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iv.x.i
Preface.iv.x.ii
God the Highest and Unchangeable Good, from Whom are All Other Good Things, Spiritual and Corporeal.iv.x.iii
How This May Suffice for Correcting the Manichæans.iv.x.iv
Measure, Form, and Order, Generic Goods in Things Made by God.iv.x.v
Evil is Corruption of Measure, Form, or Order.iv.x.vi
The Corrupted Nature of a More Excellent Order Sometimes Better Than an Inferior Nature Even Uncorrupted.iv.x.vii
Nature Which Cannot Be Corrupted is the Highest Good; That Which Can, is Some Good.iv.x.viii
The Corruption of Rational Spirits is on the One Hand Voluntary, on the Other Penal.iv.x.ix
From the Corruption and Destruction of Inferior Things is the Beauty of the Universe.iv.x.x
Punishment is Constituted for the Sinning Nature that It May Be Rightly Ordered.iv.x.xi
Natures Corruptible, Because Made of Nothing.iv.x.xii
God Cannot Suffer Harm, Nor Can Any Other Nature Except by His Permission.iv.x.xiii
All Good Things are from God Alone.iv.x.xiv
Individual Good Things, Whether Small or Great, are from God.iv.x.xv
Small Good Things in Comparison with Greater are Called by Contrary Names.iv.x.xvi
In the Body of the Ape the Good of Beauty is Present, Though in a Less Degree.iv.x.xvii
Privations in Things are Fittingly Ordered by God.iv.x.xviii
Nature, in as Far as It is Nature, No Evil.iv.x.xix
Hyle, Which Was Called by the Ancients the Formless Material of Things, is Not an Evil.iv.x.xx
To Have True Existence is an Exclusive Prerogative of God.iv.x.xxi
Pain Only in Good Natures.iv.x.xxii
From Measure Things are Said to Be Moderate-Sized.iv.x.xxiii
Measure in Some Sense is Suitable to God Himself.iv.x.xxiv
Whence a Bad Measure, a Bad Form, a Bad Order May Sometimes Be Spoken of.iv.x.xxv
It is Proved by the Testimonies of Scripture that God is Unchangeable. The Son of God Begotten, Not Made.iv.x.xxvi
This Last Expression Misunderstood by Some.iv.x.xxvii
That Creatures are Made of Nothing.iv.x.xxviii
’From Him’ And ‘Of Him’ Do Not Mean The Same Thing.iv.x.xxix
Sin Not From God, But From The Will of Those Sinning.iv.x.xxx
That God is Not Defiled by Our Sins.iv.x.xxxi
That Good Things, Even the Least, and Those that are Earthly, are by God.iv.x.xxxii
To Punish and to Forgive Sins Belong Equally to God.iv.x.xxxiii
From God Also is the Very Power to Be Hurtful.iv.x.xxxiv
That Evil Angels Have Been Made Evil, Not by God, But by Sinning.iv.x.xxxv
That Sin is Not the Striving for an Evil Nature, But the Desertion of a Better.iv.x.xxxvi
The Tree Was Forbidden to Adam Not Because It Was Evil, But Because It Was Good for Man to Be Subject to God.iv.x.xxxvii
No Creature of God is Evil, But to Abuse a Creature of God is Evil.iv.x.xxxviii
God Makes Good Use of the Evil Deeds of Sinners.iv.x.xxxix
Eternal Fire Torturing the Wicked, Not Evil.iv.x.xl
Fire is Called Eternal, Not as God Is, But Because Without End.iv.x.xli
Neither Can God Suffer Hurt, Nor Any Other, Save by the Just Ordination of God.iv.x.xlii
How Great Good Things the Manichæans Put in the Nature of Evil, and How Great Evil Things in the Nature of Good.iv.x.xliii
Manichæan Blasphemies Concerning the Nature of God.iv.x.xliv
Many Evils Before His Commingling with Evil are Attributed to the Nature of God by the Manichæans.iv.x.xlv
Incredible Turpitudes in God Imagined by Manichæus.iv.x.xlvi
Certain Unspeakable Turpitudes Believed, Not Without Reason, Concerning the Manichæans Themselves.iv.x.xlvii
The Unspeakable Doctrine of the Fundamental Epistle.iv.x.xlviii
He Compels to the Perpetration of Horrible Turpitudes.iv.x.xlix
Augustin Prays that the Manichæans May Be Restored to Their Senses.iv.x.l