[720] Tertullian, _de Spectaculis_, c. 4. If γνῶσις was important as an element in salvation side by side with πίστις—or if πίστις included γνῶσις—then also the rejection of the right faith was a bar to salvation: hence heresy was regarded as involving eternal death: Tert. _de præsc._ 2. [721] Tert. _de Spect._ c. 4. [722] διδαχή, here expressly used of the moral precepts in c. 2. 1. [723] c. 11. 1, 2. [724] c. 11. 8, 10; cf. Herm. _Mand._ 11. 7 and 16. [725] c. 12. 1, 3-5. [726] The _jura_, i.e. the _communicatio pacis et appellatio fraternitatis et contesseratio hospitalitatis_, were controlled (_regit_) by the tradition of the creed (_unius sacramenti traditio_), Tert. _de præsc._ 20. [727] _Communicamus cum ecclesiis apostolicis, quod nulla doctrina diversa; hoc est testimonium veritatis_, Tert. _ibid._ 21. [728] Lect. vi. p. 164 sq. INDEX, CONTAINING THE CHIEF TOPICS, PROPER NAMES, AND TECHNICAL TERMS, REFERRED TO IN THE LECTURES. _Italicized subdivisions of a title are elsewhere treated in more detail as separate titles_ Abstract ideas, Greek tendency to, 116-118. Æon, common Gnostic idea, 190; two ways of viewing the Æons, 258 fin., 259. Africanus, Julius, as an exegete, 81. Alexandrine School, its philosophy, 81; on moral probation, 232; on God’s transcendence, 255. See also _Philo_ and _Origen_. Allegorism, 58 ff.; connection with the “mysteries,” 59, cf. 66; ethical, 60; physical, 61; the Stoics, 61-63; later exponents, 64; The temper widespread in religion, 65; Hellenistic Jews, 65 ff., e.g. Aristobulus and Philo, 66-69, 72, 128; early Christian exegesis, especially Gnostic, 69 ff.; compared with Philo’s, 72; prophecy its main subject, 72-74; an O. T. Apologetic, 77-79; Reactions, 79-82; dogmatic complication, 82; irony of its history, _ib._; use and abuse, 83; its place in modern life, 83-85. Alogi, 252, n. ². Ambrose of Milan, his ethics Stoic, 169. Antiochene School, its exegesis, 81, 82. Apologists mark transition, e.g. 126-131; idea of creation, 196; free-will, 231; transcendence of God, 252, 253; _Logos_ doctrine, 261-263, 267, 268. Apostolic doctrine, idea of, 316, 317; “Apostles’ Creed,” 317-319. _Apostolical Constitutions_, Bk. i., its ethical type of teaching, 161, cf. 132, 336; Bk. ii., on place of discipline, 162, 163; Bks. ii. and viii., on Lord’s Supper, 301. Aristobulus, his allegorism, 66 fin. Aristotle, his use of _ousia_, 269, 270; of _pistis_, 311. _Askesis_ (ἄσκησις), Greek, 148 ff.; in Philo, 148; reduced to system, e.g. “retreats,” 148-150, Christian, 164 ff.; its germ, 164, 165; ran parallel to Greek, 166, 167; Monachism, 167, 168. Association at first voluntary, 334, 335.