Contents:

BOOK EIGHT
Chapter 1 On discussing the question of natural theology with the better philosophers
Chapter 2 Concerning two schools of philosophers, the Italian and the Ionian, and their founders
Chapter 3 The Socratic School of philosophy
Chapter 4 On the most distinguished disciple of Socrates, Plato, the one who divided philosophy into three parts
Chapter 5 That the discussion of theology should be carried on, generally speaking, with the Platonists, whose opinions are preferable to those of any other philosophers
Chapter 6 On the ideas of the Platonists in the realm of natural philosophy
Chapter 7 The superiority of the Platonists over all other philosophers in logic or rational philosophy
Chapter 8 The Platonists are leaders, also, in moral philosophy
Chapter 9 Concerning the philosophy which comes nearest to the truth of Christianity
Chapter 10 Why the Christian by reason of his religion is pre-eminent in the science of philosophy
Chapter 11 The sources of those ideas of Plato which resemble Christian truth
Chapter 12 Although the Platonists approached the truth concerning one true God, they approved of polytheistic worship
Chapter 13 Concerning the opinion of Plato, according to which the gods could not be other than good and friends of virtue
Chapter 14 Concerning the opinion of those who have stated that there are three kinds of rational souls: in the gods in heaven, in the demons of the air, and in men upon earth
Chapter 15 The demons are by no means better than men either be-cause of their aerial bodies or their higher habitation
Chapter 16 The opinion of Apuleius the Platonist concerning the character and conduct of demons
Chapter 17 Whether it is right for man to worship those spirits from whose vices it is his duty to be free
Chapter 18 Concerning the kind of religion which teaches that men should ask the aid of demons to gain the favors of the gods
Chapter 19 On the wickedness of magic which depends on malignant spirits
Chapter 20 Whether it can be believed that the gods prefer to associate with demons rather than with men
Chapter 21 Whether the gods who make use of demons as messengers and mediators are unaware of being deceived or are willingly duped
Chapter 22 The worship of demons should be abolished, in spite of the opinion of Apuleius
Chapter 23 Hermes Trismegistus' opinion on idolatry and the sources from which he learned that the superstitions of Egypt were to be abolished
Chapter 24 How Hermes admitted that the religion of his people was false, yet deplored the fact of its future destruction
Chapter 25 Concerning those things which the holy angels have in common with good men
Chapter 26 That the entire religion of the pagans has reference to men who are dead
Chapter 27 On the way Christians honor their martyrs

BOOK NINE
Chapter 1 A review of the conclusions reached and some questions yet to be discussed

Chapter 2 Whether among the demons, who are inferior to the gods, there could be a group of good spirits who might aid the human soul to attain true happiness
Chapter 3 What qualities Apuleius gives to the demons to whom he neither denies reason nor attributes any virtue
Chapter 4 On the views of the Peripatetics and Stoics concerning emotions
Chapter 5 That passions, for Christian souls, are not seductions to sin, but exercises in virtue
Chapter 6 Concerning the passions which, according to Apuleius, dominate the demons who are supposed to be intermediaries between men and the gods
Chapter 7 Platonists claim that the gods have been defamed by the poets' fables representing them as engaged in party strifes, whereas it is the demons, not the gods, who are divided into parties
Chapter 8 How Apuleius the Platonist defines the gods who dwell in the heavens, demons who occupy the air, and men who inhabit the earth
Chapter 9 Whether the friendship of celestial gods can be won for man through the intercession of demons
Chapter 10 According to the views of Plotinus, men in mortal bodies are less unhappy than demons, whose bodies are eternal
Chapter 11 On the opinion of the Platonists that the souls of men become demons after leaving the body
Chapter 12 On the three paris of opposite qualities by which the Platonists distinguish the nature of gods from that of men
Chapter 13 If demons are neither happy like gods nor unhappy like men, how can they be half-way between the two, having nothing in common with either?
Chapter 14 Can men, although mortal, enjoy the happiness of true beatitude?
Chapter 15 Concerning the mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus
Chapter 16 Whether it is reasonable for the Platonists to teach the doctrine that heavenly gods avoid contacts with earthly things and communication with men demons may intercede for the friendship of the gods
Chapter 17 That to attain beatitude, which is a participation doctrine that the heavenly gods avoid Contacts with Supreme Good, man needs no such mediator as a demon is, but only such as is Christ
Chapter 18 That the treachery of the demons, while promising a way to God through their intercession, has no other object than to turn men aside from the way of truth
Chapter 19 That the title of 'demons' is no longer used even among their worshipers to signify anything good
Chapter 20 Concerning the quality of knowledge which makes the demons proud
Chapter 21 To what extent the Lord willed to become known to demons
Chapter 22 Of the difference between the knowledge of the holy angels and that of the demons
Chapter 23 That the name 'gods' is wrongly given to the pagan deities, even though the authority of Sacred Scripture applies it both to the holy angels and to just men

BOOK TEN
Chapter 1 That the Platonists themselves reached the conclusion that God alone can confer true blessedness, whether upon angels or upon men; but whether the beings whom they think we should worship with a view to our own blessedness desire sacrifices to be offered to God alone or also to themselves remained for them an open question
Chapter 2 On the opinion of Plotinus the Platonist concerning illumination from above
Chapter 3 Concerning the true worship of God and the error of the Platonists, who understood that He is the Creator of the universe, yet paid the honor of divine worship to angels, good or bad
Chapter 4 That sacrifice is due to the true God and to Him alone
Chapter 5 Concerning the sacrifices which God does not require, but wishes to be offered as symbols of things He does require. 123 6 Of the true and perfect sacrifice
Chapter 7 That the holy angels, who love us, wish us to worship not themselves, but the one true God
Chapter 8 Concerning the miracles sometimes wrought through the ministry of angels and meant by God to confirm the faith of His people in His promises
Chapter 9 Concerning the illicit arts connected with demon worship, discussed by the Platonist, Porphyry, who approves of some and, seemingly, condemns others
Chapter 10 On the pretensions of theurgy to effect the purification of souls through the invocation of demons
Chapter 11 Of the letter of Porphyry to the Egyptian, Anebo, with its request for instruction upon the diversity of demons
Chapter 12 Concerning the miracles which the true God performs through the ministry of holy angels
Chapter 13 That God who is invisible has often allowed Himself to be seen, not as He is in Himself, but in the measure that men were able to bear the vision
Chapter 14 On worshiping one God with a view of both eternal and temporal blessings, since they equally depend upon His providential power
Chapter 15 On the ministry of holy angels in the service of Divine Providence
Chapter 16 Whether, when there is a question of gaining eternal life, we ought to trust angels who demand divine worship for themselves or those who insist that the service of holy religion should be rendered not to themselves but to God
Chapter 17 Concerning the ark of the covenant and the miracles wrought by God to authenticate the Law and the Promise
Chapter 18 A reply to those who deny the credibility of Scripture in regard to the miracles by which the people of God were instructed
Chapter 19 On the nature of the visible sacrifice which, according to true religion, should be offered to the one true invisible God
Chapter 20 Concerning the supreme and true sacrifice which the Mediator between God and men proved Himself to be
Chapter 21 Concerning the measure of power given to demons to instigate persecutions which glorify the saints who win victory over the spirits of the air, not by propitiating the spirits themselves, but by remaining in God
Chapter 22 Concerning the source of the saints' power to resist the demons and the true purification of heart
Chapter 23 Concerning the Principles' which, according to the Platonists, account for the purification of the soul
Chapter 24 Concerning the one true Principle which alone purifies and renovates human nature
Chapter 25 That all the saints, both under the Law and in the ages preceding the Law, were justified by faith in the mystery of Christ
Chapter 26 On the vacillation of Porphyry, who wavered between the confession of the true God and the worship of
Chapter 27 Concerning the impiety of Porphyry, which surpasses even the error of Apuleius
Chapter 28 On the motive which blinded Porphyry to the true Wisdom which is Christ
Chapter 29 On the Incarnation of our Lord, Jesus Christ, which the Platonists who are infidels are ashamed to confess
Chapter 30 How far Porphyry refuted and by his disagreement corrected the Platonic doctrine
Chapter 31 A counter-argument to the Platonists who claim that the human soul is co-eternal with God
Chapter 32 Of the one way to spiritual liberation, for all which Porphyry failed to find because he did not seek it aright, and which Christian grace alone has opened up

BOOK ELEVEN
Chapter 1 An introduction to the part of this work in which the respective origins and the ends of the two cities, the heavenly and the earthly, are to be discussed
Chapter 2 On the knowledge of God which comes to us only through the Mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ
Chapter 3 On the authority of the canonical Scripture inspired by the Divine Spirit
Chapter 4 That the creation of the world was neither independent of time or dependent upon a new decree of God, in the sense that what He formerly had decided not to do He afterwards chose to do
Chapter 5 That one should no more try to conceive of infinite time before the universe existed than to conceive of in-finite space beyond the cosmos, for the simple reason that there is no time at all before, and there is no space at all beyond, the universe
Chapter 6 That the creation of the world and time began together; neither of the two was anterior to the other
Chapter 7 On the meaning of the first 'days' which are said to have had morning and evening even before the sun existed
Chapter 8 How we are to interpret God's resting on the seventh day, after six days of work
Chapter 9 What is to be held, in accordance with divine Revelation, concerning the creation of the angels
Chapter 10 Of the simple and unchangeable Trinity of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, one God in whom quality and substance are one and the same
Chapter 22 On those who hold that some positive evil exists be-cause, in the totality of things well made by a good Creator, a few are not to their liking
Chapter 23 On the errors in the doctrine of Origen
Chapter 24 Of the Divine Trinity, which has scattered intimations of what it means to our minds in all its works
Chapter 25 On the three divisions of philosophy
Chapter 26 Concerning the image of the Supreme Trinity which is found, in some measure, in human nature even this side of Heaven
Chapter 27 On existence, knowledge, and the love of being and knowing
Chapter 28 Whether we ought to love the very love itself by which we love both our existence and our knowledge of our existence, and thus approach even closer to the image of the Divine Trinity
Chapter 29 How the holy angels know the Trinity in its very God-head and understand the works of God in the mind of the Creator before seeing them as products of His art
Chapter 30 Of the perfection of the number six the first number composed of its parts added together
Chapter 31 Of the seventh day, with its mention of completeness and repose
Chapter 32 Concerning the opinion of those who hold that the creation of the angels was antecedent to the creation of the world
Chapter 33 Of the two diverse and disparate societies of angels, which are not inappropriately signified by the names `light' and 'darkness'
Chapter 34 Of two views, first, that in the creation of the firmament the angels are symbolized by the separation of the waters, and, second, that the waters were not created

BOOK TWELVE
Chapter 1 That all angels, good and bad, have the same nature

Chapter 2 That no being can be opposed to God, since Only Pie being can be fully opposed to Him who is supreme and eternal Being
Chapter 3 That there are no enemies of God by nature, but only a will to oppose, which wounds themselves and, there-fore, damages their good nature, for, if no damage is done, there can be no wound
Chapter 4 Concerning irrational nature and inanimate things which in their own way and place, are in harmony with the beauty of the universe
Chapter 5 That God is glorified by every nature of whatever kind or rank
Chapter 6 Why good angels enjoy beatitude and bad angels suffer misery
Chapter 7 That there is no efficient cause of an evil will
Chapter 8 On perverse love, the defect by which will falls from Immutable Good to some mutable good
Chapter 9 Whether the same God who created the nature of the holy angels is not also the Author of their good will, since it is He who, through the Holy Spirit, fills them with charity
Chapter 10 Concerning the hypothesis that the human race, like the world itself, has always existed
Chapter 11 That such history as ascribes many thousands of years to time past is misleading
Chapter 12 Concerning the theory that our present world is not everlasting, but that innumerable other worlds have come and gone, or that a single world goes through a periodic cycle of becoming and dissolution
Chapter 13 An answer to those who find fault with our view about the lateness of the date of man's creation
Chapter 14 Of the cyclic revolution of the ages, whereby, as some philosophers believe, all things tend to return, periodically, to their original pattern and appearance
Chapter 15 That the creation of the human race in time implies no new purpose or change of will in God
Chapter 16 Whether we can understand God's eternal sovereignty without believing that there have always existed creatures over whom He ruled, and whether we can say a thing has been eternally created without calling it co-eternal
Chapter 17 In what sense God promised to man 'eternal life' before ‘the eternal times'
Chapter 18 How sound faith defends the immutable counsel and will of God against the philosophical theory that the same works of God have been eternally begun and undone throughout the same cyclic pattern of the ages
Chapter 19 An argument against those who maintain that nothing, that is infinite can be comprehended even by the knowledge of God
Chapter 20 The meaning of saecula saeculorum, the 'ages of ages'
Chapter 21 On the pagan pretense that souls already participating in true and supreme beatitude will return again and again, in virtue of periodic cycles of time, to repeat the miseries and labors of life
Chapter 22 The creation of the one first man and, so, of the human race
Chapter 23 God knew ahead of time that the first man whom He created would sin, but, at the same time, He foresaw the multitude of Adam's descendants who would be made holy by His grace and join the company of the angels
Chapter 24 On the nature of the human soul created in the image of God
Chapter 25 Whether angels can be said to be creators of even the least creature
Chapter 26 That the nature and the form of every living thing created are entirely due to the work of God alone
Chapter 27 On the Platonic theory that angels were creatures of God but creators of human bodies
Chapter 28 That, of the whole human race sprung from Adam. God foresaw which part would receive its reward and which part would be condemned to punishment

BOOK THIRTEEN
Chapter 1 On the fall of Adam and Eve and its consequence, death
Chapter 2 On two kinds of death, one to which the human body is subject and the other that can befall the soul which is to live forever
Chapter 3 Whether death, which all men have inherited through the sin of the first parents, is a punishment for sin even in the case of saints
Chapter 4 Why death, which is the punishment for sin, is borne by those who are freed from sin by the grace of regeneration
Chapter 5 Just as the Law, which is good, is badly used by sinners, so death, which is evil, is well used by the saints
Chapter 6 That death, as such, that is, the separation of soul and body, is an evil
Chapter 7 On death, when it is suffered by unbaptized persons for the confession of Christ
Chapter 8 In the case of the saints, acceptance of the first death, for the sake of truth, cancels the second
Chapter 9 Whether the moment of death, in which sensation ceases, is experienced by the dying or by the dead
Chapter 10 Whether we should not speak of the life of mortals as a death rather than a life
Chapter 11 Whether a person can be alive and dead at the same time
Chapter 12 With what death did God threaten our first parents when they were bidden not to disobey His commandment?
Chapter 13 What was the first punishment for the disobedience of our first parents?
Chapter 14 On the nature of man as created by God and the Misfortune into which he fell by the choice of his own will 316 15 That Adam abandoned God by sin before God abandoned him, and it was this departure from God that constituted the first death of the soul
Chapter 16 Concerning the philosophers who hold that the separation of soul and body involves no punishment, in spite of the Platonic conception of a supreme God promising to the lesser gods an eternal union with their bodies
Chapter 17 A reply to those who argue that earthly bodies can never become incorruptible and eternal
Chapter 18 On the philosophers' claim that there can be no earthly bodies in heaven, because all matter is attracted by gravity to the earth
Chapter 19 An answer to those who deny that our first parents would have been immortal had they not sinned and yet believe in the eternity of souls without bodies
Chapter 20 That the flesh of the saints, which now rests in hope, is to be restored to a condition superior to that of our first parents before their sin
Chapter 21 That the Paradise of our first parents may be rightly understood as a symbol with a spiritual meaning with-out prejudice to the historical truth of the narrative's account of a real place
Chapter 22 That the bodies of the saints, after the resurrection, will be spiritual, although flesh will not be changed into spirit
Chapter 23 On the meaning of the Pauline expressions: 'natural body,' spiritual body,' in Adam all die, and in Christ all shall be made alive'
Chapter 24 The respective meanings of the breathing of God by which the first man became a living soul and of that other which accompanied the Lord's words to His disciples: 'Receive the Holy Spirit'

BOOK FOURTEEN
Chapter 1 If, by His grace, God had not saved so many, all men, by the disobedience of the first man, would have been plunged into the endlessness of a second death
Chapter 2 Life according to the flesh is understood in reference to the vices of the soul as well as to those of the body
Chapter 3 The cause of sin is not in the flesh, but in the soul, nor is the corruption resulting from sin a punishment for sin
Chapter 4 Life 'according to man' and life 'according to God’
Chapter 5 That while the Platonic doctrine on the nature of body and soul is more acceptable than that of the Manichaeans, it also must be rejected, since it attributes the cause of all corruption to the very nature of the flesh
Chapter 6 That it belongs to the judgment of the rational will to determine whether the affections of the soul are good or bad
Chapter 7 That Holy Scripture uses the words for love ‘amor' and 'dilectio'—indifferently in both a good and bad sense
Chapter 8 On the three attributes of soul which the Stoics recognized as virtues of a wise man, who ought, however, to banish grief or sadness as an emotion unfit for a manly mind
Chapter 9 That the emotions have a place in the life of good men, so long as their affections are rightly directed
Chapter 10 Whether it is of faith that before their sin, our first parents in Paradise were undisturbed by any passions
Chapter 11 Of the fall of the first man, whose nature, though created in good condition, was so damaged that is could be repaired only by its Author
Chapter 12 On the special character of our first parents' sin
Chapter 13 That in Adam's sin bad will preceded the bad deed
Chapter 14 That the sinner's pride is the worst part of his sin
Chapter 15 On the justice of the punishment meted out to our first parents for their disobedience
Chapter 16 On the sin of lust in the specific sense of the indulgence of sexual passion
Chapter 17 On the nakedness of which our first parents were not ashamed until after they had sinned
Chapter 18 That even marital intercourse, let alone what is extra-marital, involves an element of shame
Chapter 19 That those elements of anger and lust which now make man so vicious that these passions must be controlled by the bridle of wisdom had no place in man's nature before the fall
Chapter 20 On the sexual sophistication of the Cynics
Chapter 21 That, since the blessing of fecundity for the propagation of mankind was granted before sin was committed, the blessing of fecundity was not, as such, affected by the fall, though the act of propagation became infected with the passion of lust
Chapter 22 That conjugal union was instituted and blessed by God
Chapter 23 On the two questions: first, whether there would have been any need of procreation in Paradise if there had been no sin; second, whether the preservation of purity was meant to involve a struggle against the passion of lust
Chapter 24 If unfallen man had remained in Paradise as a reward for his obedience, his generative organs, like all his other organs, would have fulfilled their function in subordination to his will
Chapter 25 On that perfect happiness which is impossible in this present life
Chapter 26 That happiness in Eden was such that we ought to believe that parenthood was possible without the humiliation of yielding to lust
Chapter 27 That the perversity of sinners, whether angels or men, does nothing to perturb the providence of God
Chapter 28 The essential difference between the two cities, between worldly society and the communion of saints

BOOK FIFTEEN
Chapter 1 On the two lines of descent, distinguished by their respective destinies, which can be traced, from the beginning on, in the history of mankind
Chapter 2 Of the children according to the flesh and the children according to the promise
Chapter 3 On Sara's barrenness which was made fruitful by God's 15 grace
Chapter 4 On war and peace in the associationes of earthly minded men
Chapter 5 That the original founding of the city of earth by a fratricide was paralleled when the city of Rome was founded by one who had killed his brother
Chapter 6 That the sickness suffered even by the citizens of the City of God, who must still pay the penalty for sin during the pilgrimage of their life on earth, can be healed by the medicines which God administers
Chapter 7 Why Cain sinned and was so obstinate in sin that he refused to listen to God's word
Chapter 8 An explanation of Cain's building a city so early in the history of mankind
Chapter 9 On the longer life and larger bodies of those who lived before the flood
Chapter 10 On the discrepancy between different translations in regard to the ages given in Scripture
Chapter 11 On the life-span of Mathusala, which seems to make him survive the flood by fourteen years
Chapter 12 On the skepticism of those who deny that the human life-span in the beginning of history was not as long as Scripture states
Chapter 13 Whether the Hebrew text is more authoritative that the Septuagint version in matters of early chronology
Chapter 14 That the length of the Biblical year was the same as the length of our own
Chapter 15 On the difficulty of believing that those early men, whose ages at the time they became fathers are recorded in the Bible, remained so long continent
Chapter 16 That the earliest marriages were not regulated by the same law that was afterwards binding
Chapter 17 On the fathers and originators of the two cities who were themselves sons of a single father
Chapter 18 On the prophetic symbolism of Abel, Seth, and Enos in relation to its fulfillment in Christ and His Body, the Church
Chapter 19 What is symbolized by the fact that Henoch was taken away by 'translation'
Chapter 20 An explanation of why Cain's line of succession comes to an end after eight generations from Adam, where-as Noe, who is among the descendants of the same Adam, is in the tenth generation
Chapter 21 Why it is that, when Cain's son Henoch has been mentioned, the narrative goes on with the whole line of succession down to the flood, whereas, after the mention of Seth's son Enos, the narrative goes back to the beginning of the creation of man
Chapter 22 On the fall of the sons of God who were enslaved by love for women of the wordly city, with the result that all mankind, with the exception of eight human beings, were deservedly destroyed in the deluge
Chapter 23 Whether it is of faith that angels, whose very substance is spiritual, fell in love with beautiful women, married them, and became the fathers of giants
Chapter 24 On the meaning of the expression, 'Their days shall be one hundred and twenty years,' which was used by the Lord in reference to the people who were to perish in the flood.
Chapter 25 That God's 'anger' implies no kind of flareup that could disturb His immutable tranquility
Chapter 26 That the ark which Noe was ordered to make is a perfect foreshadowing of Christ and the Church
Chapter 27 That in regard to the story of the ark and the flood it is as indefensible to take the facts and reject all allegorical meaning as it is to read the story as allegory and repudiate the historical reality

BOOK SIXTEEN
Chapter 1 Whether, in the period after the flood, from Noe to Abraham, there is any evidence of people who lived according to God
Chapter 2 On the prophetic prefiguration associated with the sons of Noe
Chapter 3 The descendants of the three sons of Noe
Chapter 4 On the confusion of tongues and the origin of Babylon
Chapter 5 On the coming down of the Lord to create confusion of tongues among those who were building the tower
Chapter 6 What is meant by 'speech' when God 'speaks' to His angels
Chapter 7 Whether it is to be supposed that even in the very re-mote islands the animals there are descended from those which were saved from the flood in the ark
Chapter 8 Whether certain kinds of human monsters sprang from the stock of Adam or of Noe's sons
Chapter 9 Whether we ought to believe that the other hemisphere of the earth directly below us is peopled by antipodae
Chapter 10 On the series of successive generations from Sem to Abraham in which the history of the City of God is to be found
Chapter 11 That the original language in use among men was that which later on was called Hebrew, because of Heber, and which continued to be the language of the Hebrews after the confusions of tongues
Chapter 12 On the epoch in the history of the holy City which began when Abraham started a new line of succession
Chapter 13 A possible explanation of the fact that no mention is made of Nachor in the account of his father Thare’s transmigration from Chaldaea to Mesopotamia
Chapter 14 Of the last years and death of Thare in Haran
Chapter 15 On the date of Abraham's departure from Haran in accordance with God's command
Chapter 16 On the sequence and special character of the promises which God made to Abraham
Chapter 17 On the three most famous pagan empires, one of which, the Assyrian, was already towering above the other two at the time of Abraham's birth
Chapter 18 On God's second communication to Abraham, which promised to him and his posterity the land of Chanaan
Chapter 19 On the chastity of Sara, which was divinely protected when Abraham in Egypt called her his sister and not his wife
Chapter 20 On the separation of Lot and Abraham, by a mutual agreement involving no loss of affection
Chapter 21 On the third of God's promises to Abraham, whereby he and his descendants were assured of the possession of the land of Chanaan forever
Chapter 22 On Abraham's victory over the enemies of Sodom, his deliverance of Lot from captivity, and the blessing given by the priest Melchisedech
Chapter 23 On God's communication which promised to Abraham that his posterity would become as numerous as the stars, and on Abraham's justification by faith, although he was still uncircumcised
Chapter 24 On the symbolic significance of the sacrifice which Abraham was bidden to offer when he asked for more details on what he had believed
Chapter 25 On Agar, Sara's handmaid, who lay with Abraham at Sara's own request
Chapter 26 Of God's approval of Abraham, shown by promising him in his old age that he would have a son by the barren Sara, by appointing him father of the nations, and by sealing his faith in what had been promised by the sacred sign of circumcision
Chapter 27 On the male child who, failing to be circumcised on the eighth day, is to have his soul destroyed because he has broken God's covenant
Chapter 28 On the changing of the names of Abraham and Sara and the grace of their fecundity given when they were incapable of procreation both were old and Sara was barren
Chapter 29 Of the three men or angels in whom God is said appeared to have appeared to Abraham at the oak of Mambre
Chapter 30 On the rescue of Lot, the burning of Sodom, by fire from. heaven, and the failure of Abimelech's lust to sully the purity of Sara
Chapter 31 On Isaac, who was born in accordance with God's promise and who was called 'Laughter' because both his parents laughed with delight
Chapter 32 On the testing of Abraham's obedience and faith by means of the call upon him to offer his son in sacrifice, and on the death of Sara
Chapter 33 On the granddaughter of Nachor, Rebecca, whom Isaac took for his wife
Chapter 34 On the significance of the fact that, when Sara was dead, Abraham took Cetura for his wife
Chapter 35 The prophetic sense of God's declaration concerning the twins who were still in Rebecca's womb
Chapter 36 On the divine communication and blessing which Isaac received no less than his father, because, on account of his father, God loved him
Chapter 37 On the truths mysteriously foreshadowed in the lives of Esau and Jacob
Chapter 38 How Jacob was sent to Mesopotamia in search of a wife, had a vision in a dream on the way, and won four wives by wooing one
Chapter 39 How it came about that Jacob was also called Israel
Chapter 40 On reconciling the narrative of Jacob's going to Egypt with the fact that, of the seventy-five who are said to have accompanied him, several were at that time not even born
Chapter 41 On the blessing which Jacob uttered over his son Juda
Chapter 42 On the sons of Joseph who were blessed by Jacob, whose refusal to change hands had a prophetical significance
Chapter 43 On the history of the Jews in the period of Moses and Josue, the son of Nave, and in that of the Judges and Kings who followed them; of these Kings, Saul was the first but David the most significant by reason of both his symbolical and his historical role