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On the Trinity

Blessed Augustine, NPNF I.3

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Book 1, Argument
Book 1, This Work is Written Against Those Who Sophistically Assail the Faith of the…
Book 1, In What Manner This Work Proposes to Discourse Concerning the Trinity
Book 1, What Augustin Requests from His Readers. The Errors of Readers Dull of…
Book 1, What the Doctrine of the Catholic Faith is Concerning the Trinity
Book 1, Of Difficulties Concerning the Trinity: In What Manner Three are One God, and…
Book 1, That the Son is Very God, of the Same Substance with the Father. Not Only the…
Book 1, In What Manner the Son is Less Than the Father, and Than Himself
Book 1, The Texts of Scripture Explained Respecting the Subjection of the Son to the…
Book 1, 9. All are Sometimes Understood in One Person
Book 1, In What Manner Christ Shall Deliver Up the Kingdom to God, Even the Father. The…
Book 1, By What Rule in the Scriptures It is Understood that the Son is Now Equal and Now…
Book 1, In What Manner the Son is Said Not to Know the Day and the Hour Which the Father…
Book 1, Diverse Things are Spoken Concerning the Same Christ, on Account of the Diverse…
Book 2, Argument
Book 2, There is a Double Rule for Understanding the Scriptural Modes of Speech…
Book 2, That Some Ways of Speaking Concerning the Son are to Be Understood According to…
Book 2, Some Things Concerning the Holy Spirit are to Be Understood According to the One…
Book 2, The Glorification of the Son by the Father Does Not Prove Inequality
Book 2, The Son and Holy Spirit are Not Therefore Less Because Sent. The Son is Sent Also…
Book 2, The Creature is Not So Taken by the Holy Spirit as Flesh is by the Word
Book 2, 7. A Doubt Raised About Divine Appearances
Book 2, 8. The Entire Trinity Invisible
Book 2, Against Those Who Believed the Father Only to Be Immortal and Invisible. The…
Book 2, Whether God the Trinity Indiscriminately Appeared to the Fathers, or Any One…
Book 2, 11. Of the Same Appearance
Book 2, 12. The Appearance to Lot is Examined
Book 2, 13. The Appearance in the Bush
Book 2, 14. Of the Appearance in the Pillar of Cloud and of Fire
Book 2, Of the Appearance on Sinai. Whether the Trinity Spake in that Appearance or Some…
Book 2, 16. In What Manner Moses Saw God
Book 2, How the Back Parts of God Were Seen. The Faith of the Resurrection of Christ. The…
Book 2, 18. The Vision of Daniel
Book 3, Argument
Book 3, 1. What is to Be Said Thereupon
Book 3, The Will of God is the Higher Cause of All Corporeal Change. This is Shown by an…
Book 3, 3. Of the Same Argument
Book 3, God Uses All Creatures as He Will, and Makes Visible Things for the Manifestation…
Book 3, 5. Why Miracles are Not Usual Works
Book 3, 6. Diversity Alone Makes a Miracle
Book 3, 7. Great Miracles Wrought by Magic Arts
Book 3, God Alone Creates Those Things Which are Changed by Magic Art
Book 3, 9. The Original Cause of All Things is from God
Book 3, In How Many Ways the Creature is to Be Taken by Way of Sign. The Eucharist
Book 3, The Essence of God Never Appeared in Itself. Divine Appearances to the Fathers…
Book 4, Argument
Book 4, We are Made Perfect by Acknowledgement of Our Own Weakness. The Incarnate Word…
Book 4, How We are Rendered Apt for the Perception of Truth Through the Incarnate Word
Book 4, The One Death and Resurrection of The, Body of Christ Harmonizes with Our Double…
Book 4, The Ratio of the Single to the Double Comes from the Perfection of the Senary…
Book 4, The Number Six is Also Commended in the Building Up of the Body of Christ and of…
Book 4, The Three Days of the Resurrection, in Which Also the Ratio of Single, to Double…
Book 4, In What Manner We are Gathered from Many into One Through One Mediator
Book 4, In What Manner Christ Wills that All Shall Be One in Himself
Book 4, 9. The Same Argument Continued
Book 4, As Christ is the Mediator of Life, So the Devil is the Mediator of Death
Book 4, 11. Miracles Which are Done by Demons are to Be Spurned
Book 4, 12. The Devil the Mediator or Death, Christ of Life
Book 4, The Death of Christ Voluntary. How the Mediator of Life Subdued the Mediator of…
Book 4, Christ the Most Perfect Victim for Cleansing Our Faults. In Every Sacrifice Four…
Book 4, They are Proud Who Think They are Able, by Their Own Righteousness, to Be…
Book 4, The Old Philosophers are Not to Be Consulted Concerning the Resurrection and…
Book 4, In How Many Ways Things Future are Foreknown. Neither Philosophers, Nor Those Who…
Book 4, The Son of God Became Incarnate in Order that We Being Cleansed by Faith May Be…
Book 4, In What Manner the Son Was Sent and Proclaimed Beforehand. How in the Sending of…
Book 4, The Sender and the Sent Equal. Why the Son is Said to Be Sent by the Father. Of…
Book 4, Of the Sensible Showing of the Holy Spirit, and of the Coeternity of the Trinity.…
Book 5, Argument
Book 5, What the Author Entreats from God, What from the Reader. In God Nothing is to Be…
Book 5, 2. God the Only Unchangeable Essence
Book 5, The Argument of the Arians is Refuted, Which is Drawn from the Words Begotten and…
Book 5, 4. The Accidental Always Implies Some Change in the Thing
Book 5, Nothing is Spoken of God According to Accident, But According to Substance or…
Book 5, Reply is Made to the Cavils of the Heretics in Respect to the Same Words Begotten…
Book 5, 7. The Addition of a Negative Does Not Change the Predicament
Book 5, Whatever is Spoken of God According to Substance, as Spoken of Each Person…
Book 5, 9. The Three Persons Not Properly So Called [in a Human Sense]
Book 5, Those Things Which Belong Absolutely to God as an Essence, are Spoken of the…
Book 5, 11. What is Said Relatively in the Trinity
Book 5, In Relative Things that are Reciprocal, Names are Sometimes Wanting
Book 5, How the Word Beginning (Principium) is Spoken Relatively in the Trinity
Book 5, The Father and the Son the Only Beginning (Principium) of the Holy Spirit
Book 5, Whether the Holy Spirit Was a Gift Before as Well as After He Was Given
Book 5, What is Said of God in Time, is Said Relatively, Not Accidentally
Book 6, Argument
Book 6, The Son, According to the Apostle, is the Power and Wisdom of the Father. Hence…
Book 6, 2. What is Said of the Father and Son Together, and What Not
Book 6, That the Unity of the Essence of the Father and the Son is to Be Gathered from…
Book 6, 4. The Same Argument Continued
Book 6, The Holy Spirit Also is Equal to the Father and the Son in All Things
Book 6, 6. How God is a Substance Both Simple and Manifold
Book 6, 7. God is a Trinity, But Not Triple (Triplex)
Book 6, 8. No Addition Can Be Made to the Nature of God
Book 6, Whether One or the Three Persons Together are Called the Only God
Book 6, Of the Attributes Assigned by Hilary to Each Person. The Trinity is Represented…
Book 7, Argument
Book 7, Augustin Returns to the Question, Whether Each Person of the Trinity by Itself is…
Book 7, The Father and the Son are Together One Wisdom, as One Essence, Although Not…
Book 7, Why the Son Chiefly is Intimated in the Scriptures by the Name of Wisdom, While…
Book 7, How It Was Brought About that the Greeks Speak of Three Hypostases, the Latins of…
Book 7, 5. In God, Substance is Spoken Improperly, Essence Properly
Book 7, Why We Do Not in the Trinity Speak of One Person, and Three Essences. What He…
Book 8, Argument
Book 8, It is Shown by Reason that in God Three are Not Anything Greater Than One Person
Book 8, Every Corporeal Conception Must Be Rejected, in Order that It May Be Understood…
Book 8, How God May Be Known to Be the Chief Good. The Mind Does Not Become Good Unless…
Book 8, God Must First Be Known by an Unerring Faith, that He May Be Loved
Book 8, 5. How the Trinity May Be Loved Though Unknown
Book 8, How the Man Not Yet Righteous Can Know the Righteous Man Whom He Loves
Book 8, Of True Love, by Which We Arrive at the Knowledge of the Trinity. God is to Be…
Book 8, That He Who Loves His Brother, Loves God; Because He Loves Love Itself, Which is…
Book 8, Our Love of the Righteous is Kindled from Love Itself of the Unchangeable Form of…
Book 8, There are Three Things in Love, as It Were a Trace of the Trinity
Book 9, Argument
Book 9, 1. In What Way We Must Inquire Concerning the Trinity
Book 9, 2. The Three Things Which are Found in Love Must Be Considered
Book 9, The Image of the Trinity in the Mind of Man Who Knows Himself and Loves Himself.…
Book 9, The Three are One, and Also Equal, Viz. The Mind Itself, and the Love, and the…
Book 9, That These Three are Several in Themselves, and Mutually All in All
Book 9, There is One Knowledge of the Thing in the Thing Itself, and Another in Eternal…
Book 9, We Conceive and Beget the Word Within, from the Things We Have Beheld in the…
Book 9, 8. In What Desire and Love Differ
Book 9, In the Love of Spiritual Things the Word Born is the Same as the Word Conceived.…
Book 9, Whether Only Knowledge that is Loved is the Word of the Mind
Book 9, That the Image or Begotten Word of the Mind that Knows Itself is Equal to the…
Book 9, Why Love is Not the Offspring of the Mind, as Knowledge is So. The Solution of…
Book 10, Argument
Book 10, The Love of the Studious Mind, that Is, of One Desirous to Know, is Not the Love…
Book 10, 2. No One at All Loves Things Unknown
Book 10, That When the Mind Loves Itself, It is Not Unknown to Itself
Book 10, 4. How the Mind Knows Itself, Not in Part, But as a Whole
Book 10, Why the Soul is Enjoined to Know Itself. Whence Come the Errors of the Mind…
Book 10, 6. The Opinion Which the Mind Has of Itself is Deceitful
Book 10, The Opinions of Philosophers Respecting the Substance of the Soul. The Error of…
Book 10, How the Soul Inquires into Itself. Whence Comes the Error of the Soul Concerning…
Book 10, The Mind Knows Itself, by the Very Act of Understanding the Precept to Know…
Book 10, Every Mind Knows Certainly Three Things Concerning Itself-That It Understands,…
Book 10, In Memory, Understanding [or Intelligence], and Will, We Have to Note Ability,…
Book 10, The Mind is an Image of the Trinity in Its Own Memory, and Understanding, and…
Book 11, Argument
Book 11, 1. A Trace of the Trinity Also in the Outer Man
Book 11, A Certain Trinity in the Sight. That There are Three Things in Sight, Which…
Book 11, The Unity of the Three Takes Place in Thought, Viz. Of Memory, of Internal…
Book 11, 4. How This Unity Comes to Pass
Book 11, The Trinity of the Outer Man, or of External Vision, is Not an Image of God. The…
Book 11, Of What Kind We are to Reckon the Rest (Requles), and End (Finis), of the Will…
Book 11, There is Another Trinity in the Memory of Him Who Thinks Over Again What He Has…
Book 11, 8. Different Modes of Conceiving
Book 11, 9. Species is Produced by Species in Succession
Book 11, The Imagination Also Adds Even to Things We Have Not Seen, Those Things Which We…
Book 11, 11. Number, Weight, Measure
Book 12, Argument
Book 12, 1. Of What Kind are the Outer and the Inner Man
Book 12, Man Alone of Animate Creatures Perceives the Eternal Reasons of Things…
Book 12, The Higher Reason Which Belongs to Contemplation, and the Lower Which Belongs to…
Book 12, The Trinity and the Image of God is in that Part of the Mind Alone Which Belongs…
Book 12, The Opinion Which Devises an Image of the Trinity in the Marriage of Male and…
Book 12, 6. Why This Opinion is to Be Rejected
Book 12, How Man is the Image of God. Whether the Woman is Not Also the Image of God. How…
Book 12, 8. Turning Aside from the Image of God
Book 12, 9. The Same Argument is Continued
Book 12, 10. The Lowest Degradation Reached by Degrees
Book 12, 11. The Image of the Beast in Man
Book 12, There is a Kind of Hidden Wedlock in the Inner Man. Unlawful Pleasures of the…
Book 12, The Opinion of Those Who Have Thought that the Mind Was Signified by the Man,…
Book 12, What is the Difference Between Wisdom and Knowledge. The Worship of God is the…
Book 12, In Opposition to the Reminiscence of Plato and Pythagoras. Pythagoras the…
Book 13, Argument
Book 13, The Attempt is Made to Distinguish Out of the Scriptures the Offices of Wisdom…
Book 13, Faith a Thing of the Heart, Not of the Body; How It is Common and One and the…
Book 13, Some Desires Being the Same in All, are Known to Each. The Poet Ennius
Book 13, The Will to Possess Blessedness is One in All, But the Variety of Wills is Very…
Book 13, 5. Of the Same Thing
Book 13, Why, When All Will to Be Blessed, that is Rather Chosen by Which One Withdraws…
Book 13, Faith is Necessary, that Man May at Some Time Be Blessed, Which He Will Only…
Book 13, 8. Blessedness Cannot Exist Without Immortality
Book 13, We Say that Future Blessedness is Truly Eternal, Not Through Human Reasonings,…
Book 13, There Was No Other More Suitable Way of Freeing Man from the Misery of Mortality…
Book 13, A Difficulty, How We are Justitified in the Blood of the Son of God
Book 13, All, on Account of the Sin of Adam, Were Delivered into the Power of the Devil
Book 13, Man Was to Be Rescued from the Power of the Devil, Not by Power, But by…
Book 13, The Unobligated Death of Christ Has Freed Those Who Were Liable to Death
Book 13, 15. Of the Same Subject
Book 13, The Remains of Death and the Evil Things of the World Turn to Good for the…
Book 13, 17. Other Advantages of the Incarnation
Book 13, Why the Son of God Took Man Upon Himself from the Race of Adam, and from a Virgin
Book 13, What in the Incarnate Word Belongs to Knowledge, What to Wisdom
Book 13, What Has Been Treated of in This Book. How We Have Reached by Steps to a Certain…
Book 14, Argument
Book 14, What the Wisdom is of Which We are Here to Treat. Whence the Name of Philosopher…
Book 14, There is a Kind of Trinity in the Holding, Contemplating, and Loving of Faith…
Book 14, A Difficulty Removed, Which Lies in the Way of What Has Just Been Said
Book 14, The Image of God is to Be Sought in the Immortality of the Rational Soul, How a…
Book 14, 5. Whether the Mind of Infants Knows Itself
Book 14, How a Kind of Trinity Exists in the Mind Thinking of Itself. What is the Part of…
Book 14, The Thing is Made Plain by an Example, in What Way the Matter is Handled in…
Book 14, The Trinity Which is the Image of God is Now to Be Sought in the Noblest Part of…
Book 14, Whether Justice and the Other Virtues Cease to Exist in the Future Life
Book 14, How a Trinity is Produced by the Mind Remembering, Understanding, and Loving…
Book 14, 11. Whether Memory is Also of Things Present
Book 14, The Trinity in the Mind is the Image of God, in that It Remembers, Understands,…
Book 14, 13. How Any One Can Forget and Remember God
Book 14, The Mind Loves God in Rightly Loving Itself; And If It Love Not God, It Must Be…
Book 14, Although the Soul Hopes for Blessedness, Yet It Does Not Remember Lost…
Book 14, 16. How the Image of God is Formed Anew in Man
Book 14, How the Image of God in the Mind is Renewed Until the Likeness of God is…
Book 14, Whether the Sentence of John is to Be Understood of Our Future Likeness with the…
Book 14, John is Rather to Be Understood of Our Perfect Likeness with the Trinity in Life…
Book 15, Argument
Book 15, 1. God is Above the Mind
Book 15, God, Although Incomprehensible, is Ever to Be Sought. The Traces of the Trinity…
Book 15, 3. A Brief Recapitulation of All the Previous Books
Book 15, 4. What Universal Nature Teaches Us Concerning God
Book 15, How Difficult It is to Demonstrate the Trinity by Natural Reason
Book 15, How There is a Trinity in the Very Simplicity of God. Whether and How the…
Book 15, That It is Not Easy to Discover the Trinity that is God from the Trinities We…
Book 15, How the Apostle Says that God is Now Seen by Us Through a Glass
Book 15, 9. Of the Term “Enigma,” And of Tropical Modes of Speech
Book 15, Concerning the Word of the Mind, in Which We See the Word of God, as in a Glass…
Book 15, The Likeness of the Divine Word, Such as It Is, is to Be Sought, Not in Our Own…
Book 15, 12. The Academic Philosophy
Book 15, Still Further of the Difference Between the Knowledge and Word of Our Mind, and…
Book 15, The Word of God is in All Things Equal to the Father, from Whom It is
Book 15, How Great is the Unlikeness Between Our Word and the Divine Word. Our Word…
Book 15, Our Word is Never to Be Equalled to the Divine Word, Not Even When We Shall Be…
Book 15, How the Holy Spirit is Called Love, and Whether He Alone is So Called. That the…
Book 15, 18. No Gift of God is More Excellent Than Love
Book 15, The Holy Spirit is Called the Gift of God in the Scriptures. By the Gift of the…
Book 15, Against Eunomius, Saying that the Son of God is the Son, Not of His Nature, But…
Book 15, Of the Likeness of the Father and of the Son Alleged to Be in Our Memory and…
Book 15, How Great the Unlikeness is Between the Image of the Trinity Which We Have Found…
Book 15, Augustin Dwells Still Further on the Disparity Between the Trinity Which is in…
Book 15, 24. The Infirmity of the Human Mind
Book 15, The Question Why the Holy Spirit is Not Begotten, and How He Proceeds from the…
Book 15, The Holy Spirit Twice Given by Christ. The Procession of the Holy Spirit from…
Book 15, What It is that Suffices Here to Solve the Question Why the Spirit is Not Said…
Book 15, The Conclusion of the Book with a Prayer, and an Apology for Multitude of Words