Contents
- Introduction
- Book I.
- Introduction (i)
- Chapter I. St. Ambrose, Reflecting Upon the Account He Will Have to Give of His…
- Chapter II. This Treatise Has a Favourable Beginning, Since it is the Birthday…
- Chapter III. Virginity is Praised on Many Grounds, but Chiefly Because it…
- Chapter IV. The Comeliness of Virginity Never Existed Amongst the Heathen…
- Chapter V. Heaven is the Home of Virginity, and the Son of God its Author, Who…
- Chapter VI. St. Ambrose Explains That He is Not Speaking Against Marriage, and…
- Chapter VII. St. Ambrose Exhorts Parents to Train Their Children to Virginity…
- Chapter VIII. Taking the Passage Concerning the Honeycomb in the Song of Songs…
- Chapter IX. Other Passages From the Song of Songs Are Considered With Relation…
- Chapter X. Finally, Another Glory of Virginity is Mentioned, That it is Free…
- Chapter XI. St. Ambrose Answers Objections Made to the Uselessness of His…
- Chapter XII. It is Very Desirable That Parents Should Encourage the Desire for…
- Book II.
- Chapter I. In This Book St. Ambrose Purposes to Treat of the Training of…
- Chapter II. The Life of Mary is Set Before Virgins as an Example, and Her Many…
- Chapter III. St. Ambrose Having Set Forth the Virgin Mary as a Pattern for…
- Chapter IV. A Virgin at Antioch, Having Refused to Sacrifice to Idols, Was…
- Chapter V. The Story of the Two Pythagorean Friends, Damon and Pythias, is…
- Chapter VI. St. Ambrose, in Concluding the Second Book, Ascribes Any Good There…
- Book III.
- Chapter I. St. Ambrose Now Goes Back to the Address of Liberius When He Gave…
- Chapter II. Touching Next Upon the Training of a Virgin, He Speaks of…
- Chapter III. Virgins Are Exhorted to Avoid Visits, to Observe Modesty, to Be…
- Chapter IV. Having Summed up the Address of Liberius, St. Ambrose Passes on to…
- Chapter V. St. Ambrose, Speaking of Tears, Explains David's Saying, “Every…
- Chapter VI. Having Mentioned the Baptist, St. Ambrose Enters Into a Description…
- Chapter VII. In Reply to Marcellina, Who Had Asked What Should Be Thought of…