- 《上帝之城(英文全本)》正文
- 正文 1.0
- 正文 1.1 Of the Adversaries of the Name of Christ, Whom the Barbarians for Christ’s Sake Spared When T
- 正文 1.2 That It is Quite Contrary to the Usage of War, that the Victors Should Spare the Vanquished f
- 正文 1.3 That the Romans Did Not Show Their Usual Sagac- ity When They Trusted that They Would Be Bene
- 正文 1.4 Of the Asylum of Juno in Troy, Which Saved No One from the Greeks And of the Churches of the
- 正文 1.5 Caesar’s Statement Regarding the Universal Custom of an Enemy When Sacking a City.
- 正文 1.6 That Not Even the Romans, When They Took Cities, Spared the Conquered in Their Temples.
- 正文 1.7 That the Cruelties Which Occurred in the Sack of Rome Were in Accordance with the Custom of W
- 正文 1.8 Of the Advantages and Disadvantages Which Often Indiscriminately Accrue to Good and Wicked Me
- 正文 1.9 Of the Reasons for Administering Correction to Bad and Good Together.
- 正文 1.10 That the Saints Lose Nothing in Losing Temporal Goods.
- 正文 1.11 Of the End of This Life, Whether It is Material that It Be Long Delayed.
- 正文 1.12 Of the Burial of the Dead: that the Denial of It to Christians Does Them No Injury.
- 正文 1.13 Reasons for Burying the Bodies of the Saints.
- 正文 1.14 Of the Captivity of the Saints, and that Divine Consolation Never Failed Them Therein.
- 正文 1.15 Of Regulus, in Whom We Have an Example of the Voluntary Endurance of Captivity for the Sake
- 正文 1.16 Of the Violation of the Consecrated and Other Christian Virgins, to Which They Were Subjecte
- 正文 1.17 Of Suicide Committed Through Fear of Punishment or Dishonor.
- 正文 1.18 Of the Violence Which May Be Done to the Body by Another’s Lust, While the Mind Remains Invi
- 正文 1.19 Of Lucretia, Who Put an End to Her Life Because of the Outrage Done Her.
- 正文 1.20 That Christians Have No Authority for Committing Suicide in Any Circumstances Whatever.
- 正文 1.21 Of the Cases in Which We May Put Men to Death Without Incurring the Guilt of Murder.
- 正文 1.22 That Suicide Can Never Be Prompted by Magna- nimity.
- 正文 1.23 What We are to Think of the Example of Cato, Who Slew Himself Because Unable to Endure Caesa
- 正文 1.24 That in that Virtue in Which Regulus Excels Cato, Christians are Pre-Eminently Distinguished
- 正文 1.25 That We Should Not Endeavor By Sin to Obviate Sin.
- 正文 1.26 That in Certain Peculiar Cases the Examples of the Saints are Not to Be Followed.
- 正文 1.27 Whether Voluntary Death Should Be Sought in Or- der to Avoid Sin.
- 正文 1.28 By What Judgment of God the Enemy Was Permit- ted to Indulge His Lust on the Bodies of Conti
- 正文 1.29 What the Servants of Christ Should Say in Reply to the Unbelievers Who Cast in Their Teeth t
- 正文 1.30 That Those Who Complain of Christianity Really Desire to Live Without Restraint in Shameful
- 正文 1.31 By What Steps the Passion for Governing Increased Among the Romans.
- 正文 1.32 Of the Establishment of Scenic Entertainments.
- 正文 1.33 That the Overthrow of Rome Has Not Corrected the Vices of the Romans.
- 正文 1.34 Of God’s Clemency in Moderating the Ruin of the City.
- 正文 1.35 Of the Sons of the Church Who are Hidden Among the Wicked, and of False Christians Within th
- 正文 1.36 What Subjects are to Be Handled in the Following Discourse.
- 正文 2.0
- 正文 2.1 Of the Limits Which Must Be Put to the Necessity of Replying to an Adversary.
- 正文 2.2 Recapitulation of the Contents of the First Book.
- 正文 2.3 That We Need Only to Read History in Order to See What Calamities the Romans Suffered Before
- 正文 2.4 That the Worshippers of the Gods Never Received from Them Any Healthy Moral Precepts, and tha
- 正文 2.5 Of the Obscenities Practiced in Honor of the Mother of the Gods.
- 正文 2.6 That the Gods of the Pagans Never Inculcated Ho- liness of Life.
- 正文 2.7 That the Suggestions of Philosophers are Precluded from Having Any Moral Effect, Because They
- 正文 2.8 That the Theatrical Exhibitions Publishing the Shameful Actions of the Gods, Propitiated Rath
- 正文 2.9 That the Poetical License Which the Greeks, in Obe- dience to Their Gods, Allowed, Was Restra
- 正文 2.10 That the Devils, in Suffering Either False or True Crimes to Be Laid to Their Charge, Meant
- 正文 2.11 That the Greeks Admitted Players to Offices of State, on the Ground that Men Who Pleased the
- 正文 2.12 That the Romans, by Refusing to the Poets the Same License in Respect of Men Which They Al-
- 正文 2.13 That the Romans Should Have Understood that Gods Who Desired to Be Worshipped in Licentious
- 正文 2.14 That Plato, Who Excluded Poets from a Well- Ordered City, Was Better Than These Gods Who Des
- 正文 2.15 That It Was Vanity, Not Reason, Which Created Some of the Roman Gods.
- 正文 2.16 That If the Gods Had Really Possessed Any Re- gard for Righteousness, the Romans Should Have
- 正文 2.17 Of the Rape of the Sabine Women, and Other In- iquities Perpetrated in Rome’s Palmiest Days.
- 正文 2.18 What the History of Sallust Reveals Regarding the Life of the Romans, Either When Straitened
- 正文 2.19 Of the Corruption Which Had Grown Upon the Ro- man Republic Before Christ Abolished the Wors
- 正文 2.20 Of the Kind of Happiness and Life Truly Delighted in by Those Who Inveigh Against the Christ
- 正文 2.21 Cicero’s Opinion of the Roman Republic.
- 正文 2.22 That the Roman Gods Never Took Any Steps to Prevent the Republic from Being Ruined by Im- mo
- 正文 2.23 That the Vicissitudes of This Life are Dependent Not on the Favor or Hostility of Demons, Bu
- 正文 2.24 Of the Deeds of Sylla, in Which the Demons Boasted that He Had Their Help.
- 正文 2.25 How Powerfully the Evil Spirits Incite Men to Wicked Actions, by Giving Them the Quasi-Divin
- 正文 2.26 That the Demons Gave in Secret Certain Obscure Instructions in Morals, While in Public Their
- 正文 Preface, Explaining His Design in Undertaking This Work.(11)
- 正文 2.27 That the Obscenities of Those Plays Which the Romans Consecrated in Order to Propitiate Thei
- 正文 2.28 That the Christian Religion is Health-Giving.
- 正文 2.29 An Exhortation to the Romans to Renounce Pa- ganism.
- 正文 3.0
- 正文 3.1 Of the Ills Which Alone the Wicked Fear, and Which the World Continually Suffered, Even When
- 正文 3.2 Whether the Gods, Whom the Greeks and Romans Worshipped in Common, Were Justified in Permit-
- 正文 3.3 That the Gods Could Not Be Offended by the Adul- tery of Paris, This Crime Being So Common Am
- 正文 3.4 Of Varro’s Opinion, that It is Useful for Men to Feign Themselves the Offspring of the Gods.
- 正文 3.5 That It is Not Credible that the Gods Should Have Punished the Adultery of Paris, Seeing They
- 正文 3.6 That the Gods Exacted No Penalty for the Fratrici- dal Act of Romulus.
- 正文 3.7 Of the Destruction of Ilium by Fimbria, a Lieutenant of Marius.
- 正文 3.8 Whether Rome Ought to Have Been Entrusted to the Trojan Gods.
- 正文 3.9 Whether It is Credible that the Peace During the Reign of Numa Was Brought About by the Gods.
- 正文 3.10 Whether It Was Desirable that The Roman Empire Should Be Increased by Such a Furious Success
- 正文 3.11 Of the Statue of Apollo at Cumae, Whose Tears are Supposed to Have Portended Disaster to the
- 正文 3.12 That the Romans Added a Vast Number of Gods to Those Introduced by Numa, and that Their Num-
- 正文 3.13 By What Right or Agreement The Romans Ob- tained Their First Wives.
- 正文 3.14 Of the Wickedness of the War Waged by the Ro- mans Against the Albans, and of the Victories
- 正文 3.15 What Manner of Life and Death the Roman Kings Had.
- 正文 3.16 Of the First Roman Consuls, the One of Whom Drove the Other from the Country, and Shortly Af
- 正文 3.17 Of the Disasters Which Vexed the Roman Republic After the Inauguration of the Consulship, an
- 正文 3.18 The Disasters Suffered by the Romans in the Punic Wars, Which Were Not Mitigated by the Prot
- 正文 3.19 Of the Calamity of the Second Punic War, Which Consumed the Strength of Both Parties.
- 正文 3.20 Of the Destruction of the Saguntines, Who Re- ceived No Help from the Roman Gods, Though Per
- 正文 3.21 Of the Ingratitude of Rome to Scipio, Its Deliverer, and of Its Manners During the Period Wh
- 正文 3.22 Of the Edict of Mithridates, Commanding that All Roman Citizens Found in Asia Should Be Slai
- 正文 3.23 Of the Internal Disasters Which Vexed the Ro- man Republic, and Followed a Portentous Madnes
- 正文 3.24 Of the Civil Dissension Occasioned by the Sedition of the Gracchi.
- 正文 3.25 Of the Temple of Concord, Which Was Erected by a Decree of the Senate on the Scene of These
- 正文 3.26 Of the Various Kinds of Wars Which Followed the Building of the Temple of Concord.
- 正文 3.27 Of the Civil War Between Marius and Sylla.
- 正文 3.28 Of the Victory of Sylla, the Avenger of the Cruelties of Marius.
- 正文 3.29 A Comparison of the Disasters Which Rome Ex- perienced During the Gothic and Gallic Invasion
- 正文 3.30 Of the Connection of the Wars Which with Great Severity and Frequency Followed One Another B
- 正文 3.31 That It is Effrontery to Impute the Present Trou- bles to Christ and the Prohibition of Poly
- 正文 4.0
- 正文 4.1 Of the Things Which Have Been Discussed in the First Book.
- 正文 4.2 Of Those Things Which are Contained in Books Sec- ond and Third.
- 正文 4.3 Whether the Great Extent of the Empire, Which Has Been Acquired Only by Wars, is to Be Reckon
- 正文 4.4 How Like Kingdoms Without Justice are to Rob- beries.
- 正文 4.5 Of the Runaway Gladiators Whose Power Became Like that of Royal Dignity.
- 正文 4.6 Concerning the Covetousness of Ninus, Who Was the First Who Made War on His Neighbors, that H
- 正文 4.7 Whether Earthly Kingdoms in Their Rise and Fall Have Been Either Aided or Deserted by the Hel
- 正文 4.8 Which of the Gods Can the Romans Suppose Presided Over the Increase and Preservation of Their
- 正文 4.9 Whether the Great Extent and Long Duration of the Roman Empire Should Be Ascribed to Jove, Wh
- 正文 4.10 What Opinions Those Have Followed Who Have Set Divers Gods Over Divers Parts of the World.
- 正文 4.11 Concerning the Many Gods Whom the Pagan Doc- tors Defend as Being One and the Same Jove.
- 正文 4.12 Concerning the Opinion of Those Who Have Thought that God is the Soul of the World, and the
- 正文 4.13 Concerning Those Who Assert that Only Rational Animals are Parts of the One God.
- 正文 4.14 The Enlargement of Kingdoms is Unsuitably As- cribed to Jove For If, as They Will Have It, V
- 正文 4.15 Whether It is Suitable for Good Men to Wish to Rule More Widely.
- 正文 4.16 What Was the Reason Why the Romans, in De- tailing Separate Gods for All Things and All Move
- 正文 4.17 Whether, If the Highest Power Belongs to Jove, Victoria Also Ought to Be Worshipped.
- 正文 4.18 With What Reason They Who Think Felicity and Fortune Goddesses Have Distinguished Them.
- 正文 4.19 Concerning Fortuna Muliebris.
- 正文 4.20 Concerning Virtue and Faith, Which the Pagans Have Honored with Temples and Sacred Rites, Pa
- 正文 4.21 That Although Not Understanding Them to Be the Gifts of God, They Ought at Least to Have Bee
- 正文 4.22 Concerning the Knowledge of the Worship Due to the Gods, Which Varro Glories in Having Himse
- 正文 4.23 Concerning Felicity, Whom the Romans, Who Ven- erate Many Gods, for a Long Time Did Not Wors
- 正文 4.24 The Reasons by Which the Pagans Attempt to De- fend Their Worshipping Among the Gods the Div
- 正文 4.25 Concerning the One God Only to Be Worshipped, Who, Although His Name is Unknown, is Yet Deem
- 正文 4.26 Of the Scenic Plays, the Celebration of Which the Gods Have Exacted from Their Worshippers.
- 正文 4.27 Concerning the Three Kinds of Gods About Which the Pontiff Scaevola Has Discoursed.
- 正文 4.28 Whether the Worship of the Gods Has Been of Service to the Romans in Obtaining and Extending
- 正文 4.29 Of the Falsity of the Augury by Which the Strength and Stability of the Roman Empire Was Con
- 正文 4.30 What Kind of Things Even Their Worshippers Have Owned They Have Thought About the Gods of th
- 正文 4.31 Concerning the Opinions of Varro, Who, While Reprobating the Popular Belief, Thought that Th
- 正文 4.32 In What Interest the Princes of the Nations Wished False Religions to Continue Among the Peo
- 正文 4.33 That the Times of All Kings and Kingdoms are Ordained by the Judgment and Power of the True
- 正文 4.34 Concerning the Kingdom of the Jews, Which Was Founded by the One and True God, and Preserved
- 正文 5.0
- 正文 5.1 That the Cause of the Roman Empire, and of All Kingdoms, is Neither Fortuitous Nor Consists i
- 正文 5.2 On the Difference in the Health of Twins.
- 正文 5.3 Concerning the Arguments Which Nigidius the Mathematician Drew from the Potter’s Wheel, in th
- 正文 5.4 Concerning the Twins Esau and Jacob, Who Were Very Unlike Each Other Both in Their Character
- 正文 5.5 In What Manner the Mathematicians are Convicted of Professing a Vain Science.
- 正文 5.6 Concerning Twins of Different Sexes.
- 正文 5.7 Concerning the Choosing of a Day for Marriage, or for Planting, or Sowing.
- 正文 5.8 Concerning Those Who Call by the Name of Fate, Not the Position of the Stars, But the Connect
- 正文 5.9 Concerning the Foreknowledge of God and the Free Will of Man, in Opposition to the Definition
- 正文 5.10 Whether Our Wills are Ruled by Necessity.
- 正文 5.11 Concerning the Universal Providence of God in the Laws of Which All Things are Comprehended.
- 正文 5.12 By What Virtues the Ancient Romans Merited that the True God, Although They Did Not Worship
- 正文 5.13 Concerning the Love of Praise, Which, Though It is a Vice, is Reckoned a Virtue, Because by
- 正文 5.14 Concerning the Eradication of the Love of Human Praise, Because All the Glory of the Righteo
- 正文 5.15 Concerning the Temporal Reward Which God Granted to the Virtues of the Romans.
- 正文 5.16 Concerning the Reward of the Holy Citizens of the Celestial City, to Whom the Example of the
- 正文 5.17 To What Profit the Romans Carried on Wars, and How Much They Contributed to the Well-Being o
- 正文 5.18 How Far Christians Ought to Be from Boasting, If They Have Done Anything for the Love of the
- 正文 5.19 Concerning the Difference Between True Glory and the Desire of Domination.
- 正文 5.20 That It is as Shameful for the Virtues to Serve Human Glory as Bodily Pleasure.
- 正文 5.21 That the Roman Dominion Was Granted by Him from Whom is All Power, and by Whose Providence A
- 正文 5.22 The Durations and Issues of War Depend on the Will of God.
- 正文 5.23 Concerning the War in Which Radagaisus, King of the Goths, a Worshipper of Demons, Was Con-
- 正文 5.24 What Was the Happiness of the Christian Emper- ors, and How Far It Was True Happiness.
- 正文 5.25 Concerning the Prosperity Which God Granted to the Christian Emperor Constantine.
- 正文 5.26 On the Faith and Piety of Theodosius Augustus.
- 正文 6.0
- 正文 6.1 Of Those Who Maintain that They Worship the Gods Not for the Sake of Temporal But Eternal Ad-
- 正文 6.2 What We are to Believe that Varro Thought Con- cerning the Gods of the Nations, Whose Various
- 正文 6.3 Varro’s Distribution of His Book Which He Com- posed Concerning the Antiquities of Human and
- 正文 6.4 That from the Disputation of Varro, It Follows that the Worshippers of the Gods Regard Human
- 正文 6.5 Concerning the Three Kinds of Theology According to Varro, Namely, One Fabulous, the Other Na
- 正文 6.6 Concerning the Mythic, that Is, the Fabulous, The- ology, and the Civil, Against Varro.
- 正文 6.7 Concerning the Likeness and Agreement of the Fab- ulous and Civil Theologies.
- 正文 6.8 Concerning the Interpretations, Consisting of Natu- ral Explanations, Which the Pagan Teacher
- 正文 6.9 Concerning the Special Offices of the Gods.
- 正文 6.10 Concerning the Liberty of Seneca, Who More Ve- hemently Censured the Civil Theology Than Var
- 正文 6.11 What Seneca Thought Concerning the Jews.
- 正文 6.12 That When Once the Vanity of the Gods of the Nations Has Been Exposed, It Cannot Be Doubted
- 正文 7.0
- 正文 7.1 Whether, Since It is Evident that Deity is Not to Be Found in the Civil Theology, We are to B
- 正文 7.2 Who are the Select Gods, and Whether They are Held to Be Exempt from the Offices of the Commo
- 正文 7.3 How There is No Reason Which Can Be Shown for the Selection of Certain Gods, When the Adminis
- 正文 7.4 The Inferior Gods, Whose Names are Not Associated with Infamy, Have Been Better Dealt with Th
- 正文 7.5 Concerning the More Secret Doctrine of the Pagans, and Concerning the Physical Interpretation
- 正文 7.6 Concerning the Opinion of Varro, that God is the Soul of the World, Which Nevertheless, in It
- 正文 7.8 For What Reason the Worshippers of Janus Have Made His Image with Two Faces, When They Would
- 正文 7.9 Concerning the Power of Jupiter, and a Comparison of Jupiter with Janus.
- 正文 7.10 Whether the Distinction Between Janus and Jupiter is a Proper One.
- 正文 7.11 Concerning the Surnames of Jupiter, Which are Referred Not to Many Gods, But to One and the
- 正文 7.12 That Jupiter is Also Called Pecunia.
- 正文 7.13 That When It is Expounded What Saturn Is, What Genius Is, It Comes to This, that Both of The
- 正文 7.14 Concerning the Offices of Mercury and Mars.
- 正文 7.15 Concerning Certain Stars Which the Pagans Have Called by the Names of Their Gods.
- 正文 7.16 Concerning Apollo and Diana, and the Other Select Gods Whom They Would Have to Be Parts of t
- 正文 7.17 That Even Varro Himself Pronounced His Own Opinions Regarding the Gods Ambiguous.
- 正文 7.18 A More Credible Cause of the Rise of Pagan Error.
- 正文 7.19 Concerning the Interpretations Which Compose the Reason of the Worship of Saturn.
- 正文 7.20 Concerning the Rites of Eleusinian Ceres.
- 正文 7.21 Concerning the Shamefulness of the Rites Which are Celebrated in Honor of Liber.
- 正文 7.22 Concerning Neptune, and Salacia and Venilia.
- 正文 7.23 Concerning the Earth, Which Varro Affirms to Be a Goddess, Because that Soul of the World Wh
- 正文 7.24 Concerning the Surnames of Tellus and Their Sig- nifications, Which, Although They Indicate
- 正文 7.25 The Interpretation of the Mutilation of Atys Which the Doctrine of the Greek Sages Set Forth
- 正文 7.26 Concerning the Abomination of the Sacred Rites of the Great Mother.
- 正文 7.27 Concerning the Figments of the Physical Theolo- gists, Who Neither Worship the True Divinity
- 正文 7.28 That the Doctrine of Varro Concerning Theology is in No Part Consistent with Itself.
- 正文 7.29 That All Things Which the Physical Theologists Have Referred to the World and Its Parts, The
- 正文 7.30 How Piety Distinguishes the Creator from the Crea- tures, So That, Instead of One God, There
- 正文 7.31 What Benefits God Gives to the Followers of the Truth to Enjoy Over and Above His General Bo
- 正文 7.32 That at No Time in the Past Was the Mystery of Christ’s Redemption Awanting, But Was at All
- 正文 7.33 That Only Through the Christian Religion Could the Deceit of Malign Spirits, Who Rejoice in
- 正文 7.34 Concerning the Books of Numa Pompilius, Which the Senate Ordered to Be Burned, in Order that
- 正文 7.35 Concerning the Hydromancy Through Which Numa Was Befooled by Certain Images of Demons Seen i
- 正文 8.0
- 正文 8.1 That the Question of Natural Theology is to Be Dis- cussed with Those Philosophers Who Sought
- 正文 8.2 Concerning the Two Schools of Philosophers, that Is, the Italic and Ionic, and Their Founders
- 正文 8.3 Of the Socratic Philosophy.
- 正文 8.4 Concerning Plato, the Chief Among the Disciples of Socrates, and His Threefold Division of Ph
- 正文 8.5 That It is Especially with the Platonists that We Must Carry on Our Disputations on Matters o
- 正文 8.6 Concerning the Meaning of the Platonists in that Part of Philosophy Called Physical.
- 正文 8.7 How Much the Platonists are to Be Held as Excelling Other Philosophers in Logic, i.e. Rationa
- 正文 8.8 That the Platonists Hold the First Rank in Moral Philosophy Also.
- 正文 8.9 Concerning that Philosophy Which Has Come Near- est to the Christian Faith.
- 正文 8.10 That the Excellency of the Christian Religion is Above All the Science of Philosophers.
- 正文 8.11 How Plato Has Been Able to Approach So Nearly to Christian Knowledge.
- 正文 8.12 That Even the Platonists, Though They Say These Things Concerning the One True God, Neverthe
- 正文 8.13 Concerning the Opinion of Plato, According to Which He Defined the Gods as Beings Entirely G
- 正文 8.14 Of the Opinion of Those Who Have Said that Ratio- nal Souls are of Three Kinds, to Wit, Thos
- 正文 8.15 That the Demons are Not Better Than Men Be- cause of Their Aerial Bodies, or on Account of T
- 正文 8.16 What Apuleius the Platonist Thought Concerning the Manners and Actions of Demons.
- 正文 8.17 Whether It is Proper that Men Should Worship Those Spirits from Whose Vices It is Necessary
- 正文 8.18 What Kind of Religion that is Which Teaches that Men Ought to Employ the Advocacy of Demons
- 正文 8.19 Of the Impiety of the Magic Art, Which is Depen- dent on the Assistance of Malign Spirits.
- 正文 8.20 Whether We are to Believe that the Good Gods are More Willing to Have Intercourse with Demon
- 正文 8.21 Whether the Gods Use the Demons as Messengers and Interpreters, and Whether They are Deceive
- 正文 8.22 That We Must, Notwithstanding the Opinion of Apuleius, Reject the Worship of Demons.
- 正文 8.23 What Hermes Trismegistus Thought Concerning Idolatry, and from What Source He Knew that the
- 正文 8.24 How Hermes Openly Confessed the Error of His Forefathers, the Coming Destruction of Which He
- 正文 8.25 Concerning Those Things Which May Be Common to the Holy Angels and to Men.
- 正文 8.26 That All the Religion of the Pagans Has Reference to Dead Men.
- 正文 8.27 Concerning the Nature of the Honor Which the Christians Pay to Their Martyrs.
- 正文 9.0
- 正文 9.1 The Point at Which the Discussion Has Arrived, and What Remains to Be Handled.
- 正文 9.2 Whether Among the Demons, Inferior to the Gods, There are Any Good Spirits Under Whose Guardi
- 正文 9.3 What Apuleius Attributes to the Demons, to Whom, Though He Does Not Deny Them Reason, He Does
- 正文 9.4 The Opinion of the Peripatetics and Stoics About Mental Emotions.
- 正文 9.5 That the Passions Which Assail the Souls of Chris- tians Do Not Seduce Them to Vice, But Exer
- 正文 9.6 Of the Passions Which, According to Apuleius, Agi- tate the Demons Who Are Supposed by Him to
- 正文 9.7 That the Platonists Maintain that the Poets Wrong the Gods by Representing Them as Distracted
- 正文 9.8 How Apuleius Defines the Gods Who Dwell in Heaven, the Demons Who Occupy the Air, and Men Who
- 正文 9.9 Whether the Intercession of the Demons Can Secure for Men the Friendship of the Celestial God
- 正文 9.10 That, According to Plotinus, Men, Whose Body is Mortal, are Less Wretched Than Demons, Whose
- 正文 9.11 Of the Opinion of the Platonists, that the Souls of Men Become Demons When Disembodied.
- 正文 9.12 Of the Three Opposite Qualities by Which the Pla- tonists Distinguish Between the Nature of
- 正文 9.13 How the Demons Can Mediate Between Gods and Men If They Have Nothing in Common with Both, Be
- 正文 9.14 Whether Men, Though Mortal, Can Enjoy True Blessedness.
- 正文 9.15 Of the Man Christ Jesus, the Mediator Between God and Men.
- 正文 9.16 Whether It is Reasonable in the Platonists to De- termine that the Celestial Gods Decline Co
- 正文 9.17 That to Obtain the Blessed Life, Which Consists in Partaking of the Supreme Good, Man Needs
- 正文 9.18 That the Deceitful Demons, While Promising to Conduct Men to God by Their Intercession, Mean
- 正文 9.19 That Even Among Their Own Worshippers the Name “Demon” Has Never a Good Signification.
- 正文 9.20 Of the Kind of Knowledge Which Puffs Up the Demons.
- 正文 9.21 To What Extent the Lord Was Pleased to Make Himself Known to the Demons.
- 正文 9.22 The Difference Between the Knowledge of the Holy Angels and that of the Demons.
- 正文 9.23 That the Name of Gods is Falsely Given to the Gods of the Gentiles, Though Scripture Applies
- 正文 10.0
- 正文 10.1 That the Platonists Themselves Have Determined that God Alone Can Confer Happiness Either on
- 正文 10.2 The Opinion of Plotinus the Platonist Regarding Enlightenment from Above.
- 正文 10.3 That the Platonists, Though Knowing Something of the Creator of the Universe, Have Misunders
- 正文 10.4 That Sacrifice is Due to the True God Only.
- 正文 10.5 Of the Sacrifices Which God Does Not Require, But Wished to Be Observed for the Exhibition o
- 正文 10.6 Of the True and Perfect Sacrifice.
- 正文 10.7 Of the Love of the Holy Angels, Which Prompts Them to Desire that We Worship the One True Go
- 正文 10.8 Of the Miracles Which God Has Condescended to Adhibit Through the Ministry of Angels, to His
- 正文 10.9 Of the Illicit Arts Connected with Demonolatry, and of Which the Platonist Porphyry Adopts S
- 正文 10.10 Concerning Theurgy, Which Promises a Delu- sive Purification of the Soul by the Invocation
- 正文 10.11 Of Porphyry’s Epistle to Anebo, in Which He Asks for Information About the Differences Amon
- 正文 10.12 Of the Miracles Wrought by the True God Through the Ministry of the Holy Angels.
- 正文 10.13 Of the Invisible God, Who Has Often Made Him- self Visible, Not as He Really Is, But as the
- 正文 10.14 That the One God is to Be Worshipped Not Only for the Sake of Eternal Blessings, But Also i
- 正文 10.15 Of the Ministry of the Holy Angels, by Which They Fulfill the Providence of God.
- 正文 10.16 Whether Those Angels Who Demand that We Pay Them Divine Honor, or Those Who Teach Us to Ren
- 正文 10.17 Concerning the Ark of the Covenant, and the Miraculous Signs Whereby God Authenticated the
- 正文 10.18 Against Those Who Deny that the Books of the Church are to Be Believed About the Miracles W
- 正文 10.19 On the Reasonableness of Offering, as the True Re- ligion Teaches, a Visible Sacrifice to t
- 正文 10.20 Of the Supreme and True Sacrifice Which Was Effected by the Mediator Between God and Men.
- 正文 10.21 Of the Power Delegated to Demons for the Trial and Glorification of the Saints, Who Conquer
- 正文 10.22 Whence the Saints Derive Power Against Demons and True Purification of Heart.
- 正文 10.23 Of the Principles Which, According to the Platon- ists, Regulate the Purification of the So
- 正文 10.24 Of the One Only True Principle Which Alone Pu- rifies and Renews Human Nature.
- 正文 10.25 That All the Saints, Both Under the Law and Be- fore It, Were Justified by Faith in the Mys
- 正文 10.26 Of Porphyry’s Weakness in Wavering Between the Confession of the True God and the Worship o
- 正文 10.27 Of the Impiety of Porphyry, Which is Worse Than Even the Mistake of Apuleius.
- 正文 10.28 How It is that Porphyry Has Been So Blind as Not to Recognize the True Wisdom–Christ.
- 正文 10.29 Of the Incarnation of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Which the Platonists in Their Impiety Blush to
- 正文 10.30 Porphyry’s Emendations and Modifications of Pla- tonism.
- 正文 10.31 Against the Arguments on Which the Platonists Ground Their Assertion that the Human Soul is
- 正文 10.32 Of the Universal Way of the Soul’s Deliverance, Which Porphyry Did Not Find Because He Did
- 正文 11.0
- 正文 11.1 Of This Part of the Work, Wherein We Begin to Explain the Origin and End of the Two Cities.
- 正文 11.2 Of the Knowledge of God, to Which No Man Can Attain Save Through the Mediator Between God an
- 正文 11.3 Of the Authority of the Canonical Scriptures Com- posed by the Divine Spirit.
- 正文 11.4 That the World is Neither Without Beginning, Nor Yet Created by a New Decree of God, by Whic
- 正文 11.5 That We Ought Not to Seek to Comprehend the Infinite Ages of Time Before the World, Nor the
- 正文 11.6 That the World and Time Had Both One Beginning, and the One Did Not Anticipate the Other.
- 正文 11.7 Of the Nature of the First Days, Which are Said to Have Had Morning and Evening, Before Ther
- 正文 11.8 What We are to Understand of God’s Resting on the Seventh Day, After the Six Days’ Work.
- 正文 11.9 What the Scriptures Teach Us to Believe Concern- ing the Creation of the Angels.
- 正文 11.10 Of the Simple and Unchangeable Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, One God, in Whom Sub-
- 正文 11.11 Whether the Angels that Fell Partook of the Blessedness Which the Holy Angels Have Always E
- 正文 11.12 A Comparison of the Blessedness of the Righteous, Who Have Not Yet Received the Divine Rewa
- 正文 11.13 Whether All the Angels Were So Created in One Common State of Felicity, that Those Who Fell
- 正文 11.14 An Explanation of What is Said of the Devil, that He Did Not Abide in the Truth, Because th
- 正文 11.15 How We are to Understand the Words, “The Devil Sinneth from the Beginning.”
- 正文 11.16 Of the Ranks and Differences of the Creatures, Estimated by Their Utility, or According to
- 正文 11.17 That the Flaw of Wickedness is Not Nature, But Contrary to Nature, and Has Its Origin, Not
- 正文 11.18 Of the Beauty of the Universe, Which Becomes, by God’s Ordinance, More Brilliant by the Opp
- 正文 11.19 What, Seemingly, We are to Understand by the Words, “God Divided the Light from the Dark- n
- 正文 11.20 Of the Words Which Follow the Separation of Light and Darkness, “And God Saw the Light that
- 正文 11.21 Of God’s Eternal and Unchangeable Knowledge and Will, Whereby All He Has Made Pleased Him i
- 正文 11.22 Of Those Who Do Not Approve of Certain Things Which are a Part of This Good Creation of a G
- 正文 11.23 Of the Error in Which the Doctrine of Origen is Involved.
- 正文 11.24 Of the Divine Trinity, and the Indications of Its Presence Scattered Everywhere Among Its W
- 正文 11.25 Of the Division of Philosophy into Three Parts.
- 正文 11.26 Of the Image of the Supreme Trinity, Which We Find in Some Sort in Human Nature Even in Its
- 正文 11.27 Of Existence, and Knowledge of It, and the Love of Both.
- 正文 11.28 Whether We Ought to Love the Love Itself with Which We Love Our Existence and Our Knowledge
- 正文 11.29 Of the Knowledge by Which the Holy Angels Know God in His Essence, and by Which They See th
- 正文 11.30 Of the Perfection of the Number Six, Which is the First of the Numbers Which is Composed of
- 正文 11.31 Of the Seventh Day, in Which Completeness and Repose are Celebrated.
- 正文 11.32 Of the Opinion that the Angels Were Created Be- fore the World.
- 正文 11.33 Of the Two Different and Dissimilar Communities of Angels, Which are Not Inappropriately Si
- 正文 11.34 Of the Idea that the Angels Were Meant Where the Separation of the Waters by the Firmament
- 正文 12.0
- 正文 12.1 That the Nature of the Angels, Both Good and Bad, is One and the Same.
- 正文 12.2 That There is No Entity Contrary to the Di- vine, Because Nonentity Seems to Be that Which i
- 正文 12.3 That the Enemies of God are So, Not by Nature, But by Will, Which, as It Injures Them, Injur
- 正文 12.4 Of the Nature of Irrational and Lifeless Creatures, Which in Their Own Kind and Order Do Not
- 正文 12.5 That in All Natures, of Every Kind and Rank, God is Glorified.
- 正文 12.6 What the Cause of the Blessedness of the Good Angels Is, and What the Cause of the Misery of
- 正文 12.7 That We Ought Not to Expect to Find Any Efficient Cause of the Evil Will.
- 正文 12.8 Of the Misdirected Love Whereby the Will Fell Away from the Immutable to the Mutable Good.
- 正文 12.9 Whether the Angels, Besides Receiving from God Their Nature, Received from Him Also Their Go
- 正文 12.10 Of the Falseness of the History Which Allots Many Thousand Years to the World’s Past.
- 正文 12.11 Of Those Who Suppose that This World Indeed is Not Eternal, But that Either There are Num-
- 正文 12.12 How These Persons are to Be Answered, Who Find Fault with the Creation of Man on the Score
- 正文 12.13 Of the Revolution of the Ages, Which Some Philosophers Believe Will Bring All Things Round
- 正文 12.14 Of the Creation of the Human Race in Time, and How This Was Effected Without Any New Design
- 正文 12.15 Whether We are to Believe that God, as He Has Always Been Sovereign Lord, Has Always Had Cr
- 正文 12.16 How We are to Understand God’s Promise of Life Eternal, Which Was Uttered Before the “Etern
- 正文 12.17 What Defence is Made by Sound Faith Regarding God’s Unchangeable Counsel and Will, Against
- 正文 12.18 Against Those Who Assert that Things that are Infinite Cannot Be Comprehended by the Knowl-
- 正文 12.19 Of Worlds Without End, or Ages of Ages.
- 正文 12.20 Of the Impiety of Those Who Assert that the Souls Which Enjoy True and Perfect Blessedness,
- 正文 12.21 That There Was Created at First But One Indi- vidual, and that the Human Race Was Created i
- 正文 12.22 That God Foreknew that the First Man Would Sin, and that He at the Same Time Foresaw How La
- 正文 12.23 Of the Nature of the Human Soul Created in the Image of God.
- 正文 12.24 Whether the Angels Can Be Said to Be the Cre- ators of Any, Even the Least Creature.
- 正文 12.25 That God Alone is the Creator of Every Kind of Creature, Whatever Its Nature or Form.
- 正文 12.26 Of that Opinion of the Platonists, that the Angels Were Themselves Indeed Created by God, B
- 正文 12.27 That the Whole Plenitude of the Human Race Was Embraced in the First Man, and that God Ther
- 正文 13.1 Of the Fall of the First Man, Through Which Mor- tality Has Been Contracted.
- 正文 13.2 Of that Death Which Can Affect an Immortal Soul, and of that to Which the Body is Subject.
- 正文 13.3 Whether Death, Which by the Sin of Our First Par- ents Has Passed Upon All Men, is the Punis
- 正文 13.4 Why Death, the Punishment of Sin, is Not With- held from Those Who by the Grace of Regenerat
- 正文 13.5 As the Wicked Make an Ill Use of the Law, Which is Good, So the Good Make a Good Use of Deat
- 正文 13.6 Of the Evil of Death in General, Considered as the Separation of Soul and Body.
- 正文 13.7 Of the Death Which the Unbaptized Suffer for the Confession of Christ.
- 正文 13.8 That the Saints, by Suffering the First Death for the Truth’s Sake, are Freed from the Secon
- 正文 13.9 Whether We Should Say that The Moment of Death, in Which Sensation Ceases, Occurs in the Exp
- 正文 13.10 Of the Life of Mortals, Which is Rather to Be Called Death Than Life.
- 正文 13.11 Whether One Can Both Be Living and Dead at the Same Time.
- 正文 13.12 What Death God Intended, When He Threatened Our First Parents with Death If They Should Dis
- 正文 13.13 What Was the First Punishment of the Transgres- sion of Our First Parents.
- 正文 13.14 In What State Man Was Made by God, and into What Estate He Fell by the Choice of His Own Wi
- 正文 13.15 That Adam in His Sin Forsook God Ere God For- sook Him, and that His Falling Away From God
- 正文 13.16 Concerning the Philosophers Who Think that the Separation of Soul and Body is Not Penal, Th
- 正文 13.17 Against Those Who Affirm that Earthly Bodies Cannot Be Made Incorruptible and Eternal.
- 正文 13.18 Of Earthly Bodies, Which the Philosophers Affirm Cannot Be in Heavenly Places, Because What
- 正文 13.19 Against the Opinion of Those Who Do Not Believe that the Primitive Men Would Have Been Immo
- 正文 13.20 That the Flesh Now Resting in Peace Shall Be Raised to a Perfection Not Enjoyed by the Fles
- 正文 13.21 Of Paradise, that It Can Be Understood in a Spir- itual Sense Without Sacrificing the Histo
- 正文 13.22 That the Bodies of the Saints Shall After the Res- urrection Be Spiritual, and Yet Flesh Sh
- 正文 13.23 What We are to Understand by the Animal and Spiritual Body Or of Those Who Die in Adam, And
- 正文 13.24 How We Must Understand that Breathing of God by Which “The First Man Was Made a Living Soul
- 正文 14.0
- 正文 14.1 That the Disobedience of the First Man Would Have Plunged All Men into the Endless Misery of
- 正文 14.2 Of Carnal Life, Which is to Be Understood Not Only of Living in Bodily Indulgence, But Also
- 正文 14.3 That the Sin is Caused Not by the Flesh, But by the Soul, and that the Corruption Contracted
- 正文 14.4 What It is to Live According to Man, and What to Live According to God.
- 正文 14.5 That the Opinion of the Platonists Regarding the Nature of Body and Soul is Not So Censurabl
- 正文 14.6 Of the Character of the Human Will Which Makes the Affections of the Soul Right or Wrong.
- 正文 14.7 That the Words Love and Regard (Amor and Dilec- tio) are in Scripture Used Indifferently of
- 正文 14.8 Of the Three Perturbations, Which the Stoics Ad- mitted in the Soul of the Wise Man to the E
- 正文 14.9 Of the Perturbations of the Soul Which Appear as Right Affections in the Life of the Righteo
- 正文 14.10 Whether It is to Be Believed that Our First Par- ents in Paradise, Before They Sinned, Were
- 正文 14.11 Of the Fall of the First Man, in Whom Nature Was Created Good, and Can Be Restored Only by
- 正文 14.12 Of the Nature of Man’s First Sin.
- 正文 14.13 That in Adam’s Sin an Evil Will Preceded the Evil Act.
- 正文 14.14 Of the Pride in the Sin, Which Was Worse Than the Sin Itself.
- 正文 14.15 Of the Justice of the Punishment with Which Our First Parents Were Visited for Their Disobe
- 正文 14.16 Of the Evil of Lust,–A Word Which, Though Ap- plicable to Many Vices, is Specially Appropri
- 正文 14.17 Of the Nakedness of Our First Parents, Which They Saw After Their Base and Shameful Sin.
- 正文 14.18 Of the Shame Which Attends All Sexual Inter- course.
- 正文 14.19 That It is Now Necessary, as It Was Not Before Man Sinned, to Bridle Anger and Lust by the
- 正文 14.20 Of the Foolish Beastliness of the Cynics.
- 正文 14.21 That Man’s Transgression Did Not Annul the Blessing of Fecundity Pronounced Upon Man Be- fo
- 正文 14.22 Of the Conjugal Union as It Was Originally Insti- tuted and Blessed by God.
- 正文 14.23 Whether Generation Should Have Taken Place Even in Paradise Had Man Not Sinned, or Whether
- 正文 14.24 That If Men Had Remained Innocent and Obe- dient in Paradise, the Generative Organs Should
- 正文 14.25 Of True Blessedness, Which This Present Life Cannot Enjoy.
- 正文 14.26 That We are to Believe that in Paradise Our First Parents Begat Offspring Without Blushing.
- 正文 14.27 Of the Angels and Men Who Sinned, and that Their Wickedness Did Not Disturb the Order of Go
- 正文 14.28 Of the Nature of the Two Cities, the Earthly and the Heavenly.
- 正文 15.0
- 正文 15.1 Of the Two Lines of the Human Race Which from First to Last Divide It.
- 正文 15.2 Of the Children of the Flesh and the Children of the Promise.
- 正文 15.3 That Sarah’s Barrenness was Made Productive by God’s Grace.
- 正文 15.4 Of the Conflict and Peace of the Earthly City.
- 正文 15.5 Of the Fratricidal Act of the Founder of the Earthly City, and the Corresponding Crime of th
- 正文 15.6 Of the Weaknesses Which Even the Citizens of the City of God Suffer During This Earthly Pilg
- 正文 15.7 Of the Cause of Cain’s Crime and His Obstinacy, Which Not Even the Word of God Could Subdue.
- 正文 15.8 What Cain’s Reason Was for Building a City So Early in the History of the Human Race.
- 正文 15.9 Of the Long Life and Greater Stature of the Ante- diluvians.
- 正文 15.10 Of the Different Computation of the Ages of the Antediluvians, Given by the Hebrew Manuscri
- 正文 15.11 Of Methuselah’s Age, Which Seems to Extend Fourteen Years Beyond the Deluge.
- 正文 15.12 Of the Opinion of Those Who Do Not Believe that in These Primitive Times Men Lived So Long
- 正文 15.13 Whether, in Computing Years, We Ought to Fol- low the Hebrew or the Septuagint.
- 正文 15.14 That the Years in Those Ancient Times Were of the Same Length as Our Own.
- 正文 15.15 Whether It is Credible that the Men of the Prim- itive Age Abstained from Sexual Intercours
- 正文 15.16 Of Marriage Between Blood-Relations, in Regard to Which the Present Law Could Not Bind the
- 正文 15.17 Of the Two Fathers and Leaders Who Sprang from One Progenitor.
- 正文 15.18 The Significance of Abel, Seth, and Enos to Christ and His Body the Church.
- 正文 15.19 The Significance Of Enoch’s Translation.
- 正文 15.20 How It is that Cain’s Line Terminates in the Eighth Generation, While Noah, Though De- scen
- 正文 15.21 Why It is That, as Soon as Cain’s Son Enoch Has Been Named, the Genealogy is Forthwith Cont
- 正文 15.22 Of the Fall of the Sons of God Who Were Cap- tivated by the Daughters of Men, Whereby All,
- 正文 15.23 Whether We are to Believe that Angels, Who are of a Spiritual Substance, Fell in Love with
- 正文 15.24 How We are to Understand This Which the Lord Said to Those Who Were to Perish in the Flood:
- 正文 15.25 Of the Anger of God, Which Does Not Inflame His Mind, Nor Disturb His Unchangeable Tranquil
- 正文 15.26 That the Ark Which Noah Was Ordered to Make Figures In Every Respect Christ and the Church.
- 正文 15.27 Of the Ark and the Deluge, and that We Cannot Agree with Those Who Receive the Bare History
- 正文 16.0
- 正文 16.1 Whether, After the Deluge, from Noah to Abra- ham, Any Families Can Be Found Who Lived Ac- c
- 正文 16.2 What Was Prophetically Prefigured in the Sons of Noah.
- 正文 16.3 Of the Generations of the Three Sons of Noah.
- 正文 16.4 Of the Diversity of Languages, and of the Founding of Babylon.
- 正文 16.5 Of God’s Coming Down to Confound the Languages of the Builders of the City.
- 正文 16.6 What We are to Understand by God’s Speaking to the Angels.
- 正文 16.7 Whether Even the Remotest Islands Received Their Fauna from the Animals Which Were Preserved
- 正文 16.8 Whether Certain Monstrous Races of Men are De- rived from the Stock of Adam or Noah’s Sons.
- 正文 16.9 Whether We are to Believe in the Antipodes.
- 正文 16.10 Of the Genealogy of Shem, in Whose Line the City of God is Preserved Till the Time of Abrah
- 正文 16.11 That the Original Language in Use Among Men Was that Which Was Afterwards Called Hebrew, fr
- 正文 16.12 Of the Era in Abraham’s Life from Which a New Period in the Holy Succession Begins.
- 正文 16.13 Why, in the Account of Terah’s Emigration, on His Forsaking the Chaldeans and Passing Over
- 正文 16.14 Of the Years of Terah, Who Completed His Life- time in Haran.
- 正文 16.15 Of the Time of the Migration of Abraham, When, According to the Commandment of God, He Went
- 正文 16.16 Of the Order and Nature of the Promises of God Which Were Made to Abraham.
- 正文 16.17 Of the Three Most Famous Kingdoms of the Na- tions, of Which One, that is the Assyrian, Was
- 正文 16.18 Of the Repeated Address of God to Abraham, in Which He Promised the Land of Canaan to Him a
- 正文 16.19 Of the Divine Preservation of Sarah’s Chastity in Egypt, When Abraham Had Called Her Not Hi
- 正文 16.20 Of the Parting of Lot and Abraham, Which They Agreed to Without Breach of Charity.
- 正文 16.21 Of the Third Promise of God, by Which He As- sured the Land of Canaan to Abraham and His Se
- 正文 16.22 Of Abraham’s Overcoming the Enemies of Sodom, When He Delivered Lot from Captivity and Was
- 正文 16.23 Of the Word of the Lord to Abraham, by Which It Was Promised to Him that His Posterity Shou
- 正文 16.24 Of the Meaning of the Sacrifice Abraham Was Commanded to Offer When He Supplicated to Be Ta
- 正文 16.25 Of Sarah’s Handmaid, Hagar, Whom She Herself Wished to Be Abraham’s Concubine.
- 正文 16.26 Of God’s Attestation to Abraham, by Which He Assures Him, When Now Old, of a Son by the Bar
- 正文 16.27 Of the Male, Who Was to Lose His Soul If He Was Not Circumcised on the Eighth Day, Because
- 正文 16.28 Of the Change of Name in Abraham and Sarah, Who Received the Gift of Fecundity When They We
- 正文 16.29 Of the Three Men or Angels, in Whom the Lord is Related to Have Appeared to Abraham at the
- 正文 16.30 Of Lot’s Deliverance from Sodom, and Its Con- sumption by Fire from Heaven And of Abimelech
- 正文 16.31 Of Isaac, Who Was Born According to the Promise, Whose Name Was Given on Account of the Lau
- 正文 16.32 Of Abraham’s Obedience and Faith, Which Were Proved by the Offering Up, of His Son in Sacri
- 正文 16.33 Of Rebecca, the Grand-Daughter of Nahor, Whom Isaac Took to Wife.
- 正文 16.34 What is Meant by Abraham’s Marrying Keturah After Sarah’s Death.
- 正文 16.35 What Was Indicated by the Divine Answer About the Twins Still Shut Up in the Womb of Rebecc
- 正文 16.36 Of the Oracle and Blessing Which Isaac Received, Just as His Father Did, Being Beloved for
- 正文 16.37 Of the Things Mystically Prefigured in Esau and Jacob.
- 正文 16.38 Of Jacob’s Mission to Mesopotamia to Get a Wife, and of the Vision Which He Saw in a Dream
- 正文 16.39 The Reason Why Jacob Was Also Called Israel.
- 正文 16.40 How It is Said that Jacob Went into Egypt with Seventy-Five Souls, When Most of Those Who a
- 正文 16.41 Of the Blessing Which Jacob Promised in Judah His Son.
- 正文 16.42 Of the Sons of Joseph, Whom Jacob Blessed, Prophetically Changing His Hands.
- 正文 16.43 Of the Times of Moses and Joshua the Son of Nun, of the Judges, and Thereafter of the Kings
- 正文 17.0
- 正文 17.1 Of the Prophetic Age.
- 正文 17.2 At What Time the Promise of God Was Fulfilled Concerning the Land of Canaan, Which Even Carn
- 正文 17.3 Of the Three-Fold Meaning of the Prophecies, Which are to Be Referred Now to the Earthly, No
- 正文 17.4 About the Prefigured Change of the Israelitic King- dom and Priesthood, and About the Things
- 正文 17.4 About the Prefigured Change of the Israelitic King- dom and Priesthood, and About the Things
- 正文 17.5 Of Those Things Which a Man of God Spake by the Spirit to Eli the Priest, Signifying that th
- 正文 17.6 Of the Jewish Priesthood and Kingdom, Which, Although Promised to Be Established for Ever, D
- 正文 17.7 Of the Disruption of the Kingdom of Israel, by Which the Perpetual Division of the Spiritual
- 正文 17.8 Of the Promises Made to David in His Son, Which are in No Wise Fulfilled in Solomon, But Mos
- 正文 17.9 How Like the Prophecy About Christ in the 89th Psalm is to the Things Promised in Nathan’s P
- 正文 17.10 How Different the Acts in the Kingdom of the Earthly Jerusalem are from Those Which God Had
- 正文 17.11 Of the Substance of the People of God, Which Through His Assumption of Flesh is in Christ,
- 正文 17.12 To Whose Person the Entreaty for the Promises is to Be Understood to Belong, When He Says i
- 正文 17.13 Whether the Truth of This Promised Peace Can Be Ascribed to Those Times Passed Away Under S
- 正文 17.14 Of David’s Concern in the Writing of the Psalms.
- 正文 17.15 Whether All the Things Prophesied in the Psalms Concerning Christ and His Church Should Be
- 正文 17.16 Of the Things Pertaining to Christ and the Church, Said Either Openly or Tropically in the
- 正文 17.17 Of Those Things in the 110th Psalm Which Relate to the Priesthood of Christ, and in the 22d
- 正文 17.18 Of the 3d, 41st, 15th, and 68th Psalms, in Which the Death and Resurrection of the Lord are
- 正文 17.19 Of the 69th Psalm, in Which the Obstinate Unbe- lief of the Jews is Declared.
- 正文 17.20 Of David’s Reign and Merit And of His Son Solomon, and that Prophecy Relating to Christ Whi
- 正文 17.21 Of the Kings After Solomon, Both in Judah and Israel.
- 正文 17.22 Of Jeroboam, Who Profaned the People Put Under Him by the Impiety of Idolatry, Amid Which,
- 正文 17.23 Of the Varying Condition of Both the Hebrew Kingdoms, Until the People of Both Were at Diff
- 正文 17.24 Of the Prophets, Who Either Were the Last Among the Jews, or Whom the Gospel History Report
- 正文 18.0
- 正文 18.1 Of Those Things Down to the Times of the Saviour Which Have Been Discussed in the Seventeen
- 正文 18.2 Of the Kings and Times of the Earthly City Which Were Synchronous with the Times of the Sain
- 正文 18.3 What Kings Reigned in Assyria and Sicyon When, According to the Promise, Isaac Was Born to A
- 正文 18.4 Of the Times of Jacob and His Son Joseph.
- 正文 18.5 Of Apis King of Argos, Whom the Egyptians Called Serapis, and Worshipped with Divine Honors.
- 正文 18.6 Who Were Kings of Argos, and of Assyria, When Jacob Died in Egypt.
- 正文 18.7 Who Were Kings When Joseph Died in Egypt.
- 正文 18.8 Who Were Kings When Moses Was Born, and What Gods Began to Be Worshipped Then.
- 正文 18.9 When the City of Athens Was Founded, and What Reason Varro Assigns for Its Name.
- 正文 18.10 What Varro Reports About the Term Areopagus, and About Deucalion’s Flood.
- 正文 18.11 When Moses Led the People Out of Egypt And Who Were Kings When His Successor Joshua the Son
- 正文 18.12 Of the Rituals of False Gods Instituted by the Kings of Greece in the Period from Israel’s
- 正文 18.13 What Fables Were Invented at the Time When Judges Began to Rule the Hebrews.
- 正文 18.14 Of the Theological Poets.
- 正文 18.15 Of the Fall of the Kingdom of Argos, When Pi- cus the Son of Saturn First Received His Fath
- 正文 18.16 Of Diomede, Who After the Destruction of Troy Was Placed Among the Gods, While His Compan-
- 正文 18.17 What Varro Says of the Incredible Transforma- tions of Men.
- 正文 18.18 What We Should Believe Concerning the Transfor- mations Which Seem to Happen to Men Through
- 正文 18.19 That AEneas Came into Italy When Abdon the Judge Ruled Over the Hebrews.
- 正文 18.20 Of the Succession of the Line of Kings Among the Israelites After the Times of the Judges.
- 正文 18.22 That Rome Was Founded When the Assyrian Kingdom Perished, at Which Time Hezekiah Reigned in
- 正文 18.23 Of the Erythraean Sibyl, Who is Known to Have Sung Many Things About Christ More Plainly Th
- 正文 18.24 That the Seven Sages Flourished in the Reign of Romulus, When the Ten Tribes Which Were Cal
- 正文 18.25 What Philosophers Were Famous When Tar- quinius Priscus Reigned Over the Romans, and Zedeki
- 正文 18.26 That at the Time When the Captivity of the Jews Was Brought to an End, on the Completion of
- 正文 18.27 Of the Times of the Prophets Whose Oracles are Contained in Books and Who Sang Many Things
- 正文 18.28 Of the Things Pertaining to the Gospel of Christ Which Hosea and Amos Prohesied.
- 正文 18.29 What Things are Predicted by Isaiah Concerning Christ and the Church.
- 正文 18.30 What Micah, Jonah, and Joel Prophesied in Ac- cordance with the New Testament.
- 正文 18.31 Of the Predictions Concerning the Salvation of the World in Christ, in Obadiah, Nahum, and
- 正文 18.32 Of the Prophecy that is Contained in the Prayer and Song of Habakkuk.
- 正文 18.33 What Jeremiah and Zephaniah Have, by the Prophetic Spirit, Spoken Before Concerning Christ
- 正文 18.34 Of the Prophecy of Daniel and Ezekiel, Other Two of the Greater Prophets.
- 正文 18.35 Of the Prophecy of the Three Prophets, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi.
- 正文 18.36 About Esdras and the Books of the Maccabees.
- 正文 18.37 That Prophetic Records are Found Which are More Ancient Than Any Fountain of the Gentile Ph
- 正文 18.38 That the Ecclesiastical Canon Has Not Admit- ted Certain Writings on Account of Their Too G
- 正文 18.39 About the Hebrew Written Characters Which that Language Always Possessed.
- 正文 18.40 About the Most Mendacious Vanity of the Egyp- tians, in Which They Ascribe to Their Science
- 正文 18.41 About the Discord of Philosophic Opinion, and the Concord of the Scriptures that are Held a
- 正文 18.42 By What Dispensation of God’s Providence the Sacred Scriptures of the Old Testament Were Tr
- 正文 18.43 Of the Authority of the Septuagint Translation, Which, Saving the Honor of the Hebrew Origi
- 正文 18.45 That the Jews Ceased to Have Prophets After the Rebuilding of the Temple, and from that Tim
- 正文 18.46 Of the Birth of Our Saviour, Whereby the Word Was Made Flesh And of the Dispersion of the J
- 正文 18.47 Whether Before Christian Times There Were Any Outside of the Israelite Race Who Belonged to
- 正文 18.48 That Haggai’s Prophecy, in Which He Said that the Glory of the House of God Would Be Greate
- 正文 18.49 Of the Indiscriminate Increase of the Church, Wherein Many Reprobate are in This World Mixe
- 正文 18.50 Of the Preaching of the Gospel, Which is Made More Famous and Powerful by the Sufferings of
- 正文 18.51 That the Catholic Faith May Be Confirmed Even by the Dissensions of the Heretics.
- 正文 18.52 Whether We Should Believe What Some Think, That, as the Ten Persecutions Which are Past Hav
- 正文 18.53 Of the Hidden Time of the Final Persecution.
- 正文 18.54 Of the Very Foolish Lie of the Pagans, in Feign- ing that the Christian Religion Was Not to
- 正文 19.0
- 正文 19.1 That Varro Has Made Out that Two Hundred and Eighty-Eight Different Sects of Philosophy Migh
- 正文 19.2 How Varro, by Removing All the Differences Which Do Not Form Sects, But are Merely Sec- onda
- 正文 19.3 Which of the Three Leading Opinions Regarding the Chief Good Should Be Preferred, According
- 正文 19.4 What the Christians Believe Regarding the Supreme Good and Evil, in Opposition to the Philos
- 正文 19.5 Of the Social Life, Which, Though Most Desirable, is Frequently Disturbed by Many Distresses
- 正文 19.6 Of the Error of Human Judgments When the Truth is Hidden.
- 正文 19.7 Of the Diversity of Languages, by Which the Inter- course of Men is Prevented And of the Mis
- 正文 19.8 That the Friendship of Good Men Cannot Be Se- curely Rested In, So Long as the Dangers of Th
- 正文 19.9 Of the Friendship of the Holy Angels, Which Men Cannot Be Sure of in This Life, Owing to the
- 正文 19.10 The Reward Prepared for the Saints After They Have Endured the Trial of This Life.
- 正文 19.11 Of the Happiness of the Eternal Peace, Which Constitutes the End or True Perfection of the
- 正文 19.12 That Even the Fierceness of War and All the Dis- quietude of Men Make Towards This One End
- 正文 19.13 Of the Universal Peace Which the Law of Na- ture Preserves Through All Disturbances, and by
- 正文 19.14 Of the Order and Law Which Obtain in Heaven and Earth, Whereby It Comes to Pass that Human
- 正文 19.15 Of the Liberty Proper to Man’s Nature, and the Servitude Introduced by Sin,–A Servitude in
- 正文 19.16 Of Equitable Rule.
- 正文 19.17 What Produces Peace, and What Discord, Be- tween the Heavenly and Earthly Cities.
- 正文 19.18 How Different the Uncertainty of the New Academy is from the Certainty of the Christian Fai
- 正文 19.19 Of the Dress and Habits of the Christian People.
- 正文 19.20 That the Saints are in This Life Blessed in Hope.
- 正文 19.21 Whether There Ever Was a Roman Republic An- swering to the Definitions of Scipio in Cicero’
- 正文 19.22 Whether the God Whom the Christians Serve is the True God to Whom Alone Sacrifice Ought to
- 正文 19.23 Porphyry’s Account of the Responses Given by the Oracles of the gods Concerning Christ.
- 正文 19.24The Definition Which Must Be Given of a People and a Republic, in Order to Vindicate the Ass
- 正文 19.25 That Where There is No True Religion There are No True Virtues.
- 正文 19.26 Of the Peace Which is Enjoyed by the People that are Alienated from God, and the Use Made o
- 正文 19.27 That the Peace of Those Who Serve God Cannot in This Mortal Life Be Apprehended in Its Perf
- 正文 19.28 The End of the Wicked.
- 正文 20.1 That Although God is Always Judging, It is Never- theless Reasonable to Confine Our Attentio
- 正文 20.2 That in the Mingled Web of Human Affairs God’s Judgment is Present, Though It Cannot Be Dis-
- 正文 20.3 What Solomon, in the Book of Ecclesiastes, Says Regarding the Things Which Happen Alike to G
- 正文 20.4 That Proofs of the Last Judgment Will Be Ad- duced, First from the New Testament, and Then f
- 正文 20.5 The Passages in Which the Saviour Declares that There Shall Be a Divine Judgment in the End
- 正文 20.6 What is the First Resurrection, and What the Sec- ond.
- 正文 20.7 What is Written in the Revelation of John Re- garding the Two Resurrections, and the Thousan
- 正文 20.8 Of the Binding and Loosing of the Devil.
- 正文 20.9 What the Reign of the Saints with Christ for a Thousand Years Is, and How It Differs from th
- 正文 20.10 What is to Be Replied to Those Who Think that Resurrection Pertains Only to Bodies and Not
- 正文 20.11 Of Gog and Magog, Who are to Be Roused by the Devil to Persecute the Church, When He is Loo
- 正文 20.12 Whether the Fire that Came Down Out of Heaven and Devoured Them Refers to the Last Punish-
- 正文 20.13 Whether the Time of the Persecution or Antichrist Should Be Reckoned in the Thousand Years.
- 正文 20.14 Of the Damnation of the Devil and His Adherents And a Sketch of the Bodily Resurrection of
- 正文 20.15 Who the Dead are Who are Given Up to Judgment by the Sea, and by Death and Hell.
- 正文 20.16 Of the New Heaven and the New Earth.
- 正文 20.17 Of the Endless Glory of the Church.
- 正文 20.18 What the Apostle Peter Predicted Regarding the Last Judgment.
- 正文 20.19 What the Apostle Paul Wrote to the Thessalonians About the Manifestation of Antichrist Whic
- 正文 20.20 What the Same Apostle Taught in the First Epistle to the Thessalonians Regarding the Resurr
- 正文 20.21 Utterances of the Prophet Isaiah Regarding the Resurrection of the Dead and the Retributive
- 正文 20.22 What is Meant by the Good Going Out to See the Punishment of the Wicked.
- 正文 20.23 What Daniel Predicted Regarding the Persecution of Antichrist, the Judgment of God, and the
- 正文 20.24 Passages from the Psalms of David Which Predict the End of the World and the Last Judgment.
- 正文 20.25 Of Malachi’s Prophecy, in Which He Speaks of the Last Judgment, and of a Cleansing Which So
- 正文 20.26 Of the Sacrifices Offered to God by the Saints, Which are to Be Pleasing to Him, as in the
- 正文 20.27 Of the Separation of the Good and the Bad, Which Proclaim the Discriminating Influence of t
- 正文 20.28 That the Law of Moses Must Be Spiritually Un- derstood to Preclude the Damnable Murmurs of
- 正文 20.29 Of the Coming of Elias Before the Judgment, that the Jews May Be Converted to Christ by His
- 正文 20.30 That in the Books of the Old Testament, Where It is Said that God Shall Judge the World, th
- 正文 21.1 Of the Order of the Discussion, Which Requires that We First Speak of the Eternal Punishment
- 正文 21.2 Whether It is Possible for Bodies to Last for Ever in Burning Fire.
- 正文 21.3 Whether Bodily Suffering Necessarily Terminates in the Destruction of the Flesh.
- 正文 21.4 Examples from Nature Proving that Bodies May Remain Unconsumed and Alive in Fire.
- 正文 21.5 That There are Many Things Which Reason Cannot Account For, and Which are Nevertheless True.
- 正文 21.6 That All Marvels are Not of Nature’s Production, But that Some are Due to Human Ingenuity an
- 正文 21.7 That the Ultimate Reason for Believing Miracles is the Omnipotence of the Creator.
- 正文 21.8 That It is Not Contrary to Nature That, in an Ob- ject Whose Nature is Known, There Should B
- 正文 21.9 Of Hell, and the Nature of Eternal Punishments.
- 正文 21.10 Whether the Fire of Hell, If It Be Material Fire, Can Burn the Wicked Spirits, that is to S
- 正文 21.11 Whether It is Just that the Punishments of Sins Last Longer Than the Sins Themselves Lasted
- 正文 21.12 Of the Greatness of the First Transgression, on Account of Which Eternal Punishment is Due
- 正文 21.13 Against the Opinion of Those Who Think that the Punishments of the Wicked After Death are P
- 正文 21.14 Of the Temporary Punishments of This Life to Which the Human Condition is Subject.
- 正文 21.15 That Everything Which the Grace of God Does in the Way of Rescuing Us from the Inveterate E
- 正文 21.16 The Laws of Grace, Which Extend to All the Epochs of the Life of the Regenerate.
- 正文 21.17 Of Those Who Fancy that No Men Shall Be Pun- ished Eternally.
- 正文 21.18 Of Those Who Fancy That, on Account of the Saints’ Intercession, Man Shall Be Damned in the
- 正文 21.19 Of Those Who Promise Impunity from All Sins Even to Heretics, Through Virtue of Their Parti
- 正文 21.20 Of Those Who Promise This Indulgence Not to All, But Only to Those Who Have Been Baptized a
- 正文 21.21 Of Those Who Assert that All Catholics Who Con- tinue in the Faith Even Though by the Depra
- 正文 21.22 Of Those Who Fancy that the Sins Which are In- termingled with Alms-Deeds Shall Not Be Char
- 正文 21.23 Against Those Who are of Opinion that the Pun- ishment Neither of the Devil Nor of Wicked M
- 正文 21.24 Against Those Who Fancy that in the Judgment of God All the Accused Will Be Spared in Virtu
- 正文 21.25 Whether Those Who Received Heretical Baptism, and Have Afterwards Fallen Away to Wickedness
- 正文 21.26 What It is to Have Christ for a Foundation, and Who They are to Whom Salvation as by Fire i
- 正文 21.27 Against the Belief of Those Who Think that the Sins Which Have Been Accompanied with Alms-
- 正文 22.0
- 正文 22.1 Of the Creation of Angels and Men.
- 正文 22.2 Of the Eternal and Unchangeable Will of God.
- 正文 22.3 Of the Promise of Eternal Blessedness to the Saints, and Everlasting Punishment to the Wicke
- 正文 22.4 Against the Wise Men of the World, Who Fancy that the Earthly Bodies of Men Cannot Be Trans-
- 正文 22.5 Of the Resurrection of the Flesh, Which Some Refuse to Believe, Though the World at Large Be
- 正文 22.6 That Rome Made Its Founder Romulus a God Be- cause It Loved Him But the Church Loved Christ
- 正文 22.7 That the World’s Belief in Christ is the Result of Divine Power, Not of Human Persuasion.
- 正文 22.8 Of Miracles Which Were Wrought that the World Might Believe in Christ, and Which Have Not Ce
- 正文 22.8 Of Miracles Which Were Wrought that the World Might Believe in Christ, and Which Have Not Ce
- 正文 22.8 Of Miracles Which Were Wrought that the World Might Believe in Christ, and Which Have Not Ce
- 正文 22.9 That All the Miracles Which are Done by Means of the Martyrs in the Name of Christ Testify t
- 正文 22.10 That the Martyrs Who Obtain Many Miracles in Order that the True God May Be Worshipped, are
- 正文 22.11 Against the Platonists, Who Argue from the Phys- ical Weight of the Elements that an Earthl
- 正文 22.12 Against the Calumnies with Which Unbelievers Throw Ridicule Upon the Christian Faith in the
- 正文 22.13 Whether Abortions, If They are Numbered Among the Dead, Shall Not Also Have a Part in the R
- 正文 22.14 Whether Infants Shall Rise in that Body Which They Would Have Had Had They Grown Up.
- 正文 22.15 Whether the Bodies of All the Dead Shall Rise the Same Size as the Lord’s Body.
- 正文 22.16 What is Meant by the Conforming of the Saints to the Image of The Son of God.
- 正文 22.17 Whether the Bodies of Women Shall Retain Their Own Sex in the Resurrection.
- 正文 22.18 Of the Perfect Man, that Is, Christ And of His Body, that Is, The Church, Which is His Full
- 正文 22.19 That All Bodily Blemishes Which Mar Human Beauty in This Life Shall Be Removed in the Res-
- 正文 22.20 That, in the Resurrection, the Substance of Our Bodies, However Disintegrated, Shall Be Ent
- 正文 22.21 Of the New Spiritual Body into Which the Flesh of the Saints Shall Be Transformed.
- 正文 22.22 Of the Miseries and Ills to Which the Human Race is Justly Exposed Through the First Sin, a
- 正文 22.23 Of the Miseries of This Life Which Attach Pe- culiarly to the Toil of Good Men, Irrespectiv
- 正文 22.24 Of the Blessings with Which the Creator Has Filled This Life, Obnoxious Though It Be to the
- 正文 22.25 Of the Obstinacy of Those Individuals Who Im- pugn the Resurrection of the Body, Though, as
- 正文 22.26 That the Opinion of Porphyry, that the Soul, in Order to Be Blessed, Must Be Separated from
- 正文 22.27 Of the Apparently Conflicting Opinions of Plato and Porphyry, Which Would Have Conducted Th
- 正文 22.28 What Plato or Labeo, or Even Varro, Might Have Contributed to the True Faith of the Resurre
- 正文 22.29 Of the Beatific Vision.
- 正文 22.30 Of the Eternal Felicity of the City of God, and of the Perpetual Sabbath.