The Philocalia of Origen (1911). Index

INDEX

Abraham, 10, 21, 24, 67, 195.
Alexander, 178.
Allegory, 14, 15, 23, 28, etc.
Ambrose, 36, 42, 62.
Amon, 86.
Anagogical interpretation, 21 and note.
Ancestral usages, 164 f.
Angels, man's helpers, 118; their "provinces," 163 f., 194; their names suitable to their service, 83.
Antinous, 109.
Ants and bees, 119 f.; patterns to mankind, 120; their irrational natures not above man's rational, 121; their soul, 122; ruling principle, 123.
Apostles, why fishermen and tax-gatherers, 93-95; their letters, 11.
Aquila, 49, 61.
Aristotle, 79, 81, 84, 98.
Artemis, 66, 82, 86, 166.
Asclepios, 66.
Astrology, 173, 195 f.
Attica, 168.
Augury, 126-128 f.

Babylon, 25.
Baptism, the Sacrament of cleansing, 105; care in preparation (catechumens, hearers, etc.), 105; treatment of the lapsed, 106.
Barnabas, Epistle of, 95.
Basil, Saint, Preface, etc.
Birds, their sacred assemblies, etc., 127.
Bishop, must be apt to teach, 103.
Book of the living, 40.
Brahmans, 81.
Bull, Bishop, 98.

Cain, 24, 49.
Cainites, 79.
Catechumens, 63, etc.
Celsus, 62-137, 163-173, 18-1-187.
Charms and names, 83. 
Chief good, 65-68, 214. 
Christ, the Spiritual Head of the human race, 24. 
Christian faith, rational, etc., 109f.; its "simplicity" discussed, 86 f. 
Christianity, rapid spread, 2, 3, 108; and secular learning, 98 f.; graduated teaching, 106. 
Christians, from what class mainly drawn at first, 98. 
Chrysippus, his work on The Healing of the Passions, 96. 
Church, its rule in succession to the Apostles, 10.
Clement, 12, 13; of Rome, 195. 
Conflagrations and deluges, 90. 
Confusion of tongues, 163.
Creation, design in, 227. 
Cybele, 87. 
Cynics, 105. 
Cyrus, 67.

Darius, 178.
David, key of, 30.
Demas, 233.
Demiurge, 174 note, etc.
Demons, 82, 126, 127, 130, 131.
Deucalion, 90.
Dispersion of mankind, 163 f.
Dositheus, 20.

Eagles, 124.
Ebionites, 24.
Edomites, 162.
Egypt, 25, 26, 86, 167, etc.
Egyptians, spoiling of, 57; idolatry, 66; wise men, 81, 90; animal worship, 90, 128; mysterious doctrines, 91. 
Elephants, 126, 135. 
Epictetus, 63, 108. 
Epicurus, 80, 81, 82, 89, 91, 92, 114, 115, 124. 
Esau, 161.  |240
Ethiopians, 26.
Eve, the type of the Church, 24.

Faith, "fortunate" and "unfortunate," 109.
Faith, in ordinary human affairs, 89.
Fate, 173 f.
Foreknowledge (God's), 176, etc.; medical and nautical, 133.
Free will, 137 f., 140, 141, 145 f., 151 f., 160, 163, 173, 208, 211, 212, etc.
Future (the), holy men inspired with prophetic power, 132; knowledge of, not necessarily Divine, 133.

Gentiles, their election foretold, 4.
Gnostics, 80.
Gospels, their sense, the mind of Christ, 11; contain commands unreasonable if taken literally, 20; also incidents not literally true, 18.
Grapte, 12.
Gregory, Saint, Preface, etc.
Gregory Thaumaturgus (Bishop of Neocaesarea), 57.

Hadad (Ader), 58, 59.
Hades, different places in, assigned to souls, 26; how souls die there, 26; this earthly Hades, 26.
Happiness, its source and nature, 214 f., 222.
Heavens (the), a volume read by Angels and Divine Powers, 194.
Hebron, Cave of, 21.
Hecate, 87.
Heresies, in the Church, 77 f.; in medicine, 78; in philosophy, 78; Jewish, 78.
Hermogenes, 233.
Hesiod, 118.
Holy Scripture, Origen's scheme of interpretation, 1; inspiration, 2f., 32, 56; superhuman element, 7; its partial clearness, 7; the bare letter not to be followed, 8, 9 f.; types, their abuse, 10; body, soul, and spirit, 12 f., 30; to be understood in a peculiar way, 15; design of the Holy Spirit therein, 15 f.; stumbling-blocks, 17, 28, 51; how far historical, 17 f.; strictly historical in many places, 21; compared with secular history, 73; to be searched diligently, 22; use of parallel passages, 22, 32; the "main" connection to be discovered, ibid.; the obvious in, 26; God caused it to be written, 27, 29; not a tittle without meaning, 28; pervaded by God's fulness, 28; full of meanings, 29; closed up and sealed, 30; full of obscurities, 31; difficulties in it as in Creation, 32; why the inspired books are twenty -two in number, 34 and note: its solecisms and poor style, 35 f., 45, 62; its unity, 39 f.; one harmonious instrument of God, 42; inconsequence and abruptness, 44; its personifications, 45; danger of rash correction, 45; variation in meaning of terms, 47, 61; Scripture herbalists and anatomists, 52; how to deal with heretical interpretations, 53 f.; perseverance in study enjoined, 54; compared to charms, 55; the mere reading without understanding may be profitable, 55; every word a "working" word, 52; heretical inventions, 59; prayer the most necessary qualification for understanding, 59; how related to heathen philosophy, 57f., 62 f.; how dependent on logic, 60 f.; its style providentially popular, 63; Scripture cooks, 69; critical prudence in reading, 74 ; impartiality of, 74; does not appear the same to all, 75; ineffable greatness of the contents, 76; like our Lord is "transfigured," 77; the pure intention of the Evangelists, 111.
Homer, 129, 130, 132.

Indians, 19, 81, 92. 
Isaac, 21. 24, 67, 195. 
Israel, a race of souls, 25; spiritual history of, 23 f.

Jacob, 10, 21, 24, 67, 161, 193, 195.
Jerusalem, 21; the heavenly, 25.
Jesus Christ, His Godhead, 5, 6, 97; prophetic utterances. 3; His mortal body, 109; was it ill-favoured? 71 f.; it varied according to the capacity of observers, 73; its different "appearances," 75 ; how His mortal body and human soul became Divine, 112; how one spirit with the Logos, |241 210; the image of the image of God, 210; why He shunned danger, 97; the potency of the Name of Jesus, 83; the Expectation of the Gentiles, 3, 173; the inspirer of better and more Divine laws, 172.
Jew (the), Origen's teacher, 32, 231.
Joseph, 21, 188.
Jowett, Dr., 81, etc.
Judaism, outward and inward, 29.
Judas, 176.

Key of knowledge, 11, 31, 32.

Law, various uses of the word, 48 f.
Law of Moses, some commands impossible and unreasonable, 17, 19.
Law of nature, 49.
Libyans, their laws, 166.
Lot, 10.
Lower animals, made for man, 113, 136; share in man's blessings, 114 f.; why man in comparison a creature of many wants, 116; man's reason a better weapon than their natural protection, 116; a training-school for man, 117; their 'phantasy' and instinct, 139; their so-called antidotes compared with human discoveries, 124; have they thoughts of God?, 125; alleged sacred assemblies, 134; supposed power of divination, 126 f.; clean and unclean in the Law of Moses, 131. (See alto Augury, Ants and bees, Elephants, etc.)
Lucifer, 26, 223.
Lycurgus, 108.

Magi, 81.
Magic, a well-compacted system, 82.
Marcion, 41.
Matter, receptive of every quality God desires, 73; not uncreated or the cause of evil, 197 f. 
Messiah, proved by prophecy to have come, 3 f. 
Mithrae, 87. 
Montanists, 80. 
Moses, 2, 66, 68, etc. 
Much-speaking explained, 36 f.

Nabuchadnosor, 26, 178.
Names, application of heathen names to God, 81 f.; the awe of Christians, 83, 84, 86; transliteration and translation of Divine names, 85.
Numbers, their symbolism, 34.

Oedipus and Jocaste, 74. 
Ophites, 71.

Pappaeus, 86.
Peacemakers (in three senses), 42.
Penelope, 132.
Peripatetics, 88, 91, 92.
Persaeus, 107.
Persians, 91; their laws, 165.
Phaedo, 95.
Phaethon, 90.
Pharaoh, 26, 143f., 151 f.; hardening of his heart, 224 f.; God's mercy towards, 229; not to perish altogether, 229, also 150.
Pherecydes, 127, 134, 135.
Philosophers, how they attracted followers, 104, 105 f.
Phoenix, 136.
Piety, not of arbitrary institution, essentially Divine, 166, 167.
Plato, 62, 63, 65, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 79, 84, 86, 88, 89, 91, 92, 118, 121, 127, 134, 135.
Polemon, 95.
Predestination (fore-ordaining), 208 f.
Providence, general and particular, 137.
Ptolemy Lagos, 178.
Pythagoras, 105, 107, 127, 134, 135.

Reason, the image of the Supreme God, 123.
Recognitions of Clement, 195. 
Robinson, Dr., Translator's Preface. 
Ryle, Bishop, 34.

Sabadians, 87 and note.
Samaneans, 82 and note.
Sanday, Dr., 34, 231.
Scythians, 86, 165.
Sergius Paulus, 232.
Shepherd of Hennas, 12, 47.
Sidon, 25.
Sneezing, an omen, 132.
Socrates, 68, 79, 95, 134, 135.
Solomon, his rule for reading Scripture, 12, etc.
Solon, 108.
Souls, 16; according to Origen, a finite number created, 210; different varieties, 27; their immortality, 92; embodying, 169; transmigration, 92; are souls so constituted originally that they must be saved or perish?, 162, etc.; antecedent causes for one vessel to honour, another to dishonour, |242 161, 162; differently treated, as they require, by the Divine Physician, 228, 233, etc.; not debarred of healing as if this life were all, 150.
Speaking, how made effective, 64.
Speech, origin of, 81 and notes.
Stars, not causative, only indicative, 173. (See also Astrology.)
Stoics, 49 note, 81, 88, 91, 92, 113.
Storks, their affection, 135.
Syrians, 70, 92.

Tauri, their laws, 165. 
Tertullian, 80. 
Trojan war, 73. 
Tyre, 25.

Ulai (river), 178 and note.
Ulysses, 132.
Uriah, allegorical treatment of the story, 28. 
Uriel, Archangel, 193 and note.

Valentinians, 80.
Voluntary action, 138 note; how influenced by reason, 139, 140.

Waterland, 112.
Westcott, Bishop, Translator's Preface, 21, 22.
Word, the Divine Personal, 27, 29.
World, various meanings of the word, 61.

Xenocrates, 95.

Zaleucus, 108. 
Zeno, 107.

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