Nationality, renunciation of, 257. Nature, the law of, 46; communion with, essential to happiness, 185. Neighbor, meaning of, 97 _et seq._ Nicodemus, 60, 108, 125. [Greek: nomos], meaning of, 56. Oaths, the commandment against, 87 _et seq._; destruction of happiness, 252; evils of, 252. Origen, 102. Pascal, 134. Paul, x., 30, 56, 80, 88, 115; his metaphysico-cabalistic doctrine, 219. Peace, the reign of, 108; how violated, 109. Penalty, the death, 36. Pentateuch, 57, 148. Persons, respect of, 29. Pessimism, 122. Peter, 11, 145, 167, 168, 180. Pharisees, 54, 59, 60, 85, 88, 143, 178. Philosophers, and the problem of existence, 229. Pilate, 135, 175. [Greek: porneia], meaning of, 83 _et seq._ Poverty, the blessings of, 199; indispensable to the follower of Jesus, 200. _prissaiaga_, meaning of, 85. Prophets, the Hebrew, 43, 57, 143. _qum_, meaning of, 146. _raca_, meaning of, 73, 76. Reason, authority of, 124. Redemption, dogma of, 120, 122, 153. Religions, requirements of, 220. Renan, 31, 93. Repentance, 60; necessity of, 135. Resurrection, not taught by Jesus, 143. _resusciter_, meaning of, 146. Reuss, 79. Revolution, the French, 36. Revolutionists, atheistic, 39; Christian, 39. Riches, the struggle for, 184. Righteousness, progress toward, 48. Sadducees, 60, 143. Samaritan, 98. Sanhedrim, 25. Schopenhauer, 148. Science, hostile to the Church, 223. Security, struggle for, its futility, 198. Seneca, 89. Sisyphus, labor of, 184. Slave, 39. Slavery, sanctioned by the Church, 221. Slavophile, 39. Socrates, 124, 126. Soldier, at Borovitzky Gate, 19, 88; Russian nickname for, 88. Solomon, 134. Son of man, doctrine regarding, 125 _et seq._; 142, 150, 152, 156, 263. Spirit, the Holy, 68. Spiritism, 123. State, service of, 21, 22, 257; independent of the Church, 223. States, divisions into, a barbarism, 107. Stoics, 124, 173. Strauss, 41, 93. Suffering, useless, 183. Sukhareff Tower, 183. Talents, parable of the, 142. Talmud, 17, 56, 143, 173. Theologians, declarations of, 6. Theophylact, 33. Thief, on the cross, vii. Tiele, 148. Tischendorf, 55, 75. Tohu, 18, 19, 21, 22, 42, 43. Torah, 56, 61, 68. Tribunals, 23, 24; contrary to law of Jesus, 25 _et seq._; sanctioned by the Church, 221. Trinity, 14, 40, 58, 116, 117, 127. Truth, Christian, 4. Tübingen, school of, 33. Turks, 259. _verdammen_, meaning of, 34. Violence, renunciation of, 38; organized, 45, 196; destructive to happiness, 253; temptations to, 254; futility of, 259 _et seq._ Virgins, parable of, 139. _voskresnovit_, meaning of, 146. Vulgate, 34. War, organized murder, 101, 192; justified by the Church, 211, 221. Wars of our century, victims of, 193. Work, an inevitable condition of happiness, 186, 201, 205, 207. World, the doctrine of, illustrated, 129;