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Book Thirteen
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- Book Thirteen
- Chapter I - He Calls Upon God, And Proposes To Himself To Worship Him.
- Chapter II - All Creatures Subsist From The Plenitude Of Divine Goodness.
- Chapter III - Genesis I. 3, - Of "Light," - He Understands As It Is Seen In The Spiritual Creature.
- Chapter IV - All Things Have Been Created By The Grace Of God, And Are Not Of Him As Standing Need Of Created Things.
- Chapter IX - Why The Holy Spirit Was Only "Borne Over" The Waters.
- Chapter V - He Recognises The Trinity In The First Two Verses Of Genesis.
- Chapter VI - Why The Holy Ghost Should Have Been Mentioned After The Mention Of Heaven And Earth.
- Chapter VII - That The Holy Spirit Brings Us To God.
- Chapter VIII - That Nothing Whatever, Short Of God, Can Yield To The Rational Creature A Happy Rest.
- Chapter X - That Nothing Arose Save By The Gift Of God.
- Chapter XI - That The Symbols Of The Trinity In Man, To Be, To Know, And To Will, Are Never Thoroughly Examined.
- Chapter XII - Allegorical Explanation Of Genesis, Chapter I, Concerning The Origin Of The Church And Its Worship.
- Chapter XIII - That The Renewal Of Man Is Not Completed In This World.
- Chapter XIV - That Out Of The Children Of The Night And Of The Darkness, Children Of The Light And Day Are Made.
- Chapter XIX - All Men Should Become Lights In The Firmament Of Heaven.
- Chapter XV - Allegorical Explanation Of The Firmament And Upper Works, Ver. 6.
- Chapter XVI - That No One But The Unchangeable Light Kows Himself.
- Chapter XVII - Allegorical Explanation Of The Sea And The Fruit-Bearing Earth - Verses 9 And 11.
- Chapter XVIII - Of The Lights And Stars Of Heaven - Of Day And Night, Ver. 14.
- Chapter XX - Concerning Reptiles And Flying Creatures (Ver. 20), - The Sacrament Of Baptism Being Regarded.
- Chapter XXI - Concerning The Living Soul, Birds, And Fishes (Ver. 24), - The Sacrament Of The Eucharist Being Regarded.
- Chapter XXII - He Explains The Divine Image (Ver. 26.) Of The Renewal Of The Mind.
- Chapter XXIII - That To Have Power Over All Things (Ver. 26) Is To Judge Spiritually Of All.
- Chapter XXIV - Why God Has Blessed Men, Fishes, Flying Creatures, And Not Herbs And The Other Animals.
- Chapter XXIX - Although It Is Said Eight Times That "God Saw That It Was Good," Yet Time Has No Relation To God And His Word.
- Chapter XXV - He Explains The Fruits Of The Earth (Ver. 29) Of Works Of Mercy.
- Chapter XXVI - In The Confessing Of Benefits, Computation Is Made Not As To The "Gift," But As To The "Fruit," - That Is, The Good And Right Will Of The Giver.
- Chapter XXVII - Many Are Ignorant As To This, And Ask For Miracles, Which Are Signified Under The Names Of "Fishes" And "Whales."
- Chapter XXVIII - He Proceeds To The Last Verse, "All Things Are Very Good," - That Is, The Work Being Altogether Good.
- Chapter XXX - He Refutes The Opinions Of The Manichaeans And The Gnostics Concerning The Origin Of The World.
- Chapter XXXI - We Do Not See "That It Was Good," But Through The Spirit Of God, Which Is In Us.
- Chapter XXXII - Of The Particular Works Of God, More Especially Of Man.
- Chapter XXXIII - The World Was Created By God Out Of Nothing.
- Chapter XXXIV - He Briefly Repeats The Allegorical Interpretation Of Genesis (Chapter 1), And Confesses That We See It By The Divine Spirit.
- Chapter XXXV - He Prays God For That Peace Of Rest Which Hath No Evening.
- Chapter XXXVI - The Seventh Day, Without Evening And Setting, The Image Of Eternal Life And Rest In God.
- Chapter XXXVII - Of Rest In God, Who Ever Worketh, And Yet Is Ever At Rest.
- Chapter XXXVIII - Of The Difference Between The Knowledge Of God And Of Men, And Of The Repose Which Is To Be Sought From God Only.
- Contents - Book XIII