SCRIPTURA

Church Fathers

On the Holy Trinity, Doctrinal Treatises, Moral Treatises

Augustine

Translated by Arthur West Haddan and others; Philip Schaff (ed.)

Augustine's On the Trinity and his shorter doctrinal and moral treatises.

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Contents · 97

  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Introductory Essay
  3. 3Translator’s Preface
  4. 4What Augustin Requests from His Readers. The Errors of Readers Dull of Comprehension Not to Be Ascribed to the Author
  5. 5All are Sometimes Understood in One Person
  6. 6The equality of the Trinity maintained against objections drawn from those texts which speak of the sending of the Son and of the Holy Spirit
  7. 7The Creature is Not So Taken by the Holy Spirit as Flesh is by the Word
  8. 8The Appearance to Lot is Examined
  9. 9The Vision of Daniel
  10. 10God Uses All Creatures as He Will, and Makes Visible Things for the Manifestation of Himself
  11. 11In How Many Ways the Creature is to Be Taken by Way of Sign. The Eucharist
  12. 12How We are Rendered Apt for the Perception of Truth Through the Incarnate Word
  13. 13As Christ is the Mediator of Life, So the Devil is the Mediator of Death
  14. 14In How Many Ways Things Future are Foreknown. Neither Philosophers, Nor Those Who Were Distinguished Among the Ancients, are to Be Consulted Concerning the Resurrection of the Dead
  15. 15What the Author Entreats from God, What from the Reader. In God Nothing is to Be Thought Corporeal or Changeable
  16. 16The Three Persons Not Properly So Called [in a Human Sense]
  17. 17In reply to the argument alleged against the equality of the Son from the apostle’s words, saying that Christ is the ‘power of God and the wisdom of God,’ he propounds the question whether the Father Himself is not wisdom. But deferring for a while the answer to this, he adduces further proof of the unity and equality of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; and that God ought to be said and believed to be a Trinity, not triple (triplicem). And he adds an explanation of the saying of Hilary—Eternity in the Father, Appearance in the Image, and Use in the Gift
  18. 18God is a Trinity, But Not Triple (Triplex)
  19. 19Why the Son Chiefly is Intimated in the Scriptures by the Name of Wisdom, While Both the Father and the Holy Spirit are Wisdom. That the Holy Spirit, Together with the Father and the Son, is One Wisdom
  20. 20Every Corporeal Conception Must Be Rejected, in Order that It May Be Understood How God is Truth
  21. 21Our Love of the Righteous is Kindled from Love Itself of the Unchangeable Form of Righteousness
  22. 22That These Three are Several in Themselves, and Mutually All in All
  23. 23Why Love is Not the Offspring of the Mind, as Knowledge is So. The Solution of the Question. The Mind with the Knowledge of Itself and the Love of Itself is the Image of the Trinity
  24. 24The Opinion Which the Mind Has of Itself is Deceitful
  25. 25The Mind is an Image of the Trinity in Its Own Memory, and Understanding, and Will
  26. 26Of What Kind We are to Reckon the Rest (Requies), and End (Finis), of the Will in Vision
  27. 27Of What Kind are the Outer and the Inner Man
  28. 28Turning Aside from the Image of God
  29. 29In Opposition to the Reminiscence of Plato and Pythagoras. Pythagoras the Samian. Of the Difference Between Wisdom and Knowledge, and of Seeking the Trinity in the Knowledge of Temporal Things
  30. 30Why, When All Will to Be Blessed, that is Rather Chosen by Which One Withdraws from Being So
  31. 31Man Was to Be Rescued from the Power of the Devil, Not by Power, But by Righteousness
  32. 32He speaks of the true wisdom of man, viz. that by which he remembers, understands, and loves God; and shows that it is in this very thing that the mind of man is the image of God, although his mind, which is here renewed in the knowledge of God, will only then be made the perfect likeness of God in that image when there shall be a perfect sight of God
  33. 33How a Kind of Trinity Exists in the Mind Thinking of Itself. What is the Part of Thought in This Trinity
  34. 34How Any One Can Forget and Remember God
  35. 35He embraces in a brief compendium the contents of the previous books; and finally shows that the Trinity, in the perfect sight of which consists the blessed life that is promised us, is here seen by us as in a glass and in an enigma, so long as it is seen through that image of God which we ourselves are
  36. 36That It is Not Easy to Discover the Trinity that is God from the Trinities We Have Spoken of
  37. 37Still Further of the Difference Between the Knowledge and Word of Our Mind, and the Knowledge and Word of God
  38. 38The Holy Spirit is Called the Gift of God in the Scriptures. By the Gift of the Holy Spirit is Meant the Gift Which is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is Specially Called Love, Although Not Only the Holy Spirit in the Trinity is Love
  39. 39The Question Why the Holy Spirit is Not Begotten, and How He Proceeds from the Father and the Son, Will Only Be Understood When We are in Bliss
  40. 40Introductory Notice
  41. 41Brief Answers to These Questions
  42. 42There Can Be No Evil Where There is No Good; And an Evil Man is an Evil Good
  43. 43Error, Though Not Always a Sin, is Always an Evil
  44. 44The Restored Part of Humanity Shall, in Accordance with the Promises of God, Succeed to the Place Which the Rebellious Angels Lost
  45. 45The Same Grace is Further Clearly Manifested in This, that the Birth of Christ According to the Flesh is of the Holy Ghost
  46. 46In Adam’s First Sin, Many Kinds of Sin Were Involved
  47. 47Christ’s Cross and Burial, Resurrection, Ascension, and Sitting Down at the Right Hand of God, are Images of the Christian Life
  48. 48The Church on Earth Has Been Redeemed from Sin by the Blood of a Mediator
  49. 49It is Not Impossible that Some Believers May Pass Through a Purgatorial Fire in the Future Life
  50. 50If We Would Give Alms to Ourselves, We Must Flee Iniquity; For He Who Loveth Iniquity Hateth His Soul
  51. 51The Case of Abortive Conceptions
  52. 52Both the First and the Second Deaths are the Consequence of Sin. Punishment is Proportioned to Guilt
  53. 53The Will of God, Which is Always Good, is Sometimes Fulfilled Through the Evil Will of Man
  54. 54The State of the Soul During the Interval Between Death and the Resurrection
  55. 55Love, Which is Greater Than Faith and Hope, is Shed Abroad in Our Hearts by the Holy Ghost
  56. 56Introductory Notice
  57. 57Of the Way to Commence the Catechetical Instruction, and of the Narration of Facts from the History of the World’s Creation on to the Present Times of the Church
  58. 58Of the Remedy Against the Fifth and Sixth Sources of Weariness
  59. 59Of Israel’s Bondage in Egypt, Their Deliverance, and Their Passage Through the Red Sea
  60. 60Of Constancy in the Faith of the Resurrection
  61. 61Introductory Notice
  62. 62Of God and His Exclusive Eternity
  63. 63Of Christ’s Coming to Judgment
  64. 64Section 3
  65. 65Section 1
  66. 66Section 14
  67. 67Section 27
  68. 68Section 1
  69. 69Section 14
  70. 70Section 8
  71. 71Section 21
  72. 72On the Good of Marriage
  73. 73Section 9
  74. 74Section 22
  75. 75Section 35
  76. 76Section 10
  77. 77Section 23
  78. 78Section 36
  79. 79Section 49
  80. 80Section 1
  81. 81Section 13
  82. 82Section 26
  83. 83Section 5
  84. 84Section 18
  85. 85Section 30
  86. 86Section 43
  87. 87Section 9
  88. 88Section 22
  89. 89Section 35
  90. 90Section 3
  91. 91Section 16
  92. 92Section 29
  93. 93On Patience
  94. 94Section 11
  95. 95Section 24
  96. 96Section 4
  97. 97Section 15