City of God (Penguin Classics) (181 page)

Antichrist, final persecution of,
835
f.,
910
–14,
921
ff.

Antipodes, ridiculed,
664
f.

Apocryphal books, why excluded from canon,
641
,
812
f.

Apuleius, Lucius,
136
f.;

on demons,
318
–30;

Bk IX,
passim

Aristotle,
315
f.

Ark, Noah’s, as symbol of the Church,
643
–8;

historical criticism of,
645
–8

Attis, mutilation of, rationalized,
285

battle of the gods,
81

beauty, in man and nature,
1073
ff.

Berecynthia, obscenities in honour of,
51
ff.

blessings, of this life,
1070
–76

bodies, immortal,
526
ff.;

‘animal’ and ‘spiritual’,
536
–40 (
see also
Resurrection)

Caesar, Julius, and M. Cato, moral qualities of,
197
–201

Camillus, M. Furius, shameful treatment of,
67
,
113
,
208

candle, Augustine’s poem to,
636
f.

Capitol, at Rome, temple on,
100
,
108

certainty, of one’s existence,
360
;

Christian,
879

childhood, misery of,
991
,
1066

Christ, acknowledged by pagan oracles, and by Virgil,
411
;

by Porphyry,
484
–7;

his incarnation,
992
;

resurrection,
1027
ff.,
1032
f.;

ascension,
1029
ff.;

‘that one Mediator’,
359
ff.;

364,
402
f.,
404
ff.,
414
f.,
431
, etc.

Church, visible and invisible,
45
f.;

elect and reprobate in,
831
f.;

equated with the City of God,
335
,
524
,
920
;

part of that City, on pilgrimage,
5
,
45
,
381
,
620
,
892
, etc.

Cicero, M. Tullius, on freewill and divine foreknowledge,
190
–94

on stories about the gods,
167
;

his scepticism about auguries,
172

Cities, the two contrasted, their nature and origin,
593
–7;

symbolized in the family of Abraham,
597
ff.;

Bk XV,
passim

Civil Wars, the Roman,
127
–32

commonwealth, defined,
73
f.;

did not exist in Rome,
881
ff.

Constantine, his felicity,
220
f.

Creation, ‘days’ of,
436
ff.;

God’s goodness, the cause of,
452
f.,
455
,
496
;

the work of God, not of ‘gods’,
504
f.;

Cybele (Berecynthia, ‘Heavenly Virgin’ ‘Mother of God’), image brought to Rome,
41
f.

51n.,
52
f.,
53
n.,
83
,
100
,
283
,
286
f.

of man, by ‘breath of God’,
540
–45

Cycles, doctrine of, in history,
483
,
485
,
487
ff.

contrasted with God’s eternal purpose,
494
ff.

Cynic philosophers,
581
f.

David, Nathan’s prophecy to,
735
–9 dead, pagan cult of,
338
ff.

prayers for,
1003

death, an evil turned to good,
514
f.

caused by the Fall,
510
ff,
531

‘first’ and ‘second’,
522
ff.

of soul and body,
510
, Bk XXI,
passim

‘death’ ‘dying’, ‘dead’), meaning of,
517
–21

deification, of great men, Bk XVIII,
passim

e. g., Codrus,
785

Diomede,
780
f.

Picus,
780

Romulus,
106
f. (
see also
Euhemerism)

‘Demon’, of Socrates,
318
,
325
–30

Demons, Bk IX and X,
passim

their activity allowed by God,
297
,
401
f.;

good and bad ‘demons’,
344
f.

Neoplatonic ‘mediators’,
324
f.

Descartes, anticipation of,
460
and n.

Devil, his nature,
445
ff.’binding’ and loosing’ of, in Apocalypse,
910
–14

Devotion, of self to death, by pagans, Codrus,
785

Curtii,
159
,
209

Decii,
159
,
209

Eden, allegorical interpretation of,
534

Eli, prophecy to, expounded,
724
–8

emotions, determined by will,
555

of the righteous,
561
–7

Stoic view of,
558

emperors, felicity of Christian,
219
–23

empire, extension of, no blessing,
137
ff.
155
f.

Empire, Roman, under God’s providence,
179
,
215
f.

moral qualities supporting,
196
–201

empires, chronology of,
484
f

history of, Bk XVIII,
passim

Epicurean philosophers,
214
f.

atomic theory,
306

cosmology,
434
.

epistemology,
309

ethics,
548

theology,
235

Euhemerism,
52
,
169
n.,
239
,
276
,
288
,
770

Eve, creation of, as allegory,
1057

evil, is negative (‘the privation of good’),
440
,
454
,
479
f.,
568

contrary to nature,
448
,
472
ff.,
1022
f.

evil will, causation inexplicable,
477
–80

possible in a ‘nature’ created from nothing,
479
f.,
568
,
572

precedes evil act,
571
f.

evils, physical and material, in universe,
453
f.

Stoics on,
855
ff.

existence, naturally desirable,
460
ff.

certainty about,
460

depends on God,
506

Fall, of Adam,
510
,
522
ff.,
560
–75

affects all mankind,
525

result of,
575

fate, and will of God,
188
f.

fish, Christian symbol,
790

flesh, not cause of sin,
550
ff.

‘flesh’, biblical meaning of,
548
–54

freedom, of will, and astrology,
187
f.

and God’s foreknowledge,
190
–94,;

1022f.

and necessity,
194
ff.

in heaven,
1089

true freedom,
569
friendship, miseries caused by,
862
f.

Galli
(priests of Cybele),
55
,
241
f.,
283
f.

giants,
609
f.,
639
,
641

God, activity in Creation,
202
f.

defined by Cicero,
1062

his foreknowledge of the Fall,
503
,
568
,
593

his judgement inscrutable,
216
,
422
,
489
f.,
509
f.,
783
,
896
,
897
,
999

his knowledge infinite,
494
ff.

his substance identical with his attributes,
440
ff.

his will unchangeable,
1023
ff.

source of all existence,
506

supreme existence (‘HE WHO IS’),
315
,
473
,
477

vision of, in heaven,
1081
–7

gods, of paganism, delight in obscenities,
107
,
170
,
247
, etc.

division of elements between,
146
ff.

‘naturalistic’ explanation of,
241
f.

scandals about,
167
–70,
237
f., etc.