Moral Concordance

S. Antonii de Padua Concordantiae Morales Sacorum Bibliorum

"Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds' that blinded the eyes of Tobit."

Categories:

1. Against sin, absolutely. 2. Of the weight of sin. 3. Of the blindness of sin. 4. Of the hardness of sin. 5. Of the chains of sin. 6. Of new devices in sin. 7. Of gluttony. 8. Of drunkenness. 9. Against gluttony and drunkenness, in common. 10. Against daintiness in meats. 11. Against those who provoke to excessive eating and drinking. 12. Of temperance, or sobriety. 13. That the flesh must be subdued to the spirit; or of temperance and carnal, desires. 14. Of fasting. 15. Against indiscreet fasting. 16. Of a good feast. 17. Of good enebriation. 18. Of lasciviousness and its effects. 19. Of either fornication or riotess living. 20. Of spiritual fornication. 21. Against adultery. 22. Against either rape or deflowering. 23. Against prostitution. 24. Against incest. 25. Against womanizers. 26. Against sodomy. 27. Of a bad kiss. 28. Of a good kiss. 29. Of bad women. 30. Of good women. 31. That wives be submissive to husbands. 32. Of chastity or continence. 33. Of the twofold continence of mind and body. 34. Of virgins and virginity. 35. Against excessive confidence in continence. 36. Of widows and widowhood. 37. Of joining together and marriage. 38. Against opponents of marriage. 39. Against covetousness. 40. Against fraudulent buying, selling or negotiation. 41. Against bad loans or usurers 42. Of good loans or good lenders. 43. Against seeking and retaining earthly abundance. 44. Against those that keep back the pay of their labourers. 45. Against theft and thieves. 46. Against sacrilege. 47. Against holding back tithes, first-fruits and offerings. 48. Against simoniacs or simony. 49. Against the four sins crying to God. 50. That robbers and usurers have to restitute or recompense damages.

Scripture:

Of good women.

Prov 31:10 Who shall find a valiant woman? far and from the uttermost coasts is the price of her.
Eccli 26:1-3 Happy is the husband of a good wife: for the number of his years is double.
Eccli 26:16 The grace of a diligent woman shall delight her husband, and shall fat his bones.
Eccli 26:18-19 Such is a wise and silent woman, and there is nothing so much worth as a well instructed soul.
Eccli 26:21 As the sun when it riseth to the world in the high places of God, so is the beauty of a good wife for the ornament of her house.
Eccli 26:23-24 As golden pillars upon bases of silver, so are the firm feet upon the soles of a steady woman.
I Tim 2:9 In like manner women also in decent apparel: adorning themselves with modesty and sobriety, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly attire,
I Pet 3:3 Whose adorning let it not be the outward plaiting of the hair, or the wearing of gold, or the putting on of apparel: