The City of God, Book XI

Book XI

• The City of God XI.1 — Of This Part of the Work, Wherein We Begin to Explain the Origin and End of the Two Cities. Chapter 1.—Of This Part of the Work, Wherein We Begin to Explain the Origin and End of the Two Cities. The city of God we…vatican.va
• The City of God XI.2 — Of the Knowledge of God, to Which No Man Can Attain Save Through the Mediator Between God and Men, the Man Christ Jesus. Chapter 2.—Of the Knowledge of God, to Which No Man Can Attain Save Through the Mediator…vatican.va
• The City of God XI.3 — Of the Authority of the Canonical Scriptures Composed by the Divine Spirit. This Mediator, having spoken what He judged sufficient first by the prophets, then by His own lips, and afterwards by the apostles, has…vatican.va
• The City of God XI.4 — Chapter 4.—That the World is Neither Without Beginning, Nor Yet Created by a New Decree of God, by Which He Afterwards Willed What He Had Not Before Willed. Of all visible things, the world is the greatest; of all…vatican.va
• The City of God XI.5 — That We Ought Not to Seek to Comprehend the Infinite Ages of Time Before the World, Nor the Infinite Realms of Space. Chapter 5.—That We Ought Not to Seek to Comprehend the Infinite Ages of Time Before the World, Nor…vatican.va
• The City of God XI.6 — That the World and Time Had Both One Beginning, and the One Did Not Anticipate the Other. Chapter 6.—That the World and Time Had Both One Beginning, and the One Did Not Anticipate the Other. For if eternity and time…vatican.va
• The City of God XI.7 — Of the Nature of the First Days, Which are Said to Have Had Morning and Evening, Before There Was a Sun. Chapter 7.—Of the Nature of the First Days, Which are Said to Have Had Morning and Evening, Before There Was a…vatican.va
• The City of God XI.8 — What We are to Understand of God’s Resting on the Seventh Day, After the Six Days’ Work. Chapter 8.—What We are to Understand of God’s Resting on the Seventh Day, After the Six Days’ Work. When it is said that God…vatican.va
• The City of God XI.9 — What the Scriptures Teach Us to Believe Concerning the Creation of the Angels. At present, since I have undertaken to treat of the origin of the holy city, and first of the holy angels, who constitute a large part of…vatican.va
• The City of God XI.10 — Of the Simple and Unchangeable Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, One God, in Whom Substance and Quality are Identical. Chapter 10.—Of the Simple and Unchangeable Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, One God, in…vatican.va
• The City of God XI.11 — Whether the Angels that Fell Partook of the Blessedness Which the Holy Angels Have Always Enjoyed from the Time of Their Creation. Chapter 11.—Whether the Angels that Fell Partook of the Blessedness Which the Holy…vatican.va
• The City of God XI.12 — A Comparison of the Blessedness of the Righteous, Who Have Not Yet Received the Divine Reward, with that of Our First Parents in Paradise. Chapter 12.—A Comparison of the Blessedness of the Righteous, Who Have Not…vatican.va
• The City of God XI.13 — Chapter 13.—Whether All the Angels Were So Created in One Common State of Felicity, that Those Who Fell Were Not Aware that They Would Fall, and that Those Who Stood Received Assurance of Their Own Perseverance After…vatican.va
• The City of God XI.14 — An Explanation of What is Said of the Devil, that He Did Not Abide in the Truth, Because the Truth Was Not in Him. Chapter 14.—An Explanation of What is Said of the Devil, that He Did Not Abide in the Truth, Because…vatican.va
• The City of God XI.15 — How We are to Understand the Words, ‘The Devil Sinneth from the Beginning.’. Chapter 15.—How We are to Understand the Words, “The Devil Sinneth from the Beginning.” As for what John says about the devil, “The devil…vatican.va
• The City of God XI.16 — Of the Ranks and Differences of the Creatures, Estimated by Their Utility, or According to the Natural Gradations of Being. Chapter 16.—Of the Ranks and Differences of the Creatures, Estimated by Their Utility, or…vatican.va
• The City of God XI.17 — That the Flaw of Wickedness is Not Nature, But Contrary to Nature, and Has Its Origin, Not in the Creator, But in the Will. Chapter 17.—That the Flaw of Wickedness is Not Nature, But Contrary to Nature, and Has Its…vatican.va
• The City of God XI.18 — Of the Beauty of the Universe, Which Becomes, by God’s Ordinance, More Brilliant by the Opposition of Contraries. Chapter 18.—Of the Beauty of the Universe, Which Becomes, by God’s Ordinance, More Brilliant by the…vatican.va
• The City of God XI.19 — What, Seemingly, We are to Understand by the Words, ‘God Divided the Light from the Darkness.’. Chapter 19.—What, Seemingly, We are to Understand by the Words, “God Divided the Light from the Darkness.” Accordingly,…vatican.va
• The City of God XI.20 — Of the Words Which Follow the Separation of Light and Darkness, ‘And God Saw the Light that It Was Good.’. Chapter 20.—Of the Words Which Follow the Separation of Light and Darkness, “And God Saw the Light that It…vatican.va
• The City of God XI.21 — Chapter 21.—Of God’s Eternal and Unchangeable Knowledge and Will, Whereby All He Has Made Pleased Him in the Eternal Design as Well as in the Actual Result. For what else is to be understood by that invariable…vatican.va
• The City of God XI.22 — Chapter 22.—Of Those Who Do Not Approve of Certain Things Which are a Part of This Good Creation of a Good Creator, and Who Think that There is Some Natural Evil. This cause, however, of a good creation, namely, the…vatican.va
• The City of God XI.23 — Of the Error in Which the Doctrine of Origen is Involved. But it is much more surprising that some even of those who, with ourselves, believe that there is one only source of all things, and that no nature which is…vatican.va
• The City of God XI.24 — Of the Divine Trinity, and the Indications of Its Presence Scattered Everywhere Among Its Works. Chapter 24.—Of the Divine Trinity, and the Indications of Its Presence Scattered Everywhere Among Its Works. We…vatican.va
• The City of God XI.25 — Of the Division of Philosophy into Three Parts. As far as one can judge, it is for the same reason that philosophers have aimed at a threefold division of science, or rather, were enabled to see that there was a…vatican.va
• The City of God XI.26 — Of the Image of the Supreme Trinity, Which We Find in Some Sort in Human Nature Even in Its Present State. Chapter 26.—Of the Image of the Supreme Trinity, Which We Find in Some Sort in Human Nature Even in Its…vatican.va
• The City of God XI.27 — Of Existence, and Knowledge of It, and the Love of Both. And truly the very fact of existing is by some natural spell so pleasant, that even the wretched are, for no other reason, unwilling to perish; and, when they…vatican.va
• The City of God XI.28 — Chapter 28.—Whether We Ought to Love the Love Itself with Which We Love Our Existence and Our Knowledge of It, that So We May More Nearly Resemble the Image of the Divine Trinity. We have said as much as the scope of…vatican.va
• The City of God XI.29 — Chapter 29.—Of the Knowledge by Which the Holy Angels Know God in His Essence, and by Which They See the Causes of His Works in the Art of the Worker, Before They See Them in the Works of the Artist. Those holy…vatican.va
• The City of God XI.30 — Of the Perfection of the Number Six, Which is the First of the Numbers Which is Composed of Its Aliquot Parts. Chapter 30.—Of the Perfection of the Number Six, Which is the First of the Numbers Which is Composed of…vatican.va
• The City of God XI.31 — Of the Seventh Day, in Which Completeness and Repose are Celebrated. But, on the seventh day (i.e., the same day repeated seven times, which number is also a perfect one, though for another reason), the rest of God…vatican.va
• The City of God XI.32 — Of the Opinion that the Angels Were Created Before the World. But if some one oppose our opinion, and say that the holy angels are not referred to when it is said, “Let there be light, and there was light;” if he…vatican.va
• The City of God XI.33 — Of the Two Different and Dissimilar Communities of Angels, Which are Not Inappropriately Signified by the Names Light and Darkness. Chapter 33.—Of the Two Different and Dissimilar Communities of Angels, Which are Not…vatican.va
• The City of God XI.34 — Chapter 34.—Of the Idea that the Angels Were Meant Where the Separation of the Waters by the Firmament is Spoken Of, and of that Other Idea that the Waters Were Not Created. Some, however, have supposed that the…vatican.va