Book i.
of the false worship of the gods.
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- The Divine Institutes
- Preface.--of what great value the knowledge of the truth is and always has been.
- Book i.
- Chap. i.-- of religion and wisdom.
- Chap. II.--That there is a providence in the affairs of men.
- Chap. III.--Whether the universe is governed by the power of one god or of many.
- Chap. IV.--That the one god was foretold even by the prophets.
- Chap. V.--Of the testimonies of poets and philosophers.
- Chap. VI.--Of divine testimonies, and of the sibyls and their predictions.
- Chap. VII.--Concerning the testimonies of apollo and the gods.
- Chap. viii.--that god is without a body, nor does he need difference of sex for procreation.
- Chap. IX.--Of hercules and his life and death.
- Chap. X.--Of the life and actions of Aesculapius, apollo, neptune, mars, castor and pollux, mercury and bacchus.
- Chap. xi.--of the origin, life, reign, name and death of jupiter, and of saturn and uranus.
- Chap. xii.--that the stoics transfer the figments of the poets to a philosophical system.
- Chap. xiii.--how vain and trifling are the interpretations of the stoics respecting the gods, and in them concerning the origin of jupiter, concerning saturn and Ops.
- Chap. xiv.--what the sacred history of euhemerus and ennius teaches concerning the gods.
- Chap. xv.--how they who were men obtained the name of gods.
- Chap. xvi.-- by what argument it is proved that those who are distinguished by a difference of sex cannot be gods.
- Chap. xvii.--concerning the same opinion of the stoics, and concerning the hardships and disgraceful conduct of the gods.
- Chap. xviii.--on the consecration of gods, on account of the benefits which they conferred upon men.
- Chap. xix.--that it is impossible for any one to worship the true god together with false deities.
- Chap. xx.--of the gods peculiar to the Romans, and their sacred rites.
- Chap. xxi.--of certain deities peculiar to barbarians, and their sacred rites; and in like manner concerning the romans.
- Chap. xxii.--who was the author of the vanities before described in italy among the romans, and who among other nations.
- Chap. xxiii.--of the ages of vain superstitions, and the times at which they commenced.
- Book II.
- Book III.
- Book IV.
- Book V.
- Book VI.
- Book VII.