City of God

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Book 1
Preface, Explaining His Design
Of the Adversaries of the Name
That It Is Quite Contrary to th
That the Romans Did Not Show Th
Of the Asylum of Juno in Troy,
Caesar's Statement Regarding th
That Not Even the Romans, When
That the Cruelties Which Occurr
Of the Advantages and Disadvant
Of the Reasons for Administerin
That the Saints Lose Nothing in
Of the End of This Life, Whethe
Of the Burial of the Dead: That
Reasons for Burying the Bodies
Of the Captivity of the Saints,
Of Regulus, in Whom We Have an
Of the Violation of the Consecr
Of Suicide Committed Through Fe
Of the Violence Which May Be Do
Of Lucretia, Who Put an End to
That Christians Have No Authori
Of the Cases in Which We May Pu
That Suicide Can Never Be Promp
What We Are to Think of the Exa
That in That Virtue in Which Re
That We Should Not Endeavor by
That in Certain Peculiar Cases
Whether Voluntary Death Should
By What Judgment of God the Ene
What the Servants of Christ Sho
That Those Who Complain of Chri
By What Steps the Passion for G
Of the Establishment of Scenic
That the Overthrow of Rome Has
Of God's Clemency in Moderating
Of the Sons of the Church Who A
What Subjects Are to Be Handled
Book 2
Of the Limits Which Must Be Put
Recapitulation of the Contents
That We Need Only to Read Histo
That the Worshippers of the God
Of the Obscenities Practiced in
That the Gods of the Pagans Nev
That the Suggestions of Philoso
That the Theatrical Exhibitions
That the Poetical License Which
That the Devils, in Suffering E
That the Greeks Admitted Player
That the Romans, by Refusing to
That the Romans Should Have Und
That Plato, Who Excluded Poets
That It Was Vanity, Not Reason,
That If the Gods Had Really Pos
Of the Rape of the Sabine Women
What the History of Sallust Rev
Of the Corruption Which Had Gro
Of the Kind of Happiness and Li
Cicero's Opinion of the Roman R
That the Roman Gods Never Took
That the Vicissitudes of This L
Of the Deeds of Sylla, in Which
How Powerfully the Evil Spirits
That the Demons Gave in Secret
That the Obscenities of Those P
That the Christian Religion Is
An Exhortation to the Romans to
Book 3
Of the Ills Which Alone the Wic
Whether the Gods, Whom the Gree
That the Gods Could Not Be Offe
Of Varro's Opinion, That It Is
That It Is Not Credible That th
That the Gods Exacted No Penalt
Of the Destruction of Ilium by
Whether Rome Ought to Have Been
Whether It Is Credible That the
Whether It Was Desirable That t
Of the Statue of Apollo at Cuma
That the Romans Added a Vast Nu
By What Right Or Agreement the
Of the Wickedness of the War Wa
What Manner of Life and Death t
Of the First Roman Consuls the
Of the Disasters Which Vexed th
The Disasters Suffered by the R
Of the Calamity of the Second P
Of the Destruction of the Sagun
Of the Ingratitude of Rome to S
Of the Edict of Mithridates, Co
Of the Internal Disasters Which
Of the Civil Dissension Occasio
Of the Temple of Concord, Which
Of the Various Kinds of Wars Wh
Of the Civil War Between Marius
Of the Victory of Sylla, the Av
A Comparison of the Disasters W
Of the Connection of the Wars W
That It Is Effrontery to Impute
Book 4
Of the Things Which Have Been D
Of Those Things Which Are Conta
Whether the Great Extent of the
How Like Kingdoms Without Justi
Of the Runaway Gladiators Whose
Concerning the Covetousness of
Whether Earthly Kingdoms in The
Which of the Gods Can the Roman
Whether the Great Extent and Lo
What Opinions Those Have Follow
Concerning the Many Gods Whom t
Concerning the Opinion of Those
Concerning Those Who Assert Tha
The Enlargement of Kingdoms Is
Whether It Is Suitable for Good
What Was the Reason Why the Rom
Whether, If the Highest Power B
With What Reason They Who Think
Concerning Fortuna Muliebris
Concerning Virtue and Faith, Wh
That Although Not Understanding
Concerning the Knowledge of the
Concerning Felicity, Whom the R
The Reasons by Which the Pagans
Concerning the One God Only to
Of the Scenic Plays, the Celebr
Concerning the Three Kinds of G
Whether the Worship of the Gods
Of the Falsity of the Augury by
What Kind of Things Even Their
Concerning the Opinions of Varr
In What Interest the Princes of
That the Times of All Kings and
Concerning the Kingdom of the J
Book 5
Preface
That the Cause of the Roman Emp
On the Difference in the Health
Concerning the Arguments Which
Concerning the Twins Esau and J
In What Manner the Mathematicia
Concerning Twins of Different S
Concerning the Choosing of a Da
Concerning Those Who Call by th
Concerning the Foreknowledge of
Whether Our Wills Are Ruled by
-Concerning the Universal Provi
By What Virtues the Ancient Rom
Concerning the Love of Praise,
Concerning the Eradication of t
Concerning the Temporal Reward
Concerning the Reward of the Ho
To What Profit the Romans I Car
How Far Christians Ought to Be
Concerning the Difference Betwe
That It Is as Shameful for the
That the Roman Dominion Was Gra
The Durations and Issues of War
Concerning the War in Which Rad
What Was the Happiness of the C
Concerning the Prosperity Which
On the Faith and Piety of Theod
Book 6
Preface
Of Those Who Maintain That They
What We Are to Believe That Var
Varro's Distribution of His Boo
That from the Disputation of Va
Concerning the Three Kinds of T
Concerning the Mythic, That Is,
Concerning the Likeness and Agr
Concerning the Interpretations,
Concerning the Special Offices
Concerning the Liberty of Senec
What Seneca Thought Concerning
That When Once the Vanity of th
Book 7
Preface
Whether, Since It Is Evident Th
Who Are the Select Gods, and Wh
How There Is No Reason Which Ca
The Inferior Gods, Whose Names
Concerning the More Secret Doct
Concerning the Opinion of Varro
Whether It Is Reasonable to Sep
For What Reason the Worshippers
Concerning the Power of Jupiter
Whether the Distinction Between
Concerning the Surnames of Jupi
That Jupiter Is Also Called Pec
That When It Is Expounded What
Concerning the Offices of Mercu
Concerning Apollo and Diana, an
That Even Varro Himself Pronoun
A More Credible Cause of the Ri
Concerning the Interpretations
Concerning the Rites of Eleusin
Concerning the Shamefulness of
Concerning Neptune, and Salacia
Concerning the Earth, Which Var
Concerning the Surnames of Tell
The Interpretation of the Mutil
Concerning the Abomination of t
Concerning the Figments of the
That the Doctrine of Varro Conc
That All Things Which the Physi
How Piety Distinguishes the Cre
What Benefits God Gives to the
That at No Time in the Past Was
That Only Through the Christian
Concerning the Books of Numa Po
Concerning the Hydromancy Throu
Book 8
That the Question of Natural Th
Concerning the Two Schools of P
Of the Socratic Philosophy
Concerning Plato, the Chief Amo
That It Is Especially with the
Concerning the Meaning of the P
How Much the Platonists Are to
That the Platonists Hold the Fi
Concerning That Philosophy Whic
That the Excellency of the Chri
How Plato Has Been Able to Appr
That Even the Platonists, Thoug
Concerning the Opinion of Plato
Of the Opinion of Those Who Hav
That the Demons Are Not Better
What Apuleius the Platonist Tho
Whether It Is Proper That Men S
What Kind of Religion That Is W
Of the Impiety of the Magic Art
Whether We Are to Believe That
Whether the Gods Use the Demons
That We Must, Notwithstanding t
What Hermes Trismegistus Though
How Hermes Openly Confessed the
Concerning Those Things Which M
That All the Religion of the Pa
Concerning the Nature of the Ho
Book 9
The Point at Which the Discussi
Whether Among the Demons, Infer
What Apuleius Attributes to the
The Opinion of the Peripatetics
That the Passions Which Assail
Of the Passions Which, Accordin
That the Platonists Maintain Th
How Apuleius Defines the Gods W
Whether the Intercession of the
That, According to Plotinus, Me
Of the Opinion of the Platonist
Of the Three Opposite Qualities
How the Demons Can Mediate Betw
Whether Men, Though Mortal, Can
Of the Man Christ Jesus, the Me
Whether It Is Reasonable in the
That to Obtain the Blessed Life
That the Deceitful Demons, Whil
That Even Among Their Own Worsh
Of the Kind of Knowledge Which
To What Extent the Lord Was Ple
The Difference Between the Know
That the Name of Gods Is Falsel
Book 10
That the Platonists Themselves
The Opinion of Plotinus the Pla
That the Platonists, Though Kno
That Sacrifice Is Due to the Tr
Of the Sacrifices Which God Doe
Of the True and Perfect Sacrifi
Of the Love of the Holy Angels,
Of the Miracles Which God Has C
Of the Illicit Arts Connected w
Concerning Theurgy, Which Promi
Of Porphyry's Epistle to Anebo,
Of the Miracles Wrought by the
Of the Invisible God, Who Has O
That the One God Is to Be Worsh
Of the Ministry of the Holy Ang
Whether Those Angels Who Demand
Concerning the Are of the Coven
Against Those Who Deny That the
On the Reasonableness of Offeri
Of the Supreme and True Sacrifi
Of the Power Delegated to Demon
Whence the Saints Derive Power
Of the Principles Which, Accord
Of the One Only True Principle
That All the Saints, Both Under
Of Porphyry's Weakness in Waver
Of the Impiety of Porphyry, Whi
How It Is That Porphyry Has Bee
Of the Incarnation of Our Lord
Porphyry's Emendations and Modi
Against the Arguments on Which
Of the Universal Way of the Sou
Book 11
Of This Part of the Work, Where
Of the Knowledge of God, to Whi
Of the Authority of the Canonic
That the World Is Neither Witho
That We Ought Not to Seek to Co
That the World and Time Had Bot
Of the Nature of the First Days
What We Are to Understand of Go
What the Scriptures Teach Us to
Of the Simple and Unchangeable
Whether the Angels That Fell Pa
A Comparison of the Blessedness
Whether All the Angels Were So
An Explanation of What Is Said
How We Are to Understand the Wo
Of the Ranks and Differences of
That the Flaw of Wickedness Is
Of the Beauty of the Universe,
What, Seemingly, We Are to Unde
Of the Words Which Follow the S
Of God's Eternal and Unchangeab
Of Those Who Do Not Approve of
Of the Error in Which the Doctr
Of the Divine Trinity, and the
Of the Division of Philosophy I
Of the Image of the Supreme Tri
Of Existence, and Knowledge of
Whether We Ought to Love the Lo
Of the Knowledge by Which the H
Of the Perfection of the Number
Of the Seventh Day, in Which Co
Of the Opinion That the Angels
Of the Two Different and Dissim
Of the Idea That the Angels Wer
Book 12
That the Nature of the Angels,
That There Is No Entity Contrar
That the Enemies of God Are So,
Of the Nature of Irrational and
That in All Natures, of Every K
What the Cause of the Blessedne
That We Ought Not to Expect to
Of the Misdirected Love Whereby
Whether the Angels, Besides Rec
Of the Falseness of the History
Of Those Who Suppose That This
How These Persons Are to Be Ans
Of the Revolution of the Ages,
Of the Creation of the Human Ra
Whether We Are to Believe That
How We Are to Understand God's
What Defence Is Made by Sound F
Against Those Who Assert That T
Of Worlds Without End, Or Ages
Of the Impiety of Those Who Ass
That There Was Created at First
That God Foreknew That the Firs
Of the Nature of the Human Soul
Whether the Angels Can Be Said
That God Alone Is the Creator o
Of That Opinion of the Platonis
That the Whole Plenitude of the
Book 13
Of the Fall of the First Man, T
Of That Death Which Can Affect
Whether Death, Which by the Sin
Why Death, the Punishment of Si
As the Wicked Make an Ill Use o
Of the Evil of Death in General
Of the Death Which the Un-Bapti
That the Saints, by Suffering t
Whether We Should Say That Tile
Of the Life of Mortals, Which I
Whether One Can Both Be Living
What Death God Intended, When H
What Was the First Punishment o
In What State Man Was Made by G
That Adam in His Sin Forsook Go
Concerning the Philosophers Who
Against Those Who Affirm That E
Of Earthly Bodies, Which the Ph
Against the Opinion of Those Wh
That the Flesh Now Resting in P
Of Paradise, That It Can Be Und
That the Bodies of the Saints S
What We Are to Understand by th
How We Must Understand That Bre
Book 14
That the Disobedience of the Fi
Of Carnal Life, Which Is to Be
That the Sin Is Caused Not by t
What It Is to Live According to
That the Opinion of the Platoni
Of the Character of the Human W
That the Words Love and Regard
Of the Three Perturbations, Whi
Of the Perturbations of the Sou
Whether It Is to Be Believed Th
Of the Fall of the First Man, i
Of the Nature of Man's First Si
That in Adam's Sin an Evil Will
Of the Pride in the Sin, Which
Of the Justice of the Punishmen
Of the Evil of Lust,-a Word Whi
Of the Nakedness of Our First P
Of the Shame Which Attends All
That It Is Now Necessary, as It
Of the Foolish Beastliness of t
That Man's Transgression Did No
Of the Conjugal Union as It Was
Whether Generation Should Have
That If Men Had Remained Innoce
Of True Blessedness, Which This
That We Are to Believe That in
Of the Angels and Men Who Sinne
Of the Nature of the Two Cities
Book 15
Of the Two Lines of the Human R
Of the Children of the Flesh an
That Sarah's Barrenness Was Mad
Of the Conflict and Peace of th
Of the Fratricidal Act of the F
Of the Weaknesses Which Even th
Of the Cause of Cain's Crime Hi
What Cain's Reason Was for Buil
Of the Long Life and Greater St
Of the Different Computation of
Of Methuselah's Age, Which Seem
Of the Opinion of Those Who Do
Whether, in Computing Years, We
That the Years in Those Ancient
Whether It Is Credible That the
Of Marriage Between Blood-Relat
Of the Two Fathers and Leaders
The Significance of Abel, Seth,
The Significance Op Enoch's Tra
How It Is That Cain's Line Term
Why It Is That, as Soon as Cain
Of the Fall of the Sons of God
Whether We Are to Believe That
How We Are to Understand This W
Of the Anger of God, Which Does
That the Ark Which Noah Was Ord
Of the Ark and the Deluge, and
Book 16
Whether, After the Deluge, from
What Was Prophetically Prefigur
Of the Generations of the Three
Of the Diversity of Languages,
Of God's Coming Down to Confoun
What We Are to Understand by Go
Whether Even the Remotest Islan
Whether Certain Monstrous Races
Whether We Are to Believe in th
Of the Genealogy of Shem, in Wh
That the Original Language in U
Of the Era in Abraham's Life fr
Why, in the Account of Terah's
Of the Years of Terah, Who Comp
Of the Time of the Migration of
Of the Order and Nature of the
Of the Three Most Famous Kingdo
Of the Repeated Address of God
Of the Divine Preservation of S
Of the Parting of Lot and Abrah
Of the Third Promise of God, by
Of Abraham's Overcoming the Ene
Of the Word of the Lord to Abra
Of the Meaning of the Sacrifice
Of Sarah's Handmaid, Hagar, Who
Of God's Attestation to Abraham
Of the Male, Who Was to Lose Hi
Of the Change of Name in Abraha
Of the Three Men Or Angels, in
Of Lot's Deliverance from Sodom
Of Isaac, Who Was Born Accordin
Of Abraham's Obedience and Fait
Of Rebecca, the Grand-Daughter
What Is Meant by Abraham's Marr
What Was Indicated by the Divin
Of the Oracle and Blessing Whic
Of the Things Mystically Prefig
Of Jacob's Mission to Mesopotam
The Reason Why Jacob Was Also C
How It Is Said That Jacob Went
Of the Blessing Which Jacob Pro
Of the Sons of Joseph, Whom Jac
Of the Times of Moses and Joshu
Book 17
Of the Prophetic Age
At What Time the Promise of God
Of the Three-Fold Meaning of th
About the Prefigured Change of
Of Those Things Which a Man of
Of the Jewish Priesthood and Ki
Of the Disruption of the Kingdo
Of the Promises Made to David i
How Like the Prophecy About Chr
How Different the Acts in the K
Of the Substance of the People
To Whose Person the Entreaty fo
Whether the Truth of This Promi
Of David's Concern in the Writi
Whether All the Things Prophesi
Of the Things Pertaining to Chr
Of Those Things in the 110th Ps
Of the 3d, 41st, 15th, and 68th
Of the 69th Psalm, in Which the
Of David's Reign and Merit; and
Of the Kings After Solomon, Bot
Of Jeroboam, Who Profaned the P
Of the Varying Condition of Bot
Of the Prophets, Who Either Wer
Book 18
Of Those Things Down to the Tim
Of the Kings and Times of the E
What Kings Reigned in Assyria a
Of the Times of Jacob and His S
Of Apis King of Argos, Whom the
Who Were Kings of Argos, and of
Who Were Kingswhen Joseph Died
Who Were Kings When Moses Was B
When the City of Athens Was Fou
What Varro Reports About the Te
When Moses Led the People Out o
Of the Rituals of False Gods In
What Fables Were Invented at th
Of the Theological Poets
Of the Fall of the Kingdom of A
Of Diomede, Who After the Destr
What Varro Says of the Incredib
What We Should Believe Concerni
That Aeneas Came Into Italy Whe
Of the Succession of the Line o
Of the Kings of Latium, the Fir
That Rome Was Founded When the
Of the Erythraean Sibyl, Who Is
That the Seven Sages Flourished
What Philosophers Were Famous W
That at the Time When the Capti
Of the Times of the Prophets Wh
Of the Things Pertaining to the
What Things Are Predicted by Is
What Micah, Jonah, and Joel Pro
Of the Predictions Concerning t
Of the Prophecy That Is Contain
What Jeremiah and Zephaniah Hav
Of the Prophecy of Daniel and E
Of the Prophecy of the Three Pr
About Esdras and the Books of t
That Prophetic Records Are Foun
That the Ecclesiastical Canon H
About the Hebrew Written Charac
About the Most Mendacious Vanit
About the Discord of Philosophi
By What Dispensation of God's P
Of the Authority of the Septuag
How the Threat of the Destructi
That the Jews Ceased to Have Pr
Of the Birth of Our Saviour, Wh
Whether Before Christian Times
That Haggai's Prophecy, in Whic
Of the Indiscriminate Increase
Of the Preaching of the Gospel,
That the Catholic Faith May Be
Whether We Should Believe What
Of the Hidden Time of the Final
Of the Very Foolish Lie of the
Book 19
That Varro Has Made Out That Tw
How Varro, by Removing All the
Which of the Three Leading Opin
What the Christians Believe Reg
Of the Social Life, Which, Thou
Of the Error of Human Judgments
Of the Diversity of Languages,
That the Friendship of Good Men
Of the Friendship of the Holy A
The Reward Prepared for the Sai
Of the Happiness of the Eternal
That Even the Fierceness of War
Of the Universal Peace Which th
Of the Order and Law Which Obta
Of the Liberty Proper to Man's
Of Equitable Rule
What Produces Peace, and What D
How Different the Uncertainty o
Of the Dress and Habits of the
That the Saints Are in This Lif
Whether There Ever Was a Roman
Whether the God Whom the Christ
Porphyry's Account of the Respo
The Definition Which Must Be Gi
That Where There Is No True Rel
Of the Peace Which Is Enjoyed b
That the Peace of Those Who Ser
The End of the Wicked
Book 20
That Although God Is Always Jud
That in the Mingled Web of Huma
What Solomon, in the Book of Ec
That Proofs of the Last Judgmen
The Passages in Which the Savio
What Is the First Resurrection,
What Is Written in the Revelati
Of the Binding and Loosing of t
What the Reign of the Saints wi
What Is to Be Replied to Those
Of Gog and Magog, Who Are to Be
Whether the Fire That Came Down
Whether the Time of the Persecu
Of the Damnation of the Devil a
Who the Dead Are Who Are Given
Of the New Heaven and the New E
Of the Endless Glory of the Chu
What the Apostle Peter Predicte
What the Apostle Paul Wrote to
What the Same Apostle Taught in
Utterances of the Prophet Isaia
What Is Meant by the Good Going
What Daniel Predicted Regarding
Passages from the Psalms of Dav
Of Malachi's Prophecy, in Which
Of the Sacrifices Offered to Go
Of the Separation of the Good a
That the Law of Moses Must Be S
Of the Coming of Elias Before t
That in the Books of the Old Te
Book 21
Of the Order of the Discussion,
Whether It Is Possible for Bodi
Whether Bodily Suffering Necess
Examples from Nature Proving Th
That There Are Many Things Whic
That All Marvels Are Not of Nat
That the Ultimate Reason for Be
That It Is Not Contrary to Natu
Of Hell, and the Nature of Eter
Whether the Fire of Hell, If It
Whether It Is Just That the Pun
Of the Greatness of the First T
Against the Opinion of Those Wh
Of the Temporary Punishments of
That Everything Which the Grace
The Laws of Grace, Which Extend
Of Those Who Fancy That No Men
Of Those Who Fancy That, on Acc
Of Those Who Promise Impunity f
Of Those Who Promise This Indul
Of Those Who Assert That All Ca
Of Those Who Fancy That the Sin
Against Those Who Are of Opinio
Against Those Who Fancy That in
Whether Those Who Received Here
What It Is to Have Christ for a
Against the Belief of Those Who
Book 22
Of the Creation of Angels and M
Of the Eternal and Unchangeable
Of the Promise of Eternal Bless
Against the Wise Men of the Wor
Of the Resurrection of the Fles
That Rome Made Its Founder Romu
That the World's Belief in Chri
Of Miracles Which Were Wrought
That All the Miracles Which Are
That the Martyrs Who Obtain Man
Against the Platonists, Who Arg
Against the Calumnies with Whic
Whether Abortions, If They Are
Whether Infants Shall Rise in T
Whether the Bodies of All the D
What Is Meant by the Conforming
Whether the Bodies of Women Sha
Of the Perfect Man, That Is, Ch
That All Bodily Blemishes Which
That, in the Resurrection, the
Of the New Spiritual Body Into
Of the Miseries and Ills to Whi
Of the Miseries of This Life Wh
Of the Blessings with Which the
Of the Obstinacy of Those Indiv
That the Opinion of Porphyry, T
Of the Apparently Conflicting O
What Plato Or Labeo, Or Even Va
Of the Beatific Vision
Of the Eternal Felicity of the

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