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| 189 | On Christian Doctrine
Introductory Note by the Editor.
Preface, Showing the Utility of the Treatise on Christian Doctrine.
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| 1 | Preface. Showing that to teach rules for the interpretation of Scripture is not a superfluous task.
Book I - Containing a General View of the Subjects Treated in Holy Scripture.
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| 1001 | Chapter 1.—The Interpretation of Scripture Depends on the Discovery and Enunciation of the Meaning, and is to Be Undertaken in Dependence on God’s Aid.
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| 1002 | Chapter 2.—What a Thing Is, and What Asign.
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| 1003 | Chapter 3.—Some Things are for Use, Some for Enjoyment.
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| 1004 | Chapter 4.—Difference of Use and Enjoyment.
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| 1005 | Chapter 5.—The Trinity the True Object of Enjoyment.
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| 1006 | Chapter 6.—In What Sense God is Ineffable.
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| 1007 | Chapter 7.—What All Men Understand by the Term God.
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| 1008 | Chapter 8.—God to Be Esteemed Above All Else, Because He is Unchangeable Wisdom.
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| 1009 | Chapter 9.—All Acknowledge the Superiority of Unchangeable Wisdom to that Which is Variable.
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| 1010 | Chapter 10.—To See God, the Soul Must Be Purified.
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| 1011 | Chapter 11.—Wisdom Becoming Incarnate, a Pattern to Us of Purification.
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| 1012 | Chapter 12.—Inwhat Sense the Wisdom of God Came to Us.
Chapter 13.—The Word Was Made Flesh.
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| 1013 | Chapter 14.—How the Wisdom of God Healed Man.
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| 1014 | Chapter 15.—Faith is Buttressed by the Resurrection and Ascension of Christ, and is Stimulated by His Coming to Judgment.
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| 1015 | Chapter 16.—Christ Purges His Church by Medicinal Afflictions.
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| 1016 | Chapter 17.—Christ, by Forgiving Our Sins, Opened the Way to Our Home.
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| 1017 | Chapter 18.—The Keys Given to the Church.
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| 1018 | Chapter 19.—Bodily and Spiritual Death and Resurrection.
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| 1019 | Chapter 20.—The Resurrection to Damnation.
Chapter 21.—Neither Body Nor Soul Extinguished at Death.
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| 1020 | Chapter 22.—God Alone to Be Enjoyed.
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| 1022 | Chapter 23.—Man Needs No Injunction to Love Himself and His Own Body.
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| 1024 | Chapter 24.—No Man Hates His Own Flesh, Not Even Those Who Abuse It.
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| 1026 | Chapter 25.—A Man May Love Something More Than His Body, But Does Not Therefore Hate His Body.
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| 1027 | Chapter 26.—The Command to Love God and Our Neighbor Includes a Command to Love Ourselves.
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| 1028 | Chapter 27.—The Order of Love.
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| 1029 | Chapter 28.—How We are to Decide Whom to Aid.
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| 1030 | Chapter 29.—We are to Desire and Endeavor that All Men May Love God.
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| 1031 | Chapter 30.—Whether Angels are to Be Reckoned Our Neighbors.
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| 1034 | Chapter 31.—God Uses Rather Than Enjoys Us.
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| 1035 | Chapter 32.—In What Way God Uses Man.
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| 1036 | Chapter 33.—In What Way Man Should Be Enjoyed.
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| 1038 | Chapter 34.—Christ the First Way to God.
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| 1039 | Chapter 35.—The Fulfillment and End of Scripture is the Love of God and Our Neighbor.
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| 1040 | Chapter 36.—That Interpretation of Scripture Which Builds Us Up in Love is Not Perniciously Deceptive Nor Mendacious, Even Though It Be Faulty. The Interpreter, However, Should Be Corrected.
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| 1041 | Chapter 37.—Dangers of Mistaken Interpretation.
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| 1042 | Chapter 38.—Love Never Faileth.
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| 1043 | Chapter 39.—He Who is Mature in Faith, Hope and Love, Needs Scripture No Longer.
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| 1044 | Chapter 40.—What Manner of Reader Scripture Demands.
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| 2000 | Book II
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| 2001 | Chapter 1.—Signs, Their Nature and Variety.
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| 2003 | Chapter 2.—Of the Kind of Signs We are Now Concerned with.
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| 2004 | Chapter 3.—Among Signs, Words Hold the Chief Place.
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| 2005 | Chapter 4.—Origin of Writing.
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| 2006 | Chapter 5.—Scripture Translated into Various Languages.
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| 2007 | Chapter 6.—Use of the Obscurities in Scripture Which Arise from Its Figurative Language.
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| 2009 | Chapter 7.—Steps to Wisdom: First, Fear; Second, Piety; Third, Knowledge; Fourth, Resolution; Fifth, Counsel; Sixth, Purification of Heart; Seventh, Stop or Termination, Wisdom.
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| 2012 | Chapter 8.—The Canonical Books.
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| 2014 | Chapter 9.—How We Should Proceed in Studying Scripture.
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| 2015 | Chapter 10.—Unknown or Ambiguous Signs Prevent Scripture from Being Understood.
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| 2016 | Chapter 11.—Knowledge of Languages, Especially of Greek and Hebrew, Necessary to Remove Ignorance or Signs.
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| 2017 | Chapter 12.—A Diversity of Interpretations is Useful. Errors Arising from Ambiguous Words.
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| 2019 | Chapter 13.—How Faulty Interpretations Can Be Emended.
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| 2021 | Chapter 14.—How the Meaning of Unknown Words and Idioms is to Be Discovered.
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| 2022 | Chapter 15.—Among Versions a Preference is Given to the Septuagint and the Itala.
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| 2023 | Chapter 16.—The Knowledge Both of Language and Things is Helpful for the Understanding of Figurative Expressions.
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| 2027 | Chapter 17.—Origin of the Legend of the Nine Muses.
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| 2028 | Chapter 18.—No Help is to Be Despised, Even Though It Come from a Profane Source.
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| 2029 | Chapter 19.—Two Kinds Ofheathen Knowledge.
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| 2030 | Chapter 20.—The Superstitious Nature of Human Institutions.
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| 2032 | Chapter 21.—Superstition of Astrologers.
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| 2033 | Chapter 22 .—The Folly of Observing the Stars in Order to Predict the Events of a Life.
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| 2035 | Chapter 23.—Why We Repudiate Arts of Divination.
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| 2037 | Chapter 24.—The Intercourse and Agreement with Demons Which Superstitious Observances Maintain.
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| 2038 | Chapter 25.—In Human Institutions Which are Not Superstitious, There are Some Things Superfluous and Some Convenient and Necessary.
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| 2040 | Chapter 26.—What Human Contrivances We are to Adopt, and What We are to Avoid.
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| 2041 | Chapter 27.—Some Departments of Knowledge, Not of Mere Human Invention, Aid Us in Interpreting Scripture.
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| 2042 | Chapter 28.—To What Extent History is an Aid.
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| 2045 | Chapter 29.—To What Extent Natural Science is an Exegetical Aid.
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| 2047 | Chapter 30.—What the Mechanical Arts Contribute to Exegetics.
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| 2048 | Chapter 31.—Use of Dialectics. Of Fallacies.
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| 2050 | Chapter 32.—Valid Logical Sequence is Not Devised But Only Observed by Man.
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| 2051 | Chapter 33.—False Inferences May Be Drawn from Valid Reasonings, and Vice Versa.
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| 2052 | Chapter 34.—It is One Thing to Know the Laws of Inference, Another to Know the Truth of Opinions.
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| 2053 | Chapter 35 .—The Science of Definition is Not False, Though It May Be Applied to Falsities.
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| 2054 | Chapter 36.—The Rules of Eloquence are True, Though Sometimes Used to Persuade Men of What is False.
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| 2055 | Chapter 37.—Use of Rhetoric and Dialectic.
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| 2056 | Chapter 38.—The Science of Numbers Not Created, But Only Discovered, by Man.
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| 2058 | Chapter 39.—To Which of the Above-Mentioned Studies Attention Should Be Given, and in What Spirit.
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| 2060 | Chapter 40.—Whatever Has Been Rightly Said by the Heathen, We Must Appropriate to Our Uses.
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| 2062 | Chapter 41.—What Kind of Spirit is Required for the Study of Holy Scripture.
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| 2063 | Chapter 42.—Sacred Scripture Compared with Profane Authors.
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| 3000 | Book III
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| 3001 | Chapter I .—Summary of the Foregoing Books, and Scope of that Which Follows.
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| 3002 | Chapter 2.—Rule for Removing Ambiguity by Attending to Punctuation.
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| 3006 | Chapter 3.—How Pronunciation Serves to Remove Ambiguity Different Kinds of Interrogation.
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| 3008 | Chapter 4.—How Ambiguities May Be Solved.
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| 3009 | Chapter 5.—It is a Wretched Slavery Which Takes the Figurative Expressions of Scripture in a Literal Sense.
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| 3010 | Chapter 6.—Utility of the Bondage of the Jews.
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| 3011 | Chapter 7.—The Useless Bondage of the Gentiles.
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| 3012 | Chapter 8.—The Jews Liberated from Their Bondage in One Way, the Gentiles in Another.
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| 3013 | Chapter 9.—Who is in Bondage to Signs, and Who Not.
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| 3014 | Chapter 10.—How We are to Discern Whether a Phrase is Figurative.
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| 3017 | Chapter II.—Rule for Interpreting Phrases Which Seem to Ascribe Severity to God and the Saints.
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| 3018 | Chapter 12.—Rule for Interpreting Those Sayings and Actions Which are Ascribed to God and the Saints, and Which Yet Seem to the Unskillful to Be Wicked.
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| 3021 | Chapter 13.—Same Subject, Continued.
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| 3022 | Chapter 14.—Error of Those Who Think that There is No Absolute Right and Wrong.
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| 3023 | Chapter 15.—Rule for Interpreting Figurative Expressions.
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| 3024 | Chapter 16.—Rule for Interpreting Commands and Prohibitions.
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| 3025 | Chapter 17.—Some Commands are Given to All in Common, Others to Particular Classes.
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| 3026 | Chapter 18.—We Must Take into Consideration the Time at Which Anything Was Enjoyed or Allowed.
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| 3028 | Chapter 19.—Wicked Men Judge Others by Themselves.
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| 3029 | Chapter 20.—Consistency of Good Men in All Outward Circumstances.
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| 3030 | Chapter 21.—David Not Lustful, Though He Fell into Adultery.
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| 3032 | Chapter 22.—Rule Regarding Passages of Scripture in Which Approval is Expressed of Actions Which are Now Condemned by Good Men.
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| 3033 | Chapter 23.—Rule Regarding the Narrative of Sins of Great Men.
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| 3034 | Chapter 24.—The Character of the Expressions Used is Above All to Have Weight.
Chapter 25.—The Same Word Does Not Always Signify the Same Thing.
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| 3037 | Chapter 26.—Obscure Passages are to Be Interpreted by Those Which are Clearer.
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| 3038 | Chapter 27.—One Passage Susceptible of Various Interpretations.
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| 3039 | Chapter 28.—It is Safer to Explain a Doubtful Passage by Other Passages of Scripture Than by Reason.
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| 3040 | Chapter 29.—The Knowledge of Tropes is Necessary.
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| 3042 | Chapter 30.—The Rules of Tichonius the Donatist Examined.
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| 3044 | Chapter 31.—The First Rule of Tichonius.
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| 3045 | Chapter 32.—The Second Rule of Tichonius.
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| 3046 | Chapter 33. The Third Rule of Tichonius.
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| 3047 | Chapter 34.—The Fourth Rule of Tichonius.
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| 3050 | Chapter 35.—The Fifth Rule of Tichonius.
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| 3052 | Chapter 36.—The Sixth Rule of Tichonius.
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| 3055 | Chapter 37.—The Seventh Rule of Tichonius.
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| 4000 | Book IV
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| 4001 | Chapter 1.—This Work Not Intended as a Treatise on Rhetoric.
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| 4003 | Chapter 2.—It is Lawful for a Christian Teacher to Use the Art of Rhetoric.
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| 4004 | Chapter 3.—The Proper Age and the Proper Means for Acquiring Rhetorical Skill.
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| 4006 | Chapter 4.—Theduty of the Christian Teacher.
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| 4007 | Chapter 5.—Wisdom of More Importance Than Eloquence to the Christ!an Teacher.
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| 4009 | Chapter 6.—The Sacred Writers Unite Eloquence with Wisdom.
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| 4011 | Chapter 7.—Examples of True Eloquence Drawn from the Epistles of Paul and the Prophecies of Amos.
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| 4022 | Chapter 8.—The Obscurity of the Sacred Writers, Though Compatible with Eloquence, Not to Be Imitated by Christian Teachers.
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| 4023 | Chapter 9.—How, and with Whom, Difficult Passages are to Be Discussed.
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| 4024 | Chapter 10.—The Necessity for Perspicuityof Style.
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| 4026 | Chapter 11.—The Christian Teacher Must Speak Clearly, But Not Inelegantly.
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| 4027 | Chapter 12.—The Aim of the Orator, According to Cicero, is to Teach, to Delight, and to Move. Of These, Teaching is the Most Essential.
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| 4029 | Chapter 13.—The Hearer Must Be Moved as Well as Instructed.
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| 4030 | Chapter 14.—Beauty of Diction to Be in Keeping with the Matter.
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| 4032 | Chapter 15.—The Christian Teacher Should Pray Before Preaching.
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| 4033 | Chapter 16.—Human Directions Not to Be Despised, Though God Makes the True Teacher.
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| 4035 | Chapter 18.—The Christian Orator is Constantly Dealing with Great Matters.
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| 4038 | Chapter 19.—The Christian Teacher Must Use Different Styles on Different Occasions.
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| 4039 | Chapter 20.—Examples of the Various Styles Drawn from Scripture.
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| 4045 | Chapter 21.—Examples of the Various Styles, Drawn from the Teachers of the Church, Especially Ambrose and Cyprian.
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| 4051 | Chapter 22.—The Necessity of Variety in Style.
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| 4052 | Chapter 23.—How the Various Styles Should Be Mingled.
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| 4053 | Chapter 24.—The Effects Produced by the Majestic Style.
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| 4055 | Chapter 25.—How the Temperate Style is to Be Used.
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| 4056 | Chapter 26.—In Every Style the Orator Should Aim at Perspicuity, Beauty, and Persuasiveness.
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| 4059 | Chapter 27.—The Man Whose Life is in Harmony with His Teaching Will Teach with Greater Effect.
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| 4061 | Chapter 28.—Truth is More Important Than Expression.what is Meant by Strifeabout Words.
Chapter 29.—It is Permissible for a Preacher to Deliver to the People What Has Been Written by a More Eloquent Man Than Himself.
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| 4063 | Chapter 30.—The Preacher Should Commence His Discourse with Prayer to God.
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| 4064 | Chapter 31.—Apology for the Length of the Work.
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