De nuptiis et concupiscentia (CCEL)
On marriage and concupiscence
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A select library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church. Edited by Philip Schaff, D.D., LL.D., Professor in the Union Theological Seminary, New York. In connection with a number of patristic scholars of Europe and America. Volume V - St. Augustin: Anti-Pelagian Writings. T&T Clark, Edinburgh, 1887 (Translation, Englisch)
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- On marriage and concupiscence
- A Letter Addressed to the Count Valerius,
- Book I.
- Chapter 1.--Concerning the Argument of This Treatise.
- Chapter 2. [II.]--Why This Treatise Was Addressed to Valerius.
- Chapter 3 [III.]--Conjugal Chastity the Gift of God.
- Chapter 4.--A Difficulty as Regards the Chastity of Unbelievers. None But a Believer is Truly a Chaste Man.
- Chapter 5 [IV.]--The Natural Good of Marriage. All Society Naturally Repudiates a Fraudulent Companion. What is True Conjugal Purity? No True Virginity and Chastity Except in Devotion to True Faith.
- Chapter 6 [V.]--The Censuring of Lust is Not a Condemnation of Marriage; Whence Comes Shame in the Human Body. Adam and Eve Were Not Created Blind; Meaning of Their "Eyes Being Opened."
- Chapter 7 [VI.]--Man's Disobedience Justly Requited in the Rebellion of His Own Flesh; The Blush of Shame for the Disobedient Members of the Body.
- Chapter 8 [VII.]--The Evil of Lust Does Not Take Away the Good of Marriage.
- Chapter 9 [VIII.]--This Disease of Concupiscence in Marriage is Not to Be a Matter of Will, But of Necessity; What Ought to Be the Will of Believers in the Use of Matrimony; Who is to Be Regarded as Using, and Not Succumbing To, the Evil of Concupiscence; How the Holy Fathers of the Old Testament Formerly Used Wives.
- Chapter 10 [IX.]--Why It Was Sometimes Permitted that a Man Should Have Several Wives, Yet No Woman Was Ever Allowed to Have More Than One Husband. Nature Prefers Singleness in Her Dominations.
- Chapter 11 [X.]--The Sacrament of Marriage; Marriage Indissoluble; The World's Law About Divorce Different from the Gospel's.
- Chapter 12 [XI.]--Marriage Does Not Cancel a Mutual Vow of Continence; There Was True Wedlock Between Mary and Joseph; In What Way Joseph Was the Father of Christ.
- Chapter 13.--In the Marriage of Mary and Joseph There Were All the Blessings of the Wedded State; All that is Born of Concubinage is Sinful Flesh.
- Chapter 14 [XIII.]--Before Christ It Was a Time for Marrying; Since Christ It Has Been a Time for Continence.
- Chapter 15.--The Teaching of the Apostle on This Subject.
- Chapter 16 [XIV.]--A Certain Degree of Intemperance is to Be Tolerated in the Case of Married Persons; The Use of Matrimony for the Mere Pleasure of Lust is Not Without Sin, But Because of the Nuptial Relation the Sin is Venial.
- Chapter 17 [XV.]--What is Sinless in the Use of Matrimony? What is Attended With Venial Sin, and What with Mortal?
- Chapter 18 [XVI.]--Continence Better Than Marriage; But Marriage Better Than Fornication.
- Chapter 19 [XVII.]--Blessing of Matrimony.
- Chapter 20 [XVIII]--Why Children of Wrath are Born of Holy Matrimony.
- Chapter 21 [XIX.]--Thus Sinners are Born of Righteous Parents, Even as Wild Olives Spring from the Olive.
- Chapter 22 [XX.]--Even Infants, When Unbaptized, are in the Power of the Devil; Exorcism in the Case of Infants, and Renunciation of the Devil.
- Chapter 23 [XXI.]--Sin Has Not Arisen Out of the Goodness of Marriage; The Sacrament of Matrimony a Great One in the Case of Christ and the Church--A Very Small One in the Case of a Man and His Wife.
- Chapter 24.--Lust and Shame Come from Sin; The Law of Sin; The Shamelessness of the Cynics.
- Chapter 25 [XXIII.]--Concupiscence in the Regenerate Without Consent is Not Sin; In What Sense Concupiscence is Called Sin.
- Chapter 26.--Whatever is Born Through Concupiscence is Not Undeservedly in Subjection to the Devil by Reason of Sin; The Devil Deserves Heavier Punishment Than Men.
- Chapter 27 [XXIV.]--Through Lust Original Sin is Transmitted; Venial Sins in Married Persons; Concupiscence of the Flesh, the Daughter and Mother of Sin.
- Chapter 28 [XXV.]--Concupiscence Remains After Baptism, Just as Languor Does After Recovery from Disease; Concupiscence is Diminished in Persons of Advancing Years, and Increased in the Incontinent.
- Chapter 29 [XXVI.]--How Concupiscence Remains in the Baptized in Act, When It Has Passed Away as to Its Guilt.
- Chapter 30 [XXVII.]--The Evil Desires of Concupiscence; We Ought to Wish that They May Not Be.
- Chapter 31 [XXVIII.]--Who is the Man that Can Say, "It is No More I that Do It"?
- Chapter 32.--When Good Will Be Perfectly Done.
- Chapter 33 [XXX.]--True Freedom Comes with Willing Delight in God's Law.
- Chapter 34.--How Concupiscence Made a Captive of the Apostle; What the Law of Sin Was to the Apostle.
- Chapter 35 [XXXI.]--The Flesh, Carnal Affection.
- Chapter 36.--Even Now While We Still Have Concupiscence We May Be Safe in Christ.
- Chapter 37 [XXXII.]--The Law of Sin with Its Guilt in Unbaptized Infants. By Adam's Sin the Human Race Has Become a "Wild Olive Tree."
- Chapter 38 [XXXIII.]--To Baptism Must Be Referred All Remission of Sins, and the Complete Healing of the Resurrection. Daily Cleansing.
- Chapter 39 [XXXIV.]--By the Holiness of Baptism, Not Sins Only, But All Evils Whatsoever, Have to Be Removed. The Church is Not Yet Free from All Stain.
- Chapter 40 [XXXV.]--Refutation of the Pelagians by the Authority of St. Ambrose, Whom They Quote to Show that the Desire of the Flesh is a Natural Good.
- Book II.
- Chapter 1 [I.]--Introductory Statement.
- Chapter 2 [II.]--In This and the Four Next Chapters He Adduces the Garbled Extracts He Has to Consider.
- Chapter 3.--The Same Continued.
- Chapter 4.--The Same Continued.
- Chapter 5.--The Same Continued.
- Chapter 6.--The Same Continued.
- Chapter 7 [III.]--Augustin Adduces a Passage Selected from the Preface of Julianus. (See "The Unfinished Work," i. 73.)
- Chapter 8.--Augustin Refutes the Passage Adduced Above.
- Chapter 9.--The Catholics Maintain the Doctrine of Original Sin, and Thus are Far from Being Manicheans.
- Chapter 10 [IV.]--In What Manner the Adversary's Cavils Must Be Refuted.
- Chapter 11.--The Devil the Author, Not of Nature, But Only of Sin.
- Chapter 12.--Eve's Name Means Life, and is a Great Sacrament of the Church.
- Chapter 13.--The Pelagian Argument to Show that the Devil Has No Rights in the Fruits of Marriage.
- Chapter 14 [V.]--Concupiscence Alone, in Marriage, is Not of God.
- Chapter 15.--Man, by Birth, is Placed Under the Dominion of the Devil Through Sin; We Were All One in Adam When He Sinned.
- Chapter 16 [VI.]--It is Not of Us, But Our Sins, that the Devil is the Author.
- Chapter 17 [VII.]--The Pelagians are Not Ashamed to Eulogize Concupiscence, Although They are Ashamed to Mention Its Name.
- Chapter 18.--The Same Continued.
- Chapter 19 [VIII.]--The Pelagians Misunderstand "Seed" In Scripture.
- Chapter 20.--Original Sin is Derived from the Faulty Condition of Human Seed.
- Chapter 21 [IX.]--It is the Good God That Gives Fruitfulness, and the Devil That Corrupts the Fruit.
- Chapter 22.--Shall We Be Ashamed of What We Do, or of What God Does?
- Chapter 23 [X.]--The Pelagians Affirm that God in the Case of Abraham and Sarah Aroused Concupiscence as a Gift from Heaven.
- Chapter 24 [XI.]--What Covenant of God the New-Born Babe Breaks. What Was the Value of Circumcision.
- Chapter 25 [XII.]--Augustin Not the Deviser of Original Sin.
- Chapter 26 [XIII.]--The Child in No Sense Formed by Concupiscence.
- Chapter 27.--The Pelagians Argue that God Sometimes Closes the Womb in Anger, and Opens It When Appeased.
- Chapter 28 [XIV.]--Augustin's Answer to This Argument. Its Dealing with Scripture.
- Chapter 29.--The Same Continued. Augustin Also Asserts that God Forms Man at Birth.
- Chapter 30 [XV.]--The Case of Abimelech and His House Examined.
- Chapter 31 [XVI.]--Why God Proceeds to Create Human Beings, Who He Knows Will Be Born in Sin.
- Chapter 32 [XVII.]--God Not the Author of the Evil in Those Whom He Creates.
- Chapter 33 [XVIII.]--Though God Makes Us, We Perish Unless He Re-makes Us in Christ.
- Chapter 34 [XIX.]--The Pelagians Argue that Cohabitation Rightly Used is a Good, and What is Born from It is Good.
- Chapter 35 [XX.]--He Answers the Arguments of Julianus. What is the Natural Use of the Woman? What is the Unnatural Use?
- Chapter 36 [XXI.]--God Made Nature Good: the Saviour Restores It When Corrupted.
- Chapter 37 [XXII.]--If There is No Marriage Without Cohabitation, So There is No Cohabitation Without Shame.
- Chapter 38 [XXIII.]--Jovinian Used Formerly to Call Catholics Manicheans; The Arians Also Used to Call Catholics Sabellians.
- Chapter 39 [XXIV.]--Man Born of Whatever Parentage is Sinful and Capable of Redemption.
- Chapter 40 [XXV.]--Augustin Declines the Dilemma Offered Him.
- Chapter 41 [XXVI.]--The Pelagians Argue that Original Sin Cannot Come Through Marriage If Marriage is Good.
- Chapter 42.--The Pelagians Try to Get Rid of Original Sin by Their Praise of God's Works; Marriage, in Its Nature and by Its Institution, is Not the Cause of Sin.
- Chapter 43.--The Good Tree in the Gospel that Cannot Bring Forth Evil Fruit, Does Not Mean Marriage.
- Chapter 44 [XXVII.]--The Pelagians Argue that If Sin Comes by Birth, All Married People Deserve Condemnation.
- Chapter 45.--Answer to This Argument: The Apostle Says We All Sinned in One.
- Chapter 46.--The Reign of Death, What It Is; The Figure of the Future Adam; How All Men are Justified Through Christ.
- Chapter 47.--The Scriptures Repeatedly Teach Us that All Sin in One.
- Chapter 48.--Original Sin Arose from Adam's Depraved Will. Whence the Corrupt Will Sprang.
- Chapter 49 [XXIX.]--In Infants Nature is of God, and the Corruption of Nature of the Devil.
- Chapter 50.--The Rise and Origin of Evil. The Exorcism and Exsufflation of Infants, a Primitive Christian Rite.
- Chapter 51.--To Call Those that Teach Original Sin Manicheans is to Accuse Ambrose, Cyprian, and the Whole Church.
- Chapter 52 [XXX.]--Sin Was the Origin of All Shameful Concupiscence.
- Chapter 53 [XXXI.]--Concupiscence Need Not Have Been Necessary for Fruitfulness.
- Chapter 54 [XXXII.]--How Marriage is Now Different Since the Existence of Sin.
- Chapter 55 [XXXIII.]--Lust is a Disease; The Word "Passion" In the Ecclesiastical Sense.
- Chapter 56.--The Pelagians Allow that Christ Died Even for Infants; Julianus Slays Himself with His Own Sword.
- Chapter 57 [XXXIV.]--The Great Sin of the First Man.
- Chapter 58.--Adam's Sin is Derived from Him to Every One Who is Born Even of Regenerate Parents; The Example of the Olive Tree and the Wild Olive.
- Chapter 59 [XXXV.]--The Pelagians Can Hardly Venture to Place Concupiscence in Paradise Before the Commission of Sin.
- Chapter 60.--Let Not the Pelagians Indulge Themselves in a Cruel Defence of Infants.