The Confessions And Letters Of St

1 Preface 2 Prolegomena. 3 I. sources. 4 II. BIOGRAPHIES. 5 III. special treatises on the system of augustin. 6 CHAPTER II.--A Sketch of the Life of St. Augustin. 7 CHAPTER III.--Estimate of St. Augustin. 8 CHAPTER IV.--The Writings of St. Augustin. 9 CHAPTER V.--The Influence of St. Augustin upon Posterity, and his Relation to Catholicism and Protestantism. 10 Chief Events in the Life of St. Augustin. 11 St. Aurelius Augustin 12 Translator's Preface 13 The Opinion of St. Augustin 14 Book I. 15 Chapter I.--He Proclaims the Greatness of God, Whom He Desires to Seek and Invoke, Being Awakened by Him. 16 Chapter II.--That the God Whom We Invoke is in Us, and We in Him. 17 Chapter III.--Everywhere God Wholly Filleth All Things, But Neither Heaven Nor Earth Containeth Him. 18 Chapter IV.--The Majesty of God is Supreme, and His Virtues Inexplicable. 19 Chapter V.--He Seeks Rest in God, and Pardon of His Sins. 20 Chapter VI.--He Describes His Infancy, and Lauds the Protection and Eternal Providence of God. 21 Chapter VII.--He Shows by Example that Even Infancy is Prone to Sin. 22 Chapter VIII.--That When a Boy He Learned to Speak, Not by Any Set Method, But from the Acts and Words of His Parents. 23 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. 24 Chapter X.--Through a Love of Ball-Playing and Shows, He Neglects His Studies and the Injunctions of His Parents. 25 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. 26 Chapter XII.--Being Compelled, He Gave His Attention to Learning; But Fully Acknowledges that This Was the Work of God. 27 Chapter XIII.--He Delighted in Latin Studies and the Empty Fables of the Poets, But Hated the Elements of Literature and the Greek Language. 28 Chapter XIV.--Why He Despised Greek Literature, and Easily Learned Latin. 29 Chapter XV.--He Entreats God, that Whatever Useful Things He Learned as a Boy May Be Dedicated to Him. 30 Chapter XVI.--He Disapproves of the Mode of Educating Youth, and He Points Out Why Wickedness is Attributed to the Gods by the Poets. 31 Chapter XVII.--He Continues on the Unhappy Method of Training Youth in Literary Subjects. 32 Chapter XVIII.--Men Desire to Observe the Rules of Learning, But Neglect the Eternal Rules of Everlasting Safety. 33 Book II. 34 Chapter I.--He Deplores the Wickedness of His Youth. 35 Chapter II.--Stricken with Exceeding Grief, He Remembers the Dissolute Passions in Which, in His Sixteenth Year, He Used to Indulge. 36 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. 37 Chapter IV.--He Commits Theft with His Companions, Not Urged on by Poverty, But from a Certain Distaste of Well-Doing. 38 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. 39 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. 40 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. 41 Chapter VIII.--In His Theft He Loved the Company of His Fellow-Sinners. 42 Chapter IX.--It Was a Pleasure to Him Also to Laugh When Seriously Deceiving Others. 43 Chapter X.--With God There is True Rest and Life Unchanging. 44 Book III. 45 Chapter I.--Deluded by an Insane Love, He, Though Foul and Dishonourable, Desires to Be Thought Elegant and Urbane. 46 Chapter II.--In Public Spectacles He is Moved by an Empty Compassion. He is Attacked by a Troublesome Spiritual Disease. 47 Chapter III.--Not Even When at Church Does He Suppress His Desires. In the School of Rhetoric He Abhors the Acts of the Subverters. 48 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. 49 Chapter V.--He Rejects the Sacred Scriptures as Too Simple, and as Not to Be Compared with the Dignity of Tully. 50 Chapter VI.--Deceived by His Own Fault, He Falls into the Errors of the Manichæans, Who Gloried in the True Knowledge of God and in a Thorough Examination of Things. 51 Chapter VII.--He Attacks the Doctrine of the Manichæans Concerning Evil, God, and the Righteousness of the Patriarchs. 52 Chapter VIII.--He Argues Against the Same as to the Reason of Offences. 53 Chapter IX.--That the Judgment of God and Men as to Human Acts of Violence, is Different. 54 Chapter X.--He Reproves the Triflings of the Manichæans as to the Fruits of the Earth. 55 Chapter XI.--He Refers to the Tears, and the Memorable Dream Concerning Her Son, Granted by God to His Mother. 56 Chapter XII.--The Excellent Answer of the Bishop When Referred to by His Mother as to the Conversion of Her Son. 57 Book IV. 58 Chapter I.--Concerning that Most Unhappy Time in Which He, Being Deceived, Deceived Others; And Concerning the Mockers of His Confession. 59 Chapter II.--He Teaches Rhetoric, the Only Thing He Loved, and Scorns the Soothsayer, Who Promised Him Victory. 60 Chapter III.--Not Even the Most Experienced Men Could Persuade Him of the Vanity of Astrology to Which He Was Devoted. 61 Chapter IV.--Sorely Distressed by Weeping at the Death of His Friend, He Provides Consolation for Himself. 62 Chapter V.--Why Weeping is Pleasant to the Wretched. 63 Chapter VI.--His Friend Being Snatched Away by Death, He Imagines that He Remains Only as Half. 64 Chapter VII.--Troubled by Restlessness and Grief, He Leaves His Country a Second Time for Carthage. 65 Chapter VIII.--That His Grief Ceased by Time, and the Consolation of Friends. 66 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. 67 Chapter X.--That All Things Exist that They May Perish, and that We are Not Safe Unless God Watches Over Us. 68 Chapter XI.--That Portions of the World are Not to Be Loved; But that God, Their Author, is Immutable, and His Word Eternal. 69 Chapter XII.--Love is Not Condemned, But Love in God, in Whom There is Rest Through Jesus Christ, is to Be Preferred. 70 Chapter XIII.--Love Originates from Grace and Beauty Enticing Us. 71 Chapter XIV.--Concerning the Books Which He Wrote |On the Fair and Fit,| Dedicated to Hierius. 72 Chapter XV.--While Writing, Being Blinded by Corporeal Images, He Failed to Recognise the Spiritual Nature of God. 73 Chapter XVI.--He Very Easily Understood the Liberal Arts and the Categories of Aristotle, But Without True Fruit. 74 Book V. 75 Chapter I.--That It Becomes the Soul to Praise God, and to Confess Unto Him. 76 Chapter II.--On the Vanity of Those Who Wished to Escape the Omnipotent God. 77 Chapter III.--Having Heard Faustus, the Most Learned Bishop of the Manichæans, He Discerns that God, the Author Both of Things Animate and Inanimate, Chiefly Has Care for the Humble. 78 Chapter IV.--That the Knowledge of Terrestrial and Celestial Things Does Not Give Happiness, But the Knowledge of God Only. 79 Chapter V.--Of Manichæus Pertinaciously Teaching False Doctrines, and Proudly Arrogating to Himself the Holy Spirit. 80 Chapter VI.--Faustus Was Indeed an Elegant Speaker, But Knew Nothing of the Liberal Sciences. 81 Chapter VII.--Clearly Seeing the Fallacies of the Manichæans, He Retires from Them, Being Remarkably Aided by God. 82 Chapter VIII.--He Sets Out for Rome, His Mother in Vain Lamenting It. 83 Chapter IX.--Being Attacked by Fever, He is in Great Danger. 84 Chapter X.--When He Had Left the Manichæans, He Retained His Depraved Opinions Concerning Sin and the Origin of the Saviour. 85 Chapter XI.--Helpidius Disputed Well Against the Manichæans as to the Authenticity of the New Testament. 86 Chapter XII.--Professing Rhetoric at Rome, He Discovers the Fraud of His Scholars. 87 Chapter XIII.--He is Sent to Milan, that He, About to Teach Rhetoric, May Be Known by Ambrose. 88 Chapter XIV.--Having Heard the Bishop, He Perceives the Force of the Catholic Faith, Yet Doubts, After the Manner of the Modern Academics. 89 Book VI. 90 Chapter I.--His Mother Having Followed Him to Milan, Declares that She Will Not Die Before Her Son Shall Have Embraced the Catholic Faith. 91 Chapter II.--She, on the Prohibition of Ambrose, Abstains from Honouring the Memory of the Martyrs. 92 Chapter III.--As Ambrose Was Occupied with Business and Study, Augustin Could Seldom Consult Him Concerning the Holy Scriptures. 93 Chapter IV.--He Recognises the Falsity of His Own Opinions, and Commits to Memory the Saying of Ambrose. 94 Chapter V.--Faith is the Basis of Human Life; Man Cannot Discover that Truth Which Holy Scripture Has Disclosed. 95 Chapter VI.--On the Source and Cause of True Joy,--The Example of the Joyous Beggar Being Adduced. 96 Chapter VII.--He Leads to Reformation His Friend Alypius, Seized with Madness for the Circensian Games. 97 Chapter VIII.--The Same When at Rome, Being Led by Others into the Amphitheatre, is Delighted with the Gladiatorial Games. 98 Chapter IX.--Innocent Alypius, Being Apprehended as a Thief, is Set at Liberty by the Cleverness of an Architect. 99 Chapter X.--The Wonderful Integrity of Alypius in Judgment. The Lasting Friendship of Nebridius with Augustin. 100 Chapter XI.--Being Troubled by His Grievous Errors, He Meditates Entering on a New Life. 101 Chapter XII.--Discussion with Alypius Concerning a Life of Celibacy. 102 Chapter XIII.--Being Urged by His Mother to Take a Wife, He Sought a Maiden that Was Pleasing Unto Him. 103 Chapter XIV.--The Design of Establishing a Common Household with His Friends is Speedily Hindered. 104 Chapter XV.--He Dismisses One Mistress, and Chooses Another. 105 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. 106 Book VII. 107 Chapter I.--He Regarded Not God Indeed Under the Form of a Human Body, But as a Corporeal Substance Diffused Through Space. 108 Chapter II.--The Disputation of Nebridius Against the Manichæans, on the Question |Whether God Be Corruptible or Incorruptible.| 109 Chapter III.--That the Cause of Evil is the Free Judgment of the Will. 110 Chapter IV.--That God is Not Corruptible, Who, If He Were, Would Not Be God at All. 111 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. 112 Chapter VI.--He Refutes the Divinations of the Astrologers, Deduced from the Constellations. 113 Chapter VII.--He is Severely Exercised as to the Origin of Evil. 114 Chapter VIII.--By God's Assistance He by Degrees Arrives at the Truth. 115 Chapter IX.--He Compares the Doctrine of the Platonists Concerning the Logos With the Much More Excellent Doctrine of Christianity. 116 Chapter X.--Divine Things are the More Clearly Manifested to Him Who Withdraws into the Recesses of His Heart. 117 Chapter XI.--That Creatures are Mutable and God Alone Immutable. 118 Chapter XII.--Whatever Things the Good God Has Created are Very Good. 119 Chapter XIII.--It is Meet to Praise the Creator for the Good Things Which are Made in Heaven and Earth. 120 Chapter XIV.--Being Displeased with Some Part Of God's Creation, He Conceives of Two Original Substances. 121 Chapter XV.--Whatever Is, Owes Its Being to God. 122 Chapter XVI.--Evil Arises Not from a Substance, But from the Perversion of the Will. 123 Chapter XVII.--Above His Changeable Mind, He Discovers the Unchangeable Author of Truth. 124 Chapter XVIII.--Jesus Christ, the Mediator, is the Only Way of Safety. 125 Chapter XIX.--He Does Not Yet Fully Understand the Saying of John, that |The Word Was Made Flesh.| 126 Chapter XX.--He Rejoices that He Proceeded from Plato to the Holy Scriptures, and Not the Reverse. 127 Chapter XXI.--What He Found in the Sacred Books Which are Not to Be Found in Plato. 128 Book VIII. 129 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. 130 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. 131 Chapter III.--That God and the Angels Rejoice More on the Return of One Sinner Than of Many Just Persons. 132 Chapter IV.--He Shows by the Example of Victorinus that There is More Joy in the Conversion of Nobles. 133 Chapter V.--Of the Causes Which Alienate Us from God. 134 Chapter VI.--Pontitianus' Account of Antony, the Founder of Monachism, and of Some Who Imitated Him. 135 Chapter VII.--He Deplores His Wretchedness, that Having Been Born Thirty-Two Years, He Had Not Yet Found Out the Truth. 136 Chapter VIII.--The Conversation with Alypius Being Ended, He Retires to the Garden, Whither His Friend Follows Him. 137 Chapter IX.--That the Mind Commandeth the Mind, But It Willeth Not Entirely. 138 Chapter X.--He Refutes the Opinion of the Manichæans as to Two Kinds of Minds,--One Good and the Other Evil. 139 Chapter XI.--In What Manner the Spirit Struggled with the Flesh, that It Might Be Freed from the Bondage of Vanity. 140 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 Mothe 141 Book IX. 142 Chapter I.--He Praises God, the Author of Safety, and Jesus Christ, the Redeemer, Acknowledging His Own Wickedness. 143 Chapter II.--As His Lungs Were Affected, He Meditates Withdrawing Himself from Public Favour. 144 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. 145 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. 146 Chapter V.--At the Recommendation of Ambrose, He Reads the Prophecies of Isaiah, But Does Not Understand Them. 147 Chapter VI.--He is Baptized at Milan with Alypius and His Son Adeodatus. The Book |De Magistro.| 148 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. 149 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. 150 Chapter IX.--He Describes the Praiseworthy Habits of His Mother; Her Kindness Towards Her Husband and Her Sons. 151 Chapter X.--A Conversation He Had with His Mother Concerning the Kingdom of Heaven. 152 Chapter XI.--His Mother, Attacked by Fever, Dies at Ostia. 153 Chapter XII.--How He Mourned His Dead Mother. 154 Chapter XIII.--He Entreats God for Her Sins, and Admonishes His Readers to Remember Her Piously. 155 Book X. 156 Chapter I.--In God Alone is the Hope and Joy of Man. 157 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. 158 Chapter III.--He Who Confesseth Rightly Unto God Best Knoweth Himself. 159 Chapter IV.--That in His Confessions He May Do Good, He Considers Others. 160 Chapter V.--That Man Knoweth Not Himself Wholly. 161 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. 162 Chapter VII.--That God is to Be Found Neither from the Powers of the Body Nor of the Soul. 163 Chapter VIII.—-Of the Nature and the Amazing Power of Memory. 164 Chapter IX.--Not Only Things, But Also Literature and Images, are Taken from the Memory, and are Brought Forth by the Act of Remembering. 165 Chapter X.--Literature is Not Introduced to the Memory Through the Senses, But is Brought Forth from Its More Secret Places. 166 Chapter XI.--What It is to Learn and to Think. 167 Chapter XII.--On the Recollection of Things Mathematical. 168 Chapter XIII.--Memory Retains All Things. 169 Chapter XIV.--Concerning the Manner in Which Joy and Sadness May Be Brought Back to the Mind and Memory. 170 Chapter XV.--In Memory There are Also Images of Things Which are Absent. 171 Chapter XVI.--The Privation of Memory is Forgetfulness. 172 Chapter XVII.--God Cannot Be Attained Unto by the Power of Memory, Which Beasts and Birds Possess. 173 Chapter XVIII.--A Thing When Lost Could Not Be Found Unless It Were Retained in the Memory. 174 Chapter XIX.--What It is to Remember. 175 Chapter XX.--We Should Not Seek for God and the Happy Life Unless We Had Known It. 176 Chapter XXI.--How a Happy Life May Be Retained in the Memory. 177 Chapter XXII.--A Happy Life is to Rejoice in God, and for God. 178 Chapter XXIII.--All Wish to Rejoice in the Truth. 179 Chapter XXIV.--He Who Finds Truth, Finds God. 180 Chapter XXV.--He is Glad that God Dwells in His Memory. 181 Chapter XXVI.--God Everywhere Answers Those Who Take Counsel of Him. 182 Chapter XXVII.--He Grieves that He Was So Long Without God. 183 Chapter XXVIII.--On the Misery of Human Life. 184 Chapter XXIX.--All Hope is in the Mercy of God. 185 Chapter XXX.--Of the Perverse Images of Dreams, Which He Wishes to Have Taken Away. 186 Chapter XXXI.--About to Speak of the Temptations of the Lust of the Flesh, He First Complains of the Lust of Eating and Drinking. 187 Chapter XXXII.--Of the Charms of Perfumes Which are More Easily Overcome. 188 Chapter XXXIII.--He Overcame the Pleasures of the Ear, Although in the Church He Frequently Delighted in the Song, Not in the Thing Sung. 189 Chapter XXXIV.--Of the Very Dangerous Allurements of the Eyes; On Account of Beauty of Form, God, the Creator, is to Be Praised. 190 Chapter XXXV.--Another Kind of Temptation is Curiosity, Which is Stimulated by the Lust of the Eyes. 191 Chapter XXXVI.--A Third Kind is |Pride| Which is Pleasing to Man, Not to God. 192 Chapter XXXVII.--He is Forcibly Goaded on by the Love of Praise. 193 Chapter XXXVIII.--Vain-Glory is the Highest Danger. 194 Chapter XXXIX.--Of the Vice of Those Who, While Pleasing Themselves, Displease God. 195 Chapter XL.--The Only Safe Resting-Place for the Soul is to Be Found in God. 196 Chapter XLI.--Having Conquered His Triple Desire, He Arrives at Salvation. 197 Chapter XLII.--In What Manner Many Sought the Mediator. 198 Chapter XLIII.--That Jesus Christ, at the Same Time God and Man, is the True and Most Efficacious Mediator. 199 Book XI. 200 Chapter I.--By Confession He Desires to Stimulate Towards God His Own Love and That of His Readers. 201 Chapter II.--He Begs of God that Through the Holy Scriptures He May Be Led to Truth. 202 Chapter III.--He Begins from the Creation of the World--Not Understanding the Hebrew Text. 203 Chapter IV.--Heaven and Earth Cry Out that They Have Been Created by God. 204 Chapter V.--God Created the World Not from Any Certain Matter, But in His Own Word. 205 Chapter VI.--He Did Not, However, Create It by a Sounding and Passing Word. 206 Chapter VII.--By His Co-Eternal Word He Speaks, and All Things are Done. 207 Chapter VIII.--That Word Itself is the Beginning of All Things, in the Which We are Instructed as to Evangelical Truth. 208 Chapter IX.--Wisdom and the Beginning. 209 Chapter X.--The Rashness of Those Who Inquire What God Did Before He Created Heaven and Earth. 210 Chapter XI.--They Who Ask This Have Not as Yet Known the Eternity of God, Which is Exempt from the Relation of Time. 211 Chapter XII.--What God Did Before the Creation of the World. 212 Chapter XIII.--Before the Times Created by God, Times Were Not. 213 Chapter XIV.--Neither Time Past Nor Future, But the Present Only, Really is. 214 Chapter XV.--There is Only a Moment of Present Time. 215 Chapter XVI.--Time Can Only Be Perceived or Measured While It is Passing. 216 Chapter XVII.--Nevertheless There is Time Past and Future. 217 Chapter XVIII.--Past and Future Times Cannot Be Thought of But as Present. 218 Chapter XIX.--We are Ignorant in What Manner God Teaches Future Things. 219 Chapter XX.--In What Manner Time May Properly Be Designated. 220 Chapter XXI.--How Time May Be Measured. 221 Chapter XXII.--He Prays God that He Would Explain This Most Entangled Enigma. 222 Chapter XXIII.--That Time is a Certain Extension. 223 Chapter XXIV.--That Time is Not a Motion of a Body Which We Measure by Time. 224 Chapter XXV.--He Calls on God to Enlighten His Mind. 225 Chapter XXVI.--We Measure Longer Events by Shorter in Time. 226 Chapter XXVII.--Times are Measured in Proportion as They Pass by. 227 Chapter XXVIII.--Time in the Human Mind, Which Expects, Considers, and Remembers. 228 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. 229 Chapter XXX.--Again He Refutes the Empty Question, |What Did God Before the Creation of the World?| 230 Chapter XXXI.--How the Knowledge of God Differs from that of Man. 231 Book XII. 232 Chapter I .--The Discovery of Truth is Difficult, But God Has Promised that He Who Seeks Shall Find. 233 Chapter II.--Of the Double Heaven,--The Visible, and the Heaven of Heavens. 234 Chapter III.--Of the Darkness Upon the Deep, and of the Invisible and Formless Earth. 235 Chapter IV.--From the Formlessness of Matter, the Beautiful World Has Arisen. 236 Chapter V.--What May Have Been the Form of Matter. 237 Chapter VI.--He Confesses that at One Time He Himself Thought Erroneously of Matter. 238 Chapter VII.--Out of Nothing God Made Heaven and Earth. 239 Chapter VIII.--Heaven and Earth Were Made |In the Beginning;| Afterwards the World, During Six Days, from Shapeless Matter. 240 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. 241 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. 242 Chapter XI.--What May Be Discovered to Him by God. 243 Chapter XII.--From the Formless Earth God Created Another Heaven and a Visible and Formed Earth. 244 Chapter XIII.--Of the Intellectual Heaven and Formless Earth, Out of Which, on Another Day, the Firmament Was Formed. 245 Chapter XIV.--Of the Depth of the Sacred Scripture, and Its Enemies. 246 Chapter XV.--He Argues Against Adversaries Concerning the Heaven of Heavens. 247 Chapter XVI.--He Wishes to Have No Intercourse with Those Who Deny Divine Truth. 248 Chapter XVII.--He Mentions Five Explanations of the Words of Genesis I. I. 249 Chapter XVIII.--What Error is Harmless in Sacred Scripture. 250 Chapter XIX.--He Enumerates the Things Concerning Which All Agree. 251 Chapter XX.--Of the Words, |In the Beginning,| Variously Understood. 252 Chapter XXI.--Of the Explanation of the Words, |The Earth Was Invisible.| 253 Chapter XXII.--He Discusses Whether Matter Was from Eternity, or Was Made by God. 254 Chapter XXIII.--Two Kinds of Disagreements in the Books to Be Explained. 255 Chapter XXIV.--Out of the Many True Things, It is Not Asserted Confidently that Moses Understood This or That. 256 Chapter XXV.--It Behoves Interpreters, When Disagreeing Concerning Obscure Places, to Regard God the Author of Truth, and the Rule of Charity. 257 Chapter XXVI.--What He Might Have Asked of God Had He Been Enjoined to Write the Book of Genesis. 258 Chapter XXVII.--The Style of Speaking in the Book of Genesis is Simple and Clear. 259 Chapter XXVIII.--The Words, |In the Beginning,| And, |The Heaven and the Earth,| Are Differently Understood. 260 Chapter XXIX.--Concerning the Opinion of Those Who Explain It |At First He Made.| 261 Chapter XXX.--In the Great Diversity of Opinions, It Becomes All to Unite Charity and Divine Truth. 262 Chapter XXXI.--Moses is Supposed to Have Perceived Whatever of Truth Can Be Discovered in His Words. 263 Chapter XXXII.--First, the Sense of the Writer is to Be Discovered, Then that is to Be Brought Out Which Divine Truth Intended. 264 Book XIII. 265 Chapter I.--He Calls Upon God, and Proposes to Himself to Worship Him. 266 Chapter II.--All Creatures Subsist from the Plenitude of Divine Goodness. 267 Chapter III.--Genesis I. 3,--Of |Light,|--He Understands as It is Seen in the Spiritual Creature. 268 Chapter IV.--All Things Have Been Created by the Grace of God, and are Not of Him as Standing in Need of Created Things. 269 Chapter V.--He Recognises the Trinity in the First Two Verses of Genesis. 270 Chapter VI.--Why the Holy Ghost Should Have Been Mentioned After the Mention of Heaven and Earth. 271 Chapter VII.--That the Holy Spirit Brings Us to God. 272 Chapter VIII.--That Nothing Whatever, Short of God, Can Yield to the Rational Creature a Happy Rest. 273 Chapter IX.--Why the Holy Spirit Was Only |Borne Over| The Waters. 274 Chapter X.--That Nothing Arose Save by the Gift of God. 275 Chapter XI.--That the Symbols of the Trinity in Man, to Be, to Know, and to Will, are Never Thoroughly Examined. 276 Chapter XII.--Allegorical Explanation of Genesis, Chap. I., Concerning the Origin of the Church and Its Worship. 277 Chapter XIII.--That the Renewal of Man is Not Completed in This World. 278 Chapter XIV.--That Out of the Children of the Night and of the Darkness, Children of the Light and of the Day are Made. 279 Chapter XV.--Allegorical Explanation of the Firmament and Upper Works, Ver. 6. 280 Chapter XVI.--That No One But the Unchangeable Light Knows Himself. 281 Chapter XVII.--Allegorical Explanation of the Sea and the Fruit-Bearing Earth--Verses 9 and 11. 282 Chapter XVIII.--Of the Lights and Stars of Heaven--Of Day and Night, Ver. 14. 283 Chapter XIX.--All Men Should Become Lights in the Firmament of Heaven. 284 Chapter XX.--Concerning Reptiles and Flying Creatures (Ver. 20),--The Sacrament of Baptism Being Regarded. 285 Chapter XXI.--Concerning the Living Soul, Birds, and Fishes (Ver. 24)--The Sacrament of the Eucharist Being Regarded. 286 Chapter XXII.--He Explains the Divine Image (Ver. 26) of the Renewal of the Mind. 287 Chapter XXIII.--That to Have Power Over All Things (Ver. 26) is to Judge Spiritually of All. 288 Chapter XXIV.--Why God Has Blessed Men, Fishes, Flying Creatures, and Not Herbs and the Other Animals (Ver. 28). 289 Chapter XXV.--He Explains the Fruits of the Earth (Ver. 29) of Works of Mercy. 290 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. 291 Chapter XXVII.--Many are Ignorant as to This, and Ask for Miracles, Which are Signified Under the Names Of |Fishes| And |Whales.| 292 Chapter XXVIII.--He Proceeds to the Last Verse, |All Things are Very Good,|--That Is, the Work Being Altogether Good. 293 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. 294 Chapter XXX.--He Refutes the Opinions of the Manichæans and the Gnostics Concerning the Origin of the World. 295 Chapter XXXI.--We Do Not See |That It Was Good| But Through the Spirit of God Which is in Us. 296 Chapter XXXII.--Of the Particular Works of God, More Especially of Man. 297 Chapter XXXIII.--The World Was Created by God Out of Nothing. 298 Chapter XXXIV.--He Briefly Repeats the Allegorical Interpretation of Genesis (Ch. I.), and Confesses that We See It by the Divine Spirit. 299 Chapter XXXV.--He Prays God for that Peace of Rest Which Hath No Evening. 300 Chapter XXXVI.--The Seventh Day, Without Evening and Setting, the Image of Eternal Life and Rest in God. 301 Chapter XXXVII.--Of Rest in God Who Ever Worketh, and Yet is Ever at Rest. 302 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. 303 Letters of St. Augustin 304 Preface. 305 Letter I. (a.d. 386.) 306 Letter II. (a.d. 386.) 307 Letter III. (a.d. 387.) 308 Letter IV. (a.d. 387.) 309 Letter V. (a.d. 388.) 310 Letter VI. (a.d. 389.) 311 Letter VII. (a.d. 389.) 312 Letter VIII. (a.d. 389.) 313 Letter IX. (a.d. 389.) 314 Letter X. (a.d. 389.) 315 Letter XI. (a.d. 389.) 316 Letter XII. (a.d. 389.) 317 Letter XIII. (a.d. 389.) 318 Letter XIV. (a.d. 389.) 319 Letter XV. (a.d. 390.) 320 Letter XVI. (a.d. 390) 321 Letter XVII. (a.d. 390.) 322 Letter XVIII. (a.d. 390.) 323 Letter XIX. (a.d. 390.) 324 Letter XX. (a.d. 390.) 325 Letter XXI. (a.d. 391.) 326 Letter XXII. (a.d. 392.) 327 Letter XXIII. (a.d. 392.) 328 Letter XXIV. written in 394 to Alypius by Paulinus 329 Letter XXV. (a.d. 394.) 330 Letter XXVI. (a.d. 395.) 331 Letter XXVII. (a.d. 395.) 332 Letter XXVIII. (a.d. 394 OR 395.) 333 Letter XXIX. (a.d. 395.) 334 Letter XXX. (a.d. 396.) 335 Second Division. 336 Letter XXXII. letter from Paulinus to Romanianus and Licentius 337 Letter XXXIII. (a.d. 396.) 338 Letter XXXIV. (a.d. 396.) 339 Letter XXXV. (a.d. 396.) 340 Letter XXXVI. (a.d. 396.) 341 Letter XXXVII. (a.d. 397.) 342 Letter XXXVIII. (a.d. 397.) 343 Letter XXXIX. (a.d. 397.) 344 Letter XL. (a.d. 397.) 345 Letter XLI. (a.d. 397.) 346 Letter XLII. (a.d. 397.) 347 Letter XLIII. (a.d. 397.) 348 Letter XLIV. (a.d. 398.) 349 Letter XLV. A short letter to Paulinus and Therasia 350 Letter XLVI. (a.d. 398.) 351 Letter XLVII. (a.d. 398.) 352 Letter XLVIII. (a.d. 398.) 353 Letter XLIX. written to Honoratus, a Donatist bishop 354 Letter L. (a.d. 399.) 355 Letter LI. (a.d. 399 or 400.) 356 Letter LII. letter to his kinsman Severinus 357 Letter LIII. (a.d. 400.) 358 Letter LIV. Replies to Questions of Januarius. 359 Letter LV. Replies to Questions of Januarius. 360 Letters LVI. And LVII. addressed (a.d. 400) to Celer 361 Letter LVIII. (a.d. 401.) 362 Letter LIX. (a.d. 401.) 363 Letter LX. (a.d. 401.) 364 Letter LXI. (a.d. 401.) 365 Letter LXII. (a.d. 401) 366 Letter LXIII. (a.d. 401.) 367 Letter LXIV. (a.d. 401.) 368 Letter LXV. (a.d. 402.) 369 Letter LXVI. (a.d. 402.) 370 Letter LXVII. (a.d. 402.) 371 Letter LXVIII. (a.d. 402.) 372 Letter LXIX. (a.d. 402.) 373 Letter LXX. (a.d. 402.) 374 Letter LXXI. (a.d. 403.) 375 Letter LXXII. (a.d. 404.) 376 Letter LXXIII. (a.d. 404.) 377 Letter LXXIV. (a.d. 404.) 378 Letter LXXV. (a.d. 404.) 379 Letter LXXVI. (a.d. 402.) 380 Letter LXXVII. (a.d. 404.) 381 Letter LXXVIII. (a.d. 404.) 382 Letter LXXIX. (a.d. 404.) 383 Letter LXXX. (a.d. 404.) 384 Letter LXXXI. (a.d. 405.) 385 Letter LXXXII. (a.d. 405.) 386 Letter LXXXIII. (a.d. 405.) 387 Letter LXXXIV. (a.d. 405.) 388 Letter LXXXV. (a.d. 405.) 389 Letter LXXXVI. (a.d. 405.) 390 Letter LXXXVII. (a.d. 405.) 391 Letter LXXXVIII. (a.d. 406.) 392 Letter LXXXIX. (a.d. 406.) 393 Letter XC. (a.d. 408.) 394 Letter XCI. (a.d. 408.) 395 Letter XCII. (a.d. 408.) 396 Letter XCIII. (a.d. 408.) 397 Letter XCIV. (a.d. 408.) 398 Letter XCV. (a.d. 408.) 399 Letter XCVI. (a.d. 408.) 400 Letter XCVII. (a.d. 408.) 401 Letter XCVIII. (a.d. 408.) 402 Letter XCIX. (a.d. 408 or Beginning of 409.) 403 Letter C. (a.d. 409.) 404 Letter CI. (a.d. 409.) 405 Letter CII. (a.d. 409.) 406 Letter CIII. (a.d. 409.) 407 Letter CIV. (a.d. 409.) 408 Letter CXI. (November, a.d. 409.) 409 Letter CXV. (a.d. 410.) 410 Letter CXVI. (Enclosed in the Foregoing Letter.) 411 Letter CXVII. (a.d. 410.) 412 Letter CXVIII. (a.d. 410.) 413 Letter CXXII. (a.d. 410.) 414 Letter CXXIII. (a.d. 410.) 415 Third Division. 416 Letter CXXV. (a.d. 411.) 417 Letter CXXVI. (a.d. 411.) 418 Letter CXXX. (a.d. 412.) 419 Letter CXXXI. (a.d. 412.) 420 Letter CXXXII. (a.d. 412.) 421 Letter CXXXIII. (a.d. 412.) 422 Letter CXXXV. (a.d. 412.) 423 Letter CXXXVI. (a.d. 412.) 424 Letter CXXXVII. (a.d. 412.) 425 Letter CXXXVIII. (a.d. 412.) 426 Letter CXXXIX. (a.d. 412.) 427 Letter CXLIII. (a.d. 412.) 428 Letter CXLIV. (a.d. 412.) 429 Letter CXLV. (a.d. 412 or 413.) 430 Letter CXLVI. (a.d. 413.) 431 Letter CXLVIII. (a.d. 413.) 432 Letter CL. (a.d. 413.) 433 Letter CLI. (a.d. 413 OR 414.) 434 Letter CLVIII. (a.d. 414.) 435 Letter CLIX. (a.d. 415.) 436 Letter CLXIII. (a.d. 414.) 437 Letter CLXIV. (a.d. 414.) 438 Letter CLXV. (a.d. 410. ) 439 Letter CLXVI. (a.d. 415.) 440 Letter CLXVII. (a.d. 415.) 441 Letter CLXIX. (a.d. 415.) 442 Letter CLXXII. (a.d. 416.) 443 Letter CLXXIII. (a.d. 416.) 444 Letter CLXXX. (a.d. 416.) 445 Letter CLXXXVIII. (a.d. 416.) 446 Letter CLXXXIX. (a.d. 418.) 447 Letter CXCI. (a.d. 418.) 448 Letter CXCII. (a.d. 418.) 449 Letter CXCV. (a.d. 418.) 450 Letter CCI. (a.d. 419.) 451 Letter CCII. (a.d. 419.) 452 Letter CCIII. (a.d. 420.) 453 Letter CCVIII. (a.d. 423.) 454 Letter CCIX. (a.d. 423.) 455 Letter CCX. (a.d. 423.) 456 Letter CCXI. (a.d. 423.) 457 Letter CCXII. (a.d. 423.) 458 Letter CCXIII. (September 26TH, a.d. 426.) 459 Letter CCXVIII. (a.d. 426.) 460 Letter CCXIX. (a.d. 436.) 461 Letter CCXX. (a.d. 427.) 462 Letter CCXXVII. (a.d. 428 or 429.) 463 Letter CCXXVIII. (a.d. 428 or 429.) 464 Letter CCXXIX. (a.d. 429.) 465 Letter CCXXXI. (a.d. 429.) 466 Fourth Division. 467 Letter CCXXXVII. addressed to Ceretius, a bishop 468 Letter CCXLV. To Possidius 469 Letter CCXLVI. To Lampadius 470 Letter CCL. To Auxilius 471 Letter CCLIV. To Benenatus 472 Letter CCLXIII. To Sapida 473 Letter CCLXIX. To Nobilius 474 THE CONFESSIONS OF ST. AUGUSTIN INDEX OF SUBJECTS 475 LETTERS OF ST. AUGUSTIN INDEX OF SUBJECTS