ch201 That only through the Christian religion could the deceit of malign spirits, who rejoice in the errors of men, have been manifested
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ch202 Concerning the books of Numa Pompilius, which the senate ordered to be burned, in order that the causes of sacred rites therein assigned should not become known
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ch203 Concerning the hydromancy through which Numa was befooled by certain images of demons seen in the water
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ch204 That the question of natural theology is to be discussed with those philosophers who sought a more excellent wisdom
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ch205 Concerning the two schools of philosophers, that is, the Italic and Ionic, and their founders
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ch206 Of the Socratic philosophy
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ch207 Concerning Plato, the chief among the disciples of Socrates, and his threefold division of philosophy
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ch208 That it is especially with the Platonists that we must carry on our disputations on matters of theology, their opinions being preferable to those of all other philosophers
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ch209 Concerning the meaning of the Platonists in that part of philosophy called physical
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ch210 How much the Platonists are to be held as excelling other philosophers in logic
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ch211 That the Platonists hold the first rank in moral philosophy also
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ch212 Concerning that philosophy which has come nearest to the Christian faith
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ch213 That the excellency of the Christian religion is above all the science of philosophers
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ch214 How Plato has been able to approach so nearly to Christian knowledge
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ch215 That even the Platonists, though they say these things concerning the one true God, nevertheless thought that sacred rites were to be performed in honour of many gods
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ch216 Concerning the opinion of Plato, according to which he defined the gods as beings entirely good and the friends of virtue
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ch217 Of the opinion of those who have said that rational souls are of three kinds, to wit, those of the celestial gods, those of the aerial demons, and those of terrestrial men
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ch218 That the demons are not better than men because of their aerial bodies, or on account of their superior place of abode
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ch219 What Apuleius the Platonist thought concerning the manners and actions of demons
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ch220 Whether it is proper that men should worship those spirits from whose vices it is necessary that they be freed
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ch221 What kind of religion that is which teaches that men ought to employ the advocacy of demons in order to be recommended to the favour of the good gods
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ch222 Of the impiety of the magic art, which is dependent on the assistance of malign spirits
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ch223 Whether we are to believe that the good gods are more willing to have intercourse with demons than with men
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ch224 Whether the gods use the demons as messengers and interpreters, and whether they are deceived by them willingly, or without their own knowledge
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ch225 That we must, notwithstanding the opinion of Apuleius, reject the worship of demons
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ch226 What Hermes Trismegistus thought concerning idolatry, and from what source he knew that the superstitions of Egypt were to be abolished
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ch227 How Hermes openly confessed the error of his forefathers, the coming destruction of which he nevertheless bewailed
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ch228 Concerning those things which may be common to the holy angels and to men
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ch229 That all the religion of the pagans has reference to dead men
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ch230 Concerning the nature of the honour which the Christians pay to their martyrs
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ch231 The point at which the discussion has arrived, and what remains to be handled
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ch232 Whether among the demons, inferior to the gods, there are any good spirits under whose guardianship the human soul might reach true blessedness
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ch233 What Apuleius attributes to the demons, to whom, though he does not deny them reason, he does not ascribe virtue
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ch234 The opinion of the Peripatetics and Stoics about mental emotions
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ch235 That the passions which assail the souls of Christians do not seduce them to vice, but exercise their virtue
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ch236 Of the passions which, according to Apuleius, agitate the demons who are supposed by him to mediate between gods and men
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ch237 That the Platonists maintain that the poets wrong the gods by representing them as distracted by party feeling, to which the demons, and not the gods, are subject
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ch238 How Apuleius defines the gods who dwell in heaven, the demons who occupy the air, and men who inhabit earth
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ch239 Whether the intercession of the demons can secure for men the friendship of the celestial gods
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ch240 That, according to Plotinus, men, whose body is mortal, are less wretched than demons, whose body is eternal
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ch241 Of the opinion of the Platonists, that the souls of men become demons when disembodied
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ch242 Of the three opposite qualities by which the Platonists distinguish between the nature of men and that of demons
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ch243 How the demons can mediate between gods and men if they have nothing in common with both, being neither blessed like the gods, nor miserable like men
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ch244 Whether men, though mortal, can enjoy true blessedness
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ch245 Of the man Christ Jesus, the Mediator between God and men
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ch246 Whether it is reasonable in the Platonists to determine that the celestial gods decline contact with earthly things and intercourse with men, who therefore require the intercession of the demons
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ch247 That to obtain the blessed life, which consists in partaking of the supreme good, man needs such mediation as is furnished not by a demon, but by Christ alone
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ch248 That the deceitful demons, while promising to conduct men to God by their intercession, mean to turn them from the path of truth
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ch249 That even among their own worshippers the name "demon" has never a good signification
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ch250 Of the kind of knowledge which puffs up the demons
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ch251 To what extent the Lord was pleased to make Himself known to the demons
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ch252 The difference between the knowledge of the holy angels and that of the demons
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ch253 That the name of gods is falsely given to the gods of the Gentiles, though Scripture applies it both to the holy angels and just men
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ch254 That the Platonists themselves have determined that God alone can confer happiness either on angels or men, but that it yet remains a question whether those spirits whom they direct us to worship, tha
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ch255 The opinion of Plotinus the Platonist regarding enlightenment from above
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ch256 That the Platonists, though knowing something of the Creator of the universe, have misunderstood the true worship of God, by giving divine honour to angels, good or bad
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ch257 That sacrifice is due to the true God only
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ch258 Of the sacrifices which God does not require, but wished to be observed for the exhibition of those things which He does require
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ch259 Of the true and perfect sacrifice
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ch260 Of the love of the holy angels, which prompts them to desire that we worship the one true God, and not themselves
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ch261 Of the miracles which God has condescended to adhibit, through the ministry of angels, to His promises for the confirmation of the faith of the godly
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ch262 Of the illicit arts connected with demonolatry, and of which the Platonist Porphyry adopts some, and discards others
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ch263 Concerning theurgy, which promises a delusive purification of the soul by the invocation of demons
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ch264 Of Porphyry's epistle to Anebo, in which he asks for information about the differences among demons
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ch265 Of the miracles wrought by the true God through the ministry of the holy angels
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ch266 Of the invisible God, who has often made Himself visible, not as He really is, but as the beholders could bear the sight
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ch267 That the one God is to be worshipped not only for the sake of eternal blessings, but also in connection with temporal prosperity, because all things are regulated by His providence
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ch268 Of the ministry of the holy angels, by which they fulfil the providence of God
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ch269 Whether those angels who demand that we pay them divine honour, or those who teach us to render holy service, not to themselves, but to God, are to be trusted about the way to life eternal
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ch270 Concerning the ark of the covenant, and the miraculous signs whereby God authenticated the law and the promise
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ch271 Against those who deny that the books of the Church are to be believed about the miracles whereby the people of God were educated
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ch272 On the reasonableness of offering, as the true religion teaches, a visible sacrifice to the one true and invisible God
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ch273 Of the supreme and true sacrifice which was effected by the Mediator between God and men
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ch274 Of the power delegated to demons for the trial and glorification of the saints, who conquer not by propitiating the spirits of the air, but by abiding in God
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ch275 Whence the saints derive power against demons and true purification of heart
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ch276 Of the principles which, according to the Platonists, regulate the purification of the soul
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ch277 Of the one only true principle which alone purifies and renews human nature
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ch278 That all the saints, both under the law and before it, were justified by faith in the mystery of Christ's incarnation
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ch279 Of Porphyry's weakness in wavering between the confession of the true God and the worship of demons
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ch280 Of the impiety of Porphyry, which is worse than even the mistake of Apuleius
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ch281 How it is that Porphyry has been so blind as not to recognise the true wisdom--Christ
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ch282 Of the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ, which the Platonists in their impiety blush to acknowledge
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ch283 Porphyry's emendations and modifications of Platonism
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ch284 Against the arguments on which the Platonists ground their assertion that the human soul is co-eternal with God
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ch285 Of the universal way of the soul's deliverance, which Porphyry did not find because he did not rightly seek it, and which the grace of Christ has alone thrown open
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ch286 Of this part of the work, wherein we begin to explain the origin and end of the two cities
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ch287 Of the knowledge of God, to which no man can attain save through the Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus
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ch288 Of the authority of the canonical Scriptures composed by the Divine Spirit
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ch289 That the world is neither without beginning, nor yet created by a new decree of God, by which He afterwards willed what He had not before willed
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ch290 That we ought not to seek to comprehend the infinite ages of time before the world, nor the infinite realms of space
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ch291 That the world and time had both one beginning, and the one did not anticipate the other
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ch292 Of the nature of the first days, which are said to have had morning and evening, before there was a sun
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ch293 What we are to understand of God's resting on the seventh day, after the six days' work
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ch294 What the Scriptures teach us to believe concerning the creation of the angels
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ch295 Of the simple and unchangeable Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, one God, in whom substance and quality are identical
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ch296 Whether the angels that fell partook of the blessedness which the holy angels have always enjoyed from the time of their creation
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ch297 A comparison of the blessedness of the righteous, who have not yet received the divine reward, with that of our first parents in paradise
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ch298 Whether all the angels were so created in one common state of felicity, that those who fell were not aware that they would fall, and that those who stood received assurance of their own perseverance a
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ch299 An explanation of what is said of the devil, that he did not abide in the truth, because the truth was not in him
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ch300 How we are to understand the words, "The devil sinneth from the beginning."
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