The Truth of the Christian Religion with Jean Le Clerc's Notes and Additions

Index

333 index Abarbanel (Abrabanel, Abravanel), Isaac, 220n, 221n, 222n, 241n, 320 Abba, Rabbi, 227n, 320 Abenesdra[s] (Abraham ben Meir ibn Ezra), 36n, 209n, 210n, 217n, 225n, 320 Aboda Zara (Abuda Zara/Avoda Zara or “Idolatry”), 100n, 214n, 299 Abraham (biblical patriarch), 75, 76, 77n, 189, 194, 196, 202, 205, 207–8, 215n, 227, 228, 235n Abraham Salmanticensis (Abraham ben Samuel Zacuto), 215n, 320 Abū al-Faraj (Gregorius/Ibn Al-‘Ibrī/ Bar Hebraeus; edited by Pocock), 238n, 329–30 Abydenus, 66, 67n, 69n, 72n, 73n, 159n, 160n, 162n, 299 Acosta, Josephus (José de Acosta), 68n, 84n, 130n, 320 Acusilaus of Argos, 63n, 299 Adam and Eve, non-biblical accounts of, 63 Adam[us] Bremensis (Adam of Bremen ), 129n, 320 adiafora, doctrine of, xi–xii, 260; Apostles following, 208; De Veritate and, xvii–xviii; defined, xi–xii; indifference as to religion distinguished from (see indifference as to religion); Islam and, 240; Judaism and, 196; Le Clerc’s version of, xix; religious toleration, as basis for, xvii–xviii; sola Scriptura and, 256–57, 260–63, 274–76; as truest and purest profession of Christianity , 268–69 Adias of Babylon, 130n, 320 Adrian (Hadrian; Roman emperor), 102n, 114n, 145, 153n, 178n, 213n, 215, 299 adultery, 185 Aelian (Claudius Aelianus), 80n, 83n, 300 Aelius Lampridius, 125n, 307 A[e]neas Gaza[eus], 82, 86n, 320 Aeneid (Virgil), 59–60, 63n, 86n Aeschylus, 162n, 188n, 300 Aesculapius, 64n, 188 Aethiopia and Aethiopians, 71n, 74n, 76n, 130, 131, 163n, 170 Aethiopic, New Testament translated into, 156, 236 African Councils, Acts of, 130n, 148n, 232n, 300 Africanus (Sextus Julius Africanus), 78n, 300 afterlife, 108–10, 242 Against Appion (Josephus): authority of New Testament and, 157n, 159n, 161n, 162, 163n, 166n; on miracles , 191n; on providence of God, 45n, 50n, 61n, 73n, 74n, 78n, 80n, 81n 334 index Against Celsus (Origen), 303; Islam, confutation of, 235n; Judaism, confutation of, 194n, 202n; New Testament, authority of, 145n, 146n, 154n; paganism, confutation of, 168n, 170n, 173n, 177n, 181n; providence of God and, 80n, 86n; truth of Christian religion and, 97n, 98n, 100, 103n, 105n, 106n, 113n, 120n, 128n, 129n Against Flaccus (Philo of Alexandria), 78n, 148n, 163n Against Julian (Cyril), 57n, 66n, 67n, 73n, 79n, 82n, 113n, 126n, 146n, 187n Against Julian (Gregory Nazianzen), 119n, 120n Against Marcion (Tertullian), 87n, 148n, 156n, 170n, 199n Akiba ben Joseph, Rabbi, 211n, 215n, 300 Albo, Joseph[us], 114n, 197n, 225n, 326 Alcibiades (Plato), 56n Alcibiades the Athenian, 85n Alcoran (Qur’an or Koran), 110n, 139, 233–42n, 235–36, 242–43, 321–22, 328 Alexander Aphrodisaeus, 182n, 300 Alexander the Great, 44, 84, 85n, 130n, 162–63n, 242n Alexander Polyhistor/Alexander the Historian, 66n, 67n, 68n, 75n, 76–77n, 79n, 158n, 300, 302 Alexandrian Chronicon (Chronicon Alexandrinum ), 160n, 300 Alfenus Varus, 112n, 300 Alsek (Moses Al-Sheikh or Alshaikh), 220n, 221n, 321 Alvaresius (Francisco Alvarez), 130n, 321 Amelius, 56n, 57n, 187n, 300 America: Peru, 44n, 63, 85, 172n; Spanish conquest of, 68–69, 85 Ammianus Marcellinus, 70n, 72n, 121n, 213–14, 231n, 232n, 300 Ammonius of Alexandria, 74n, 75n, 300 Ampelius (Lucius Ampelius), 50n, 300 Anaxagoras, 50n, 52n, 58n, 59, 92n, 300–301 Anaxandrides, 186n, 301 Anaximander, 50n, 178n, 301 ancestor worship, 171 Andrew the Apostle, 130 Andromacha (Euripides), 116–17n, 186n Angel Gabriel, 202, 209 Angel or Redeemer, in Jewish philosophy , 225–26 Anglican Church, affection of Grotius for, 5–6, 8, 289, 291–98 animals: biological origins of, 112n; conjugal fidelity of, 120; God’s providence governing, 42; instincts of, 42; pagan worship of, 172–74; souls of, 37n Anisthenes, 61n anti-Trinitatianism, xvi–xvii Antigone (Sophocles), 86n Antinous, 120 Antiochus IV Epiphanes, 46n, 84, 135, 163 Antiphon, 173n, 301 Antisthenes, 61n, 301 Apollo, 117, 119n, 180, 182n Apollo, Oracle of, 117, 178n, 180–81 Apollodorus of Athens, 68, 301 Apollonius Rhodius (Apollonius of Rhodes), 49n, 301, 311, 315 Apollonius Tyanaeus (Apollonius of Tyana), 176 Apostles: character of persons first embracing Christianity, 238; form of Church government devised by, preference for, 272, 273; heretics on, 244n; keeping of Jewish laws index 335 allowed by, 208–9; miracles of, 259. See also specific apostles by name Apostles’ Creed, 125n, 259n Appion (Appian of Alexandria), 74n, 79n, 85n, 117n, 158n, 301. See also Against Appion (Josephus) Apuleius (Lucius Apuleius), 52n, 80, 191, 301 Aquila, 165, 217n, 301 Arabian (Nubian) Geographer (Muhammad Al-Idrisi), 69n, 71n, 72n, 321 Arabic, New Testament translated into, 236 Aramas (Isaac ben Moses Arama), 205n, 321 Aratus...