Expositions on the Psalms · Part 77

Devil, the, fell through pride, 242; the tempter, 299; false accuser, 328; lion and dragon, 457; serpent, 517; persecuted Christ, persecutes His Church, 652; warfare between Christians and the devil, 654, 655.

Doeg the Edomite, 197, 201.

Dogs, use of the word, 295, 296.

Donatists, schismatics, 42, 228, 470; claimed to be the only true Christians, 414, 473, 592, 640, 641, 670.

Donatus, 216, 298.

Dove, type of love, 212.

Drunkenness, spiritual, so called. See Inebriation.

Eagle, explanation of characteristics, 285, 506.

Earth, God's saints on, 48; lower places of, meaning of, 262; God's footstool, 485; things of, cleave to Christians, 564.

Eastertide, type of everlasting happiness, 545; follows Lent with praise and feasting, 673.

Ecstasy of David, 68, 70; trance or transport of mind, 296, 555.

Edom, or "earthly," 244; name for Esau, 631.

Egypt, ten plagues of, and meaning, 375; land of Ham, 523; emblem of this world, 550.

Election of the Gentles, 625.

Elijah, 181, 545.

Endor, 399.

Envy, defined, 524; entices to sin, 642; the devil the great envier, 642.

Ephraim, meaning of name, 247, 386.

Ephrata, 617.

Epicurus, philosopher, 349; named "hog," 349; teaching of, 349.

Episcopus. See Bishop.

Epithalamia, 146.

Esau, type of the proud, etc., 162; type of carnal men, 631.

Esther, Queen, 197.

Eternity, eternal, meaning of, 3; our refuge, 442.

Etham, 347.

Ethiopia and Ethiopians, 298, 346.

Eucharist, sacrament of the, how spoken of, 75; for rich and poor alike, 169; mystery of eating and drinking in, 485, 486. See Sacraments.

Eunomians, 297.

Eve, type of the Church, 131, 607, 608; our flesh compared to, 170.

Evil, sent on men in just judgment, 80; bodily, comes on good and bad alike, 384.

Examples, effect of, 589, 590, 643.

Exultation of the just, 209; in the Lord, 467, 468; exult with fear, 679.

Eye of God on those who look to Him, 71; wantonness of eyes condemned, 190; eye of the flesh, 480, and of the heart, 480; eyes of Christ's Body, the Church, 426.

Ezekiel, prophet, song of, Ps. lxv., 267.

Face of God, meaning of expression, 44, 286, 298.

Faith, path to knowledge, 29; of the fathers same as ours, 195; in Christ cleanses, 438; necessary to reconciliation, 522.

Faithful, the, God's tabernacle on earth, 134, 606.

Fasting, one of the wings of prayer, 140, 423; fast of Lent enjoined in Old Testament and by our Lord, 545; of Christ, 304; on heathen festal days, 484.

Father, the, first Person in the Blessed Trinity, 301, 289; Abba, 381.