Blessed Augustine of Hippo

City of God

Name: City of God
Author: Blessed Augustine of Hippo

5th c.

Classic translation

Apologetics · English translation, 1890

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City of God
Translator’s Preface
Augustin censures the pagans, who attributed the calamities of the world, and…
Introduction
Preface, Explaining His Design in Undertaking This Work
Of the Adversaries of the Name of Christ, Whom the Barbarians for Christ’s Sake…
That It is Quite Contrary to the Usage of War, That the Victors Should Spare…
That the Romans Did Not Show Their Usual Sagacity When They Trusted That They…
Of the Asylum of Juno in Troy, Which Saved No One From the Greeks; And of the…
Cæsar’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…
That the Cruelties Which Occurred in the Sack of Rome Were in Accordance With…
Of the Advantages and Disadvantages Which Often Indiscriminately Accrue to Good…
Of the Reasons for Administering Correction to Bad and Good Together
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…
Reasons for Burying the Bodies of the Saints
Of the Captivity of the Saints, and That Divine Consolation Never Failed Them…
Of Regulus, in Whom We Have an Example of the Voluntary Endurance of Captivity…
Of the Violation of the Consecrated and Other Christian Virgins, to Which They…
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…
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…
Of the Cases in Which We May Put Men to Death Without Incurring the Guilt of…
That Suicide Can Never Be Prompted by Magnanimity
What We Are to Think of the Example of Cato, Who Slew Himself Because Unable to…
That in That Virtue in Which Regulus Excels Cato, Christians Are Pre-Eminently…
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…
What the Servants of Christ Should Say in Reply to the Unbelievers Who Cast in…
That Those Who Complain of Christianity Really Desire to Live Without Restraint…
By What Steps the Passion for Governing Increased Among the Romans
Of the Establishment of Scenic Entertainments
That the Overthrow of Rome Has Not Corrected the Vices of the Romans
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…
What Subjects Are to Be Handled in the Following Discourse
A review of the calamities suffered by the Romans before the time of Christ…
Introduction (i)
Of the Limits Which Must Be Put to the Necessity of Replying to an Adversary
Recapitulation of the Contents of the First Book
That We Need Only to Read History in Order to See What Calamities the Romans…
That the Worshippers of the Gods Never Received From Them Any Healthy Moral…
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…
That the Theatrical Exhibitions Publishing the Shameful Actions of the Gods…
That the Poetical License Which the Greeks, in Obedience to Their Gods…
That the Devils, in Suffering Either False or True Crimes to Be Laid to Their…
That the Greeks Admitted Players to Offices of State, on the Ground That Men…
That the Romans, by Refusing to the Poets the Same License in Respect of Men…
That the Romans Should Have Understood That Gods Who Desired to Be Worshipped…
That Plato, Who Excluded Poets From a Well-Ordered City, Was Better Than These…
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…
Of the Rape of the Sabine Women, and Other Iniquities Perpetrated in Rome’s…
What the History of Sallust Reveals Regarding the Life of the Romans, Either…
Of the Corruption Which Had Grown Upon the Roman Republic Before Christ…
Of the Kind of Happiness and Life Truly Delighted in by Those Who Inveigh…
Cicero’s Opinion of the Roman Republic
That the Roman Gods Never Took Any Steps to Prevent the Republic From Being…
That the Vicissitudes of This Life Are Dependent Not on the Favor or Hostility…
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…
That the Demons Gave in Secret Certain Obscure Instructions in Morals, While in…
That the Obscenities of Those Plays Which the Romans Consecrated in Order to…
That the Christian Religion is Health-Giving
An Exhortation to the Romans to Renounce Paganism
The external calamities of Rome.
Introduction (i, 2)
Of the Ills Which Alone the Wicked Fear, and Which the World Continually…
Whether the Gods, Whom the Greeks and Romans Worshipped in Common, Were…
That the Gods Could Not Be Offended by the Adultery of Paris, This Crime Being…
Of Varro’s Opinion, That It is Useful for Men to Feign Themselves the Offspring…
That It is Not Credible That the Gods Should Have Punished the Adultery of…
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…
Whether It Was Desirable That The Roman Empire Should Be Increased by Such a…
Of the Statue of Apollo at Cumæ, Whose Tears Are Supposed to Have Portended…
That the Romans Added a Vast Number of Gods to Those Introduced by Numa, and…
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…
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…
Of the Disasters Which Vexed the Roman Republic After the Inauguration of the…
The Disasters Suffered by the Romans in the Punic Wars, Which Were Not…
Of the Calamity of the Second Punic War, Which Consumed the Strength of Both…
Of the Destruction of the Saguntines, Who Received No Help From the Roman Gods…
Of the Ingratitude of Rome to Scipio, Its Deliverer, and of Its Manners During…
Of the Edict of Mithridates, Commanding That All Roman Citizens Found in Asia…
Of the Internal Disasters Which Vexed the Roman Republic, and Followed a…
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…
Of the Various Kinds of Wars Which Followed the Building of the Temple of…
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…
Of the Connection of the Wars Which With Great Severity and Frequency Followed…
That It is Effrontery to Impute the Present Troubles to Christ and the…
That empire was given to Rome not by the gods, but by the One True God.
Introduction (i, 3)
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…
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…
Whether Earthly Kingdoms in Their Rise and Fall Have Been Either Aided or…
Which of the Gods Can the Romans Suppose Presided Over the Increase and…
Whether the Great Extent and Long Duration of the Roman Empire Should Be…
What Opinions Those Have Followed Who Have Set Divers Gods Over Divers Parts of…
Concerning the Many Gods Whom the Pagan Doctors Defend as Being One and the…
Concerning the Opinion of Those Who Have Thought That God is the Soul of the…
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…
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…
Whether, If the Highest Power Belongs to Jove, Victoria Also Ought to Be…
With What Reason They Who Think Felicity and Fortune Goddesses Have…
Concerning Fortuna Muliebris
Concerning Virtue and Faith, Which the Pagans Have Honored With Temples and…
That Although Not Understanding Them to Be the Gifts of God, They Ought at…
Concerning the Knowledge of the Worship Due to the Gods, Which Varro Glories in…
Concerning Felicity, Whom the Romans, Who Venerate Many Gods, for a Long Time…
The Reasons by Which the Pagans Attempt to Defend Their Worshipping Among the…
Concerning the One God Only to Be Worshipped, Who, Although His Name is…
Of the Scenic Plays, the Celebration of Which the Gods Have Exacted From Their…
Concerning the Three Kinds of Gods About Which the Pontiff Scævola Has…
Whether the Worship of the Gods Has Been of Service to the Romans in Obtaining…
Of the Falsity of the Augury by Which the Strength and Stability of the Roman…
What Kind of Things Even Their Worshippers Have Owned They Have Thought About…
Concerning the Opinions of Varro, Who, While Reprobating the Popular Belief…
In What Interest the Princes of the Nations Wished False Religions to Continue…
That the Times of All Kings and Kingdoms Are Ordained by the Judgment and Power…
Concerning the Kingdom of the Jews, Which Was Founded by the One and True God…
Of fate, freewill, and God’s prescience, and of the source of the virtues of…
Introduction (i, 4)
Preface
That the Cause of the Roman Empire, and of All Kingdoms, is Neither Fortuitous…
On the Difference in the Health of Twins
Concerning the Arguments Which Nigidius the Mathematician Drew From the…
Concerning the Twins Esau and Jacob, Who Were Very Unlike Each Other Both in…
In What Manner the Mathematicians Are Convicted of Professing a Vain Science
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…
Concerning the Foreknowledge of God and the Free Will of Man, in Opposition to…
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…
Concerning the Love of Praise, Which, Though It is a Vice, is Reckoned a…
Concerning the Eradication of the Love of Human Praise, Because All the Glory…
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…
To What Profit the Romans Carried on Wars, and How Much They Contributed to the…
How Far Christians Ought to Be From Boasting, If They Have Done Anything for…
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…
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…
What Was the Happiness of the Christian Emperors, and How Far It Was True…
Concerning the Prosperity Which God Granted to the Christian Emperor Constantine
On the Faith and Piety of Theodosius Augustus
Of Varro’s threefold division of theology, and of the inability of the gods to…
Introduction (i, 5)
Preface (ii)
Of Those Who Maintain That They Worship the Gods Not for the Sake of Temporal…
What We Are to Believe That Varro Thought Concerning the Gods of the Nations…
Varro’s Distribution of His Book Which He Composed Concerning the Antiquities…
That From the Disputation of Varro, It Follows That the Worshippers of the Gods…
Concerning the Three Kinds of Theology According to Varro, Namely, One…
Concerning the Mythic, That Is, the Fabulous, Theology, and the Civil, Against…
Concerning the Likeness and Agreement of the Fabulous and Civil Theologies
Concerning the Interpretations, Consisting of Natural Explanations, Which the…
Concerning the Special Offices of the Gods
Concerning the Liberty of Seneca, Who More Vehemently Censured the Civil…
What Seneca Thought Concerning the Jews
That When Once the Vanity of the Gods of the Nations Has Been Exposed, It…
Of the ‘select gods’ of the civil theology, and that eternal life is not…
Introduction (i, 6)
Preface (ii, 2)
Whether, Since It is Evident That Deity is Not to Be Found in the Civil…
Who Are the Select Gods, and Whether They Are Held to Be Exempt From the…
How There is No Reason Which Can Be Shown for the Selection of Certain Gods…
The Inferior Gods, Whose Names Are Not Associated With Infamy, Have Been Better…
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…
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…
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…
That Jupiter is Also Called Pecunia
That When It is Expounded What Saturn Is, What Genius Is, It Comes to This…
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…
That Even Varro Himself Pronounced His Own Opinions Regarding the Gods Ambiguous
A More Credible Cause of the Rise of Pagan Error
Concerning the Interpretations Which Compose the Reason of the Worship of Saturn
Concerning the Rites of Eleusinian Ceres
Concerning the Shamefulness of the Rites Which Are Celebrated in Honor of Liber
Concerning Neptune, and Salacia and Venilia
Concerning the Earth, Which Varro Affirms to Be a Goddess, Because That Soul of…
Concerning the Surnames of Tellus and Their Significations, Which, Although…
The Interpretation of the Mutilation of Atys Which the Doctrine of the Greek…
Concerning the Abomination of the Sacred Rites of the Great Mother
Concerning the Figments of the Physical Theologists, Who Neither Worship the…
That the Doctrine of Varro Concerning Theology is in No Part Consistent With…
That All Things Which the Physical Theologists Have Referred to the World and…
How Piety Distinguishes the Creator From the Creatures, So That, Instead of One…
What Benefits God Gives to the Followers of the Truth to Enjoy Over and Above…
That at No Time in the Past Was the Mystery of Christ’s Redemption Awanting…
That Only Through the Christian Religion Could the Deceit of Malign Spirits…
Concerning the Books of Numa Pompilius, Which the Senate Ordered to Be Burned…
Concerning the Hydromancy Through Which Numa Was Befooled by Certain Images of…
Some account of the Socratic and Platonic philosophy, and a refutation of the…
Introduction (i, 7)
That the Question of Natural Theology is to Be Discussed With Those…
Concerning the Two Schools of Philosophers, That Is, the Italic and Ionic, and…
Of the Socratic Philosophy
Concerning Plato, the Chief Among the Disciples of Socrates, and His Threefold…
That It is Especially With the Platonists That We Must Carry on Our…
Concerning the Meaning of the Platonists in That Part of Philosophy Called…
How Much the Platonists Are to Be Held as Excelling Other Philosophers in…
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…
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…
Concerning the Opinion of Plato, According to Which He Defined the Gods as…
Of the Opinion of Those Who Have Said That Rational Souls Are of Three Kinds…
That the Demons Are Not Better Than Men Because of Their Aerial Bodies, or on…
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…
What Kind of Religion That is Which Teaches That Men Ought to Employ the…
Of the Impiety of the Magic Art, Which is Dependent on the Assistance of Malign…
Whether We Are to Believe That the Good Gods Are More Willing to Have…
Whether the Gods Use the Demons as Messengers and Interpreters, and Whether…
That We Must, Notwithstanding the Opinion of Apuleius, Reject the Worship of…
What Hermes Trismegistus Thought Concerning Idolatry, and From What Source He…
How Hermes Openly Confessed the Error of His Forefathers, the Coming…
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
Of those who allege a distinction among demons, some being good and others evil.
Introduction (i, 8)
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…
What Apuleius Attributes to the Demons, to Whom, Though He Does Not Deny Them…
The Opinion of the Peripatetics and Stoics About Mental Emotions
That the Passions Which Assail the Souls of Christians Do Not Seduce Them to…
Of the Passions Which, According to Apuleius, Agitate the Demons Who Are…
That the Platonists Maintain That the Poets Wrong the Gods by Representing Them…
How Apuleius Defines the Gods Who Dwell in Heaven, the Demons Who Occupy the…
Whether the Intercession of the Demons Can Secure for Men the Friendship of the…
That, According to Plotinus, Men, Whose Body is Mortal, Are Less Wretched Than…
Of the Opinion of the Platonists, That the Souls of Men Become Demons When…
Of the Three Opposite Qualities by Which the Platonists Distinguish Between the…
How the Demons Can Mediate Between Gods and Men If They Have Nothing in Common…
Whether Men, Though Mortal, Can Enjoy True Blessedness
Of the Man Christ Jesus, the Mediator Between God and Men
Whether It is Reasonable in the Platonists to Determine That the Celestial Gods…
That to Obtain the Blessed Life, Which Consists in Partaking of the Supreme…
That the Deceitful Demons, While Promising to Conduct Men to God by Their…
That Even Among Their Own Worshippers the Name ‘Demon’ Has Never a Good…
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…
Porphyry’s doctrine of redemption.
Introduction (i, 9)
That the Platonists Themselves Have Determined That God Alone Can Confer…
The Opinion of Plotinus the Platonist Regarding Enlightenment From Above
That the Platonists, Though Knowing Something of the Creator of the Universe…
That Sacrifice is Due to the True God Only
Of the Sacrifices Which God Does Not Require, But Wished to Be Observed for the…
Of the True and Perfect Sacrifice
Of the Love of the Holy Angels, Which Prompts Them to Desire That We Worship…
Of the Miracles Which God Has Condescended to Adhibit Through the Ministry of…
Of the Illicit Arts Connected With Demonolatry, and of Which the Platonist…
Concerning Theurgy, Which Promises a Delusive Purification of the Soul by the…
Of Porphyry’s Epistle to Anebo, in Which He Asks for Information About the…
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…
That the One God is to Be Worshipped Not Only for the Sake of Eternal…
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…
Concerning the Ark of the Covenant, and the Miraculous Signs Whereby God…
Against Those Who Deny That the Books of the Church Are to Be Believed About…
On the Reasonableness of Offering, as the True Religion Teaches, a Visible…
Of the Supreme and True Sacrifice Which Was Effected by the Mediator Between…
Of the Power Delegated to Demons for the Trial and Glorification of the Saints…
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 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…
Of Porphyry’s Weakness in Wavering Between the Confession of the True God and…
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…
Of the Incarnation of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Which the Platonists in Their…
Porphyry’s Emendations and Modifications of Platonism
Against the Arguments on Which the Platonists Ground Their Assertion That the…
Of the Universal Way of the Soul’s Deliverance, Which Porphyry Did Not Find…
Augustin passes to the second part of the work, in which the origin, progress…
Introduction (i, 10)
Of This Part of the Work, Wherein We Begin to Explain the Origin and End of the…
Of the Knowledge of God, to Which No Man Can Attain Save Through the Mediator…
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…
That We Ought Not to Seek to Comprehend the Infinite Ages of Time Before the…
That the World and Time Had Both One Beginning, and the One Did Not Anticipate…
Of the Nature of the First Days, Which Are Said to Have Had Morning and…
What We Are to Understand of God’s Resting on the Seventh Day, After the Six…
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…
Whether the Angels That Fell Partook of the Blessedness Which the Holy Angels…
A Comparison of the Blessedness of the Righteous, Who Have Not Yet Received the…
Whether All the Angels Were So Created in One Common State of Felicity, That…
An Explanation of What is Said of the Devil, That He Did Not Abide in the…
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…
That the Flaw of Wickedness is Not Nature, But Contrary to Nature, and Has Its…
Of the Beauty of the Universe, Which Becomes, by God’s Ordinance, More…
What, Seemingly, We Are to Understand by the Words, ‘God Divided the Light From…
Of the Words Which Follow the Separation of Light and Darkness, ‘And God Saw…
Of God’s Eternal and Unchangeable Knowledge and Will, Whereby All He Has Made…
Of Those Who Do Not Approve of Certain Things Which Are a Part of This Good…
Of the Error in Which the Doctrine of Origen is Involved
Of the Divine Trinity, and the Indications of Its Presence Scattered Everywhere…
Of the Division of Philosophy Into Three Parts
Of the Image of the Supreme Trinity, Which We Find in Some Sort in Human Nature…
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…
Of the Knowledge by Which the Holy Angels Know God in His Essence, and by Which…
Of the Perfection of the Number Six, Which is the First of the Numbers Which is…
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…
Of the Idea That the Angels Were Meant Where the Separation of the Waters by…
Of the creation of angels and men, and of the origin of evil.
Introduction (i, 11)
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 the Enemies of God Are So, Not by Nature, But by Will, Which, as It…
Of the Nature of Irrational and Lifeless Creatures, Which in Their Own Kind and…
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…
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…
Whether the Angels, Besides Receiving From God Their Nature, Received From Him…
Of the Falseness of the History Which Allots Many Thousand Years to the World’s…
Of Those Who Suppose That This World Indeed is Not Eternal, But That Either…
How These Persons Are to Be Answered, Who Find Fault With the Creation of Man…
Of the Revolution of the Ages, Which Some Philosophers Believe Will Bring All…
Of the Creation of the Human Race in Time, and How This Was Effected Without…
Whether We Are to Believe That God, as He Has Always Been Sovereign Lord, Has…
How We Are to Understand God’s Promise of Life Eternal, Which Was Uttered…
What Defence is Made by Sound Faith Regarding God’s Unchangeable Counsel and…
Against Those Who Assert That Things That Are Infinite Cannot Be Comprehended…
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…
That God Foreknew That the First Man Would Sin, and That He at the Same Time…
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…
That God Alone is the Creator of Every Kind of Creature, Whatever Its Nature or…
Of That Opinion of the Platonists, That the Angels Were Themselves Indeed…
That the Whole Plenitude of the Human Race Was Embraced in the First Man, and…
That death is penal, and had its origin in Adam’s sin.
Introduction (i, 12)
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…
Whether Death, Which by the Sin of Our First Parents Has Passed Upon All Men…
Why Death, the Punishment of Sin, is Not Withheld From Those Who by the Grace…
As the Wicked Make an Ill Use of the Law, Which is Good, So the Good Make a…
Of the Evil of Death in General, Considered as the Separation of Soul and Body
Of the Death Which the Unbaptized Suffer for the Confession of Christ
That the Saints, by Suffering the First Death for the Truth’s Sake, Are Freed…
Whether We Should Say That The Moment of Death, in Which Sensation Ceases…
Of the Life of Mortals, Which is Rather to Be Called Death Than Life
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…
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…
That Adam in His Sin Forsook God Ere God Forsook Him, and That His Falling Away…
Concerning the Philosophers Who Think That the Separation of Soul and Body is…
Against Those Who Affirm That Earthly Bodies Cannot Be Made Incorruptible and…
Of Earthly Bodies, Which the Philosophers Affirm Cannot Be in Heavenly Places…
Against the Opinion of Those Who Do Not Believe That the Primitive Men Would…
That the Flesh Now Resting in Peace Shall Be Raised to a Perfection Not Enjoyed…
Of Paradise, That It Can Be Understood in a Spiritual Sense Without Sacrificing…
That the Bodies of the Saints Shall After the Resurrection Be Spiritual, and…
What We Are to Understand by the Animal and Spiritual Body; Or of Those Who Die…
How We Must Understand That Breathing of God by Which ‘The First Man Was Made a…
Of the punishment and results of man’s first sin, and of the propagation of man…
Introduction (i, 13)
That the Disobedience of the First Man Would Have Plunged All Men Into the…
Of Carnal Life, Which is to Be Understood Not Only of Living in Bodily…
That the Sin is Caused Not by the Flesh, But by the Soul, and That the…
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…
Of the Character of the Human Will Which Makes the Affections of the Soul Right…
That the Words Love and Regard (Amor and Dilectio) Are in Scripture Used…
Of the Three Perturbations, Which the Stoics Admitted in the Soul of the Wise…
Of the Perturbations of the Soul Which Appear as Right Affections in the Life…
Whether It is to Be Believed That Our First Parents in Paradise, Before They…
Of the Fall of the First Man, in Whom Nature Was Created Good, and Can Be…
Of the Nature of Man’s First Sin
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…
Of the Evil of Lust,—A Word Which, Though Applicable to Many Vices, is…
Of the Nakedness of Our First Parents, Which They Saw After Their Base and…
Of the Shame Which Attends All Sexual Intercourse
That It is Now Necessary, as It Was Not Before Man Sinned, to Bridle Anger and…
Of the Foolish Beastliness of the Cynics
That Man’s Transgression Did Not Annul the Blessing of Fecundity Pronounced…
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…
That If Men Had Remained Innocent and Obedient in Paradise, the Generative…
Of True Blessedness, Which This Present Life Cannot Enjoy
That We Are to Believe That in Paradise Our First Parents Begat Offspring…
Of the Angels and Men Who Sinned, and That Their Wickedness Did Not Disturb the…
Of the Nature of the Two Cities, the Earthly and the Heavenly
The progress of the earthly and heavenly cities traced by the sacred history.
Introduction (i, 14)
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
That Sarah’s Barrenness Was Made Productive by God’s Grace
Of the Conflict and Peace of the Earthly City
Of the Fratricidal Act of the Founder of the Earthly City, and the…
Of the Weaknesses Which Even the Citizens of the City of God Suffer During This…
Of the Cause of Cain’s Crime and His Obstinacy, Which Not Even the Word of God…
What Cain’s Reason Was for Building a City So Early in the History of the Human…
Of the Long Life and Greater Stature of the Antediluvians
Of the Different Computation of the Ages of the Antediluvians, Given by the…
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…
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…
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
The Significance Of Enoch’s Translation
How It is That Cain’s Line Terminates in the Eighth Generation, While Noah…
Why It is That, as Soon as Cain’s Son Enoch Has Been Named, the Genealogy is…
Of the Fall of the Sons of God Who Were Captivated by the Daughters of Men…
Whether We Are to Believe That Angels, Who Are of a Spiritual Substance, Fell…
How We Are to Understand This Which the Lord Said to Those Who Were to Perish…
Of the Anger of God, Which Does Not Inflame His Mind, Nor Disturb His…
That the Ark Which Noah Was Ordered to Make Figures In Every Respect Christ and…
Of the Ark and the Deluge, and That We Cannot Agree With Those Who Receive the…
The history of the city of God from Noah to the time of the kings of Israel.
Introduction (i, 15)
Whether, After the Deluge, From Noah to Abraham, Any Families Can Be Found Who…
What Was Prophetically Prefigured in the Sons of Noah
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
What We Are to Understand by God’s Speaking to the Angels
Whether Even the Remotest Islands Received Their Fauna From the Animals Which…
Whether Certain Monstrous Races of Men Are Derived From the Stock of Adam or…
Whether We Are to Believe in the Antipodes
Of the Genealogy of Shem, in Whose Line the City of God is Preserved Till the…
That the Original Language in Use Among Men Was That Which Was Afterwards…
Of the Era in Abraham’s Life From Which a New Period in the Holy Succession…
Why, in the Account of Terah’s Emigration, on His Forsaking the Chaldeans and…
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…
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…
Of the Repeated Address of God to Abraham, in Which He Promised the Land of…
Of the Divine Preservation of Sarah’s Chastity in Egypt, When Abraham Had…
Of the Parting of Lot and Abraham, Which They Agreed to Without Breach of…
Of the Third Promise of God, by Which He Assured the Land of Canaan to Abraham…
Of Abraham’s Overcoming the Enemies of Sodom, When He Delivered Lot From…
Of the Word of the Lord to Abraham, by Which It Was Promised to Him That His…
Of the Meaning of the Sacrifice Abraham Was Commanded to Offer When He…
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…
Of the Male, Who Was to Lose His Soul If He Was Not Circumcised on the Eighth…
Of the Change of Name in Abraham and Sarah, Who Received the Gift of Fecundity…
Of the Three Men or Angels, in Whom the Lord is Related to Have Appeared to…
Of Lot’s Deliverance From Sodom, and Its Consumption by Fire From Heaven; And…
Of Isaac, Who Was Born According to the Promise, Whose Name Was Given on…
Of Abraham’s Obedience and Faith, Which Were Proved by the Offering Up, of His…
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…
Of the Oracle and Blessing Which Isaac Received, Just as His Father Did, Being…
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…
The Reason Why Jacob Was Also Called Israel
How It is Said That Jacob Went Into Egypt With Seventy-Five Souls, When Most of…
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…
The history of the city of God from Noah to the time of the kings of Israel.
Introduction (i, 16)
Of the Prophetic Age
At What Time the Promise of God Was Fulfilled Concerning the Land of Canaan…
Of the Three-Fold Meaning of the Prophecies, Which Are to Be Referred Now to…
About the Prefigured Change of the Israelitic Kingdom and Priesthood, and About…
Of Those Things Which a Man of God Spake by the Spirit to Eli the Priest…
Of the Jewish Priesthood and Kingdom, Which, Although Promised to Be…
Of the Disruption of the Kingdom of Israel, by Which the Perpetual Division of…
Of the Promises Made to David in His Son, Which Are in No Wise Fulfilled in…
How Like the Prophecy About Christ in the 89th Psalm is to the Things Promised…
How Different the Acts in the Kingdom of the Earthly Jerusalem Are From Those…
Of the Substance of the People of God, Which Through His Assumption of Flesh is…
To Whose Person the Entreaty for the Promises is to Be Understood to Belong…
Whether the Truth of This Promised Peace Can Be Ascribed to Those Times Passed…
Of David’s Concern in the Writing of the Psalms
Whether All the Things Prophesied in the Psalms Concerning Christ and His…
Of the Things Pertaining to Christ and the Church, Said Either Openly or…
Of Those Things in the 110th Psalm Which Relate to the Priesthood of Christ…
Of the 3d, 41st, 15th, and 68th Psalms, in Which the Death and Resurrection of…
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…
Of the Kings After Solomon, Both in Judah and Israel
Of Jeroboam, Who Profaned the People Put Under Him by the Impiety of Idolatry…
Of the Varying Condition of Both the Hebrew Kingdoms, Until the People of Both…
Of the Prophets, Who Either Were the Last Among the Jews, or Whom the Gospel…
A parallel history of the earthly and heavenly cities from the time of Abraham…
Introduction (i, 17)
Of Those Things Down to the Times of the Saviour Which Have Been Discussed in…
Of the Kings and Times of the Earthly City Which Were Synchronous With the…
What Kings Reigned in Assyria and Sicyon When, According to the Promise, Isaac…
Of the Times of Jacob and His Son Joseph
Of Apis King of Argos, Whom the Egyptians Called Serapis, and Worshipped With…
Who Were Kings of Argos, and of Assyria, When Jacob Died in Egypt
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…
Of the Rituals of False Gods Instituted by the Kings of Greece in the Period…
What Fables Were Invented at the Time When Judges Began to Rule the Hebrews
Of the Theological Poets
Of the Fall of the Kingdom of Argos, When Picus the Son of Saturn First…
Of Diomede, Who After the Destruction of Troy Was Placed Among the Gods, While…
What Varro Says of the Incredible Transformations of Men
What We Should Believe Concerning the Transformations Which Seem to Happen to…
That Æneas 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…
Of the Kings of Latium, the First and Twelfth of Whom, Æneas and Aventinus…
That Rome Was Founded When the Assyrian Kingdom Perished, at Which Time…
Of the Erythræan Sibyl, Who is Known to Have Sung Many Things About Christ More…
That the Seven Sages Flourished in the Reign of Romulus, When the Ten Tribes…
What Philosophers Were Famous When Tarquinius Priscus Reigned Over the Romans…
That at the Time When the Captivity of the Jews Was Brought to an End, on the…
Of the Times of the Prophets Whose Oracles Are Contained in Books and Who Sang…
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…
Of the Prophecy That is Contained in the Prayer and Song of Habakkuk
What Jeremiah and Zephaniah Have, by the Prophetic Spirit, Spoken Before…
Of the Prophecy of Daniel and Ezekiel, Other Two of the Greater Prophets
Of the Prophecy of the Three Prophets, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi
About Esdras and the Books of the Maccabees
That Prophetic Records Are Found Which Are More Ancient Than Any Fountain of…
That the Ecclesiastical Canon Has Not Admitted Certain Writings on Account of…
About the Hebrew Written Characters Which That Language Always Possessed
About the Most Mendacious Vanity of the Egyptians, in Which They Ascribe to…
About the Discord of Philosophic Opinion, and the Concord of the Scriptures…
By What Dispensation of God’s Providence the Sacred Scriptures of the Old…
Of the Authority of the Septuagint Translation, Which, Saving the Honor of the…
How the Threat of the Destruction of the Ninevites is to Be Understood Which in…
That the Jews Ceased to Have Prophets After the Rebuilding of the Temple, and…
Of the Birth of Our Saviour, Whereby the Word Was Made Flesh; And of the…
Whether Before Christian Times There Were Any Outside of the Israelite Race Who…
That Haggai’s Prophecy, in Which He Said That the Glory of the House of God…
Of the Indiscriminate Increase of the Church, Wherein Many Reprobate Are in…
Of the Preaching of the Gospel, Which is Made More Famous and Powerful by the…
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…
Of the Hidden Time of the Final Persecution
Of the Very Foolish Lie of the Pagans, in Feigning That the Christian Religion…
A review of the philosophical opinions regarding the Supreme Good, and a…
Introduction (i, 18)
That Varro Has Made Out That Two Hundred and Eighty-Eight Different Sects of…
How Varro, by Removing All the Differences Which Do Not Form Sects, But Are…
Which of the Three Leading Opinions Regarding the Chief Good Should Be…
What the Christians Believe Regarding the Supreme Good and Evil, in Opposition…
Of the Social Life, Which, Though Most Desirable, is Frequently Disturbed by…
Of the Error of Human Judgments When the Truth is Hidden
Of the Diversity of Languages, by Which the Intercourse of Men is Prevented…
That the Friendship of Good Men Cannot Be Securely Rested In, So Long as the…
Of the Friendship of the Holy Angels, Which Men Cannot Be Sure of in This Life…
The Reward Prepared for the Saints After They Have Endured the Trial of This…
Of the Happiness of the Eternal Peace, Which Constitutes the End or True…
That Even the Fierceness of War and All the Disquietude of Men Make Towards…
Of the Universal Peace Which the Law of Nature Preserves Through All…
Of the Order and Law Which Obtain in Heaven and Earth, Whereby It Comes to Pass…
Of the Liberty Proper to Man’s Nature, and the Servitude Introduced by Sin,—A…
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…
Of the Dress and Habits of the Christian People
That the Saints Are in This Life Blessed in Hope
Whether There Ever Was a Roman Republic Answering to the Definitions of Scipio…
Whether the God Whom the Christians Serve is the True God to Whom Alone…
Porphyry’s Account of the Responses Given by the Oracles of the Gods Concerning…
The Definition Which Must Be Given of a People and a Republic, in Order to…
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…
That the Peace of Those Who Serve God Cannot in This Mortal Life Be Apprehended…
The End of the Wicked
Of the last judgment, and the declarations regarding it in the Old and New…
Introduction (i, 19)
That Although God is Always Judging, It is Nevertheless Reasonable to Confine…
That in the Mingled Web of Human Affairs God’s Judgment is Present, Though It…
What Solomon, in the Book of Ecclesiastes, Says Regarding the Things Which…
That Proofs of the Last Judgment Will Be Adduced, First From the New Testament…
The Passages in Which the Saviour Declares That There Shall Be a Divine…
What is the First Resurrection, and What the Second
What is Written in the Revelation of John Regarding the Two Resurrections, and…
Of the Binding and Loosing of the Devil
What the Reign of the Saints With Christ for a Thousand Years Is, and How It…
What is to Be Replied to Those Who Think That Resurrection Pertains Only to…
Of Gog and Magog, Who Are to Be Roused by the Devil to Persecute the Church…
Whether the Fire That Came Down Out of Heaven and Devoured Them Refers to the…
Whether the Time of the Persecution or Antichrist Should Be Reckoned in the…
Of the Damnation of the Devil and His Adherents; And a Sketch of the Bodily…
Who the Dead Are Who Are Given Up to Judgment by the Sea, and by Death and Hell
Of the New Heaven and the New Earth
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…
What the Same Apostle Taught in the First Epistle to the Thessalonians…
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…
Passages From the Psalms of David Which Predict the End of the World and the…
Of Malachi’s Prophecy, in Which He Speaks of the Last Judgment, and of a…
Of the Sacrifices Offered to God by the Saints, Which Are to Be Pleasing to…
Of the Separation of the Good and the Bad, Which Proclaim the Discriminating…
That the Law of Moses Must Be Spiritually Understood to Preclude the Damnable…
Of the Coming of Elias Before the Judgment, That the Jews May Be Converted to…
That in the Books of the Old Testament, Where It is Said That God Shall Judge…
Of the eternal punishment of the wicked in hell, and of the various objections…
Introduction (i, 20)
Of the Order of the Discussion, Which Requires That We First Speak of the…
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…
That All Marvels Are Not of Nature’s Production, But That Some Are Due to Human…
That the Ultimate Reason for Believing Miracles is the Omnipotence of the…
That It is Not Contrary to Nature That, in an Object Whose Nature is Known…
Of Hell, and the Nature of Eternal Punishments
Whether the Fire of Hell, If It Be Material Fire, Can Burn the Wicked Spirits…
Whether It is Just That the Punishments of Sins Last Longer Than the Sins…
Of the Greatness of the First Transgression, on Account of Which Eternal…
Against the Opinion of Those Who Think That the Punishments of the Wicked After…
Of the Temporary Punishments of This Life to Which the Human Condition is…
That Everything Which the Grace of God Does in the Way of Rescuing Us From the…
The Laws of Grace, Which Extend to All the Epochs of the Life of the Regenerate
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…
Of Those Who Promise Impunity From All Sins Even to Heretics, Through Virtue of…
Of Those Who Promise This Indulgence Not to All, But Only to Those Who Have…
Of Those Who Assert That All Catholics Who Continue in the Faith Even Though by…
Of Those Who Fancy That the Sins Which Are Intermingled With Alms-Deeds Shall…
Against Those Who Are of Opinion That the Punishment Neither of the Devil Nor…
Against Those Who Fancy That in the Judgment of God All the Accused Will Be…
Whether Those Who Received Heretical Baptism, and Have Afterwards Fallen Away…
What It is to Have Christ for a Foundation, and Who They Are to Whom Salvation…
Against the Belief of Those Who Think That the Sins Which Have Been Accompanied…
Of the eternal happiness of the saints, the resurrection of the body, and the…
Introduction (i, 21)
Of the Creation of Angels and Men
Of the Eternal and Unchangeable Will of God
Of the Promise of Eternal Blessedness to the Saints, and Everlasting Punishment…
Against the Wise Men of the World, Who Fancy That the Earthly Bodies of Men…
Of the Resurrection of the Flesh, Which Some Refuse to Believe, Though the…
That Rome Made Its Founder Romulus a God Because It Loved Him; But the Church…
That the World’s Belief in Christ is the Result of Divine Power, Not of Human…
Of Miracles Which Were Wrought That the World Might Believe in Christ, and…
That All the Miracles Which Are Done by Means of the Martyrs in the Name of…
That the Martyrs Who Obtain Many Miracles in Order That the True God May Be…
Against the Platonists, Who Argue From the Physical Weight of the Elements That…
Against the Calumnies With Which Unbelievers Throw Ridicule Upon the Christian…
Whether Abortions, If They Are Numbered Among the Dead, Shall Not Also Have a…
Whether Infants Shall Rise in That Body Which They Would Have Had Had They…
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 The 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…
That All Bodily Blemishes Which Mar Human Beauty in This Life Shall Be Removed…
That, in the Resurrection, the Substance of Our Bodies, However Disintegrated…
Of the New Spiritual Body Into Which the Flesh of the Saints Shall Be…
Of the Miseries and Ills to Which the Human Race is Justly Exposed Through the…
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…
Of the Obstinacy of Those Individuals Who Impugn the Resurrection of the Body…
That the Opinion of Porphyry, That the Soul, in Order to Be Blessed, Must Be…
Of the Apparently Conflicting Opinions of Plato and Porphyry, Which Would Have…
What Plato or Labeo, or Even Varro, Might Have Contributed to the True Faith of…
Of the Beatific Vision
Of the Eternal Felicity of the City of God, and of the Perpetual Sabbath

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