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Chapter I. How our warfare with covetousness is a foreign one, and how this fault is not a natural one in man, as the other faults are.
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Chapter II. How dangerous is the disease of covetousness.iv.iii.vii.ii
Chapter III. What is the usefulness of those vices which are natural to us.iv.iii.vii.iii
Chapter IV. That we can say that there exist in us some natural faults, without wronging the Creator.iv.iii.vii.iv
Chapter V. Of the faults which are contracted through our own fault, without natural impulses.iv.iii.vii.v
Chapter VI. How difficult the evil of covetousness is to drive away when once it has been admitted.iv.iii.vii.vi
Chapter VII. Of the source from which covetousness springs, and of the evils of which it is itself the mother.iv.iii.vii.vii
Chapter VIII. How covetousness is a hindrance to all virtues.iv.iii.vii.viii
Chapter IX. How a monk who has money cannot stay in the monastery.iv.iii.vii.ix
Chapter X. Of the toils which a deserter from a monastery must undergo through covetousness, though he used formerly to murmur at the very slightest tasks.iv.iii.vii.x
Chapter XI. That under pretence of keeping the purse women have to besought to dwell with them.iv.iii.vii.xi
Chapter XII. An instance of a lukewarm monk caught in the snares of covetousness.iv.iii.vii.xii
Chapter XIII. What the elders relate to the juniors in the matter of stripping off sins.iv.iii.vii.xiii
Chapter XIV. Instances to show that the disease of covetousness is threefold.iv.iii.vii.xiv
Chapter XV. Of the difference between one who renounces the world badly and one who does not renounce it at all.iv.iii.vii.xv
Chapter XVI. Of the authority under which those shelter themselves who object to stripping themselves of their goods.iv.iii.vii.xvi
Chapter XVII. Of the renunciation of the apostles and the primitive church.iv.iii.vii.xvii
Chapter XVIII. That if we want to imitate the apostles we ought not to live according to our own prescriptions, but to follow their example.iv.iii.vii.xviii
Chapter XIX. A saying of S. Basil, the Bishop, directed against Syncletius.iv.iii.vii.xix
Chapter XX. How contemptible it is to be overcome by covetousness.iv.iii.vii.xx
Chapter XXI. How covetousness can be conquered.iv.iii.vii.xxi
Chapter XXII. That one who actually has no money may still be deemed covetous.iv.iii.vii.xxii
Chapter XXIII. An example drawn from the case of Judas.iv.iii.vii.xxiii
Chapter XXIV. That covetousness cannot be overcome except by stripping one's self of everything.iv.iii.vii.xxiv
Chapter XXV. Of the deaths of Ananias and Sapphira, and Judas, which they underwent through the impulse of covetousness.iv.iii.vii.xxv
Chapter XXVI. That covetousness brings upon the soul a spiritual leprosy.iv.iii.vii.xxvi
Chapter XXVII. Scripture proofs by which one who is aiming at perfection is taught not to take back again what he has given up and renounced.iv.iii.vii.xxvii
Chapter XXVIII. That the victory over covetousness can only be gained by stripping one's self bare of everything.iv.iii.vii.xxviii
Chapter XXIX. How a monk can retain his poverty.iv.iii.vii.xxix
Chapter XXX. The remedies against the disease of covetousness.iv.iii.vii.xxx
Chapter XXXI. That no one can get the better of covetousness unless he stays in the Cœnobium: and how one can remain there.iv.iii.vii.xxxi