The Confessions of St. Augustine
Bishop of Hippo
Book 4. Augustine the Manichee
Chapter
1. CONCERNING THAT MOST UNHAPPY TIME IN WHICH HE, BEING DECEIVED,
DECEIVED OTHERS; AND CONCERNING THE MOCKERS OF HIS CONFESSION.
Chapter
2. HE TEACHES RHETORIC, THE ONLY THING HE LOVED, AND SCORNS THE
SOOTHSAYER, WHO PROMISED HIM VICTORY.
Chapter
3. NOT EVEN THE MOST EXPERIENCED MEN COULD PERSUADE HIM OF THE
VANITY OF ASTROLOGY TO WHICH HE WAS DEVOTED.
Chapter
4. SORELY DISTRESSED BY WEEPING AT THE DEATH OF HIS FRIEND, HE
PROVIDES CONSOLATION FOR HIMSELF.
Chapter
5. WHY WEEPING IS PLEASANT TO THE WRETCHED.
Chapter
6. HIS FRIEND BEING SNATCHED AWAY BY DEATH, HE IMAGINES THAT HE REMAINS
ONLY AS HALF.
Chapter
7. TROUBLED BY RESTLESSNESS AND GRIEF, HE LEAVES HIS COUNTRY A SECOND
TIME FOR CARTHAGE.
Chapter
8. THAT HIS GRIEF CEASED BY TIME, AND THE CONSOLATION OF FRIENDS.
Chapter
9. THAT THE LOVE OF A HUMAN BEING, HOWEVER CONSTANT IN LOVING AND
RETURNING LOVE, PERISHES; WHILE HE WHO
Chapter
10. THAT ALL THINGS EXIST THAT THEY MAY PERISH, AND THAT WE ARE NOT
SAFE UNLESS GOD WATCHES OVER US.
Chapter
11. THAT PORTIONS OF THE WORLD ARE NOT TO BE LOVED; BUT THAT GOD,
THEIR AUTHOR, IS IMMUTABLE, AND HIS WORD ETERNAL.
Chapter
12. LOVE IS NOT CONDEMNED, BUT LOVE IN GOD, IN WHOM THERE IS REST
THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, IS TO BE PREFERRED.
Chapter
13. LOVE ORIGINATES FROM GRACE AND BEAUTY ENTICING US.
Chapter
14. CONCERNING THE BOOKS WHICH HE WROTE "ON THE FAIR AND FIT," DEDICATED
TO HIERIUS.
Chapter
15. WHILE WRITING, BEING BLINDED BY CORPOREAL IMAGES, HE FAILED TO
RECOGNISE THE SPIRITUAL NATURE OF GOD.
Chapter
16. HE VERY EASILY UNDERSTOOD THE LIBERAL ARTS AND THE CATEGORIES
OF ARISTOTLE, BUT WITHOUT TRUE FRUIT.
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