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Concerning the Nature of Good, Against the Manichæans.

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Title Page.

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Preface.

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God the Highest and Unchangeable Good, from Whom are All Other Good Things, Spiritual and Corporeal.

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How This May Suffice for Correcting the Manichæans.

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Measure, Form, and Order, Generic Goods in Things Made by God.

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Evil is Corruption of Measure, Form, or Order.

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The Corrupted Nature of a More Excellent Order Sometimes Better Than an Inferior Nature Even Uncorrupted.

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Nature Which Cannot Be Corrupted is the Highest Good; That Which Can, is Some Good.

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The Corruption of Rational Spirits is on the One Hand Voluntary, on the Other Penal.

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From the Corruption and Destruction of Inferior Things is the Beauty of the Universe.

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Punishment is Constituted for the Sinning Nature that It May Be Rightly Ordered.

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Natures Corruptible, Because Made of Nothing.

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God Cannot Suffer Harm, Nor Can Any Other Nature Except by His Permission.

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All Good Things are from God Alone.

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Individual Good Things, Whether Small or Great, are from God.

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Small Good Things in Comparison with Greater are Called by Contrary Names.

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In the Body of the Ape the Good of Beauty is Present, Though in a Less Degree.

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Privations in Things are Fittingly Ordered by God.

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Nature, in as Far as It is Nature, No Evil.

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Hyle, Which Was Called by the Ancients the Formless Material of Things, is Not an Evil.

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To Have True Existence is an Exclusive Prerogative of God.

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Pain Only in Good Natures.

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From Measure Things are Said to Be Moderate-Sized.

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Measure in Some Sense is Suitable to God Himself.

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Whence a Bad Measure, a Bad Form, a Bad Order May Sometimes Be Spoken of.

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It is Proved by the Testimonies of Scripture that God is Unchangeable.  The Son of God Begotten, Not Made.

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This Last Expression Misunderstood by Some.

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That Creatures are Made of Nothing.

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’From Him’ And ‘Of Him’ Do Not Mean The Same Thing.

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Sin Not From God, But From The Will of Those Sinning.

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That God is Not Defiled by Our Sins.

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That Good Things, Even the Least, and Those that are Earthly, are by God.

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To Punish and to Forgive Sins Belong Equally to God.

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From God Also is the Very Power to Be Hurtful.

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That Evil Angels Have Been Made Evil, Not by God, But by Sinning.

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That Sin is Not the Striving for an Evil Nature, But the Desertion of a Better.

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The Tree Was Forbidden to Adam Not Because It Was Evil, But Because It Was Good for Man to Be Subject to God.

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No Creature of God is Evil, But to Abuse a Creature of God is Evil.

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God Makes Good Use of the Evil Deeds of Sinners.

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Eternal Fire Torturing the Wicked, Not Evil.

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Fire is Called Eternal, Not as God Is, But Because Without End.

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Neither Can God Suffer Hurt, Nor Any Other, Save by the Just Ordination of God.

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How Great Good Things the Manichæans Put in the Nature of Evil, and How Great Evil Things in the Nature of Good.

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Manichæan Blasphemies Concerning the Nature of God.

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Many Evils Before His Commingling with Evil are Attributed to the Nature of God by the Manichæans.

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Incredible Turpitudes in God Imagined by Manichæus.

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Certain Unspeakable Turpitudes Believed, Not Without Reason, Concerning the Manichæans Themselves.

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The Unspeakable Doctrine of the Fundamental Epistle.

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He Compels to the Perpetration of Horrible Turpitudes.

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Augustin Prays that the Manichæans May Be Restored to Their Senses.

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