53. adopts Adrian's judgment about children of necessity and ignorance,
INDEX.
Antichrist, the man of the apostasy, 206. his impiety and persecutions immediately precede the second AdBacchus, 16. legends respecting him a diabolical imitation of the prophecies, 42, 160. his crimes, 19.
Banners, have the form of the cross, 43. always accompany the emperors, vent, ibid, now at the door, 109. his duration, ibid, his blasphemies, ibid, signs of their rule and authoibid, 206.
Antinous, worshipped by all, though they know his character and origin, rity, ibid.
Baptism, the laver of repentance and of the knowledge of God, 87. the washing of salvation, 86. prophesied of by Isaiah, ibid. 47. remedy of our unholy birth, and remission of actual 23.
Antiope, paramour of Jupiter, 19.
Antoninus, 1. a lover of piety and philosophy, 8. his sons likewise, 2. sins, 47. that we might not remain his letter' to States General of Asia, 53. adopts Adrian's judgment about children of necessity and ignorance, but of choice and knowledge, ibid, through it we have believed, 87. the spiritual circumcision received thereby, 122. it is administered to those who choose the new birth and repent of sins, 47. who believe all that we teach, and promise to live accordingly, 46. its form, 46, 47. preceded by fasting and prayer, ibid, the baptized taken to join in the common prayers, 50. satanie imithe Christians, that they should be released if only accused as such, and the informer should be punished, 54. prevented the Jews from putting Christians to death, 91.
Apocalypse, written by St. John, one of the Apostles, 176.
Apostle, this title applied to our Lord, 48. to the prophets, 167Apostles, twelve men obscure and unskilled in speaking through the power of God went out to teach all the world, 29. after Christ's resurtations of it, 48. the Jewish washings bear no relation to Christian baprection, repented of having forsaken Him, 203. represented by the twelve tism, 93. the baptized need not that baptism, 105. it cleanses the flesh bells hanging from the high priest's ephod, 121. the Gospels described alone, 88. a broken cistern, ibid, the baptized has the testimony of God in his favour, 105. if the soul be baptized from sin the whole body as their records, 51, 196, 197, 199, 201, 202, 203. our Lord's changing the names of some of them, indiwill be pure, 88. cates that it was He who changed the names of Jacob and Hoshea, 203.
Archelaus, succeeded Herod, and died At our Lord's Baptism a fire was kindled in the Jordan, 184.
His baptism, the descent of the Spirit in the form of a dove, and the voice of the Father, all on our account, before Christ's crucifixion, 200.
Ariadne, placed among the stars, 16.
184, 185. how Ps. ii.
7. was then Ashdocl, the kine led by the name of Jesus, 233, 234.
Ass and Colt, meaning of, 136.
Assyrians, king of, denotes Herod, fulfilled, ibid.
Baptistce, a sect among the Jews, 174.
Barchochehas, ringleader of the Jews in the last revolt, persecuted the Christians, 24.
Barren, God can make to conceive, 178. as Hannah, Sarah, and Elisabeth, and others, ibid. 179.
Basilidians, heretics, 114.
Bellerophon, went up to heaven, 16, 42.
Bells, the twelve hanging from the high priest's ephod represent the twelve Apostles, 121.
Bethlehem, a village thirty-five stadia 170, 200.
Aurelius, his letter to the people and senate detailing his deliverance at Carnutum by a wonderful shower granted to the prayers of his Christian soldiers, 55. he decrees that any who accuses Christians as such shall be burnt alive, ibid, and those who confess themselves Christians shall not be forced to retract, or be deprived of freedom, ibid.
Atheism, Christians charged with, 4. from Jerusalem, 27.
Christ born the charge refuted, 9. there, ib. in a cave, 171.
Bishop, or president, his office in celebrating the Eucharist, 50, 51, 52. when the reader concludes, exhorts B. to the imitation of these excellent things, 52. the guardian and dispenser of the alms, ibid.
Bncchiiis, Justin's grandfnlhpr, 1,