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."

St. Anthony of Padua (A.D. 1195-1231)

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 a good feast.

These things are to be observed in eating: The fear of God, grace, reading, moderate speed, few words, glad heart, and a part to them that need. These things are to be avoided: Daintiness, detraction, surfeiting, gossiping, intoxication and lustful entertainment.
A part to them that need.
Eccli 35:10 Give glory to God with a good heart: and diminish not the firstfruits of thy hands.
Avoid daintiness.
Ex 16:3 And the children of Israel said to them: Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat over the flesh pots, and ate bread to the full. Why have you brought us into this desert, that you might destroy all the multitude with famine?
Eccli 39:31 The principal things necessary for the life of men, are water, fire, and iron, salt, milk, and bread of flour, and honey, and the cluster of the grape, and oil, and clothing.
Avoid detraction.
Prov 23:20 Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat:
Prov 24:21 My son, fear the Lord and the king: and have nothing to do with detracters.
Wis 1:11 Keep yourselves therefore from murmuring, which profiteth nothing, and refrain your tongue from detraction, for an obscure speech shall not go for nought: and the mouth that belieth, killeth the soul.
Avoid gossiping.
Ex 16:2 And all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
Num 11:1 In the mean time there arose a murmuring of the people against the Lord, as it were repining at their fatigue. And when the Lord heard it he was angry. And the fire of the Lord being kindled against them, devoured them that were at the uttermost part of the camp.
Avoid intoxication.
Eccli 31:30 Challenge not them that love wine: for wine hath destroyed very many.
Avoid lustful entertainment.
Eccli 9:4 Use not much the company of her that is a dancer, and hearken not to her, lest thou perish by the force of her charms.
Eccli 12:4 Give to the merciful and uphold not the sinner: God will repay vengeance to the ungodly and to sinners, and keep them against the day of vengeance.
Mk 6:22 And when the daughter of the same Herodias had come in, and had danced, and pleased Herod, and them that were at table with him, the king said to the damsel: Ask of me what thou wilt, and I will give it thee.
Avoid surfeiting.
Eccli 37:34 By surfeiting many have perished: but he that is temperate, shall prolong life.
Lk 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and the cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly.
Few words.
Prov 23:2 And put a knife to thy throat, if it be so that thou have thy soul in thy own power.
Eccli 31:12 Art thou set at a great table? be not the first to open thy mouth upon it.
II Thess 3:12 Now we charge them that are such, and beseech them by the Lord Jesus Christ, that, working with silence, they would eat their own bread.
Glad heart.
II Esd 8:10 And he said to them: Go, eat fat meats, and drink sweet wine, and send portions to them that have not prepared for themselves: because it is the holy day of the Lord, and be not sad: for the joy of the Lord is our strength.
Esth 9:22 Because on those days the Jews revenged themselves of their enemies, and their mourning and sorrow were turned into mirth and joy, and that these should be days of feasting and gladness, in which they should send one to another portions of meats, and should give gifts to the poor.
Grace.
Lk 9:16 And taking the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed them; and he broke, and distributed to his disciples, to set before the multitude.
Lk 22:19 And taking bread, he gave thanks, and brake; and gave to them, saying: This is my body, which is given for you. Do this for a commemoration of me.
I Tim 4:5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
Moderate speed.
Eccles 10:17 Blessed is the land, whose king is noble, and whose princes eat in due season for refreshment, and not for riotousness.
Acts 2:15 For these are not drunk, as you suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day:
Reading.
Mt 4:4 Who answered and said: It is written, Not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.
The fear of God.
Tob 9:12 And when all had said, Amen, they went to the feast: but the marriage feast they celebrated also with the fear of the Lord.
Jude 1:12 These are spots in their banquets, feasting together without fear, feeding themselves, clouds without water, which are carried about by winds, trees of the autumn, unfruitful, twice dead, plucked up by the roots,
When ended, give thank to God.
Joel 2:26 And you shall eat in plenty, and shall be filled: and you shall praise the name of the Lord your God, who hath done wonders with you, and my people shall not be confounded for ever.
Mt 26:30 And a hymn being said, they went out unto mount Olivet.
Rom 14:6 He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord. And he that eateth, eateth to the Lord: for he giveth thanks to God. And he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth thanks to God.
Common
Gen 4:4 Abel also offered of the firstlings of his flock, and of their fat: and the Lord had respect to Abel, and to his offerings.
Gen 14:18 But Melchisedech the king of Salem, bringing forth bread and wine, for he was the priest of the most high God,
Gen 18:4 But I will fetch a little water, and wash ye your feet, and rest ye under the tree.
Gen 21:8 And the child grew and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast on the day of his weaning.
Gen 43:30 And he made haste because his heart was moved upon his brother, and tears gushed out: and going into his chamber he wept.
Ex 12:5 And it shall be a lamb without blemish, a male, of one year: according to which rite also you shall take a kid.
Lev 2:1 When any one shall offer an oblation of sacrifice to the Lord, his offering shall be of fine flour, and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense,
Num 13:24 And going forward as far as the torrent of the cluster of grapes, they cut off a branch with its cluster of grapes, which two men carried upon a lever. They took also of the pomegranates and of the figs of that place:
Jos 5:11 And they ate on the next day unleavened bread of the corn of the land, and frumenty of the same year.
Ruth 2:14 And Booz said to her: At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. So she sat at the side of the reapers, and she heaped to herself frumenty, and ate and was filled, and took the leavings.
I Ki 25:18 Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves, and two vessels of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of dry figs, and laid them upon asses:
III Ki 19:5 And he cast himself down, and slept in the shadow of the juniper tree: and behold an angel of the Lord touched him, and said to him: Arise and eat.
III Ki 19:21 And returning back from him, he took a yoke of oxen, and killed them, and boiled the flesh with the plough of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate: and rising up he went away, and followed Elias, and ministered to him.
Cant 7:13 The mandrakes give a smell. In our gates are all fruits: the new and the old, my beloved, I have kept for thee.
Isa 25:6 And the Lord of hosts shall make unto all people in this mountain, a feast of fat things, a feast of wine, of fat things full of marrow, of wine purified from the lees.
Jer 24:2 One basket had very good figs, like the figs of the first season: and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, because they were bad.
Mt 15:32 And Jesus called together his disciples, and said: I have compassion on the multitudes, because they continue with me now three days, and have not what to eat, and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.
Mt 22:2 The kingdom of heaven is likened to a king, who made a marriage for his son.
Mt 26:26 And whilst they were at supper, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke: and gave to his disciples, and said: Take ye, and eat. This is my body.
Mk 8:2 I have compassion on the multitude, for behold they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat.
Lk 15:22 And the father said to his servants: Bring forth quickly the first robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
Jn 2:1 And the third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee: and the mother of Jesus was there.
Jn 21:13 And Jesus cometh and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish in like manner.