to the Church, communion being received; but if otherwise, since they are adulteresses not against a husband but against Christ, they are to be compelled to full penance; and those who obstinately persist are to be cast out of the Church; inserting in passing a kind of discipline by which virgins may be kept in their duty; and some things on the power of excommunicating in the Church. 364

Letter 63. To Caecilius, on the sacrament of the Lord's cup. — This letter and the two following contain nothing other than replies to the preceding Letter, inasmuch as they contain thanksgiving both for the consolation by letter and for the aid sent along with it. From the fact that three different letters were written in reply to a single one of Cyprian's, it may be gathered that the bishops who write them were placed in different mines. This is confirmed by Letter 80, where mention is made of a particular mine. 372

Letter 64. To Epictetus and the people of Assuras, concerning Fortunatianus, formerly their bishop. — He warns Epictetus and the people of Assuras not to permit Fortunatianus, formerly bishop but lapsed, to return to the episcopate; both for other reasons and because it had been decreed that bishops

who had lapsed should not be admitted to their former rank. 389

Letter 65. To Rogatianus, concerning a deacon who contended against his Bishop. Cyprian admonishes the bishop Rogatianus to restrain the arrogance of the deacon who had provoked him with insults, and to compel him to do penance for his audacity, on that occasion repeating anew whatever was said above in Letter 55 concerning the priestly or episcopal power. At what time it was written is not sufficiently clear, except that the similar beginning of both letters persuades us that it was written at the same synod as the following one. 395

Letter 66. To the clergy and people dwelling at Furni, concerning Victor, who named the presbyter Faustinus as guardian. Since, against the decree of a council of bishops, Geminius Victor had in his will named the presbyter Geminius Faustinus as his guardian or trustee, he forbids that an offering be made for him or that the sacrifice be celebrated for his falling asleep; in passing, from the example of the Levitical tribe, he draws the conclusion that clerics ought not to involve themselves in secular troubles. 399

Letter 67. To Stephen, concerning Marcian of Arles, who sided with Novatian. Since Marcian, bishop of Arles, having followed the sect of Novatian, had led many astray and had separated himself by schism from the communion of the other bishops, he admonishes Stephen, the supreme pontiff, that by his authority, in that man's absence, he should substitute another in his place, and that both to the lapsed and to those led astray by him, once penance has been done, peace should be given and a return to the Church granted. (See vol. 3, col. 989.) 401

Letter 68. To the clergy and peoples dwelling in Spain, concerning Basilides and Martial. Since Basilides and Martial, bishops, had lapsed and were defiled by certificates of idolatry, Cyprian together with his fellow bishops praises the clergy and people of the Spains because they had substituted Sabinus and Felix in their place by lawful election; especially since, according to the decree of Cornelius, lapsed bishops could indeed be admitted to doing penance, but were to be barred from the priestly honour; in passing he also touches on certain points concerning the ancient rite of the election of bishops. That it was written under Stephen the context indicates. (See vol. 3, col. 1019.) 402

Letter 69. To Florentius Pupianus, concerning detractors. Cyprian clears himself before Florentius Pupianus of various charges brought against him by that man; and he reproves the levity of his mind, in that he so rashly believed detractors. From the fact, moreover, that he says he had by then already held the episcopate for six years, it is sufficiently clear that it was written under Stephen. Ibid.

Letter 70. To Januarius and the other Numidian bishops, concerning the baptizing of heretics. Cyprian contends that that which heretics use is not Baptism, and that no one among those who oppose Christ can make progress through the grace of Christ. (See vol. 3, col. 1035.) 410

Letter 71. To Quintus, concerning the baptizing of heretics. A reply is given to Quintus, a bishop in Mauretania, who had consulted about the baptizing of heretics. Ibid.

Letter 72. To Pope Stephen, concerning the Council. Cyprian, with his colleagues in a certain council, announces to Stephen, the Roman pontiff, that it has been decreed by them both that those returning from the heretics to the Church should be baptized, and that bishops or presbyters coming from the same should be received on no other condition than that they communicate as laymen. (See vol. 3, col. 1044.) 413

Letter 73. To Jubaianus, concerning the baptizing of heretics. Asked by Jubaianus about the Baptism of heretics, Cyprian writes back to him that he judges that heretics coming to the Church ought to be sanctified by the Baptism of the Church. (See vol. 3, col. 1109.) 414

Letter 74. To Pompeius, against the letter of Stephen, concerning the baptizing of heretics. On this question Cyprian openly indicates that Stephen, who we have learned was then bishop of the Roman Church, not only did not agree with him, but even wrote and gave instructions to the contrary. (See vol. 3, col. 1127.) Ibid.

Letter 75. Of Firmilian, bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, to Cyprian, against the letter of Stephen. He holds the same opinion of Stephen as Cyprian (and more bitterly), and congratulates himself on this agreement, giving thanks to God. Then, examining Stephen's words concerning the baptism of heretics, he shows that this man is opposed to the apostle Paul, and that he himself agrees with the same apostle. (See vol. 3, col. 1153.) 415

Letter 76. To Magnus, concerning the baptizing of Novatianists and concerning those who obtain grace in bed. The first part of the Letter is on the same subject as the preceding ones, except that here he presses concerning the Novatianists what he had earlier said in general concerning all heretics; in passing he also intimates that the lawful succession in the Chair of Peter is the mark by which the Church can be recognized. In the second part (which the title sufficiently shows was hitherto wrongly published as another Letter) he teaches that the Baptism which is done by sprinkling in bed is just as true as that which is done by immersion in church. (See vol. 3, col. 1137.) 416

Letter 77. To Nemesianus and the other martyrs placed in the mine. — With wonderful praises he extols the martyrs condemned to the mine, setting a particular consolation against each particular torment in a fine antithesis. That it was written in exile may be gathered from these words: If the bounds of the prescribed limit did not keep me away, banished for the confession of the Name. 416

Letter 78. — Reply of Nemesianus, Dativus, Felix and Victor to Cyprian. — This letter and the two following contain nothing other than replies to the preceding letter, inasmuch as they contain an expression of thanks, both for the consolation by letter and for the aid sent with it. From the fact that three different letters were written in reply to a single one of Cyprian's, it may be gathered that the bishops who write them had been placed in different pits of the mine. This is confirmed by Letter 80, where mention is made of a particular mine. 422

Letter 79. Reply of Lucius and the other martyrs to the same. — The very words of the letter show that it is of the same subject as the preceding, and so it is the letter not of Lucius the Roman pontiff but of Lucius, martyr and African bishop, and much less of Cyprian to Pope Lucius. 424

Letter 80. Reply of Felix, Jader, Polianus and the other martyrs to Cyprian. — The martyrs named above gratefully acknowledge the aid sent by Cyprian. 425

Letter 81. Of Cyprian to Sergius and Rogatianus and the other confessors placed in prison. — He consoles Rogatianus and his colleagues, confessors placed in prison, and by the example of the martyrs Rogatianus the elder and Felicissimus he gives them courage. The letter itself shows that it was written in exile. 426

Letter 82. To Successus, on the messengers returned from Rome announcing persecution. — Cyprian announces to Bishop Successus that, a sharper persecution having now been decreed by the emperor Valerian (doubtless together with Gallienus), the pontiff Xistus suffered at Rome on the eighth day before the Ides of August, and he asks him to make this known to the other colleagues, so that each may encourage his own flock to martyrdom. Since Cyprian suffered shortly afterwards, in the month of September, there is no doubt that this letter was written towards the end of his life. 431

To the people of Carthage. 435

To Turasius the presbyter. 436

Letter 83. To the Clergy and People, on his withdrawal shortly before his passion. — When, already towards the end of his life, it was announced to Cyprian, who had returned to his gardens, that men had been sent to drag him off to Utica for execution, he withdrew. But lest he be thought to have done this from fear of death, in this letter he gives the reason, namely that he might undergo martyrdom nowhere else than at Carthage, in the sight of his own people. 437

Letter of Pope Cornelius to Cyprian. 438

Part II. — Short Works. 441

On the Dress of Virgins. — Pontius in the Life of St Cyprian sums up the argument of this book in a few words: 'Who,' he says, 'would have restrained virgins to the discipline of modesty befitting them and to a dress worthy of holiness, as if with certain reins of the Lord's reading?' First, to explain the argument somewhat more fully: he celebrates the praise of discipline and proves its usefulness from the Scriptures; then, having gone through the glory, honour and merits of virginity and of those women who had vowed and dedicated their virginity to Christ, he teaches that continence consists not in integrity of the flesh alone but also in the honour of dress and adornment; and that riches do not excuse a superfluous care for dress among women who had already renounced the world; rather, since the Apostle prescribes for married women a dress moderated within a just limit, a virgin ought to observe this much more, and so, even if they are wealthy, they ought to reflect that riches are indeed to be used, but for good pursuits, for those things which God has commanded, namely to be spent on the poor. After this he teaches from the Apocalypse that the trappings of ornaments and garments befit prostitutes rather than virgins; from chapter 3 of Isaiah too he infers how much such varied, such costly womanly ornaments offend God. And then, passing from superfluous adornment to the various kinds of cosmetics, he forbids them altogether not to virgins only but to married women as well, inasmuch as they will not go unpunished for striving to reshape, transfigure and adulterate the handiwork of God. Further, he also forbids to virgins those things which had come into use through negligence: both attending weddings and going to the promiscuous baths. Finally, having set out in a brief epilogue, in three words, as they say, what good the virtue of continence holds and from what evil it is free, he concludes the book with this exclamation: 'Endure bravely, go forward spiritually, arrive happily; only remember us then, when virginity begins to be honoured in you.' Ibid.

On the Lapsed. — Cyprian had frequently promised that, as soon as peace had been restored to the Church, he would write something more definite concerning the case of the lapsed: in this book, therefore, he fulfils his promises. And first of all, having set before the eyes with joy

so unhoped-for a peace of the Church, and the constancy of the confessors and of the others who stood firm in the faith, and then, with the greatest grief, the falls of the lapsed; and having explained the causes of the past persecution, namely the neglect of discipline and the sins of the faithful, he sharply rebukes the lapsed because at the very first words of the threatening enemy they sacrificed to idols, and did not rather withdraw according to the counsel of Christ; likewise because, already stained with sacrifices, against the law of the Gospel, before their offences were expiated, before confession of their crime had been made, they did violence to the body and blood of the Lord, and extorted communion and peace from certain presbyters without the judgement of the bishop. Accordingly, the lapsed having been deterred by the divine punishment of some of the lapsed who had communicated unworthily (mention being made in passing of the libellatici, that they were not excused from the crime), and encouraged by the example of those who, although bound by no deed of sacrifice or of certificate, yet because they had even thought of it, confessing this very thing with sorrow and simplicity before the priests of God, made confession, he exhorts them at length to confession of their offence, to public penance, to full satisfaction. Lastly he warns that the Novatians are to be avoided, refuting their heresy with several Scriptures. 467

Book on the Unity of the Church. — On the occasion of the schism of Novatian, in order to deter his own Carthaginians, who were otherwise not much averse to it, on account of Novatus and certain other presbyters of his Church, the authors of the whole tragedy, Cyprian wrote this book. And first of all, after he has exhorted them, fortified against their snares, to constancy, he teaches that the cause of heresies is that the head of the Church is not sought, the primacy of Peter is despised, and the one Chair and Church and the one episcopate are deserted. Then he proves the unity of the Church both by the Scriptures and by figures of the Old and New Testaments. Further, having dealt in a few words, as though in passing, with Novatian's ambition in seizing the Roman episcopate, he shows at length that the saying of Matt. 18 does not favour them, in view of their small number, against the Church: « Wherever two or three are gathered in my name, etc.; and that martyrdom cannot profit them outside the Church. After this he teaches that they ought not to wonder that heresies flourished, foretold long ago by Christ (the punishments of schismatics being mentioned in passing); nor that certain Roman confessors consented to the schism, since before death no one is blessed, and in the very company of the Apostles Judas turned out a traitor; likewise that the fellowship of schismatics and heretics is to be shunned. Lastly he exhorts to peace and unanimity through the Scriptures. 493

Book on the Lord's Prayer. — The treatise of St Cyprian on the Lord's Prayer, in which he imitates Tertullian's book on Prayer, comprises three parts. In the first he shows that the Lord's Prayer is the most excellent of all, supremely spiritual and most effective for obtaining [what is asked]. In the second part he gives an explanation of the Lord's Prayer, and runs through its seven principal parts, following in the footsteps of Tertullian. Finally, in the third part he examines the conditions of prayer, and teaches that prayer ought to be: 1st, persevering and assiduous, after the example of Christ the Lord; 2nd, watchful and poured out with the whole heart, after the example of the priest who « before the prayer, having first spoken a preface, prepares the minds of the brethren by saying: Lift up your hearts, and the people answer: We have them to the Lord; » 3rd, joined with good works and almsgiving, after the manner of Tobias and Cornelius; 4th, that one must pray at all hours of the day, and especially at the three appointed by the Church for prayer, namely the third, sixth and ninth, and also in the morning and in the evening. 521

Book to Demetrianus. — To Demetrianus, proconsul of Africa, who contended that the wars, famine and plague by which the world was then harassed ought to be imputed to the Christians, because the gods were not worshipped by them, he answers finely (after showing that through the old age of the world all things grow worse) that it is rather the heathen themselves who are the cause of such great disasters, because they did not worship God and moreover harried the Christians with unjust persecutions. Then, after reproaching him with the unheard-of kinds of torments with which he tortured Christians beyond other accused persons, not towards confession but towards denial, he exposes the impotence of the gods: both because they cannot defend themselves, and so Demetrianus, who championed them, ought rather to be worshipped by them than worship them himself; and because, when cast out of possessed bodies by Christians, they themselves confess what they are. Nor, indeed, [he says,] are the downfalls of kings, losses of wealth and similar evils, which by divine ordinance accompanied the persecutions of Christians as vengeance, therefore not to be reckoned vengeance because they were common to the Christians also, since all those things are rather a joy to them than a punishment. Accordingly he exhorts him to come to his senses while there is time, or at least through fear of the judgement and of the ever-burning fire of Gehenna. He himself imitates partly Tertullian's Apology and the book To Scapula, partly the Octavius of Minucius Felix. 545

Book on the Vanity of Idols. — The title itself comprises the three principal heads of this book. First he proves from this

that they were kings and men rather than gods, in whose honour temples were established, images fashioned, victims sacrificed and feast days celebrated; and that accordingly their worship could profit neither foreigners nor Romans, and that the power of the Roman empire is to be imputed not to them but rather to fortune, inasmuch as it came about by a certain turn of events, and blushes at its own origin: nor indeed, as is evident from their vain outcome, is anything to be attributed to auspices or auguries; but rather that these illusions are of demons, as even the poets, Socrates, Plato, Trismegistus and Hostanes testify, who acknowledged both one God and demons. The second head, that God is one, he makes plain in a few words, both through the greater dignity of monarchy above other [forms], and through the very utterances of the heathen common people, "O God", and the like. The last, concerning Christ, he pursues at greater length from the Prophets of the Jews and the Gospel history. 565

BOOK ON MORTALITY. — Pontius the deacon explains its argument in a few words in the Life of Cyprian: "By whom," he says, "Christians of softer feeling concerning the loss of their own, or, what is more, of slighter faith, were consoled with the hope of things to come." For first of all, when he has shown that afflictions of this kind were foretold by Christ, he teaches that mortality, or the plague, is not to be feared, because it leads to immortality, and that faith is therefore lacking in him who does not hasten to better things. Nor is it surprising that the evils of this life are common to the Christian with the Gentiles, since more than others they must labour in the world: and therefore, after the example of the holy Job and Tobias, there is need of patience, and there must be no murmuring. For unless the battle has gone before, victory cannot come, etc. 583

BOOK ON WORKS AND ALMSGIVING. 601

BOOK ON THE GOOD OF PATIENCE. — Cyprian himself sets out the occasion of this writing in a few words thus, towards the end of the Letter to Jubaianus: "Charity of mind, the honour of the college, the bond of love, the concord of the priesthood are preserved by us patiently and gently. For this reason also we have now written a little book on the Good of Patience, as far as our slender ability availed, with the Lord permitting and inspiring, which we have sent to you in token of mutual love." Accordingly, after he has at the outset distinguished true patience from the false patience of the philosophers, he commends Christian patience from the patience of God, of Christ and of all the just. Then he proves that it is not only useful but also necessary, both from the Scriptures and by reasons, likewise by the examples of Job and Tobias; and so that the good of patience may shine forth the more from the vice opposed to it, he sets out how great an evil impatience is. Finally he censures the desire for revenge, and teaches that, according to the Scriptures, vengeance is rather to be left to God than claimed for ourselves. If in any other book, certainly in this one he imitates Tertullian, namely his book on Patience. 621

BOOK ON JEALOUSY AND ENVY. — Pontius the deacon gives the argument of this book in a few words in the Life of Cyprian, in these terms: "Who," he says, "would have restrained the envy that comes from the poisoned malice of jealousy by the sweetness of a saving remedy?" At the beginning, then, after he has taught that jealousy or envy is a crime the graver as the evil is the more hidden, and that its origin is to be ascribed to the devil; having also set forth in passing examples of envy from the Old Testament, he traces through the several kinds of vices that envy is the root of all evils; and that therefore brotherly hatred was rightly forbidden both by Christ and by the Apostles, in more than one place. Finally, when he has exhorted them by the example of God to the love of enemies, he deters [them] from this evil by setting before them the crowns of rewards. 637

LETTER TO FORTUNATUS ON EXHORTATION TO MARTYRDOM. 651

Preface. Ibid.

Chapter one. — That idols are not gods, and that the elements are not to be worshipped in place of gods either. 655

Chap. II. — That God alone is to be worshipped. 657

Chap. III. — What the threat of God is against those who sacrifice to idols. Ibid.

Chap. IV. — That God does not readily pardon idolaters. 658

Chap. V. — That God is so indignant at idolatry that He commanded that even those be put to death who had urged [others] to sacrifice to and serve idols. Ibid.

Chap. VI. — That, being redeemed and brought to life by the blood of Christ, we ought to set nothing before Christ. 660

Chap. VII. — That those snatched from the jaws of the devil and freed from the snares of the world ought not to return again to the world, lest they lose what they have escaped. Ibid.

Chap. VIII. — That one must press on and persevere in faith and virtue, and in the perfecting of heavenly and spiritual grace, so that the palm and the crown may be attained. 661

Chap. IX. — That afflictions and persecutions come about for this purpose, that we may be proved. 663

Chap. X. — That the injuries and punishments of persecutions are not to be feared, because the Lord is greater to protect than the devil to assail. Ibid.

Chap. XI. — That it was foretold beforehand that the world would hold us in hatred, and that it would stir up persecutions against us,