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On Marriage and Concupiscence
Blessed Augustine, NPNF I.5
- Extract from Augustin’s Retractations
- d2
- A Letter Addressed to the Count Valerius
- Book 1, Argument
- Book 1, 1. Concerning the Argument of This Treatise
- Book 1, 2. Why This Treatise Was Addressed to Valerius
- Book 1, 3. Conjugal Chastity the Gift of God
- Book 1, A Difficulty as Regards the Chastity of Unbelievers. None But a Believer is Truly…
- Book 1, The Natural Good of Marriage. All Society Naturally Repudiates a Fraudulent…
- Book 1, The Censuring of Lust is Not a Condemnation of Marriage; Whence Comes Shame in…
- Book 1, Man’s Disobedience Justly Requited in the Rebellion of His Own Flesh; The Blush…
- Book 1, 8. The Evil of Lust Does Not Take Away the Good of Marriage
- Book 1, This Disease of Concupiscence in Marriage is Not to Be a Matter of Will, But of…
- Book 1, Why It Was Sometimes Permitted that a Man Should Have Several Wives, Yet No Woman…
- Book 1, The Sacrament of Marriage; Marriage Indissoluble; The World’s Law About Divorce…
- Book 1, Marriage Does Not Cancel a Mutual Vow of Continence; There Was True Wedlock…
- Book 1, In the Marriage of Mary and Joseph There Were All the Blessings of the Wedded…
- Book 1, Before Christ It Was a Time for Marrying; Since Christ It Has Been a Time for…
- Book 1, 15. The Teaching of the Apostle on This Subject
- Book 1, A Certain Degree of Intemperance is to Be Tolerated in the Case of Married…
- Book 1, What is Sinless in the Use of Matrimony? What is Attended with Venial Sin, and…
- Book 1, Continence Better Than Marriage; But Marriage Better Than Fornication
- Book 1, 19. Blessing of Matrimony
- Book 1, 20. Why Children of Wrath are Born of Holy Matrimony
- Book 1, Thus Sinners are Born of Righteous Parents, Even as Wild Olives Spring from the…
- Book 1, Even Infants, When Unbaptized, are in the Power of the Devil; Exorcism in the…
- Book 1, Sin Has Not Arisen Out of the Goodness of Marriage; The Sacrament of Matrimony a…
- Book 1, Lust and Shame Come from Sin; The Law of Sin; The Shamelessness of the Cynics
- Book 1, Concupiscence in the Regenerate Without Consent is Not Sin; In What Sense…
- Book 1, Whatever is Born Through Concupiscence is Not Undeservedly in Subjection to the…
- Book 1, Through Lust Original Sin is Transmitted; Venial Sins in Married Persons;…
- Book 1, Concupiscence Remains After Baptism, Just as Languor Does After Recovery from…
- Book 1, How Concupiscence Remains in the Baptized in Act, When It Has Passed Away as to…
- Book 1, The Evil Desires of Concupiscence; We Ought to Wish that They May Not Be
- Book 1, 31. Who is the Man that Can Say, “It is No More I that Do It
- Book 1, 32. When Good Will Be Perfectly Done
- Book 1, 33. True Freedom Comes with Willing Delight in God’s Law
- Book 1, How Concupiscence Made a Captive of the Apostle; What the Law of Sin Was to the…
- Book 1, 35. The Flesh, Carnal Affection
- Book 1, Even Now While We Still Have Concupiscence We May Be Safe in Christ
- Book 1, The Law of Sin with Its Guilt in Unbaptized Infants. By Adam’s Sin the Human Race…
- Book 1, To Baptism Must Be Referred All Remission of Sins, and the Complete Healing of…
- Book 1, By the Holiness of Baptism, Not Sins Only, But All Evils Whatsoever, Have to Be…
- Book 1, Refutation of the Pelagians by the Authority of St. Ambrose, Whom They Quote to…
- Book 2, Preliminary Notes
- Book 2, Argument
- Book 2, 1. Introductory Statement
- Book 2, In This and the Four Next Chapters He Adduces the Garbled Extracts He Has to…
- Book 2, 3. The Same Continued
- Book 2, 4. The Same Continued
- Book 2, 5. The Same Continued
- Book 2, 6. The Same Continued
- Book 2, Augustin Adduces a Passage Selected from the Preface of Julianus. (See “The…
- Book 2, 8. Augustin Refutes the Passage Adduced Above
- Book 2, The Catholics Maintain the Doctrine of Original Sin, and Thus are Far from Being…
- Book 2, 10. In What Manner the Adversary’s Cavils Must Be Refuted
- Book 2, 11. The Devil the Author, Not of Nature, But Only of Sin
- Book 2, Eve’s Name Means Life, and is a Great Sacrament of the Church
- Book 2, The Pelagian Argument to Show that the Devil Has No Rights in the Fruits of…
- Book 2, 14. Concupiscence Alone, in Marriage, is Not of God
- Book 2, Man, by Birth, is Placed Under the Dominion of the Devil Through Sin; We Were All…
- Book 2, 16. It is Not of Us, But Our Sins, that the Devil is the Author
- Book 2, The Pelagians are Not Ashamed to Eulogize Concupiscence, Although They are…
- Book 2, 18. The Same Continued
- Book 2, 19. The Pelagians Misunderstand “Seed” In Scripture
- Book 2, Original Sin is Derived from the Faulty Condition of Human Seed
- Book 2, It is the Good God that Gives Fruitfulness, and the Devil that Corrupts the Fruit
- Book 2, 22. Shall We Be Ashamed of What We Do, or of What God Does?
- Book 2, The Pelagians Affirm that God in the Case of Abraham and Sarah Aroused…
- Book 2, What Covenant of God the New-Born Babe Breaks. What Was the Value of Circumcision
- Book 2, 25. Augustin Not the Deviser of Original Sin
- Book 2, 26. The Child in No Sense Formed by Concupiscence
- Book 2, The Pelagians Argue that God Sometimes Closes the Womb in Anger, and Opens It…
- Book 2, Augustin’s Answer to This Argument. Its Dealing with Scripture
- Book 2, The Same Continued. Augustin Also Asserts that God Forms Man at Birth
- Book 2, 30. The Case of Abimelech and His House Examined
- Book 2, Why God Proceeds to Create Human Beings, Who He Knows Will Be Born in Sin
- Book 2, 32. God Not the Author of the Evil in Those Whom He Creates
- Book 2, Though God Makes Us, We Perish Unless He Re-Makes Us in Christ
- Book 2, The Pelagians Argue that Cohabitation Rightly Used is a Good, and What is Born…
- Book 2, He Answers the Arguments of Julianus. What is the Natural Use of the Woman? What…
- Book 2, God Made Nature Good: The Saviour Restores It When Corrupted
- Book 2, If There is No Marriage Without Cohabitation, So There is No Cohabitation Without…
- Book 2, Jovinian Used Formerly to Call Catholics Manicheans; The Arians Also Used to Call…
- Book 2, Man Born of Whatever Parentage is Sinful and Capable of Redemption
- Book 2, 40. Augustin Declines the Dilemma Offered Him
- Book 2, The Pelagians Argue that Original Sin Cannot Come Through Marriage If Marriage is…
- Book 2, The Pelagians Try to Get Rid of Original Sin by Their Praise of God’s Works;…
- Book 2, The Good Tree in the Gospel that Cannot Bring Forth Evil Fruit, Does Not Mean…
- Book 2, The Pelagians Argue that If Sin Comes by Birth, All Married People Deserve…
- Book 2, Answer to This Argument: The Apostle Says We All Sinned in One
- Book 2, The Reign of Death, What It Is; The Figure of the Future Adam; How All Men are…
- Book 2, 47. The Scriptures Repeatedly Teach Us that All Sin in One
- Book 2, Original Sin Arose from Adam’s Depraved Will. Whence the Corrupt Will Sprang
- Book 2, In Infants Nature is of God, and the Corruption of Nature of the Devil
- Book 2, The Rise and Origin of Evil. The Exorcism and Exsufflation of Infants, a…
- Book 2, To Call Those that Teach Original Sin Manicheans is to Accuse Ambrose, Cyprian,…
- Book 2, 52. Sin Was the Origin of All Shameful Concupiscence
- Book 2, 53. Concupiscence Need Not Have Been Necessary for Fruitfulness
- Book 2, 54. How Marriage is Now Different Since the Existence of Sin
- Book 2, Lust is a Disease; the Word “Passion” In the Ecclesiastical Sense
- Book 2, The Pelagians Allow that Christ Died Even for Infants; Julianus Slays Himself…
- Book 2, 57. The Great Sin of the First Man
- Book 2, Adam’s Sin is Derived from Him to Every One Who is Born Even of Regenerate…
- Book 2, The Pelagians Can Hardly Venture to Place Concupiscence in Paradise Before the…
- Book 2, Let Not the Pelagians Indulge Themselves in a Cruel Defence of Infants