The City of God, Book XII

Book XII

• The City of God XII.1 — That the Nature of the Angels, Both Good and Bad, is One and the Same. It has already, in the preceding book, been shown how the two cities originated among the angels. Before I speak of the creation of man, and show…vatican.va
• The City of God XII.2 — Chapter 2.—That There is No Entity Contrary to the Divine, Because Nonentity Seems to Be that Which is Wholly Opposite to Him Who Supremely and Always is. This may be enough to prevent any one from supposing, when we…vatican.va
• The City of God XII.3 — Chapter 3.—That the Enemies of God are So, Not by Nature, But by Will, Which, as It Injures Them, Injures a Good Nature; For If Vice Does Not Injure, It is Not Vice. In Scripture they are called God’s enemies who…vatican.va
• The City of God XII.4 — Of the Nature of Irrational and Lifeless Creatures, Which in Their Own Kind and Order Do Not Mar the Beauty of the Universe. Chapter 4.—Of the Nature of Irrational and Lifeless Creatures, Which in Their Own Kind and…vatican.va
• The City of God XII.5 — That in All Natures, of Every Kind and Rank, God is Glorified. All natures, then, inasmuch as they are, and have therefore a rank and species of their own, and a kind of internal harmony, are certainly good. And when…vatican.va
• The City of God XII.6 — What the Cause of the Blessedness of the Good Angels Is, and What the Cause of the Misery of the Wicked. Chapter 6.—What the Cause of the Blessedness of the Good Angels Is, and What the Cause of the Misery of the…vatican.va
• The City of God XII.7 — That We Ought Not to Expect to Find Any Efficient Cause of the Evil Will. Let no one, therefore, look for an efficient cause of the evil will; for it is not efficient, but deficient, as the will itself is not an…vatican.va
• The City of God XII.8 — Of the Misdirected Love Whereby the Will Fell Away from the Immutable to the Mutable Good. Chapter 8.—Of the Misdirected Love Whereby the Will Fell Away from the Immutable to the Mutable Good. This I do know, that…vatican.va
• The City of God XII.9 — Chapter 9.—Whether the Angels, Besides Receiving from God Their Nature, Received from Him Also Their Good Will by the Holy Spirit Imbuing Them with Love. There is, then, no natural efficient cause or, if I may be…vatican.va
• The City of God XII.10 — Of the Falseness of the History Which Allots Many Thousand Years to the World’s Past. Chapter 10.—Of the Falseness of the History Which Allots Many Thousand Years to the World’s Past. Let us, then, omit the…vatican.va
• The City of God XII.11 — Chapter 11.—Of Those Who Suppose that This World Indeed is Not Eternal, But that Either There are Numberless Worlds, or that One and the Same World is Perpetually Resolved into Its Elements, and Renewed at the…vatican.va
• The City of God XII.12 — How These Persons are to Be Answered, Who Find Fault with the Creation of Man on the Score of Its Recent Date. Chapter 12.—How These Persons are to Be Answered, Who Find Fault with the Creation of Man on the Score of…vatican.va
• The City of God XII.13 — Chapter 13.—Of the Revolution of the Ages, Which Some Philosophers Believe Will Bring All Things Round Again, After a Certain Fixed Cycle, to the Same Order and Form as at First. This controversy some philosophers…vatican.va
• The City of God XII.14 — Of the Creation of the Human Race in Time, and How This Was Effected Without Any New Design or Change of Purpose on God’s Part. Chapter 14.—Of the Creation of the Human Race in Time, and How This Was Effected Without…vatican.va
• The City of God XII.15 — Chapter 15.—Whether We are to Believe that God, as He Has Always Been Sovereign Lord, Has Always Had Creatures Over Whom He Exercised His Sovereignty; And in What Sense We Can Say that the Creature Has Always Been,…vatican.va
• The City of God XII.16 — How We are to Understand God’s Promise of Life Eternal, Which Was Uttered Before the ‘Eternal Times.’. Chapter 16.—How We are to Understand God’s Promise of Life Eternal, Which Was Uttered Before the “Eternal Times.”…vatican.va
• The City of God XII.17 — Chapter 17.—What Defence is Made by Sound Faith Regarding God’s Unchangeable Counsel and Will, Against the Reasonings of Those Who Hold that the Works of God are Eternally Repeated in Revolving Cycles that Restore…vatican.va
• The City of God XII.18 — Against Those Who Assert that Things that are Infinite Cannot Be Comprehended by the Knowledge of God. Chapter 18.—Against Those Who Assert that Things that are Infinite Cannot Be Comprehended by the Knowledge of…vatican.va
• The City of God XII.19 — Of Worlds Without End, or Ages of Ages. I do not presume to determine whether God does so, and whether these times which are called “ages of ages” are joined together in a continuous series, and succeed one another…vatican.va
• The City of God XII.20 — Chapter 20.—Of the Impiety of Those Who Assert that the Souls Which Enjoy True and Perfect Blessedness, Must Yet Again and Again in These Periodic Revolutions Return to Labor and Misery. What pious ears could bear to…vatican.va
• The City of God XII.21 — That There Was Created at First But One Individual, and that the Human Race Was Created in Him. Chapter 21.—That There Was Created at First But One Individual, and that the Human Race Was Created in Him. Now that we…vatican.va
• The City of God XII.22 — Chapter 22.—That God Foreknew that the First Man Would Sin, and that He at the Same Time Foresaw How Large a Multitude of Godly Persons Would by His Grace Be Translated to the Fellowship of the Angels. And God was…vatican.va
• The City of God XII.23 — Of the Nature of the Human Soul Created in the Image of God. God, then, made man in His own image. For He created for him a soul endowed with reason and intelligence, so that he might excel all the creatures of…vatican.va
• The City of God XII.24 — Whether the Angels Can Be Said to Be the Creators of Any, Even the Least Creature. Chapter 24.—Whether the Angels Can Be Said to Be the Creators of Any, Even the Least Creature. But in this book we have nothing to do…vatican.va
• The City of God XII.25 — That God Alone is the Creator of Every Kind of Creature, Whatever Its Nature or Form. Chapter 25.—That God Alone is the Creator of Every Kind of Creature, Whatever Its Nature or Form. For whereas there is one form…vatican.va
• The City of God XII.26 — Of that Opinion of the Platonists, that the Angels Were Themselves Indeed Created by God, But that Afterwards They Created Man’s Body. Chapter 26.—Of that Opinion of the Platonists, that the Angels Were Themselves…vatican.va
• The City of God XII.27 — Chapter 27.—That the Whole Plenitude of the Human Race Was Embraced in the First Man, and that God There Saw the Portion of It Which Was to Be Honored and Rewarded, and that Which Was to Be Condemned and Punished.…vatican.va