The City of God, Book XIV

Book XIV

• The City of God XIV.1 — Chapter 1.—That the Disobedience of the First Man Would Have Plunged All Men into the Endless Misery of the Second Death, Had Not the Grace of God Rescued Many. We have already stated in the preceding books that God,…vatican.va
• The City of God XIV.2 — Of Carnal Life, Which is to Be Understood Not Only of Living in Bodily Indulgence, But Also of Living in the Vices of the Inner Man. Chapter 2.—Of Carnal Life, Which is to Be Understood Not Only of Living in Bodily…vatican.va
• The City of God XIV.3 — That the Sin is Caused Not by the Flesh, But by the Soul, and that the Corruption Contracted from Sin is Not Sin But Sin’s Punishment. Chapter 3.—That the Sin is Caused Not by the Flesh, But by the Soul, and that the…vatican.va
• The City of God XIV.4 — What It is to Live According to Man, and What to Live According to God. When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil. Because not even an angel might live according to an…vatican.va
• The City of God XIV.5 — Chapter 5.—That the Opinion of the Platonists Regarding the Nature of Body and Soul is Not So Censurable as that of the Manichæans, But that Even It is Objectionable, Because It Ascribes the Origin of Vices to the…vatican.va
• The City of God XIV.6 — Of the Character of the Human Will Which Makes the Affections of the Soul Right or Wrong. Chapter 6.—Of the Character of the Human Will Which Makes the Affections of the Soul Right or Wrong. But the character of the…vatican.va
• The City of God XIV.7 — That the Words Love and Regard (Amor and Dilectio) are in Scripture Used Indifferently of Good and Evil Affection. Chapter 7.—That the Words Love and Regard (Amor and Dilectio) are in Scripture Used Indifferently of…vatican.va
• The City of God XIV.8 — Chapter 8.—Of the Three Perturbations, Which the Stoics Admitted in the Soul of the Wise Man to the Exclusion of Grief or Sadness, Which the Manly Mind Ought Not to Experience. Those emotions which the Greeks call…vatican.va
• The City of God XIV.9 — Of the Perturbations of the Soul Which Appear as Right Affections in the Life of the Righteous. Chapter 9.—Of the Perturbations of the Soul Which Appear as Right Affections in the Life of the Righteous. But so far as…vatican.va
• The City of God XIV.10 — Whether It is to Be Believed that Our First Parents in Paradise, Before They Sinned, Were Free from All Perturbation. Chapter 10.—Whether It is to Be Believed that Our First Parents in Paradise, Before They Sinned,…vatican.va
• The City of God XIV.11 — Of the Fall of the First Man, in Whom Nature Was Created Good, and Can Be Restored Only by Its Author. Chapter 11.—Of the Fall of the First Man, in Whom Nature Was Created Good, and Can Be Restored Only by Its…vatican.va
• The City of God XIV.12 — Of the Nature of Man’s First Sin. If any one finds a difficulty in understanding why other sins do not alter human nature as it was altered by the transgression of those first human beings, so that on account of it…vatican.va
• The City of God XIV.13 — That in Adam’s Sin an Evil Will Preceded the Evil Act. Our first parents fell into open disobedience because already they were secretly corrupted; for the evil act had never been done had not an evil will preceded…vatican.va
• The City of God XIV.14 — Of the Pride in the Sin, Which Was Worse Than the Sin Itself. But it is a worse and more damnable pride which casts about for the shelter of an excuse even in manifest sins, as these our first parents did, of whom…vatican.va
• The City of God XIV.15 — Of the Justice of the Punishment with Which Our First Parents Were Visited for Their Disobedience. Chapter 15.—Of the Justice of the Punishment with Which Our First Parents Were Visited for Their Disobedience.…vatican.va
• The City of God XIV.16 — Of the Evil of Lust,—A Word Which, Though Applicable to Many Vices, is Specially Appropriated to Sexual Uncleanness. Chapter 16.—Of the Evil of Lust,—A Word Which, Though Applicable to Many Vices, is Specially…vatican.va
• The City of God XIV.17 — Of the Nakedness of Our First Parents, Which They Saw After Their Base and Shameful Sin. Chapter 17.—Of the Nakedness of Our First Parents, Which They Saw After Their Base and Shameful Sin. Justly is shame very…vatican.va
• The City of God XIV.18 — Of the Shame Which Attends All Sexual Intercourse. Lust requires for its consummation darkness and secrecy; and this not only when un lawful intercourse is desired, but even such fornication as the earthly city has…vatican.va
• The City of God XIV.19 — That It is Now Necessary, as It Was Not Before Man Sinned, to Bridle Anger and Lust by the Restraining Influence of Wisdom. Chapter 19.—That It is Now Necessary, as It Was Not Before Man Sinned, to Bridle Anger and…vatican.va
• The City of God XIV.20 — Of the Foolish Beastliness of the Cynics. It is this which those canine or cynic philosophers have overlooked, when they have, in violation of the modest instincts of men, boastfully proclaimed their unclean and…vatican.va
• The City of God XIV.21 — Chapter 21.—That Man’s Transgression Did Not Annul the Blessing of Fecundity Pronounced Upon Man Before He Sinned But Infected It with the Disease of Lust. Far be it, then, from us to suppose that our first parents…vatican.va
• The City of God XIV.22 — Of the Conjugal Union as It Was Originally Instituted and Blessed by God. But we, for our part, have no manner of doubt that to increase and multiply and replenish the earth in virtue of the blessing of God, is a…vatican.va
• The City of God XIV.23 — Chapter 23.—Whether Generation Should Have Taken Place Even in Paradise Had Man Not Sinned, or Whether There Should Have Been Any Contention There Between Chastity and Lust. But he who says that there should have…vatican.va
• The City of God XIV.24 — Chapter 24.—That If Men Had Remained Innocent and Obedient in Paradise, the Generative Organs Should Have Been in Subjection to the Will as the Other Members are. The man, then, would have sown the seed, and the…vatican.va
• The City of God XIV.25 — Of True Blessedness, Which This Present Life Cannot Enjoy. However, if we look at this a little more closely, we see that no one lives as he wishes but the blessed, and that no one is blessed but the righteous. But…vatican.va
• The City of God XIV.26 — That We are to Believe that in Paradise Our First Parents Begat Offspring Without Blushing. Chapter 26.—That We are to Believe that in Paradise Our First Parents Begat Offspring Without Blushing. In Paradise, then,…vatican.va
• The City of God XIV.27 — Of the Angels and Men Who Sinned, and that Their Wickedness Did Not Disturb the Order of God’s Providence. Chapter 27.—Of the Angels and Men Who Sinned, and that Their Wickedness Did Not Disturb the Order of God’s…vatican.va
• The City of God XIV.28 — Of the Nature of the Two Cities, the Earthly and the Heavenly. Accordingly, two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self, even to the contempt of God; the heavenly by the love of God,…vatican.va