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City of God

Blessed Augustine, NPNF I.2

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Preface
Of the Adversaries of the Name of Christ, Whom the Barbarians for Christ’s Sake Spared…
That It is Quite Contrary to the Usage of War, that the Victors Should Spare the…
That the Romans Did Not Show Their Usual Sagacity When They Trusted that They Would Be…
Of the Asylum of Juno in Troy, Which Saved No One from the Greeks; And of the Churches of…
Caesar’s Statement Regarding the Universal Custom of an Enemy When Sacking a City
That Not Even the Romans, When They Took Cities, Spared the Conquered in Their Temples
That the Cruelties Which Occurred in the Sack of Rome Were in Accordance with the Custom…
Of the Advantages and Disadvantages Which Often Indiscriminately Accrue to Good and…
Of the Reasons for Administering Correction to Bad and Good Together
10. That the Saints Lose Nothing in Losing Temporal Goods
Of the End of This Life, Whether It is Material that It Be Long Delayed
Of the Burial of the Dead: That the Denial of It to Christians Does Them No Injury
13. Reasons for Burying the Bodies of the Saints
Of the Captivity of the Saints, and that Divine Consolation Never Failed Them Therein
Of Regulus, in Whom We Have an Example of the Voluntary Endurance of Captivity for the…
Of the Violation of the Consecrated and Other Christian Virgins, to Which They Were…
17. Of Suicide Committed Through Fear of Punishment or Dishonor
Of the Violence Which May Be Done to the Body by Another’s Lust, While the Mind Remains…
Of Lucretia, Who Put an End to Her Life Because of the Outrage Done Her
That Christians Have No Authority for Committing Suicide in Any Circumstances Whatever
Of the Cases in Which We May Put Men to Death Without Incurring the Guilt of Murder
22. That Suicide Can Never Be Prompted by Magnanimity
What We are to Think of the Example of Cato, Who Slew Himself Because Unable to Endure…
That in that Virtue in Which Regulus Excels Cato, Christians are Pre-Eminently…
25. That We Should Not Endeavor by Sin to Obviate Sin
That in Certain Peculiar Cases the Examples of the Saints are Not to Be Followed
Whether Voluntary Death Should Be Sought in Order to Avoid Sin
By What Judgment of God the Enemy Was Permitted to Indulge His Lust on the Bodies of…
What the Servants of Christ Should Say in Reply to the Unbelievers Who Cast in Their…
That Those Who Complain of Christianity Really Desire to Live Without Restraint in…
By What Steps the Passion for Governing Increased Among the Romans
32. Of the Establishment of Scenic Entertainments
That the Overthrow of Rome Has Not Corrected the Vices of the Romans
34. Of God’s Clemency in Moderating the Ruin of the City
Of the Sons of the Church Who are Hidden Among the Wicked, and of False Christians Within…
36. What Subjects are to Be Handled in the Following Discourse
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Of the Limits Which Must Be Put to the Necessity of Replying to an Adversary
2. Recapitulation of the Contents of the First Book
That We Need Only to Read History in Order to See What Calamities the Romans Suffered…
That the Worshippers of the Gods Never Received from Them Any Healthy Moral Precepts, and…
Of the Obscenities Practiced in Honor of the Mother of the Gods
That the Gods of the Pagans Never Inculcated Holiness of Life
That the Suggestions of Philosophers are Precluded from Having Any Moral Effect, Because…
That the Theatrical Exhibitions Publishing the Shameful Actions of the Gods, Propitiated…
That the Poetical License Which the Greeks, in Obedience to Their Gods, Allowed, Was…
That the Devils, in Suffering Either False or True Crimes to Be Laid to Their Charge,…
That the Greeks Admitted Players to Offices of State, on the Ground that Men Who Pleased…
That the Romans, by Refusing to the Poets the Same License in Respect of Men Which They…
That the Romans Should Have Understood that Gods Who Desired to Be Worshipped in…
That Plato, Who Excluded Poets from a Well-Ordered City, Was Better Than These Gods Who…
That It Was Vanity, Not Reason, Which Created Some of the Roman Gods
That If the Gods Had Really Possessed Any Regard for Righteousness, the Romans Should…
Of the Rape of the Sabine Women, and Other Iniquities Perpetrated in Rome’s Palmiest Days
What the History of Sallust Reveals Regarding the Life of the Romans, Either When…
Of the Corruption Which Had Grown Upon the Roman Republic Before Christ Abolished the…
Of the Kind of Happiness and Life Truly Delighted in by Those Who Inveigh Against the…
21. Cicero’s Opinion of the Roman Republic
That the Roman Gods Never Took Any Steps to Prevent the Republic from Being Ruined by…
That the Vicissitudes of This Life are Dependent Not on the Favor or Hostility of Demons,…
Of the Deeds of Sylla, in Which the Demons Boasted that He Had Their Help
How Powerfully the Evil Spirits Incite Men to Wicked Actions, by Giving Them the…
That the Demons Gave in Secret Certain Obscure Instructions in Morals, While in Public…
That the Obscenities of Those Plays Which the Romans Consecrated in Order to Propitiate…
28. That the Christian Religion is Health-Giving
29. An Exhortation to the Romans to Renounce Paganism
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Of the Ills Which Alone the Wicked Fear, and Which the World Continually Suffered, Even…
Whether the Gods, Whom the Greeks and Romans Worshipped in Common, Were Justified in…
That the Gods Could Not Be Offended by the Adultery of Paris, This Crime Being So Common…
Of Varro’s Opinion, that It is Useful for Men to Feign Themselves the Offspring of the…
That It is Not Credible that the Gods Should Have Punished the Adultery of Paris, Seeing…
That the Gods Exacted No Penalty for the Fratricidal Act of Romulus
Of the Destruction of Ilium by Fimbria, a Lieutenant of Marius
Whether Rome Ought to Have Been Entrusted to the Trojan Gods
Whether It is Credible that the Peace During the Reign of Numa Was Brought About by the…
Whether It Was Desirable that the Roman Empire Should Be Increased by Such a Furious…
Of the Statue of Apollo at Cumae, Whose Tears are Supposed to Have Portended Disaster to…
That the Romans Added a Vast Number of Gods to Those Introduced by Numa, and that Their…
By What Right or Agreement the Romans Obtained Their First Wives
Of the Wickedness of the War Waged by the Romans Against the Albans, and of the Victories…
15. What Manner of Life and Death the Roman Kings Had
Of the First Roman Consuls the One of Whom Drove the Other from the Country, and Shortly…
Of the Disasters Which Vexed the Roman Republic After the Inauguration of the Consulship,…
The Disasters Suffered by the Romans in the Punic Wars, Which Were Not Mitigated by the…
Of the Calamity of the Second Punic War, Which Consumed the Strength of Both Parties
Of the Destruction of the Saguntines, Who Received No Help from the Roman Gods, Though…
Of the Ingratitude of Rome to Scipio, Its Deliverer, and of Its Manners During the Period…
Of the Edict of Mithridates, Commanding that All Roman Citizens Found in Asia Should Be…
Of the Internal Disasters Which Vexed the Roman Republic, and Followed a Portentous…
Of the Civil Dissension Occasioned by the Sedition of the Gracchi
Of the Temple of Concord, Which Was Erected by a Decree of the Senate on the Scene of…
Of the Various Kinds of Wars Which Followed the Building of the Temple of Concord
27. Of the Civil War Between Marius and Sylla
Of the Victory of Sylla, the Avenger of the Cruelties of Marius
A Comparison of the Disasters Which Rome Experienced During the Gothic and Gallic…
Of the Connection of the Wars Which with Great Severity and Frequency Followed One…
That It is Effrontery to Impute the Present Troubles to Christ and the Prohibition of…
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1. Of the Things Which Have Been Discussed in the First Book
Of Those Things Which are Contained in Books Second and Third
Whether the Great Extent of the Empire, Which Has Been Acquired Only by Wars, is to Be…
4. How Like Kingdoms Without Justice are to Robberies
Of the Runaway Gladiators Whose Power Became Like that of Royal Dignity
Concerning the Covetousness of Ninus, Who Was the First Who Made War on His Neighbors,…
Whether Earthly Kingdoms in Their Rise and Fall Have Been Either Aided or Deserted by the…
Which of the Gods Can the Romans Suppose Presided Over the Increase and Preservation of…
Whether the Great Extent and Long Duration of the Roman Empire Should Be Ascribed to…
What Opinions Those Have Followed Who Have Set Divers Gods Over Divers Parts of the World
Concerning the Many Gods Whom the Pagan Doctors Defend as Being One and the Same Jove
Concerning the Opinion of Those Who Have Thought that God is the Soul of the World, and…
Concerning Those Who Assert that Only Rational Animals are Parts of the One God
The Enlargement of Kingdoms is Unsuitably Ascribed to Jove; For If, as They Will Have It,…
Whether It is Suitable for Good Men to Wish to Rule More Widely
What Was the Reason Why the Romans, in Detailing Separate Gods for All Things and All…
Whether, If the Highest Power Belongs to Jove, Victoria Also Ought to Be Worshipped
With What Reason They Who Think Felicity and Fortune Goddesses Have Distinguished Them
19. Concerning Fortuna Muliebris
Concerning Virtue and Faith, Which the Pagans Have Honored with Temples and Sacred Rites,…
That Although Not Understanding Them to Be the Gifts of God, They Ought at Least to Have…
Concerning the Knowledge of the Worship Due to the Gods, Which Varro Glories in Having…
Concerning Felicity, Whom the Romans, Who Venerate Many Gods, for a Long Time Did Not…
The Reasons by Which the Pagans Attempt to Defend Their Worshipping Among the Gods the…
Concerning the One God Only to Be Worshipped, Who, Although His Name is Unknown, is Yet…
Of the Scenic Plays, the Celebration of Which the Gods Have Exacted from Their Worshippers
Concerning the Three Kinds of Gods About Which the Pontiff Scaevola Has Discoursed
Whether the Worship of the Gods Has Been of Service to the Romans in Obtaining and…
Of the Falsity of the Augury by Which the Strength and Stability of the Roman Empire Was…
What Kind of Things Even Their Worshippers Have Owned They Have Thought About the Gods of…
Concerning the Opinions of Varro, Who, While Reprobating the Popular Belief, Thought that…
In What Interest the Princes of the Nations Wished False Religions to Continue Among the…
That the Times of All Kings and Kingdoms are Ordained by the Judgment and Power of the…
Concerning the Kingdom of the Jews, Which Was Founded by the One and True God, and…
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Preface
That the Cause of the Roman Empire, and of All Kingdoms, is Neither Fortuitous Nor…
2. On the Difference in the Health of Twins
Concerning the Arguments Which Nigidius the Mathematician Drew from the Potter’s Wheel,…
Concerning the Twins Esau and Jacob, Who Were Very Unlike Each Other. Both in Their…
In What Manner the Mathematicians are Convicted of Professing a Vain Science
6. Concerning Twins of Different Sexes
Concerning the Choosing of a Day for Marriage, or for Planting, or Sowing
Concerning Those Who Call by the Name of Fate, Not the Position of the Stars, But the…
Concerning the Foreknowledge of God and the Free Will of Man, in Opposition to the…
10. Whether Our Wills are Ruled by Necessity
Concerning the Universal Providence of God in the Laws of Which All Things are…
By What Virtues the Ancient Romans Merited that the True God, Although They Did Not…
Concerning the Love of Praise, Which, Though It is a Vice, is Reckoned a Virtue, Because…
Concerning the Eradication of the Love of Human Praise, Because All the Glory of the…
Concerning the Temporal Reward Which God Granted to the Virtues of the Romans
Concerning the Reward of the Holy Citizens of the Celestial City, to Whom the Example of…
To What Profit the Romans I Carried on Wars, and How Much They Contributed to the…
How Far Christians Ought to Be from Boasting, If They Have Done Anything for the Love of…
Concerning the Difference Between True Glory and the Desire of Domination
That It is as Shameful for the Virtues to Serve Human Glory as Bodily Pleasure
That the Roman Dominion Was Granted by Him from Whom is All Power, and by Whose…
22. The Durations and Issues of War Depend on the Will of God
Concerning the War in Which Radagaisus, King of the Goths, a Worshipper of Demons, Was…
What Was the Happiness of the Christian Emperors, and How Far It Was True Happiness
Concerning the Prosperity Which God Granted to the Christian Emperor Constantine
26. On the Faith and Piety of Theodosius Augustus
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Preface
Of Those Who Maintain that They Worship the Gods Not for the Sake of Temporal But Eternal…
What We are to Believe that Varro Thought Concerning the Gods of the Nations, Whose…
Varro’s Distribution of His Book Which He Composed Concerning the Antiquities of Human…
That from the Disputation of Varro, It Follows that the Worshippers of the Gods Regard…
Concerning the Three Kinds of Theology According to Varro, Namely, One Fabulous, the…
Concerning the Mythic, that Is, the Fabulous, Theology, and the Civil, Against Varro
Concerning the Likeness and Agreement of the Fabulous and Civil Theologies
Concerning the Interpretations, Consisting of Natural Explanations, Which the Pagan…
9. Concerning the Special Offices of the Gods
Concerning the Liberty of Seneca, Who More Vehemently Censured the Civil Theology Than…
11. What Seneca Thought Concerning the Jews
That When Once the Vanity of the Gods of the Nations Has Been Exposed, It Cannot Be…
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Whether, Since It is Evident that Deity is Not to Be Found in the Civil Theology, We are…
Who are the Select Gods, and Whether They are Held to Be Exempt from the Offices of the…
How There is No Reason Which Can Be Shown for the Selection of Certain Gods, When the…
The Inferior Gods, Whose Names are Not Associated with Infamy, Have Been Better Dealt…
Concerning the More Secret Doctrine of the Pagans, and Concerning the Physical…
Concerning the Opinion of Varro, that God is the Soul of the World, Which Nevertheless,…
Whether It is Reasonable to Separate Janus and Terminus as Two Distinct Deities
For What Reason the Worshippers of Janus Have Made His Image with Two Faces, When They…
Concerning the Power of Jupiter, and a Comparison of Jupiter with Janus
Whether the Distinction Between Janus and Jupiter is a Proper One
Concerning the Surnames of Jupiter, Which are Referred Not to Many Gods, But to One and…
12. That Jupiter is Also Called Pecunia
That When It is Expounded What Saturn Is, What Genius Is, It Comes to This, that Both of…
14. Concerning the Offices of Mercury and Mars
Concerning Certain Stars Which the Pagans Have Called by the Names of Their Gods
Concerning Apollo and Diana, and the Other Select Gods Whom They Would Have to Be Parts…
That Even Varro Himself Pronounced His Own Opinions Regarding the Gods Ambiguous
18. A More Credible Cause of the Rise of Pagan Error
Concerning the Interpretations Which Compose the Reason of the Worship of Saturn
20. Concerning the Rites of Eleusinian Ceres
Concerning the Shamefulness of the Rites Which are Celebrated in Honor of Liber
22. Concerning Neptune, and Salacia and Venilia
Concerning the Earth, Which Varro Affirms to Be a Goddess, Because that Soul of the World…
Concerning the Surnames of Tellus and Their Significations, Which, Although They Indicate…
The Interpretation of the Mutilation of Atys Which the Doctrine of the Greek Sages Set…
Concerning the Abomination of the Sacred Rites of the Great Mother
Concerning the Figments of the Physical Theologists, Who Neither Worship the True…
That the Doctrine of Varro Concerning Theology is in No Part Consistent with Itself
That All Things Which the Physical Theologists Have Referred to the World and Its Parts,…
How Piety Distinguishes the Creator from the Creatures, So That, Instead of One God,…
What Benefits God Gives to the Followers of the Truth to Enjoy Over and Above His General…
That at No Time in the Past Was the Mystery of Christ’s Redemption Awanting, But Was at…
That Only Through the Christian Religion Could the Deceit of Malign Spirits, Who Rejoice…
Concerning the Books of Numa Pompilius, Which the Senate Ordered to Be Burned, in Order…
Concerning the Hydromancy Through Which Numa Was Befooled by Certain Images of Demons…
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That the Question of Natural Theology is to Be Discussed with Those Philosophers Who…
Concerning the Two Schools of Philosophers, that Is, the Italic and Ionic, and Their…
3. Of the Socratic Philosophy
Concerning Plato, the Chief Among the Disciples of Socrates, and His Threefold Division…
That It is Especially with the Platonists that We Must Carry on Our Disputations on…
Concerning the Meaning of the Platonists in that Part of Philosophy Called Physical
How Much the Platonists are to Be Held as Excelling Other Philosophers in Logic, I. E.…
That the Platonists Hold the First Rank in Moral Philosophy Also
Concerning that Philosophy Which Has Come Nearest to the Christian Faith
That the Excellency of the Christian Religion is Above All the Science of Philosophers
How Plato Has Been Able to Approach So Nearly to Christian Knowledge
That Even the Platonists, Though They Say These Things Concerning the One True God,…
Concerning the Opinion of Plato, According to Which He Defined the Gods as Beings…
Of the Opinion of Those Who Have Said that Rational Souls are of Three Kinds, to Wit,…
That the Demons are Not Better Than Men Because of Their Aerial Bodies, or on Account of…
What Apuleius the Platonist Thought Concerning the Manners and Actions of Demons
Whether It is Proper that Men Should Worship Those Spirits from Whose Vices It is…
What Kind of Religion that is Which Teaches that Men Ought to Employ the Advocacy of…
Of the Impiety of the Magic Art, Which is Dependent on the Assistance of Malign Spirits
Whether We are to Believe that the Good Gods are More Willing to Have Intercourse with…
Whether the Gods Use the Demons as Messengers and Interpreters, and Whether They are…
That We Must, Notwithstanding the Opinion of Apuleius, Reject the Worship of Demons
What Hermes Trismegistus Thought Concerning Idolatry, and from What Source He Knew that…
How Hermes Openly Confessed the Error of His Forefathers, the Coming Destruction of Which…
Concerning Those Things Which May Be Common to the Holy Angels and to Men
That All the Religion of the Pagans Has Reference to Dead Men
Concerning the Nature of the Honor Which the Christians Pay to Their Martyrs
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The Point at Which the Discussion Has Arrived, and What Remains to Be Handled
Whether Among the Demons, Inferior to the Gods, There are Any Good. Spirits Under Whose…
What Apuleius Attributes to the Demons, to Whom, Though He Does Not Deny Them Reason, He…
The Opinion of the Peripatetics and Stoics About Mental Emotions
That the Passions Which Assail the Souls of Christians Do Not Seduce Them to Vice, But…
Of the Passions Which, According to Apuleius, Agitate the Demons Who Ape Supposed by Him…
That the Platonists Maintain that the Poets Wrong the Gods by Representing Them as…
How Apuleius Defines the Gods Who Dwell in Heaven, the Demons Who Occupy the Air, and Men…
Whether the Intercession of the Demons Can Secure for Men the Friendship of the Celestial…
That, According to Plotinus, Men, Whose Body is Mortal, are Less Wretched Than Demons,…
Of the Opinion of the Platonists, that the Souls of Men Become Demons When Disembodied
Of the Three Opposite Qualities by Which the Platonists Distinguish Between the Nature of…
How the Demons Can Mediate Between Gods and Men If They Have Nothing in Common with Both,…
14. Whether Men, Though Mortal, Can Enjoy True Blessedness
15. Of the Man Christ Jesus, the Mediator Between God and Men
Whether It is Reasonable in the Platonists to Determine that the Celestial Gods Decline…
That to Obtain the Blessed Life, Which Consists in Partaking of the Supreme Good, Man…
That the Deceitful Demons, While Promising to Conduct Men to God by Their Intercession,…
That Even Among Their Own Worshippers the Name “Demon” Has Never a Good Signification
20. Of the Kind of Knowledge Which Puffs Up the Demons
To What Extent the Lord Was Pleased to Make Himself Known to the Demons
The Difference Between the Knowledge of the Holy Angels and that of the Demons
That the Name of Gods is Falsely Given to the Gods of the Gentiles, Though Scripture…
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That the Platonists Themselves Have Determined that God Alone Can Confer Happiness Either…
The Opinion of Plotinus the Platonist Regarding Enlightenment from Above
That the Platonists, Though Knowing Something of the Creator of the Universe, Have…
4. That Sacrifice is Due to the True God Only
Of the Sacrifices Which God Does Not Require, But Wished to Be Observed for the…
6. Of the True and Perfect Sacrifice
Of the Love of the Holy Angels, Which Prompts Them to Desire that We Worship the One True…
Of the Miracles Which God Has Condescended to Adhibit Through the Ministry of Angels, to…
Of the Illicit Arts Connected with Demonolatry, and of Which the Platonist Porphyry…
Concerning Theurgy, Which Promises a Delusive Purification of the Soul by the Invocation…
Of Porphyry’s Epistle to Anebo, in Which He Asks for Information About the Differences…
Of the Miracles Wrought by the True God Through the Ministry of the Holy Angels
Of the Invisible God, Who Has Often Made Himself Visible, Not as He Really Is, But as the…
That the One God is to Be Worshipped Not Only for the Sake of Eternal Blessings, But Also…
Of the Ministry of the Holy Angels, by Which They Fulfill the Providence of God
Whether Those Angels Who Demand that We Pay Them Divine Honor, or Those Who Teach Us to…
Concerning the are of the Covenant, and the Miraculous Signs Whereby God Authenticated…
Against Those Who Deny that the Books of the Church are to Be Believed About the Miracles…
On the Reasonableness of Offering, as the True Religion Teaches, a Visible Sacrifice to…
Of the Supreme and True Sacrifice Which Was Effected by the Mediator Between God and Men
Of the Power Delegated to Demons for the Trial and Glorification of the Saints, Who…
Whence the Saints Derive Power Against Demons and True Purification of Heart
Of the Principles Which, According to the Platonists, Regulate the Purification of the…
Of the One Only True Principle Which Alone Purifies and Renews Human Nature
That All the Saints, Both Under the Law and Before It, Were Justified by Faith in the…
Of Porphyry’s Weakness in Wavering Between the Confession of the True God and the Worship…
Of the Impiety of Porphyry, Which is Worse Than Even the Mistake of Apuleius
How It is that Porphyry Has Been So Blind as Not to Recognize the True Wisdom-Christ
Of the Incarnation of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Which the Platonists in Their Impiety Blush…
30. Porphyry’s Emendations and Modifications of Platonism
Against the Arguments on Which the Platonists Ground Their Assertion that the Human Soul…
Of the Universal Way of the Soul’s Deliverance, Which Porphyry Did Not Find Because He…
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Of This Part of the Work, Wherein We Begin to Explain the Origin and End of the Two Cities
Of the Knowledge of God, to Which No Man Can Attain Save Through the Mediator Between God…
Of the Authority of the Canonical Scriptures Composed by the Divine Spirit
That the World is Neither Without Beginning, Nor Yet Created by a New Decree of God, by…
That We Ought Not to Seek to Comprehend the Infinite Ages of Time Before the World, Nor…
That the World and Time Had Both One Beginning, and the One Did Not Anticipate the Other
Of the Nature of the First Days, Which are Said to Have Had Morning and Evening, Before…
What We are to Understand of God’s Resting on the Seventh Day, After the Six Days’ Work
What the Scriptures Teach Us to Believe Concerning the Creation of the Angels
Of the Simple and Unchangeable Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, One God, in Whom…
Whether the Angels that Fell Partook of the Blessedness Which the Holy Angels Have Always…
A Comparison of the Blessedness of the Righteous, Who Have Not Yet Received the Divine…
Whether All the Angels Were So Created in One Common State of Felicity, that Those Who…
An Explanation of What is Said of the Devil, that He Did Not Abide in the Truth, Because…
How We are to Understand the Words, “The Devil Sinneth from the Beginning.”
Of the Ranks and Differences of the Creatures, Estimated by Their Utility, or According…
That the Flaw of Wickedness is Not Nature, But Contrary to Nature, and Has Its Origin,…
Of the Beauty of the Universe, Which Becomes, by God’s Ordinance, More Brilliant by the…
What, Seemingly, We are to Understand by the Words, “God divided the Light from the…
Of the Words Which Follow the Separation of Light and Darkness, “And God Saw the Light…
Of God’s Eternal and Unchangeable Knowledge and Will, Whereby All He Has Made Pleased Him…
Of Those Who Do Not Approve of Certain Things Which are a Part of This Good Creation of a…
23. Of the Error in Which the Doctrine of Origen is Involved
Of the Divine Trinity, and the Indications of Its Presence Scattered Everywhere Among Its…
25. Of the Division of Philosophy into Three Parts
Of the Image of the Supreme Trinity, Which We Find in Solve Sort in Human Nature Even in…
27. Of Existence, and Knowledge of It, and the Love of Both
Whether We Ought to Love the Love Itself with Which We Love Our Existence and Our…
Of the Knowledge by Which the Holy Angels Know God in His Essence, and by Which They See…
Of the Perfection of the Number Six, Which is the First of the Numbers Which is Composed…
Of the Seventh Day, in Which Completeness and Repose are Celebrated
Of the Opinion that the Angels Were Created Before the World
Of the Two Different and Dissimilar Communities of Angels, Which are Not Inappropriately…
Of the Idea that the Angels Were Meant Where the Separation of the Waters by the…
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That the Nature of the Angels, Both Good and Bad, is One and the Same
That There is No Entity Contrary to the Divine, Because Nonentity Seems to Be that Which…
That the Enemies of God are So, Not by Nature, But by Will, Which, as It Injures Them,…
Of the Nature of Irrational and Lifeless Creatures, Which in Their Own Kind and Order Do…
That in All Natures, of Every Kind and Rank, God is Glorified
What the Cause of the Blessedness of the Good Angels Is, and What the Cause of the Misery…
That We Ought Not to Expect to Find Any Efficient Cause of the Evil Will
Of the Misdirected Love Whereby the Will Fell Away from the Immutable to the Mutable Good
Whether the Angels, Besides Receiving from God Their Nature, Received from Him Also Their…
Of the Falseness of the History Which Allots Many Thousand Years to the World’s Past
Of Those Who Suppose that This World Indeed is Not Eternal, But that Either There are…
How These Persons are to Be Answered, Who Find Fault with the Creation of Man on the…
Of the Revolution of the Ages, Which Some Philosophers Believe Will Bring All Things…
Of the Creation of the Human Race in Time, and How This Was Effected Without Any New…
Whether We are to Believe that God, as He Has Always Been Sovereign Lord, Has Always Had…
How We are to Understand God’s Promise of Life Eternal, Which Was Uttered Before the…
What Defence is Made by Sound Faith Regarding God’s Unchangeable Counsel and Will,…
Against Those Who Assert that Things that are Infinite Cannot Be Comprehended by the…
19. Of Worlds Without End, or Ages of Ages
Of the Impiety of Those Who Assert that the Souls Which Enjoy True and Perfect…
That There Was Created at First But One Individual, and that the Human Race Was Created…
That God Foreknew that the First Man Would Sin, and that He at the Same Time Foresaw How…
23. Of the Nature of the Human Soul Created in the Image of God
Whether the Angels Can Be Said to Be the Creators of Any, Even the Least Creature
That God Alone is the Creator of Every Kind of Creature, Whatever Its Nature or Form
Of that Opinion of the Platonists, that the Angels Were Themselves Indeed Created by God,…
That the Whole Plenitude of the Human Race Was Embraced in the First Man, and that God…
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Of the Fall of the First Man, Through Which Mortality Has Been Contracted
Of that Death Which Can Affect an Immortal Soul, and of that to Which the Body is Subject
Whether Death, Which by the Sin of Our First Parents Has Passed Upon All Men, is the…
Why Death, the Punishment of Sin, is Not Withheld from Those Who by the Grace of…
As the Wicked Make an Ill Use of the Law, Which is Good, So the Good Make a Good Use of…
Of the Evil of Death in General, Considered as the Separation of Soul and Body
Of the Death Which the Un-Baptized Suffer for the Confession of Christ
That the Saints, by Suffering the First Death for the Truth’s Sake, are Freed from the…
Whether We Should Say that Tile Moment of Death, in Which Sensation Ceases, Occurs in the…
Of the Life of Mortals, Which is Rather to Be Called Death Than Life
11. Whether One Can Both Be Living and Dead at the Same Time
What Death God Intended, When He Threatened Our First Parents with Death If They Should…
What Was the First Punishment of the Transgression of Our First Parents
In What State Man Was Made by God, and into What Estate He Fell by the Choice of His Own…
That Adam in His Sin Forsook God Ere God Forsook Him, and that His Falling Away from God…
Concerning the Philosophers Who Think that the Separation of Soul and Body is Not Penal,…
Against Those Who Affirm that Earthly Bodies Cannot Be Made Incorruptible and Eternal
Of Earthly Bodies, Which the Philosophers Affirm Cannot Be in Heavenly Places, Because…
Against the Opinion of Those Who Do Not Believe that the Primitive Men Would Have Been…
That the Flesh Now Resting in Peace Shall Be Raised to a Perfection Not Enjoyed by the…
Of Paradise, that It Can Be Understood in a Spiritual Sense Without Sacrificing the…
That the Bodies of the Saints Shall After the Resurrection Be Spiritual, and Yet Flesh…
What We are to Understand by the Animal and Spiritual Body; Or of Those Who Die in Adam,…
How We Must Understand that Breathing of God by Which ‘The First Man Was Made a Living…
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That the Disobedience of the First Man Would Have Plunged All Men into the Endless Misery…
Of Carnal Life, Which is to Be Understood Not Only of Living in Bodily Indulgence, But…
That the Sin is Caused Not by the Flesh, But by the Soul, and that the Corruption…
What It is to Live According to Man, and What to Live According to God
That the Opinion of the Platonists Regarding the Nature of Body and Soul is Not So…
Of the Character of the Human Will Which Makes the Affections of the Soul Right or Wrong
That the Words Love and Regard (Amor and Dilectio) are in Scripture Used Indifferently of…
Of the Three Perturbations, Which the Stoics Admitted in the Soul of the Wise Man to the…
Of the Perturbations of the Soul Which Appear as Right Affections in the Life of the…
Whether It is to Be Believed that Our First Parents in Paradise, Before They Sinned, Were…
Of the Fall of the First Man, in Whom Nature Was Created Good, and Can Be Restored Only…
12. Of the Nature of Man’s First Sin
13. That in Adam’s Sin an Evil Will Preceded the Evil Act
Of the Pride in the Sin, Which Was Worse Than the Sin Itself
Of the Justice of the Punishment with Which Our First Parents Were Visited for Their…
Of the Evil of Lust,—A Word Which, Though Applicable to Many Vices, is Specially…
Of the Nakedness of Our First Parents, Which They Saw After Their Base and Shameful Sin
18. Of the Shame Which Attends All Sexual Intercourse
That It is Now Necessary, as It Was Not Before Man Sinned, to Bridle Anger and Lust by…
20. Of the Foolish Beastliness of the Cynics
That Man’s Transgression Did Not Annul the Blessing of Fecundity Pronounced Upon Man…
Of the Conjugal Union as It Was Originally Instituted and Blessed by God
Whether Generation Should Have Taken Place Even in Paradise Had Man Not Sinned, or…
That If Men Had Remained Innocent and Obedient in Paradise, the Generative Organs Should…
25. Of True Blessedness, Which This Present Life Cannot Enjoy
That We are to Believe that in Paradise Our First Parents Begat Offspring Without Blushing
Of the Angels and Men Who Sinned, and that Their Wickedness Did Not Disturb the Order of…
Of the Nature of the Two Cities, the Earthly and the Heavenly
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Of the Two Lines of the Human Race Which from First to Last Divide It
Of the Children of the Flesh and the Children of the Promise
3. That Sarah’s Barrenness Was Made Productive by God’s Grace
4. Of the Conflict and Peace of the Earthly City
Of the Fratricidal Act of the Founder of the Earthly City, and the Corresponding Crime of…
Of the Weaknesses Which Even the Citizens of the City of God Suffer During This Earthly…
Of the Cause of Cain’s Crime His Obstinacy, Which Not Even the Word of God Could Subdue
What Cain’s Reason Was for Building a City So Early in the History of the Human Race
9. Of the Long Life and Greater Stature of the Antediluvians
Of the Different Computation of the Ages of the Antediluvians, Given by the Hebrew…
Of Methuselah’s Age, Which Seems to Extend Fourteen Years Beyond the Deluge
Of the Opinion of Those Who Do Not Believe that in These Primitive Times Men Lived So…
Whether, in Computing Years, We Ought to Follow the Hebrew or the Septuagint
That the Years in Those Ancient Times Were of the Same Length as Our Own
Whether It is Credible that the Men of the Primitive Age Abstained from Sexual…
Of Marriage Between Blood-Relations, in Regard to Which the Present Law Could Not Bind…
Of the Two Fathers and Leaders Who Sprang from One Progenitor
The Significance of Abel, Seth, and Enos to Christ and His Body the Church
19. The Significance Of Enoch’s Translation
How It is that Cain’s Line Terminates in the Eighth Generation, While Noah, Though…
Why It is That, as Soon as Cain’s Son Enoch Has Been Named, the Genealogy is Forthwith…
Of the Fall of the Sons of God Who Were Captivated by the Daughters of Men, Whereby All,…
Whether We are to Believe that Angels, Who are of a Spiritual Substance, Fell in Love…
How We are to Understand This Which the Lord Said to Those Who Were to Perish in the…
Of the Anger of God, Which Does Not Inflame His Mind, Nor Disturb His Unchangeable…
That the Ark Which Noah Was Ordered to Make Figures In Every Respect Christ and the Church
Of the Ark and the Deluge, and that We Cannot Agree with Those Who Receive the Bare…
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Whether, After the Deluge, from Noah to Abraham, Any Families Can Be Found Who Lived…
2. What Was Prophetically Prefigured in the Sons of Noah
3. Of the Generations of the Three Sons of Noah
Of the Diversity of Languages, and of the Founding of Babylon
Of God’s Coming Down to Confound the Languages of the Builders of the City
6. What We are to Understand by God’s Speaking to the Angels
Whether Even the Remotest Islands Received Their Fauna from the Animals Which Were…
Whether Certain Monstrous Races of Men are Derived from the Stock of Adam or Noah’s Sons
9. Whether We are to Believe in the Antipodes
Of the Genealogy of Shem, in Whose Line the City of God is Preserved Till the Time of…
That the Original Language in Use Among Men Was that Which Was Afterwards Called Hebrew,…
Of the Era in Abraham’s Life from Which a New Period in the Holy Succession Begins
Why, in the Account of Terah’s Emigration, on His Forsaking the Chaldeans and Passing…
14. Of the Years of Terah, Who Completed His Lifetime in Haran
Of the Time of the Migration of Abraham, When, According to the Commandment of God, He…
Of the Order and Nature of the Promises of God Which Were Made to Abraham
Of the Three Most Famous Kingdoms of the Nations, of Which One, that is the Assyrian, Was…
Of the Repeated Address of God to Abraham, in Which He Promised the Land of Canaan to Him…
Of the Divine Preservation of Sarah’s Chastity in Egypt, When Abraham Had Called Her Not…
Of the Parting of Lot and Abraham, Which They Agreed to Without Breach of Charity
Of the Third Promise of God, by Which He Assured the Land of Canaan to Abraham and His…
Of Abraham’s Overcoming the Enemies of Sodom, When He Delivered Lot from Captivity and…
Of the Word of the Lord to Abraham, by Which It Was Promised to Him that His Posterity…
Of the Meaning of the Sacrifice Abraham Was Commanded to Offer When He Supplicated to Be…
Of Sarah’s Handmaid, Hagar, Whom She Herself Wished to Be Abraham’s Concubine
Of God’s Attestation to Abraham, by Which He Assures Him, When Now Old, of a Son by the…
Of the Male, Who Was to Lose His Soul If He Was Not Circumcised on the Eighth Day,…
Of the Change of Name in Abraham and Sarah, Who Received the Gift of Fecundity When They…
Of the Three Men or Angels, in Whom the Lord is Related to Have Appeared to Abraham at…
Of Lot’s Deliverance from Sodom, and Its Consumption by Fire from Heaven; And of…
Of Isaac, Who Was Born According to the Promise, Whose Name Was Given on Account of the…
Of Abraham’s Obedience and Faith, Which Were Proved by the Offering Up, of His Son in…
Of Rebecca, the Grand-Daughter of Nahor, Whom Isaac Took to Wife
What is Meant by Abraham’s Marrying Keturah After Sarah’s Death
What Was Indicated by the Divine Answer About the Twins Still Shut Up in the Womb of…
Of the Oracle and Blessing Which Isaac Received, Just as His Father Did, Being Beloved…
37. Of the Things Mystically Prefigured in Esau and Jacob
Of Jacob’s Mission to Mesopotamia to Get a Wife, and of the Vision Which He Saw in a…
39. The Reason Why Jacob Was Also Called Israel
How It is Said that Jacob Went into Egypt with Seventy-Five Souls, When Most of Those Who…
41. Of the Blessing Which Jacob Promised in Judah His Son
Of the Sons of Joseph, Whom Jacob Blessed, Prophetically Changing His Hands
Of the Times of Moses and Joshua the Son of Nun, of the Judges, and Thereafter of the…
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1. Of the Prophetic Age
At What Time the Promise of God Was Fulfilled Concerning the Land of Canaan, Which Even…
Of the Three-Fold Meaning of the Prophecies, Which are to Be Referred Now to the Earthly,…
About the Prefigured Change of the Israelitic Kingdom and Priesthood, and About the…
Of Those Things Which a Man of God Spake by the Spirit to Eli the Priest, Signifying that…
Of the Jewish Priesthood and Kingdom, Which, Although Promised to Be Established for…
Of the Disruption of the Kingdom of Israel, by Which the Perpetual Division of the…
Of the Promises Made to David in His Son, Which are in No Wise Fulfilled in Solomon, But…
How Like the Prophecy About Christ in the 89th Psalm is to the Things Promised in…
How Different the Acts in the Kingdom of the Earthly Jerusalem are from Those Which God…
Of the Substance of the People of God, Which Through His Assumption of Flesh is in…
To Whose Person the Entreaty for the Promises is to Be Understood to Belong, When He Says…
Whether the Truth of This Promised Peace Can Be Ascribed to Those Times Passed Away Under…
14. Of David’s Concern in the Writing of the Psalms
Whether All the Things Prophesied in the Psalms Concerning Christ and His Church Should…
Of the Things Pertaining to Christ and the Church, Said Either Openly or Tropically in…
Of Those Things in the 110th Psalm Which Relate to the Priesthood of Christ, and in the…
Of the 3d, 41st, 15th, and 68th Psalms, in Which the Death and Resurrection of the Lord…
Of the 69th Psalm, in Which the Obstinate Unbelief of the Jews is Declared
Of David’s Reign and Merit; And of His Son Solomon, and that Prophecy Relating to Christ…
21. Of the Kings After Solomon. Both in Judah and Israel
Of Jeroboam, Who Profaned the People Put Under Him by the Impiety of Idolatry, Amid…
Of the Varying Condition of Both the Hebrew Kingdoms, Until the People of Both Were at…
Of the Prophets, Who Either Were the Last Among the Jews, or Whom the Gospel History…
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Of Those Things Down to the Times of the Saviour Which Have Been Discussed in the…
Of the Kings and Times of the Earthly City Which Were Synchronous with the Times of the…
What Kings Reigned in Assyria and Sicyon When, According to the Promise, Isaac Was Born…
4. Of the Times of Jacob and His Son Joseph
Of Apis King of Argos, Whom the Egyptians Called Serapis, and Worshipped with Divine…
Who Were Kings of Argos, and of Assyria, When Jacob Died in Egypt
7. Who Were Kings When Joseph Died in Egypt
Who Were Kings When Moses Was Born, and What Gods Began to Be Worshipped Then
When the City of Athens Was Founded, and What Reason Varro Assigns for Its Name
What Varro Reports About the Term Areopagus, and About Deucalion’s Flood
When Moses Led the People Out of Egypt; And Who Were Kings When His Successor Joshua the…
Of the Rituals of False Gods Instituted by the Kings of Greece in the Period from…
What Fables Were Invented at the Time When Judges Began to Rule the Hebrews
14. Of the Theological Poets
Of the Fall of the Kingdom of Argos, When Picus the Son of Saturn First Received His…
Of Diomede, Who After the Destruction of Troy Was Placed Among the Gods, While His…
17. What Varro Says of the Incredible Transformations of Men
What We Should Believe Concerning the Transformations Which Seem to Happen to Men Through…
That Aeneas Came into Italy When Abdon the Judge Ruled Over the Hebrews
Of the Succession of the Line of Kings Among the Israelites After the Times of the Judges
Of the Kings of Latium, the First and Twelfth of Whom, Aeneas and Aventinus, Were Made…
That Rome Was Founded When the Assyrian Kingdom Perished, at Which Time Hezekiah Reigned…
Of the Erythraean Sibyl, Who is Known to Have Sung Many Things About Christ More Plainly…
That the Seven Sages Flourished in the Reign of Romulus, When the Ten Tribes Which Were…
What Philosophers Were Famous When Tarquinius Priscus Reigned Over the Romans, and…
That at the Time When the Captivity of the Jews Was Brought to an End, on the Completion…
Of the Times of the Prophets Whose Oracles are Contained in Books and Who Sang Many…
Of the Things Pertaining to the Gospel of Christ Which Hosea and Amos Prohesied
What Things are Predicted by Isaiah Concerning Christ and the Church
What Micah, Jonah, and Joel Prophesied in Accordance with the New Testament
Of the Predictions Concerning the Salvation of the World in Christ, in Obadiah, Nahum,…
Of the Prophecy that is Contained in the Prayer and Song of Habakkuk
What Jeremiah and Zephaniah Have, by the Prophetic Spirit, Spoken Before Concerning…
Of the Prophecy of Daniel and Ezekiel, Other Two of the Greater Prophets
Of the Prophecy of the Three Prophets, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi
36. About Esdras and the Books of the Maccabees
That Prophetic Records are Found Which are More Ancient Than Any Fountain of the Gentile…
That the Ecclesiastical Canon Has Not Admitted Certain Writings on Account of Their Too…
About the Hebrew Written Characters Which that Language Always Possessed
About the Most Mendacious Vanity of the Egyptians, in Which They Ascribe to Their.…
About the Discord of Philosophic Opinion, and the Concord of the Scriptures that are Held…
By What Dispensation of God’s Providence the Sacred Scriptures of the Old Testament Were,…
Of the Authority of the Septuagint Translation, Which, Saving the Honor of the Hebrew…
How the Threat of the Destruction of the Ninevites is to Be Understood Which in the…
That the Jews Ceased to Have Prophets After the Rebuilding of the Temple, and from that…
Of the Birth of Our Saviour, Whereby the Word Was Made Flesh; And of the Dispersion of…
Whether Before Christian Times There Were Any Outside of the Israelite Race Who Belonged…
That Haggai’s Prophecy, in Which He Said that the Glory of the House of God Would Be…
Of the Indiscriminate Increase of the Church, Wherein Many Reprobate are in This World…
Of the Preaching of the Gospel, Which is Made More Famous and Powerful by the Sufferings…
That the Catholic Faith May Be Confirmed Even by the Dissensions of the Heretics
Whether We Should Believe What Some Think, That, as the Ten Persecutions Which are Past…
53. Of the Hidden Time of the Final Persecution
Of the Very Foolish Lie of the Pagans, in Feigning that the Christian Religion Was Not to…
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That Varro Has Made Out that Two Hundred and Eighty-Eight Different Sects of Philosophy…
How Varro, by Removing All the Differences Which Do Not Form Sects, But are Merely…
Which of the Three Leading Opinions Regarding the Chief Good Should Be Preferred,…
What the Christians Believe Regarding the Supreme Good and Evil, in Opposition to the…
Of the Social Life, Which, Though Most Desirable, is Frequently Disturbed by Many…
6. Of the Error of Human Judgments When the Truth is Hidden
Of the Diversity of Languages, by Which the Intercourse of Men is Prevented; And of the…
That the Friendship of Good Men Cannot Be Securely Rested In, So Long as the Dangers of…
Of the Friendship of the Holy Angels, Which Men Cannot Be Sure of in This Life, Owing to…
The Reward Prepared for the Saints After They Have Endured the Trial of This Life
Of the Happiness of the Eternal Peace, Which Constitutes the End or True Perfection of…
That Even the Fierceness of War and All the Disquietude of Men Make Towards This One End…
Of the Universal Peace Which the Law of Nature Preserves Through All Disturbances, and by…
Of the Order and Law Which Obtain in Heaven and Earth, Whereby It Comes to Pass that…
Of the Liberty Proper to Man’s Nature, and the Servitude Introduced by Sin,—A Servitude…
16. Of Equitable Rule
What Produces Peace, and What Discord, Between the Heavenly and Earthly Cities
How Different the Uncertainty of the New Academy is from the Certainty of the Christian…
19. Of the Dress and Habits of the Christian People
20. That the Saints are in This Life Blessed in Hope
Whether There Ever Was a Roman Republic Answering to the Definitions of Scipio in…
Whether the God Whom the Christians Serve is the True God to Whom Alone Sacrifice Ought…
Porphyry’s Account of the Responses Given by the Oracles of the Gods Concerning Christ
The Definition Which Must Be Given of a People and a Republic, in Order to Vindicate the…
That Where There is No True Religion There are No True Virtues
Of the Peace Which is Enjoyed by the People that are Alienated from God, and the Use Made…
That the Peace of Those Who Serve God Cannot in This Mortal Life Be Apprehended in Its…
28. The End of the Wicked
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That Although God is Always Judging, It is Nevertheless Reasonable to Confine Our…
That in the Mingled Web of Human Affairs God’s Judgment is Present, Though It Cannot Be…
What Solomon, in the Book of Ecclesiastes, Says Regarding the Things Which Happen Alike…
That Proofs of the Last Judgment Will Be Adduced, First from the New Testament, and Then…
The Passages in Which the Saviour Declares that There Shall Be a Divine Judgment in the…
6. What is the First Resurrection, and What the Second
What is Written in the Revelation of John Regarding the Two Resurrections, and the…
8. Of the Binding and Loosing of the Devil
What the Reign of the Saints with Christ for a Thousand Years Is, and How It Differs from…
What is to Be Replied to Those Who Think that Resurrection Pertains Only to Bodies and…
Of Gog and Magog, Who are to Be Roused by the Devil to Persecute the Church, When He is…
Whether the Fire that Came Down Out of Heaven and Devoured Them Refers to the Last…
Whether the Time of the Persecution or Antichrist Should Be Reckoned in the Thousand Years
Of the Damnation of the Devil and His Adherents; And a Sketch of the Bodily Resurrection…
Who the Dead are Who are Given Up to Judgment by the Sea, and by Death and Hell
16. Of the New Heaven and the New Earth
17. Of the Endless Glory of the Church
What the Apostle Peter Predicted Regarding the Last Judgment
What the Apostle Paul Wrote to the Thessalonians About the Manifestation of Antichrist…
What the Same Apostle Taught in the First Epistle to the Thessalonians Regarding the…
Utterances of the Prophet Isaiah Regarding the Resurrection of the Dead and the…
What is Meant by the Good Going Out to See the Punishment of the Wicked
What Daniel Predicted Regarding the Persecution of Antichrist, the Judgment of God, and…
Passages from the Psalms of David Which Predict the End of the World and the Last Judgment
Of Malachi’s Prophecy, in Which He Speaks of the Last Judgment, and of a Cleansing Which…
Of the Sacrifices Offered to God by the Saints, Which are to Be Pleasing to Him, as in…
Of the Separation of the Good and the Bad, Which Proclaim the Discriminating Influence of…
That the Law of Moses Must Be Spiritually Understood to Preclude the Damnable Murmurs of…
Of the Coming of Elias Before the Judgment, that the Jews May Be Converted to Christ by…
That in the Books of the Old Testament, Where It is Said that God Shall Judge the World,…
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Of the Order of the Discussion, Which Requires that We First Speak of the Eternal…
Whether It is Possible for Bodies to Last for Ever in Burning Fire
Whether Bodily Suffering Necessarily Terminates in the Destruction of the Flesh
Examples from Nature Proving that Bodies May Remain Unconsumed and Alive in Fire
That There are Many Things Which Reason Cannot Account For, and Which are Nevertheless…
That All Marvels are Not of Nature’s Production, But that Some are Due to Human Ingenuity…
That the Ultimate Reason for Believing Miracles is the Omnipotence of the Creator
That It is Not Contrary to Nature That, in an Object Whose Nature is Known, There Should…
9. Of Hell, and the Nature of Eternal Punishments
Whether the Fire of Hell, If It Be Material Fire, Can Burn the Wicked Spirits, that is to…
Whether It is Just that the Punishments of Sins Last Longer Than the Sins Themselves…
Of the Greatness of the First Transgression, on Account of Which Eternal Punishment is…
Against the Opinion of Those Who Think that the Punishments of the Wicked After Death are…
Of the Temporary Punishments of This Life to Which the Human Condition is Subject
That Everything Which the Grace of God Does in the Way of Rescuing Us from the Inveterate…
The Laws of Grace, Which Extend to All the Epochs of the Life of the Regenerate
17. Of Those Who Fancy that No Men Shall Be Punished Eternally
Of Those Who Fancy That, on Account of the Saints’ Intercession, Man Shall Be Damned in…
Of Those Who Promise Impunity from All Sins Even to Heretics, Through Virtue of Their…
Of Those Who Promise This Indulgence Not to All, But Only to Those Who Have Been Baptized…
Of Those Who Assert that All Catholics Who Continue in the Faith Even Though by the…
Of Those Who Fancy that the Sins Which are Intermingled with Alms-Deeds Shall Not Be…
Against Those Who are of Opinion that the Punishment Neither of the Devil Nor of Wicked…
Against Those Who Fancy that in the Judgment of God All the Accused Will Be Spared in…
Whether Those Who Received Heretical Baptism, and Have Afterwards Fallen Away to…
What It is to Have Christ for a Foundation, and Who They are to Whom Salvation as by Fire…
Against the Belief of Those Who Think that the Sins Which Have Been Accompanied with…
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1. Of the Creation of Angels and Men
2. Of the Eternal and Unchangeable Will of God
Of the Promise of Eternal Blessedness to the Saints, and Everlasting Punishment to the…
Against the Wise Men of the World, Who Fancy that the Earthly Bodies of Men Cannot Be…
Of the Resurrection of the Flesh, Which Some Refuse to Believe, Though the World at Large…
That Rome Made Its Founder Romulus a God Because It Loved Him; But the Church Loved…
That the World’s Belief in Christ is the Result of Divine Power, Not of Human Persuasion
Of Miracles Which Were Wrought that the World Might Believe in Christ, and Which Have Not…
That All the Miracles Which are Done by Means of the Martyrs in the Name of Christ…
That the Martyrs Who Obtain Many Miracles in Order that the True God May Be Worshipped,…
Against the Platonists, Who Argue from the Physical Weight of the Elements that an…
Against the Calumnies with Which Unbelievers Throw Ridicule Upon the Christian Faith in…
Whether Abortions, If They are Numbered Among the Dead, Shall Not Also Have a Part in the…
Whether Infants Shall Rise in that Body Which They Would Have Had Had They Grown Up
Whether the Bodies of All the Dead Shall Rise the Same Size as the Lord’s Body
What is Meant by the Conforming of the Saints to the Image of Tile Son of God
Whether the Bodies of Women Shall Retain Their Own Sex in the Resurrection
Of the Perfect Man, that Is, Christ; And of His Body, that Is, The, Church, Which is His…
That All Bodily Blemishes Which Mar Human Beauty in This Life Shall Be Removed in the…
That, in the Resurrection, the Substance of Our Bodies, However Disintegrated, Shall Be…
Of the New Spiritual Body into Which the Flesh of the Saints Shall Be Transformed
Of the Miseries and Ills to Which the Human Race is Justly Exposed Through the First Sin,…
Of the Miseries of This Life Which Attach Peculiarly to the Toil of Good Men.…
Of the Blessings with Which the Creator Has Filled This Life, Obnoxious Though It Be to…
Of the Obstinacy of Those Individuals Who Impugn the Resurrection of the Body, Though, as…
That the Opinion of Porphyry, that the Soul, in Order to Be Blessed, Must Be Separated…
Of the Apparently Conflicting Opinions of Plato and Porphyry, Which Would Have Conducted…
What Plato or Labeo, or Even Varro, Might Have Contributed to the True Faith of the…
29. Of the Beatific Vision
Of the Eternal Felicity of the City of God, and of the Perpetual Sabbath