On Marriage and Concupiscence
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5th c. · Moral & Pastoral · English translation, 1890
Source edition: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I (ed. Philip Schaff, 1886–90)
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Contents
- Retractations
- Advertisement to the Reader on the Following Treatise
- A Letter Addressed to the Count Valerius
- On Marriage and Concupiscence
- Introduction
- 1. Concerning the Argument of This Treatise
- Why This Treatise Was Addressed to Valerius
- Conjugal Chastity the Gift of God
- 4. A Difficulty as Regards the Chastity of Unbelievers. None But a Believer is…
- The Natural Good of Marriage. All Society Naturally Repudiates a Fraudulent…
- The Censuring of Lust is Not a Condemnation of Marriage; Whence Comes Shame in…
- Man’s Disobedience Justly Requited in the Rebellion of His Own Flesh; The Blush…
- The Evil of Lust Does Not Take Away the Good of Marriage
- This Disease of Concupiscence in Marriage is Not to Be a Matter of Will, But of…
- Why It Was Sometimes Permitted That a Man Should Have Several Wives, Yet No…
- The Sacrament of Marriage; Marriage Indissoluble; The World’s Law About Divorce…
- Marriage Does Not Cancel a Mutual Vow of Continence; There Was True Wedlock…
- 13. In the Marriage of Mary and Joseph There Were All the Blessings of the…
- Before Christ It Was a Time for Marrying; Since Christ It Has Been a Time for…
- 15. The Teaching of the Apostle on This Subject
- A Certain Degree of Intemperance is to Be Tolerated in the Case of Married…
- What is Sinless in the Use of Matrimony? What is Attended With Venial Sin, and…
- Continence Better Than Marriage; But Marriage Better Than Fornication
- Blessing of Matrimony
- Why Children of Wrath Are Born of Holy Matrimony
- Thus Sinners Are Born of Righteous Parents, Even as Wild Olives Spring From the…
- Even Infants, When Unbaptized, Are in the Power of the Devil; Exorcism in the…
- Sin Has Not Arisen Out of the Goodness of Marriage; The Sacrament of Matrimony…
- 24. Lust and Shame Come from Sin; The Law of Sin; The Shamelessness of the…
- Concupiscence in the Regenerate Without Consent is Not Sin; In What Sense…
- 26. Whatever is Born Through Concupiscence is Not Undeservedly in Subjection to…
- Through Lust Original Sin is Transmitted; Venial Sins in Married Persons…
- Concupiscence Remains After Baptism, Just as Languor Does After Recovery From…
- How Concupiscence Remains in the Baptized in Act, When It Has Passed Away as to…
- The Evil Desires of Concupiscence; We Ought to Wish That They May Not Be
- Who is the Man That Can Say, ‘It is No More I That Do It’?
- 32. When Good Will Be Perfectly Done
- True Freedom Comes With Willing Delight in God’s Law
- 34. How Concupiscence Made a Captive of the Apostle; What the Law of Sin Was to…
- The Flesh, Carnal Affection
- 36. Even Now While We Still Have Concupiscence We May Be Safe in Christ
- The Law of Sin With Its Guilt in Unbaptized Infants. By Adam’s Sin the Human…
- To Baptism Must Be Referred All Remission of Sins, and the Complete Healing of…
- By the Holiness of Baptism, Not Sins Only, But All Evils Whatsoever, Have to Be…
- Refutation of the Pelagians by the Authority of St. Ambrose, Whom They Quote to…
- Book 2
- Preliminary Notes on the Second Book
- Introductory Statement
- In This and the Four Next Chapters He Adduces the Garbled Extracts He Has to…
- Chapter 3.—The Same Continued
- Chapter 4.—The Same Continued
- Chapter 5.—The Same Continued
- Chapter 6.—The Same Continued
- Augustin Adduces a Passage Selected From the Preface of Julianus. (See ‘The…
- 8. Augustin Refutes the Passage Adduced Above
- 9. The Catholics Maintain the Doctrine of Original Sin, and Thus are Far from…
- In What Manner the Adversary’s Cavils Must Be Refuted
- 11. The Devil the Author, Not of Nature, But Only of Sin
- 12. Eve’s Name Means Life, and is a Great Sacrament of the Church
- 13. The Pelagian Argument to Show that the Devil Has No Rights in the Fruits of…
- Concupiscence Alone, in Marriage, is Not of God
- 15. Man, by Birth, is Placed Under the Dominion of the Devil Through Sin; We…
- It is Not of Us, But Our Sins, That the Devil is the Author
- The Pelagians Are Not Ashamed to Eulogize Concupiscence, Although They Are…
- Chapter 18.—The Same Continued
- The Pelagians Misunderstand ‘Seed’ In Scripture
- 20. Original Sin is Derived from the Faulty Condition of Human Seed
- It is the Good God That Gives Fruitfulness, and the Devil That Corrupts the…
- 22. Shall We Be Ashamed of What We Do, or of What God Does?
- The Pelagians Affirm That God in the Case of Abraham and Sarah Aroused…
- What Covenant of God the New-Born Babe Breaks. What Was the Value of…
- Augustin Not the Deviser of Original Sin
- The Child in No Sense Formed by Concupiscence
- 27. The Pelagians Argue that God Sometimes Closes the Womb in Anger, and Opens…
- Augustin’s Answer to This Argument. Its Dealing With Scripture
- 29. The Same Continued. Augustin Also Asserts that God Forms Man at Birth
- The Case of Abimelech and His House Examined
- Why God Proceeds to Create Human Beings, Who He Knows Will Be Born in Sin
- God Not the Author of the Evil in Those Whom He Creates
- Though God Makes Us, We Perish Unless He Re-makes Us in Christ
- The Pelagians Argue That Cohabitation Rightly Used is a Good, and What is Born…
- He Answers the Arguments of Julianus. What is the Natural Use of the Woman?…
- God Made Nature Good: the Saviour Restores It When Corrupted
- If There is No Marriage Without Cohabitation, So There is No Cohabitation…
- Jovinian Used Formerly to Call Catholics Manicheans; The Arians Also Used to…
- Man Born of Whatever Parentage is Sinful and Capable of Redemption
- Augustin Declines the Dilemma Offered Him
- The Pelagians Argue That Original Sin Cannot Come Through Marriage If Marriage…
- 42. The Pelagians Try to Get Rid of Original Sin by Their Praise of God’s…
- 43. The Good Tree in the Gospel that Cannot Bring Forth Evil Fruit, Does Not…
- The Pelagians Argue That If Sin Comes by Birth, All Married People Deserve…
- 45. Answer to This Argument: The Apostle Says We All Sinned in One
- 46. The Reign of Death, What It Is; The Figure of the Future Adam; How All Men…
- 47. The Scriptures Repeatedly Teach Us that All Sin in One
- 48. Original Sin Arose from Adam’s Depraved Will. Whence the Corrupt Will Sprang
- In Infants Nature is of God, and the Corruption of Nature of the Devil
- 50. The Rise and Origin of Evil. The Exorcism and Exsufflation of Infants, a…
- 51. To Call Those that Teach Original Sin Manicheans is to Accuse Ambrose…
- Sin Was the Origin of All Shameful Concupiscence
- Concupiscence Need Not Have Been Necessary for Fruitfulness
- How Marriage is Now Different Since the Existence of Sin
- Lust is a Disease; The Word ‘Passion’ In the Ecclesiastical Sense
- 56. The Pelagians Allow that Christ Died Even for Infants; Julianus Slays…
- The Great Sin of the First Man
- 58. Adam’s Sin is Derived from Him to Every One Who is Born Even of Regenerate…
- The Pelagians Can Hardly Venture to Place Concupiscence in Paradise Before the…
- 60. Let Not the Pelagians Indulge Themselves in a Cruel Defence of Infants