ch1 There are two things on which all interpretation of Scripture
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ch2 All instruction is either about things or about signs; but things
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ch3 There are some things, then, which are to be enjoyed, others which
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ch4 For to enjoy a thing is to rest with satisfaction in it for its own
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ch5 The true objects of enjoyment, then, are the Father and the Son and
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ch6 Have I spoken of God, or uttered His praise, in any worthy way? Nay,
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ch7 For when the one supreme God of gods is thought of, even by those
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ch8 And since all who think about God think of Him as living, they only
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ch9 Now, no one is so egregiously silly as to ask, "How do you know that
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ch10 Wherefore, since it is our duty fully to enjoy the truth which
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ch11 But of this we should have been wholly incapable, had not Wisdom
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ch12 And though He is everywhere present to the inner eye when it is sound
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ch13 In what way did He come but this, "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt
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ch14 Moreover, as the use of remedies is the way to health, so this
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ch15 The belief of the resurrection of our Lord from the dead, and of
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ch16 For the Church is His body, as the apostle's teaching shows us; and
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ch17 Further, when we are on the way, and that not a way that lies
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ch18 He has given, therefore, the keys to His Church, that whatsoever it
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ch19 Furthermore, as there is a kind of death of the soul, which
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ch20 Now he whose soul does not die to this world and begin here to be
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ch21 And so faith clings to the assurance, and we must believe that it is so
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ch22 Among all these things, then, those only are the true objects of
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ch23 Those things which are objects of use are not all, however, to be
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ch24 No man, then, hates himself. On this point, indeed, no question was
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ch25 Man, therefore, ought to be taught the due measure of loving, that
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ch26 Seeing, then, that there is no need of a command that every man
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ch27 Now he is a man of just and holy life who forms an unprejudiced
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ch28 Further, all men are to be loved equally. But since you cannot do
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ch29 Now of all who can with us enjoy God, we love partly those to whom
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ch30 There arises further in this connection a question about angels.
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ch31 And on this ground, when we say that we enjoy only that which we
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ch32 But neither does He use after our fashion of using. For when we use
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ch33 For if we find our happiness complete in one another, we stop short
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ch34 And mark that even when He who is Himself the Truth and the Word,
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ch35 Of all, then, that has been said since we entered upon the
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ch36 Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or
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ch37 For if he takes up rashly a meaning which the author whom he is reading
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ch38 But sight shall displace faith; and hope shall be swallowed up in
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ch39 And thus a man who is resting upon faith, hope and love, and who
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ch40 And, therefore, if a man fully understands that "the end of the
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ch41 As when I was writing about things, I introduced the subject with a
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ch42 Conventional signs, on the other hand, are those which living beings
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ch43 Of the signs, then, by which men communicate their thoughts to one
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ch44 But because words pass away as soon as they strike upon the air, and
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ch45 And hence it happened that even Holy Scripture, which brings a
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ch46 But hasty and careless readers are led astray by many and manifold
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ch47 First of all, then, it is necessary that we should be led by the
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ch48 But let us now go back to consider the third step here mentioned,
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ch49 In all these books those who fear God and are of a meek and pious
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ch50 Now there are two causes which prevent what is written from being
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ch51 The great remedy for ignorance of proper signs is knowledge of
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ch52 And this circumstance would assist rather than hinder the
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ch53 But since we do not clearly see what the actual thought is which
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ch54 About ambiguous signs, however, I shall speak afterwards. I am
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ch55 Now among translations themselves the Italian (Itala) is to be
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ch56 In the case of figurative signs, again, if ignorance of any of them
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ch57 For we must not listen to the falsities of heathen superstition,
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ch58 But whether the fact is as Varro has related, or is not so, still
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ch59 But to explain more fully this whole topic (for it is one that
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ch60 All the arrangements made by men to the making and worshipping of
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ch61 Nor can we exclude from this kind of superstition those who were
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ch62 But to desire to predict the characters, the acts, and the fate of
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ch63 For in this way it comes to pass that men who lust after evil
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ch64 And all these omens are of force just so far as has been arranged
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ch65 But when all these have been cut away and rooted out of the mind of
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ch66 For certain institutions of men are in a sort of way representations
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ch67 But, coming to the next point, we are not to reckon among human
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ch68 Anything, then, that we learn from history about the chronology of
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ch69 There is also a species of narrative resembling description, in
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ch70 Further, as to the remaining arts, whether those by which something
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ch71 There remain those branches of knowledge which pertain not to the
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ch72 And yet the validity of logical sequences is not a thing devised by
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ch73 In this passage, however, where the argument is about the
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ch74 Therefore it is one thing to know the laws of inference, and
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ch75 Again, the science of definition, of division, and of partition,
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ch76 There are also certain rules for a more copious kind of argument,
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ch77 This art, however, when it is learnt, is not to be used so much for
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ch78 Coming now to the science of number, it is clear to the dullest
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ch79 Accordingly, I think that it is well to warn studious and able
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ch80 Moreover, if those who are called philosophers, and especially the
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ch81 But when the student of the Holy Scriptures, prepared in the way I
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ch82 But just as poor as the store of gold and silver and garments which
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ch83 The man who fears God seeks diligently in Holy Scripture for a
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ch84 But when proper words make Scripture ambiguous, we must see in the
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ch85 And all the directions that I have given about ambiguous
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ch86 And not only these, but also those ambiguities that do not relate
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ch87 But the ambiguities of metaphorical words, about which I am next to
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ch88 This bondage, however, in the case of the Jewish people, differed
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ch89 And if ever any of them endeavoured to make it out that their idols
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ch90 Accordingly the liberty that comes by Christ took those whom it
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ch91 Now he is in bondage to a sign who uses, or pays homage to, any
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ch92 But in addition to the foregoing rule, which guards us against
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ch93 Every severity, therefore, and apparent cruelty, either in word or
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ch94 Those things, again, whether only sayings or whether actual deeds,
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ch95 Whatever, then, is in accordance with the habits of those with whom
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ch96 But when men unacquainted with other modes of life than their own
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ch97 The tyranny of lust being thus overthrown, charity reigns through
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ch98 If the sentence is one of command, either forbidding a crime or
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ch99 Again, it often happens that a man who has attained, or thinks he
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ch100 We must also be on our guard against supposing that what in the Old
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