Oracles of God, remarks on the, iv. 255.
Oracles and secret ceremonies ridi- culed by Caligula, iv. 116.
Outward senses, the, likened to win- dows, iv. 264; typified by Charran, ii. 85, 301.
Ox, the, when not to be muzzled, in. 445.
Oxen, Pharaoh's dream of the, ex- plained, ii. 382, 473.
Oxen, sheep, and goats, why offered in sacrifice, iii. 211.
Pain, remark on, iv. 276. Palestine, the Essenes of, iii See also Jews. Palm, the symbol of victory, i. 120. Panathensea, a festival, iii. 535. Pancratium, contest of the, i. 401. Pandora, a poetic appellation of the earth, iv. 29. Pansetius, the Stoic, embraces the doctrine of the incorruptibility of the world, iv. 34. Paradise, iv. 28G; planting of, i. 422; placed in the east, 424; its plants unlike those of modern parks, 45; man expelled from, 46; virtue so termed metaphorically, 63; the tree of life, 66; rivers of, 68. Pardon apt to engender repentance, iv. 273. Pardon of offences, remark on, iv. 2,1. Parents, Treatise on the Honour COMMANDED TO BE PAID TO, hi. 293.
Parents, honour to, the command- ment respecting, iii. 160, 172, 293, 294; have the power of life and death over their children, 296; the power justified, 298.
Parthians and Persians, changes in their situation, ii. 480.
Pascha. See Passover.
Pasiphae, legend of, iii. 314.
Passions, why compared to beasts and birds, i. 83; compared to a horse, 105; reason the pilot, or charioteer of the, 1 38.
Passover, the, symbolically explained, i. 220. Patience typified by Rebecca, ii. 89. Peace, a divine blessing, iv. 273; of what nature was that promised to Abraham, ii. 151; though un- favourable, more advantageous than war, iii. 409. Peace and war, directions regarding, iii. 488. Peg, reason so called symbolically, i.
147. Peitho, meaning of, ii. 306. Peithom, meaning of, i. 298. Peloponnesus, cities of, swallowed up by the sea, iv. 58. Pentecost, day of, iii. 171. Pentephoe, wife of Pharaoh's chief cook, i. 170. People who are governed, remarks on, iv. 243, 246, 258. Perfume, symbolical meaning of the directions concerning, ii. 132. Peripatetics, sect of the, iv. 423. Perizzites, iv. 424. Perjury, condemnation of, iv. 256. Persians, impious marriage custom of the, iii. 306. Persians and Parthians, changes in their situation, ii. 4o0. Petronius, governor of Syria, ordered to set up a statue of Caligula in the holy of holies, iv. 146; his prudent measures, 149; opposition of the Jews, 150; nis letter to Claudius, 155; the project aban- doned, 172. Peutephres, father-in-law of Joseph, ii. 309. j Phanuel, meaning of, ii. 27- ; Pharan, meaning of, iv. 437. Pharaoh, dreams of, explained, ii. 382, 473; his cup, 472; flight of Moses from the presence of, sym- bolically explained, i. 110; his cruelty to the Hebrews, iii. 9. Pharos, island of, the laws of Moses INDEX.
483 translated there, iii. 81; comme- morative festival held there, 82.
Phayllus, punishment of the sacri- lege of, iv. 231.
Pheison, a river of Paradise, symbol- ically explained, i. 68; iv. 289.
Phidias, the statuary, i. 470.
Philip, the tetrarch, iv. 66.
Philo Judaeus, an ambassador to Claudius, iv. 140; his account of an interview with the emperor, 176; wife of, her reason for not wearing golden ornaments, 275.
Philolaus, his testimony on the nature of God, i. 29.
Philosophy, the most perfect good of human life, i. 15; the royal road, 309; the handmaid of wisdom, ii. 173; why called a science, and not an art, 186.
Philomelus, punishment of the sacri- lege of, iv. 231.
Phinehas, his just anger, iii. 67, 187; how rewarded, 67, 68.
Phison. See Pheison.
Phocean sacred war, the, iv. 231.
Physicians, various skill of, i. 252.
Physicians and cooks, great quarrel which exists between, ii. 466.
Pigeons, the reason of their abun- dance at Ascalon, iv. 240.
Pilate, procurator of Judea, his perse- cution of the Jews, iv. 164.
Pillar erected by Jacob, ii. 342.
Pillars, symbolical meaning of, ir. 282.
Pilot, prudent conduct of the, iii 464.
Pindar, citation from, iv. 53.
Pitch, why employed in the ark, iv. ;42.
Pi the law of Moses regarding, iii. 339.
Place, considerations on, ii. 305.
Plagues of Egypt, the, iii. 22.
Plain, figurative meaning of, i. 241.
Planets, motions of the, i. 180; their position, ii. 137.
Planets and fixed stars arrayed in seven divisions, i. 34.
Plants, considerations on the nature of, i. 350.
I I Plants of Paradise, the virtues so termed, i. 45, 422.
Plato, the sweetest of all writers, iii. 509; his remark on the mouth, i. 35; his description of an entertain- ment, iv. 13; citations from, ii. 207, 211; iv. 24, 34, 37.
Pleasure, remark on, iv. 276; symbol- ized by the serpent, i. 47; curses against, 136; life of the man devoted to, i. 47.
Pleasures of man more various than those of animals, i. 48.
Pledges, the law of, ii. 311.
Pleiades, band of the, their motions, i. 34.
Poets, the instructors of mankind, iii. 537.
Poisoners, punishment of, iii. 328.
Political affairs, their variety, ii. 460.
Poly crates, tyranny and unhappy fate of, iv. 228.
Polypus, its wonderful property, i. 488.
Pomegranates, their emblematic meaning, iii. 196.
Pontus, fall of, i. 376.
Poseidon, iv. 2.
Posidonius, the Stoic, embraces the doctrine of the incorruptibility of the world, iv. 34.
Poverty, remarks on, iv. 281.
Powers, the heavenly, the creation of man attributed to, ii. 38.
Prayer of Noah, iv. 401.
Precept, command, prohibition, and recommendation distinguished, i.76.
Pregnant animals not to be sacrificed, iii. 443.
Preservation, sacrifice for. See Vir- tues.
Pride the cause of many other evils, iii. 137.
Priests, On the Rewards and Honours which belong to thk, iii. 204.
Priests, laws relating to the, iii. 194; marriage, 198; mourning, 2<>0; mutilation, 201; rewards and ho- nours, 204; difficult cases to be referred to their judgment, iii 401. See High Priest. 2 484 INDEX.
Prisoners of war, directions regarding, | iii. 437. Procession, the course of the affairs of life likened to a, ii. 481. Prohibition, command, recommenda- tion, distinguished, i. 76.
Promises, remarks on, iv. 267, 268, 270.
Prophecy, gift of, ii. 146.
Prophet, every good man a, ii. 446; character of Moses as a, iii. 114.
Prophets, false, how to be treated, iii. 242.
Proselytes, regulations respecting, iii. 186.
Prosperity, deceitfulness of, iii. 241.
Protagoras, impious opinion of, i. 294.
Providence, arguments for a, in oppo- sition to the atheists, iv. 222.
Prudence, eulogium of, i. 70; likened to gold, 72.
Psonthom phanech, the Egyptian name of Joseph, ii. 255; its meaning, 256.
Ptolemy Philadelphus procures the laws of Moses to be translated into Greek, iii. 80.
Ptolemies, fall of the, ii. 480.
Punishments and Rewards, On, iii. 456.
Punishment, remark on, iv. 275; its benefit to the bystanders, iv. 247.
Purification for blood shed in war, why required, iii. 69.
Purifving victims, various kinds of, ii. 285.
Purple (7rop(pvpa), emblematic mean- ing of, ii. 181.
Pythagoras, saying of, iv. 293.
Pythagoreans, their excellent doc- trines, iii. 507; their opinions con- cerning the world, iv. 24.
Quadrupeds, what are clean, iii. 380. Quails, the supply of, iii. 387. Quaternion, the heavens adorned with a, i. 17.
Rachel, meaning of, ii. 163. Raguel-Jother, meaning of, ii. 259. Rain, symbolical meaning of, i. 58. Rainbow. See Bow in the clouds.
Rains, seasonable, iii. 479.
Ram, character of the, iy. 409, 412; the symbol of speech, ii. 1 13. Rameses, meaning of, i. 298. Raven, a sign of wickedness, iv. 369. Reason, the pilot or charioteer of the passions, i. 138. Rebecca, meaning of, i. 131; ii. 89. Rebekkah, Moses' account of her, its symbolical meaning, i. 317. Recommendation, command, distin- guished, i. 76. Red Sea, passage of the, iii. 40, 126. Refraction alluded to, i. 490. Refuge, cities of, ii. 212, iii. 334. Repentance, On, iii. 453. Repentance, ii. 226; iii. 453; how produced, iv. 273; God propitiated bv, ii. 284; wrongly ascribed to him, iv. 335, 382. Rephaims, iv. 424. Reproach, caution to avoid, iv. 246. Reptiles, various kinds of, iii. 382. Reptiles with wings, symbolical meaning of, ii. 141. Reputation, remark on, iv. 271. Reuben, the symbol of goodness of disposition, i. 236; interpretation of the name, ii. 257; symbolically explained, i. 73, ii. 350. Rewards and Punishments, On, iii.
456. Rewards promised to those who keep God's commandments, iii. 303. Rhegium, city of, whv so called, iv.
58. Rhine, the river, a boundary of the Roman empire, iv. 102. Rhodes, island of, said to have risen from the sea, iv. 53; peopled by Japhet, 404. Rib, svmbolicallv explained, i. 89; iv. 296. Ring-straked, symbolical meaning of, ii. 336. River, speech compared to a, ii. 386. River of God, what, ii. 386. Rivers of Paradise, i. 68; iv. 289; symbolically explained, 68. Rock, the solid, symbolically ex- plained, i. 271.
INDEX.
485 Rod of Aaron, changed into a serpent, iii. 21; its blossoming, 111.
Rod of Moses, its change into a ser- pent, i. 18; symbolically explained, 102.
Roman world, the, its boundaries, iv. 102.
Rome, embassy to, from the Jews of Alexandria, iv. 140.
Royal treasures, what, i. 428.
Ruler, the true education of the, is to be ruled, iv. 243.
Rumah, meaning of, ii. 166.
Sabbath, meaning of, i. 197; manna not gathered on the, iii. 46.
Sabbath-breaker, punishment of the, iii. 120.
Sacrifice, On Animals pit for, iii. 21 1; On those who offer, 229.
Sacrifice, animals fit to be offered in, iii. 21 1;those whooffer sacrifice, 229.
Sacrifice of first-fruits, how to be divided, i. 224.
Sacrifices of the law, symbolical mean- ing of the directions for the, i. 226, 233; division of the, ii. 119.
Sacrilege, various punishments of, iv. 231.
Salpaath, case of the daughters of, iii. 123.
Salt, why to be added to every offer- ing, iii. 235; pillar of, ii. 343; valley of, ii. 7.
Samuel, meaning of, i. 344, 483; his abstinence from wine, 483.
Sarah, meaning of, the name, i. 165; virtue typified by, ii. 163; her handmaiden Hagar, or education, 161.
Sarai, change of her name to Sarah, i. 165.
Sardanapalus, his luxury and intem- perance, iii. 385.
Sarmatians and Scythians, iv. 102.
Sarra, or Sarrah, meaning of, ii. 253; iv. 456.
Saturn, the planet, placed above the sun, ii. 137.
Scape-goat, directions respecting the, L 301.
Science. See Philosophy.
Scorpion, the, symbolically explained, i. 101.
Scriptures, explanation of the, at the banquets of the Therapeutae, iv. 17.
Scythians, celebrated for justice, iv. 5; the Geloni, a tribe of, i. 489.
Scythians and Sarmatians, iv. 102.
Sea, the, how separated from chaos, i. 10; its asserted diminution, iv. 53; cities and countries swallowed up by, 58; islands merged, 53; help to commerce afforded by, 245.
Seeking God, remarks on, iv. 269.
Sejanus, an oppressor of the Jews, iv. 61.
Self-conceit, its mischief, iv. 247.
Self-knowledge, cultivation of, recom- mended, ii. 304.
Self-satisfied people, remarks on, iv. 259, 267.
Semele, iii. 534.
Sensation, five-fold division of, i. 17.
Sensation the middle term, the mind and the external object the ex- tremes, i. 59.
Sensations, the handmaids of pleasure, i. 49.
Senses, their number, i. 17; things judged by the, seven in number, 36; styled the guards of the soul, ii. 5.
Septuagint, the, iii. 81.
Serpent, the, an old poisonous and earth-born reptile, i. 46; spoke to Eve with a human voice, 46; iv. 300; the symbol of pleasure, i. 47; curse on the, 124, 136; the brazen serpent, 100, 398.
Serpent of Dan distinguished from the serpent that appeared to Eve, i. 398.
Serpent in the wilderness, symboli- cally explairfed, i. 104.
Serpent-fighter, a symbolical animal expressing temperance, i. 49.
Servant, the greatest praise of a, iv. 274.
Servant of wisdom, the, is the servant of God, iv. 262.
Servants, kindness to, inculcated, iv.
486 INDEX.
273; a severe master the best for unruly, 274. Service of God the surest freedom, ii.
20. Seth, birth of, i. 189; iv. 325; mean- ing of, i. 314. Seven, the number, admirable proper- ties of, i. 26; of what it consists, 27; its divisions, 27; its essence the foundation of geometry and trigo- nometry, 29; its sanctity, 29; its perfecting power, 30; the most har- monious of numbers, 82; its nature extends over heaven and earth, 33; grammar and music, 36; further considerations on, 54; iii. 264.
Seven ages of man, i. 31.
Seven divisions of the body, i. 35; of the head, 35.
Seven wise men of Greece, iii. 522.
Seven-fold punishment to the slayer of Cain explained, iv. 321.
Seventh day, or Sabbath, why called "rest," ii. 402; why hallowed, i. 26, 56; rest on the seventh day ex- plained, 55; the commandment re- specting it, iii. 158, 170.
Seventh year, enactments regarding the, iii. 434.
Seventy, the number, ii. 88.
Seventy-five, the number, ii. 88.
Severus, lieutenant-governor of Egypt, iv. 61.
Shameiessness and modesty, i. 96; iv. 273.
Shalpaath. See Salpaath.
Sheaf, festival of the, meaning of the injunction, ii. 357.
Sheaves, Joseph's dream of the, ii. 345.
Shechem, meaning of the name, i. 1 14; »• 92- Sheep, a purifying victim, ii. 285. Shem, conduct of, i. 9*; blessed, 511. Shepherd, why an abomination to the Egyptians, i. 217. Shepherds and keepers of sheep, how distinguished, i. 386. Shew-bread, table of, iii. 96. Shinar, meaning of, ii. 1 5. Shittim, meaning of, ii. 310.
Shoulder, the symbol of labour, i. 143.
See Shechem. Shur, meaning of, ii. 235. Sichem. See Shechem. Sicilian strait, how formed, iv. 58. Sicily, its separation from the Italian mainland, iv. 58. Sight, the most excellent of all gif's, ii. 429; figuratively represented by Zoar, ii. 430. Sihon, king of the Amorites, defeated by the Israelites, iii. 58. Silanus, Marcus, father-in-law of Cali- gula, put to death by him, iv. 113. Silence, to whom proper, ii. 96; appro- priate times for, ii. 390. Simeon symbolically explained, i. 73. Sin more to be feared than disease, iv. 276. Sin-offering. See Victims. Sins, voluntary and involuntary, iv.
245. Sirens, song of the, iv. 410. Six, the number, the most productive, i. 3; of what composed, 14. Six days of creation, how to be under- stood, i. 53. Skins, garments of, iv. 311. Slave, gentle and humane treatment of the, enjoined by the law of Moses, iii. 274; symbolical meaning of the directions for the liberation of the, ii. 130. Slaves, possession of, contrary to na- ture, iv. 16; ordered to be circum- cised, 454; law regarding the killing of, iii. 337; liberation of, 348; fugi- tive, 440; the ministration of, un- known among the Therapeutae, iv. 16; manumitted, iii. 538; descrip- tion of those attending at banquets, iv. 11. Slavery, two kinds of, iii. 510. Sleep, remarks on, iv. 267, 273. Sleep of Adam, iv. 296. Sobriety, advantages of, i. 501. Sodom, meaning of, i. 499. Sodom, land of, symbolical meaning of, ii. 179. Sodomites, cities of the, destruction INDEX.
487 of the, ii. 424; figurative explana- tion, 426.
Sojourners and foreigners, ii. 162;iii. 435.
Soldiers, labours and subordination of, iii. 513.
Solon, laws of, iii. 517; his descrip- tion of the different ages of man, i. 31.
Son, why one only given to Sarah, ii. 266.
Sons and daughters, metaphorically used for reasonings and arts, i. 192.
Sophist, the, his inferiority to the wise man, i. 502.
Sophocles, his CEdipus Tyrannus al- luded to, iii. 306.
Soul, the, the habitation of God, iv. 274; its excellent nature, i. 18; essence of the, 263; irrational part of the, divided into seven parts, 284; the senses, the guards of the, ii. 5; its rational and irrational faculties, typified by Leah and Rachel, 163.
Soul or life of man, its essence, iii. 385.
Soul, speech, and external sense, symbolized by a heifer, a ram, and a goat, ii. 113; how regarded by the righteous, and by the wicked, 114.
Souls, demons, and angels, identity of, i. 332.
Sowing-time and harvest, iv. 384.
Special Laws, Treatise on the, iii. 255, 303.
Speckled and ring-straked, symboli- cal meaning of, ii. 336.
Speech likened to a garment, ii. 813; evils of unseemly freedom of, 359; freedom of, who proper to, 96; akin to friendship, 98.
Spirit of God, its temporary abode with even bad men, i. 333.
Sponge, ii. 40.
Squared pieces of wood, why employ- ed by Noah in building the ark, iv. 340.
Stacte, ii. 132.
Stars, creation of the, i. 15; reasons of this, 15; their uses, 16; useful to navigators, 34; their nature unknown, iii. 178; the viceroys of God, 177; shine by their own light, 466.
Statesman, On the, or Life of Joseph, ii. 453.
Statue of Caligula, attempt to set up the, at Jerusalem, iv. 146.
Stealing, the commandment against, iii. 166, 173, 355.
Stephanion, a freedman, the friend of Flaccus, iv. 84.
Stilbon, motion of the planet, i. 180.
Stoic philosophers, their opinion on the creation and destructibility of the world, iv. 23; change of opinion of some of them, 34.
Stoning, the punishment of the blas- phemer, and the Sabbath-breaker, iii. 114, 120.
Stork, filial piety of the, iii. 162.
Stranger, judgment respecting the, iii. 398.
Strangers not to be elected to situa- tions of authority, iii. 394; laws of Moses regarding, 435.
Strife and contention, symbolized by a plain, i. 241.
Study of the holy scriptures, in what manner to be pursued, iv. 253.
Suicide, a practice of the Jews in great extremities, iv. 152.
Sun, its place in the centre of the planets, ii. 137; the symbol of the mind, 147, 308.
Sun, the, and other good gifts design- ed only for the virtuous, iv. 278.
Superstition, the great hindrance to holiness, i. 363; instances of, 437.
Suppliants, Treatise on the Vir- tues of, iv. 1.
Sur, way leading to, iv. 431; its meaning, 432.
Sword, Flaming, On the, i. 175.
Syleus, iii. 529.
Synagogues, Jewish, statues forcibly erected in them, by the populace of Alexandria, iv. 70, 129.
Syria, meaning of the name, i. 1 12.
488 INDEX.
Tabernacle of testimony symbolically explained, i. 119.
Tabernacle and the altar, symbolical meaning of,i. 481; described, iii. 90.
Table of shewbread, iii. 96.
Tables, the two, of the Law, nature of their division, iii. 147.
Tamar, iii. 504.
Taming of the passions, iii. 476; of wild beatss, 476.
Tantalus, legend of, alluded to, iii. 169.
Tarandus, a fabulous animal among the Geloni, i. 489.
Tartarus, iii. 491.
Tax collector, cruelty of a, iii. 342.
Temperance, consequences of, ii. 465. symbolical figure of, i. 49.
Temple, the, described, iii. 191; why not surrounded by a grove, 192.
Ten Commandments, On the, iii. 136.
Ten, the number, excellent things attributed to, ii. 175.
Terah, meaning of, ii. 302; his migra- tion from Charran explained, 303.
Tetrapharmacon, a medicine, its com- position, ii. 40; iv. 42.
Thalamein, meaning of, i. 299.
Thamar, meaning of, i. 126, 370; her storv symbolically explained, ii. 182, 224.
Thank-offering. See Victims.
Theatre, various behaviours of spec- tators at the, i. 489.
Theft, law against, iii. 355.
Theocritus, allusion to, i. 361.
Theodorus, surnamed the Atheist, his reply to Lysimachus, iii. 534.
Theognis, proverb from, iii. 450.
Theouhrastus, his opinion respecting the earth, iv. 52.
Therapeutae, found chiefly in Egypt, iv. 6; their shrines, 6; their mo- nasteries, 7; their sacred assem- blies, 7, their temperance, 8; their raiment, 9; their common assem- blies, 9; their leasts, 15; reading the scriptures, 17; hymns, 18; nocturnal festival, 19; choruses, in imitation of those led by Moses and Miriam, 19.
Thief, killing of the nocturnal, sym- bolically explained, i. 115.
Thimna, a concubine, ii. 168.
Thirteen, the number, iv. 462.
Thirty, the number, whence derived, i. 16.
Thirty-six, the number, why termed by the Pythagoreans agreement, iv. 452.
Thorns and thistles, symbolical mean- ing of, i. 174.
Thoughts of the soul, ii. 141.
Three, the number, the image of a solid body, i. 53.
Three hundred and sixty-five, symbo- lical meaning of, iv. 328.
Thunderbolts, plague of, in Egypt, iii. 27.
Thyestes, accursed food of, iii. 487.
Tiberius, death of, iv. 63; designed to put Claudius to death, but dis- suaded by Macro, 107.
Tiberius, son of Drusus, death of, alluded to, ir. 69, 106.
Tigris, a river of Paradise, symboli- cally explained, i. 68; its charac- ter, iv. 290.
Tilling the ground, how it differs from husbandry, i. 379.
Time, its prior existence to that of the world inconsistent with philo- sophy, i. 7; its measure by the stars, 16; the grandson of God, 349; economy of, iv. 246.
Titans and giants, fable of the, iv. 405.
Tones, musical, seven in number, i. 55.
Tooth, law regarding the striking out of a, iii. 3.V2.
Tower of Babel, its symbolical mean- ing, ii. 27.
Trance of Abraham, ii. 143; iv. 418; various kinds of, ii. 143.
Translators, the seventy, their labours, iii. 80.
Travelling through the land, symboli- cal meaning, ii. 91. Treachery, condemnation of, iii. 400; iv. 272. Tree of knowledge of good and evil, i. 78; iv.289.
INDEX.
480 Trees, created in full perfection, i. 11; reason assigned, 11; of a hostile city not to be cut down, iii. 409. Triad, the earth adorned with a, i. 17. Triclinia, couches so called, iv. 11. Triptolemu8, fable of, iii. 458. Trvpho, a Jewish elder, plundered and scourged, iv. 76. Turtle-dove and pigeon, symbolical meaning of, ii. 118. Two hundred, the number, iv. 328. Tvphus, an Egyptian god, his emblem, i. 472.
Uncertain and unknown things, re- marks on, iv. 259. Unintentional homicide, punishment of, iii. 334. Universe, the, filled with living beings in all its parts, i. 33 1. Unleavened bread, ii. 190; why sacred, 191. Unmixed wine, a poison, i. 446. Unwritten Law, On the, ii. 396. Ur, meaning of the name, i. 119. Urim and Thummim, symbolical meaning of, i. 1 38. Ursa major, the constellation, the guide of mariners, i. 34; consists of seven stars, 34, 54. Usurv, lending on, condemned, ii.
273; iii. 430.
Vain-glory an untameable wild beast, ii. 461.
Variegated texture, symbolically ex- plained, ii. 335.
Venus, the heavenly, iv. 1 3.
Venus, the planet, placed below the sun, ii. 137.
Vesta, the only fixed part of the world, i. 181.
Victims, Treatise on, iii. 211.
Victims, why to be whole and entire, and without blemish, iii. 212; the three classes of, 214; symbolical meaning of the mode of sacrifice, 216.
Vine, Joseph's dream of the, ex- plained, ii. 372.
Vinevard of the Lord, ii. 374.
Vineyard, symbolical meaning of, i. 362; whv planted bv Noah, iv. 396.
Vineyards, not to be gleaned a second time, iii. 432.
Violation of a virgin, punishment for, iii. 320.
Virtue, remarks on, iv. 271; contem- plative and active, i. 66; meta- phorically termed a paradise, 63; trees of, 66; typified by Sarah, ii. 163; her handmaidens, 163.
Virtue and pleasure, opposition of, i. 211; allegory of, iii. 250.
Virtues, Treatise on Three, iii. 4 12.
Virtues, the four generic, i. 315.
Virtues, the generic, likened to cities, and the specific to houses, ii. 230.
Virtuous Man, Treatise on the, iii. 506.
Virtuous man, the, a common good to all men, iv. 250; he alone free, iii. 519.
Visions. See Dreams.
Voice of God, explained, ii. 53.
Vow, an offering to God, ii. 344.
Vow, the great, explained, iii. 22".
Wages op a Harlot, On the, iii.
249. Wages of pleasure, i. 50; of a harlot not to be brought into the sacred treasurv, iii. 249; of the poor man, 431. Walking, how attributed to God, iv.
305. War, how and when to be put an end to, iii. 477; exemptions from going to, in the Law, considered, i. 408; sound of, symbolical meaning of, i. 473. Wars, the ordinary causes of, i. 313. Wasps, swarms of, to fight for the pious, iii. 478; symbolical meaning of, iv. 282. Water, salt and fresh, separated, i. 9. Wavering and cowardly people, re- marks on, iv. 261. Wealth, the true, iii. 414. Well, the heavens why likened to a, ii. 301.
490 INDEX.
Wells dug by the patriarchs, why four in number, il 295.
Wheat, Pharaoh's vision of the ears of, ii. 474.
Wicked, friendship of the, iemarks on, iv. 272.
Wicked man, flight of the, i. 107; how he conceals himself from God, 108; where, 114; is governed by a master, ii. 243; his unhappiness, 271; his mode of life, 400; mise- rable life of the, iv. 256; his hopes unstable, 265; unworthy of free- dom of speech, iii. 518; cannot be happy, iv. 224.
Wicked men, conduct of, ii. 11, 198; danger of association with, iv. 247.
Wickednesfc, likened to ground ac- cursed, i. 273.
Widow, symbolical meaning of, i. 370.
Widow and orphan, the peculiar care of the just magistrate, iii. 398.
Wife, to be subject to her husband, iv. 308.
Wild beasts, breaking in of, iii. 476.
Wild vine, symbolical meaning of, i. 499.
Window of the ark, what, iv. 368.
Wine, unmixed, its symbolical mean- ing, i. 453.
Wine and strong drink forbidden to Aaron and the priesthood, i. 479.
Winter, why unknown in Egypt, iii. 25.
Wisdom, three different manners by which it exists among men, ii. 327.
Wise Man made perfect by In- struction, On the, or Life of Abraham, ii. 396.
Wise man, the, why desirous of peace and labour, iv. 252; more difficult to enslaye than the lion, iii. 515; question whether there is really such a thing, ii. 245.
Wives, choosing, symbolical meaning of, L 302.
Wives and concubines, ii. 162.
Woman, symbolical meaning of, i. 120; creation ot; 45, 85; the cause j of the fall of man, 45; why styled I a building, iv. 297; said to be only j an imperfect male, 255.
Women, why employed in the prepa- j ration of the sacred works of the * tabernacle, ii. 64; law respecting j those who behave immodestly, iii. 1 345.
Word, the divine, iv. 392.
World, Treatise on thk Incor- j RUPTIBILITY OF THE, iv. 21.
World, creation of the, as described, by Moses, i. 2; why six days were occupied therein, 3; how the term I li six days " is to be understood, 53; likened to a great and all-pro- ductive plant, i. 417; various meanings given to the word, iv. 22.
World, creation of the, remark on, iv. 269; the incorporeal, styled the reason of God, i. 6; love of the, not reconcilable with the love of God, iv. 244.
Xanthians, their noble resistance to Brutus, iii. 532.
Xenophon, his description of an en- tertainment, iv. 13.
Xerxes, king of Pesia, his impiety, ii. 365.
Young men and elders, how spoken of by Moses, i. 502. Youth, indolent, unhappy fate of, iv.
275.
Zabulon, the symbol of light, ii. 350. Zeno, fortitude of, iii. 529. Zillah, meaning of, i. 313. Zilpah, meaning of, ii. 163. I Zipporah, wife of Moses, i. 185. Zoar, figurative meaning of, ii. 430. Zodiac, the, whence its name deriv- ed, iii, 364; the sun and moon said to traverse it, 364.
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Aide (Hamilton). Songs without Music. 3rd edition. With ad- ditional Pieces. Fcap. 8vo. 6s.
Aldine Edition of the Poets. See List, page 7.
Barry Cornwall. English Songs and Lyrics. 2nd edition. Fcap.
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Bridges (R.) Shorter Poems. 4th edition. Fcap. 8vo. 5*. net.
Eros and Psyche: A Poem in Twelve Measures. The Story done into English from the Latin of Apuleius. 2nd edition revised Fcap. 8vo. 5s. net.
Prometheus the Firegiver. {Out of print.
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Eden. A Cantata in Three Acts, set to music by C. Villiere Stanford. Words only, by Robert Bridges. 2s. net.
Browning's Strafford. With Notes by E. H. Hickey, and an Intro- duction by S. R. Gardiner, LL.D. 2nd edition. Crown 8vo. 2s. 6d.
Handbook to Robert Browning's Works. By Mrs. Sutherland Orr. 7th edition, with bibliography. Fcap. 8vo. 6s.
Browning (Mrs.) Sonnets from the Portuguese. Printed at the Chi?wick Press, with decorated borders and initials. Royal 16mo. 2.*, 6d. net A Classified Catalogue of Selected Works.
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