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- Title Page
- Against Lying
- Introduction
- Section 1. A great deal for me to read hast thou sent
- Section 2. Perceivest thou not how much this reasoning aideth the very persons whom as great
- Section 3. Which sentence dishonoreth the holy Martyrs, nay rather taketh away holy martyrdoms altogether.
- Section 4. Of lies are many sorts, which indeed all
- Section 13. Or haply is it so, that he who plots in this way to find
- Section 14. Wherefore, that which is written, |Who speaketh the truth in his heart
- Section 15. And as for that saying of the Apostle
- Section 16. For there were even in the Apostles' times some who preached the truth not
- Section 19. Some man will say, |So then any thief whatever is to be accounted equal
- Section 21. If then to sin, that others may not commit a worse sin
- Section 22. And to holy David indeed it might more justly be said
- Section 24. Touching Jacob, however, that which he did at his mother's bidding
- Section 25. Nor have I undertaken that in the present discourse
- Section 27. There are some things of this sort even of our Saviour in the Gospel
- Section 28. Hence is also that which thou hast mentioned that they speak of
- Section 29. Because, therefore, lying heretics find not in the books of the New Testament any
- Section 32. But, as for that which is written, that God did good to the Hebrew
- Section 33. It remains then that we understand as concerning those women
- Section 34. But some man will say, Would then those midwives and Rahab have done better
- Section 35. Since these things are so, because it were too long to treat thoroughly of
- Section 37. Add to this, and here is cause to cry out more piteously
- Section 38. But infirmity pleadeth its part, and with favor of the crowds proclaims itself to
- Section 40. But sometimes a peril to eternal salvation itself is put forth against us
- Section 41. Either then we are to eschew lies by right doing