A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church: St. Augustin: The writings against the Manichæans, and against the Donatists

Philip Schaff

Christian literature Company, 1887 - Christian literature, Early

Contents

• Preface iii: 31
• ON THE MORALS OF The Catholic CHURCH: 37
• Of the authority of the Scriptures: 57
• The Church apostrophized as teacher of all wisdom Doctrine of the Catholic Church: 58
• The life of the Anachoretes and Cænobites set against the continence of the Manichæans: 59
• Praise of the clergy: 60
• The Church is not to be blamed for the conduct of bad Christians worshippers of tombs and pictures: 61
• Marriage and property allowed to be baptized by the apostles: 62
• The supreme good is that which is possessed of supreme existence: 69
• If evil is defined as that which is hurtful this implies another refutation of the Manichæans: 70
• If evil is defined to be corruption this completely refutes the Manichæan heresy: 71
• Evil is not a substance but a disagreement hostile to substance: 72
• The Manichæan fictions about things good and evil are not consistent with themselves: 73
• Three moral symbols devised by the Manichæans for no good: 74
• The value of the symbol of the mouth among the Manichæans who are found guilty of blaspheming God: 75
• Manichæan subterfuge: 76
• Three good reasons for abstaining from certain kinds of food: 77
• Manwhat?: 78
• Why the Manichæans prohibit the use of flesh: 79
• Description of the symbol of the hands among the Manichæans: 83
• Of the symbol of the breast and of the shameful mysteries of the Manichæans: 86
• Crimes of the Manichæans: 87
• Disgraceful conduct discovered at Rome: 89
• On Two Souls AGAINST THE MANICHÆANS: 91
• Acts or DISPUTATION AGAINST FORTUNATUS THE MANICHÆAN: 109
• DISPUTATION OF THE FIRST DAY p: 113
• DISPUTATION OF THE SECOND DAY p: 119
• AGAINST THE EPISTLE OF MANICHÆUS CALLED FUNDAMENTAL: 129
• Augustin once a Manichæan: 130
• Why Manichæus called himself an apostle of Christ: 131
• In what sense the followers of Manichæus believe him to be the Holy Spirit: 132
• When the Holy Spirit was sent: 133
• We are united to God by love in subjection to: 134
• Two opposite substances The Kingdom of Light Manichæus teaches uncertainties instead of certainties: 135
• The doctrine of Manichæus not only uncertain but false His absurd fancy of a land and race of darkness bordering on the Holy Region and the substa...: 136
• The memory contains the ideas of places of the greatest size 137 1: 137
• If the mind has no material extension much less has God: 138
• The form of the region of light the worst of the two: 139
• Of the number of natures in the Manichæan fiction 110: 140
• The Manichæans are reduced to the choice of a tortuous or curved or straight line of junction The third kind of line would give symmetry and beaut...: 141
• The beauty of the straight line might be taken from the region of darkness without taking anything from its substance So evil neither takes from nor ...: 142
• The refutation of this absurdity: 143
• The same subject continued: 144
• Every nature as nature is good: 145
• Nature cannot be without some good The Manichæans dwell upon the evils: 146
• Evil alone is corruption Corruption is not nature but contrary to nature Corrup tion implies previous good: 147
• God alone perfectly good: 148
• In what sense evils are from God: 149
• Love of ourselves and of our neighbor: 150
• Faustus denies that Manichæans believe in two gods Hyle no god Augustin discusses at large: 272
• BOOK XXV: 319
• Faustus denies that Pauls prophecy about those that should forbid to marry abstain from meats: 331
• Faustus fails to understand why he should be required either to accept or reject the N T as a whole: 340
• The unspeakable doctrine of the fundamental epistle: 363
• CONCERNING THE NATURE OF Good AGAINST THE MANICHÆANS: 404
• PAGE: 411
• In which Augustin proves that it is to no purpose that the Donatists bring forward the authority: 425
• BOOK III: 436
• BOOK IV: 447
• Augustin continues to press the question Why God when he can in no way suffer injury sent the soul hither: 450
• BOOK V: 463
• BOOK VI: 479
• BOOK VII: 499
• ANSWER TO LETTERS OF PETILIAN BISHOP OF Cirta: 628
• CONTENTS ON A TREATISE CONCERNING THE CORRECTION: 633
• He compels to the perpetration of horrible turpitudes: 655
• THE ANTIDONATIST WRITINGS 667675: 667

Popular passages

Page 562 - Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, and saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

Page 500 - And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell : for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.

Page 533 - Moses' seat : all therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do ; but do not ye after their works : for they say, and do not.

Page 554 - He said unto them. Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.

Page 311 - And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people ; there shall they be called the children of the living God.

Page 461 - Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God ? Be not deceived : neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Page 428 - But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter, before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

Page 418 - But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me.

Page 133 - And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

Page 78 - For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) but to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him ; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church: St. Augustin: The writings against the Manichæans, and against the Donatists; Volume 4 of A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.)
• Editor: Philip Schaff
• Contributors: Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.), Saint John Chrysostom
• Publisher: Christian literature Company, 1887
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Dec 13, 2006