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On Christian Doctrine

Blessed Augustine, NPNF I.2

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2. d2
3. Augustine’s Preface
4. Book 1, Argument
5. Book 1, The Interpretation of Scripture Depends on the Discovery and Enunciation of the…
6. Book 1, 2. What a Thing Is, and What a Sign
7. Book 1, 3. Some Things are for Use, Some for Enjoyment
8. Book 1, 4. Difference of Use and Enjoyment
9. Book 1, 5. The Trinity the True Object of Enjoyment
10. Book 1, 6. In What Sense God is Ineffable
11. Book 1, 7. What All Men Understand by the Term God
12. Book 1, God to Be Esteemed Above All Else, Because He is Unchangeable Wisdom
13. Book 1, All Acknowledge the Superiority of Unchangeable Wisdom to that Which is Variable
14. Book 1, 10. To See God, the Soul Must Be Purified
15. Book 1, 11. Wisdom Becoming Incarnate, a Pattern to Us of Purification
16. Book 1, 12. In What Sense the Wisdom of God Came to Us
17. Book 1, 13. The Word Was Made Flesh
18. Book 1, 14. How the Wisdom of God Healed Man
19. Book 1, Faith is Buttressed by the Resurrection and Ascension of Christ, and is…
20. Book 1, 16. Christ Purges His Church by Medicinal Afflictions
21. Book 1, 17. Christ, by Forgiving Our Sins, Opened the Way to Our Home
22. Book 1, 18. The Keys Given to the Church
23. Book 1, 19. Bodily and Spiritual Death and Resurrection
24. Book 1, 20. The Resurrection to Damnation
25. Book 1, 21. Neither Body Nor Soul Extinguished at Death
26. Book 1, 22. God Alone to Be Enjoyed
27. Book 1, 23. Man Needs No Injunction to Love Himself and His Own Body
28. Book 1, 24. No Man Hates His Own Flesh, Not Even Those Who Abuse It
29. Book 1, A Man May Love Something More Than His Body, But Does Not Therefore Hate His Body
30. Book 1, The Command to Love God and Our Neighbor Includes a Command to Love Ourselves
31. Book 1, 27. The Order of Love
32. Book 1, 28. How We are to Decide Whom to Aid
33. Book 1, 29. We are to Desire and Endeavor that All Men May Love God
34. Book 1, 30. Whether Angels are to Be Reckoned Our Neighbors
35. Book 1, 31. God Uses Rather Than Enjoys Us
36. Book 1, 32. In What Way God Uses Man
37. Book 1, 33. In What Way Man Should Be Enjoyed
38. Book 1, 34. Christ the First Way to God
39. Book 1, The Fulfillment and End of Scripture is the Love of God and Our Neighbor
40. Book 1, That Interpretation of Scripture Which Builds Us Up in Love is Not Perniciously…
41. Book 1, 37. Dangers of Mistaken Interpretation
42. Book 1, 38. Love Never Faileth
43. Book 1, He Who is Mature in Faith, Hope and Love, Needs Scripture No Longer
44. Book 1, 40. What Manner of Reader Scripture Demands
45. Book 2, Argument
46. Book 2, 1. Signs, Their Nature and Variety
47. Book 2, 2. Of the Kind of Signs We are Now Concerned with
48. Book 2, 3. Among Signs, Words Hold the Chief Place
49. Book 2, 4. Origin of Writing
50. Book 2, 5. Scripture Translated into Various Languages
51. Book 2, Use of the Obscurities in Scripture Which Arise from Its Figurative Language
52. Book 2, Steps to Wisdom: First, Fear; Second, Piety; Third, Knowledge; Fourth,…
53. Book 2, 8. The Canonical Books
54. Book 2, 9. How We Should Proceed in Studying Scripture
55. Book 2, Unknown or Ambiguous Signs Prevent Scripture from Being Understood
56. Book 2, Knowledge of Languages, Especially of Greek and Hebrew, Necessary to Remove…
57. Book 2, A Diversity of Interpretations is Useful. Errors Arising from Ambiguous Words
58. Book 2, 13. How Faulty Interpretations Can Be Emended
59. Book 2, How the Meaning of Unknown Words and Idioms is to Be Discovered
60. Book 2, Among Versions a Preference is Given to the Septuagint and the Itala
61. Book 2, The Knowledge Both of Language and Things is Helpful for the Understanding of…
62. Book 2, 17. Origin of the Legend of the Nine Muses
63. Book 2, No Help is to Be Despised, Even Though It Come from a Profane Source
64. Book 2, 19. Two Kinds of Heathen Knowledge
65. Book 2, 20. The Superstitious Nature of Human Institutions
66. Book 2, 21. Superstition of Astrologers
67. Book 2, The Folly of Observing the Stars in Order to Predict the Events of a Life
68. Book 2, 23. Why We Repudiate Arts of Divination
69. Book 2, The Intercourse and Agreement with Demons Which Superstitious Observances Maintain
70. Book 2, In Human Institutions Which are Not Superstitious, There are Some Things…
71. Book 2, What Human Contrivances We are to Adopt, and What We are to Avoid
72. Book 2, Some Departments of Knowledge, Not of Mere Human Invention, Aid Us in…
73. Book 2, 28. To What Extent History is an Aid
74. Book 2, 29. To What Extent Natural Science is an Exegetical Aid
75. Book 2, 30. What the Mechanical Arts Contribute to Exegetics
76. Book 2, 31. Use of Dialectics. Of Fallacies
77. Book 2, Valid Logical Sequence is Not Devised But Only Observed by Man
78. Book 2, False Inferences May Be Drawn from Valid Reasonings, and Vice Versa
79. Book 2, It is One Thing to Know the Laws of Inference, Another to Know the Truth of…
80. Book 2, The Science of Definition is Not False, Though It May Be Applied to Falsities
81. Book 2, The Rules of Eloquence are True, Though Sometimes Used to Persuade Men of What is…
82. Book 2, 37. Use of Rhetoric and Dialectic
83. Book 2, The Science of Numbers Not Created, But Only Discovered, by Man
84. Book 2, To Which of the Above-Mentioned Studies Attention Should Be Given, and in What…
85. Book 2, Whatever Has Been Rightly Said by the Heathen, We Must Appropriate to Our Uses
86. Book 2, What Kind of Spirit is Required for the Study of Holy Scripture
87. Book 2, 42. Sacred Scripture Compared with Profane Authors
88. Book 3, Argument
89. Book 3, Summary of the Foregoing Books, and Scope of that Which Follows
90. Book 3, 2. Rule for Removing Ambiguity by Attending to Punctuation
91. Book 3, How Pronunciation Serves to Remove Ambiguity Different Kinds of Interrogation
92. Book 3, 4. How Ambiguities May Be Solved
93. Book 3, It is a Wretched Slavery Which Takes the Figurative Expressions of Scripture in a…
94. Book 3, 6. Utility of the Bondage of the Jews
95. Book 3, 7. The Useless Bondage of the Gentiles
96. Book 3, The Jews Liberated from Their Bondage in One Way, the Gentiles in Another
97. Book 3, 9. Who is in Bondage to Signs, and Who Not
98. Book 3, 10. How We are to Discern Whether a Phrase is Figurative
99. Book 3, Rule for Interpreting Phrases Which Seem to Ascribe Severity to God and the Saints
100. Book 3, Rule for Interpreting Those Sayings and Actions Which are Ascribed to God and the…
101. Book 3, 13. Same Subject, Continued
102. Book 3, Error of Those Who Think that There is No Absolute Right and Wrong
103. Book 3, 15. Rule for Interpreting Figurative Expressions
104. Book 3, 16. Rule for Interpreting Commands and Prohibitions
105. Book 3, Some Commands are Given to All in Common, Others to Particular Classes
106. Book 3, We Must Take into Consideration the Time at Which Anything Was Enjoyed or Allowed
107. Book 3, 19. Wicked Men Judge Others by Themselves
108. Book 3, 20. Consistency of Good Men in All Outward Circumstances
109. Book 3, 21. David Not Lustful, Though He Fell into Adultery
110. Book 3, Rule Regarding Passages of Scripture in Which Approval is Expressed of Actions…
111. Book 3, 23. Rule Regarding the Narrative of Sins of Great Men
112. Book 3, The Character of the Expressions Used is Above All to Have Weight
113. Book 3, 25. The Same Word Does Not Always Signify the Same Thing
114. Book 3, Obscure Passages are to Be Interpreted by Those Which are Clearer
115. Book 3, 27. One Passage Susceptible of Various Interpretations
116. Book 3, It is Safer to Explain a Doubtful Passage by Other Passages of Scripture Than by…
117. Book 3, 29. The Knowledge of Tropes is Necessary
118. Book 3, 30. The Rules of Tichonius the Donatist Examined
119. Book 3, 31. The First Rule of Tichonius
120. Book 3, 32. The Second Rule of Tichonius
121. Book 3, 33. The Third Rule of Tichonius
122. Book 3, 34. The Fourth Rule of Tichonius
123. Book 3, 35. The Fifth Rule of Tichonius
124. Book 3, 36. The Sixth Rule of Tichonius
125. Book 3, 37. The Seventh Rule of Tichonius
126. Book 4, Argument
127. Book 4, 1. This Work Not Intended as a Treatise on Rhetoric
128. Book 4, It is Lawful for a Christian Teacher to Use the Art of Rhetoric
129. Book 4, The Proper Age and the Proper Means for Acquiring Rhetorical Skill
130. Book 4, 4. The Duty of the Christian Teacher
131. Book 4, Wisdom of More Importance Than Eloquence to the Christian Teacher
132. Book 4, 6. The Sacred Writers Unite Eloquence with Wisdom
133. Book 4, Examples of True Eloquence Drawn from the Epistles of Paul and the Prophecies of…
134. Book 4, The Obscurity of the Sacred Writers, Though Compatible with Eloquence, Not to Be…
135. Book 4, 9. How, and with Whom, Difficult Passages are to Be Discussed
136. Book 4, 10. The Necessity for Perspicuity of Style
137. Book 4, The Christian Teacher Must Speak Clearly, But Not Inelegantly
138. Book 4, The Aim of the Orator, According to Cicero, is to Teach, to Delight, and to Move.…
139. Book 4, 13. The Hearer Must Be Moved as Well as Instructed
140. Book 4, 14. Beauty of Diction to Be in Keeping with the Matter
141. Book 4, 15. The Christian Teacher Should Pray Before Preaching
142. Book 4, Human Directions Not to Be Despised, Though God Makes the True Teacher
143. Book 4, 17. Threefold Division of the Various Styles of Speech
144. Book 4, The Christian Orator is Constantly Dealing with Great Matters
145. Book 4, The Christian Teacher Must Use Different Styles on Different Occasions
146. Book 4, 20. Examples of the Various Styles Drawn from Scripture
147. Book 4, Examples of the Various Styles, Drawn from the Teachers of the Church, Especially…
148. Book 4, 22. The Necessity of Variety in Style
149. Book 4, 23. How the Various Styles Should Be Mingled
150. Book 4, 24. The Effects Produced by the Majestic Style
151. Book 4, 25. How the Temperate Style is to Be Used
152. Book 4, In Every Style the Orator Should Aim at Perspicuity, Beauty, and Persuasiveness
153. Book 4, The Man Whose Life is in Harmony with His Teaching Will Teach with Greater Effect
154. Book 4, Truth is More Important Than Expression. What is Meant by Strife About Words
155. Book 4, It is Permissible for a Preacher to Deliver to the People What Has Been Written…
156. Book 4, The Preacher Should Commence His Discourse with Prayer to God
157. Book 4, 31. Apology for the Length of the Work