The City of God, Book V

Book V

• The City of God V.1 — That the Cause of the Roman Empire, and of All Kingdoms, is Neither Fortuitous Nor Consists in the Position of the Stars. Chapter 1.—That the Cause of the Roman Empire, and of All Kingdoms, is Neither Fortuitous Nor…vatican.va
• The City of God V.2 — On the Difference in the Health of Twins. Cicero says that the famous physician Hippocrates has left in writing that he had suspected that a certain pair of brothers were twins, from the fact that they both took ill…vatican.va
• The City of God V.3 — Concerning the Arguments Which Nigidius the Mathematician Drew from the Potter’s Wheel, in the Question About the Birth of Twins. Chapter 3.—Concerning the Arguments Which Nigidius the Mathematician Drew from the…vatican.va
• The City of God V.4 — Concerning the Twins Esau and Jacob, Who Were Very Unlike Each Other Both in Their Character and Actions. Chapter 4.—Concerning the Twins Esau and Jacob, Who Were Very Unlike Each Other Both in Their Character and…vatican.va
• The City of God V.5 — In What Manner the Mathematicians are Convicted of Professing a Vain Science. Do not those very persons whom the medical sagacity of Hippocrates led him to suspect to be twins, because their disease was observed by…vatican.va
• The City of God V.6 — Concerning Twins of Different Sexes. But even in the very conception of twins, which certainly occurs at the same moment in the case of both, it often happens that the one is conceived a male, and the other a female.…vatican.va
• The City of God V.7 — Concerning the Choosing of a Day for Marriage, or for Planting, or Sowing. Now, will any one bring forward this, that in choosing certain particular days for particular actions, men bring about certain new destinies…vatican.va
• The City of God V.8 — Concerning Those Who Call by the Name of Fate, Not the Position of the Stars, But the Connection of Causes Which Depends on the Will of God. Chapter 8.—Concerning Those Who Call by the Name of Fate, Not the Position…vatican.va
• The City of God V.9 — Concerning the Foreknowledge of God and the Free Will of Man, in Opposition to the Definition of Cicero. Chapter 9.—Concerning the Foreknowledge of God and the Free Will of Man, in Opposition to the Definition of…vatican.va
• The City of God V.10 — Whether Our Wills are Ruled by Necessity. Wherefore, neither is that necessity to be feared, for dread of which the Stoics labored to make such distinctions among the causes of things as should enable them to rescue…vatican.va
• The City of God V.11 — Concerning the Universal Providence of God in the Laws of Which All Things are Comprehended. Chapter 11.—Concerning the Universal Providence of God in the Laws of Which All Things are Comprehended. Therefore God…vatican.va
• The City of God V.12 — By What Virtues the Ancient Romans Merited that the True God, Although They Did Not Worship Him, Should Enlarge Their Empire. Chapter 12.—By What Virtues the Ancient Romans Merited that the True God, Although They…vatican.va
• The City of God V.13 — Concerning the Love of Praise, Which, Though It is a Vice, is Reckoned a Virtue, Because by It Greater Vice is Restrained. Chapter 13.—Concerning the Love of Praise, Which, Though It is a Vice, is Reckoned a Virtue,…vatican.va
• The City of God V.14 — Concerning the Eradication of the Love of Human Praise, Because All the Glory of the Righteous is in God. Chapter 14.—Concerning the Eradication of the Love of Human Praise, Because All the Glory of the Righteous is…vatican.va
• The City of God V.15 — Concerning the Temporal Reward Which God Granted to the Virtues of the Romans. Now, therefore, with regard to those to whom God did not purpose to give eternal life with His holy angels in His own celestial city, to…vatican.va
• The City of God V.16 — Concerning the Reward of the Holy Citizens of the Celestial City, to Whom the Example of the Virtues of the Romans are Useful. Chapter 16.—Concerning the Reward of the Holy Citizens of the Celestial City, to Whom the…vatican.va
• The City of God V.17 — To What Profit the Romans Carried on Wars, and How Much They Contributed to the Well-Being of Those Whom They Conquered. Chapter 17.—To What Profit the Romans Carried on Wars, and How Much They Contributed to the…vatican.va
• The City of God V.18 — Chapter 18.—How Far Christians Ought to Be from Boasting, If They Have Done Anything for the Love of the Eternal Country, When the Romans Did Such Great Things for Human Glory and a Terrestrial City. What great…vatican.va
• The City of God V.19 — Concerning the Difference Between True Glory and the Desire of Domination. There is assuredly a difference between the desire of human glory and the desire of domination; for, though he who has an overweening delight…vatican.va
• The City of God V.20 — That It is as Shameful for the Virtues to Serve Human Glory as Bodily Pleasure. Chapter 20.—That It is as Shameful for the Virtues to Serve Human Glory as Bodily Pleasure. Philosophers,—who place the end of human…vatican.va
• The City of God V.21 — That the Roman Dominion Was Granted by Him from Whom is All Power, and by Whose Providence All Things are Ruled. Chapter 21.—That the Roman Dominion Was Granted by Him from Whom is All Power, and by Whose Providence…vatican.va
• The City of God V.22 — The Durations and Issues of War Depend on the Will of God. Thus also the durations of wars are determined by Him as He may see meet, according to His righteous will, and pleasure, and mercy, to afflict or to console…vatican.va
• The City of God V.23 — Concerning the War in Which Radagaisus, King of the Goths, a Worshipper of Demons, Was Conquered in One Day, with All His Mighty Forces. Chapter 23.—Concerning the War in Which Radagaisus, King of the Goths, a…vatican.va
• The City of God V.24 — What Was the Happiness of the Christian Emperors, and How Far It Was True Happiness. Chapter 24.—What Was the Happiness of the Christian Emperors, and How Far It Was True Happiness. For neither do we say that certain…vatican.va
• The City of God V.25 — Concerning the Prosperity Which God Granted to the Christian Emperor Constantine. Chapter 25.—Concerning the Prosperity Which God Granted to the Christian Emperor Constantine. For the good God, lest men, who believe…vatican.va
• The City of God V.26 — On the Faith and Piety of Theodosius Augustus. And on this account, Theodosius not only preserved during the lifetime of Gratian that fidelity which was due to him, but also, after his death, he, like a true…vatican.va