II.—INDEX OF PRINCIPAL SUBJECTS.
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Augustine, of Hippo, Saint and Dods, Marcus
his account of the responses of the oracles of the gods concerning Christ, ii. 334-339.
Portents, strange, i. 133;
meaning of the word, ii. 429.
Possidonius, the story of, i. 179.
Postumius, the augur, and Sylla, i. 81, 82, 83.
Præstantius, the strange story related by, respecting his father, ii. 237.
Praise, the love of, why reckoned a virtue? i. 204;
of the eradication of the love of human, 205.
Prayer for the dead, ii. 453.
Predictions of Scripture, i. 434.
Priest, the faithful, ii. 181.
Priesthood, the, the promise to establish it for ever, how to be understood, ii. 184;
of Christ, described in the Psalms, 204, 205.
Proclus, Julius, i. 108.
Projectus, Bishop, and the miraculous cure of blind women, ii. 492, 493.
Proletarii, the, i. 116.
Prometheus, ii. 224.
Promises, the, made to Abraham, ii. 129, etc., 131, etc., 133.
Prophetic age, the, ii. 165.
Prophetic records, the, ii. 163.
Prophecies, the threefold meaning of the, ii. 167-169;
respecting Christ and His gospel, 247-249, 250, 251, 252, 256, 258, 259.
Prophets, the later, ii. 215;
of the time when the Roman kingdom began, 246.
Proscription, the, of Sylla, i. 130.
Proserpine, i. 284, 288.
Protasius and Gervasius, martyrs, a blind man healed by the bodies of, at Milan, ii. 485;
a young man freed from a devil by, 491.
Providence of God, the, i. 197, 403;
not disturbed by the wickedness of angels or men, ii. 46.
Prudence, ii. 304.
Psalms, the, David's concern in writing, ii. 199.
Ptolemy Philadelphus causes the Hebrew Scriptures to be translated into Greek, ii. 270, 271.
Puberty, was it later among the antediluvians than it is now? ii. 75, etc.
Pulvillus, Marcus, i. 212.
Punic wars, the, the disasters suffered by the Romans in, i. 117;
the second of these, its deplorable effects, 119, etc.
Punishment, eternal, ii. 413;
whether it is possible for bodies to last for ever in burning fire, 414;
whether bodily sufferings necessarily terminate in the destruction of the flesh, 414-417;