sponding to the ten plagues of Egypt, 268.
Conception, 236.
Conception in sin, 406.
Confusion of tongues at Babel, 96.
Consistency of Christ's teaching, 211.
Constellations, nativities controlled by, according to the heathen, 14.
Contraries in nature, 392.
Conversion, the duty of seeking one's own, 453, 454.
Cornelius, the centurion, his stratagem to cause Simon Magus to flee from Antioch, 460, 461.
Correspondences in creation, 379.
Cosmogony, the Gentile, 437; the, of Orpheus, 445; the, of Hesiod, 446.
Creation, the, the Christian doctrine of, 9; the six days' work of, 76, 78; of the world, remarks on—Hesiod's weak conception, 79; of man, 84; an account of, 161, 162; implies providence, 365; mode of, 368; theories of, 368; from nothing, 369; atomic theory untenable, 369; concourse of atoms could not form a world, 370; Plato's testimony respecting, 371; mechanical theory of, 372; correspondences in, 379, 380.
Creator, the, no God above, 229; our Father, 231; the Supreme God, 232; necessary, 367; the world made from nothing by, 369.
Creatures, the, often take vengeance on sinners, 320.
Crescens, the philosopher, his character, 25.
Customs, the, of different countries, 415, 416; Jewish, 417, 418.
Cynic philosophers, the, 30.
Daphne, 443.
Days, the six, of creation, 76, 78; the typical character of, 82.
Dead men deified, 442.
Deluge, the, errors of the Greeks about, 121; accurate account of, 122.
Demons, 12; give rise to superstitions, 13, 14; worshipped by the Greeks, 18; their severe punishment, 19; structure of, 21; vain display of power by, 21,22; falsely promise health to their votaries, 22; deceive instead of healing, 23; depravity lies at the root of the worship of, 24; how they get power over men, 290; why they wish to possess men, 291; the gospel gives us power over, 291; power over, is in proportion to faith, 292; incite to idolatry, 292, 293; their knowledge, 293, 294; sometimes speak truth—why? 294, 295; the weakest Christian mightier than the mightiest, 300; have no power over a man unless he voluntarily submits to them, 301; the friendship of, involves men in disgrace, 324; their connection with astrology, 409.
Demoniac, a, healed, 424.
Depravity, the root of demon-worship, 24.
Designing mind, a, seen in creation, 394.
Desiring the salvation of others, 356.
Deucalion, 121.
Dialects among the Greeks, 6.
Diatessaron, the, of Tatian, 4.
Diligence in study recommended, 253, 327.
Diogenes, 6.
Dionysius, quoted, 105.
Dionysus, 439.
Discussions, public, between the apostles and the Jews, 179, etc., 185; of Peter with Simon Magus, 205, etc., 241, etc.; of Niceta, Aquila, and Clement with the old workman, 359, etc., 383, etc., 401, etc.
Disorder and order, in creation, 387.
Dispersion, the, of the human race, 98.
Divination, 25.
Divinities, heathen, ridicule of the, 15.
Dora, Peter at, 282.
Dositheus and Simon Magus, 197, 199.
Earnestness in religion, 454.
Earth, the, made for man, 331.
Egg, the creative, developed from chaos, 437, 445, 446.
Egypt, the Israelites in, 166.
Egyptian idolatry, more reasonable than other forms of idolatry, 315.
Egyptians, the, their testimony to Moses, 42; the animal worship of, 60; the king of, at the time of the exodus of Israel, and his successors, 123.