45. O.
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Mythology, the devil's invention, 171?
18. an imitation of prophecy in order Minos ^ 5.
Minucius Funda?ms, Adrian's letter to discredit it in those nations where the devils learnt that Christ should be believed on, 41. examples, ibid.
42,50, 160, 162, 163. mistakes, 42. the cross not imitated, ibid, to beto, 53.
Miracles, the prophets accredited by their miracles, especially as they glorified God and preached His Son, 80. which false prophets neither lievers these imitations are confirmations of the truth, 160. the corruption of the young, 16. evil did nor do, ibid, but seek to astonish men, and set forth the praises of lying spirits, ibid, at the name of Christ spirits the real actors, 17. the crimes devils tremble, and are exorcised by of the gods proclaimed by the poets, it even at this day, 106, 168, 179, 221. and by the sign of the cross, 4. yet they and actors rewarded, ibid, men deified by the heathen, 16.
106. not by the name of any man, this should remove prejudices against 179. perhaps by the name of the God of Abraham, ibid, demoniacs healed by Christians when other Christianity, ibid. exorcists failed, 62. accompanyiDg N. signs besides the evidence derived from the lives of Christians, 85. each receives gifts of the Spirit Name, does not make any thing good or bad apart from the actions connected with it, 3. neither merits acquittal if the acts are criminal, nor punishment if they are innocent, aa he is worthy, 118, 119, 183. both men and women may be seen with gifts from the Spirit of God, 184. the works openly done in His name shew Jesus to be the ibid.
God has no name, 61.
(see God.) Christ's altering the names of Peter and the sons of Zebedee indicates that it was He who gave Jacob and Joshua their new names, 203.
Nature, evil, in every man, 7in the nature of man to know good and Christ, 119. and the new law and covenant, and the expectation of the Gentiles, 85. by His miracles Christ urged men to acknowledge Him, 161. and believe His power to raise up the whole man free from corevil, 69.
Necromancy, a proof that souls are in ruption, ibid, (see also Magic.) Mithras, bis rites a diabolical imitation a state of sensation after death, 14.
Neighbottr, none other than man, that animal of like passions with one's of the Eucharist, 61. and his pretended birth of a rock, an imitation of Daniel's " stone cut out without hands,"
162. so the discourses his self, and possessed of reason, 190.
Noah, the same as Deucalion, 63. permitted to eat every kind of flesh except that with the blood, 94. he with his wife, his sons and their wives, a sign of the eighth day on which Christ rose again, 239. saved followers make on righteousness an imitation of Isaiah xxxiii, 162. their converts initiated in a place that they call a cave, ibid. 1 71. on account of Isaiah's " he shall dwell in the high cave of the strong rock," ibid.
162.
Mnaseas, one of those who came the second day with Trypho, 180.
Moses, the first of all the Prophets, 24. in wood, being borne upon the waters, ibid, as we are regenerated by Christ through water, faith, and wood, ibid, a type of Christ the beginning of a new race, ibid, gave to his two sons the seed of his third for servitude, 236. whereas Christ makes all alike, earlier than the writers of Greece, 33, 41. as he was feeding the sheep of his uncle in Arabia, Christ conversed with him in the shape of fire from a bush, and gave him a mighty power to lead out the people through wonderful works, 48. made a cross of brass, and set it on the tabernacle ibid, his blessings and curse how fulfilled, 240. did not curse Ham because he had been blessed by God, together with the other sons, ibid.
Nomads, some are Christians, 216. for the destruction of the serpents, 45.
Musonius (Ru/us), hated and put to death for living according to right reason, 64.
Mysteries of Proserpine and Venus, 10.
Olivet, Mount, opposite the temple in Jerusalem, 195.
Opinions of the ancients to be rejected, if worthless, 1.
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Oracles prove that 80uls are in a state of sensation after death, 14.
Original Sin, (see Sin.) Paschal, (see Lamb.) in their synagogues, and other nations actively carry out the curse, 192. every Christian, as much as lies in the Jews and others, cast out from possessions and the whole earth, 207. not suffered to live, ibid, persecution foretold by Christ, 176.
Christ '' a reproach of men," because reproach every where attends those who believe on Him, 197.
Perseus, born of a virgin, 42, 156. an imitation of the prophecies, ibid, son of Jupiter and Danae, 16.
Pharisees, 174.
Philctnis, her shameful poems, 69.
Passover, (see Lamb.,) as the blood of the Passover saved those in Egypt, so shall the blood of Christ deliver from death those who believe in Him, 208.
Christ vsras the Passover, " led as a sheep," and taken on the day of the Passover, and crucified during the Passover, ibid.
Patience, Christ's precepts on the subject, 12. we should be patient, ready to assist all, aud free from anger, ibid, not guilty of strife nor followers of the wicked, but should by patience convert all from lust of Philosophers, (see Heathen and Christ,) many bear the name and garb who do nothing worthy of their profession, 3. and so with Christians, ibid, called by the same name, though they teach contrary to the ancients, 4. some have taught atheism, ibid, none to be called a philosopher who publicly accuses Christians of what he knows nothing about, 59. or who takes reward, 72. unprofitableness of their theology as compared with that of Moses and the prophets, 71. indifferent whether one or many gods, or whether any particular Providence, ibid, regard such knowledge as not conducive to happiness, ibid, they cannot think rightly of God, as there is no scientific knowledge of Him, and they have neither seen nor heard Him, 75.
Philosophy, its employment to enquire into the nature of God, 71. the science of what is, 74. the greatest evil, ibid, as has been many times the case, ibid.
Patriarchs, (see Marriage.) Pegasus, 16, 42.
Persecutions, (see Martyrs,) permitted by God and rejoiced in by Christians, because death is a debt that all must pay, QQ. caused by demons, 4, 8. by the serpent, that spirit of wickedness, 119.
(see Demons.) the devils not able to hide the truth, only to raise persecution, 44.
Christians punished or acquitted according as they confessed or denied without inquiry into actions, 3. whereas ordinarily the accused are not punished before they are convicted, ibid, some philosophers have taught atheism with impunity, 4. and the poets deride the crimes of the gods, ibid.
Christians punished without a trial, of treasurtis, most precious in the sight of God, to Whom it alone introduces, 7^' they who have applied their minds to it really holy, 72. sent down to man for a certain end, ibid, how, being always one, ibid, heretics not persecuted, at least for their opinions, 20. princes will not cease to persecute Christians it has become many-headed, ibid, without philosophy and right reason none can possess prudence, 74. Plauntil He shall come again, 119. the Word declares that persecutors shall not prosper, 8.
Justin suspects that the Jews are deterred by fear of persecution from owning Christ, 119, to's saying, "Unless the princes and the people alike act by philosophy, the city cannot prosper,"
2. all should give themselves to it, and account it the greatest of gains, 74. all other things of second or third rate value, 124. persecutors seem to fear that all men will become well-doers, 8. and there will be none to punish, ibid, if joined with it, of moderate account, without it even hurtful and degrading, ibid, alone confers happiness, ibid.
Plato and Pythagoras the bulwarks of philosophy, 79. ibid, persecutions arise from impatience of repioof, 57. persecutors do us service, though their object is not to deliver, but to deprive of life and enjoyment, 44, may slay but cannot hurt, 2. no harm but to Christianity the only sure and valuable philosophy, 81. the prophets afford much instruction about the first principles and the end of evil-doers, ibid.
Jews aid demons in persecuting Christians, 232.
(see Jexvish teachers.) curse Christians
INDEX. things and all that a philosopher ought to know, 80. true, came from tians do not offer blood, libations, or incense, but thank God for creation, means of health, qualities of things, and changes of seasons, 9. and pray the Divine Word, 64, 65, 6d, 68. philosophers borrowed from the Prophets,
33, 34. but understood them for a resurrection to incorruptibility, ibid, give piaise to the Father through the Son and the Holy Ghost, 61. and blessing for all that they enjoy, ibid, they constantly pray to God through Jesus Christ, 106. inaccurately, ibid, hence their selfcontradictions, ibid.
Phrygians, a despicable people, 218.
Pilate, the emperor referred to his Acts for an account of our Lord's miracles, after a baptism both for the newly illuminated and allothersevery where, 50. at Eucharist lengthened thanksgiving, 51.
Christians pray and fast with the catechumens, 46. pray that the Jews may yet repent, 205. and 36. and of His crucifixion, 28.
Pius Antoninus, i. Marcus Aurelius,
Plato, 2, 33. 45, 46, 73, 75, 76. (see Philosophy.) the object of his philosophy to see God, 73. he taught thatRhadamanthus and Minos would punish the wicked for a thousand their other persecutors, 115. pray that emperors may unite to imperial power sound wisdom also, 13. on Sundays all meet, and the records of the Apostles or writings of the Prophets are read; then the President instructs and exhorts ; then all rise and offer up their prayers, 62. then salute one another with a kiss, 60. years, 5. gives the second place to the Word, and the third to the Spirit, 46. in both borrowing from Moses, ibid, said that the power next to the first God was in the universe in the shape of a %? ibid, did not see that it is the cross, ibid, his words, " The blame is his who (see Rticharist) Predestination, (see Foreknowledge.) Presence of God, brought to mind in eating and drinking by the distinction of meats, 94.
President, (see Bishop.) Priscus, Justin's father, 1.
Prophecies, (see Prophets, Scriptures,) chooses, but God is without blame," from Moses', " Behold, before thy face are good and evil,"
33. so too that the world was made from matter previously existing, 45. taught immortality of soul, 14. transmigration of souls that are unworthy of the Jeremiah's prophecy of the " lamb brought to be sacrificed," and Isaiah's of the " sheep led to the slaughter," drove the Jews to blasphemy, 164.
Christ's riding into Jerusalem upon an ass proved to men that He was the Christ, 185. none but He "hath reigned from the tree," and made the Gentiles rejoice, 31, 32.
Christ the Expounder of those prophecies which were unknown, 24. in the prophecies sight of God, 77.
(see Index of Profane Authors.) Platonists, enjoyed a high reputation, 73. some assert that the soul is ingenerate and imm.ortal, 78.
Plays, shameful pieces allowed to be acted on the stage, 69.
Plough, bears the shape of the cross, 43.
Poets, by their writings the patrons of abominations, 68. deride the uncleanness of Jupiter and bis sons, 4.
Socrates would banish, 65. admirable different persons speak, now the Father, now Christ, now His people answering Him, 28. this the Jews not understanding did not acknowledge Christ, and now hate those who explain the Scriptures to them, in some respects because of the seed of reason implanted in all, 64. imitated what the prophets said of Christ without understanding it coribid, what is said as by some Person rectly, 4 1.
Pollio Vetrasius, 56.
Polygamy, (see Marriage^) unlawful, is not from the Prophet, but from the Divine Word Who moves him, ibid.
Prophecies, ChrisVs, their fulfilment confirms His teaching, 8. e. g. the rise of heresies and breaking out 242, 235. excused by the Jews from example of patriarchs, ibid, but their acts a mystery, ibid. of persecutions, 112, 114. nothing takes Christians unawares, for Christ warned them of persecutions and Pojnpeiati7is , 54.
Pompeius, 81, 243.
Prayers, most pleasing to God when made with lamentation and weeping, heresies, 176.
His foretelling His own death and resurrection, and prostration, or bended knees, 187.
Moses alone on a single occasion prayed sitting on a stone, ibid. Chrisheresies to arise during His absence, and that there should be no more
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prophets among the Jews, a proof of Christianity, 134. the work of God to foretell an event, as He has done, and then to shew it taking place as was foretold, 8.
Pmphets, called Angels and Apostles ibid, prophets sometimes spoke of the future as if then present or past, 31, 211. the dark things of former prophets explained by later, 159. when revelation made, the prophet not in the natural state, but in a trance, 213. always spoke of the cross in symbols, 42. and of Christ's passion and subsequent rule over of God, 167. before all the philosophers, 80. alone knew the truth, ibid, declared only what they saw and heard when filled with the Holy Ghost, ibid, feared none, ibid, above all things obscurely, 169. so that the Apostles needed to be taught by Christ Himself that these things had been expressly foretold, ibid, no prophet among the Jews after John, all demonstration, as faithful witnesses of the truth, ibid, to be believed on account of the fulfilment of their prophecies, and for the miracles they performed, ibid, inspired by the Divine Word, 26, 28, QQ. reserve in their teaching, 186. that they might not be understood by the many, nor without labour, 131, 135. and so no fresh succession of kings was possible, ibid, the prophetical gifts formerly lodged with the Jews, now transferred to Christians, 176. remain with them even to this time, ibid, one receives the ibid, this acknowledged by Trypho, gift of foreknowledge, 118. death proclaimed by the Komans against those who read the books of the Prophets, (or Hystaspes, or the Sibyl,) 34. this due to the agency of demons, that they may retain their slaves, ibid, their words and acts only understood by grace, 188. without it they will be brought into contempt with the many, ibid, (see Scriptures.) contain a secret knowledge, 209. done and spoken with much meaning and mystery, ibid.
186. they foretold Christ's Birth of a Virgin, Miracles, Death, Resurrection, and Ascension, and that He should be called the Son of God, 24. should be preached throughout the world, and believed in more by Gentiles, ibid, yet Christians read them, and Justin offers them for inspection, knowing that they will appear wellpleasing to all, ibid.
ProphetSj false^ did certain wonders to astonish mankind, and set forth the praises of lying spirits, 80. the devil wrought in them, 160.
Proselytes^ blaspheme Christ's name two-fold more than the Jews, 221. and try to kill and torture Christians, ibid. He was foretold five thousand, three, two, one thousand, and lastly eight hundred years before His coming, ibid, prophets did not cease ibid, striving to be like the Jews in until Christ was born, 135. none all things, ibid.
Proselytes of Christ, 28, 103, note g.
222.
Proserpine, daughter of Jupiter, 50. her image set at fountains in imitation of the Spirit moving upon the waters, ibid, maddened for love of Adonis, 19.
Prostitution, both of males and females since, ibid.
God gave the Jews all the mysteries by anticipation before the proper time, 232. and various types of Christ, ibid, things impossible with men God has declared before, that when they came to pass they might be believed, 26. the prophecies arranged in books by the Prophets themselves, and taken charge of by the kings, 23. their fulfilment the greatest evidence, 23, 40,41. what has happened and is happening compels men to receive their testimony, 80. instances of fulfilled prophecy, 39, 40, 134, 135. hence Christians believe also what they say about Christ, 23, 40. and the prophecies still unfulfilled, 39. the grounds of belief, the prophets and made a source of revenue, 21.
Providence, some philosophers taught that God regards the universal, but not individuals, 7l. or there would be no need to pray to Him night and day, ibid, this reasoning leads them to licentiousness, ibid, looking for no punishment or reward, ibid, it is by the activity of demons that the good are persecuted, and evil men appear to flourish, G3.
Prudence, according to Platonists, none can possess without philosophy and right reason, 74.
Psalms:
Ps. xxii, the Jews say, was not spoken of Christ, 193. but no the conversion of the world, 137. prophecy does not imply fatalism, 32, 34. but thereby God urges men to exertion and recollection, and shews that He has a care for them.
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Rahab, saved by the symbol of the scarlet thread, represents fornicators and unjust persons from among all nations saved by the blood of Christ, 209.
Raiuah, in Arabia, 172.
Reader, his duties in the Christian assemblies, 52.
Reason, (says the Platonist.) rules over king of theirs, or Christ, had His hands and feet pierced, but Jesus only, ibid.
Ps. Ixxii, they say, was spoken of Solomon, because inscribed to him, 153. but He that is the subject of it was ''before the sun," and those Israelites who are saved are to be saved through Him, ibid.
Solomon never worshipped by all kings^ nor did his dominion extend to the ends of the world, 112.
Ps. ex. they explained of Hezekiah, 109. who neither was a priest, nor is an everlasting priest of God, 110. they say he was bidden to all things, 74. its praises, ibid. God has bestowed it on us, 7. (see Word,) Regeneration, (see Noah, Baptism.) Repeyitance, required for baptism, 47. the man who repents, God's goodness and love and the immensity of His riches accounts as righteous and spotless, 128. even those who curse Christ would be saved if they believed before their death, ibid, unavailing hereafter, 39.
Reserve in the prophetic teaching, 186.
Resurrectio?if at Christ's second and glorious advent, 39. not more incredible than our creation from human seed, 15. they think meanly of God's power who think every thing will return to its elements, and that, beyond this, God Himself can do no more, 15. Christ's miracles of healing intended to convince us of it, 161, 162. the universal and eternal resurrection after the millennium, 176. the holy resurrection, 211. some that are called Christians say there sit on the right side of the temple, 177. but he was not a priest for ever, nor the deliverer of Jerusalem, ibid, and did not send the rod of power into Jerusalem, and reign in the midst of his enemies, ibid, but all is true of Christ, 178. (see Jevnsh teachers.) PtolemcEUS^ his martyrdom, 58, 59.
Ptolemy, 23, 159.
(see Sep'titagint.) Punishment, eternity of, 13, 14, 21, 35, 39, 57, 58, 78, 125, 231, 241. in the same bodies, and not limited to a thousand years, 5. as long as it may please Him that the wicked shall last and be punished, 78.
'' Their worm shall not rest, nor their flame be quenched,'"'
39. remaining im mortal for a spectacle to all flesh, 231. not a mere bugbear, 64. must be so if there is a God who cares for men, and if vice and virtue are any thing, and if lawgivers are right is no resurrection, but that as soon as they die their souls are taken up into heaven, 174.
Revelation, (see Prophet. Apocalypse.) Rhadamanthus, 5.
Righteousness, (see Faith, Jtistijication, in punishing, ibid, the expulsion of demons now, a warning of what awaits them and their worshippers, Law, Circumcision,) twofold, fulfilled in love of God and neighbour, 190. not in ceremonial observances but in change of life, ^o. the same ibid, all future punishment denied by those who hold the necessary immortality of thesoul, 71. {see Fire.) Pythagoras, taught the immortality of for all men at all times, 98, 105, 189. entire, ibid, known even to those who do not keep it, ibid, except those possessed by an unclean the soul, 14. considered a bulwark of philosophy, 7Q.
Pythagoreans, taught their disciples first m usic, astronomy, and geometry, spirit, or who, by bad education or to wean the mind from objects of sense, that it might be enabled to discern the essence of good, 73.
Pytho, oracle of, 14. habits, have quenched or kept down their natural conceptions, 190. for they blame in others what they do themselves, ibid, he who repents accounted righteous, he who has departed from righteousness accounted sinful, 128.
Robe, of Christ, believers, 25. those who have received remission of sins through Him, 137. in whom He is always present in power, and shall be openly at His second coming, ibid.
Rod, Moses' and Jacob's rods emblems Quirimis, (see Cyreniiis.) R Rabbi, Jewish teachers desire to be called, 210.
Rachel, (see Jacob.)
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26iJ Sailt/ards, have the form of a cross, 42.
Salvation, all advancing to eternal torment or salvation according to the quality of their actions, 7. the way of salvation, faith, baptism, and a consistent life, 46, 124.
Samaria, symbolises the power of the evil demon, as sinful and unjust, 172.
Justin desires to unmask Simon to the Samaritans, that they may be converted, 69. few believers there, 40. they held Simon to be God above s.
Sabbath, imposed on the Jews for their sins, 95. for a sign, ibid, that they might remember God, 94. the elements keep none, 98. nor God Himself,
105. the priests in the temple make the same offerings as on other days, ibid, and circumcise, 103. Jews did not use hot drink on the Sabbath, ibid, just men before Abiaham, and also his posterity down to Moses, did not observe the Sabbath, 94. the new law commands a perpetual Sabbath, 85, conversion and repentance thetrue Sabbath, ibid, change of day prefigured in the ' eighth' day being fixed for circumcision, 99. all principality and power, 220, 20.
(see Simon.) /Som?^e/, his soulevoked by the witch, 202.
Sand, a figure of the unbelieving children of Abraham, 219.
Satan, means " apostate serpent," 200.
Sacrifices, taught by the fallen Angels, (see Devil.) Saturnilians, heretics, 114.
Saturn, his mysteries, Scriptures, (see Prophets, Prophecies, Psalms.) the Holy Ghost often speaks in parables and similitudes, 170.
Herod called the king of the Assyrians, ibid, it is said to the Jews, " Thy father was an Amorite and thy mother a Hittite,"
61. human sacrifices practised by Eomans, 67.
God needs not sacrifices, 9. the food He gives not to be consumed by tire, but applied to our own use and that of the poor, ibid.
God to be worshipped with the voice, in solemn acts, and with hymns, ibid, with thanksgiving for all that we enjoy, ibid, this the only service worthy of Him, ibid.
God has no need of material offerings from men, ibid, dark things of former writers explained by later, 159. as David by Isaiah, ibid.
Christ revealed to us all that we have learnt from the Scriptures by His grace, 196. they belong rather to Christians than Jews, 105.
Jews removed the account of Isaiah's death, 219. would have removed other things if they had understood them, ibid, (see Jewish teachers.) no Scripture contrary to another, 154. if such appears to be the case, it is in consequence of our not understanding the meaning, 6. He only accepts those who imitate Him in those virtues which are part of His attributes, ibid, (see Law, Paschal Lamb.) commanded by God to prevent idolatry, 94, 96, 98, 157. prayers and thanksgivings of the worthy the only sacrifices which are perfect and acceptable to God, 215, 216. legal sacrifices typical of Christ,
120, God accepts not sacrifices except through His priests, 215. Christians the true high-priestly family of God, 214. He receives sacrifice from Christians more readily than from Jews, 105.
He Himself testifies ibid, all Justin's proofs from the sacred and prophetical writings, 108. quotes them again and again, 180. ridiculous to think he could produce any thing superior, ibid. that in every place among the Gentiles they offer sacrifices pure and well-pleasing to Him, 215. i.e. in the Eucharist, ibid, but the sacrifices Quotations not now found in Scripture: Isaiah, " In the deluge of Noah
I saved thee," 239.—in Ps. xcvi. the words " from the wood" erased by the Jews,164.—from Esdras,"and Esdras said to the people, This Passover of the Jews He wholly rejects, ibid, the " pure offering" can not mean the prayers of the dispersion, 215, 216. they are not in every place, ibid, much less w^hen Malachi spoke, ibid, but every where prayers and thanksgivings offered in the name of the is our Saviour and refuge ; and if you have understood, and it has entered into your hearts, that we are about to humble Him on a standard, and afterwards if we trust in Him, this place shall not be desolate for ever, saith the God of Hosts; but if you believe Him not, nor listen to His teaching, you shall be a laughing stock of the Gentiles,"
163.— from crucified Jesus, ibid, the Eucharist of the Bread and of the Cup are offered in every part of the world, 215. the sacrifices offered by the Gentiles are the Eucharistic Bread and Cup, 121.
God's Name glorified thereby, ibid, (see Prayers.)