Expositions on the Psalms · Part 76

Catholic Church, 283, 473, 489, 501.

Catholics, 228.

Cedars of Libanus, the righteous like to, highly exalted, 456.

Cherubim, 386.

Chrism, 64, 678.

Christ, the Mediator, 68; Angel of the great counsel, 75; Body of, 81; the seed of Abraham, 124; man, 162, 540; born of a Virgin, 193; Rock on which the Church is built, 249, 632; temptation of, 249; Lamb without spot, 265; food of angels, 372; descent into hell (hades), 427; Judge of the whole world, 474; flesh of our life, 485; the anointed one, the Messiah, 504, 622. See Incarnation.

Christians, must suffer troubles in this world, 219, 310; persecuted, 342, 511, 610, 632.

Church, inherits eternal life, 11; assailants of the, 39; Body of Christ, 81; Eve type of, 131; blessed, 166; works done out of, 401, 402; ark of Noah type of, 42; the city of God, 484; city of the saints, Catholic, 677.

Chusi, or Hushai, 20, 21.

Cicero, 512, 513.

Circumcelliones, miscreants, 42, 218, 470, 622, 623.

City of God, the Church, 484.

Cities, two opposed, Jerusalem and Babylon, 268.

Clergy and clerks, 291.

Commandments, God's, man of himself too weak to keep them, 561, 562; love, the mark of their breadth, 576.

Confession, twofold, of sin and of praise, 27, 68, 155, 632, 633; benefit of, 70, 283; always needful, 490; of sins of ignorance and negligence, 528.

Confirmation, 64.

Conscience, an altar, 185; testimony of, 208.

Consolation, in the desert of this world, 260; in hope, 604.

Conversion, difficulty of, 17; work of God's grace, 323; must not be delayed, 497, 498.

Core, or Korah, 132, 140, 155, 400.

Cornelius, 478.

Country, the heavenly. See Jerusalem and The City of God.

Covetousness, hateful to our Lord, 479; root of all evils, 565.

Creation, beauty of, 27; not to be preferred to the Creator, 389, 390.

Crispina, martyr, 591, 633.

Cross of our Lord a key, 155; virtue hidden in, 247; mark of, on foreheads of Christians, 650.

Crown, Christ's crown of thorns, 6.

Cyprian, martyr, 92, 102, 418; table of, 391.

Daniel, prophecy of, 164.

Darkness, not made by God, but ordered by Him, 27; term used for rulers of this world, 79.

David, "ecstasy" of, 68, 70; his sin and fall no warrant for other men to sin, 190; type of Christ, 209, 225; meekness of, 616, 617.

Day of the Lord. See Advent and Judgment.

Days of the week, 459, 460.

Dead, do they know in Hades what transpires on earth? 538.

Death, of the righteous and wicked, 78, 79; is certain, 117; definition of, 174.

Degrees, songs of, 112; meaning of, 589, 596, 598; same in number as steps of the temple, 681.

Deluge, ark of the Church refuge from, 67; of persecutions, 511.

Denary, 545.

Detraction, a stumbling-block to the weak, 188; must not seek revenge for, 537.