Euripides, fragment from, i. 161; cited, iv. 22, 35. Eurystheus and Hercules, iii. 532. Eusebius, fragments of the works of Philo preserved by, iv. 210. Eve, birth of, i. 190 j brought to Adam, 90. Evening and morning, creation of, i. 8. Evidence, faithful, iv. 251. Evils, influx of, the soul disturbed thereby, iv. 251. Evil-speaking, iv. 244. Evilat, the land of, i. 69. Exiles and citizens, iii. 507. Eye, its excellent services to the mind, iii. 349. Eye, the, and the mind, their offices similar, i. 14. Eye and sight, remark on the, if. 264.
Face of God, a figurative expression, i. 286. Face of the living God, explained, iv.
249. Faith of Abraham, ii. 4.50. Fallow, the land directed to be left, wisdom of the injunction, iii. 407. False swearing, hateful to God, iv. 274. False witness, the commandment against, iii. 166, 173, 365. Famine, threat of, iii. 486; in Egypt, ii. 475; the great famine, 486. Farmer the virtuous man compared to the, i. 268. Fat, why men commanded to abstain from eating, iii. 386. Fate and necessity not taught by Moses, ii. 154. Father and mother, symbolical mean- ing of, 458. Fathers, question as to what is meant by, ii. 150. Female garments, why forbidden to men, iii. 416. Festivals, On the Ten, iii. 265. Festivals, why ten in number, iii. 265; the first, 266; the second, 269; the third, 283; the fourth, 283; the fifth, 284; the sixth, 285; the seventh, 286; the eighth, 288; the ninth, 288; the tenth, 290.
INDEX.
473 Festivals, abuses at, i. 198.
Fevers, periodical changes in, ii. 32.
Field, the principles of philosophy likened to a, i. 381.
Fifteen cubits, explanation of, ii. 360.
Fiftieth year, ordinances regarding the, Hi. 435.
Fifty, the most 'holy and natural of numbers, iv. 15.
Fig-leaves, girdles of, iv. 305.
Fire, its use in the Stoic philosophy, iv. 23, 46; three species in, 44; sent from heaven to consume the sacri- fices when Aaron was appointed high priest, iii. 106; on the altar, why to be kept burning for ever, iii. 234; law regarding, iii. 361.
First-born, death of the, in Egypt, iii. 30.
First-fruits, reason of the command of offering the, ii. 116; iii. 227, 433.
Fishes and sea-monsters, creation of, i. 17.
Flaccus, Treatise against, iv. 61.
Flaccus Avilius made viceroy of Alex- andria, iv. 61; his wise government in the time of Tiberius, 62; his grief on that emperor's death, 63; his apprehensions on the death of Macro, 64; is persuaded to perse- cute the Jews, 65; treacherously keeps back their address on the ac- cession of Claudius, 82; interfe- rence of King Agrippa, 82; Bassus, a centurion, seizes Flaccus at an entertainment, 84; he is sent to Italy, 87; is condemned and banished, 92; his painful progress to Andros, the place of his exile, 93; his mad- ness, 95; is put to death, 99.
Flaccus, Caius Norbanus, edict of, in favour of the Jews, iv. 168.
Flaming Sword, On the, i. 1 75.
Flaming sword of the cherubim, its symbolical meaning, i. 181.
Flatterers, caution against, iv. 273.
Flattery not acceptable to the wise man, iv. 278.
Flax, fine, emblematic meaning of, ii. 181.
Flies, plague of, in Egypt, iii. 30.
Flight, various causes of, ii. 194., FJour, fine, its symbolical meaning, ii. 287. Flying creatures, various classes of, iii. 383. Folly, its offspring, ii. 276, 378. Folly and falsehood, warning against, iv. 281. Food of the Lord, what, i. 152. Foolish man, the, a slave, iii. 517. Foolish and wicked men, iv. 243. Forty, the number, the produce of many virtues, ii. 355. Fountain, various senses in which spoken of, ii. 230; iv. 284. Fountain, the mind likened to a, i.59. Fountains of the deep, iv. 359. Four, the number, its perfection and wonderful powers, i. 12; why styled holy and praiseworthy, ii. 399; dig- nified in the prophetic books, i.
440. Fragments of the Lost Works of Philo, iv. 210. Frankincense, ii. 132; its symbolical meaning, iii. 214. Fratricide, the first, his punishment, iii. 472. Free, all men so created, iv. 16. Freedom, praise of, iii. 536. French king's library, fragments of Philo preserved in the, iv. 277. Friends, good, remark on, iv. 257. Friendship, remarks on, iv. 275, 276. Frogs, plague of, in Egypt, iii. 23. Fruit of the soul, what, i. 439. Fruit trees not to be destroyed, iii.
447; pruning of, 449. Fruits, created in a state of entire ripeness, i. 1 1; reason assigned, 1 1. Fruits, first, ii. 116; iii. 227; to be offered to the priests, iii 433. Fugitives, On, ii. 194. Furnace, human life compared to a smoking, iv. 422.
Gad, a symbol of war, ii. 351. Gaidad, meaning of, i. 300. Galbunum, ii. 132. Game-cocks, courage of, iii. 535. Garment, speech likened to a, ii. 313.
474 TNDEX.
Garments of skin, iv. 311.
Geloni, a Scythian tribe, i. 489.
Genesis, Questions on, and Solu- tions, iv. 284.
Genesis, book of, whence its title de- rived, ii. 396.
Gentiles, isles of the, peopled by Japhet, iv. 404.
Germans, the, said to assail the 6ea with their naked swords, ii. 365.
Giants, birth of the, iv. 331.
Gideon, meaning of, ii. 27.
Gifts how distinguished from offerings, i. 159.
Gift and sacrifice discriminated, iii. 317.
Gihon, a river of Paradise, symboli- cally explained, i. 69; iv. 290.
Girgashites, iv. 424.
Gleaners, command concerning, iii. 432 Glory, twofold meaning of, iv. 283.
Glory of the Lord, how described by Moses, iv. 283.
Glutton, character of the, ii. 380.
Gluttony, remark on, iv. 277.
Goat, character of the, iv. 409, 412; the symbol of the external sense, ii. 113.
God, an argument for the existence of, from the orderly arrangement of the world, iii. 182; the cause of all good, ii. 282; how said *o walk, iv. 305; reason of, what, i. 6; man how said to be created in the image and likeness of, 19; concealment from, what meant by, 108; how said to repent of having created man, 347; the first command, the declaration of the existence of onlv one God, iii. 150; incom- prehensible, iv. 260; judgments of, remark on, 263; love of, for mankind, 270; mercies of, 257; pietv towards, 265.
God and Lord God, distinction be- tween, ii. 325. Gods of silver and gold, the formation of, why forbidden, iii. 179. Gold, symbolically explained, i. G9; taken as an emblem, ii. 136.
Golden calf, its destruction bv Moses, i. 323; iii. 107. Gomorrah, meaning of, ii. 378. Good, threefold division of, i. 305. Good man, mode of life of the, ii. 400. Good men a ransom for the wicked, i.
237- Gorgon's head, tradition of the, iv.
153. Governor, the four qualifications of the perfect, united in Moses, iii.
113. Grafting, the operation of, described, i. 269. Grammar and music, power of the number 7 in, i. 36. Grass of the field, explained, i. 58. Greece, the only country winch really produces men, iv. 240; calamities brought on, in the case of €Edipus, iii. 306; its overthrow, ii. 480. Greek historians, censure of, iii. 1. Greek language, translation of the Scriptures into the, iii. 80. Green herb of the field, what meant bv, i. 57. Groaning, its twofold nature, i. 164. Guardian angels, remark on, iv. 260. Gyara, the island of, a place of banishment, iv. 92. Gymnosophists, a sect of Indian phi- losophers, iii. 523.
Habit more powerful than nature, iv.
277. Hagar the handmaid, ii. 157; iv. 42o; meaning of, 161; her history sym- bolically explained, 157. Hail, plague of, in Egypt, iii. 27- Hajk, a fabulous patriarch of the Armenians, iv. 334. Ham, son of Noah, wickedness of, i.
507; iv. 398; meaning of the name, 395. Hamor, meaning of, ii. 93. Handmaidens, symbolical meaning of, ii. 163. Hands, heavy, of Moses, symbolically explained, i. 119, 157. Hannah, meaning of the name, i. 344; 433; uymn of, ii. 266.
INDEX 475 Happy life, steps to a, ii. 248. Happy nature, the, iv. 244. Harlot, On the Wages of a, iii. 249. Harlot, the wages of a, not to be received in the sacred treasury, ii.
249. Hasty talkers, condemnation of, iv.
266. Haughtiness, censure of, iii. 45 1. Haughty men, remarks on, iv. 247, 267. Head, seven divisions of the, i. 35. Heathen nations, numerous gods of the, iii. 148; human sacrifices of some, 241. Heaven, (ovpavog) why so called, i.
9; how diversified and adorned, 11; its nature incomprehensible, ii. 296; likened to a well, 301. Heavenly bodies, predictions founded on the motions of the, i. 16; all things on earth depend on the, 35. Hebrews. See Jews. Heifer, the symbol of the soul, ii. 1 1 3. Heir of Divine things, Treatise on the, ii. 94. Helica swallowed up by the sea, iv.
58. Helicon, a base Egyptian, iv. 136; his accusations of the Jews to Claudius, 137; his punishment, 146. Hell, the life of the wicked the real, ii. 169. Help-meet, or assistant, i. 81. Hemiolius, its ratio, i. 1 3. Hephaestus, iv. 2. Hera, iv. 2.
Heraclitus, citation from, i. 80; enig- matical expression of, iv. 50. Herb of the field, explained, i. 174. Herbs and fruits, early production of, at the creation, reason of, i. 12. Hercules, labours of, iv. 117; why expelled from the company of the Argonauts, iii. 534. Hercules and Eurystheus, iii. 532. Heretical teachera,remarks on, iv. 260. Heretics, axioms regarding, iv. 252. Herod the king, iv. 66. Heroes, or demigods, iii. 529.
Heroopolis, a city of Egypt, ii. 506.
Heshbon, meaning of, i. 169.
Hesiod, his opinions concerning the world, iv. 25, 35.
Hierosolyma. See Jerusalem.
High priest, of a nature bordering on God, ii. 377; laws for the, iia. 197; garments of the, symbolically ex- plained, ii. 66.
Hippocrates, his seven ages of man, i. 31.
Hippopotami, iii. 476.
Hittites, iv. 424.
Hoary head, how differing from the *v elder, i. 224.
Homicides, the law respecting, ii. 205.
Honey, why forbidden to be mixed with any offering, iii. 235.
Hoof, parting of the, its symbolical meaning, iii. 381.
Hope, the beginning of participation in all good things, ii. 398; its office, iv. 279.
Hope, the siuter of Moses so called figuratively, ii. 369.
Horse, the passions compared to a, i. 105, 392.
Horse-breeding, symbolical meaning of the Mosaic prohibition of, i. 395.
Horseman, symbolically explained, i. 106.
Horseman and rider, how distin- guished, i. 392.
Hosea, meaning of, ii. 262; his name changed to Joshua, 262.
Hospitality, duties of, cheerfully ren- dered by the wise man, ii. 418.
Housebreakers, punishment of, iii. 365.
Human affairs, their unstable con- dition, iv. 242.
Human dispositions, three classes of, ii. 422.
Human happiness and unhappiness, in what they consist, ii. '^85.
Human voice ascribed to the serpent, why, i. 48.
Humanitt, On, iii. 423.
Humanity strongly inculcated in the laws of Moses, iii. 423.
476 INDEX.
Humiliation, two kinds of, iv. 434. Humility, praise of, iv. 266. Husband, symbolical meaning of, i.
166. Husbandman, who so called, i. 379. Husbandry of the soul, i. 381. Hymns among the Therapeutae, iv. 1 8. Hypocrites, every city full of, ii. 277. Hyssop, its use among the Therapeutae, iv. 9, 17.
" I am that I am," explained, ii. 240.
Ibis, the, worshipped by the Egyp- tians, iv. 3.
Ideas brought forth by the mind, divided into male and female, i. 231.
Idolators, gross folly of, iv. 2.
Idolatry, folly and wickedness of, iii. 152, 154; iv. 2; the command- ment against, iii. 153, 17^.
Ignorance, evils of, i. 455, 485.
Imagination, the brother of appetite, L 59.
Immortality of the mind, proofs of the, i. 208.
Impious men, remarks on, iv. 2i2.
Impossible things, iv. 244.
Incense, altar of, ii. 138; offering of, iii. 213.
Incestuous custom of the Persians, iii. 306.
Incorruptibility of the World, Treatise on the, iv. 21.
Indian philosophers. See Gymnoso- phists.
Industrious people, remarks on, iv. 268.
Inequality, the cause of all evil, iv. 16.
Infants, exposure of, forbidden, iii. 330.
Inheritance, the divine law of, iii. 125.
Initiations into heathen mysteries, iii. 244.
Inspiration and prophecy, ii. 146.
Instability accounted for, iv. 254.
Instruction, On meeting for the SAKE OF RECEIVING, ii. 157.
Instruction, love of, iv. 246. Intemperance, evils of, ii. 465.
Ion, the tragic writer, cited, iii. 535.
Isaac, birth of, ii. 264; symbolically explained, i. 101; why he had only one wife, ii. 164; offering of, 431.
Isaiah, citation from, iv. 373.
Ishmael, iv. 435; meaning of, ii. 236; character of, 237; Abraham's prayer for, ii. 278; iv. 460.
Isidorus, an Alexandrian demagogue, iv. 65; his accusations of Flaccus, 89; his charges against the Jews, 176.
Israel, a name given to Jacob, ii. 87, 252; meaning of, iv. 100. See Jacob.
Israelites. See Jews.
Issachar, meaning of, i. 443; symbo- lically explained, i. 73.
Jacob, meaning of the name, i. Ill; flight of, from Laban the Syrian, symbolically explained, i. Ill; ii. 195; his reproof of Joseph, i. 154; his name changed to Israel, ii. 87, 252; his dreams, 292, 333; the blessing bestowed on, iv. 279.
Jacob and Esau, ii. 144.
Jamnia, altar set up at, and destroy- ed by the Jews, iv. 144.
Janis, meaning of, i. 300.
Japhet. conduct of, i. 95; countries peopled by him, iv. 404.
Jason and the Argonauts, iii. 537.
Jebusites, iv. 424.
Jeremiah, the prophet, i. 187. i Jerusalem, the city of God, ii. 387. I Jesein, meaning of, i. 299. j Jews, the, the most God-loving of all nations, ii. 416; naturally friendly to all who are peaceful in their in- tentions, iii. 409; journey of, into and from Egypt, iv. 212; their constitution established by the laws of Moses, 214; their number in Egypt, 70; their safety under Augustus, 134; under Tiberius, 135; their appeal to Caligula, 139; the reception of their ambassadors, 176.
Jews of Alexandria, persecution of the, in the time of Califjula, iv. 65; INDEX.
477 their synagogues broken open, 70; they are deprived of their civil rights, and declared aliens, 72; their houses plundered, 73; many of them, with their wives and chil- dren, burnt, torn to pieces, or otherwise put to death, 74; their elders arrested and scourged, 76; their houses searched for arms, 79; forced to eat swine's flesh, 81; re- lieved by the interposition of Agripnn, 82; Flaccus, their op- pressor, seized during the feast of tabernacles, 84; their pious joy and thanksgiving, 86.
Jews fit Palestine and the neighbour- ing countries, their great number, strength, and courage, iv. 148; their remonstrances against the threaten- ed profanation of the Temple, 15).
John of Damascus, fragments of the works of Philo preserved by, iv. 242.
Joseph, On the Life op, ii. 453.
Joseph, his temptation, symbolical meaning of, i. 170; symbolical meaning of the name, ii. 255; his dreams, 345; his life, 453; his name in Egypt, 255.
Joseph's coat of many colours, sym- bolical meaning of, ii. 338.
Joshua, meaning of, ii. 262; friend- ship of Moses for him, hi. 424; becomes his successor, 427.
Jother, interpretation of, ii. 258.
Jothor, an opponent of Moses, i. 460.
Joy of the foolish, ii. 272.
Jubal, meaning of, i. 304.
Judaea, great populousness of, iv. 1 48; courage and spirit of the people, 148.
Judah, meaning of, i. 443; symboli- cally explained, i. 73.
Judas symbolically explained, ii. 350.
Judge, the office and character of a, iii. 368.
Judgment, the last, iv. 243.
Julia Augusta, her offerings to the temple of Jerusalem, iv. 169.
Jupiter, Bacchus preserved by, iii. 534.
Jupiter, the planet, placed above the sun, ii. 137; belt of, iv. 393.
Justice, On, iii. 388.
Justice, praise of, iv. 263; the Scy- thians famed for, 5; symbolically represented by the river Euphrates, i. 74.
Kadmonites, iv. 424.
Keepers of sheep, how distinguished from shepherds, i. 386.
Keepers of the temple, their sedition against the priests, iii. 110, 133; its punishment, 134.
Kenezites, iv. 424.
Kenites, the, iv. 424.
Kidnappers, law concerning, iii. 358.
Kin£, a general name for those who excel, ii. 268; proper conduct of a, iv. 274; the real, is the virtuous man, 245; the true, he only who is perfect master of his art, 254.
Kings, why called shepherds of the people, ii. 453; conquered by Abraham, symbolical meaning of, i. 474; overthrow of several, enu- merated, ii. 480.
Kiss, the false monev of friendship, ii. 102.
Kite, worshipped bv the Egyptians, iv. 3.
Knowledge, the eyes and ears of the soul, i. 486.
Knowledge of good and evil, tree of, i. 78; iv. 302.
Laban the Syrian, flight of Jacob from, symbolically explained, i. Ill; ii. 195; his idle boasts, i. 192.
Lamech, meaning of, i. 295; his two wives, 302; his offence greater than that of Cain, iv. 323.
Labour the nurse of virtue, i. 214.
Lacedaemonian boy, fortitude of a, iii. 531.
Lacedaemonians, laws of the, iii. 517.
Ladder, Jacob's, symbolically ex- plained, ii. 320.
Lamb not to be seethed in its mother's milk, iii. 445.
478 INDEX.
Lampo, an Alexandrian demagogue, iv. 65; his dishonest conduct, 87.
Land, how separated from chaos, i. 10; how adorned, 10; the fruits of the, only partially the produce of man's labour, iii. 433.
Land-marks, not to be removed, iii. 391.
Language, one common, fabulously attributed to animals, ii. 2.
Languages, On the Confusion of, ii.
Last day, remark on the, iv. 270.
Laughter. See Isaac.
Laver, brazen, of the tabernacle, iii. 102.
Law, On the Unwritten, ii. 396.
Law, delivery of the, iii. 146; the two tables, 147; expressions of the, to be taken in an allegorical sense, i. 170; nothing to be added to or taken from it, iii. 390; to be written out by each magistrate, 394.
Laws of Moses, why given not in cities, but in the desert, iii. 137; detail of, 150—174; why no pun- ishments annexed to the violation of them, 174; their venerable and godlike character, 77; honoured by other nations besides the Jews, 79; their translation into Greek, 80; why without initiations and mysteries, 242; persons excluded from the sacred assembly, 244.
Leah, meaning of, ii. 7.5; a woman endowed with all virtue, 64; typifies the rational faculties of the soul, ii. 163.
Leaven, why forbidden to be mixed with any offering, iii. 236.
Leavened bread, why forbidden to be offered, iv. 281.
Lepidus, his intercession with Caligula in favour of Flaccus, iv. 92; is himself in danger, 97.
Leprosy, directions concerning, figu- ratively explained, i. 245, 367.
Levi symbolically explained, i. 73; ii. 350.
Levi, tribe of, its pious zeal, iii. 109.
Levites, the ransom of the rest of the Israelites, i. 235; ii. 117; law con- cerning them, i. 257; cities of the, 238.
Levitical cities, i. 238.
Liberation of the slave, symbolical meaning of the directions for the, ii. 130.
Liberty, praise of, iii. 536.
Libya, kingdoms of, i. 376.
Lice, plague of, in Egypt, iii. 24.
Life, three kinds of, ii. 102.
Life, tree of, why placed in the centre of Paradise, i. 66; eating of# the tree of life, iv. 313.
Light in the dwellings of the Israelites, symbolically explained, ii. 317.
Lightning, plague of, in Egypt, iii. 26.
Lights in the sacred candlesticks, why to be constantly kept burning, iii. 237.
Lion, worshipped bv the Egyptians, iv. 3.
Lips, uses of the, ii. 389.
Living and the dead, the, symbolical meaning of, ii. 385.
Loaves, on the sacred table, symbol- ical meaning of, iii. 213. j Locusts, plague of, in Egypt, iii. 27. j Logeum of the high priest, iii. 97; its use and meaning, 1 00.
Lord, and master, different meanings of, ii. 98.
Lot, his flight from Sodom, iv. 278.
Lot and his daughters, symbolically explained, i. 327, 487.
Love, genuine, and vulgar, iv. 13, 14.
Lowly-minded people, remarks on, iv. 266.
Lucifer, motion of the planet, i. 180.
Luxurious life inimical to virtue, ii. 318.
Luxury, indulgence in, i. 498; cen- sure of, ii. 353.
Lycurgus, laws of, iii. 517.
Lysimachus, iii. 534., Macedonians, fall of the, ii. 480.
Machir, the son of Manasseh, ii. 165.
Macro, the successor of Sejanus, iv. 63; his protection of Caius Caligula in the time of Tiberius, 64, 107; INDEX.
479 his endeavours to instruct him, 109; is put to death by Caligula, 64, 1 1 2.
Madian. See Midian.
Madienaeans, their hostility to the Hebrews, iii. 420.
Madness a greater evil than death, i. 446.
Magi, a company of virtuous and honourable men, iii. 522.
Magical art, greatly esteemed by the Persians, iii. 328.
Magicians of Egypt confounded by Moses and Aaron, iii. 21.
Magistrates, Treatise on tbe Creation of, iii. 392.
Magnet, attraction of wire by the, iii. 470.
Maltese dogs, their exceeding tame- ness and affection, iii. 476.
Mamre, symbolical meaning of, ii. 80.
Man, meaning of the term in the writings of Moses, i. 262; creation of, 18; made in the image and likeness of God, 19; this phrase explained, 19; iv. 285; his crea- tion, why ascribed to several crea- tors, i. 20; why the last work in the creation of the world, 22; not formed of dust alone, iv. 248; the first, his beauty both of soul and body, i. 40; the viceroy of God, 44; woman the cause of his fall, 45; expelled from Paradise, 46; not now as at first created, 39; his original excellence, 40; our rela- tionship to the first man, 43; fall of, 120; in what respects inferior to some animals, ii. 450; how superior to the rest of the animal creation, i. 351; the growth of, in periods of seven years, 30; verses of Solon, 31; opinion of Hippocrates, 31; character impressed on, meaning of, 133; made in the image of God, explained, iv. 210; the factitious, and the man modelled after the image of God, i. 65; the perfect, ii. 385; he who is truly free, iii. 510.
Man and woman, symbolical of the miud and the external sensations, i. 92. » Manasseh, sons of, ii. 166. Manasses, blessing of, by Jacob,i. 131. Mandragora, iv. 1 0. Manius Maximus, governor of Egypt, iv. 76. Manna, meaning of, i. 153; heavenly food, ii. 109; how collected, iii. 45; not gathered on the Sabbath, 46. Marah, meaning of, ii. 191; the law why given there, 190; the bitter waters of, i. 322. Marriage, restrictions of the Mosaic law regarding, iii. 306. Marriage of the high priest, regula- tions for the, iii. 198; of the inferior priests, 199. Mars, the planet, placed above the sun, ii. 137. Mars, character of, assumed by Ca- ligula, iv. 120. Master, no mortal absolutely so of the best for unruly servants, iv. 274. Master and Lord, different meanings of, ii. 98. Matter, disquisition on, iv. 211. Measures of the ark, iv. 343. Medical science, remark on, iv. 246. Mehel, meaning of, i. 301. Melchisedek, meaning of, i. 128. Memphis, in Egypt, iii. 26. Men, races of, twofold, i. 60. Men-women, censure of, iii. 244. Men-women and women-men, iii. 417. Merchants and dealers, laws for, iii.
402. Mercury, the planet, placed below the sun, ii. 137. Mercury, character of, assumed by Caligula, iv. 120. Meshech, meaning of, ii. 101. Mesopotamia, the sacrifice of children not practised in, ii. 434; symbolical meaning of, 204. Methusaleh, iv. 327: meaning of, i.
295. Midian, symbolical meaning of, ii. 13, 259; his daughters, 260. Milcah, meaning of, ii. 166. Migration op Abraham, On the, ii.
43.
480 INDEX.
Military service, who exempted from, and why, iii. 417; humane regula- tions of Moses, 4. Milk, a bounteous gift, iii. 442. Miltiades exhibits game-cocks to his army as examples of courage, iii. 535. Mind, the, the same to the soul as the eye to the body, i. 14; the needs of each, 14; likeness of man to his Maker to be found in the mind, 20; its nature incomprehen- sible, ii. 298. Mind and outward senses, the cham- pions of each, iii. 24b'. Minerva compared to the number seven, i. 55. Minotaur, story of the, iii. 314. Miriam, song of, i. 394. Mischief, designers of, remark on, iv.
261.
Mitre of the high priest, ii. 60; iii. 97. I Mixed multitude which accompanied!
the Israelites from Egypt, iii. 33. | Mixture distinguished from confusion, J ii. 40. Moab, fire in, symbolical meaning of, i. 167; ii. 65; daughters of, 310. Mob, domination of the, the greatest of all evils, ii. 395. Moderation, praise of, iii. 415. Monarchy, Treatisf. on, iii. 177. Money, eager -search for, iii. 521. Monkish manuscript, fragments from Philo, preserved in a, iv. 257. Monsters, iii. 315. Month, notion of a, the number 30 derived from the, i. 16. Moon, the, placed close to the air, and below the sun, ii. 137.
Morning and evening, creation of, i. 15.
Moses, On the Life of, iii. 1.
Moses, birth of, iii. 2; is exposed on the bank of the river, 3; saved by the daughter of Pharaoh, 4; adopted by her, 5; his education, 5; his temperance and fortitude, 7; his sympathy with his brethren, 10; slays an Egyptian taskmaster, 11; is obliged to flee to Arabia, 12; rescues the daughters ol Jethro, 13; his marriage, 14; the burning bush, 16; the allegory explained, 1C; signs and tokens, 18; returns to Egypt, 20; Pharaoh refuses to let the children of Israel go, 20; Mo- ses' rod, 21; the plagues of Egypt, 22; the Israelites driven out, 31; Moses is elected their leader, 33; his disregard of riches, 34; Pharaoh pursues the Israelites, 37; murmur- ings of the people, 38; their passage of the Red Sea, 40; the bitter waters made sweet, 41; famine, 43; the gift of manna, 45; the Sabbath ascertained by the double supply of manna, 46; the quails, 47; Mo- ses procures water from the rock, 47; the Moabites defeated, 49; spies sent to view the land of Canaan, 49; their report disheartens the people, 53; Moses turns aside from the Edomites, 54; the Israelites de- feated by the Canaanites, 56; vic- tory of the Israelites, 57; they defeat Sihon, king of the AmOrites, 58; Balak and Balaam, 59; Phine- has, 67; the war against the Moab- ites, 68; conduct of Moses as a lawgiver, 76; excellence of his method of setting forth his laws, 84; his actions as a chief priest, 88; divinely instructed to build the tabernacle, 90; selects his brother Aaron for high priest, 103; the golden calf, 107; plot against Mo- ses, 1 1 1; his character as a prophet, 114; examples of his prophecies, 126; his death, 136; his humane laws, ^30, et seq.; the interpreter of the will of God, 468; the meek- est of men, 474; his admirable method of setting forth his laws, i. 1; his exordium, 1; his learning, 2; his description of the creation, 3; iv. 25; five lessons taught therein, i. 51.
Moses, spirit of, imparted to the seventy elders, i. 334.
Moses, tent of, symbolically consi- dered, i. 283.
Motions, seven in number, i. 36.
Mourning, regulations respecting, iii. 122.
INDEX.
481 Mouth, Plato's remark on the, i. 35. Multitude, the, likened to a eunuch, ii. 466; the mixed multitude which accompanied the Israelites from Egypt, hi. 33. Murder, the commandment against, iii. 165, 173, 324; denunciation of, to Noah, iv. 391. Murder of their families and them- selves practised by the Jews in great extremities, iv. 152. Murrain of beasts, plague of, in Egypt, iii. 30. Music, power of the number 7 in, i.
36. Music, heavenly, what, iv. 410. Music and musical instruments, i. 310. Mysteries, sacred, not to be spoken of to the uninitiated, iv. 245.
Nachor, meaning of, ii. 166; his two wives, 166. JVadab, meaning of,.ii. 80, 356. Nakedness, symbolical meaning of, i.
93, 121; iv. 299. Names in Holy Scripture, On the CHANGE OF, li. 2,i8.
Naming of the animals by Adam, iv. 294.
Naphtali, a symbol of peace, ii. 351; Nature, uselessness of struggles against, iv. 247.
Navigation, its benefits, iv. 245.
Necessity and fate, not taught by Moses, ii. 154.
Nectar and ambrosia, i. 373.
Nests, or rooms, in the ark, iv. 341.
Nile. See Egypt.
Nimrod, a giant and a mighty hunter, iv. 405.
Ninety-nine, the number, remarks on, iv. 439, 462.
Noah, On the Tilling op the Earth by, i. 379; On the Plant- ing of, 418.
Noah, meaning of, i. 127; ii. 401; why he found grace in the sight of the Lord, i. 360; a husbandman, 378; plants a vineyard, 416; wick- edness of his sons, 487; his prayers, 513; called Deucalion by the VOL. IT. I Greeks, iii. 461; prophecy con- cerning him, iv. 330. i Noah, the sons of, symbolical meauing of their names, iv. 330. i Nobility, On, iii. 496.
Nobilitv, true, is nobility of mind, iii. 497.
Nocturnal festival of the Therapeutaj, iv. 19.
Nod, land of, meaning of, i. 293.
Noeman, meaning of, i. 313.
Number, mvstical properties ascribed to, i. 3.
Numbers, perfect, ii. 275.
Oak of Sichem, its symbolical mean- ing, ii. 93. Oath, field of the, i. 432; well of the, ii. 293; how God is said to take an, i. 161. Oaths not to be taken if it can be avoided, iii. 155; oaths and vows considered, 255. Obulus, the secretary of Caligula, iv.
140. Ocellus, his opinions regarding the world, iv. 24. OSdipus, ii. 306. Offences punished with death by the law of Moses, iii. 298, 300. Offerer of sacrifice, the, must be pure both in body and soul, iii. 229. Offerings of Cain and Abel, i. 207. Offerings distinguished from gifts, i.
159. Ointment, the holy, iii. 104. Old age, remarks on, iv. 244. Olive-branch, the, iv. 372. Olive garden, symbolical meaning of, i. 362. Olives, command concerning gather- ing, iii. 432. Olympian contest, iv. 426; the only one there deserves to be called sacred, i. 402. On, meaning of, i. 298. Onan, i. 328, 346. One hundred, virtue of the number, iv. 469. One hundred and twenty years as- cribed to man, iv. 331. I 482 INDEX.
523.
Onomarchus, punishment of the sacri- lege of, iv. 231.
Onycha, iL 132.
Opinion, slavery of men to, ii. 354.
Opposition of the parts of the sacri- fices, symbolical meaning of, ii. 134.