Volume 8 in Writings of saint Augustine.

Contents:

BOOK SEVENTEEN
Chapter 1 Concerning the period of the Prophets
Chapter 2 Concerning the period when God's promise touching Chanaan was made good, and how carnal Israel came to possess that land
Chapter 3 On the three meanings of the prophecy as related to the earthly, or to the heavenly, or to both
Chapter 4 How Anna, Samuel's mother, prefiguring the Church, prophesied the transformation of the Jewish king-dom and priesthood . .
Chapter 5 On the prophecy addressed by a man of God to the high priest Heli, to the effect th.at the priesthood. of Aaron would come to an end
Chapter 6 The fact that the Jewish kingdom and priesthood did not endure, although they were called abiding when established, shows that it was to some other king-dom and priesthood that everlastingness was prom-ised
Chapter 7 That the breakup of the kingdom of Israel was a pre-figuration of the everlasting division between the carnal and spiritual Israel
Chapter 8 That the promises made to David regarding his son remained unfulfilled in Solomon, but were perfectly fulfilled in Christ
Chapter 9 On the similarity between the prophecy of Christ in Psalm 88 and that of Nathan in the Book of Kings
Chapter 10 On the discrepancy between God's promises and the actual history of the earthly Jerusalem, showing that such promises envisaged a different Kingdom and another King
Chapter 11 In what sense the Incarnate Christ was the 'substance' of God's people, and the only one empowered to rise from the dead
Chapter 12 On the verse, 'Lord, where are thy ancient mercies,' and the identity of those seeking redemption of the pledge
Chapter 13 Whether or not the promised peace, in its true sense, can be ascribed to the days of Solomon
Chapter 14 On David as Psalmist; the authenticity and meaning of the Book of Psalms
Chapter 15 That the nature of this work does not call for a discus-sion of all the prophecies in the Psalms which concern Christ and His Church
Chapter 16 What Psalm 44 has to say, whether literally or figur-atively, concerning Christ and His Church
Chapter 17 Concerning the priesthood of Christ in Psalm 109, and His Passion in Psalm 21
Chapter 18 The Lord's Death and Resurrection in Psalms 3, 15, 40, and 67
Chapter 19 On the stubborn refusal of the Jews to believe, as revealed in. Psalm 68
Chapter 20 On the reign and fame of David, and on those proph-ecies of his son Solomon
Chapter 21 Concerning the Kings of Juda and Israel who suc-ceeded Solomon
Chapter 22 Concerning Jeroboam's idolatry, which was imposed on his people, and God's providence in inspiring Prophets who protected many of the people from the sin of idolatry
Chapter 23 Concerning the vicissitudes of both Jewish kingdoms up to the time of their separate captivities, and how uda, after its restoration, finally came into the power of Rome
Chapter 24 Concerning the last of the Prophets accepted by the 'Jews, and those who were contemporary with Christ's birth and are mentioned in the Gospels

BOOK EIGHTEEN
Chapter 1 On the distribution of material in the first seventeen Books of this work
Chapter 2 Concerning the rulers in the city of the world who were contemporaries of the saints in the periods from the birth of Abraham on
Chapter 3 Secular rulers in Assyria and Sicyon contemporaneous with the promised birth of Isaac, when Abraham was 100 years old, and with the birth of the twins, Esau and Jacob, begotten of Rebecca, when Isaac was sixty
Chapter 4 Concerning the days of Jacob and his son Joseph
Chapter 5 How the Greek king Apis, became the Egyptian god Serapis
Chapter 6 On the Greek and Assyrian rulers who were contem-poraneous with Jacob's death in Egypt
Chapter 7 On the rulers who were contemporaneous with Jos-eph's death in Egypt
Chapter 8 On the kings contemporaneous with Moses' birth, and the origin of new cults at that time
Chapter 9 On the foundation of Athens, and Varro's explanation of the name of the city
Chapter 10 On Varro's account of the naming of the Areopagus and his dating of Deucalion's flood
Chapter 11 On the date of the Exodus led by Moses, and the rulers contemporary with the death of Josue
Chapter 12 On the pagan rites established by the Greek kings between the Exodus and Josue's death
Chapter 13 On the pagan fables excogitated during the era of Judges in Israel
Chapter 14 On the theological poets
Chapter 15 On the fall of the kingdom of Argos, and the rise of the kingdom of Laurentum under Picus, Saturn's son
Chapter 16 How Diomedes became a god after the fall of Troy, while his companions were changed into birds
Chapter 17 On Varro's account of some fantastic metamorphoses
Chapter 18 What we should believe on the subject of the trans-formations which men suffer, apparently, by some trickery of the demons
Chapter 19 That Aeneas arrived in Italy at the time when Labdon ruled as judge in Israel
Chapter 20 On the royal dynasty among the Jews after the era of Judges
Chapter 21 On the kings of Latium, who were made into gods, namely, Aeneas the first king, and Aventinus XII
Chapter 22 How the founding of Rome coincided with the fall of Assyria and the reign of Ezechias in Juda
Chapter 23 That the Sibyl of Erythrae, along with others, man-ifestly prophesied of Christ
Chapter 24 That Romulus was ruling at the period of the Seven Wise Men, and the captivity of the ten tribes, and that when he died he was made a god
Chapter 25 Thinkers contemporaneous with the reign of Tarquin Priscus, the Jewish king, Sedechias, and the destruc-tion of Jerusalem
Chapter 26 How the freedom of the Jews from the seventy years of Babylonian captivity coincided with the libera- ' tion of the Romans from the monarchic domination
Chapter 27 The chronology of the Prophets whose books sang of the calling of the Gentiles at the time Assyria was falling and Rome rising
Chapter 28 On the prophecies of Osee and Amos in relation to the Gospel of Christ
Chapter 29 On the prophecies of Isaias concerning Christ and His Church
Chapter 30 On the prophecies of Jonas and Joel relating to the New Testament
Chapter 31 On the prophecies of Abdias, Nahum, and Habacuc concerning the salvation of the world through Christ
Chapter 32 On the prophecy. contained. in Habacuc's prayer and canticle
Chapter 33 On Christ and the calling of the Gentiles as foretold in the inspired prophecies of Jeremias and Sophonias
Chapter 34 On the prophecies of Daniel and Ezechiel touching Christ and His Church
Chapter 35 Concerning the predictions of the three Prophets, Aggeus, Zacharias, and Malachias
Chapter 36 Concerning Esdras and the Books of the Machabees
Chapter 37 That the visions of the Prophets are more ancient than the earliest wisdom of the pagans
Chapter 38 That certain writings of holy men have been ex-cluded from the canon of Scripture because their extreme antiquity raises the fear that such works might have had falsehoods interpolated with truths
Chapter 39 That written Hebrew is as old as the spoken language
Chapter 40 On the empty myth of the Egyptians that their learn-ing goes back 100,000 years
Chapter 41 On the disagreements of philosophers as contrasted with the consistency of the canonical writings
Chapter 42 On the dispensation of Divine Providence in watch-ing over the Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament, so that the Scriptures might be known to the Gentiles
Chapter 43 On the authority of the Septuagint which, without prejudice to the original Hebrew, must be preferred to all other versions
Chapter 44 How it is that, in regard to the destruction of Ninive, the Hebrew original says that the threat was made forty days before the fall, whereas the Septuagint speaks of three days only
Chapter 45 How, from the rebuilding of the Temple to the coming of Christ, the Jews were without Prophets and were afflicted with one calamity after another to make them understand that what the prophecies were concerned with was the building of a different kind of Temple
Chapter 46 On the birth of our Saviour, whereby the Word became flesh, and on the dispersion of the Jews throughout the world, as the Prophets foretold
Chapter 47 Whether before Christ's coming there were any non-Jewish people bound by spiritual membership to the City of God
Chapter 48 That the prophecy of Aggeus concerning the future glory of God's house was not fulfilled in the restora-tion of the Temple, but only in Christ's Church
Chapter 49 On the growth of the Church and its membership containing both good and bad men
Chapter 50 How the sufferings of those who spread the Gospel made its message more striking and more telling
Chapter 51 That even heresy strengthens the Catholic faith
Chapter 52 On the opinion of those who think that, with the end of ten persecutions, there will be no others ex-cept that of Antichrist which is to come . 53 That the date of the last persecution has been re-vealed to no one
Chapter 54 Concerning the silly pagan fabrication that Christian-ity is to last no longer than 36:5 years

BOOK NINETEEN
Chapter 1 That Varro was able to distinguish 288 possible theories in regard to the philosophical question of the supreme good and ultimate evil
Chapter 2 How Varro, by eliminating those differences of opin-ions which can be held within a single school, reaches three possible definitions of the supreme good, one of which must be accepted
Chapter 3 Varro decides which of the three theories concerning the supreme good is to be preferred by following the opinion of Antiochus, the founder of the Old. Academy
Chapter 4 The Christian view of the supreme good and the ul-timate evil, as distinguished from the philosophers' view that the supreme good is in men themselves
Chapter 5 That living in society is highly desirable, but frequently troubled by many trials
Chapter 6 On the false decisions in the courts of law when the truth is not yet known
Chapter 7 On the calamity of language barriers which cut off human communication, and of wars, even when they are considered just . .
Chapter 8 That not even the friendship of good men is free from the inevitable fears that arise from the risks of human life
Chapter 9 That a man, so long as he is in this world, cannot be sure, because of the deceptions of those demons who have entrapped the polytheists, whether he is being wooed by good or bad angels
Chapter 10 What reward the saints can reap by overcoming temp-tation during life
Chapter 11 On the blessedness of eternal peace which, for the saints, is their end or true perfection
Chapter 12 That every living creature so longs for peace that, even in the savagery of war and the turmoil of other struggles, what all men have at heart is to reach the port of peace
Chapter 13 That peace is the ultimate law of all and every nature; although order may be greatly disturbed, it can never be destroyed, since every responsible creature reaches, by God's just judgment, what his own free choice has merited
Chapter 14 On both the divine and human law and order, in which those who govern are meant to help and, in helping, to serve the society which they govern
Chapter 15 That liberty belongs to us by nature, whereas, in ultimate analysis, servitude is brought on by sin, since a man who is free in relation to other men may yet be the slave of his own passions
Chapter 16 On the right use of authority
Chapter 17 On the areas of agreement and disagreement between the two cities
Chapter 18 On the difference between the wavering of the New Academy and the constancy of Christian faith
Chapter 19 On Christian indifference with respect to idiosyncrasies of dress and behavior
Chapter 20 That Christian happiness in this world is a happiness built upon hope
Chapter 21 Whether or not there ever existed a Roman republic answering to Scipio's definitions in Cicero's dialogue Chapter 22 Whether the Christians' God is the true God who alone deserves sacrifice
Chapter 23 On Porphyry's report of divine oracles touching Christ
Chapter 24 On a definition of 'people' and 'commonwealth' which can be properly applied both to the Romans and to other pagan states
Chapter 25 That there can be no true virtue apart from the true religion
Chapter 26 That the kind of peace which irreligious people have can be put to religious use by the wayfaring City of God
Chapter 27 On the impossibility of God's servants having, in this transitory life, a peace of perfect calm
Chapter 28 On the nature of the last end awaiting the ungodly

BOOK TWENTY
Chapter 1 That the discussion in this book is to be limited to the Last judgment, although, of course, God exercises judgment at all times
Chapter 2 That the variety and vicissitudes of human life and fortune must be attributed to the judgments, how-ever inscrutable, of God
Chapter 3 What Solomon has to say, in the Book of Ecclesiastes, about the ups and downs of life which are common to the good and bad alike
Chapter 4 That in the following discussion of God's last judg-ment the relevant texts will be adduced in this order: first, from the New Testament and, then, from the Old
Chapter 5 On the declarations of our Lord and Saviour which concern the divine judgment at the end of the world
Chapter 6 What meant by the first resurrection, and by the second
Chapter 7 What St. John in the Apocalypse has to say concerning the two resurrections and the Millennium, together with a reasonable interpretation of what he says
Chapter 8 On the binding and loosing of the Devil
Chapter 9 On the nature of the reign of the saints, for a thousand years, in the Kingdom of Christ, and how this differs from the kingdom that endures forever
Chapter 10 A reply to those who contend that resurrection has to do with the body, but not with the soul
Chapter 11 Concerning Gog and Magog whom the unchained Devil will stir up to persecute the Church near the end of time
Chapter 12 Whether St. john's falling and consuming fire is to be the ultimate retribution upon the ungodly
Chapter 13 Whether the duration of the persecution of Antichrist. is to be counted in the thousand years
Chapter 14 On the damnation of the Devil and his fellows, and a . resumption of the themes of the bodily resurrection of the dead and the Last judgment
Chapter 15 On identifying the dead whom the sea will present for judgment, and whom death and hell will give back on that occasion .
Chapter 16 Concerning the new heaven and the new earth
Chapter 17 On the endless glory of the Church after the end of the world
Chapter 18 St. Peter's teaching on the Last Judgment
Chapter 19 What is said by St. Paul in the Epistle to the Thessal-onians concerning the coming of Antichrist just before the day of the Lord
Chapter 20 St. Paul's teaching concerning the resurrection of the dead as contained in the first Epistle to the Thess-alonians
Chapter 21 The texts in Isaias dealing with the resurrection of the dead and with judicial retribution
Chapter 22 In what sense the good are to 'go out' to see the pains of the wicked
Chapter 23 On Daniel's prophecy concerning the persecution of Antichrist, God's judgment, and the kingdom of the saints
Chapter 24 On the prophecies concerning the end of the world and God's Last judgment as contained in the Psalms of David
Chapter 25 On the prophecy in which Malachias foretold the Last Judgment and speaks of the cleansing by means of purgatorial pains, which some of the faithful are to undergo
Chapter 26 On the sacrifices which the saints are to offer and which 'shall please the Lord, as in the daNs of old, and in the ancient years'
Chapter 27 That the separation of the good and the evil as decreed by the Last Judgment will reveal the true dif-ference between holiness and wickedness
Chapter 28 That the Law of Moses must be taken in a spiritual rather than in a literal sense, if it is not to arouse wrongful resentment
Chapter 29 On the coming of Elias before the judgment, to prem h to the Jews and to convert them to Christ by reveal ing the spiritual meaning of the Scriptures
Chapter 30 Although the passages in the Old Testament whit h deal with the future divine judgment do not men-tion Christ explicitly, there are other texts which show clearly that when the Lord God is mentioned it is Christ who is speaking

BOOK TWENTY-ONE
Chapter 1 That it is better to begin our discussion of heaven and hell with the eternal punishment of the Devil and the damned than with the everlasting beatitude of
the saints
Chapter 2 Whether it is possible for bodies to last forever in burning fire
Chapter 3 Whether it necessarily follows that, because a body suf-fers pain, it must end in death
Chapter 4 The proof from the phenomena of nature that bodies can remain alive in spite of unceasing pain
Chapter 5 That a great many things are undoubtedly true even though reason may be unable to explain them
Chapter 6 That, along with the marvels of nature, there arc wonders worked by the human spirit and also prodigies produced by diabolical arts
Chapter 7 That the ultimate justification for faith in miracles is the omnipotence of the Creator
Chapter 8 That there is nothing contrary to nature when, in a substance already known, there is discovered a new quality unlike any of the others hitherto observed
Chapter 9 On hell and the nature of eternal torments
Chapter 10 Whether the fire of hell, if it is material, can really burn those malignant spirits who are immaterial demons
Chapter 11 Whether justice demands that the time spent inpain should be no longer than the time spent in sin
Chapter 12 On the magnitude of the original offense on account of which all those who fall outside the grace of the Saviour are subject to eternal punishment
Chapter 13 An answer to those who hold that the only purpose of punishment after death is purgatorial
Chapter 14 On the temporal punishments to which our human condition makes us liable in this life
Chapter 15 That every operation of God's grace, rescuing us from the abyss of former sinfulness, is related to newness of life in the world to come
Chapter 16 On the laws of grace in relation to each of the periods in the lives of those who have been baptized
Chapter 17 On the opinion that no one will continue to suffer forever
Chapter 18 On the view that, at the Last Judgment, all will be saved from damnation through the intercession of the saints
Chapter 19 On those who promise even to heretics, as members of the Body of Christ, that all their sins will go unpunished
Chapter 20 On those who limit the promise of indulgence, not to the baptized in general, but to all baptized Catholics, irrespective of whatever sins or errors into which . 382 they may have fallen
Chapter 21 On the view that those who persevere in the Catholic faith, however sinfully they may have lived and so have deserved the fires of hell, are to be saved by reason of the foundation of faith
Chapter 22 On the view that sins committed by those who engage in alms-giving will not be called before the bar of damnation
Chapter 23 A refutation of the view that the sins neither of the Devil nor of men are to be punished by unendlng
pains
Chapter 24 A reply to those who think that God’s judgment will turn into mercy for all who are guilty, by reason
of the supplication of the saints
Chapter 25 On the hope of the remission of eternal punishment through the privilege of the sacraments for three classes of sinners: first, baptized heretics who later fall into a life of sin; second, Catholics reborn to grace who pass into heresy or schism; third, baptized Catholics who keep the faith but continue to live
immorally
Chapter 26 On the meaning of having Christ as a ‘foundation’ and of being promised salvation ‘yet so as through fire’
Chapter 27 In refutation of the view that even habitual sinners, provided they continued to be generous in aims,

BOOK TWENTY-TWO
Chapter 1 On the creation of men and of angels
Chapter 2 On the eternal and unchangeable will of God
Chapter 3 On the promise regarding the eternal blessedness of the saints and the perpetual punishment of the wicked
Chapter 4 An answer to those philosophers who rely on the wisdom of this world and deny that human bodies can be transferred to a heavenly abode
Chapter 5 On those who doubt the resurrection of the flesh though all the rest of the world believe it
Chapter 6 That, while Rome was moved by love to believe in the divinity of its founder, Romulus, the Church was moved to love Christ because she knew by faith that Christ was God
Chapter 7 That it was more by divine power tan ‘ law persuasion that the world came to believe in Christ
Chapter 8 On the miracles which originally helped the world to believe in Christ and which still occasionally occur even though the faith is now everywhere accepted
Chapter 9 That all miracles wrought through the martyrs in the name of Christ bear witness to that faith in Christ for which the martyrs died
Chapter 10 A comparison between the generation of martyrs, whose miracles have no purpose but the worship of the true God, and the cult of demons, whose tricks are done to get themselves reckoned as gods
Chapter 11 An answer to the Platonist argument from the physical weight of the elements to the impossibility of any earthly body dwelling in heaven
Chapter 12 On the captions questions which unbelievers ask in order to throw ridicule on the Christian belief in the resurrection of the body
Chapter 13 Whether abortions should not share in the resurrection, since they belong to the number of the dead
Chapter 14 On the possibility that children in the resurrection will have the stature they would have had on earth
if they had grown up
Chapter 15 Whether the bodies of all are to have in resurrection, the same stature as our Lord had
Chapter 16 On the meaning of being conformed of the Son of God
Chapter 17 Whether the bodies of women are to rise and in their proper sex
Chapter 18 On the ‘perfect man,’ Christ, and His body, the Church, which is His ‘fullness’
Chapter 19 That all blemishes which, in this life have detracted from the beauty of a human body will disappear in the resurrection, leaving the nature substantially unchanged, but revealing its proper beauty in the harmony of lines and mass
Chapter 20 That, in the resurrection of the dead, the whole substance of our bodies, however disintegrated they may
have become, will be restored
Chapter 21 That the flesh of the saints will be transformed into the new condition of a spiritual body
Chapter 22 On the miseries and maladies to which the human race has fallen heir, by reason of the first sin-evils from which no one can escape except by the grace of Christ
Chapter 23 On the special trials which good men endure in addition to the ills of life which are common to all men alike
Chapter 24 The blessings which the Creator has poured upon this life, even in its condition of condemnation
Chapter 25 On the obstinacy with which certain people, in the face of a believing world, deny the resurrection of the body
Chapter 26 How Porphyry’s position that souls in bliss must be utterly bodiless is incompatible with the "Platonic view that the Supreme God promised the lesser gods that they should never be divested of their bodies
Chapter 27 On the elements of truth in the opposing views of Plato and Porphyry which, if properly integrated into a mutually acceptable synthesis, would have saved them both from error
Chapter 28 On the elements of truth concerning the resurrection which Plato, Labeo, and even Varro might have reached, if they could have integrated their views into a single synthesis
Chapter 29 On the nature of the Vision by which the saints in the world to come will see God
Chapter 30 On the eternal felicity of the City of God and the Sabbath that has no end