Book XIX.
Argument--In this book the end of the two cities, the earthly and the heavenly, is discussed. Augustin reviews the opinions of the philosophers regarding the supreme good, and their vain efforts to make for themselves a happiness in this life; and, while he refutes these, he takes occasion to show what the peace and happiness belonging to the heavenly city, or the people of Christ, are both now and hereafter.
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Inhaltsangabe
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- The City of God.
- Book I.
- Book II.
- Book III.
- Book IV.
- Book V.
- Book VI.
- Book VII.
- Book VIII.
- Book IX.
- Book X.
- Book XI.
- Book XII.
- Book XIII.
- Book XIV.
- Book XV.
- Book XVI.
- Book XVII.
- Book XVIII.
- Book XIX.
- Chapter 1.--That Varro Has Made Out that Two Hundred and Eighty-Eight Different Sects of Philosophy Might Be Formed by the Various Opinions Regarding the Supreme Good.
- Chapter 2.--How Varro, by Removing All the Differences Which Do Not Form Sects, But are Merely Secondary Questions, Reaches Three Definitions of the Chief Good, of Which We Must Choose One.
- Chapter 3.--Which of the Three Leading Opinions Regarding the Chief Good Should Be Preferred, According to Varro, Who Follows Antiochus and the Old Academy.
- Chapter 4.--What the Christians Believe Regarding the Supreme Good and Evil, in Opposition to the Philosophers, Who Have Maintained that the Supreme Good is in Themselves.
- Chapter 5.--Of the Social Life, Which, Though Most Desirable, is Frequently Disturbed by Many Distresses.
- Chapter 6.--Of the Error of Human Judgments When the Truth is Hidden.
- Chapter 7.--Of the Diversity of Languages, by Which the Intercourse of Men is Prevented; And of the Misery of Wars, Even of Those Called Just.
- Chapter 8.--That the Friendship of Good Men Cannot Be Securely Rested In, So Long as the Dangers of This Life Force Us to Be Anxious.
- Chapter 9.--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.
- Chapter 10.--The Reward Prepared for the Saints After They Have Endured the Trial of This Life.
- Chapter 11.--Of the Happiness of the Eternal Peace, Which Constitutes the End or True Perfection of the Saints.
- Chapter 12.--That Even the Fierceness of War and All the Disquietude of Men Make Towards This One End of Peace, Which Every Nature Desires.
- Chapter 13.--Of the Universal Peace Which the Law of Nature Preserves Through All Disturbances, and by Which Every One Reaches His Desert in a Way Regulated by the Just Judge.
- Chapter 14.--Of the Order and Law Which Obtain in Heaven and Earth, Whereby It Comes to Pass that Human Society Is Served by Those Who Rule It.
- Chapter 15.--Of the Liberty Proper to Man's Nature, and the Servitude Introduced by Sin,--A Servitude in Which the Man Whose Will is Wicked is the Slave of His Own Lust, Though He is Free So Far as Regards Other Men.
- Chapter 16.--Of Equitable Rule.
- Chapter 17.--What Produces Peace, and What Discord, Between the Heavenly and Earthly Cities.
- Chapter 18.--How Different the Uncertainty of the New Academy is from the Certainty of the Christian Faith.
- Chapter 19.--Of the Dress and Habits of the Christian People.
- Chapter 20.--That the Saints are in This Life Blessed in Hope.
- Chapter 21.--Whether There Ever Was a Roman Republic Answering to the Definitions of Scipio in Cicero's Dialogue.
- Chapter 22.--Whether the God Whom the Christians Serve is the True God to Whom Alone Sacrifice Ought to Be Paid.
- Chapter 23.--Porphyry's Account of the Responses Given by the Oracles of the gods Concerning Christ.
- Chapter 24.--The Definition Which Must Be Given of a People and a Republic, in Order to Vindicate the Assumption of These Titles by the Romans and by Other Kingdoms.
- Chapter 25.--That Where There is No True Religion There are No True Virtues.
- Chapter 26.--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.
- Chapter 27.--That the Peace of Those Who Serve God Cannot in This Mortal Life Be Apprehended in Its Perfection.
- Chapter 28.--The End of the Wicked.
- Book XX.
- Book XXI.
- Book XXII.