Contents
Preface
Select Bibliography
Abbreviations
Introduction
I. Literary Form and Chronology
II. Doctrinal Content
Eighty-three Different Questions
3. Is God Responsible for Human Perversity?
4. What is the Cause of Human Perversity?
6. On Evil
9. Can Truth be Perceived by the Bodily Senses
11. Why was Christ Born of a Woman?
13. What Proof is There that Men are Superior to Animals?
15. On the Intellect
17. On God's Knowledge
18. On the Trinity
20. On the Place of God
21. Is not God the Author of Evil?
23. On the Father and the Son
24. Do Sin and Right Conduct Result from a Free Choice of the Will?
25. On the Cross of Christ
27. On Providence
29. Is There an 'Above' and a 'Below' in the Universe?
30. Has Everything been Created for Man's Use?
Section 1
Section 3
32. Can Someone Understand Something Better than Someone Else, and Therefore Can There be an Endless Advance in the Understanding of the Thing?
33. On Fear
Section 1
Section 2
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Section 2
Section 3
37. On the Forever Born
38. On the Structure of the Soul
40. Since the Nature of Souls is the Same, Why are the Choices of Men Different?
43. Why did the Son of God Appear as a Man and the Holy Spirit as a Dove?
44. Why did the Lord Jesus Christ Come so Long After Man Sinned and not in the Beginning?
Section 1
Section 2
Section 2
47. Will We Ever be Able to See our Own Thoughts?
48. On What can be Believed
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
52. On the Scripture: "I am sorry that I have made man"
Section 1
Section 2
Section 4
54. On the Scripture: "As for myself, it is good for me to cling to God"
55. On the Scripture: "There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and young women without number"
56. On the Forty-six Years for the Building of the Temple
Section 2
Section 3
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Section 2
Section 3
Section 2
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Section 4
60. "Concerning that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels in heaven nor the Son of Man—no one except the Father"
Section 1
Section 2
Section 4
Section 5
Section 7
62. On the Gospel passage: "that Jesus was baptizing more than John, although he himself baptized no one. Rather, his disciples [were baptizing]"
Section 1
Section 2
Section 4
Section 5
Section 7
Section 8
65. On the Resurrection of Lazarus
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 1
Section 2
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Section 1
Section 2
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Section 8
Section 9
Section 10
70. On the Apostle's Claim: "Death has been swallowed up into victory. Where, O death, is your contending? Where, O death, is your sting? Now the sting of death is sin; but the power of sin, the Law"
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
72. On the Eternal Times
Section 1
Section 2
74. On the Text in Paul's Letter to the Colossians: "In whom we have redemption and remission of sins, who is the image of the invisible God"
Section 1
Section 2
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Section 2
77. Is Fear a Sin?
78. On the Beauty of Pagan Idols
Section 1
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
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Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
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Section 2
Section 3
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Section 3
83. On Marriage, in the Light of the Lord's Claim: "If anyone should divorce his wife, except for reason of fornication"
Indices
General Index
Index of Holy Scripture