Blessed Augustine of Hippo
Concerning the Nature of Good, Against the Manichæans
5th c.
Classic translation
Polemics & Heresiology · English translation, 1890
Contents
- Title Page
- Preface
- God the Highest and Unchangeable Good, From Whom Are All Other Good Things…
- How This May Suffice for Correcting the Manichæans
- Measure, Form, and Order, Generic Goods in Things Made by God
- Evil is Corruption of Measure, Form, or Order
- The Corrupted Nature of a More Excellent Order Sometimes Better Than an…
- Nature Which Cannot Be Corrupted is the Highest Good; That Which Can, is Some…
- The Corruption of Rational Spirits is on the One Hand Voluntary, on the Other…
- From the Corruption and Destruction of Inferior Things is the Beauty of the…
- Punishment is Constituted for the Sinning Nature That It May Be Rightly Ordered
- Natures Corruptible, Because Made of Nothing
- God Cannot Suffer Harm, Nor Can Any Other Nature Except by His Permission
- All Good Things Are From God Alone
- Individual Good Things, Whether Small or Great, Are From God
- Small Good Things in Comparison With Greater Are Called by Contrary Names
- In the Body of the Ape the Good of Beauty is Present, Though in a Less Degree
- Privations in Things Are Fittingly Ordered by God
- Nature, in as Far as It is Nature, No Evil
- Hyle, Which Was Called by the Ancients the Formless Material of Things, is Not…
- To Have True Existence is an Exclusive Prerogative of God
- Pain Only in Good Natures
- From Measure Things Are Said to Be Moderate-Sized
- Measure in Some Sense is Suitable to God Himself
- Whence a Bad Measure, a Bad Form, a Bad Order May Sometimes Be Spoken Of
- It is Proved by the Testimonies of Scripture That God is Unchangeable. The Son…
- This Last Expression Misunderstood by Some
- That Creatures Are Made of Nothing
- ’From Him’ And ‘Of Him’ Do Not Mean The Same Thing
- Sin Not From God, But From The Will of Those Sinning
- That God is Not Defiled by Our Sins
- That Good Things, Even the Least, and Those That Are Earthly, Are by God
- To Punish and to Forgive Sins Belong Equally to God
- From God Also is the Very Power to Be Hurtful
- That Evil Angels Have Been Made Evil, Not by God, But by Sinning
- That Sin is Not the Striving for an Evil Nature, But the Desertion of a Better
- The Tree Was Forbidden to Adam Not Because It Was Evil, But Because It Was Good…
- No Creature of God is Evil, But to Abuse a Creature of God is Evil
- God Makes Good Use of the Evil Deeds of Sinners
- Eternal Fire Torturing the Wicked, Not Evil
- Fire is Called Eternal, Not as God Is, But Because Without End
- Neither Can God Suffer Hurt, Nor Any Other, Save by the Just Ordination of God
- How Great Good Things the Manichæans Put in the Nature of Evil, and How Great…
- Manichæan Blasphemies Concerning the Nature of God
- Many Evils Before His Commingling With Evil Are Attributed to the Nature of God…
- Incredible Turpitudes in God Imagined by Manichæus
- Certain Unspeakable Turpitudes Believed, Not Without Reason, Concerning the…
- The Unspeakable Doctrine of the Fundamental Epistle
- He Compels to the Perpetration of Horrible Turpitudes
- Augustin Prays That the Manichæans May Be Restored to Their Senses