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NPNF1-02 St Augustin's City of God and Christian Doctrine

Table of Contents

p ii

About This Book .

p 1Title Page

p 2Table of Contents

p 3Editor’s Preface

p 6City of God

p 6Translator’s Preface

p 12

Augustin censures the pagans, who attributed the calamities of the world,and especially the recent sack of Rome by the Goths, to the Christianreligion, and its prohibition of the worship of the gods

p 12Preface, Explaining His Design in Undertaking This Work

p 16

Of the Asylum of Juno in Troy, Which Saved No One from the Greeks;

And of the Churches of the Apostles, Which Protected from the BarbariansAll Who Fled to Them

p 24

Of the End of This Life, Whether It is Material that It Be LongDelayed

p 25

Of the Burial of the Dead:  that the Denial of It to Christians Does Them

No Injury

p 26Reasons for Burying the Bodies of the Saints

p 27

Of the Captivity of the Saints, and that Divine Consolation Never FailedThem Therein

p 27

Of Regulus, in Whom We Have an Example of the Voluntary Endurance

of Captivity for the Sake of Religion; Which Yet Did Not Profit Him, Though

He Was a Worshipper of the Gods

p 29

Of the Violation of the Consecrated and Other Christian Virgins, to WhichThey Were Subjected in Captivity and to Which Their Own Will Gave NoConsent; And Whether This Contaminated Their Souls

p 37

That in Certain Peculiar Cases the Examples of the Saints are Not to BeFollowed

p 37Whether Voluntary Death Should Be Sought in Order to Avoid Sin

p 38

By What Judgment of God the Enemy Was Permitted to Indulge His Lust

on the Bodies of Continent Christians

p 40

What the Servants of Christ Should Say in Reply to the Unbelievers WhoCast in Their Teeth that Christ Did Not Rescue Them from the Fury ofTheir Enemies

p 46

That We Need Only to Read History in Order to See What Calamities theRomans Suffered Before the Religion of Christ Began to Compete withthe Worship of the Gods

p 49

That the Suggestions of Philosophers are Precluded from Having AnyMoral Effect, Because They Have Not the Authority Which Belongs toDivine Instruction, and Because Man’s Natural Bias to Evil Induces HimRather to Follow the Examples of the Gods Than to Obey the Precepts

p 53

That the Romans, by Refusing to the Poets the Same License in Respect

of Men Which They Allowed Them in the Case of the Gods, Showed aMore Delicate Sensitiveness Regarding Themselves than Regarding theGods

p 54

That the Romans Should Have Understood that Gods Who Desired to

Be Worshipped in Licentious Entertainments Were Unworthy of Divine

H o n o r

p 70That the Christian Religion is Health-Giving

p 71

An Exhortation to the Romans to Renounce Paganism

p 72The external calamities of Rome

p 75

That It is Not Credible that the Gods Should Have Punished the Adultery

of Paris, Seeing They Showed No Indignation at the Adultery of the Mother

p 77

Whether It is Credible that the Peace During the Reign of Numa WasBrought About by the Gods

p 78

Whether It Was Desirable that The Roman Empire Should Be Increased

by Such a Furious Succession of Wars, When It Might Have Been Quietand Safe by Following in the Peaceful Ways of Numa

p 79

Of the Statue of Apollo at Cumæ, Whose Tears are Supposed to HavePortended Disaster to the Greeks, Whom the God Was Unable toSuccor

p 86

Of the First Roman Consuls, the One of Whom Drove the Other from theCountry, and Shortly After Perished at Rome by the Hand of a WoundedEnemy, and So Ended a Career of Unnatural Murders

p 87

Of the Disasters Which Vexed the Roman Republic After the Inauguration

of the Consulship, and of the Non-Intervention of the Gods of

Of the Edict of Mithridates, Commanding that All Roman Citizens Found

in Asia Should Be Slain

p 95

Of the Internal Disasters Which Vexed the Roman Republic, and Followed

a Portentous Madness Which Seized All the Domestic Animals

p 95

Of the Civil Dissension Occasioned by the Sedition of the Gracchi

p 96

Of the Temple of Concord, Which Was Erected by a Decree of the Senate

on the Scene of These Seditions and Massacres

Whether the Great Extent of the Empire, Which Has Been Acquired Only

by Wars, is to Be Reckoned Among the Good Things Either of the Wise

or the Happy

p 104How Like Kingdoms Without Justice are to Robberies

Whether Earthly Kingdoms in Their Rise and Fall Have Been Either Aided

or Deserted by the Help of the Gods

p 107

Which of the Gods Can the Romans Suppose Presided Over the Increaseand Preservation of Their Empire, When They Have Believed that Eventhe Care of Single Things Could Scarcely Be Committed to SingleGods

p 108

Whether the Great Extent and Long Duration of the Roman Empire Should

Be Ascribed to Jove, Whom His Worshippers Believe to Be the ChiefGod

p 108What Opinions Those Have Followed Who Have Set Divers Gods OverDivers Parts of the World

p 113Whether It is Suitable for Good Men to Wish to Rule More Widely

p 114

What Was the Reason Why the Romans, in Detailing Separate Gods forAll Things and All Movements of the Mind, Chose to Have the Temple ofQuiet Outside the Gates

p 116

Concerning Virtue and Faith, Which the Pagans Have Honored withTemples and Sacred Rites, Passing by Other Good Qualities, WhichOught Likewise to Have Been Worshipped, If Deity Was Rightly Attributed

Concerning Felicity, Whom the Romans, Who Venerate Many Gods, for

a Long Time Did Not Worship with Divine Honor, Though She AloneWould Have Sufficed Instead of All

in Obtaining and Extending the Empire

p 129

Of fate, freewill, and God’s prescience, and of the source of the virtues ofthe ancient Romans

p 129Preface

p 137

Concerning the Foreknowledge of God and the Free Will of Man, inOpposition to the Definition of Cicero

p 141Whether Our Wills are Ruled by Necessity

p 146

Concerning the Love of Praise, Which, Though It is a Vice, is Reckoned

a Virtue, Because by It Greater Vice is Restrained

p 158

Concerning the War in Which Radagaisus, King of the Goths, aWorshipper of Demons, Was Conquered in One Day, with All His MightyForces

He Been Altogether Silent Concerning Them

p 166Varro’s Distribution of His Book Which He Composed Concerning theAntiquities of Human and Divine Things

p 177

Concerning the Liberty of Seneca, Who More Vehemently Censured theCivil Theology Than Varro Did the Fabulous

p 179What Seneca Thought Concerning the Jews

p 180

That When Once the Vanity of the Gods of the Nations Has BeenExposed, It Cannot Be Doubted that They are Unable to Bestow EternalLife on Any One, When They Cannot Afford Help Even with Respect tothe Things Of this Temporal Life

p 180

Of the ‘select gods’ of the civil theology, and that eternal life is not obtained

by worshipping them

p 181Preface

p 181

Whether, Since It is Evident that Deity is Not to Be Found in the CivilTheology, We are to Believe that It is to Be Found in the SelectGods

p 185

The Inferior Gods, Whose Names are Not Associated with Infamy, HaveBeen Better Dealt with Than the Select Gods, Whose Infamies areCelebrated

p 187Whether It is Reasonable to Separate Janus and Terminus as Two DistinctDeities

p 192

That When It is Expounded What Saturn Is, What Genius Is, It Comes

to This, that Both of Them are Shown to Be Jupiter

p 193Concerning the Offices of Mercury and Mars

p 198

Concerning the Shamefulness of the Rites Which are Celebrated in Honor

of Liber

p 199Concerning Neptune, and Salacia and Venilia

p 200

Concerning the Earth, Which Varro Affirms to Be a Goddess, Becausethat Soul of the World Which He Thinks to Be God Pervades Also ThisLowest Part of His Body, and Imparts to It a Divine Force

p 201

Concerning the Surnames of Tellus and Their Significations, Which,Although They Indicate Many Properties, Ought Not to Have Establishedthe Opinion that There is a Corresponding Number of Gods

p 207

How Piety Distinguishes the Creator from the Creatures, So That, Instead

of One God, There are Not Worshipped as Many Gods as There areWorks of the One Author

p 209

That Only Through the Christian Religion Could the Deceit of MalignSpirits, Who Rejoice in the Errors of Men, Have Been Manifested

p 209

Concerning the Books of Numa Pompilius, Which the Senate Ordered

to Be Burned, in Order that the Causes of Sacred Rights Therein AssignedShould Not Become Known

p 218

Concerning the Meaning of the Platonists in that Part of Philosophy CalledPhysical

p 219

How Much the Platonists are to Be Held as Excelling Other Philosophers

in Logic, i.e Rational Philosophy

p 219That the Platonists Hold the First Rank in Moral Philosophy Also

p 220Concerning that Philosophy Which Has Come Nearest to the ChristianFaith

p 240Concerning the Nature of the Honor Which the Christians Pay to TheirMartyrs

p 243

What Apuleius Attributes to the Demons, to Whom, Though He Does NotDeny Them Reason, He Does Not Ascribe Virtue

p 243The Opinion of the Peripatetics and Stoics About Mental Emotions

p 252Whether Men, Though Mortal, Can Enjoy True Blessedness

p 255

That to Obtain the Blessed Life, Which Consists in Partaking of theSupreme Good, Man Needs Such Mediation as is Furnished Not by aDemon, But by Christ Alone

p 256That the Deceitful Demons, While Promising to Conduct Men to God byTheir Intercession, Mean to Turn Them from the Path of Truth

p 261

That the Platonists Themselves Have Determined that God Alone CanConfer Happiness Either on Angels or Men, But that It Yet Remains aQuestion Whether Those Spirits Whom They Direct Us to Worship, that

We May Obtain Happiness, Wish Sacrifice to Be Offered to Themselves,

or to the One God Only

p 264That Sacrifice is Due to the True God Only

p 265

Of the Sacrifices Which God Does Not Require, But Wished to BeObserved for the Exhibition of Those Things Which He DoesRequire

p 269

Of the Illicit Arts Connected with Demonolatry, and of Which the PlatonistPorphyry Adopts Some, and Discards Others

p 270

Concerning Theurgy, Which Promises a Delusive Purification of the Soul

by the Invocation of Demons

p 274

That the One God is to Be Worshipped Not Only for the Sake of EternalBlessings, But Also in Connection with Temporal Prosperity, Because AllThings are Regulated by His Providence

p 275

Of the Ministry of the Holy Angels, by Which They Fulfill the Providence

of God

p 275

Whether Those Angels Who Demand that We Pay Them Divine Honor,

or Those Who Teach Us to Render Holy Service, Not to Themselves,But to God, are to Be Trusted About the Way to Life Eternal

p 291Against the Arguments on Which the Platonists Ground Their Assertionthat the Human Soul is Co-Eternal with God

p 292

Of the Universal Way of the Soul’s Deliverance, Which Porphyry Did NotFind Because He Did Not Rightly Seek It, and Which the Grace of ChristHas Alone Thrown Open

p 295

Augustin passes to the second part of the work, in which the origin,progress, and destinies of the earthly and heavenly cities arediscussed.—Speculations regarding the creation of the world

p 306

Whether All the Angels Were So Created in One Common State of Felicity,that Those Who Fell Were Not Aware that They Would Fall, and thatThose Who Stood Received Assurance of Their Own Perseverance Afterthe Ruin of the Fallen

p 308

An Explanation of What is Said of the Devil, that He Did Not Abide in theTruth, Because the Truth Was Not in Him

p 308How We are to Understand the Words, ‘The Devil Sinneth from theBeginning.’

p 309

Of the Ranks and Differences of the Creatures, Estimated by Their Utility,

or According to the Natural Gradations of Being

Of God’s Eternal and Unchangeable Knowledge and Will, Whereby All

He Has Made Pleased Him in the Eternal Design as Well as in the ActualResult

p 313

Of Those Who Do Not Approve of Certain Things Which are a Part ofThis Good Creation of a Good Creator, and Who Think that There isSome Natural Evil

p 320

Of the Knowledge by Which the Holy Angels Know God in His Essence,and by Which They See the Causes of His Works in the Art of the Worker,Before They See Them in the Works of the Artist

p 326

Of the creation of angels and men, and of the origin of evil

p 326

That the Nature of the Angels, Both Good and Bad, is One and theSame

p 327

That There is No Entity Contrary to the Divine, Because Nonentity Seems

to Be that Which is Wholly Opposite to Him Who Supremely and Always

i s

p 328

That the Enemies of God are So, Not by Nature, But by Will, Which, as

It Injures Them, Injures a Good Nature; For If Vice Does Not Injure, It isNot Vice

p 328

Of the Nature of Irrational and Lifeless Creatures, Which in Their OwnKind and Order Do Not Mar the Beauty of the Universe

p 329That in All Natures, of Every Kind and Rank, God is Glorified

Of the Misdirected Love Whereby the Will Fell Away from the Immutable

to the Mutable Good

p 341How We are to Understand God’s Promise of Life Eternal, Which WasUttered Before the ‘Eternal Times.’

p 341

What Defence is Made by Sound Faith Regarding God’s UnchangeableCounsel and Will, Against the Reasonings of Those Who Hold that theWorks of God are Eternally Repeated in Revolving Cycles that RestoreAll Things as They Were

p 352That death is penal, and had its origin in Adam’s sin

p 358

Of the Life of Mortals, Which is Rather to Be Called Death ThanLife

p 359Whether One Can Both Be Living and Dead at the Same Time

His Spirit to His Disciples When He Said, ‘Receive Ye the HolyGhost.’ .

That the Opinion of the Platonists Regarding the Nature of Body and Soul

is Not So Censurable as that of the Manichæans, But that Even It isObjectionable, Because It Ascribes the Origin of Vices to the Nature ofThe Flesh

Of the Evil of Lust,—A Word Which, Though Applicable to Many Vices,

is Specially Appropriated to Sexual Uncleanness

p 403

That If Men Had Remained Innocent and Obedient in Paradise, theGenerative Organs Should Have Been in Subjection to the Will as theOther Members are

p 431

How It is that Cain’s Line Terminates in the Eighth Generation, WhileNoah, Though Descended from the Same Father, Adam, is Found to Bethe Tenth from Him

p 433

Why It is That, as Soon as Cain’s Son Enoch Has Been Named, theGenealogy is Forthwith Continued as Far as the Deluge, While After theMention of Enos, Seth’s Son, the Narrative Returns Again to the Creation

of Man

p 434

Of the Fall of the Sons of God Who Were Captivated by the Daughters

of Men, Whereby All, with the Exception of Eight Persons, DeservedlyPerished in the Deluge

p 435

Whether We are to Believe that Angels, Who are of a Spiritual Substance,Fell in Love with the Beauty of Women, and Sought Them in Marriage,and that from This Connection Giants Were Born

p 438

How We are to Understand This Which the Lord Said to Those Who Were

to Perish in the Flood:  ‘Their Days Shall Be 120 Years.’

with Those Who Maintain the Figurative and Not the HistoricalMeaning

Of the Three Most Famous Kingdoms of the Nations, of Which One, that

is the Assyrian, Was Already Very Eminent When Abraham Was

p 461

Of the Parting of Lot and Abraham, Which They Agreed to Without Breach

of Charity

p 462

Of the Third Promise of God, by Which He Assured the Land of Canaan

to Abraham and His Seed in Perpetuity

p 464

Of the Meaning of the Sacrifice Abraham Was Commanded to Offer When

He Supplicated to Be Taught About Those Things He HadBelieved

p 468

Of the Male, Who Was to Lose His Soul If He Was Not Circumcised onthe Eighth Day, Because He Had Broken God’s Covenant

p 469

Of the Change of Name in Abraham and Sarah, Who Received the Gift

of Fecundity When They Were Incapable of Regeneration Owing to theBarrenness of One, and the Old Age of Both

p 471

Of Isaac, Who Was Born According to the Promise, Whose Name WasGiven on Account of the Laughter of Both Parents

p 471

Of Abraham’s Obedience and Faith, Which Were Proved by the Offering

Up, of His Son in Sacrifice, and of Sarah’s Death

in the Womb of Rebecca Their Mother

Of Jacob’s Mission to Mesopotamia to Get a Wife, and of the Vision Which

He Saw in a Dream by the Way, and of His Getting Four Women When

He Sought One Wife

p 478The Reason Why Jacob Was Also Called Israel

p 492

Of Those Things Which a Man of God Spake by the Spirit to Eli the Priest,Signifying that the Priesthood Which Had Been Appointed According toAaron Was to Be Taken Away

p 495

Of the Jewish Priesthood and Kingdom, Which, Although Promised to

Be Established for Ever, Did Not Continue; So that Other Things are to

Be Understood to Which Eternity is Assured

p 496

Of the Disruption of the Kingdom of Israel, by Which the Perpetual Division

of the Spiritual from the Carnal Israel Was Prefigured

p 498

Of the Promises Made to David in His Son, Which are in No Wise Fulfilled

in Solomon, But Most Fully in Christ

p 500

How Like the Prophecy About Christ in the 89th Psalm is to the ThingsPromised in Nathan’s Prophecy in the Books of Samuel

p 501How Different the Acts in the Kingdom of the Earthly Jerusalem are fromThose Which God Had Promised, So that the Truth of the Promise Should

Be Understood to Pertain to the Glory of the Other King andKingdom

p 502

Of the Substance of the People of God, Which Through His Assumption

of Flesh is in Christ, Who Alone Had Power to Deliver His Own Soul fromHell

p 503

To Whose Person the Entreaty for the Promises is to Be Understood toBelong, When He Says in the Psalm, ‘Where are Thine AncientCompassions, Lord?’ Etc

Of Jeroboam, Who Profaned the People Put Under Him by the Impiety

of Idolatry, Amid Which, However, God Did Not Cease to Inspire theProphets, and to Guard Many from the Crime of Idolatry

p 515

Of the Varying Condition of Both the Hebrew Kingdoms, Until the People

of Both Were at Different Times Led into Captivity, Judah Being AfterwardsRecalled into His Kingdom, Which Finally Passed into the Power of theRomans

p 516

Of the Prophets, Who Either Were the Last Among the Jews, or Whomthe Gospel History Reports About the Time of Christ’s Nativity

p 517

A parallel history of the earthly and heavenly cities from the time of Abraham

to the end of the world

p 519

What Kings Reigned in Assyria and Sicyon When, According to thePromise, Isaac Was Born to Abraham in His Hundredth Year, and Whenthe Twins Esau and Jacob Were Born of Rebecca to Isaac in His Sixtieth

p 529What Varro Says of the Incredible Transformations of Men

p 529

What We Should Believe Concerning the Transformations Which Seem

to Happen to Men Through the Art of Demons

p 536

What Philosophers Were Famous When Tarquinius Priscus ReignedOver the Romans, and Zedekiah Over the Hebrews, When JerusalemWas Taken and the Temple Overthrown

p 536

That at the Time When the Captivity of the Jews Was Brought to an End,

on the Completion of Seventy Years, the Romans Also Were Freed fromKingly Rule

p 537

Of the Times of the Prophets Whose Oracles are Contained in Booksand Who Sang Many Things About the Call of the Gentiles at the TimeWhen the Roman Kingdom Began and the Assyrian Came to anEnd

p 550About the Hebrew Written Characters Which that Language AlwaysPossessed

p 550

About the Most Mendacious Vanity of the Egyptians, in Which TheyAscribe to Their Science an Antiquity of a Hundred ThousandYears

p 554

Of the Authority of the Septuagint Translation, Which, Saving the Honor

of the Hebrew Original, is to Be Preferred to All Translations

p 557

Of the Birth of Our Saviour, Whereby the Word Was Made Flesh; And ofthe Dispersion of the Jews Among All Nations, as Had BeenProphesied

p 559

Whether Before Christian Times There Were Any Outside of the IsraeliteRace Who Belonged to the Fellowship of the Heavenly City

p 560

That Haggai’s Prophecy, in Which He Said that the Glory of the House

of God Would Be Greater Than that of the First Had Been, Was ReallyFulfilled, Not in the Rebuilding of the Temple, But in the Church ofChrist

p 568

A review of the philosophical opinions regarding the Supreme Good, and

a comparison of these opinions with the Christian belief regardinghappiness

p 568

That Varro Has Made Out that Two Hundred and Eighty-Eight DifferentSects of Philosophy Might Be Formed by the Various Opinions Regardingthe Supreme Good

p 571

How Varro, by Removing All the Differences Which Do Not Form Sects,But are Merely Secondary Questions, Reaches Three Definitions of theChief Good, of Which We Must Choose One

p 572

Which of the Three Leading Opinions Regarding the Chief Good Should

Be Preferred, According to Varro, Who Follows Antiochus and the OldAcademy

p 573

What the Christians Believe Regarding the Supreme Good and Evil, inOpposition to the Philosophers, Who Have Maintained that the SupremeGood is in Themselves

That the Friendship of Good Men Cannot Be Securely Rested In, So Long

as the Dangers of This Life Force Us to Be Anxious

p 580

Of the Friendship of the Holy Angels, Which Men Cannot Be Sure of inThis Life, Owing to the Deceit of the Demons Who Hold in Bondage theWorshippers of a Plurality of Gods

p 586

Of the Order and Law Which Obtain in Heaven and Earth, Whereby ItComes to Pass that Human Society Is Served by Those Who RuleIt

p 587

Of the Liberty Proper to Man’s Nature, and the Servitude Introduced bySin,—A Servitude in Which the Man Whose Will is Wicked is the Slave

of His Own Lust, Though He is Free So Far as Regards OtherMen

How Different the Uncertainty of the New Academy is from the Certainty

of the Christian Faith

p 591

Of the Dress and Habits of the Christian People

p 591That the Saints are in This Life Blessed in Hope

p 592

Whether There Ever Was a Roman Republic Answering to the Definitions

of Scipio in Cicero’s Dialogue

The Definition Which Must Be Given of a People and a Republic, in Order

to Vindicate the Assumption of These Titles by the Romans and by OtherKingdoms

p 598That Where There is No True Religion There are No True Virtues

p 598

Of the Peace Which is Enjoyed by the People that are Alienated fromGod, and the Use Made of It by the People of God in the Time of ItsPilgrimage

p 599

That the Peace of Those Who Serve God Cannot in This Mortal Life BeApprehended in Its Perfection

p 600The End of the Wicked

p 608

What is Written in the Revelation of John Regarding the TwoResurrections, and the Thousand Years, and What May Reasonably BeHeld on These Points

Whether the Time of the Persecution or Antichrist Should Be Reckoned

in the Thousand Years

p 619

Of the Damnation of the Devil and His Adherents; And a Sketch of theBodily Resurrection of All the Dead, and of the Final RetributiveJudgment

p 624

What the Apostle Paul Wrote to the Thessalonians About the Manifestation

of Antichrist Which Shall Precede the Day of the Lord

Of Malachi’s Prophecy, in Which He Speaks of the Last Judgment, and

of a Cleansing Which Some are to Undergo by PurifyingPunishments

p 637

Of the Sacrifices Offered to God by the Saints, Which are to Be Pleasing

to Him, as in the Primitive Days and Former Years

That All Marvels are Not of Nature’s Production, But that Some are Due

to Human Ingenuity and Others to Diabolic Contrivance

p 662

Of the Temporary Punishments of This Life to Which the Human Condition

is Subject

p 663

That Everything Which the Grace of God Does in the Way of Rescuing

Us from the Inveterate Evils in Which We are Sunk, Pertains to the FutureWorld, in Which All Things are Made New

p 685

Of the Promise of Eternal Blessedness to the Saints, and EverlastingPunishment to the Wicked

p 686

Against the Wise Men of the World, Who Fancy that the Earthly Bodies

of Men Cannot Be Transferred to a Heavenly Habitation

p 686

Of the Resurrection of the Flesh, Which Some Refuse to Believe, Thoughthe World at Large Believes It

p 688

That Rome Made Its Founder Romulus a God Because It Loved Him;

But the Church Loved Christ Because It Believed Him to Be God

p 700

That the Martyrs Who Obtain Many Miracles in Order that the True GodMay Be Worshipped, are Worthy of Much Greater Honor Than theDemons, Who Do Some Marvels that They Themselves May Be Supposed

That All Bodily Blemishes Which Mar Human Beauty in This Life Shall

Be Removed in the Resurrection, the Natural Substance of the BodyRemaining, But the Quality and Quantity of It Being Altered So as toProduce Beauty

p 714

Of the Miseries of This Life Which Attach Peculiarly to the Toil of GoodMen, Irrespective of Those Which are Common to the Good andBad

That the Opinion of Porphyry, that the Soul, in Order to Be Blessed, Must

Be Separated from Every Kind of Body, is Demolished by Plato, WhoSays that the Supreme God Promised the Gods that They Should Never

Be Ousted from Their Bodies

p 720

Of the Apparently Conflicting Opinions of Plato and Porphyry, WhichWould Have Conducted Them Both to the Truth If They Could HaveYielded to One Another

p 721

What Plato or Labeo, or Even Varro, Might Have Contributed to the TrueFaith of the Resurrection, If They Had Adopted One Another’s Opinionsinto One Scheme

p 730Contents of Christian Doctrine

p 732Preface

p 735Containing a General View of the Subjects Treated in Holy Scripture

p 735

The Interpretation of Scripture Depends on the Discovery and Enunciation

of the Meaning, and is to Be Undertaken in Dependence on God’s

A i d

p 736What a Thing Is, and What A Sign

p 736Some Things are for Use, Some for Enjoyment

p 737Difference of Use and Enjoyment

p 737The Trinity the True Object of Enjoyment

p 738

In What Sense God is Ineffable