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 the blindness of sin.
| Ex 10:22 | And Moses stretched forth his hand towards heaven: and there came horrible darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days. |
| Lev 21:17 | Say to Aaron: Whosoever of thy seed throughout their families, hath a blemish, he shall not offer bread to his God. |
| Deut 16:19 | And not go aside to either part. Thou shalt not accept person nor gifts: for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and change the words of the just. |
| Job 5:14 | They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as in the night. |
| Job 17:7 | My eye is dim through indignation, and my limbs are brought as it were to nothing. |
| Job 21:17 | How often shall the lamp of the wicked be put out, and a deluge come upon them, and he shall distribute the sorrows of his wrath? |
| Job 24:14 | The murderer riseth at the very break of day, he killeth the needy, and the poor man: but in the night he will be as a thief. |
| Job 28:3 | He hath set a time for darkness, and the end of all things he considereth, the stone also that is in the dark and the shadow of death. |
| Job 36:32 | In his hands he hideth the light, and commandeth it to come again. |
| Ps 34:6 | Let their way become dark and slippery; and let the angel of the Lord pursue them. |
| Ps 57:9 | Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun. |
| Ps 68:24 | Let their eyes be darkened that they see not; and their back bend thou down always. |
| Ps 104:28 | He sent darkness, and made it obscure: and grieved not his words. |
| Wis 5:6 | Therefore we have erred from the way of truth, and the light of justice hath not shined unto us, and the sun of understanding hath not risen upon us. |
| Wis 9:14 | For the thoughts of mortal men are fearful, and our counsels uncertain. |
| Wis 17:17 | For they were all bound together with one chain of darkness. Whether it were a whistling wind, or the melodious voice of birds, among the spreading branches of trees, or a fall of water running down with violence, |
| Eccli 20:31 | Presents and gifts blind the eyes of judges, and make them dumb in the mouth, so that they cannot correct. |
| Eccli 21:11 | The way of sinners is made plain with stones, and in their end is hell, and darkness, and pains. |
| Isa 5:30 | And they shall make a noise against them that day, like the roaring of the sea; we shall look towards the land, and behold darkness of tribulation, and the light is darkened with the mist thereof. |
| Isa 6:10 | Blind the heart of this people, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes: lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted and I heal them. |
| Isa 9:2 | The people that walked in darkness, have seen a great light: to them that dwelt in the region of the shadow of death, light is risen. |
| Isa 13:2 | Upon the dark mountain lift ye up a banner, exalt the voice, lift up the hand, and let the rulers go into the gates. |
| Isa 29:10 | For the Lord hath mingled for you the spirit of a deep sleep, he will shut up your eyes, he will cover your prophets and princes, that see visions. |
| Isa 35:5 | Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. |
| Isa 42:19 | Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, but he to whom I have sent my messengers? Who is blind, but he that is sold? or who is blind, but the servant of the Lord? |
| Isa 43:8 | Bring forth the people that are blind, and have eyes: that are deaf, and have ears. |
| Isa 47:5 | Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called the lady of kingdoms. |
| Isa 50:3 | I will clothe the heavens with darkness, and will make sackcloth their covering. |
| Isa 59:9 | Therefore is judgment far from us, and justice shall not overtake us. We looked for light, and behold darkness: brightness, and we have walked in the dark. |
| Isa 60:2 | For behold darkness shall cover the earth, and a mist the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. |
| Jer 4:31 | For I have heard the voice as of a woman in travail, anguishes as of a woman in labour of a child. The voice of the daughter of Sion, dying away, spreading her hands: Woe is me, for my soul hath fainted because of them that are slain. |
| Jer 13:16 | Give ye glory to the Lord your God, before it be dark, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains: you shall look for light, and he will turn it into the shadow of death, and into darkness. |
| Lam 2:1 | Aleph. How hath the Lord covered with obscurity the daughter of Sion in his wrath! how hath he cast down from heaven to the earth the glorious one of Israel, and hath not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger! |
| Lam 3:6 | Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever. |
| Lam 3:44 | Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not pass through. |
| Lam 4:1 | Aleph. How is the gold become dim, the finest colour is changed, the stones of the sanctuary are scattered in the top of every street? |
| Lam 4:14 | Nun. They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they were defiled with blood: and when they could not help walking in it, they held up their skirts. |
| Amos 8:9 | And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that the sun shall go down at midday, and I will make the earth dark in the day of light: |
| Zach 11:17 | O shepherd, and idol, that forsaketh the flock: the sword upon his arm and upon his right eye: his arm shall quite wither away, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened. |
| Jn 3:19 | And this is the judgment: because the light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the light: for their works were evil. |
| Jn 5:24 | Amen, amen I say unto you, that he who heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath life everlasting; and cometh not into judgment, but is passed from death to life. |
| Jn 12:35 | Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little while, the light is among you. Walk whilst you have the light, that the darkness overtake you not. And he that walketh in darkness, knoweth not whither he goeth. |
| Jn 13:30 | He therefore having received the morsel, went out immediately. And it was night. |
| Rom 1:21 | Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified him as God, or given thanks; but became vain in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was darkened. |
| Rom 11:25 | For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, (lest you should be wise in your own conceits), that blindness in part has happened in Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles should come in. |
| I Cor 2:14 | But the sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of the Spirit of God; for it is foolishness to him, and he cannot understand, because it is spiritually examined. |
| Gal 3:1 | O senseless Galatians, who hath bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been set forth, crucified among you? |
| Eph 4:17-18 | This then I say and testify in the Lord: That henceforward you walk not as also the Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind, |
| Eph 5:14 | Wherefore he saith: Rise thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead: and Christ shall enlighten thee. |
| I Jn 2:11 | But he that hateth his brother, is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth; because the darkness hath blinded his eyes. |
| Apoc 3:17 | Because thou sayest: I am rich, and made wealthy, and have need of nothing: and knowest not, that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. |
| Apoc 8:12 | And the fourth angel sounded the trumpet, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars, so that the third part of them was darkened, and the day did not shine for a third part of it, and the night in like manner. |
| Apoc 9:2 | And he opened the bottomless pit: and the smoke of the pit arose, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke of the pit. |
| Apoc 16:10 | And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom became dark, and they gnawed their tongues for pain: |