The City of God, Volume I by Saint of Hippo Augustine

BOOK I.

PAGE Augustine censures the pagans, who attributed the calamities of the world, and especially the sack of Rome by the Goths, to the Christian religion and its prohibition of the worship of the gods, 1

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Chapter 1 Ch.1
BOOK I. Ch.2
BOOK II. Ch.3
BOOK III. Ch.4
BOOK IV. Ch.5
BOOK V. Ch.6
BOOK VI. Ch.7
BOOK VII. Ch.8
BOOK VIII. Ch.9
BOOK IX. Ch.10
BOOK X. Ch.11
BOOK XI. Ch.12
BOOK XII. Ch.13
BOOK XIII. Ch.14
1. _Of the adversaries of the name of Christ, whom the barbarians for Ch.15
2. _That it is quite contrary to the usage of war, that the victors Ch.16
3. _That the Romans did not show their usual sagacity when they Ch.17
4. _Of the asylum of Juno in Troy, which saved no one from the Ch.18
5. _Cæsar's statement regarding the universal custom of an enemy when Ch.19
6. _That not even the Romans, when they took cities, spared the Ch.20
7. _That the cruelties which occurred in the sack of Rome were in Ch.21
8. _Of the advantages and disadvantages which often indiscriminately Ch.22
9. _Of the reasons for administering correction to bad and good Ch.23
10. _That the saints lose nothing in losing temporal goods._ Ch.24
11. _Of the end of this life, whether it is material that it be long Ch.25
12. _Of the burial of the dead: that the denial of it to Christians Ch.26
13. _Reasons for burying the bodies of the saints._ Ch.27
14. _Of the captivity of the saints, and that divine consolation Ch.28
15. _Of Regulus, in whom we have an example of the voluntary Ch.29
16. _Of the violation of the consecrated and other Christian Ch.30
17. _Of suicide committed through fear of punishment or dishonour._ Ch.31
18. _Of the violence which may be done to the body by another's Ch.32
19. _Of Lucretia, who put an end to her life because of the outrage Ch.33
20. _That Christians have no authority for committing suicide in any Ch.34
21. _Of the cases in which we may put men to death without incurring Ch.35
22. _That suicide can never be prompted by magnanimity._ Ch.36
23. _What we are to think of the example of Cato, who slew himself Ch.37
24. _That in that virtue in which Regulus excels Cato, Christians Ch.38
25. _That we should not endeavour by sin to obviate sin._ Ch.39
26. _That in certain peculiar cases the examples of the saints are Ch.40
27. _Whether voluntary death should be sought in order to avoid sin._ Ch.41
28. _By what judgment of God the enemy was permitted to indulge Ch.42
29. _What the servants of Christ should say in reply to the Ch.43
30. _That those who complain of Christianity really desire to Ch.44
31. _By what steps the passion for governing increased among Ch.45
32. _Of the establishment of scenic entertainments._ Ch.46
33. _That the overthrow of Rome has not corrected the vices of Ch.47
34. _Of God's clemency in moderating the ruin of the city._ Ch.48
35. _Of the sons of the church who are hidden among the wicked, Ch.49
36. _What subjects are to be handled in the following discourse._ Ch.50
1. _Of the limits which must be put to the necessity of replying Ch.51
2. _Recapitulation of the contents of the first book._ Ch.52
3. _That we need only to read history in order to see what Ch.53
4. _That the worshippers of the gods never received from them any Ch.54
5. _Of the obscenities practised in honour of the mother of Ch.55
6. _That the gods of the pagans never inculcated holiness of life._ Ch.56
7. _That the suggestions of philosophers are precluded from having Ch.57
8. _That the theatrical exhibitions publishing the shameful actions Ch.58
9. _That the poetical licence which the Greeks, in obedience to Ch.59
10. _That the devils, in suffering either false or true crimes to Ch.60
11. _That the Greeks admitted players to offices of state, on Ch.61
12. _That the Romans, by refusing to the poets the same licence in Ch.62
13. _That the Romans should have understood that gods who desired Ch.63
14. _That Plato, who excluded poets from a well-ordered city, was Ch.64
15. _That it was vanity, not reason, which created some of the Ch.65
16. _That if the gods had really possessed any regard for Ch.66
17. _Of the rape of the Sabine women, and other iniquities Ch.67
18. _What the history of Sallust reveals regarding the life of the Ch.68
19. _Of the corruption which had grown upon the Roman republic Ch.69
20. _Of the kind of happiness and life truly delighted in by those Ch.70
21. _Cicero's opinion of the Roman republic._ Ch.71
22. _That the Roman gods never took any steps to prevent the Ch.72
23. _That the vicissitudes of this life are dependent not on Ch.73
24. _Of the deeds of Sylla, in which the demons boasted that he Ch.74
25. _How powerfully the evil spirits incite men to wicked actions, Ch.75
26. _That the demons gave in secret certain obscure instructions in Ch.76
27. _That the obscenities of those plays which the Romans Ch.77
28. _That the Christian religion is health-giving._ Ch.78
29. _An exhortation to the Romans to renounce paganism._ Ch.79
1. _Of the ills which alone the wicked fear, and which the world Ch.80
2. _Whether the gods, whom the Greeks and Romans worshipped in Ch.81
3. _That the gods could not be offended by the adultery of Paris, Ch.82
4. _Of Varro's opinion, that it is useful for men to feign Ch.83
5. _That it is not credible that the gods should have punished the Ch.84
6. _That the gods exacted no penalty for the fratricidal act of Ch.85
7. _Of the destruction of Ilium by Fimbria, a lieutenant of Marius._ Ch.86
8. _Whether Rome ought to have been entrusted to the Trojan gods?_ Ch.87
9. _Whether it is credible that the peace during the reign of Numa Ch.88
10. _Whether it was desirable that the Roman empire should be Ch.89
11. _Of the statue of Apollo at Cumæ, whose tears are supposed to Ch.90
12. _That the Romans added a vast number of gods to those introduced Ch.91
13. _By what right or agreement the Romans obtained their first Ch.92
14. _Of the wickedness of the war waged by the Romans against Ch.93
15. _What manner of life and death the Roman kings had._ Ch.94
16. _Of the first Roman consuls, the one of whom drove the other Ch.95
17. _Of the disasters which vexed the Roman republic after the Ch.96
18. _The disasters suffered by the Romans in the Punic wars, which Ch.97
19. _Of the calamity of the second Punic war, which consumed the Ch.98
20. _Of the destruction of the Saguntines, who received no help Ch.99
21. _Of the ingratitude of Rome to Scipio, its deliverer, and of Ch.100
22. _Of the edict of Mithridates, commanding that all Roman Ch.101
23. _Of the internal disasters which vexed the Roman republic, and Ch.102
24. _Of the civil dissension occasioned by the sedition of Ch.103
25. _Of the temple of Concord, which was erected by a decree of Ch.104
26. _Of the various kinds of wars which followed the building of Ch.105
27. _Of the civil war between Marius and Sylla._ Ch.106
28. _Of the victory of Sylla, the avenger of the cruelties of Ch.107
29. _A comparison of the disasters which Rome experienced during Ch.108
30. _Of the connection of the wars which with great severity and Ch.109
31. _That it is effrontery to impute the present troubles to Christ Ch.110
1. _Of the things which have been discussed in the first book._ Ch.111
2. _Of those things which are contained in Books Second and Third._ Ch.112
3. _Whether the great extent of the empire, which has been Ch.113
4. _How like kingdoms without justice are to robberies._ Ch.114
5. _Of the runaway gladiators whose power became like that of Ch.115
6. _Concerning the covetousness of Ninus, who was the first who Ch.116
7. _Whether earthly kingdoms in their rise and fall have been Ch.117
8. _Which of the gods can the Romans suppose presided over the Ch.118
9. _Whether the great extent and long duration of the Roman empire Ch.119
10. _What opinions those have followed who have set divers gods Ch.120
11. _Concerning the many gods whom the pagan doctors defend as Ch.121
12. _Concerning the opinion of those who have thought that God is Ch.122
13. _Concerning those who assert that only rational animals are Ch.123
14. _The enlargement of kingdoms is unsuitably ascribed to Jove; Ch.124
15. _Whether it is suitable for good men to wish to rule more Ch.125
16. _What was the reason why the Romans, in detailing separate gods Ch.126
17. _Whether, if the highest power belongs to Jove, Victoria also Ch.127
18. _With what reason they who think Felicity and Fortune Ch.128
19. _Concerning Fortuna Muliebris._[169] Ch.129
20. _Concerning Virtue and Faith, which the pagans have honoured Ch.130
21. _That although not understanding them to be the gifts of God, Ch.131
22. _Concerning the knowledge of the worship due to the gods, Ch.132
23. _Concerning Felicity, whom the Romans, who venerate many gods, Ch.133
24. _The reasons by which the pagans attempt to defend their Ch.134
25. _Concerning the one God only to be worshipped, who, although Ch.135
26. _Of the scenic plays, the celebration of which the gods have Ch.136
27. _Concerning the three kinds of gods about which the pontiff Ch.137
28. _Whether the worship of the gods has been of service to the Ch.138
29. _Of the falsity of the augury by which the strength and Ch.139
30. _What kind of things even their worshippers have owned they Ch.140
31. _Concerning the opinions of Varro, who, while reprobating the Ch.141
32. _In what interest the princes of the nations wished false Ch.142
33. _That the times of all kings and kingdoms are ordained by the Ch.143
34. _Concerning the kingdom of the Jews, which was founded by the Ch.144
1. _That the cause of the Roman empire, and of all kingdoms, is Ch.145
2. _On the difference in the health of twins._ Ch.146
3. _Concerning the arguments which Nigidius the mathematician drew Ch.147
4. _Concerning the twins Esau and Jacob, who were very unlike each Ch.148
5. _In what manner the mathematicians are convicted of professing Ch.149
6. _Concerning twins of different sexes._ Ch.150
7. _Concerning the choosing of a day for marriage, or for planting, Ch.151
8. _Concerning those who call by the name of fate, not the Ch.152
9. _Concerning the foreknowledge of God and the free will of man, Ch.153
10. _Whether our wills are ruled by necessity._ Ch.154
11. _Concerning the universal providence of God in the laws of Ch.155
12. _By what virtues the ancient Romans merited that the true God, Ch.156
13. _Concerning the love of praise, which, though it is a vice, is Ch.157
14. _Concerning the eradication of the love of human praise, Ch.158
15. _Concerning the temporal reward which God granted to the Ch.159
16. _Concerning the reward of the holy citizens of the celestial Ch.160
17. _To what profit the Romans carried on wars, and how much they Ch.161
18. _How far Christians ought to be from boasting, if they have done Ch.162
19. _Concerning the difference between true glory and the desire Ch.163
20. _That it is as shameful for the virtues to serve human glory Ch.164
21. _That the Roman dominion was granted by Him from whom is all Ch.165
22. _The durations and issues of war depend on the will of God._ Ch.166
23. _Concerning the war in which Radagaisus, king of the Goths, a Ch.167
24. _What was the happiness of the Christian emperors, and how far Ch.168
25. _Concerning the prosperity which God granted to the Christian Ch.169
26. _On the faith and piety of Theodosius Augustus._ Ch.170
1. _Of those who maintain that they worship the gods not for the Ch.171
2. _What we are to believe that Varro thought concerning the gods Ch.172
3. _Varro's distribution of his book which he composed concerning Ch.173
4. _That from the disputation of Varro, it follows that the Ch.174
5. _Concerning the three kinds of theology according to Varro, Ch.175
6. _Concerning the mythic, that is, the fabulous, theology, and Ch.176
7. _Concerning the likeness and agreement of the fabulous and Ch.177
8. _Concerning the interpretations, consisting of natural Ch.178
9. _Concerning the special offices of the gods._ Ch.179
10. _Concerning the liberty of Seneca, who more vehemently Ch.180
11. _What Seneca thought concerning the Jews._ Ch.181
12. _That when once the vanity of the gods of the nations has been Ch.182
1. _Whether, since it is evident that Deity is not to be found in Ch.183
2. _Who are the select gods, and whether they are held to be Ch.184
3. _How there is no reason which can be shown for the selection of Ch.185
4. _The inferior gods, whose names are not associated with infamy, Ch.186
5. _Concerning the more secret doctrine of the pagans, and Ch.187
6. _Concerning the opinion of Varro, that God is the soul of the Ch.188
7. _Whether it is reasonable to separate Janus and Terminus as Ch.189
8. _For what reason the worshippers of Janus have made his image Ch.190
9. _Concerning the power of Jupiter, and a comparison of Jupiter Ch.191
10. _Whether the distinction between Janus and Jupiter is a proper Ch.192
11. _Concerning the surnames of Jupiter, which are referred not to Ch.193
12. _That Jupiter is also called Pecunia._ Ch.194
13. _That when it is expounded what Saturn is, what Genius is, it Ch.195
14. _Concerning the offices of Mercury and Mars._ Ch.196
15. _Concerning certain stars which the pagans have called by the Ch.197
16. _Concerning Apollo and Diana, and the other select gods whom Ch.198
17. _That even Varro himself pronounced his own opinions regarding Ch.199
18. _A more credible cause of the rise of pagan error._ Ch.200
19. _Concerning the interpretations which compose the reason of Ch.201
20. _Concerning the rites of Eleusinian Ceres_. Ch.202
21. _Concerning the shamefulness of the rites which are celebrated Ch.203
22. _Concerning Neptune, and Salacia, and Venilia_. Ch.204
23. _Concerning the earth, which Varro affirms to be a goddess, Ch.205
24. _Concerning the surnames of Tellus and their significations, Ch.206
25. _The interpretation of the mutilation of Atys which the Ch.207
26. _Concerning the abomination of the sacred rites of the Great Ch.208
27. _Concerning the figments of the physical theologists, who Ch.209
28. _That the doctrine of Varro concerning theology is in no part Ch.210
29. _That all things which the physical theologists have referred Ch.211
30. _How piety distinguishes the Creator from the creatures, so Ch.212
31. _What benefits God gives to the followers of the truth to Ch.213
32. _That at no time in the past was the mystery of Christ's Ch.214
33. _That only through the Christian religion could the deceit of Ch.215
34. _Concerning the books of Numa Pompilius, which the senate Ch.216
35. _Concerning the hydromancy through which Numa was befooled Ch.217
1. _That the question of natural theology is to be discussed with Ch.218
2. _Concerning the two schools of philosophers, that is, the Ch.219
3. _Of the Socratic philosophy._ Ch.220
4. _Concerning Plato, the chief among the disciples of Socrates, Ch.221
5. _That it is especially with the Platonists that we must carry Ch.222
6. _Concerning the meaning of the Platonists in that part of Ch.223
7. _How much the Platonists are to be held as excelling other Ch.224
8. _That the Platonists hold the first rank in moral philosophy Ch.225
9. _Concerning that philosophy which has come nearest to the Ch.226
10. _That the excellency of the Christian religion is above all Ch.227
11. _How Plato has been able to approach so nearly to Christian Ch.228
12. _That even the Platonists, though they say these things Ch.229
13. _Concerning the opinion of Plato, according to which he defined Ch.230
14. _Of the opinion of those who have said that rational souls are Ch.231
15. _That the demons are not better than men because of their Ch.232
16. _What Apuleius the Platonist thought concerning the manners Ch.233
17. _Whether it is proper that men should worship those spirits Ch.234
18. _What kind of religion that is which teaches that men ought to Ch.235
19. _Of the impiety of the magic art, which is dependent on the Ch.236
20. _Whether we are to believe that the good gods are more willing Ch.237
21. _Whether the gods use the demons as messengers and Ch.238
22. _That we must, notwithstanding the opinion of Apuleius, reject Ch.239
23. _What Hermes Trismegistus thought concerning idolatry, and from Ch.240
24. _How Hermes openly confessed the error of his forefathers, the Ch.241
25. _Concerning those things which may be common to the holy angels Ch.242
26. _That all the religion of the pagans has reference to dead Ch.243
27. _Concerning the nature of the honour which the Christians Ch.244
1. _The point at which the discussion has arrived, and what remains Ch.245
2. _Whether among the demons, inferior to the gods, there are any Ch.246
3. _What Apuleius attributes to the demons, to whom, though he Ch.247
4. _The opinion of the Peripatetics and Stoics about mental Ch.248
5. _That the passions which assail the souls of Christians do not Ch.249
6. _Of the passions which, according to Apuleius, agitate the Ch.250
7. _That the Platonists maintain that the poets wrong the gods by Ch.251
8. _How Apuleius defines the gods who dwell in heaven, the demons Ch.252
9. _Whether the intercession of the demons can secure for men the Ch.253
10. _That, according to Plotinus, men, whose body is mortal, are Ch.254
11. _Of the opinion of the Platonists, that the souls of men become Ch.255
12. _Of the three opposite qualities by which the Platonists Ch.256
13. _How the demons can mediate between gods and men if they have Ch.257
14. _Whether men, though mortal, can enjoy true blessedness._ Ch.258
15. _Of the man Christ Jesus, the Mediator between God and men_. Ch.259
16. _Whether it is reasonable in the Platonists to determine that Ch.260
17. _That to obtain the blessed life, which consists in partaking Ch.261
18. _That the deceitful demons, while promising to conduct men to Ch.262
19. _That even among their own worshippers the name "demon" has Ch.263
20. _Of the kind of knowledge which puffs up the demons._ Ch.264
21. _To what extent the Lord was pleased to make Himself known to Ch.265
22. _The difference between the knowledge of the holy angels and Ch.266
23. _That the name of gods is falsely given to the gods of the Ch.267
1. _That the Platonists themselves have determined that God alone Ch.268
2. _The opinion of Plotinus the Platonist regarding enlightenment Ch.269
3. _That the Platonists, though knowing something of the Creator Ch.270
4. _That sacrifice is due to the true God only._ Ch.271
5. _Of the sacrifices which God does not require, but wished to Ch.272
6. _Of the true and perfect sacrifice._ Ch.273
7. _Of the love of the holy angels, which prompts them to desire Ch.274
8. _Of the miracles which God has condescended to adhibit, through Ch.275
9. _Of the illicit arts connected with demonolatry, and of which Ch.276
10. _Concerning theurgy, which promises a delusive purification of Ch.277
11. _Of Porphyry's epistle to Anebo, in which he asks for Ch.278
12. _Of the miracles wrought by the true God through the ministry Ch.279
13. _Of the invisible God, who has often made Himself visible, Ch.280
14. _That the one God is to be worshipped not only for the sake Ch.281
15. _Of the ministry of the holy angels, by which they fulfil Ch.282
16. _Whether those angels who demand that we pay them divine Ch.283
17. _Concerning the ark of the covenant, and the miraculous signs Ch.284
18. _Against those who deny that the books of the Church are to Ch.285
19. _On the reasonableness of offering, as the true religion Ch.286
20. _Of the supreme and true sacrifice which was effected by the Ch.287
21. _Of the power delegated to demons for the trial and Ch.288
22. _Whence the saints derive power against demons and true Ch.289
23. _Of the principles which, according to the Platonists, Ch.290
24. _Of the one only true principle which alone purifies and renews Ch.291
25. _That all the saints, both under the law and before it, were Ch.292
26. _Of Porphyry's weakness in wavering between the confession of Ch.293
27. _Of the impiety of Porphyry, which is worse than even the Ch.294
28. _How it is that Porphyry has been so blind as not to recognise Ch.295
29. _Of the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ, which the Ch.296
30. _Porphyry's emendations and modifications of Platonism._ Ch.297
31. _Against the arguments on which the Platonists ground their Ch.298
32. _Of the universal way of the soul's deliverance, which Porphyry Ch.299
1. _Of this part of the work, wherein we begin to explain the origin Ch.300
2. _Of the knowledge of God, to which no man can attain save Ch.301
3. _Of the authority of the canonical Scriptures composed by the Ch.302
4. _That the world is neither without beginning, nor yet created Ch.303
5. _That we ought not to seek to comprehend the infinite ages of Ch.304
6. _That the world and time had both one beginning, and the one Ch.305
7. _Of the nature of the first days, which are said to have had Ch.306
8. _What we are to understand of God's resting on the seventh day, Ch.307
9. _What the Scriptures teach us to believe concerning the creation Ch.308
10. _Of the simple and unchangeable Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ch.309
11. _Whether the angels that fell partook of the blessedness which Ch.310
12. _A comparison of the blessedness of the righteous, who have not Ch.311
13. _Whether all the angels were so created in one common state of Ch.312
14. _An explanation of what is said of the devil, that he did not Ch.313
15. _How we are to understand the words, "The devil sinneth from Ch.314
16. _Of the ranks and differences of the creatures, estimated by Ch.315
17. _That the flaw of wickedness is not nature, but contrary to Ch.316
18. _Of the beauty of the universe, which becomes, by God's Ch.317
19. _What, seemingly, we are to understand by the words, "God Ch.318
20. _Of the words which follow the separation of light and Ch.319
21. _Of God's eternal and unchangeable knowledge and will, whereby Ch.320
22. _Of those who do not approve of certain things which are a part Ch.321
23. _Of the error in which the doctrine of Origen is involved._ Ch.322
24. _Of the divine Trinity, and the indications of its presence Ch.323
25. _Of the division of philosophy into three parts._ Ch.324
26. _Of the image of the supreme Trinity, which we find in some Ch.325
27. _Of existence, and knowledge of it, and the love of both._ Ch.326
28. _Whether we ought to love the love itself with which we love Ch.327
29. _Of the knowledge by which the holy angels know God in His Ch.328
30. _Of the perfection of the number six, which is the first of Ch.329
31. _Of the seventh day, in which completeness and repose are Ch.330
32. _Of the opinion that the angels were created before the world._ Ch.331
33. _Of the two different and dissimilar communities of angels, Ch.332
34. _Of the idea that the angels were meant where the separation Ch.333
1. _That the nature of the angels, both good and bad, is one and Ch.334
2. _That there is no entity_[521] _contrary to the divine, because Ch.335
3. _That the enemies of God are so, not by nature but by will, Ch.336
4. _Of the nature of irrational and lifeless creatures, which in Ch.337
5. _That in all natures, of every kind and rank, God is glorified._ Ch.338
6. _What the cause of the blessedness of the good angels is, and Ch.339
7. _That we ought not to expect to find any efficient cause of the Ch.340
8. _Of the misdirected love whereby the will fell away from the Ch.341
9. _Whether the angels, besides receiving from God their nature, Ch.342
10. _Of the falseness of the history which allots many thousand Ch.343
11. _Of those who suppose that this world indeed is not eternal, Ch.344
12. _How these persons are to be answered, who find fault with the Ch.345
13. _Of the revolution of the ages, which some philosophers believe Ch.346
14. _Of the creation of the human race in time, and how this was Ch.347
15. _Whether we are to believe that God, as He has always been Ch.348
16. _How we are to understand God's promise of life eternal, Ch.349
17. _What defence is made by sound faith regarding God's Ch.350
18. _Against those who assert that things that are infinite_[550] Ch.351
19. _Of worlds without end, or ages of ages._[556] Ch.352
20. _Of the impiety of those who assert that the souls which enjoy Ch.353
21. _That there was created at first but one individual, and that Ch.354
22. _That God foreknew that the first man would sin, and that He at Ch.355
23. _Of the nature of the human soul created in the image of God._ Ch.356
24. _Whether the angels can be said to be the creators of any, even Ch.357
25. _That God alone is the Creator of every kind of creature, Ch.358
26. _Of that opinion of the Platonists, that the angels were Ch.359
27. _That the whole plenitude of the human race was embraced in the Ch.360
1. _Of the fall of the first man, through which mortality has Ch.361
2. _Of that death which can affect an immortal soul, and of that Ch.362
3. _Whether death, which by the sin of our first parents has passed Ch.363
4. _Why death, the punishment of sin, is not withheld from those Ch.364
5. _As the wicked make an ill use of the law, which is good, so Ch.365
6. _Of the evil of death in general, considered as the separation Ch.366
7. _Of the death which the unbaptized_[580] _suffer for the Ch.367
8. _That the saints, by suffering the first death for the truth's Ch.368
9. _Whether we should say that the moment of death, in which Ch.369
10. _Of the life of mortals, which is rather to be called death Ch.370
11. _Whether one can both be living and dead at the same time._ Ch.371
12. _What death God intended, when He threatened our first parents Ch.372
13. _What was the first punishment of the transgression of our Ch.373
14. _In what state man was made by God, and into what estate he Ch.374
15. _That Adam in his sin forsook God ere God forsook him, and Ch.375
16. _Concerning the philosophers who think that the separation of Ch.376
17. _Against those who affirm that earthly bodies cannot be made Ch.377
18. _Of earthly bodies, which the philosophers affirm cannot be in Ch.378
19. _Against the opinion of those who do not believe that the Ch.379
20. _That the flesh now resting in peace shall be raised to a Ch.380
21. _Of Paradise, that it can be understood in a spiritual sense Ch.381
22. _That the bodies of the saints shall after the resurrection be Ch.382
23. _What we are to understand by the animal and spiritual body; or Ch.383
24. _How we must understand that breathing of God by which "the Ch.384