The City of God, Book IX

Book IX

• The City of God IX.1 — The Point at Which the Discussion Has Arrived, and What Remains to Be Handled. Some have advanced the opinion that there are both good and bad gods; but some, thinking more respectfully of the gods, have attributed…vatican.va
• The City of God IX.2 — Chapter 2.—Whether Among the Demons, Inferior to the Gods, There are Any Good Spirits Under Whose Guardianship the Human Soul Might Reach True Blessedness. This book, then, ought, according to the promise made in the…vatican.va
• The City of God IX.3 — What Apuleius Attributes to the Demons, to Whom, Though He Does Not Deny Them Reason, He Does Not Ascribe Virtue. Chapter 3.—What Apuleius Attributes to the Demons, to Whom, Though He Does Not Deny Them Reason, He…vatican.va
• The City of God IX.4 — That the Passions Which Assail the Souls of Christians Do Not Seduce Them to Vice, But Exercise Their Virtue. Chapter 5.—That the Passions Which Assail the Souls of Christians Do Not Seduce Them to Vice, But Exercise…vatican.va
• The City of God IX.5 — Of the Passions Which, According to Apuleius, Agitate the Demons Who Are Supposed by Him to Mediate Between Gods and Men. Chapter 6.—Of the Passions Which, According to Apuleius, Agitate the Demons Who Are Supposed…vatican.va
• The City of God IX.6 — Chapter 7.—That the Platonists Maintain that the Poets Wrong the Gods by Representing Them as Distracted by Party Feeling, to Which the Demons and Not the Gods, are Subject. But if any one says that it is not of all…vatican.va
• The City of God IX.7 — How Apuleius Defines the Gods Who Dwell in Heaven, the Demons Who Occupy the Air, and Men Who Inhabit Earth. Chapter 8.—How Apuleius Defines the Gods Who Dwell in Heaven, the Demons Who Occupy the Air, and Men Who…vatican.va
• The City of God IX.8 — Whether the Intercession of the Demons Can Secure for Men the Friendship of the Celestial Gods. Chapter 9.—Whether the Intercession of the Demons Can Secure for Men the Friendship of the Celestial Gods. How, then,…vatican.va
• The City of God IX.9 — That, According to Plotinus, Men, Whose Body is Mortal, are Less Wretched Than Demons, Whose Body is Eternal. Chapter 10.—That, According to Plotinus, Men, Whose Body is Mortal, are Less Wretched Than Demons, Whose…vatican.va
• The City of God IX.10 — Of the Opinion of the Platonists, that the Souls of Men Become Demons When Disembodied. Chapter 11.—Of the Opinion of the Platonists, that the Souls of Men Become Demons When Disembodied. He says, indeed, that the…vatican.va
• The City of God IX.11 — Of the Three Opposite Qualities by Which the Platonists Distinguish Between the Nature of Men and that of Demons. Chapter 12.—Of the Three Opposite Qualities by Which the Platonists Distinguish Between the Nature of…vatican.va
• The City of God IX.12 — Chapter 13.—How the Demons Can Mediate Between Gods and Men If They Have Nothing in Common with Both, Being Neither Blessed Like the Gods, Nor Miserable Like Men. If, now, we endeavor to find between these opposites…vatican.va
• The City of God IX.13 — Whether Men, Though Mortal, Can Enjoy True Blessedness. It is a great question among men, whether man can be mortal and blessed. Some, taking the humbler view of his condition, have denied that he is capable of…vatican.va
• The City of God IX.14 — Of the Man Christ Jesus, the Mediator Between God and Men. But if, as is much more probable and credible, it must needs be that all men, so long as they are mortal, are also miserable, we must seek an intermediate…vatican.va
• The City of God IX.15 — Chapter 16.—Whether It is Reasonable in the Platonists to Determine that the Celestial Gods Decline Contact with Earthly Things and Intercourse with Men, Who Therefore Require the Intercession of the Demons. That…vatican.va
• The City of God IX.16 — Chapter 17.—That to Obtain the Blessed Life, Which Consists in Partaking of the Supreme Good, Man Needs Such Mediation as is Furnished Not by a Demon, But by Christ Alone. I am considerably surprised that such…vatican.va
• The City of God IX.17 — That the Deceitful Demons, While Promising to Conduct Men to God by Their Intercession, Mean to Turn Them from the Path of Truth. Chapter 18.—That the Deceitful Demons, While Promising to Conduct Men to God by Their…vatican.va
• The City of God IX.18 — That Even Among Their Own Worshippers the Name ‘Demon’ Has Never a Good Signification. Chapter 19.—That Even Among Their Own Worshippers the Name “Demon” Has Never a Good Signification. But as some of these…vatican.va
• The City of God IX.19 — Of the Kind of Knowledge Which Puffs Up the Demons. However, the very origin of the name suggests something worthy of consideration, if we compare it with the divine books. They are called demons from a Greek word…vatican.va
• The City of God IX.20 — To What Extent the Lord Was Pleased to Make Himself Known to the Demons. The devils themselves knew this manifestation of God so well, that they said to the Lord though clothed with the infirmity of flesh, “What have…vatican.va
• The City of God IX.21 — The Difference Between the Knowledge of the Holy Angels and that of the Demons. Chapter 22.—The Difference Between the Knowledge of the Holy Angels and that of the Demons. The good angels, therefore, hold cheap all…vatican.va
• The City of God IX.22 — That the Name of Gods is Falsely Given to the Gods of the Gentiles, Though Scripture Applies It Both to the Holy Angels and Just Men. Chapter 23.—That the Name of Gods is Falsely Given to the Gods of the Gentiles,…vatican.va