Orthodox Study
Various Church Fathers

Theophilus.

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¶1

Abel, 105.

¶2

Abraham, 107.

¶3

Adam, 105.

¶4

Antioch, seat of the early Christians, 87.

¶5

described, Renan and Ferrar, 87.

¶6

see of Theophilus, 88.

¶7

bishops of, 88.

¶8

Atheists, philosophers proved to be such, 113.

¶9

others attribute crimes to the gods, 113.

¶10

Authors, profane, 111.

¶11

their ignorance, 111.

¶12

their contradictions, 111.

¶13

Autolycus, 89, and passim; second book addressed to, 94.

¶14

third book addressed to, 111.

¶15

misled by false accusations, 111.

¶16

concluding advice to, 121.

¶17

Babel, tower of, 106.

¶18

Cain, 105.

¶19

family of, 106.

¶20

Chaldeans, 106.

¶21

Chastity, 115.

¶22

Chedorlaomer, 107.

¶23

Christianity, antiquity of, 120.

¶24

Christians, scorned by Autolycus, 89.

¶25

Theophilus glories in the name of, 89.

¶26

their name, 92.

¶27

its meaning, 92.

¶28

honour God and his law, 114.

¶29

teach humanity, 114.

¶30

also repentance and righteousness, 114.

¶31

also chastity and love of enemies, 115.

¶32

their innocent manner of life, 115.

¶33

Chronology, biblical, Theophilus founder of, 87, 106, 118.

¶34

his system, 118.

¶35

from Adam to Saul, 119.

¶36

Saul to Jeremiah, 119.

¶37

Roman, to death of Aurelius, 119.

¶38

leading epochs, 120.

¶39

Creation, 97, 98.

¶40

its glory, 99.

¶41

its sympathy with man, 101.

¶42

its restoration, 101.

¶43

the fourth day, 100.

¶44

the fifth day, 101.

¶45

the sixth day, 101.

¶46

Delitzsch, 102.

¶47

his Psychology, 102.

¶48

Deluge, errors of Greeks about, 116.

¶49

contrasted with Scripture accuracy, 117.

¶50

Epochs, the leading chronological, 120.

¶51

Eusebius, his praise of the Fathers, 87.

¶52

Eve, why formed from Adam’s rib, 105.

¶53

Eucharist, the, 112.

¶54

Evil, not created by God, 101.

¶55

Faith, 91.

¶56

the leading principle, 91.

¶57

Foot-baths, 92.

¶58

Genesis, the truth of its testimony, 103.

¶59

Gibbon, cited, 92.

¶60

God, his nature, 89.

¶61

his attributes, 90.

¶62

perceived through his works, 90.

¶63

and known by them, 90, 91.

¶64

to be seen hereafter in immortality, 91.

¶65

to be worshipped, 92.

¶66

absurd opinions of philosophers and poets concerning, 95.

¶67

his voice, 103.

¶68

his walking, 103.

¶69

his law and Christian doctrine, 113.

¶70

Gods, of the heathen, 91.

¶71

their immoralities, 91.

¶72

absurdities of their worship, 92.

¶73

their images, 94.

¶74

despicable when made, 94.

¶75

valuable when purchased, 94.

¶76

what has become of them, 94.

¶77

their genealogy, 96.

¶78

divers doctrines concerning, 112.

¶79

Hebrew historians contrasted with Greek, 119.

¶80

Hesiod, 95, 97, 99.

¶81

his origin of the world, 95.

¶82

Holiness, enjoined by the prophets, 107.

¶83

Holy Ghost, 97, 107.

¶84

anointing of, 92.

¶85

Homer, his opinion concerning the gods, 95.

¶86

Human race, how dispersed, 107.

¶87

Innocence, 115.

¶88

Inspiration, 93.

¶89

refinements about, 93.

¶90

of prophets, 97.

¶91

Kings, earthly, 92.

¶92

to be honoured, not adored, 92.

¶93

Knowledge, tree of, 104.

¶94

Light, created, 100.

¶95

Logos, 98.

¶96

the internal, 103.

¶97

and external, 103.

¶98

Luther, referred to, 102.

¶99

Man, his creation, 101, 102.

¶100

his life, 102.

¶101

or lives, 102.

¶102

tripartite nature, 102.

¶103

his fall, 102.

¶104

his expulsion from Paradise, 104.

¶105

his mortality, 105.

¶106

and immortality, 105.

¶107

and free-will, 105.

¶108

history of, after the flood, 106.

¶109

races of, dispersed, 107.

¶110

Manetho, 117.

¶111

his inaccuracy in history, 117.

¶112

Melchisedek, 107.

¶113

Moses, antiquity of, 117.

¶114

Paradise, 102.

¶115

its beauty, 103.

¶116

man’s expulsion from, 104.

¶117

Philosophers, absurd opinions concerning God, 95.

¶118

teach cannibalism, incest, and other crimes, 112.

¶119

vague conjectures of, 116.

¶120

historical errors of, 116.

¶121

their mistakes about the deluge, 116.

¶122

Poets, 109.

¶123

confirm the Hebrew prophets, 109.

¶124

Profane history, 107.

¶125

its inconsistencies, 111.

¶126

Prophecies, 108.

¶127

Prophets, inspired by the Holy Ghost, 97, 107.

¶128

enjoin holiness, 108.

¶129

their precepts, 108.

¶130

more ancient than Greek writers, 118.

¶131

Providence, 97.

¶132

Repentance, 114.

¶133

Resurrection, 92.

¶134

illustrated, 93.

¶135

Righteousness, 114.

¶136

Sabbath, 99.

¶137

Scriptures, the prophetic, 93.

¶138

converting power of, 93.

¶139

Sea, the, 100, emblem of the world, 100.

¶140

its harbors, emblems of the churches, 100.

¶141

its perils, of heresies, 100.

¶142

Seth, his race, 106.

¶143

Serpent, the, 103.

¶144

Sibyl, 94, 97, 106, 108.

¶145

Temple, antiquity of, 117.

¶146

Terence, 87. (See Tatian.)

¶147

Theophilus, 87.

¶148

follows Ignatius, 87.

¶149

Barnabas, 87.

¶150

prophets and teachers of Antioch, 87.

¶151

oral discussions, 87.

¶152

founder of Biblical chronology, 87, 106.

¶153

his only remaining work, 87.

¶154

sixth bishop of Antioch, 88.

¶155

conjectural date of birth, 88.

¶156

Theophilus to Autolycus, book i., 89.

¶157

conversion of, 93.

¶158

his account of, 93.

¶159

writes second book to Autolycus, 94.

¶160

occasion of this writing. 94.

¶161

Tree of knowledge, 104.

¶162

Trinity, the, 101.

¶163

or Triad, 101.

¶164

first use of the word, 101.

¶165

Writings, Hebrew contrasted with Greek, 119.

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