The City of God, Book XX

Book XX

• The City of God XX.1 — That Although God is Always Judging, It is Nevertheless Reasonable to Confine Our Attention in This Book to His Last Judgment. Chapter 1.—That Although God is Always Judging, It is Nevertheless Reasonable to Confine…vatican.va
• The City of God XX.2 — That in the Mingled Web of Human Affairs God’s Judgment is Present, Though It Cannot Be Discerned. Chapter 2.—That in the Mingled Web of Human Affairs God’s Judgment is Present, Though It Cannot Be Discerned. In this…vatican.va
• The City of God XX.3 — What Solomon, in the Book of Ecclesiastes, Says Regarding the Things Which Happen Alike to Good and Wicked Men. Chapter 3.—What Solomon, in the Book of Ecclesiastes, Says Regarding the Things Which Happen Alike to…vatican.va
• The City of God XX.4 — That Proofs of the Last Judgment Will Be Adduced, First from the New Testament, and Then from the Old. Chapter 4.—That Proofs of the Last Judgment Will Be Adduced, First from the New Testament, and Then from the Old.…vatican.va
• The City of God XX.5 — The Passages in Which the Saviour Declares that There Shall Be a Divine Judgment in the End of the World. Chapter 5.—The Passages in Which the Saviour Declares that There Shall Be a Divine Judgment in the End of the…vatican.va
• The City of God XX.6 — What is the First Resurrection, and What the Second. After that He adds the words, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that…vatican.va
• The City of God XX.7 — Chapter 7.—What is Written in the Revelation of John Regarding the Two Resurrections, and the Thousand Years, and What May Reasonably Be Held on These Points. The evangelist John has spoken of these two resurrections…vatican.va
• The City of God XX.8 — Of the Binding and Loosing of the Devil. “After that,” says John, “he must be loosed a little season.” If the binding and shutting up of the devil means his being made unable to seduce the Church, must his loosing be…vatican.va
• The City of God XX.9 — What the Reign of the Saints with Christ for a Thousand Years Is, and How It Differs from the Eternal Kingdom. Chapter 9.—What the Reign of the Saints with Christ for a Thousand Years Is, and How It Differs from the…vatican.va
• The City of God XX.10 — What is to Be Replied to Those Who Think that Resurrection Pertains Only to Bodies and Not to Souls. Chapter 10.—What is to Be Replied to Those Who Think that Resurrection Pertains Only to Bodies and Not to Souls.…vatican.va
• The City of God XX.11 — Of Gog and Magog, Who are to Be Roused by the Devil to Persecute the Church, When He is Loosed in the End of the World. Chapter 11.—Of Gog and Magog, Who are to Be Roused by the Devil to Persecute the Church, When He…vatican.va
• The City of God XX.12 — Whether the Fire that Came Down Out of Heaven and Devoured Them Refers to the Last Punishment of the Wicked. Chapter 12.—Whether the Fire that Came Down Out of Heaven and Devoured Them Refers to the Last Punishment…vatican.va
• The City of God XX.13 — Whether the Time of the Persecution or Antichrist Should Be Reckoned in the Thousand Years. Chapter 13.—Whether the Time of the Persecution or Antichrist Should Be Reckoned in the Thousand Years. This last…vatican.va
• The City of God XX.14 — Chapter 14.—Of the Damnation of the Devil and His Adherents; And a Sketch of the Bodily Resurrection of All the Dead, and of the Final Retributive Judgment. After this mention of the closing persecution, he summarily…vatican.va
• The City of God XX.15 — Who the Dead are Who are Given Up to Judgment by the Sea, and by Death and Hell. Chapter 15.—Who the Dead are Who are Given Up to Judgment by the Sea, and by Death and Hell. But who are the dead which were in the…vatican.va
• The City of God XX.16 — Of the New Heaven and the New Earth. Having finished the prophecy of judgment, so far as the wicked are concerned, it remains that he speak also of the good. Having briefly explained the Lord’s words, “These will go…vatican.va
• The City of God XX.17 — Of the Endless Glory of the Church. “And I saw,” he says, “a great city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice from the throne,…vatican.va
• The City of God XX.18 — What the Apostle Peter Predicted Regarding the Last Judgment. Let us now see what the Apostle Peter predicted concerning this judgment. “There shall come,” he says, “in the last days scoffers. . . . Nevertheless we,…vatican.va
• The City of God XX.19 — What the Apostle Paul Wrote to the Thessalonians About the Manifestation of Antichrist Which Shall Precede the Day of the Lord. Chapter 19.—What the Apostle Paul Wrote to the Thessalonians About the Manifestation of…vatican.va
• The City of God XX.20 — What the Same Apostle Taught in the First Epistle to the Thessalonians Regarding the Resurrection of the Dead. Chapter 20.—What the Same Apostle Taught in the First Epistle to the Thessalonians Regarding the…vatican.va
• The City of God XX.21 — Utterances of the Prophet Isaiah Regarding the Resurrection of the Dead and the Retributive Judgment. Chapter 21.—Utterances of the Prophet Isaiah Regarding the Resurrection of the Dead and the Retributive Judgment.…vatican.va
• The City of God XX.22 — What is Meant by the Good Going Out to See the Punishment of the Wicked. But in what way shall the good go out to see the punishment of the wicked? Are they to leave their happy abodes by a bodily movement, and…vatican.va
• The City of God XX.23 — What Daniel Predicted Regarding the Persecution of Antichrist, the Judgment of God, and the Kingdom of the Saints. Chapter 23.—What Daniel Predicted Regarding the Persecution of Antichrist, the Judgment of God, and…vatican.va
• The City of God XX.24 — Passages from the Psalms of David Which Predict the End of the World and the Last Judgment. Chapter 24.—Passages from the Psalms of David Which Predict the End of the World and the Last Judgment. There are many…vatican.va
• The City of God XX.25 — Of Malachi’s Prophecy, in Which He Speaks of the Last Judgment, and of a Cleansing Which Some are to Undergo by Purifying Punishments. Chapter 25.—Of Malachi’s Prophecy, in Which He Speaks of the Last Judgment, and…vatican.va
• The City of God XX.26 — Of the Sacrifices Offered to God by the Saints, Which are to Be Pleasing to Him, as in the Primitive Days and Former Years. Chapter 26.—Of the Sacrifices Offered to God by the Saints, Which are to Be Pleasing to Him,…vatican.va
• The City of God XX.27 — Of the Separation of the Good and the Bad, Which Proclaim the Discriminating Influence of the Last Judgment. Chapter 27.—Of the Separation of the Good and the Bad, Which Proclaim the Discriminating Influence of the…vatican.va
• The City of God XX.28 — That the Law of Moses Must Be Spiritually Understood to Preclude the Damnable Murmurs of a Carnal Interpretation. Chapter 28.—That the Law of Moses Must Be Spiritually Understood to Preclude the Damnable Murmurs of a…vatican.va
• The City of God XX.29 — Of the Coming of Elias Before the Judgment, that the Jews May Be Converted to Christ by His Preaching and Explanation of Scripture. Chapter 29.—Of the Coming of Elias Before the Judgment, that the Jews May Be…vatican.va
• The City of God XX.30 — Chapter 30.—That in the Books of the Old Testament, Where It is Said that God Shall Judge the World, the Person of Christ is Not Explicitly Indicated, But It Plainly Appears from Some Passages in Which the Lord God…vatican.va