The City of God, with On Christian Doctrine, Augustine's guide to understanding and teaching the Scriptures.
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From the opening: Book I
Argument--Augustin censures the pagans, who attributed the calamities of the world, and especially the recent sack of Rome by the Goths, to the Christian religion, and its prohibition of the worship of the gods. He speaks of the blessings and ills of life, which then, as always, happened to good and bad men alike. Finally, he rebukes the shamelessness of those who cast up to the Christians that their women had been violated by the soldiers.
Contents (286 sections)
- About this edition
- Title page
- Introductory Note
- Book I
- Preface, Explaining His Design in Undertaking This Work
- Chapters 5–8
- Chapters 9–10
- Chapters 11–13
- Chapter 14 — Of the Captivity of the Saints, and that Divine Consolation Never Failed…
- Chapters 17–19
- Chapters 20–22
- Chapters 23–26
- Chapters 27–29
- Chapters 30–33
- Chapters 34–36
- Book II
- Chapters 5–6
- Chapters 8–11
- Chapters 13–14
- Chapters 15–18
- Chapters 19–21
- Chapters 22–23
- Chapters 24–25
- Chapters 26–28
- Chapter 29 — An Exhortation to the Romans to Renounce Paganism
- Book III
- Chapters 5–8
- Chapters 9–11
- Chapters 12–14
- Chapter 15 — What Manner of Life and Death the Roman Kings Had
- Chapter 17 — Of the Disasters Which Vexed the Roman Republic After the Inauguration of…
- Chapters 18–19
- Chapters 20–21
- Chapters 22–26
- Chapters 27–30
- Book IV
- Chapters 4–7
- Chapters 9–11
- Chapters 12–17
- Chapters 18–21
- Chapter 22 — Concerning the Knowledge of the Worship Due to the Gods, Which Varro Glories…
- Chapters 24–27
- Chapters 28–30
- Chapters 32–34
- Book V
- Preface
- Chapters 3–5
- Chapters 6–7
- Chapters 8–9
- Chapters 10–12
- Chapters 13–15
- Chapters 16–17
- Chapters 19–20
- Chapters 21–23
- Chapters 24–26
- Book VI
- Preface
- Chapters 3–4
- Chapters 5–6
- Chapter 7 — Concerning the Likeness and Agreement of the Fabulous and Civil Theologies
- Chapters 8–9
- Chapter 10 — Concerning the Liberty of Seneca, Who More Vehemently Censured the Civil…
- Chapter 11 — What Seneca Thought Concerning the Jews
- Book VII
- Preface
- Chapters 4–6
- Chapters 7–9
- Chapters 10–13
- Chapters 14–16
- Chapters 17–19
- Chapters 20–22
- Chapters 25–26
- Chapters 28–29
- Chapters 31–33
- Chapter 35 — Concerning the Hydromancy Through Which Numa Was Befooled by Certain Images…
- Book VIII
- Chapters 3–4
- Chapters 6–8
- Chapters 9–11
- Chapter 13 — Concerning the Opinion of Plato, According to Which He Defined the Gods as…
- Chapters 15–17
- Chapters 18–20
- Chapters 21–22
- Chapter 23 — What Hermes Trismegistus Thought Concerning Idolatry, and from What Source…
- Chapter 24 — How Hermes Openly Confessed the Error of His Forefathers, the Coming…
- Chapters 25–27
- Book IX
- Chapters 5–8
- Chapters 9–13
- Chapters 14–15
- Chapters 18–22
- Chapter 23 — That the Name of Gods is Falsely Given to the Gods of the Gentiles, Though…
- Book X
- Chapters 4–6
- Chapters 7–9
- Chapters 10–11
- Chapters 12–15
- Chapters 17–19
- Chapters 20–23
- Chapters 24–25
- Chapters 26–27
- Chapters 28–29
- Chapters 30–31
- Book XI
- Chapters 5–7
- Chapters 8–10
- Chapters 11–12
- Chapters 14–18
- Chapters 19–21
- Chapters 22–23
- Chapters 24–26
- Chapter 27 — Of Existence, and Knowledge of It, and the Love of Both
- Chapters 30–33
- Book XII
- Chapters 4–6
- Chapters 7–9
- Chapters 10–12
- Chapter 14 — Of the Creation of the Human Race in Time, and How This Was Effected Without…
- Chapters 16–18
- Chapter 19 — Of Worlds Without End, or Ages of Ages
- Chapters 21–25
- Chapter 26 — Of that Opinion of the Platonists, that the Angels Were Themselves Indeed…
- Book XIII
- Chapters 5–9
- Chapters 10–11
- Chapters 12–15
- Chapters 17–18
- Chapters 19–20
- Chapters 21–23
- Book XIV
- Chapter 4 — What It is to Live According to Man, and What to Live According to God
- Chapters 6–7
- Chapter 9 — Of the Perturbations of the Soul Which Appear as Right Affections in the Life…
- Chapters 10–11
- Chapters 12–13
- Chapters 14–16
- Chapters 17–19
- Chapters 20–22
- Chapters 24–26
- Chapters 27–28
- Book XV
- Chapters 3–5
- Chapter 7 — Of the Cause of Cain's Crime and His Obstinacy, Which Not Even the Word of…
- Chapters 8–9
- Chapters 10–12
- Chapters 13–14
- Chapters 15–16
- Chapters 17–19
- Chapter 20 — How It is that Cain's Line Terminates in the Eighth Generation, While Noah…
- Chapters 24–26
- Book XVI
- Chapters 3–4
- Chapters 5–8
- Chapters 9–10
- Chapters 12–15
- Chapters 16–21
- Chapters 22–24
- Chapters 25–27
- Chapters 29–32
- Chapters 33–36
- Chapters 37–38
- Chapters 39–41
- Chapter 42 — Of the Sons of Joseph, Whom Jacob Blessed, Prophetically Changing His Hands
- Book XVII
- Chapter 4 — About the Prefigured Change of the Israelitic Kingdom and Priesthood, and…
- Chapters 7–8
- Chapters 9–11
- Chapters 12–13
- Chapters 14–16
- Chapters 17–18
- Chapter 19 — Of the 69th Psalm, in Which the Obstinate Unbelief of the Jews is Declared
- Chapters 21–24
- Book XVIII
- Chapters 4–8
- Chapters 9–12
- Chapters 13–16
- Chapters 17–18
- Chapters 19–22
- Chapter 23 — Of the Erythræan Sibyl, Who is Known to Have Sung Many Things About Christ…
- Chapters 26–29
- Chapters 30–32
- Chapters 33–35
- Chapters 36–39
- Chapters 40–41
- Chapter 43 — Of the Authority of the Septuagint Translation, Which, Saving the Honor of…
- Chapters 46–47
- Chapters 49–51
- Chapters 53–54
- Book XIX
- Chapter 3 — Which of the Three Leading Opinions Regarding the Chief Good Should Be…
- Chapters 5–7
- Chapters 8–11
- Chapter 12 — That Even the Fierceness of War and All the Disquietude of Men Make Towards…
- Chapter 14 — Of the Order and Law Which Obtain in Heaven and Earth, Whereby It Comes to…
- Chapters 16–17
- Chapters 18–21
- Chapters 22–23
- Chapters 24–27
- Chapter 28 — The End of the Wicked
- Book XX
- Chapters 3–5
- Chapters 6–7
- Chapter 8 — Of the Binding and Loosing of the Devil
- Chapter 9 — What the Reign of the Saints with Christ for a Thousand Years Is, and How It…
- Chapters 10–13
- Chapters 14–15
- Chapters 16–18
- Chapter 19 — What the Apostle Paul Wrote to the Thessalonians About the Manifestation of…
- Chapters 20–21
- Chapters 22–24
- Chapters 25–26
- Chapters 27–29
- Book XXI
- Chapter 4 — Examples from Nature Proving that Bodies May Remain Unconsumed and Alive in…
- Chapters 5–6
- Chapter 7 — That the Ultimate Reason for Believing Miracles is the Omnipotence of the…
- Chapters 9–10
- Chapters 11–13
- Chapters 14–16
- Chapters 17–19
- Chapters 22–24
- Chapter 26 — What It is to Have Christ for a Foundation, and Who They are to Whom…
- Chapter 27 — Against the Belief of Those Who Think that the Sins Which Have Been…
- Book XXII
- Chapters 3–5
- Chapter 6 — That Rome Made Its Founder Romulus a God Because It Loved Him; But the Church…
- Chapters 7–8
- Chapters 9–11
- Chapters 12–14
- Chapters 15–18
- Chapters 20–22
- Chapters 23–24
- Chapters 25–27
- Chapters 28–29
- Chapter 30 — Of the Eternal Felicity of the City of God, and of the Perpetual Sabbath
- Introductory Note by the Editor
- Book I
- Book II
- Book III
- Book IV
- Preface
- Book I
- Chapters 5–10
- Chapters 11–18
- Chapters 19–24
- Chapters 25–30
- Chapters 31–35
- Chapters 37–40
- Book II
- Chapters 5–6
- Chapters 8–11
- Chapters 12–13
- Chapters 14–16
- Chapters 17–21
- Chapters 22–24
- Chapters 25–28
- Chapters 29–31
- Chapters 32–36
- Chapters 37–39
- Chapters 40–42
- Book III
- Chapters 4–8
- Chapters 9–11
- Chapters 12–16
- Chapters 17–21
- Chapters 22–27
- Chapters 28–30
- Chapters 31–34
- Chapters 35–36
- Chapter 37 — The Seventh Rule of Tichonius
- Book IV
- Chapters 4–6
- Chapter 7 — Examples of True Eloquence Drawn from the Epistles of Paul and the Prophecies…
- Chapters 8–10
- Chapters 11–14
- Chapters 15–18
- Chapters 19–20
- Chapter 21 — Examples of the Various Styles, Drawn from the Teachers of the Church…
- Chapters 22–25
- Chapters 26–28
- Chapters 29–31
- Index of Subjects
- Canon, the ecclesiastical, has excluded certain writings, on account of their great…
- Liber, the god, 109; and Libera, 11I7, 123, 124, 368
- Index of Subjects
- Letter, the, killeth, expounded, 559, etc
How to cite it
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- APA
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