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Book Twelve
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- Book Twelve
- Chapter I - The Discovery Of Truth Is Difficult, But God Has Promised That He Who Seeks Shall Find.
- Chapter II - Of The Double Heaven, - The Visible, And The Heaven Of Heavens.
- Chapter III - Of The Darkness Upon The Deep, And Of The Invisible And Formless Earth.
- Chapter IV - From The Formlessness Of Matter, The Beautiful World Has Arisen.
- Chapter IX - That The Heaven Of Heavens Was An Intellectual Creature, But That The Earth Was Invisible And Formless Before The Days That It Was Made.
- Chapter V - What May Have Been The Form Of Matter.
- Chapter VI - He Confesses That At One Time He Himself Thought Erroneously Of Matter.
- Chapter VII - Out Of Nothing God Made Heaven And Earth.
- Chapter VIII - Heaven And Earth Were Made "In The Beginning;" Afterwards The World, During Six Days, From Shapeless Matter.
- Chapter X - He Begs Of God That He May Live In The True Light, And May Be Instructed As To The Mysteries Of The Sacred Books.
- Chapter XI - What May Be Discovered To Him By God.
- Chapter XII - From The Formless Earth God Created Another Heaven And A Visible And Formed Earth.
- Chapter XIII - Of The Intellectual Heaven And Formless Earth, Out Of Which, On Another Day, The Firmament Was Formed.
- Chapter XIV - Of The Depth Of The Sacred Scripture, And Its Enemies.
- Chapter XIX - Concerning The Opinion Of Those Who Explain It "At First He Made."
- Chapter XIX - He Enumerates The Things Concerning Which All Agree.
- Chapter XV - He Argues Against Adversaries Concerning The Heaven Of Heavens.
- Chapter XVI - He Wishes To Have No Intercourse With Those Who Deny Divine Truth.
- Chapter XVII - He Mentions Five Explanations Of The Words Of Genesis I.
- Chapter XVIII - What Error Is Harmless In Sacred Scripture.
- Chapter XX - Of The Words, "In The Beginning," Variously Understood.
- Chapter XXI - Of The Explanation Of The Words, "The Earth Was Invisible."
- Chapter XXII - He Discusses Whether Matter Was From Eternity, Or Was Made By God.
- Chapter XXIII - Two Kinds Of Disagreements In The Books To Be Explained.
- Chapter XXIV - Out Of The Many True Things, It Is Not Asserted Confidently That Moses Understood This Or That.
- Chapter XXV - It Behoves Interpreters, When Disagreeing Concerning Obscure Places, To Regard God The Author Of Truth, And The Rule Of Charity.
- Chapter XXVI - What He Might Have Asked Of God Had He Been Enjoined To Write The Book Of Genesis.
- Chapter XXVII - The Style Of Speaking In The Book Of Genesis Is Simple And Clear.
- Chapter XXVIII - The Words, "In The Beginning," And, "The Heaven And The Earth," Are Differently Understood.
- Chapter XXX - In The Great Diversity Of Opinions, It Becomes All To Unite Charity And Divine Truth.
- Chapter XXXI - Moses Is Supposed To Have Perceived Whatever Of Truth Can Be Discovered In His Words.
- Chapter XXXII - First, The Sense Of The Writer Is To Be Discovered, Then That Is To Be Brought Out Which Divine Truth Intended.
- Contents - Book XII