# The City of God — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for The City of God by Augustine of Hippo.

- [Editor's Preface](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/editor-s-preface.md): The editor introduces Augustine's City of God, explaining its occasion (the sack of Rome by the Goths and pagan accusations against Christianity), its plan (twenty-two books refuting pagan worship and establishing the tw
- [On the City of God Against the Pagans](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/on-the-city-of-god-against-the-pagans.md): Augustine begins his monumental work defending the Christian faith against pagan accusations that the sack of Rome by the Goths was due to the abandonment of the old gods. He introduces the concept of two cities—the eart
- [Book I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-book-i.md): Augustine defends the Christian religion against pagan accusations that the sack of Rome by the Goths was due to the abandonment of the old gods. He argues that the calamities of life befall both good and bad alike, and 
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-i.md): Augustine addresses the adversaries of Christ who, though spared by the barbarians out of respect for Christ during the sack of Rome, now reproach the Christian religion. He argues that their preservation is due to divin
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-ii.md): Augustine argues that it is contrary to the customs of war for victors to spare the vanquished for the sake of their gods, citing historical examples such as the fall of Troy where temples and images were not protected.

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- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-iii.md)
- [Of the asylum of Juno in Troy, which saved no one from the Greeks; and of the churches of the apostles, which protected from the barbarians all who fled to them.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-iv.md)
- [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-v.md)
- [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-vi.md)
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-vii.md)
- [Of the advantages and disadvantages which often indiscriminately accrue to good and wicked men](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-viii.md)
- [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-ix.md)
- [X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-x.md)
- [Of the end of this life, whether it is material that it be long delayed](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xi.md)
- [Of the burial of the dead: that the denial of it to Christians does them no injury](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xii.md)
- [Reasons for Burying the Bodies of the Saints](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xiii.md)
- [Of the captivity of the saints, and that divine consolation never failed them therein.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xiv.md)
- [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xv.md)
- [Of the violation of the consecrated and other Christian virgins to which they were subjected in captivity, and to which their own will gave no consent; and whether this contaminated their souls.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xvi.md)
- [Of suicide committed through fear of punishment or dishonour](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xvii.md)
- [Of the violence which may be done to the body by another's lust, while the mind remains inviolate](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xviii.md)
- [XIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xix.md)
- [Chapter XX: That Christians Have No Authority for Committing Suicide in Any Circumstances Whatever](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xx.md)
- [Of the cases in which we may put men to death without incurring the guilt of murder](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxi.md)
- [XXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxii.md)
- [XXIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxiii.md)
- [XXIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxiv.md)
- [XXV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxv.md)
- [XXVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxvi.md)
- [Whether voluntary death should be sought in order to avoid sin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxvii.md)
- [XXVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxviii.md)
- [XXIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxix.md)
- [The Moral Decay of Rome and the Fear of Security](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxx.md)
- [XXXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxxi.md)
- [Of the establishment of scenic entertainments](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxxii.md)
- [XXXIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxxiii.md)
- [Of God's Clemency in Moderating the Ruin of the City](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxxiv.md)
- [Of the sons of the church who are hidden among the wicked, and of false Christians within the church](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxxv.md)
- [What subjects are to be handled in the following discourse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxxvi.md)
- [Book II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-book-ii.md)
- [Of the limits which must be put to the necessity of replying to an adversary](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-i.md)
- [Recapitulation of the Contents of the First Book](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-ii.md)
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-iii.md)
- [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-iv.md)
- [Of the obscenities practised in honour of the mother of the gods](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-v.md)
- [That the gods of the pagans never inculcated holiness of life](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-vi.md)
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-vii.md)
- [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-viii.md)
- [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-ix.md)
- [Chapter X: The Malice of Devils in Permitting False Crimes to Be Laid to Their Charge](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-x.md)
- [XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xi.md)
- [Chapter XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xii.md)
- [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xiii.md)
- [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xiv.md)
- [Chapter XV: That it was vanity, not reason, which created some of the Roman gods.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xv.md)
- [XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xvi.md)
- [Of the rape of the Sabine women, and other iniquities perpetrated in Rome’s palmiest days.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xvii.md)
- [XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xviii.md)
- [Of the corruption which had grown upon the Roman republic before Christ abolished the worship of the gods](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xix.md)
- [Chapter XX: Of the kind of happiness and life truly delighted in by those who inveigh against the Christian religion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xx.md)
- [Chapter XXI: Cicero's Opinion of the Roman Republic](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxi.md)
- [XXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxii.md)
- [XXIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxiii.md)
- [Of the deeds of Sylla, in which the demons boasted that he had their help.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxiv.md)
- [XXV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxv.md)
- [XXVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxvi.md)
- [XXVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxvii.md)
- [XXVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxviii.md)
- [XXIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxix.md)
- [Book III: External Calamities and the Failure of the Pagan Gods](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-book-iii.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-i.md)
- [Whether the gods, whom the Greeks and Romans worshipped in common, were justified in permitting the destruction of Ilium](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-ii.md)
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-iii.md)
- [Of Varro's opinion, that it is useful for men to feign themselves the offspring of the gods.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-iv.md)
- [Chapter V: The Inconsistency of the Gods' Anger at Adultery](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-v.md)
- [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-vi.md)
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-vii.md)
- [Whether Rome ought to have been entrusted to the Trojan gods?](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-viii.md)
- [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-ix.md)
- [Chapter X: The Price of Empire and the Illusion of Peace](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-x.md)
- [Of the statue of Apollo at Cumae, whose tears are supposed to have portended disaster to the Greeks, whom the god was unable to succour.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xi.md)
- [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xii.md)
- [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xiii.md)
- [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xiv.md)
- [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xv.md)
- [Of the first Roman consuls, the one of whom drove the other from the country, and shortly after perished at Rome by the hand of a wounded enemy, and so ended a career of unnatural murders](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xvi.md)
- [Chapter XVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xvii.md)
- [Chapter XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xviii.md)
- [Of the calamity of the second Punic war, which consumed the strength of both parties](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xix.md)
- [Of the Destruction of the Saguntines, Who Received No Help from the Roman Gods, Though Perishing on Account of Their Fidelity to Rome](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xx.md)
- [Of the ingratitude of Rome to Scipio, its deliverer, and of its manners during the period which Sallust describes as the best.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxi.md)
- [Of the edict of Mithridates, commanding that all Roman citizens found in Asia should be slain.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxii.md)
- [XXIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxiii.md)
- [Of the civil dissension occasioned by the sedition of the Gracchi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxiv.md)
- [Of the temple of Concord, which was erected by a decree of the senate on the scene of these seditions and massacres.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxv.md)
- [Of the various kinds of wars which followed the building of the temple of Concord](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxvi.md)
- [Of the civil war between Marius and Sylla](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxvii.md)
- [Of the victory of Sylla, the avenger of the cruelties of Marius](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxviii.md)
- [A Comparison of the Disasters of the Gothic and Gallic Invasions with Those of the Civil Wars](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxix.md)
- [Of the connection of the wars which with great severity and frequency followed one another before the advent of Christ](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxx.md)
- [XXXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxxi.md)
- [Book IV: The One True God, Not the Pagan Gods, Is the Author of Earthly Kingdoms](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-book-iv.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-i.md)
- [Of those things which are contained in Books II and III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-ii.md)
- [Whether the Great Extent of the Empire is to Be Reckoned Among the Good Things of the Wise or the Happy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-iii.md)
- [How Like Kingdoms Without Justice Are to Robberies](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-iv.md)
- [Of the runaway gladiators whose power became like that of royal dignity.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-v.md)
- [Concerning the covetousness of Ninus, who was the first who made war on his neighbours, that he might rule more widely.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-vi.md)
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-vii.md)
- [Chapter VIII: Which of the gods can the Romans suppose presided over the increase and preservation of their empire, when they have believed that even the care of single things could scarcely be committed to single gods?](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-viii.md)
- [Whether the great extent and long duration of the Roman empire should be ascribed to Jove, whom his worshippers believe to be the chief god.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-ix.md)
- [Chapter X: The Absurdity of Assigning Multiple Gods to Different Parts of the World](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-x.md)
- [Concerning the many gods whom the pagan doctors defend as being one and the same Jove](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xi.md)
- [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xii.md)
- [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xiii.md)
- [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xiv.md)
- [Whether it is suitable for good men to wish to rule more widely](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xv.md)
- [XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xvi.md)
- [Chapter XVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xvii.md)
- [Chapter XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xviii.md)
- [XIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xix.md)
- [Chapter XX: Concerning Virtue and Faith, Which the Pagans Have Honoured with Temples and Sacred Rites](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xx.md)
- [Chapter XXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxi.md)
- [XXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxii.md)
- [Concerning Felicity, whom the Romans, who venerate many gods, for a long time did not worship with divine honour, though she alone would have sufficed instead of all.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxiii.md)
- [XXIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxiv.md)
- [Concerning the One God Only to Be Worshipped](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxv.md)
- [Of the scenic plays, the celebration of which the gods have exacted from their worshippers.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxvi.md)
- [Concerning the three kinds of gods about which the pontiff Scaevola has discoursed](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxvii.md)
- [Whether the worship of the gods has been of service to the Romans in obtaining and extending the empire](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxviii.md)
- [Of the falsity of the augury by which the strength and stability of the Roman empire was considered to be indicated](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxix.md)
- [The Confessions of the Pagan Philosophers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxx.md)
- [Concerning the opinions of Varro, who, while reprobating the popular belief, thought that their worship should be confined to one god, though he was unable to discover the true God.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxxi.md)
- [Chapter XXXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxxii.md)
- [XXXIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxxiii.md)
- [Concerning the kingdom of the Jews, which was founded by the one and true God, and preserved by Him as long as they remained in the true religion.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxxiv.md)
- [Book V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-book-v.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-i.md)
- [On the Difference in the Health of Twins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-ii.md)
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-iii.md)
- [Concerning the twins Esau and Jacob, who were very unlike each other both in their character and actions](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-iv.md)
- [Chapter V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-v.md)
- [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-vi.md)
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-vii.md)
- [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-viii.md)
- [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-ix.md)
- [Chapter X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-x.md)
- [Concerning the Universal Providence of God in the Laws of Which All Things Are Comprehended](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xi.md)
- [By What Virtues the Ancient Romans Merited That the True God, Although They Did Not Worship Him, Should Enlarge Their Empire](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xii.md)
- [Concerning the Love of Praise](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xiii.md)
- [Concerning the eradication of the love of human praise, because all the glory of the righteous is in God](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xiv.md)
- [Concerning the temporal reward which God granted to the virtues of the Romans](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xv.md)
- [XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xvi.md)
- [Chapter XVII: On the Profit of Roman Wars and the True Glory of the Heavenly City](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xvii.md)
- [Chapter XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xviii.md)
- [Chapter XIX: True Glory vs. the Desire for Domination](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xix.md)
- [Chapter XX: The Shame of Virtue Serving Human Glory](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xx.md)
- [XXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxi.md)
- [XXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxii.md)
- [Concerning the war in which Radagaisus, king of the Goths, a worshipper of demons, was conquered in one day, with all his mighty forces](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxiii.md)
- [XXIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxiv.md)
- [XXV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxv.md)
- [XXVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxvi.md)
- [Book VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-book-vi.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-i.md)
- [What we are to believe that Varro thought concerning the gods of the nations](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-ii.md)
- [Varro's Distribution of His Work on Human and Divine Antiquities](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-iii.md)
- [Chapter IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-iv.md)
- [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-v.md)
- [Concerning the Mythic, Fabulous, and Civil Theology Against Varro](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-vi.md)
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-vii.md)
- [Chapter VIII: Concerning the interpretations, consisting of natural explanations, which the pagan teachers attempt to show for their gods.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-viii.md)
- [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-ix.md)
- [X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-x.md)
- [XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xi.md)
- [That when once the vanity of the gods of the nations has been exposed, it cannot be doubted that they are unable to bestow eternal life on anyone, when they cannot afford help even with respect to the things of this temporal life.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xii.md)
- [Book VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-book-vii.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-i.md)
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-ii.md)
- [Chapter III: How there is no reason which can be shown for the selection of certain gods, when the administration of more exalted offices is assigned to many inferior gods.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-iii.md)
- [Chapter IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-iv.md)
- [Concerning the more secret doctrine of the pagans, and concerning the physical interpretations](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-v.md)
- [Concerning the opinion of Varro, that God is the soul of the world, which nevertheless, in its various parts, has many souls whose nature is divine.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-vi.md)
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-vii.md)
- [Chapter VIII: The Absurdity of Janus Worship](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-viii.md)
- [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-ix.md)
- [Whether the distinction between Janus and Jupiter is a proper one](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-x.md)
- [Concerning the Surnames of Jupiter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xi.md)
- [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xii.md)
- [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xiii.md)
- [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xiv.md)
- [Concerning certain stars which the pagans have called by the names of their gods](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xv.md)
- [Concerning Apollo and Diana, and the other select gods whom they would have to be parts of the world](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xvi.md)
- [XVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xvii.md)
- [Chapter XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xviii.md)
- [Chapter XIX: Concerning the interpretations which compose the reason of the worship of Saturn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xix.md)
- [Concerning the rites of Eleusinian Ceres](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xx.md)
- [Concerning the shamefulness of the rites which are celebrated in honour of Liber](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxi.md)
- [Concerning Neptune, and Salacia, and Venilia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxii.md)
- [Chapter XXIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxiii.md)
- [Concerning the surnames of Tellus and their significations](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxiv.md)
- [XXV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxv.md)
- [Concerning the Abomination of the Sacred Rites of the Great Mother](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxvi.md)
- [XXVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxvii.md)
- [XXVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxviii.md)
- [XXIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxix.md)
- [How Piety Distinguishes the Creator from the Creatures](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxx.md)
- [Chapter XXXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxxi.md)
- [That at no time in the past was the mystery of Christ’s redemption awanting, but was at all times declared, though in various forms.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxxii.md)
- [That Only Through the Christian Religion Could the Deceit of Malign Spirits Have Been Manifested](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxxiii.md)
- [Concerning the books of Numa Pompilius, which the senate ordered to be burned, in order that the causes of sacred rites therein assigned should not become known.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxxiv.md)
- [XXXV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxxv.md)
- [Book VIII: Natural Theology and the Platonists](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-book-viii.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-i.md)
- [Concerning the two schools of philosophers, that is, the Italic and Ionic, and their founders](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-ii.md)
- [Of the Socratic philosophy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-iii.md)
- [Concerning Plato, the chief among the disciples of Socrates, and his threefold division of philosophy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-iv.md)
- [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-v.md)
- [Concerning the meaning of the Platonists in that part of philosophy called physical](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-vi.md)
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-vii.md)
- [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-viii.md)
- [Concerning that philosophy which has come nearest to the Christian faith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-ix.md)
- [Chapter X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-x.md)
- [How Plato has been able to approach so nearly to Christian knowledge](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xi.md)
- [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xii.md)
- [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xiii.md)
- [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xiv.md)
- [XV That the demons are not better than men because of their aerial bodies, or on account of their superior place of abode.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xv.md)
- [What Apuleius the Platonist thought concerning the manners and actions of demons](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xvi.md)
- [Whether it is proper that men should worship those spirits from whose vices it is necessary that they be freed](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xvii.md)
- [XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xviii.md)
- [XIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xix.md)
- [Chapter XX: The Absurdity of Demonic Mediation](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xx.md)
- [Chapter XXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxi.md)
- [XXII That we must, notwithstanding the opinion of Apuleius, reject the worship of demons](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxii.md)
- [XXIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxiii.md)
- [Chapter XXIV: Hermes' Confession of the Error of Making Gods](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxiv.md)
- [Concerning those things which may be common to the holy angels and to men](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxv.md)
- [XXVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxvi.md)
- [XXVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxvii.md)
- [Book IX: The Mediation of Demons and the Unique Mediation of Christ](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-book-ix.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-i.md)
- [Whether Among the Demons There Are Any Good Spirits](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-ii.md)
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-iii.md)
- [Chapter IV: The Opinion of the Peripatetics and Stoics About Mental Emotions](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-iv.md)
- [That the passions which assail the souls of Christians do not seduce them to vice, but exercise their virtue](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-v.md)
- [Of the passions which, according to Apuleius, agitate the demons who are supposed by him to mediate between gods and men.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-vi.md)
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-vii.md)
- [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-viii.md)
- [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-ix.md)
- [Chapter X: Plotinus on the Wretchedness of Demons Compared to Men](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-x.md)
- [Of the opinion of the Platonists, that the souls of men become demons when disembodied.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xi.md)
- [Of the three opposite qualities by which the Platonists distinguish between the nature of men and that of demons](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xii.md)
- [Chapter XIII: How the Demons Can Mediate Between Gods and Men if They Have Nothing in Common with Both](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xiii.md)
- [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xiv.md)
- [Of the man Christ Jesus, the Mediator between God and men](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xv.md)
- [XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xvi.md)
- [That to obtain the blessed life, which consists in partaking of the supreme good, man needs such mediation as is furnished not by a demon, but by Christ alone.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xvii.md)
- [That the deceitful demons, while promising to conduct men to God by their intercession, mean to turn them from the path of truth.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xviii.md)
- [Chapter XIX: That even among their own worshippers the name 'demon' has never a good signification](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xix.md)
- [Of the kind of knowledge which puffs up the demons](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xx.md)
- [Chapter XXI: The Lord's Revelation to the Demons](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxi.md)
- [XXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxii.md)
- [XXIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxiii.md)
- [Book X: True Worship and the Way to Blessedness](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-book-x.md)
- [Chapter I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-i.md)
- [The Opinion of Plotinus the Platonist Regarding Enlightenment from Above](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-ii.md)
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-iii.md)
- [That Sacrifice Is Due to the True God Only](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-iv.md)
- [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-v.md)
- [Of the true and perfect sacrifice](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-vi.md)
- [Of the love of the holy angels, which prompts them to desire that we worship the one true God, and not themselves](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-vii.md)
- [Chapter VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-viii.md)
- [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-ix.md)
- [X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-x.md)
- [Of Porphyry's Epistle to Anebo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xi.md)
- [Of the miracles wrought by the true God through the ministry of the holy angels](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xii.md)
- [Of the invisible God, who has often made Himself visible, not as He really is, but as the beholders could bear the sight](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xiii.md)
- [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xiv.md)
- [Of the ministry of the holy angels, by which they fulfil the providence of God.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xv.md)
- [XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xvi.md)
- [Concerning the ark of the covenant, and the miraculous signs whereby God authenticated the law and the promise](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xvii.md)
- [Chapter XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xviii.md)
- [On the reasonableness of offering, as the true religion teaches, a visible sacrifice to the one true and invisible God](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xix.md)
- [Of the supreme and true sacrifice which was effected by the Mediator between God and men](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xx.md)
- [Of the power delegated to demons for the trial and glorification of the saints, who conquer not by propitiating the spirits of the air, but by abiding in God.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxi.md)
- [Whence the saints derive power against demons and true purification of heart](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxii.md)
- [XXIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxiii.md)
- [Of the one only true principle which alone purifies and renews human nature](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxiv.md)
- [XXV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxv.md)
- [Of Porphyry’s weakness in wavering between the confession of the true God and the worship of demons](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxvi.md)
- [XXVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxvii.md)
- [XXVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxviii.md)
- [Of the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ, which the Platonists in their impiety blush to acknowledge](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxix.md)
- [Porphyry's Emendations of Platonism on the Soul's Return](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxx.md)
- [XXXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxxi.md)
- [XXXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxxii.md)
- [Book XI: The Origin of the Two Cities](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-book-xi.md)
- [Of this part of the work, wherein we begin to explain the origin and end of the two cities](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-i.md)
- [Of the knowledge of God, to which no man can attain save through the Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-ii.md)
- [Of the authority of the canonical Scriptures composed by the Divine Spirit](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-iii.md)
- [Chapter IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-iv.md)
- [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-v.md)
- [That the world and time had both one beginning, and the one did not anticipate the other](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-vi.md)
- [Of the nature of the first days, which are said to have had morning and evening, before there was a sun](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-vii.md)
- [What we are to understand of God’s resting on the seventh day, after the six days’ work](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-viii.md)
- [What the Scriptures Teach Us to Believe Concerning the Creation of the Angels](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-ix.md)
- [Of the Simple and Unchangeable Trinity](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-x.md)
- [Whether the angels that fell partook of the blessedness which the holy angels have always enjoyed from the time of their creation](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xi.md)
- [Chapter XII: A Comparison of the Blessedness of the Righteous and Our First Parents in Paradise](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xii.md)
- [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xiii.md)
- [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xiv.md)
- [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xv.md)
- [Of the ranks and differences of the creatures, estimated by their utility, or according to the natural gradations of being](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xvi.md)
- [That the flaw of wickedness is not nature, but contrary to nature, and has its origin, not in the Creator, but in the will.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xvii.md)
- [Of the Beauty of the Universe, Which Becomes, by God's Ordinance, More Brilliant by the Opposition of Contraries](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xviii.md)
- [XIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xix.md)
- [Chapter XX: The Separation of Light and Darkness and Divine Approval](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xx.md)
- [Of God's Eternal and Unchangeable Knowledge and Will](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxi.md)
- [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.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxii.md)
- [XXIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxiii.md)
- [Of the divine Trinity, and the indications of its presence scattered everywhere among its works](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxiv.md)
- [Of the division of philosophy into three parts](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxv.md)
- [Of the image of the supreme Trinity, which we find in some sort in human nature even in its present state](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxvi.md)
- [Of existence, and knowledge of it, and the love of both](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxvii.md)
- [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](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxviii.md)
- [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](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxix.md)
- [Of the Perfection of the Number Six](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxx.md)
- [Of the seventh day, in which completeness and repose are celebrated](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxxi.md)
- [Of the opinion that the angels were created before the world](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxxii.md)
- [Of the two different and dissimilar communities of angels, which are not inappropriately signified by the names light and darkness](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxxiii.md)
- [Chapter XXIV: 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.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxiv.md)
- [Book XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-book-xii.md)
- [Chapter I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-i.md)
- [That there is no entity contrary to the divine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-ii.md)
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-iii.md)
- [Of the nature of irrational and lifeless creatures, which in their own kind and order do not mar the beauty of the universe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-iv.md)
- [That in all natures, of every kind and rank, God is glorified.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-v.md)
- [What the cause of the blessedness of the good angels is, and what the cause of the misery of the wicked](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-vi.md)
- [That We Ought Not to Expect to Find Any Efficient Cause of the Evil Will](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-vii.md)
- [Of the Misdirected Love Whereby the Will Fell Away from the Immutable to the Mutable Good](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-viii.md)
- [Chapter IX: Whether the Angels, Besides Receiving from God Their Nature, Received from Him Also Their Good Will by the Holy Spirit Imbuing Them with Love](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-ix.md)
- [Chapter X: Of the falseness of the history which allots many thousand years to the world’s past.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-x.md)
- [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 conclusion of fixed cycles.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xi.md)
- [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xii.md)
- [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.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xiii.md)
- [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xiv.md)
- [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xv.md)
- [XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xvi.md)
- [Chapter XVII: On God's Unchangeable Counsel and Will Against the Theory of Eternal Cycles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xvii.md)
- [Chapter XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xviii.md)
- [Of worlds without end, or ages of ages](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xix.md)
- [Chapter XX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xx.md)
- [That there was created at first but one individual, and that the human race was created in him.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxi.md)
- [XXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxii.md)
- [Of the nature of the human soul created in the image of God](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxiii.md)
- [Whether the angels can be said to be the creators of any, even the least creature](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxiv.md)
- [That God alone is the Creator of every kind of creature, whatever its nature or form](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxv.md)
- [Of that opinion of the Platonists, that the angels were themselves indeed created by God, but that afterwards they created man’s body.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxvi.md)
- [XXVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxvii.md)
- [Book XIII: Of the Good of Death, the Resurrection of the Flesh, and the Paradise of the First Parents](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-book-xiii.md)
- [Of the fall of the first man, through which mortality has been contracted.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-i.md)
- [Chapter II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-ii.md)
- [Whether Death, Which by the Sin of Our First Parents Has Passed Upon All Men, Is the Punishment of Sin, Even to the Good](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-iii.md)
- [Why Death, the Punishment of Sin, Is Not Withheld from Those Who by Grace Are Absolved from Sin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-iv.md)
- [Chapter V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-v.md)
- [Of the evil of death in general, considered as the separation of soul and body.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-vi.md)
- [Chapter VII: Of the death which the unbaptized suffer for the confession of Christ](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-vii.md)
- [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-viii.md)
- [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-ix.md)
- [X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-x.md)
- [Chapter XI: Whether one can both be living and dead at the same time.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xi.md)
- [What death God intended, when He threatened our first parents with death if they should disobey His commandment.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xii.md)
- [What was the first punishment of the transgression of our first parents?](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xiii.md)
- [In what state man was made by God, and into what estate he fell by the choice of his own will.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xiv.md)
- [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xv.md)
- [Chapter XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xvi.md)
- [Chapter XVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xvii.md)
- [Chapter XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xviii.md)
- [XIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xix.md)
- [Chapter XX: The Resurrection of the Flesh and the Perfection of the Spiritual Body](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xx.md)
- [Of Paradise, that it can be understood in a spiritual sense without sacrificing the historic truth of the narrative regarding the real place.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxi.md)
- [XXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxii.md)
- [XXIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxiii.md)
- [Chapter XXIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxiv.md)
- [Book XIV: The Sin of the First Man and the Two Cities](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-book-xiv.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-i.md)
- [Of Carnal Life](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-ii.md)
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-iii.md)
- [Chapter IV: What it is to live according to man, and what to live according to God](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-iv.md)
- [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-v.md)
- [Of the Character of the Human Will Which Makes the Affections of the Soul Right or Wrong](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-vi.md)
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-vii.md)
- [Chapter VIII: Of the Three Perturbations and the Stoic View of the Wise Man's Emotions](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-viii.md)
- [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-ix.md)
- [Chapter X: The Blessedness of Paradise Before the Fall](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-x.md)
- [Of the fall of the first man, in whom nature was created good, and can be restored only by its Author](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xi.md)
- [Of the nature of man’s first sin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xii.md)
- [Chapter XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xiii.md)
- [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xiv.md)
- [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xv.md)
- [Of the evil of lust](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xvi.md)
- [Of the Nakedness of Our First Parents After Their Sin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xvii.md)
- [XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xviii.md)
- [XIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xix.md)
- [Of the foolish beastliness of the Cynics](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xx.md)
- [XXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxi.md)
- [XXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxii.md)
- [Chapter XXIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxiii.md)
- [Chapter XXIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxiv.md)
- [Of true blessedness, which this present life cannot enjoy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxv.md)
- [XXVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxvi.md)
- [Of the angels and men who sinned, and that their wickedness did not disturb the order of God’s providence](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxvii.md)
- [Of the nature of the two cities, the earthly and the heavenly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxviii.md)
- [Book XV: The Progress of the Two Cities](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-book-xv.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-i.md)
- [Of the children of the flesh and the children of the promise](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-ii.md)
- [That Sarah’s barrenness was made productive by God’s grace](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-iii.md)
- [Of the Conflict and Peace of the Earthly City](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-iv.md)
- [Of the fratricidal act of the founder of the earthly city, and the corresponding crime of the founder of Rome](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-v.md)
- [Chapter VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-vi.md)
- [Chapter VII: Of the Cause of Cain's Crime and His Obstinacy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-vii.md)
- [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-viii.md)
- [Of the long life and greater stature of the antediluvians](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-ix.md)
- [X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-x.md)
- [Of Methuselah's Age and the Chronological Discrepancy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xi.md)
- [Chapter XII: Of the opinion of those who do not believe that in these primitive times men lived so long as is stated.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xii.md)
- [Chapter XIII: On the Discrepancies Between the Hebrew and Septuagint Chronologies](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xiii.md)
- [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xiv.md)
- [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xv.md)
- [Chapter XVI: Of Marriage Between Blood-Relations](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xvi.md)
- [Of the two fathers and leaders who sprang from one progenitor.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xvii.md)
- [The Significance of Abel, Seth, and Enos to Christ and His Body the Church](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xviii.md)
- [The Significance of Enoch’s Translation](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xix.md)
- [The Generations of Cain and Seth: The Two Cities Before the Flood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xx.md)
- [Chapter XXI: The Two Cities from Cain and Seth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxi.md)
- [Of the fall of the sons of God who were captivated by the daughters of men, whereby all, with the exception of eight persons, deservedly perished in the deluge](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxii.md)
- [Chapter XXIII: On the Nature of Angels and the Birth of Giants](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxiii.md)
- [Chapter XXIV: Understanding the 120 Years and the Cause of the Deluge](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxiv.md)
- [XXV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxv.md)
- [XXVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxvi.md)
- [Of the Ark and the Deluge](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxvii.md)
- [Book XVI: The Progress of the Two Cities from Noah to Abraham and Beyond](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-book-xvi.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-i.md)
- [What was prophetically prefigured in the sons of Noah](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-ii.md)
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-iii.md)
- [Of the diversity of languages, and of the founding of Babylon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-iv.md)
- [Of God’s coming down to confound the languages of the builders of the city](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-v.md)
- [What we are to understand by God’s speaking to the angels](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-vi.md)
- [Whether even the remotest islands received their fauna from the animals which were preserved, through the deluge, in the ark.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-vii.md)
- [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-viii.md)
- [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-ix.md)
- [Chapter X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-x.md)
- [XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xi.md)
- [Of the era in Abraham’s life from which a new period in the holy succession begins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xii.md)
- [Chapter XIII: Terah's Emigration and the Silence on Nahor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xiii.md)
- [Of the years of Terah, who completed his lifetime in Haran](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xiv.md)
- [XV Of the time of the migration of Abraham, when, according to the commandment of God, he went out from Haran](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xv.md)
- [Of the order and nature of the promises of God which were made to Abraham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xvi.md)
- [Of the three most famous kingdoms of the nations, of which one, that is, the Assyrian, was already very eminent when Abraham was born](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xvii.md)
- [Of the repeated address of God to Abraham, in which He promised the land of Canaan to him and to his seed.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xviii.md)
- [Of the divine preservation of Sarah's chastity in Egypt, when Abraham had called her not his wife but his sister](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xix.md)
- [Of the parting of Lot and Abraham, which they agreed to without breach of charity](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xx.md)
- [Of the third promise of God, by which He assured the land of Canaan to Abraham and his seed in perpetuity](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxi.md)
- [Of Abraham’s overcoming the enemies of Sodom, when he delivered Lot from captivity and was blessed by Melchizedek the priest.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxii.md)
- [XXIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxiii.md)
- [XXIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxiv.md)
- [Of Sarah's handmaid, Hagar, whom she herself wished to be Abraham's concubine.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxv.md)
- [XXVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxvi.md)
- [XXVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxvii.md)
- [Of the change of name in Abraham and Sarah, who received the gift of fecundity when they were incapable of regeneration owing to the barrenness of one, and the old age of both.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxviii.md)
- [Of the three men or angels, in whom the Lord is related to have appeared to Abraham at the oak of Mamre](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxix.md)
- [Of Lot’s Deliverance from Sodom and Abimelech’s Respect for Sarah](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxx.md)
- [Of Isaac, who was born according to the promise, whose name was given on account of the laughter of both parents.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxxi.md)
- [Of Abraham's Obedience and Faith, Proved by the Offering of Isaac, and of Sarah's Death](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxxii.md)
- [Of Rebecca, the granddaughter of Nahor, whom Isaac took to wife](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxxiii.md)
- [Chapter XXXIV: On Abraham's Marriage to Keturah After Sarah's Death](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxxiv.md)
- [Chapter XXXV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxxv.md)
- [Of the oracle and blessing which Isaac received, just as his father did, being beloved for his sake.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxxvi.md)
- [Chapter XXXVII: Of the things mystically prefigured in Esau and Jacob](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxxvii.md)
- [Of Jacob’s mission to Mesopotamia to get a wife, and of the vision which he saw in a dream by the way, and of his getting four women when he sought one wife.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxxviii.md)
- [The Reason Why Jacob Was Also Called Israel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxxix.md)
- [Chapter XL: How it is said that Jacob went into Egypt with seventy-five souls, when most of those who are mentioned were born at a later period.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xl.md)
- [Of the blessing which Jacob promised in Judah his son](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xli.md)
- [XLII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xlii.md)
- [Of the times of Moses and Joshua the son of Nun, of the judges, and thereafter of the kings, of whom Saul was the first, but David is to be regarded as the chief, both by the oath and by merit.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xliii.md)
- [Book XVII: The Prophetic Age and the City of God](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-book-xvii.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-i.md)
- [The Fulfillment of God's Promise Concerning the Land of Canaan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-ii.md)
- [Of the threefold meaning of the prophecies](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-iii.md)
- [Chapter IV: The Prophecy of Hannah and the City of God](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-iv.md)
- [Chapter V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-v.md)
- [Of the Jewish priesthood and kingdom, which, although promised to be established forever, did not continue; so that other things are to be understood to which eternity is assured](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-vi.md)
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-vii.md)
- [Chapter VIII: Of the promises made to David in his son, which are in no wise fulfilled in Solomon, but most fully in Christ](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-viii.md)
- [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-ix.md)
- [Chapter X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-x.md)
- [Of the substance of the people of God, which through His assumption of flesh is in Christ, who alone had power to deliver His own soul from hell.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xi.md)
- [Chapter XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xii.md)
- [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xiii.md)
- [Of David’s concern in the writing of the Psalms](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xiv.md)
- [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xv.md)
- [Chapter XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xvi.md)
- [Of those things in the 110th Psalm which relate to the priesthood of Christ, and in the 22nd to His passion.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xvii.md)
- [XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xviii.md)
- [Of the 69th Psalm, in which the obstinate unbelief of the Jews is declared.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xix.md)
- [Of David's reign and merit; and of his son Solomon, and that prophecy relating to Christ which is found either in those books which are joined to those written by him, or in those which are indubitably his.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xx.md)
- [Of the kings after Solomon, both in Judah and Israel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxi.md)
- [Of Jeroboam, who profaned the people put under him by the impiety of idolatry, amid which, however, God did not cease to inspire the prophets, and to guard many from the crime of idolatry.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxii.md)
- [Of the varying condition of both the Hebrew kingdoms, until the people of both were at different times led into captivity, Judah being afterwards recalled into his kingdom, which finally passed into the power of the Romans.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxiii.md)
- [Of the prophets, who either were the last among the Jews, or whom the gospel history reports about the time of Christ’s nativity.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxiv.md)
- [Book XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-book-xviii.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-i.md)
- [Of the kings and times of the earthly city which were synchronous with the times of the saints, reckoning from the rise of Abraham.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-ii.md)
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-iii.md)
- [Of the times of Jacob and his son Joseph](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-iv.md)
- [Of Apis king of Argos, whom the Egyptians called Serapis, and worshipped with divine honours](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-v.md)
- [Who were kings of Argos, and of Assyria, when Jacob died in Egypt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-vi.md)
- [Who were kings when Joseph died in Egypt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-vii.md)
- [Chapter VIII: Who Were Kings When Moses Was Born, and What Gods Began to Be Worshipped Then](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-viii.md)
- [The Founding of Athens and Varro's Account of Its Name](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-ix.md)
- [Chapter X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-x.md)
- [Chapter XI: The Exodus and the Law Given at Sinai](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xi.md)
- [Of the rituals of false gods instituted by the kings of Greece in the period from Israel’s exodus from Egypt down to the death of Joshua the son of Nun](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xii.md)
- [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xiii.md)
- [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xiv.md)
- [Of the fall of the kingdom of Argos, when Picus the son of Saturn first received his father’s kingdom of Laurentum](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xv.md)
- [Chapter XVI: Of Diomede, Who After the Destruction of Troy Was Placed Among the Gods, While His Companions Are Said to Have Been Changed into Birds](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xvi.md)
- [XVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xvii.md)
- [Chapter XVIII: On Demonic Transformations and the Need to Flee Babylon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xviii.md)
- [XIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xix.md)
- [Of the succession of the line of kings among the Israelites after the times of the judges](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xx.md)
- [Of the kings of Latium, the first and twelfth of whom, Aeneas and Aventinus, were made gods](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxi.md)
- [That Rome was founded when the Assyrian kingdom perished, at which time Hezekiah reigned in Judah](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxii.md)
- [Of the Erythraean sibyl, who is known to have sung many things about Christ more plainly than the other sibyls](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxiii.md)
- [XXIV That the seven sages flourished in the reign of Romulus, when the ten tribes which were called Israel were led into captivity by the Chaldeans, and Romulus, when dead, had divine honours conferred on him.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxiv.md)
- [Chapter XXV: Philosophers During the Reigns of Tarquinius Priscus and Zedekiah](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxv.md)
- [Chapter XXVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxvi.md)
- [Of the times of the prophets whose oracles are contained in books, and who sang many things about the call of the Gentiles at the time when the Roman kingdom began and the Assyrian came to an end.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxvii.md)
- [XXVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxviii.md)
- [XXIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxix.md)
- [What Micah, Jonah, and Joel Prophesied in Accordance with the New Testament](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxx.md)
- [Of the predictions concerning the salvation of the world in Christ, in Obadiah, Nahum, and Habakkuk](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxxi.md)
- [Of the prophecy that is contained in the prayer and song of Habakkuk](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxxii.md)
- [What Jeremiah and Zephaniah have, by the prophetic Spirit, spoken before concerning Christ and the calling of the nations](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxxiii.md)
- [Of the prophecy of Daniel and Ezekiel, other two of the greater prophets.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxxiv.md)
- [Of the prophecy of the three prophets, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxxv.md)
- [About Esdras and the Books of the Maccabees](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxxvi.md)
- [XXXVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxxvii.md)
- [XXXVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxxviii.md)
- [Chapter XXXIX: About the Hebrew Written Characters Which That Language Always Possessed](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxxix.md)
- [About the Most Mendacious Vanity of the Egyptians](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xl.md)
- [XLI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xli.md)
- [XLII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xlii.md)
- [Of the Authority of the Septuagint Translation](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xliii.md)
- [XLIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xliv.md)
- [Chapter XLV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xlv.md)
- [Of the birth of our Saviour, whereby the Word was made flesh; and of the dispersion of the Jews among all nations, as had been prophesied.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xlvi.md)
- [Whether before Christian times there were any outside of the Israelite race who belonged to the fellowship of the heavenly city](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xlvii.md)
- [XLVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xlviii.md)
- [Of the indiscriminate increase of the Church, wherein many reprobate are in this world mixed with the elect.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xlix.md)
- [Of the preaching of the gospel, which is made more famous and powerful by the sufferings of its preachers.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-l.md)
- [LI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-li.md)
- [LII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-lii.md)
- [Of the hidden time of the final persecution](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-liii.md)
- [LIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-liv.md)
- [Book XIX: The Ends of the Two Cities](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-book-xix.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-i.md)
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-ii.md)
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-iii.md)
- [Chapter IV: The Christian View of Supreme Good and Evil](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-iv.md)
- [Of the social life, which, though most desirable, is frequently disturbed by many distresses.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-v.md)
- [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-vi.md)
- [Of the diversity of languages, by which the intercourse of men is prevented; and of the misery of wars, even of those called just.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-vii.md)
- [Chapter VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-viii.md)
- [Of the friendship of the holy angels, which men cannot be sure of in this life, owing to the deceit of the demons who hold in bondage the worshippers of a plurality of gods](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-ix.md)
- [Chapter X: The Reward of the Saints and the Peace of Eternal Felicity](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-x.md)
- [Of the happiness of the eternal peace, which constitutes the end or true perfection of the saints](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xi.md)
- [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xii.md)
- [Chapter XIII: Of the Universal Peace Which the Law of Nature Preserves Through All Disturbances](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xiii.md)
- [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xiv.md)
- [Of the liberty proper to man’s nature, and the servitude introduced by sin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xv.md)
- [Of Equitable Rule](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xvi.md)
- [What produces peace, and what discord, between the heavenly and earthly cities](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xvii.md)
- [How different the uncertainty of the New Academy is from the certainty of the Christian faith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xviii.md)
- [Of the dress and habits of the Christian people](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xix.md)
- [Chapter XX: That the saints are in this life blessed in hope](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xx.md)
- [Whether There Ever Was a Roman Republic Answering to the Definitions of Scipio in Cicero's Dialogue](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxi.md)
- [Whether the God whom the Christians serve is the true God to whom alone sacrifice ought to be paid](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxii.md)
- [XXIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxiii.md)
- [The Definition of a People and a Republic](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxiv.md)
- [That where there is no true religion there are no true virtues](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxv.md)
- [Of the peace which is enjoyed by the people that are alienated from God, and the use made of it by the people of God in the time of its pilgrimage.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxvi.md)
- [Chapter XXVII: The Imperfect Peace of the Righteous in This Life and the Perfect Peace to Come](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxvii.md)
- [The End of the Wicked](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxviii.md)
- [Book XX: The Last Judgment and the Resurrection](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-book-xx.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-i.md)
- [Chapter II: That in the mingled web of human affairs God’s judgment is present, though it cannot be discerned.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-ii.md)
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-iii.md)
- [Chapter IV: Proofs of the Last Judgment from the New and Old Testaments](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-iv.md)
- [Chapter V: The Passages in Which the Saviour Declares That There Shall Be a Divine Judgment in the End of the World](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-v.md)
- [What is the first resurrection, and what the second](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-vi.md)
- [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](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-vii.md)
- [Of the binding and loosing of the devil](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-viii.md)
- [Chapter IX: The Reign of the Saints with Christ](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-ix.md)
- [Chapter X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-x.md)
- [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](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xi.md)
- [Chapter XII: Whether the Fire That Came Down Out of Heaven and Devoured Them Refers to the Last Punishment of the Wicked](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xii.md)
- [Chapter XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xiii.md)
- [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xiv.md)
- [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xv.md)
- [Of the new heaven and the new earth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xvi.md)
- [Of the endless glory of the Church](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xvii.md)
- [What the Apostle Peter predicted regarding the last judgment](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xviii.md)
- [XIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xix.md)
- [Chapter XX: The Resurrection of the Dead at Christ's Coming](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xx.md)
- [Chapter XXI: Utterances of the Prophet Isaiah Regarding the Resurrection of the Dead and the Retributive Judgment](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxi.md)
- [What is meant by the good going out to see the punishment of the wicked](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxii.md)
- [What Daniel Predicted Regarding the Persecution of Antichrist, the Judgment of God, and the Kingdom of the Saints](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxiii.md)
- [Chapter XXIV: Passages from the Psalms of David which predict the end of the world and the last judgment](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxiv.md)
- [Of Malachi's prophecy, in which he speaks of the last judgment, and of a cleansing which some are to undergo by purifying punishments](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxv.md)
- [XXVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxvi.md)
- [Of the separation of the good and the bad, which proclaim the discriminating influence of the last judgment.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxvii.md)
- [Chapter XXVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxviii.md)
- [Of the coming of Elijah before the judgment, that the Jews may be converted to Christ by his preaching and explanation of Scripture](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxix.md)
- [The Last Judgment and the Prophetic Witness](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxx.md)
- [Book XXI: The Eternal Punishment of the Damned](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-book-xxi.md)
- [Of the order of the discussion, which requires that we first speak of the eternal punishment of the lost in company with the devil, and then of the eternal happiness of the saints.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-i.md)
- [Whether it is possible for bodies to last forever in burning fire](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-ii.md)
- [Chapter III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-iii.md)
- [Chapter IV: Examples from Nature Proving That Bodies May Remain Unconsumed and Alive in Fire](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-iv.md)
- [Chapter V: That There Are Many Things Which Reason Cannot Account For, and Which Are Nevertheless True](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-v.md)
- [That All Marvels Are Not of Nature's Production, but That Some Are Due to Human Ingenuity and Others to Diabolic Contrivance](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-vi.md)
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-vii.md)
- [Chapter VIII: That It Is Not Contrary to Nature That, in an Object Whose Nature Is Known, There Should Be Discovered an Alteration of the Properties Which Have Been Known as Its Natural Properties](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-viii.md)
- [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-ix.md)
- [Chapter X: The Nature of Hellfire and the Punishment of Spirits](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-x.md)
- [Whether it is just that the punishments of sins last longer than the sins themselves lasted](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xi.md)
- [Chapter XII: Of the greatness of the first transgression, on account of which eternal punishment is due to all who are not within the pale of the Saviour’s grace.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xii.md)
- [Chapter XIII: Against the Opinion of Those Who Think That the Punishments of the Wicked After Death Are Purgatorial](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xiii.md)
- [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xiv.md)
- [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xv.md)
- [Chapter XVI: The Laws of Grace Across the Ages of the Regenerate](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xvi.md)
- [Of those who fancy that no men shall be punished eternally](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xvii.md)
- [Chapter XVIII: Of those who fancy that, on account of the saints’ intercession, no man shall be damned in the last judgment.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xviii.md)
- [Of those who promise impunity from all sins even to heretics, through virtue of their participation of the body of Christ.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xix.md)
- [Of those who promise this indulgence not to all, but only to those who have been baptized as catholics, though afterwards they have broken out into many crimes and heresies.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xx.md)
- [Chapter XXI: Of those who assert that all catholics who continue in the faith, even though by the depravity of their lives they have merited hell fire, shall be saved on account of the “foundation” of their faith.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxi.md)
- [Of those who fancy that the sins which are intermingled with alms-deeds shall not be charged at the day of judgment](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxii.md)
- [Chapter XXIII: Against Those Who Deny the Eternity of Punishment for the Devil and Wicked Men](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxiii.md)
- [XXIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxiv.md)
- [Chapter XXV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxv.md)
- [What it is to have Christ for a foundation, and who they are to whom salvation as by fire is promised](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxvi.md)
- [XXVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxvii.md)
- [Book XXII: The Eternal Blessedness of the City of God and the Resurrection of the Body](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-book-xxii.md)
- [Of the creation of angels and men](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-i.md)
- [Of the eternal and unchangeable will of God](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-ii.md)
- [Of the promise of eternal blessedness to the saints, and everlasting punishment to the wicked](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-iii.md)
- [Against the Wise Men Who Deny the Resurrection of the Body](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-iv.md)
- [Chapter V: Of the Resurrection of the Flesh, Which Some Refuse to Believe, Though the World at Large Believes It](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-v.md)
- [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-vi.md)
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-vii.md)
- [Chapter VIII: Miracles of the Martyr Stephen and the Power of Faith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-viii.md)
- [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-ix.md)
- [Chapter X: The Greater Honor of Martyrs Compared to Demons](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-x.md)
- [Chapter XI: Against the Platonists' Arguments from the Elements](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xi.md)
- [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xii.md)
- [Whether Abortions, If They Are Numbered Among the Dead, Shall Not Also Have a Part in the Resurrection](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xiii.md)
- [Whether infants shall rise in that body which they would have had had they grown up.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xiv.md)
- [Whether the bodies of all the dead shall rise the same size as the Lord’s body](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xv.md)
- [Chapter XVI: What is meant by the conforming of the saints to the image of the Son of God](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xvi.md)
- [Whether the Bodies of Women Shall Retain Their Own Sex in the Resurrection](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xvii.md)
- [Of the perfect Man, that is, Christ; and of His body, that is, the Church, which is His fullness.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xviii.md)
- [XIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xix.md)
- [The Resurrection of the Body: Reunion and Restoration](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xx.md)
- [Of the new spiritual body into which the flesh of the saints shall be transformed](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxi.md)
- [Of the Miseries and Ills to Which the Human Race Is Justly Exposed Through the First Sin, and from Which None Can Be Delivered Save by Christ’s Grace](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxii.md)
- [Of the miseries of this life which attach peculiarly to the toil of good men, irrespective of those which are common to the good and bad.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxiii.md)
- [XXIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxiv.md)
- [XXV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxv.md)
- [XXVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxvi.md)
- [XXVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxvii.md)
- [XXVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxviii.md)
- [Of the Beatific Vision](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxix.md)
- [The Eternal Felicity of the City of God and the Perpetual Sabbath](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxx.md)
- [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/endnotes.md)

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