St. Augustine: The Confessions and Letters of St. Augustine, with a Sketch of his Life and Work
THE CONFESSIONS AND LETTERS OF ST. AUGUSTINE, WITH A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE AND WORK
NICENE AND POST-NICENE CHURCH FATHERS: SERIES 1: VOLUME I THE CONFESSIONS AND LETTERS OF ST. AUGUSTIN, WITH A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE AND WORK
A SELECT LIBRARY OF THE NICENE AND POST-NICENE FATHERS OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
Chief Events in the Life of St. Augustin
St. Augustin’s Life and Work
The Confessions of St. Augustin
Letters of St. Augustin
Chief Events in the Life of St. Augustin
St. Augustin’s Life and Work
A Sketch of the Life of St. Augustin
Chief Events in the Life of St. Augustin
The Confessions of St. Augustin
Book I
Chapter I
He Proclaims the Greatness of God, Whom He Desires to Seek and Invoke, Being Awakened by Him
Chapter II
That the God Whom We Invoke is in Us, and We in Him
Chapter III
Everywhere God Wholly Filleth All Things, But Neither Heaven Nor Earth Containeth Him
Chapter IV
The Majesty of God is Supreme, and His Virtues Inexplicable
Chapter V
He Seeks Rest in God, and Pardon of His Sins
Chapter VI
He Describes His Infancy, and Lauds the Protection and Eternal Providence of God
Chapter VII
He Shows by Example that Even Infancy is Prone to Sin
Chapter VIII
That When a Boy He Learned to Speak, Not by Any Set Method, But from the Acts and Words of His Parents
Chapter IX
Concerning the Hatred of Learning, the Love of Play, and the Fear of Being Whipped Noticeable in Boys: and of the Folly of Our Elders and Masters
Chapter X
Through a Love of Ball-Playing and Shows, He Neglects His Studies and the Injunctions of His Parents
Chapter XI
Seized by Disease, His Mother Being Troubled, He Earnestly Demands Baptism, Which on Recovery is Postponed—His Father Not as Yet Believing in Christ
Chapter XII
Being Compelled, He Gave His Attention to Learning; But Fully Acknowledges that This Was the Work of God
Chapter XIII
He Delighted in Latin Studies and the Empty Fables of the Poets, But Hated the Elements of Literature and the Greek Language
Chapter XIV
Why He Despised Greek Literature, and Easily Learned Latin
Chapter XV
He Entreats God, that Whatever Useful Things He Learned as a Boy May Be Dedicated to Him
Chapter XVI
He Disapproves of the Mode of Educating Youth, and He Points Out Why Wickedness is Attributed to the Gods by the Poets
Chapter XVII
He Continues on the Unhappy Method of Training Youth in Literary Subjects
Chapter XVIII
Men Desire to Observe the Rules of Learning, But Neglect the Eternal Rules of Everlasting Safety
Book II
Chapter I
He Deplores the Wickedness of His Youth
Chapter II
Stricken with Exceeding Grief, He Remembers the Dissolute Passions in Which, in His Sixteenth Year, He Used to Indulge
Chapter III
Concerning His Father, a Freeman of Thagaste, the Assister of His Son’s Studies, and on the Admonitions of His Mother on the Preservation of Chastity
Chapter IV
He Commits Theft with His Companions, Not Urged on by Poverty, But from a Certain Distaste of Well-Doing
Chapter V
Concerning the Motives to Sin, Which are Not in the Love of Evil, But in the Desire of Obtaining the Property of Others
Chapter VI
Why He Delighted in that Theft, When All Things Which Under the Appearance of Good Invite to Vice are True and Perfect in God Alone
Chapter VII
He Gives Thanks to God for the Remission of His Sins, and Reminds Every One that the Supreme God May Have Preserved Us from Greater Sins
Chapter VIII
In His Theft He Loved the Company of His Fellow-Sinners
Chapter IX
It Was a Pleasure to Him Also to Laugh When Seriously Deceiving Others
Chapter X
With God There is True Rest and Life Unchanging
Book III
Chapter I
Deluded by an Insane Love, He, Though Foul and Dishonourable, Desires to Be Thought Elegant and Urbane
Chapter II
In Public Spectacles He is Moved by an Empty Compassion. He is Attacked by a Troublesome Spiritual Disease
Chapter III
Not Even When at Church Does He Suppress His Desires. In the School of Rhetoric He Abhors the Acts of the Subverters
Chapter IV
In the Nineteenth Year of His Age (His Father Having Died Two Years Before) He is Led by the “Hortensius” Of Cicero to “Philosophy,” To God, and a Better Mode of Thinking
Chapter V
He Rejects the Sacred Scriptures as Too Simple, and as Not to Be Compared with the Dignity of Tully
Chapter VI
Deceived by His Own Fault, He Falls into the Errors of the Manichaeans, Who Gloried in the True Knowledge of God and in a Thorough Examination of Things
Chapter VII
He Attacks the Doctrine of the Manichaeans Concerning Evil, God, and the Righteousness of the Patriarchs
Chapter VIII
He Argues Against the Same as to the Reason of Offences
Chapter IX
That the Judgment of God and Men as to Human Acts of Violence, is Different
Chapter X
He Reproves the Triflings of the Manichaeans as to the Fruits of the Earth
Chapter XI
He Refers to the Tears, and the Memorable Dream Concerning Her Son, Granted by God to His Mother
Chapter XII
The Excellent Answer of the Bishop When Referred to by His Mother as to the Conversion of Her Son
Book IV
Chapter I
Concerning that Most Unhappy Time in Which He, Being Deceived, Deceived Others; And Concerning the Mockers of His Confession
Chapter II
He Teaches Rhetoric, the Only Thing He Loved, and Scorns the Soothsayer, Who Promised Him Victory
Chapter III
Not Even the Most Experienced Men Could Persuade Him of the Vanity of Astrology to Which He Was Devoted
Chapter IV
Sorely Distressed by Weeping at the Death of His Friend, He Provides Consolation for Himself
Chapter V
Why Weeping is Pleasant to the Wretched
Chapter VI
His Friend Being Snatched Away by Death, He Imagines that He Remains Only as Half
Chapter VII
Troubled by Restlessness and Grief, He Leaves His Country a Second Time for Carthage
Chapter VIII
That His Grief Ceased by Time, and the Consolation of Friends
Chapter IX
That the Love of a Human Being, However Constant in Loving and Returning Love, Perishes; While He Who Loves God Never Loses a Friend
Chapter X
That All Things Exist that They May Perish, and that We are Not Safe Unless God Watches Over Us
Chapter XI
That Portions of the World are Not to Be Loved; But that God, Their Author, is Immutable, and His Word Eternal
Chapter XII
Love is Not Condemned, But Love in God, in Whom There is Rest Through Jesus Christ, is to Be Preferred
Chapter XIII
Love Originates from Grace and Beauty Enticing Us
Chapter XIV
Concerning the Books Which He Wrote “On the Fair and Fit,” Dedicated to Hierius
Chapter XV
While Writing, Being Blinded by Corporeal Images, He Failed to Recognise the Spiritual Nature of God
Chapter XVI
He Very Easily Understood the Liberal Arts and the Categories of Aristotle, But Without True Fruit
Book V
Chapter I
That It Becomes the Soul to Praise God, and to Confess Unto Him
Chapter II
On the Vanity of Those Who Wished to Escape the Omnipotent God
Chapter III
Having Heard Faustus, the Most Learned Bishop of the Manichaeans, He Discerns that God, the Author Both of Things Animate and Inanimate, Chiefly Has Care for the Humble
Chapter IV
That the Knowledge of Terrestrial and Celestial Things Does Not Give Happiness, But the Knowledge of God Only
Chapter V
Of Manichaeus Pertinaciously Teaching False Doctrines, and Proudly Arrogating to Himself the Holy Spirit
Chapter VI
Faustus Was Indeed an Elegant Speaker, But Knew Nothing of the Liberal Sciences
Chapter VII
Clearly Seeing the Fallacies of the Manichaeans, He Retires from Them, Being Remarkably Aided by God
Chapter VIII
He Sets Out for Rome, His Mother in Vain Lamenting It
Chapter IX
Being Attacked by Fever, He is in Great Danger
Chapter X
When He Had Left the Manichaeans, He Retained His Depraved Opinions Concerning Sin and the Origin of the Saviour
Chapter XI
Helpidius Disputed Well Against the Manichaeans as to the Authenticity of the New Testament
Chapter XII
Professing Rhetoric at Rome, He Discovers the Fraud of His Scholars
Chapter XIII
He is Sent to Milan, that He, About to Teach Rhetoric, May Be Known by Ambrose
Chapter XIV
Having Heard the Bishop, He Perceives the Force of the Catholic Faith, Yet Doubts, After the Manner of the Modern Academics
Book VI
Chapter I
His Mother Having Followed Him to Milan, Declares that She Will Not Die Before Her Son Shall Have Embraced the Catholic Faith
Chapter II
She, on the Prohibition of Ambrose, Abstains from Honouring the Memory of the Martyrs
Chapter III
As Ambrose Was Occupied with Business and Study, Augustin Could Seldom Consult Him Concerning the Holy Scriptures
Chapter IV
He Recognises the Falsity of His Own Opinions, and Commits to Memory the Saying of Ambrose
Chapter V
Faith is the Basis of Human Life; Man Cannot Discover that Truth Which Holy Scripture Has Disclosed
Chapter VI
On the Source and Cause of True Joy,—The Example of the Joyous Beggar Being Adduced
Chapter VII
He Leads to Reformation His Friend Alypius, Seized with Madness for the Circensian Games
Chapter VIII
The Same When at Rome, Being Led by Others into the Amphitheatre, is Delighted with the Gladiatorial Games
Chapter IX
Innocent Alypius, Being Apprehended as a Thief, is Set at Liberty by the Cleverness of an Architect
Chapter X
The Wonderful Integrity of Alypius in Judgment. The Lasting Friendship of Nebridius with Augustin
Chapter XI
Being Troubled by His Grievous Errors, He Meditates Entering on a New Life
Chapter XII
Discussion with Alypius Concerning a Life of Celibacy
Chapter XIII
Being Urged by His Mother to Take a Wife, He Sought a Maiden that Was Pleasing Unto Him
Chapter XIV
The Design of Establishing a Common Household with His Friends is Speedily Hindered
Chapter XV
He Dismisses One Mistress, and Chooses Another
Chapter XVI
The Fear of Death and Judgment Called Him, Believing in the Immortality of the Soul, Back from His Wickedness, Him Who Aforetime Believed in the Opinions of Epicurus
Book VII
Chapter I
He Regarded Not God Indeed Under the Form of a Human Body, But as a Corporeal Substance Diffused Through Space
Chapter II
The Disputation of Nebridius Against the Manichaeans, on the Question “Whether God Be Corruptible or Incorruptible.”
Chapter III
That the Cause of Evil is the Free Judgment of the Will
Chapter IV
That God is Not Corruptible, Who, If He Were, Would Not Be God at All
Chapter V
Questions Concerning the Origin of Evil in Regard to God, Who, Since He is the Chief Good, Cannot Be the Cause of Evil
Chapter VI
He Refutes the Divinations of the Astrologers, Deduced from the Constellations
Chapter VII
He is Severely Exercised as to the Origin of Evil
Chapter VIII
By God’s Assistance He by Degrees Arrives at the Truth
Chapter IX
He Compares the Doctrine of the Platonists Concerning the Logos With the Much More Excellent Doctrine of Christianity
Chapter X
Divine Things are the More Clearly Manifested to Him Who Withdraws into the Recesses of His Heart
Chapter XI
That Creatures are Mutable and God Alone Immutable
Chapter XII
Whatever Things the Good God Has Created are Very Good
Chapter XIII
It is Meet to Praise the Creator for the Good Things Which are Made in Heaven and Earth
Chapter XIV
Being Displeased with Some Part Of God’s Creation, He Conceives of Two Original Substances
Chapter XV
Whatever Is, Owes Its Being to God
Chapter XVI
Evil Arises Not from a Substance, But from the Perversion of the Will
Chapter XVII
Above His Changeable Mind, He Discovers the Unchangeable Author of Truth
Chapter XVIII
Jesus Christ, the Mediator, is the Only Way of Safety
Chapter XIX
He Does Not Yet Fully Understand the Saying of John, that “The Word Was Made Flesh.”
Chapter XX
He Rejoices that He Proceeded from Plato to the Holy Scriptures, and Not the Reverse
Chapter XXI
What He Found in the Sacred Books Which are Not to Be Found in Plato
Book VIII
Chapter I
He, Now Given to Divine Things, and Yet Entangled by the Lusts of Love, Consults Simplicianus in Reference to the Renewing of His Mind
Chapter II
The Pious Old Man Rejoices that He Read Plato and the Scriptures, and Tells Him of the Rhetorician Victorinus Having Been Converted to the Faith Through the Reading of the Sacred Books
Chapter III
That God and the Angels Rejoice More on the Return of One Sinner Than of Many Just Persons
Chapter IV
He Shows by the Example of Victorinus that There is More Joy in the Conversion of Nobles
Chapter V
Of the Causes Which Alienate Us from God
Chapter VI
Pontitianus’ Account of Antony, the Founder of Monachism, and of Some Who Imitated Him
Chapter VII
He Deplores His Wretchedness, that Having Been Born Thirty-Two Years, He Had Not Yet Found Out the Truth
Chapter VIII
The Conversation with Alypius Being Ended, He Retires to the Garden, Whither His Friend Follows Him
Chapter IX
That the Mind Commandeth the Mind, But It Willeth Not Entirely
Chapter X
He Refutes the Opinion of the Manichaeans as to Two Kinds of Minds,—One Good and the Other Evil
Chapter XI
In What Manner the Spirit Struggled with the Flesh, that It Might Be Freed from the Bondage of Vanity
Chapter XII
Having Prayed to God, He Pours Forth a Shower of Tears, And, Admonished by a Voice, He Opens the Book and Reads the Words in Rom. XIII. 13; By Which, Being Changed in His Whole Soul, He Discloses the Divine Favour to His Friend and His Mother
Book IX
Chapter I
He Praises God, the Author of Safety, and Jesus Christ, the Redeemer, Acknowledging His Own Wickedness
Chapter II
As His Lungs Were Affected, He Meditates Withdrawing Himself from Public Favour
Chapter III
He Retires to the Villa of His Friend Verecundus, Who Was Not Yet a Christian, and Refers to His Conversion and Death, as Well as that of Nebridius
Chapter IV
In the Country He Gives His Attention to Literature, and Explains the Fourth Psalm in Connection with the Happy Conversion of Alypius. He is Troubled with Toothache
Chapter V
At the Recommendation of Ambrose, He Reads the Prophecies of Isaiah, But Does Not Understand Them
Chapter VI
He is Baptized at Milan with Alypius and His Son Adeodatus. The Book “De Magistro.”
Chapter VII
Of the Church Hymns Instituted at Milan; Of the Ambrosian Persecution Raised by Justina; And of the Discovery of the Bodies of Two Martyrs
Chapter VIII
Of the Conversion of Evodius, and the Death of His Mother When Returning with Him to Africa; And Whose Education He Tenderly Relates
Chapter IX
He Describes the Praiseworthy Habits of His Mother; Her Kindness Towards Her Husband and Her Sons
Chapter X
A Conversation He Had with His Mother Concerning the Kingdom of Heaven
Chapter XI
His Mother, Attacked by Fever, Dies at Ostia
Chapter XII
How He Mourned His Dead Mother
Chapter XIII
He Entreats God for Her Sins, and Admonishes His Readers to Remember Her Piously
Book X
Chapter I
In God Alone is the Hope and Joy of Man
Chapter II
That All Things are Manifest to God. That Confession Unto Him is Not Made by the Words of the Flesh, But of the Soul, and the Cry of Reflection
Chapter III
He Who Confesseth Rightly Unto God Best Knoweth Himself
Chapter IV
That in His Confessions He May Do Good, He Considers Others
Chapter V
That Man Knoweth Not Himself Wholly
Chapter VI
The Love of God, in His Nature Superior to All Creatures, is Acquired by the Knowledge of the Senses and the Exercise of Reason
Chapter VII
That God is to Be Found Neither from the Powers of the Body Nor of the Soul
Chapter VIII
Of the Nature and the Amazing Power of Memory
Chapter IX
Not Only Things, But Also Literature and Images, are Taken from the Memory, and are Brought Forth by the Act of Remembering
Chapter X
Literature is Not Introduced to the Memory Through the Senses, But is Brought Forth from Its More Secret Places
Chapter XI
What It is to Learn and to Think
Chapter XII
On the Recollection of Things Mathematical
Chapter XIII
Memory Retains All Things
Chapter XIV
Concerning the Manner in Which Joy and Sadness May Be Brought Back to the Mind and Memory
Chapter XV
In Memory There are Also Images of Things Which are Absent
Chapter XVI
The Privation of Memory is Forgetfulness
Chapter XVII
God Cannot Be Attained Unto by the Power of Memory, Which Beasts and Birds Possess
Chapter XVIII
A Thing When Lost Could Not Be Found Unless It Were Retained in the Memory
Chapter XIX
What It is to Remember
Chapter XX
We Should Not Seek for God and the Happy Life Unless We Had Known It
Chapter XXI
How a Happy Life May Be Retained in the Memory
Chapter XXII
A Happy Life is to Rejoice in God, and for God
Chapter XXIII
All Wish to Rejoice in the Truth
Chapter XXIV
He Who Finds Truth, Finds God
Chapter XXV
He is Glad that God Dwells in His Memory
Chapter XXVI
God Everywhere Answers Those Who Take Counsel of Him
Chapter XXVII
He Grieves that He Was So Long Without God
Chapter XXVIII
On the Misery of Human Life
Chapter XXIX
All Hope is in the Mercy of God
Chapter XXX
Of the Perverse Images of Dreams, Which He Wishes to Have Taken Away
Chapter XXXI
About to Speak of the Temptations of the Lust of the Flesh, He First Complains of the Lust of Eating and Drinking
Chapter XXXII
Of the Charms of Perfumes Which are More Easily Overcome
Chapter XXXIII
He Overcame the Pleasures of the Ear, Although in the Church He Frequently Delighted in the Song, Not in the Thing Sung
Chapter XXXIV
Of the Very Dangerous Allurements of the Eyes; On Account of Beauty of Form, God, the Creator, is to Be Praised
Chapter XXXV
Another Kind of Temptation is Curiosity, Which is Stimulated by the Lust of the Eyes
Chapter XXXVI
A Third Kind is “Pride” Which is Pleasing to Man, Not to God
Chapter XXXVII
He is Forcibly Goaded on by the Love of Praise
Chapter XXXVIII
Vain-Glory is the Highest Danger
Chapter XXXIX
Of the Vice of Those Who, While Pleasing Themselves, Displease God
Chapter XL
The Only Safe Resting-Place for the Soul is to Be Found in God
Chapter XLI
Having Conquered His Triple Desire, He Arrives at Salvation
Chapter XLII
In What Manner Many Sought the Mediator
Chapter XLIII
That Jesus Christ, at the Same Time God and Man, is the True and Most Efficacious Mediator
Book XI
Chapter I
By Confession He Desires to Stimulate Towards God His Own Love and That of His Readers
Chapter II
He Begs of God that Through the Holy Scriptures He May Be Led to Truth
Chapter III
He Begins from the Creation of the World—Not Understanding the Hebrew Text
Chapter IV
Heaven and Earth Cry Out that They Have Been Created by God
Chapter V
God Created the World Not from Any Certain Matter, But in His Own Word
Chapter VI
He Did Not, However, Create It by a Sounding and Passing Word
Chapter VII
By His Co-Eternal Word He Speaks, and All Things are Done
Chapter VIII
That Word Itself is the Beginning of All Things, in the Which We are Instructed as to Evangelical Truth
Chapter IX
Wisdom and the Beginning
Chapter X
The Rashness of Those Who Inquire What God Did Before He Created Heaven and Earth
Chapter XI
They Who Ask This Have Not as Yet Known the Eternity of God, Which is Exempt from the Relation of Time
Chapter XII
What God Did Before the Creation of the World
Chapter XIII
Before the Times Created by God, Times Were Not
Chapter XIV
Neither Time Past Nor Future, But the Present Only, Really is
Chapter XV
There is Only a Moment of Present Time
Chapter XVI
Time Can Only Be Perceived or Measured While It is Passing
Chapter XVII
Nevertheless There is Time Past and Future
Chapter XVIII
Past and Future Times Cannot Be Thought of But as Present
Chapter XIX
We are Ignorant in What Manner God Teaches Future Things
Chapter XX
In What Manner Time May Properly Be Designated
Chapter XXI
How Time May Be Measured
Chapter XXII
He Prays God that He Would Explain This Most Entangled Enigma
Chapter XXIII
That Time is a Certain Extension
Chapter XXIV
That Time is Not a Motion of a Body Which We Measure by Time
Chapter XXV
He Calls on God to Enlighten His Mind
Chapter XXVI
We Measure Longer Events by Shorter in Time
Chapter XXVII
Times are Measured in Proportion as They Pass by
Chapter XXVIII
Time in the Human Mind, Which Expects, Considers, and Remembers
Chapter XXIX
That Human Life is a Distraction But that Through the Mercy of God He Was Intent on the Prize of His Heavenly Calling
Chapter XXX
Again He Refutes the Empty Question, “What Did God Before the Creation of the World?”
Chapter XXXI
How the Knowledge of God Differs from that of Man
Book XII
Chapter I
The Discovery of Truth is Difficult, But God Has Promised that He Who Seeks Shall Find
Chapter II
Of the Double Heaven,—The Visible, and the Heaven of Heavens
Chapter III
Of the Darkness Upon the Deep, and of the Invisible and Formless Earth
Chapter IV
From the Formlessness of Matter, the Beautiful World Has Arisen
Chapter V
What May Have Been the Form of Matter
Chapter VI
He Confesses that at One Time He Himself Thought Erroneously of Matter
Chapter VII
Out of Nothing God Made Heaven and Earth
Chapter VIII
Heaven and Earth Were Made “In the Beginning;” Afterwards the World, During Six Days, from Shapeless Matter
Chapter IX
That the Heaven of Heavens Was an Intellectual Creature, But that the Earth Was Invisible and Formless Before the Days that It Was Made
Chapter X
He Begs of God that He May Live in the True Light, and May Be Instructed as to the Mysteries of the Sacred Books
Chapter XI
What May Be Discovered to Him by God
Chapter XII
From the Formless Earth God Created Another Heaven and a Visible and Formed Earth
Chapter XIII
Of the Intellectual Heaven and Formless Earth, Out of Which, on Another Day, the Firmament Was Formed
Chapter XIV
Of the Depth of the Sacred Scripture, and Its Enemies
Chapter XV
He Argues Against Adversaries Concerning the Heaven of Heavens
Chapter XVI
He Wishes to Have No Intercourse with Those Who Deny Divine Truth
Chapter XVII
He Mentions Five Explanations of the Words of Genesis I. I
Chapter XVIII
What Error is Harmless in Sacred Scripture
Chapter XIX
He Enumerates the Things Concerning Which All Agree
Chapter XX
Of the Words, “In the Beginning,” Variously Understood
Chapter XXI
Of the Explanation of the Words, “The Earth Was Invisible.”
Chapter XXII
He Discusses Whether Matter Was from Eternity, or Was Made by God
Chapter XXIII
Two Kinds of Disagreements in the Books to Be Explained
Chapter XXIV
Out of the Many True Things, It is Not Asserted Confidently that Moses Understood This or That
Chapter XXV
It Behoves Interpreters, When Disagreeing Concerning Obscure Places, to Regard God the Author of Truth, and the Rule of Charity
Chapter XXVI
What He Might Have Asked of God Had He Been Enjoined to Write the Book of Genesis
Chapter XXVII
The Style of Speaking in the Book of Genesis is Simple and Clear
Chapter XXVIII
The Words, “In the Beginning,” And, “The Heaven and the Earth,” Are Differently Understood
Chapter XXIX
Concerning the Opinion of Those Who Explain It “At First He Made.”
Chapter XXX
In the Great Diversity of Opinions, It Becomes All to Unite Charity and Divine Truth
Chapter XXXI
Moses is Supposed to Have Perceived Whatever of Truth Can Be Discovered in His Words
Chapter XXXII
First, the Sense of the Writer is to Be Discovered, Then that is to Be Brought Out Which Divine Truth Intended
Book XIII
Chapter I
He Calls Upon God, and Proposes to Himself to Worship Him
Chapter II
All Creatures Subsist from the Plenitude of Divine Goodness
Chapter III
Genesis I. 3,—Of “Light,”—He Understands as It is Seen in the Spiritual Creature
Chapter IV
All Things Have Been Created by the Grace of God, and are Not of Him as Standing in Need of Created Things
Chapter V
He Recognises the Trinity in the First Two Verses of Genesis
Chapter VI
Why the Holy Ghost Should Have Been Mentioned After the Mention of Heaven and Earth
Chapter VII
That the Holy Spirit Brings Us to God
Chapter VIII
That Nothing Whatever, Short of God, Can Yield to the Rational Creature a Happy Rest
Chapter IX
Why the Holy Spirit Was Only “Borne Over” The Waters
Chapter X
That Nothing Arose Save by the Gift of God
Chapter XI
That the Symbols of the Trinity in Man, to Be, to Know, and to Will, are Never Thoroughly Examined
Chapter XII
Allegorical Explanation of Genesis, Chap. I., Concerning the Origin of the Church and Its Worship
Chapter XIII
That the Renewal of Man is Not Completed in This World
Chapter XIV
That Out of the Children of the Night and of the Darkness, Children of the Light and of the Day are Made
Chapter XV
Allegorical Explanation of the Firmament and Upper Works, Ver. 6
Chapter XVI
That No One But the Unchangeable Light Knows Himself
Chapter XVII
Allegorical Explanation of the Sea and the Fruit-Bearing Earth—Verses 9 and 11
Chapter XVIII
Of the Lights and Stars of Heaven—Of Day and Night, Ver. 14
Chapter XIX
All Men Should Become Lights in the Firmament of Heaven
Chapter XX
Concerning Reptiles and Flying Creatures (Ver. 20),—The Sacrament of Baptism Being Regarded
Chapter XXI
Concerning the Living Soul, Birds, and Fishes (Ver. 24)—The Sacrament of the Eucharist Being Regarded
Chapter XXII
He Explains the Divine Image (Ver. 26) of the Renewal of the Mind
Chapter XXIII
That to Have Power Over All Things (Ver. 26) is to Judge Spiritually of All
Chapter XXIV
Why God Has Blessed Men, Fishes, Flying Creatures, and Not Herbs and the Other Animals (Ver. 28)
Chapter XXV
He Explains the Fruits of the Earth (Ver. 29) of Works of Mercy
Chapter XXVI
In the Confessing of Benefits, Computation is Made Not as to The “Gift,” But as to the “Fruit,”—That Is, the Good and Right Will of the Giver
Chapter XXVII
Many are Ignorant as to This, and Ask for Miracles, Which are Signified Under the Names Of “Fishes” And “Whales.”
Chapter XXVIII
He Proceeds to the Last Verse, “All Things are Very Good,”—That Is, the Work Being Altogether Good
Chapter XXIX
Although It is Said Eight Times that “God Saw that It Was Good,” Yet Time Has No Relation to God and His Word
Chapter XXX
He Refutes the Opinions of the Manichaeans and the Gnostics Concerning the Origin of the World
Chapter XXXI
We Do Not See “That It Was Good” But Through the Spirit of God Which is in Us
Chapter XXXII
Of the Particular Works of God, More Especially of Man
Chapter XXXIII
The World Was Created by God Out of Nothing
Chapter XXXIV
He Briefly Repeats the Allegorical Interpretation of Genesis (Ch. I.), and Confesses that We See It by the Divine Spirit
Chapter XXXV
He Prays God for that Peace of Rest Which Hath No Evening
Chapter XXXVI
The Seventh Day, Without Evening and Setting, the Image of Eternal Life and Rest in God
Chapter XXXVII
Of Rest in God Who Ever Worketh, and Yet is Ever at Rest
Chapter XXXVIII
Of the Difference Between the Knowledge of God and of Men, and of the Repose Which is to Be Sought from God Only
Letters of St. Augustin
First Division
Letter I
(a.d. 386.)
Letter II
(a.d. 386.)
Letter III
(a.d. 387.)
Letter IV
(a.d. 387.)
Letter V
(a.d. 388.)
Letter VI
(a.d. 389.)
Letter VII
(a.d. 389.)
Chap. I
Chap. II
Chap. III
Letter VIII
(a.d. 389.)
Letter IX
(a.d. 389.)
Letter X
(a.d. 389.)
Letter XI
(a.d. 389.)
Letter XII
(a.d. 389.)
Letter XIII
(a.d. 389.)
Letter XIV
(a.d. 389.)
Letter XV
(a.d. 390.)
Letter XVI
(a.d. 390)
Letter XVII
(a.d. 390.)
Letter XVIII
(a.d. 390.)
Letter XIX
(a.d. 390.)
Letter XX
(a.d. 390.)
Letter XXI
(a.d. 391.)
Letter XXII
(a.d. 392.)
Chap. I
Chap. II
Letter XXIII
(a.d. 392.)
Letter XXIV
Letter XXV
(a.d. 394.)
Letter XXVI
(a.d. 395.)
Letter XXVII
(a.d. 395.)
Letter XXVIII
(a.d. 394 OR 395.)
Chap. I
Chap. II
Chap. III
Chap. IV
Letter XXIX
(a.d. 395.)
Letter XXX
(a.d. 396.)
Second Division
Letter XXXI
(a.d. 396.)
Letter XXXII
Letter XXXIII
(a.d. 396.)
Letter XXXIV
(a.d. 396.)
Letter XXXV
(a.d. 396.)
Letter XXXVI
(a.d. 396.)
Chap. I
Chap. II
Chap. III
Chap. IV
Chap. XI
Chap. XII
Chap. XIII
Chap. XIV
Letter XXXVII
(a.d. 397.)
Letter XXXVIII
(a.d. 397.)
Letter XXXIX
(a.d. 397.)
Chap. I
Chap. II
Letter XL
(a.d. 397.)
Chap. I
Chap. II
Chap. III
Chap. IV
Chap. V
Letter XLI
(a.d. 397.)
Letter XLII
(a.d. 397.)
Letter XLIII
(a.d. 397.)
Chap. I
Chap. II
Chap. III
Chap. IV
Chap. V
Chap. VI
Chap. VII
Chap. VIII
Chap. IX
Letter XLIV
(a.d. 398.)
Chap. I
Chap. II
Chap. III
Chap. IV
Chap. V
Chap. VI
Letter XLV
Letter XLVI
(a.d. 398.)
Letter XLVII
(a.d. 398.)
Letter XLVIII
(a.d. 398.)
Letter XLIX
Letter L
(a.d. 399.)
Letter LI
(a.d. 399 or 400.)
Letter LII
Letter LIII
(a.d. 400.)
Chap. I
Chap. II
Chap. III
Letter LIV
(a.d. 400.)
Chap. I
Chap. II
Chap. III
Chap. IV
Chap. V
Chap. VI
Chap. VII
Letter LV
(a.d. 400.)
Chap. I
Chap. II
Chap. III
Chap. IV
Chap. V
Chap. VI
Chap. VII
Chap. VIII
Chap. IX
Chap. X
Chap. XI
Chap. XII
Chap. XIII
Chap. XIV
Chap. XV
Chap. XVI
Chap. XVII
Chap. XVIII
Chap. XIX
Chap. XX
Chap. XXI
Letters LVI. And LVII
(a.d. 400)
Letter LVIII
(a.d. 401.)
Letter LIX
(a.d. 401.)
Letter LX
(a.d. 401.)
Letter LXI
(a.d. 401.)
Letter LXII
(a.d. 401)
Letter LXIII
(a.d. 401.)
Letter LXIV
(a.d. 401.)
Letter LXV
(a.d. 402.)
Letter LXVI
(a.d. 402.)
Letter LXVII
(a.d. 402.)
Chap. I
Chap. II
Letter LXVIII
(a.d. 402.)
Letter LXIX
(a.d. 402.)
Letter LXX
(a.d. 402.)
Letter LXXI
(a.d. 403.)
Chap. I
Chap. II
Chap. III
Chap. IV
Letter LXXII
(a.d. 404.)
Chap. I
Chap. II
Chap. III
Letter LXXIII
(a.d. 404.)
Chap. I
Chap. II
Chap. III
Letter LXXIV
(a.d. 404.)
Letter LXXV
(a.d. 404.)
Chap. I
Chap. II
Chap. III
Chap. IV
Chap. V
Chap. VI
Chap. VII
Letter LXXVI
(a.d. 402.)
Letter LXXVII
(a.d. 404.)
Letter LXXVIII
(a.d. 404.)
Letter LXXIX
(a.d. 404.)
Letter LXXX
(a.d. 404.)
Letter LXXXI
(a.d. 405.)
Letter LXXXII
(a.d. 405.)
Chap. I
Chap. II
Chap. III
Chap. IV
Chap. V
Letter LXXXIII
(a.d. 405.)
Letter LXXXIV
(a.d. 405.)
Letter LXXXV
(a.d. 405.)
Letter LXXXVI
(a.d. 405.)
Letter LXXXVII
(a.d. 405.)
Letter LXXXVIII
(a.d. 406.)
Letter LXXXIX
(a.d. 406.)
Letter XC
(a.d. 408.)
Letter XCI
(a.d. 408.)
Letter XCII
(a.d. 408.)
Letter XCIII
(a.d. 408.)
Chap. I
Chap. II
Chap. III
Chap. IV
Chap. V
Chap. VI
Chap. VII
Chap. VIII
Chap. IX
Chap. X
Chap. XI
Chap. XII
Chap. XIII
Letter XCIV
(a.d. 408.)
Letter XCV
(a.d. 408.)
Letter XCVI
(a.d. 408.)
Letter XCVII
(a.d. 408.)
Letter XCVIII
(a.d. 408.)
Letter XCIX
(a.d. 408 or Beginning of 409.)
Letter C
(a.d. 409.)
Letter CI
(a.d. 409.)
Letter CII
(a.d. 409.)
Letter CIII
(a.d. 409.)
Letter CIV
(a.d. 409.)
Chap. I
Chap. II
Chap. III
Chap. IV
Letter CXI
(November, a.d. 409.)
Letter CXV
(a.d. 410.)
Letter CXVI
(Enclosed in the Foregoing Letter.)
Letter CXVII
(a.d. 410.)
Letter CXVIII
(a.d. 410.)
Chap. I
Chap. II
Chap. III
Chap. IV
Chap. V
Letter CXXII
(a.d. 410.)
Letter CXXIII
(a.d. 410.)
Third Division
Letter CXXIV
(a.d. 411.)
Letter CXXV
(a.d. 411.)
Letter CXXVI
(a.d. 411.)
Letter CXXX
(a.d. 412.)
Chap. I
Chap. II
Chap. III
Chap. IV
Chap. V
Chap. VI
Chap. VII
Chap. VIII
Chap. IX
Chap. X
Chap. XI
Chap. XII
Chap. XIII
Chap. XIV
Chap. XV
Chap. XVI
Letter CXXXI
(a.d. 412.)
Letter CXXXII
(a.d. 412.)
Letter CXXXIII
(a.d. 412.)
Letter CXXXV
(a.d. 412.)
Letter CXXXVI
(a.d. 412.)
Letter CXXXVII
(a.d. 412.)
Chap. I
Chap. II
Chap. III
Chap. IV
Chap. V
Letter CXXXVIII
(a.d. 412.)
Chap. I
Chap. II
Chap. III
Chap. IV
Letter CXXXIX
(a.d. 412.)
Letter CXLIII
(a.d. 412.)
Letter CXLIV
(a.d. 412.)
Letter CXLV
(a.d. 412 or 413.)
Letter CXLVI
(a.d. 413.)
Letter CXLVIII
(a.d. 413.)
Chap. I
Chap. II
Chap. III
Chap. IV
Chap. V
Letter CL
(a.d. 413.)
Letter CLI
(a.d. 413 OR 414.)
Letter CLVIII
(a.d. 414.)
Letter CLIX
(a.d. 415.)
Letter CLXIII
(a.d. 414.)
Letter CLXIV
(a.d. 414.)
Chap. I
Chap. II
Chap. III
Chap. IV
Chap. V
Chap. VI
Chap. VII
Letter CLXV
(a.d. 410. )
Chap. I
Chap. II
Chap. III
Letter CLXVI
(a.d. 415.)
Chap. I
Chap. II
Chap. III
Chap. IV
Chap. V
Chap. VI
Chap. VII
Chap. VIII
Chap. IX
Letter CLXVII
(a.d. 415.)
Chap. I
Chap. II
Chap. III
Chap. IV
Chap. V
Letter CLXIX
(a.d. 415.)
Chap. I
Chap. II
Chap. III
Chap. IV
Letter CLXXII
(a.d. 416.)
Letter CLXXIII
(a.d. 416.)
Letter CLXXX
(a.d. 416.)
Letter CLXXXVIII
(a.d. 416.)
Chap. I
Chap. II
Chap. III
Letter CLXXXIX
(a.d. 418.)
Letter CXCI
(a.d. 418.)
Letter CXCII
(a.d. 418.)
Letter CXCV
(a.d. 418.)
Letter CCI
(a.d. 419.)
Letter CCII
(a.d. 419.)
Chap. I
Chap. II
Letter CCIII
(a.d. 420.)
Letter CCVIII
(a.d. 423.)
Letter CCIX
(a.d. 423.)
Letter CCX
(a.d. 423.)
Letter CCXI
(a.d. 423.)
Letter CCXII
(a.d. 423.)
Letter CCXIII
(September 26TH, a.d. 426.)
Letter CCXVIII
(a.d. 426.)
Letter CCXIX
(a.d. 436.)
Letter CCXX
(a.d. 427.)
Letter CCXXVII
(a.d. 428 or 429.)
Letter CCXXVIII
(a.d. 428 or 429.)
Letter CCXXIX
(a.d. 429.)
Letter CCXXXI
(a.d. 429.)
Fourth Division
Letter CCXXXII
Letter CCXXXVII
Letter CCXLV
Letter CCXLVI
Letter CCL
Letter CCLIV
Letter CCLXIII
Letter CCLXIX
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