The City of God, Book VI

Book VI

• The City of God VI.1 — Of Those Who Maintain that They Worship the Gods Not for the Sake of Temporal But Eternal Advantages. Chapter 1.—Of Those Who Maintain that They Worship the Gods Not for the Sake of Temporal But Eternal Advantages.…vatican.va
• The City of God VI.2 — Chapter 2.—What We are to Believe that Varro Thought Concerning the Gods of the Nations, Whose Various Kinds and Sacred Rites He Has Shown to Be Such that He Would Have Acted More Reverently Towards Them Had He Been…vatican.va
• The City of God VI.3 — Varro’s Distribution of His Book Which He Composed Concerning the Antiquities of Human and Divine Things. Chapter 3.—Varro’s Distribution of His Book Which He Composed Concerning the Antiquities of Human and Divine…vatican.va
• The City of God VI.4 — That from the Disputation of Varro, It Follows that the Worshippers of the Gods Regard Human Things as More Ancient Than Divine Things. Chapter 4.—That from the Disputation of Varro, It Follows that the Worshippers…vatican.va
• The City of God VI.5 — Concerning the Three Kinds of Theology According to Varro, Namely, One Fabulous, the Other Natural, the Third Civil. Chapter 5.—Concerning the Three Kinds of Theology According to Varro, Namely, One Fabulous, the…vatican.va
• The City of God VI.6 — Concerning the Mythic, that Is, the Fabulous, Theology, and the Civil, Against Varro. Chapter 6.—Concerning the Mythic, that Is, the Fabulous, Theology, and the Civil, Against Varro. O Marcus Varro! thou art the most…vatican.va
• The City of God VI.7 — Concerning the Likeness and Agreement of the Fabulous and Civil Theologies. That theology, therefore, which is fabulous, theatrical, scenic, and full of all baseness and unseemliness, is taken up into the civil…vatican.va
• The City of God VI.8 — Concerning the Interpretations, Consisting of Natural Explanations, Which the Pagan Teachers Attempt to Show for Their Gods. Chapter 8.—Concerning the Interpretations, Consisting of Natural Explanations, Which the…vatican.va
• The City of God VI.9 — Concerning the Special Offices of the Gods. And as to those very offices of the gods, so meanly and so minutely portioned out, so that they say that they ought to be supplicated, each one according to his special…vatican.va
• The City of God VI.10 — Concerning the Liberty of Seneca, Who More Vehemently Censured the Civil Theology Than Varro Did the Fabulous. Chapter 10.—Concerning the Liberty of Seneca, Who More Vehemently Censured the Civil Theology Than Varro…vatican.va
• The City of God VI.11 — What Seneca Thought Concerning the Jews. Seneca, among the other superstitions of civil theology, also found fault with the sacred things of the Jews, and especially the sabbaths, affirming that they act uselessly in…vatican.va
• The City of God VI.12 — Chapter 12.—That When Once the Vanity of the Gods of the Nations Has Been Exposed, It Cannot Be Doubted that They are Unable to Bestow Eternal Life on Any One, When They Cannot Afford Help Even with Respect to the…vatican.va