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Augustinus von Hippo (354-430)
De nuptiis et concupiscentia (CCEL)
On marriage and concupiscence
Book II.
Chapter 11.--The Devil the Author, Not of Nature, But Only of Sin.
Now, the man who forwarded to your Love the paper in question has introduced the contents thereof with this title: "In opposition to those persons who condemn matrimony, and ascribe its fruits to the devil." This, then, is not in opposition to us, who neither condemn matrimony, which we even commend in its order with a just commendation, nor ascribe its fruits to the devil. For the fruits of matrimony are men which are orderly engendered from it, and not the sins which accompany their birth. Human beings are not under the devil's dominion because they are human beings, in which respect they are the fruits of matrimony; but because they are sinful, in which resides the transmission of their sins. For the devil is the author of sin, not of nature.
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- On marriage and concupiscence
- A Letter Addressed to the Count Valerius,
- Book I.
- 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.