The City of God, Volume I by Saint of Hippo Augustine
BOOK VIII.
Some account of the Socratic and Platonic philosophy, and a
refutation of the doctrine of Apuleius that the demons should
be worshipped as mediators between gods and men, 305
Chapters
- 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