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 virgins and virginity.
| Ex 26:14 | Thou shalt make also another cover to the roof, of rams' skins dyed red; and over that again another cover of violet coloured skins. |
| Tob 3:16 | Thou knowest, O Lord, that I never coveted a husband, and have kept my soul clean from all lust. |
| Cant 4:12 | My sister, my spouse, is a garden enclosed, a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed up. |
| Cant 6:3 | Thou art beautiful, O my love, sweet and comely as Jerusalem: terrible as an army set in array. |
| Wis 3:13 | Their offspring is cursed: for happy is the barren: and the undefiled, that hath not known bed in sin: she shall have fruit in the visitation of holy souls. |
| Wis 4:1 | O how beautiful is the chaste generation with glory: for the memory thereof is immortal: because it is known both with God and with men. |
| Eccli 9:5 | Gaze not upon a maiden, lest her beauty be a stumblingblock to thee. |
| Eccli 40:19 | Children, and the building of a city shall establish a name, but a blameless wife shall be counted above them both. |
| Lk 20:34 | And Jesus said to them: The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: |
| I Cor 3:16 | Know you not, that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? |
| I Cor 7:34 | And the unmarried woman and the virgin thinketh on the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she that is married thinketh on the things of the world, how she may please her husband. |
| I Cor 7:37-38 | For he that hath determined being steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but having power of his own will; and hath judged this in his heart, to keep his virgin, doth well. |
| Apoc 14:4 | These are they who were not defiled with women: for they are virgins. These follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were purchased from among men, the firstfruits to God and to the Lamb: |