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Satan, as an angel of light, 217. Superstitious nature of human insti-

Satan, as an angel of light, 217. Superstitious nature of human insti-

INDEX OF SUBJECTS. 379 benefits they have received by grace, 240. Satan, as an angel of light, 217. Schismatics. tSee Heretics. Scripture, rules for interpretation of, effects of the different styles, 103, etc. Superstitious nature of human institutions, 50, etc.

Teacher, the true, made by God, yet

1, 43, 105, etc. ; its fultilment and end is the love of Clod and our neighbour, 30 ; use of the obscurihuman directions for, are not to be despised, 144 ; power of a holy life ties in, 37 ; in what .spirit to be studied, 77 ; compared with profane authors, 77 ; what it enjoins and asserts, 00. *SVe Interpretation. Septuagint, the, authority of, 49, etc. Signs, as distinguished from things, 8 ; nature and variety of, 34, etc. when unknown or ambiguous, they prevent Scripture from being understood, 43 ; knowledge of languages, especially of Greek and Hebrew, necessary to remove ignorance of, in, 107. Tediousness in catechising, causes and remedies of, 288, etc. Terence, quoted, 74. Thing, what a, is, 8. Tichonius the Donatist, rules of, 'for interpreting vScripture, 105-119. Translations, usefulness of comparing, 45 ; preference among, to l)e given to the Latin, Itala, and the Greek Septuagint, 49. Trinity, the, true object of enjoyment,

44, etc. ; conventional, Gl ; in-

10 ; doctrine of, 357, etc. Tropes, knowledge of, necessary, 104. Truth, more important than exprestelligible, 267 ; employed at the formal admission of a catechumen, 330. Sin, results of Adam's, 194, etc. ; sin, and sins, often put the one for the other, 207 ; of progenitors, 208, sion, 108.

Use, different from enjoyment, 9 ; what, God makes of us, 27- etc. ; guilt of the tirst, can be washed away only in the blood of Christ, 21^; pafdt»n of, extends over the whole mortal life of the saints, 22(>^ trivial, 225, 230; relative magnitude of sins, 231 ; two causes of, ignorance and weakness, 234 ; remission of, 300^ Solecism, what it is, 4>. Solomon, gave way to lust, 100. Son of God. See Christ. Stages, the four, of the Christian's

Varro, on the nine Muses, 54. Vice, as distinguished from crime, 91. Vine, the Church in its likeness to the, 323, etc. Virgil, quoted, 179, 185, 186.

Wicked, the, death of, eternal in the same sense as the life of the samts, 254. Wicked men, judge others by themselves, 97. Wisdom, steps to, 39 ; of more importance than eloquence to the Christian teacher, 124 ; man's true, lite and the Church's history, 257. Stars, folly of observing the, in order to predict the events of a life, 58. Style, necessity for perspicuity of, 137, etc. ; threefold division of majestic, quiet, temperate, 145 ; to be different on different occasions, 148 ; examples of, from Scripture, 149 ; from Ambrose and Cyprian, 155 ; necessity of variety in, 101 ; is the fear of God, 176. Word, the, made flesh, 14. See Christ. Words, hold the chief place among signs, 36 ; strife about, expounded, lh9. Writing, origin of, 36.

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