Blessed Augustine of Hippo

City of God

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Author: Blessed Augustine of Hippo

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5th c. · Apologetics · English translation, 1890

454,245 words · 38 hr read· Moderate

Source edition: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I (ed. Philip Schaff, 1886–90)

Cover art: The Course of Empire: Desolation — Thomas Cole (American, 1801–1848) (Wikimedia Commons (New-York Historical Society), Public domain)

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Translator’s Preface
Augustin censures the pagans, who attributed the calamities of the world, and…
Introduction
Preface, Explaining His Design in Undertaking This Work
1. Of the Adversaries of the Name of Christ, Whom the Barbarians for Christ’s…
2. That It is Quite Contrary to the Usage of War, that the Victors Should Spare…
3. That the Romans Did Not Show Their Usual Sagacity When They Trusted that…
4. Of the Asylum of Juno in Troy, Which Saved No One from the Greeks; And of…
5. Cæsar’s Statement Regarding the Universal Custom of an Enemy When Sacking a…
6. That Not Even the Romans, When They Took Cities, Spared the Conquered in…
7. That the Cruelties Which Occurred in the Sack of Rome Were in Accordance…
8. Of the Advantages and Disadvantages Which Often Indiscriminately Accrue to…
9. Of the Reasons for Administering Correction to Bad and Good Together
10. That the Saints Lose Nothing in Losing Temporal Goods
11. Of the End of This Life, Whether It is Material that It Be Long Delayed
12. Of the Burial of the Dead: that the Denial of It to Christians Does Them No…
13. Reasons for Burying the Bodies of the Saints
14. Of the Captivity of the Saints, and that Divine Consolation Never Failed…
15. Of Regulus, in Whom We Have an Example of the Voluntary Endurance of…
16. Of the Violation of the Consecrated and Other Christian Virgins, to Which…
17. Of Suicide Committed Through Fear of Punishment or Dishonor
18. Of the Violence Which May Be Done to the Body by Another’s Lust, While the…
19. Of Lucretia, Who Put an End to Her Life Because of the Outrage Done Her
20. That Christians Have No Authority for Committing Suicide in Any…
21. Of the Cases in Which We May Put Men to Death Without Incurring the Guilt…
22. That Suicide Can Never Be Prompted by Magnanimity
23. What We are to Think of the Example of Cato, Who Slew Himself Because…
24. That in that Virtue in Which Regulus Excels Cato, Christians are…
25. That We Should Not Endeavor By Sin to Obviate Sin
26. That in Certain Peculiar Cases the Examples of the Saints are Not to Be…
27. Whether Voluntary Death Should Be Sought in Order to Avoid Sin
28. By What Judgment of God the Enemy Was Permitted to Indulge His Lust on the…
29. What the Servants of Christ Should Say in Reply to the Unbelievers Who Cast…
30. That Those Who Complain of Christianity Really Desire to Live Without…
31. By What Steps the Passion for Governing Increased Among the Romans
32. Of the Establishment of Scenic Entertainments
33. 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
35. Of the Sons of the Church Who are Hidden Among the Wicked, and of False…
36. 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
1. Of the Limits Which Must Be Put to the Necessity of Replying to an Adversary
2. Recapitulation of the Contents of the First Book
3. That We Need Only to Read History in Order to See What Calamities the Romans…
4. That the Worshippers of the Gods Never Received from Them Any Healthy Moral…
5. Of the Obscenities Practiced in Honor of the Mother of the Gods
6. That the Gods of the Pagans Never Inculcated Holiness of Life
7. That the Suggestions of Philosophers are Precluded from Having Any Moral…
8. That the Theatrical Exhibitions Publishing the Shameful Actions of the Gods…
9. That the Poetical License Which the Greeks, in Obedience to Their Gods…
10. That the Devils, in Suffering Either False or True Crimes to Be Laid to…
11. That the Greeks Admitted Players to Offices of State, on the Ground that…
12. That the Romans, by Refusing to the Poets the Same License in Respect of…
13. That the Romans Should Have Understood that Gods Who Desired to Be…
14. That Plato, Who Excluded Poets from a Well-Ordered City, Was Better Than…
15. That It Was Vanity, Not Reason, Which Created Some of the Roman Gods
16. That If the Gods Had Really Possessed Any Regard for Righteousness, the…
17. Of the Rape of the Sabine Women, and Other Iniquities Perpetrated in Rome’s…
18. What the History of Sallust Reveals Regarding the Life of the Romans…
19. Of the Corruption Which Had Grown Upon the Roman Republic Before Christ…
20. Of the Kind of Happiness and Life Truly Delighted in by Those Who Inveigh…
21. Cicero’s Opinion of the Roman Republic
22. That the Roman Gods Never Took Any Steps to Prevent the Republic from Being…
23. That the Vicissitudes of This Life are Dependent Not on the Favor or…
24. Of the Deeds of Sylla, in Which the Demons Boasted that He Had Their Help
25. How Powerfully the Evil Spirits Incite Men to Wicked Actions, by Giving…
26. That the Demons Gave in Secret Certain Obscure Instructions in Morals…
27. That the Obscenities of Those Plays Which the Romans Consecrated in Order…
28. That the Christian Religion is Health-Giving
29. An Exhortation to the Romans to Renounce Paganism
The external calamities of Rome.
Introduction
1. Of the Ills Which Alone the Wicked Fear, and Which the World Continually…
2. Whether the Gods, Whom the Greeks and Romans Worshipped in Common, Were…
3. That the Gods Could Not Be Offended by the Adultery of Paris, This Crime…
4. Of Varro’s Opinion, that It is Useful for Men to Feign Themselves the…
5. That It is Not Credible that the Gods Should Have Punished the Adultery of…
6. That the Gods Exacted No Penalty for the Fratricidal Act of Romulus
7. Of the Destruction of Ilium by Fimbria, a Lieutenant of Marius
8. Whether Rome Ought to Have Been Entrusted to the Trojan Gods
9. Whether It is Credible that the Peace During the Reign of Numa Was Brought…
10. Whether It Was Desirable that The Roman Empire Should Be Increased by Such…
11. Of the Statue of Apollo at Cumæ, Whose Tears are Supposed to Have Portended…
12. That the Romans Added a Vast Number of Gods to Those Introduced by Numa…
13. By What Right or Agreement The Romans Obtained Their First Wives
14. Of the Wickedness of the War Waged by the Romans Against the Albans, and of…
15. What Manner of Life and Death the Roman Kings Had
16. Of the First Roman Consuls, the One of Whom Drove the Other from the…
17. Of the Disasters Which Vexed the Roman Republic After the Inauguration of…
18. The Disasters Suffered by the Romans in the Punic Wars, Which Were Not…
19. Of the Calamity of the Second Punic War, Which Consumed the Strength of…
20. Of the Destruction of the Saguntines, Who Received No Help from the Roman…
21. Of the Ingratitude of Rome to Scipio, Its Deliverer, and of Its Manners…
22. Of the Edict of Mithridates, Commanding that All Roman Citizens Found in…
23. Of the Internal Disasters Which Vexed the Roman Republic, and Followed a…
24. Of the Civil Dissension Occasioned by the Sedition of the Gracchi
25. Of the Temple of Concord, Which Was Erected by a Decree of the Senate on…
26. Of the Various Kinds of Wars Which Followed the Building of the Temple of…
27. Of the Civil War Between Marius and Sylla
28. Of the Victory of Sylla, the Avenger of the Cruelties of Marius
29. A Comparison of the Disasters Which Rome Experienced During the Gothic and…
30. Of the Connection of the Wars Which with Great Severity and Frequency…
31. 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
1. Of the Things Which Have Been Discussed in the First Book
2. Of Those Things Which are Contained in Books Second and Third
3. Whether the Great Extent of the Empire, Which Has Been Acquired Only by…
4. How Like Kingdoms Without Justice are to Robberies
5. Of the Runaway Gladiators Whose Power Became Like that of Royal Dignity
6. Concerning the Covetousness of Ninus, Who Was the First Who Made War on His…
7. Whether Earthly Kingdoms in Their Rise and Fall Have Been Either Aided or…
8. Which of the Gods Can the Romans Suppose Presided Over the Increase and…
9. Whether the Great Extent and Long Duration of the Roman Empire Should Be…
10. What Opinions Those Have Followed Who Have Set Divers Gods Over Divers…
11. Concerning the Many Gods Whom the Pagan Doctors Defend as Being One and the…
12. Concerning the Opinion of Those Who Have Thought that God is the Soul of…
13. Concerning Those Who Assert that Only Rational Animals are Parts of the One…
14. The Enlargement of Kingdoms is Unsuitably Ascribed to Jove; For If, as They…
15. Whether It is Suitable for Good Men to Wish to Rule More Widely
16. What Was the Reason Why the Romans, in Detailing Separate Gods for All…
17. Whether, If the Highest Power Belongs to Jove, Victoria Also Ought to Be…
18. With What Reason They Who Think Felicity and Fortune Goddesses Have…
Chapter 19.—Concerning Fortuna Muliebris
20. Concerning Virtue and Faith, Which the Pagans Have Honored with Temples and…
21. That Although Not Understanding Them to Be the Gifts of God, They Ought at…
22. Concerning the Knowledge of the Worship Due to the Gods, Which Varro…
23. Concerning Felicity, Whom the Romans, Who Venerate Many Gods, for a Long…
24. The Reasons by Which the Pagans Attempt to Defend Their Worshipping Among…
25. Concerning the One God Only to Be Worshipped, Who, Although His Name is…
26. Of the Scenic Plays, the Celebration of Which the Gods Have Exacted from…
27. Concerning the Three Kinds of Gods About Which the Pontiff Scævola Has…
28. Whether the Worship of the Gods Has Been of Service to the Romans in…
29. Of the Falsity of the Augury by Which the Strength and Stability of the…
30. What Kind of Things Even Their Worshippers Have Owned They Have Thought…
31. Concerning the Opinions of Varro, Who, While Reprobating the Popular…
32. In What Interest the Princes of the Nations Wished False Religions to…
33. That the Times of All Kings and Kingdoms are Ordained by the Judgment and…
34. Concerning the Kingdom of the Jews, Which Was Founded by the One and True…
Of fate, freewill, and God’s prescience, and of the source of the virtues of…
Introduction
Preface
1. That the Cause of the Roman Empire, and of All Kingdoms, is Neither…
2. On the Difference in the Health of Twins
3. Concerning the Arguments Which Nigidius the Mathematician Drew from the…
4. Concerning the Twins Esau and Jacob, Who Were Very Unlike Each Other Both in…
5. In What Manner the Mathematicians are Convicted of Professing a Vain Science
6. Concerning Twins of Different Sexes
7. Concerning the Choosing of a Day for Marriage, or for Planting, or Sowing
8. Concerning Those Who Call by the Name of Fate, Not the Position of the…
9. Concerning the Foreknowledge of God and the Free Will of Man, in Opposition…
10. Whether Our Wills are Ruled by Necessity
11. Concerning the Universal Providence of God in the Laws of Which All Things…
12. By What Virtues the Ancient Romans Merited that the True God, Although They…
13. Concerning the Love of Praise, Which, Though It is a Vice, is Reckoned a…
14. Concerning the Eradication of the Love of Human Praise, Because All the…
15. Concerning the Temporal Reward Which God Granted to the Virtues of the…
16. Concerning the Reward of the Holy Citizens of the Celestial City, to Whom…
17. To What Profit the Romans Carried on Wars, and How Much They Contributed to…
18. How Far Christians Ought to Be from Boasting, If They Have Done Anything…
19. Concerning the Difference Between True Glory and the Desire of Domination
20. That It is as Shameful for the Virtues to Serve Human Glory as Bodily…
21. That the Roman Dominion Was Granted by Him from Whom is All Power, and by…
22. The Durations and Issues of War Depend on the Will of God
23. Concerning the War in Which Radagaisus, King of the Goths, a Worshipper of…
24. What Was the Happiness of the Christian Emperors, and How Far It Was True…
25. Concerning the Prosperity Which God Granted to the Christian Emperor…
26. On the Faith and Piety of Theodosius Augustus
Of Varro’s threefold division of theology, and of the inability of the gods to…
Introduction
Preface
1. Of Those Who Maintain that They Worship the Gods Not for the Sake of…
2. What We are to Believe that Varro Thought Concerning the Gods of the…
3. Varro’s Distribution of His Book Which He Composed Concerning the…
4. That from the Disputation of Varro, It Follows that the Worshippers of the…
5. Concerning the Three Kinds of Theology According to Varro, Namely, One…
6. Concerning the Mythic, that Is, the Fabulous, Theology, and the Civil…
7. Concerning the Likeness and Agreement of the Fabulous and Civil Theologies
8. Concerning the Interpretations, Consisting of Natural Explanations, Which…
9. Concerning the Special Offices of the Gods
10. Concerning the Liberty of Seneca, Who More Vehemently Censured the Civil…
11. What Seneca Thought Concerning the Jews
12. 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
Preface
1. Whether, Since It is Evident that Deity is Not to Be Found in the Civil…
2. Who are the Select Gods, and Whether They are Held to Be Exempt from the…
3. How There is No Reason Which Can Be Shown for the Selection of Certain Gods…
4. The Inferior Gods, Whose Names are Not Associated with Infamy, Have Been…
5. Concerning the More Secret Doctrine of the Pagans, and Concerning the…
6. Concerning the Opinion of Varro, that God is the Soul of the World, Which…
7. Whether It is Reasonable to Separate Janus and Terminus as Two Distinct…
8. For What Reason the Worshippers of Janus Have Made His Image with Two Faces…
9. Concerning the Power of Jupiter, and a Comparison of Jupiter with Janus
10. Whether the Distinction Between Janus and Jupiter is a Proper One
11. Concerning the Surnames of Jupiter, Which are Referred Not to Many Gods…
12. That Jupiter is Also Called Pecunia
13. That When It is Expounded What Saturn Is, What Genius Is, It Comes to This…
14. Concerning the Offices of Mercury and Mars
15. Concerning Certain Stars Which the Pagans Have Called by the Names of Their…
16. Concerning Apollo and Diana, and the Other Select Gods Whom They Would Have…
17. That Even Varro Himself Pronounced His Own Opinions Regarding the Gods…
18. A More Credible Cause of the Rise of Pagan Error
19. Concerning the Interpretations Which Compose the Reason of the Worship of…
20. Concerning the Rites of Eleusinian Ceres
21. Concerning the Shamefulness of the Rites Which are Celebrated in Honor of…
22. Concerning Neptune, and Salacia and Venilia
23. Concerning the Earth, Which Varro Affirms to Be a Goddess, Because that…
24. Concerning the Surnames of Tellus and Their Significations, Which, Although…
25. The Interpretation of the Mutilation of Atys Which the Doctrine of the…
26. Concerning the Abomination of the Sacred Rites of the Great Mother
27. Concerning the Figments of the Physical Theologists, Who Neither Worship…
28. That the Doctrine of Varro Concerning Theology is in No Part Consistent…
29. That All Things Which the Physical Theologists Have Referred to the World…
30. How Piety Distinguishes the Creator from the Creatures, So That, Instead of…
31. What Benefits God Gives to the Followers of the Truth to Enjoy Over and…
32. That at No Time in the Past Was the Mystery of Christ’s Redemption…
33. That Only Through the Christian Religion Could the Deceit of Malign…
34. Concerning the Books of Numa Pompilius, Which the Senate Ordered to Be…
35. Concerning the Hydromancy Through Which Numa Was Befooled by Certain Images…
Some account of the Socratic and Platonic philosophy, and a refutation of the…
Introduction
1. That the Question of Natural Theology is to Be Discussed with Those…
2. Concerning the Two Schools of Philosophers, that Is, the Italic and Ionic…
Chapter 3.—Of the Socratic Philosophy
4. Concerning Plato, the Chief Among the Disciples of Socrates, and His…
5. That It is Especially with the Platonists that We Must Carry on Our…
6. Concerning the Meaning of the Platonists in that Part of Philosophy Called…
7. How Much the Platonists are to Be Held as Excelling Other Philosophers in…
8. That the Platonists Hold the First Rank in Moral Philosophy Also
9. Concerning that Philosophy Which Has Come Nearest to the Christian Faith
10. That the Excellency of the Christian Religion is Above All the Science of…
11. How Plato Has Been Able to Approach So Nearly to Christian Knowledge
12. That Even the Platonists, Though They Say These Things Concerning the One…
13. Concerning the Opinion of Plato, According to Which He Defined the Gods as…
14. Of the Opinion of Those Who Have Said that Rational Souls are of Three…
15. That the Demons are Not Better Than Men Because of Their Aerial Bodies, or…
16. What Apuleius the Platonist Thought Concerning the Manners and Actions of…
17. Whether It is Proper that Men Should Worship Those Spirits from Whose Vices…
18. What Kind of Religion that is Which Teaches that Men Ought to Employ the…
19. Of the Impiety of the Magic Art, Which is Dependent on the Assistance of…
20. Whether We are to Believe that the Good Gods are More Willing to Have…
21. Whether the Gods Use the Demons as Messengers and Interpreters, and Whether…
22. That We Must, Notwithstanding the Opinion of Apuleius, Reject the Worship…
23. What Hermes Trismegistus Thought Concerning Idolatry, and from What Source…
24. How Hermes Openly Confessed the Error of His Forefathers, the Coming…
25. Concerning Those Things Which May Be Common to the Holy Angels and to Men
26. That All the Religion of the Pagans Has Reference to Dead Men
27. 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
1. The Point at Which the Discussion Has Arrived, and What Remains to Be Handled
2. Whether Among the Demons, Inferior to the Gods, There are Any Good Spirits…
3. What Apuleius Attributes to the Demons, to Whom, Though He Does Not Deny…
4. The Opinion of the Peripatetics and Stoics About Mental Emotions
5. That the Passions Which Assail the Souls of Christians Do Not Seduce Them to…
6. Of the Passions Which, According to Apuleius, Agitate the Demons Who Are…
7. That the Platonists Maintain that the Poets Wrong the Gods by Representing…
8. How Apuleius Defines the Gods Who Dwell in Heaven, the Demons Who Occupy the…
9. Whether the Intercession of the Demons Can Secure for Men the Friendship of…
10. That, According to Plotinus, Men, Whose Body is Mortal, are Less Wretched…
11. Of the Opinion of the Platonists, that the Souls of Men Become Demons When…
12. Of the Three Opposite Qualities by Which the Platonists Distinguish Between…
13. How the Demons Can Mediate Between Gods and Men If They Have Nothing in…
14. Whether Men, Though Mortal, Can Enjoy True Blessedness
15. Of the Man Christ Jesus, the Mediator Between God and Men
16. Whether It is Reasonable in the Platonists to Determine that the Celestial…
17. That to Obtain the Blessed Life, Which Consists in Partaking of the Supreme…
18. That the Deceitful Demons, While Promising to Conduct Men to God by Their…
19. That Even Among Their Own Worshippers the Name ‘Demon’ Has Never a Good…
20. Of the Kind of Knowledge Which Puffs Up the Demons
21. To What Extent the Lord Was Pleased to Make Himself Known to the Demons
22. The Difference Between the Knowledge of the Holy Angels and that of the…
23. That the Name of Gods is Falsely Given to the Gods of the Gentiles, Though…
Porphyry’s doctrine of redemption.
Introduction
1. That the Platonists Themselves Have Determined that God Alone Can Confer…
2. The Opinion of Plotinus the Platonist Regarding Enlightenment from Above
3. That the Platonists, Though Knowing Something of the Creator of the…
4. That Sacrifice is Due to the True God Only
5. Of the Sacrifices Which God Does Not Require, But Wished to Be Observed for…
6. Of the True and Perfect Sacrifice
7. Of the Love of the Holy Angels, Which Prompts Them to Desire that We Worship…
8. Of the Miracles Which God Has Condescended to Adhibit Through the Ministry…
9. Of the Illicit Arts Connected with Demonolatry, and of Which the Platonist…
10. Concerning Theurgy, Which Promises a Delusive Purification of the Soul by…
11. Of Porphyry’s Epistle to Anebo, in Which He Asks for Information About the…
12. Of the Miracles Wrought by the True God Through the Ministry of the Holy…
13. Of the Invisible God, Who Has Often Made Himself Visible, Not as He Really…
14. That the One God is to Be Worshipped Not Only for the Sake of Eternal…
15. Of the Ministry of the Holy Angels, by Which They Fulfill the Providence of…
16. Whether Those Angels Who Demand that We Pay Them Divine Honor, or Those Who…
17. Concerning the Ark of the Covenant, and the Miraculous Signs Whereby God…
18. Against Those Who Deny that the Books of the Church are to Be Believed…
19. On the Reasonableness of Offering, as the True Religion Teaches, a Visible…
20. Of the Supreme and True Sacrifice Which Was Effected by the Mediator…
21. Of the Power Delegated to Demons for the Trial and Glorification of the…
22. Whence the Saints Derive Power Against Demons and True Purification of Heart
23. Of the Principles Which, According to the Platonists, Regulate the…
24. Of the One Only True Principle Which Alone Purifies and Renews Human Nature
25. That All the Saints, Both Under the Law and Before It, Were Justified by…
26. Of Porphyry’s Weakness in Wavering Between the Confession of the True God…
27. Of the Impiety of Porphyry, Which is Worse Than Even the Mistake of Apuleius
28. How It is that Porphyry Has Been So Blind as Not to Recognize the True…
29. Of the Incarnation of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Which the Platonists in Their…
30. Porphyry’s Emendations and Modifications of Platonism
31. Against the Arguments on Which the Platonists Ground Their Assertion that…
32. 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
1. Of This Part of the Work, Wherein We Begin to Explain the Origin and End of…
2. Of the Knowledge of God, to Which No Man Can Attain Save Through the…
3. Of the Authority of the Canonical Scriptures Composed by the Divine Spirit
4. That the World is Neither Without Beginning, Nor Yet Created by a New Decree…
5. That We Ought Not to Seek to Comprehend the Infinite Ages of Time Before the…
6. That the World and Time Had Both One Beginning, and the One Did Not…
7. Of the Nature of the First Days, Which are Said to Have Had Morning and…
8. What We are to Understand of God’s Resting on the Seventh Day, After the Six…
9. What the Scriptures Teach Us to Believe Concerning the Creation of the Angels
10. Of the Simple and Unchangeable Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, One…
11. Whether the Angels that Fell Partook of the Blessedness Which the Holy…
12. A Comparison of the Blessedness of the Righteous, Who Have Not Yet Received…
13. Whether All the Angels Were So Created in One Common State of Felicity…
14. An Explanation of What is Said of the Devil, that He Did Not Abide in the…
15. How We are to Understand the Words, ‘The Devil Sinneth from the Beginning.’
16. Of the Ranks and Differences of the Creatures, Estimated by Their Utility…
17. That the Flaw of Wickedness is Not Nature, But Contrary to Nature, and Has…
18. Of the Beauty of the Universe, Which Becomes, by God’s Ordinance, More…
19. What, Seemingly, We are to Understand by the Words, ‘God Divided the Light…
20. Of the Words Which Follow the Separation of Light and Darkness, ‘And God…
21. Of God’s Eternal and Unchangeable Knowledge and Will, Whereby All He Has…
22. Of Those Who Do Not Approve of Certain Things Which are a Part of This Good…
23. Of the Error in Which the Doctrine of Origen is Involved
24. Of the Divine Trinity, and the Indications of Its Presence Scattered…
25. Of the Division of Philosophy into Three Parts
26. Of the Image of the Supreme Trinity, Which We Find in Some Sort in Human…
27. Of Existence, and Knowledge of It, and the Love of Both
28. Whether We Ought to Love the Love Itself with Which We Love Our Existence…
29. Of the Knowledge by Which the Holy Angels Know God in His Essence, and by…
30. Of the Perfection of the Number Six, Which is the First of the Numbers…
31. Of the Seventh Day, in Which Completeness and Repose are Celebrated
32. Of the Opinion that the Angels Were Created Before the World
33. Of the Two Different and Dissimilar Communities of Angels, Which are Not…
34. Of the Idea that the Angels Were Meant Where the Separation of the Waters…
Of the creation of angels and men, and of the origin of evil.
Introduction
1. That the Nature of the Angels, Both Good and Bad, is One and the Same
2. That There is No Entity Contrary to the Divine, Because Nonentity Seems to…
3. That the Enemies of God are So, Not by Nature, But by Will, Which, as It…
4. Of the Nature of Irrational and Lifeless Creatures, Which in Their Own Kind…
5. That in All Natures, of Every Kind and Rank, God is Glorified
6. What the Cause of the Blessedness of the Good Angels Is, and What the Cause…
7. That We Ought Not to Expect to Find Any Efficient Cause of the Evil Will
8. Of the Misdirected Love Whereby the Will Fell Away from the Immutable to the…
9. Whether the Angels, Besides Receiving from God Their Nature, Received from…
10. Of the Falseness of the History Which Allots Many Thousand Years to the…
11. Of Those Who Suppose that This World Indeed is Not Eternal, But that Either…
12. How These Persons are to Be Answered, Who Find Fault with the Creation of…
13. Of the Revolution of the Ages, Which Some Philosophers Believe Will Bring…
14. Of the Creation of the Human Race in Time, and How This Was Effected…
15. Whether We are to Believe that God, as He Has Always Been Sovereign Lord…
16. How We are to Understand God’s Promise of Life Eternal, Which Was Uttered…
17. What Defence is Made by Sound Faith Regarding God’s Unchangeable Counsel…
18. Against Those Who Assert that Things that are Infinite Cannot Be…
19. Of Worlds Without End, or Ages of Ages
20. Of the Impiety of Those Who Assert that the Souls Which Enjoy True and…
21. That There Was Created at First But One Individual, and that the Human Race…
22. That God Foreknew that the First Man Would Sin, and that He at the Same…
23. Of the Nature of the Human Soul Created in the Image of God
24. Whether the Angels Can Be Said to Be the Creators of Any, Even the Least…
25. That God Alone is the Creator of Every Kind of Creature, Whatever Its…
26. Of that Opinion of the Platonists, that the Angels Were Themselves Indeed…
27. That the Whole Plenitude of the Human Race Was Embraced in the First Man…
That death is penal, and had its origin in Adam’s sin.
Introduction
1. Of the Fall of the First Man, Through Which Mortality Has Been Contracted
2. Of that Death Which Can Affect an Immortal Soul, and of that to Which the…
3. Whether Death, Which by the Sin of Our First Parents Has Passed Upon All…
4. Why Death, the Punishment of Sin, is Not Withheld from Those Who by the…
5. As the Wicked Make an Ill Use of the Law, Which is Good, So the Good Make a…
6. Of the Evil of Death in General, Considered as the Separation of Soul and…
7. Of the Death Which the Unbaptized Suffer for the Confession of Christ
8. That the Saints, by Suffering the First Death for the Truth’s Sake, are…
9. Whether We Should Say that The Moment of Death, in Which Sensation Ceases…
10. 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
12. What Death God Intended, When He Threatened Our First Parents with Death If…
13. What Was the First Punishment of the Transgression of Our First Parents
14. In What State Man Was Made by God, and into What Estate He Fell by the…
15. That Adam in His Sin Forsook God Ere God Forsook Him, and that His Falling…
16. Concerning the Philosophers Who Think that the Separation of Soul and Body…
17. Against Those Who Affirm that Earthly Bodies Cannot Be Made Incorruptible…
18. Of Earthly Bodies, Which the Philosophers Affirm Cannot Be in Heavenly…
19. Against the Opinion of Those Who Do Not Believe that the Primitive Men…
20. That the Flesh Now Resting in Peace Shall Be Raised to a Perfection Not…
21. Of Paradise, that It Can Be Understood in a Spiritual Sense Without…
22. That the Bodies of the Saints Shall After the Resurrection Be Spiritual…
23. What We are to Understand by the Animal and Spiritual Body; Or of Those Who…
24. How We Must Understand that Breathing of God by Which ‘The First Man Was…
Of the punishment and results of man’s first sin, and of the propagation of man…
Introduction
1. That the Disobedience of the First Man Would Have Plunged All Men into the…
2. Of Carnal Life, Which is to Be Understood Not Only of Living in Bodily…
3. That the Sin is Caused Not by the Flesh, But by the Soul, and that the…
4. What It is to Live According to Man, and What to Live According to God
5. That the Opinion of the Platonists Regarding the Nature of Body and Soul is…
6. Of the Character of the Human Will Which Makes the Affections of the Soul…
7. That the Words Love and Regard (Amor and Dilectio) are in Scripture Used…
8. Of the Three Perturbations, Which the Stoics Admitted in the Soul of the…
9. Of the Perturbations of the Soul Which Appear as Right Affections in the…
10. Whether It is to Be Believed that Our First Parents in Paradise, Before…
11. Of the Fall of the First Man, in Whom Nature Was Created Good, and Can Be…
12. Of the Nature of Man’s First Sin
13. That in Adam’s Sin an Evil Will Preceded the Evil Act
14. Of the Pride in the Sin, Which Was Worse Than the Sin Itself
15. Of the Justice of the Punishment with Which Our First Parents Were Visited…
16. Of the Evil of Lust,—A Word Which, Though Applicable to Many Vices, is…
17. Of the Nakedness of Our First Parents, Which They Saw After Their Base and…
18. Of the Shame Which Attends All Sexual Intercourse
19. That It is Now Necessary, as It Was Not Before Man Sinned, to Bridle Anger…
20. Of the Foolish Beastliness of the Cynics
21. That Man’s Transgression Did Not Annul the Blessing of Fecundity Pronounced…
22. Of the Conjugal Union as It Was Originally Instituted and Blessed by God
23. Whether Generation Should Have Taken Place Even in Paradise Had Man Not…
24. That If Men Had Remained Innocent and Obedient in Paradise, the Generative…
25. Of True Blessedness, Which This Present Life Cannot Enjoy
26. That We are to Believe that in Paradise Our First Parents Begat Offspring…
27. Of the Angels and Men Who Sinned, and that Their Wickedness Did Not Disturb…
28. 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
1. Of the Two Lines of the Human Race Which from First to Last Divide It
2. 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
5. Of the Fratricidal Act of the Founder of the Earthly City, and the…
6. Of the Weaknesses Which Even the Citizens of the City of God Suffer During…
7. Of the Cause of Cain’s Crime and His Obstinacy, Which Not Even the Word of…
8. What Cain’s Reason Was for Building a City So Early in the History of the…
9. Of the Long Life and Greater Stature of the Antediluvians
10. Of the Different Computation of the Ages of the Antediluvians, Given by the…
11. Of Methuselah’s Age, Which Seems to Extend Fourteen Years Beyond the Deluge
12. Of the Opinion of Those Who Do Not Believe that in These Primitive Times…
13. Whether, in Computing Years, We Ought to Follow the Hebrew or the Septuagint
14. That the Years in Those Ancient Times Were of the Same Length as Our Own
15. Whether It is Credible that the Men of the Primitive Age Abstained from…
16. Of Marriage Between Blood-Relations, in Regard to Which the Present Law…
17. Of the Two Fathers and Leaders Who Sprang from One Progenitor
18. The Significance of Abel, Seth, and Enos to Christ and His Body the Church
19. The Significance Of Enoch’s Translation
20. How It is that Cain’s Line Terminates in the Eighth Generation, While Noah…
21. Why It is That, as Soon as Cain’s Son Enoch Has Been Named, the Genealogy…
22. Of the Fall of the Sons of God Who Were Captivated by the Daughters of Men…
23. Whether We are to Believe that Angels, Who are of a Spiritual Substance…
How We Are to Understand This Which the Lord Said to Those Who Were to Perish…
25. Of the Anger of God, Which Does Not Inflame His Mind, Nor Disturb His…
26. That the Ark Which Noah Was Ordered to Make Figures In Every Respect Christ…
27. Of the Ark and the Deluge, and that We Cannot Agree with Those Who Receive…
The history of the city of God from Noah to the time of the kings of Israel.
Introduction
1. Whether, After the Deluge, from Noah to Abraham, Any Families Can Be Found…
2. What Was Prophetically Prefigured in the Sons of Noah
3. Of the Generations of the Three Sons of Noah
4. Of the Diversity of Languages, and of the Founding of Babylon
5. 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
7. Whether Even the Remotest Islands Received Their Fauna from the Animals…
8. Whether Certain Monstrous Races of Men are Derived from the Stock of Adam or…
9. Whether We are to Believe in the Antipodes
10. Of the Genealogy of Shem, in Whose Line the City of God is Preserved Till…
11. That the Original Language in Use Among Men Was that Which Was Afterwards…
12. Of the Era in Abraham’s Life from Which a New Period in the Holy Succession…
13. Why, in the Account of Terah’s Emigration, on His Forsaking the Chaldeans…
14. Of the Years of Terah, Who Completed His Lifetime in Haran
15. Of the Time of the Migration of Abraham, When, According to the Commandment…
16. Of the Order and Nature of the Promises of God Which Were Made to Abraham
17. Of the Three Most Famous Kingdoms of the Nations, of Which One, that is the…
18. Of the Repeated Address of God to Abraham, in Which He Promised the Land of…
19. Of the Divine Preservation of Sarah’s Chastity in Egypt, When Abraham Had…
20. Of the Parting of Lot and Abraham, Which They Agreed to Without Breach of…
21. Of the Third Promise of God, by Which He Assured the Land of Canaan to…
22. Of Abraham’s Overcoming the Enemies of Sodom, When He Delivered Lot from…
23. Of the Word of the Lord to Abraham, by Which It Was Promised to Him that…
24. Of the Meaning of the Sacrifice Abraham Was Commanded to Offer When He…
25. Of Sarah’s Handmaid, Hagar, Whom She Herself Wished to Be Abraham’s…
26. Of God’s Attestation to Abraham, by Which He Assures Him, When Now Old, of…
27. Of the Male, Who Was to Lose His Soul If He Was Not Circumcised on the…
28. Of the Change of Name in Abraham and Sarah, Who Received the Gift of…
29. Of the Three Men or Angels, in Whom the Lord is Related to Have Appeared to…
30. Of Lot’s Deliverance from Sodom, and Its Consumption by Fire from Heaven…
31. Of Isaac, Who Was Born According to the Promise, Whose Name Was Given on…
32. Of Abraham’s Obedience and Faith, Which Were Proved by the Offering Up, of…
33. Of Rebecca, the Grand-Daughter of Nahor, Whom Isaac Took to Wife
34. What is Meant by Abraham’s Marrying Keturah After Sarah’s Death
35. What Was Indicated by the Divine Answer About the Twins Still Shut Up in…
36. Of the Oracle and Blessing Which Isaac Received, Just as His Father Did…
37. Of the Things Mystically Prefigured in Esau and Jacob
38. Of Jacob’s Mission to Mesopotamia to Get a Wife, and of the Vision Which He…
39. The Reason Why Jacob Was Also Called Israel
40. How It is Said that Jacob Went into Egypt with Seventy-Five Souls, When…
41. Of the Blessing Which Jacob Promised in Judah His Son
42. Of the Sons of Joseph, Whom Jacob Blessed, Prophetically Changing His Hands
43. Of the Times of Moses and Joshua the Son of Nun, of the Judges, and…
The history of the city of God from Noah to the time of the kings of Israel.
Introduction
Chapter 1.—Of the Prophetic Age
2. At What Time the Promise of God Was Fulfilled Concerning the Land of Canaan…
3. Of the Three-Fold Meaning of the Prophecies, Which are to Be Referred Now to…
4. About the Prefigured Change of the Israelitic Kingdom and Priesthood, and…
5. Of Those Things Which a Man of God Spake by the Spirit to Eli the Priest…
6. Of the Jewish Priesthood and Kingdom, Which, Although Promised to Be…
7. Of the Disruption of the Kingdom of Israel, by Which the Perpetual Division…
8. Of the Promises Made to David in His Son, Which are in No Wise Fulfilled in…
9. How Like the Prophecy About Christ in the 89th Psalm is to the Things…
10. How Different the Acts in the Kingdom of the Earthly Jerusalem are from…
11. Of the Substance of the People of God, Which Through His Assumption of…
12. To Whose Person the Entreaty for the Promises is to Be Understood to…
13. Whether the Truth of This Promised Peace Can Be Ascribed to Those Times…
14. Of David’s Concern in the Writing of the Psalms
15. Whether All the Things Prophesied in the Psalms Concerning Christ and His…
16. Of the Things Pertaining to Christ and the Church, Said Either Openly or…
17. Of Those Things in the 110th Psalm Which Relate to the Priesthood of…
18. Of the 3d, 41st, 15th, and 68th Psalms, in Which the Death and Resurrection…
19. Of the 69th Psalm, in Which the Obstinate Unbelief of the Jews is Declared
20. Of David’s Reign and Merit; And of His Son Solomon, and that Prophecy…
21. Of the Kings After Solomon, Both in Judah and Israel
22. Of Jeroboam, Who Profaned the People Put Under Him by the Impiety of…
23. Of the Varying Condition of Both the Hebrew Kingdoms, Until the People of…
24. Of the Prophets, Who Either Were the Last Among the Jews, or Whom the…
A parallel history of the earthly and heavenly cities from the time of Abraham…
Introduction
1. Of Those Things Down to the Times of the Saviour Which Have Been Discussed…
2. Of the Kings and Times of the Earthly City Which Were Synchronous with the…
3. What Kings Reigned in Assyria and Sicyon When, According to the Promise…
4. Of the Times of Jacob and His Son Joseph
5. Of Apis King of Argos, Whom the Egyptians Called Serapis, and Worshipped…
6. Who Were Kings of Argos, and of Assyria, When Jacob Died in Egypt
7. Who Were Kings When Joseph Died in Egypt
8. Who Were Kings When Moses Was Born, and What Gods Began to Be Worshipped Then
9. When the City of Athens Was Founded, and What Reason Varro Assigns for Its…
10. What Varro Reports About the Term Areopagus, and About Deucalion’s Flood
11. When Moses Led the People Out of Egypt; And Who Were Kings When His…
12. Of the Rituals of False Gods Instituted by the Kings of Greece in the…
13. What Fables Were Invented at the Time When Judges Began to Rule the Hebrews
Chapter 14.—Of the Theological Poets
15. Of the Fall of the Kingdom of Argos, When Picus the Son of Saturn First…
16. Of Diomede, Who After the Destruction of Troy Was Placed Among the Gods…
17. What Varro Says of the Incredible Transformations of Men
18. What We Should Believe Concerning the Transformations Which Seem to Happen…
19. That Æneas Came into Italy When Abdon the Judge Ruled Over the Hebrews
20. Of the Succession of the Line of Kings Among the Israelites After the Times…
21. Of the Kings of Latium, the First and Twelfth of Whom, Æneas and Aventinus…
22. That Rome Was Founded When the Assyrian Kingdom Perished, at Which Time…
23. Of the Erythræan Sibyl, Who is Known to Have Sung Many Things About Christ…
24. That the Seven Sages Flourished in the Reign of Romulus, When the Ten…
25. What Philosophers Were Famous When Tarquinius Priscus Reigned Over the…
26. That at the Time When the Captivity of the Jews Was Brought to an End, on…
27. Of the Times of the Prophets Whose Oracles are Contained in Books and Who…
28. Of the Things Pertaining to the Gospel of Christ Which Hosea and Amos…
29. What Things are Predicted by Isaiah Concerning Christ and the Church
30. What Micah, Jonah, and Joel Prophesied in Accordance with the New Testament
31. Of the Predictions Concerning the Salvation of the World in Christ, in…
32. Of the Prophecy that is Contained in the Prayer and Song of Habakkuk
33. What Jeremiah and Zephaniah Have, by the Prophetic Spirit, Spoken Before…
34. Of the Prophecy of Daniel and Ezekiel, Other Two of the Greater Prophets
35. Of the Prophecy of the Three Prophets, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi
36. About Esdras and the Books of the Maccabees
37. That Prophetic Records are Found Which are More Ancient Than Any Fountain…
38. That the Ecclesiastical Canon Has Not Admitted Certain Writings on Account…
39. About the Hebrew Written Characters Which that Language Always Possessed
40. About the Most Mendacious Vanity of the Egyptians, in Which They Ascribe to…
41. About the Discord of Philosophic Opinion, and the Concord of the Scriptures…
42. By What Dispensation of God’s Providence the Sacred Scriptures of the Old…
43. Of the Authority of the Septuagint Translation, Which, Saving the Honor of…
44. How the Threat of the Destruction of the Ninevites is to Be Understood…
45. That the Jews Ceased to Have Prophets After the Rebuilding of the Temple…
46. Of the Birth of Our Saviour, Whereby the Word Was Made Flesh; And of the…
47. Whether Before Christian Times There Were Any Outside of the Israelite Race…
48. That Haggai’s Prophecy, in Which He Said that the Glory of the House of God…
49. Of the Indiscriminate Increase of the Church, Wherein Many Reprobate are in…
50. Of the Preaching of the Gospel, Which is Made More Famous and Powerful by…
51. That the Catholic Faith May Be Confirmed Even by the Dissensions of the…
52. Whether We Should Believe What Some Think, That, as the Ten Persecutions…
53. Of the Hidden Time of the Final Persecution
54. Of the Very Foolish Lie of the Pagans, in Feigning that the Christian…
A review of the philosophical opinions regarding the Supreme Good, and a…
Introduction
1. That Varro Has Made Out that Two Hundred and Eighty-Eight Different Sects of…
2. How Varro, by Removing All the Differences Which Do Not Form Sects, But are…
3. Which of the Three Leading Opinions Regarding the Chief Good Should Be…
4. What the Christians Believe Regarding the Supreme Good and Evil, in…
5. Of the Social Life, Which, Though Most Desirable, is Frequently Disturbed by…
6. Of the Error of Human Judgments When the Truth is Hidden
7. Of the Diversity of Languages, by Which the Intercourse of Men is Prevented…
8. That the Friendship of Good Men Cannot Be Securely Rested In, So Long as the…
9. Of the Friendship of the Holy Angels, Which Men Cannot Be Sure of in This…
10. The Reward Prepared for the Saints After They Have Endured the Trial of…
11. Of the Happiness of the Eternal Peace, Which Constitutes the End or True…
12. That Even the Fierceness of War and All the Disquietude of Men Make Towards…
13. Of the Universal Peace Which the Law of Nature Preserves Through All…
14. Of the Order and Law Which Obtain in Heaven and Earth, Whereby It Comes to…
15. Of the Liberty Proper to Man’s Nature, and the Servitude Introduced by…
Chapter 16.—Of Equitable Rule
17. What Produces Peace, and What Discord, Between the Heavenly and Earthly…
18. How Different the Uncertainty of the New Academy is from the Certainty of…
19. Of the Dress and Habits of the Christian People
20. That the Saints are in This Life Blessed in Hope
21. Whether There Ever Was a Roman Republic Answering to the Definitions of…
22. Whether the God Whom the Christians Serve is the True God to Whom Alone…
23. Porphyry’s Account of the Responses Given by the Oracles of the gods…
24. The Definition Which Must Be Given of a People and a Republic, in Order to…
25. That Where There is No True Religion There are No True Virtues
26. Of the Peace Which is Enjoyed by the People that are Alienated from God…
27. That the Peace of Those Who Serve God Cannot in This Mortal Life Be…
28. The End of the Wicked
Of the last judgment, and the declarations regarding it in the Old and New…
Introduction
1. That Although God is Always Judging, It is Nevertheless Reasonable to…
2. That in the Mingled Web of Human Affairs God’s Judgment is Present, Though…
3. What Solomon, in the Book of Ecclesiastes, Says Regarding the Things Which…
4. That Proofs of the Last Judgment Will Be Adduced, First from the New…
5. The Passages in Which the Saviour Declares that There Shall Be a Divine…
6. What is the First Resurrection, and What the Second
7. What is Written in the Revelation of John Regarding the Two Resurrections…
8. Of the Binding and Loosing of the Devil
9. What the Reign of the Saints with Christ for a Thousand Years Is, and How It…
10. What is to Be Replied to Those Who Think that Resurrection Pertains Only to…
11. Of Gog and Magog, Who are to Be Roused by the Devil to Persecute the…
12. Whether the Fire that Came Down Out of Heaven and Devoured Them Refers to…
13. Whether the Time of the Persecution or Antichrist Should Be Reckoned in the…
14. Of the Damnation of the Devil and His Adherents; And a Sketch of the Bodily…
15. Who the Dead are Who are Given Up to Judgment by the Sea, and by Death and…
16. Of the New Heaven and the New Earth
17. Of the Endless Glory of the Church
18. What the Apostle Peter Predicted Regarding the Last Judgment
19. What the Apostle Paul Wrote to the Thessalonians About the Manifestation of…
20. What the Same Apostle Taught in the First Epistle to the Thessalonians…
21. Utterances of the Prophet Isaiah Regarding the Resurrection of the Dead and…
22. What is Meant by the Good Going Out to See the Punishment of the Wicked
23. What Daniel Predicted Regarding the Persecution of Antichrist, the Judgment…
24. Passages from the Psalms of David Which Predict the End of the World and…
25. Of Malachi’s Prophecy, in Which He Speaks of the Last Judgment, and of a…
26. Of the Sacrifices Offered to God by the Saints, Which are to Be Pleasing to…
27. Of the Separation of the Good and the Bad, Which Proclaim the…
28. That the Law of Moses Must Be Spiritually Understood to Preclude the…
29. Of the Coming of Elias Before the Judgment, that the Jews May Be Converted…
30. That in the Books of the Old Testament, Where It is Said that God Shall…
Of the eternal punishment of the wicked in hell, and of the various objections…
Introduction
1. Of the Order of the Discussion, Which Requires that We First Speak of the…
2. Whether It is Possible for Bodies to Last for Ever in Burning Fire
3. Whether Bodily Suffering Necessarily Terminates in the Destruction of the…
4. Examples from Nature Proving that Bodies May Remain Unconsumed and Alive in…
5. That There are Many Things Which Reason Cannot Account For, and Which are…
6. That All Marvels are Not of Nature’s Production, But that Some are Due to…
7. That the Ultimate Reason for Believing Miracles is the Omnipotence of the…
8. That It is Not Contrary to Nature That, in an Object Whose Nature is Known…
9. Of Hell, and the Nature of Eternal Punishments
10. Whether the Fire of Hell, If It Be Material Fire, Can Burn the Wicked…
11. Whether It is Just that the Punishments of Sins Last Longer Than the Sins…
12. Of the Greatness of the First Transgression, on Account of Which Eternal…
13. Against the Opinion of Those Who Think that the Punishments of the Wicked…
14. Of the Temporary Punishments of This Life to Which the Human Condition is…
15. That Everything Which the Grace of God Does in the Way of Rescuing Us from…
16. The Laws of Grace, Which Extend to All the Epochs of the Life of the…
17. Of Those Who Fancy that No Men Shall Be Punished Eternally
18. Of Those Who Fancy That, on Account of the Saints’ Intercession, Man Shall…
19. Of Those Who Promise Impunity from All Sins Even to Heretics, Through…
20. Of Those Who Promise This Indulgence Not to All, But Only to Those Who Have…
21. Of Those Who Assert that All Catholics Who Continue in the Faith Even…
22. Of Those Who Fancy that the Sins Which are Intermingled with Alms-Deeds…
23. Against Those Who are of Opinion that the Punishment Neither of the Devil…
24. Against Those Who Fancy that in the Judgment of God All the Accused Will Be…
25. Whether Those Who Received Heretical Baptism, and Have Afterwards Fallen…
26. What It is to Have Christ for a Foundation, and Who They are to Whom…
27. Against the Belief of Those Who Think that the Sins Which Have Been…
Of the eternal happiness of the saints, the resurrection of the body, and the…
Introduction
1. Of the Creation of Angels and Men
2. Of the Eternal and Unchangeable Will of God
3. Of the Promise of Eternal Blessedness to the Saints, and Everlasting…
4. Against the Wise Men of the World, Who Fancy that the Earthly Bodies of Men…
5. Of the Resurrection of the Flesh, Which Some Refuse to Believe, Though the…
6. That Rome Made Its Founder Romulus a God Because It Loved Him; But the…
7. That the World’s Belief in Christ is the Result of Divine Power, Not of…
8. Of Miracles Which Were Wrought that the World Might Believe in Christ, and…
9. That All the Miracles Which are Done by Means of the Martyrs in the Name of…
10. That the Martyrs Who Obtain Many Miracles in Order that the True God May Be…
11. Against the Platonists, Who Argue from the Physical Weight of the Elements…
12. Against the Calumnies with Which Unbelievers Throw Ridicule Upon the…
13. Whether Abortions, If They are Numbered Among the Dead, Shall Not Also Have…
14. Whether Infants Shall Rise in that Body Which They Would Have Had Had They…
15. Whether the Bodies of All the Dead Shall Rise the Same Size as the Lord’s…
16. What is Meant by the Conforming of the Saints to the Image of The Son of God
17. Whether the Bodies of Women Shall Retain Their Own Sex in the Resurrection
18. Of the Perfect Man, that Is, Christ; And of His Body, that Is, The Church…
19. That All Bodily Blemishes Which Mar Human Beauty in This Life Shall Be…
20. That, in the Resurrection, the Substance of Our Bodies, However…
21. Of the New Spiritual Body into Which the Flesh of the Saints Shall Be…
22. Of the Miseries and Ills to Which the Human Race is Justly Exposed Through…
23. Of the Miseries of This Life Which Attach Peculiarly to the Toil of Good…
24. Of the Blessings with Which the Creator Has Filled This Life, Obnoxious…
25. Of the Obstinacy of Those Individuals Who Impugn the Resurrection of the…
26. That the Opinion of Porphyry, that the Soul, in Order to Be Blessed, Must…
27. Of the Apparently Conflicting Opinions of Plato and Porphyry, Which Would…
28. What Plato or Labeo, or Even Varro, Might Have Contributed to the True…
Chapter 29.—Of the Beatific Vision
30. Of the Eternal Felicity of the City of God, and of the Perpetual Sabbath

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