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



