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Conference V. Conference of Abbot Serapion. On the Eight Principal Faults.
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Chapter I. Our arrival at Abbot Serapion's cell, and inquiry on the different kinds of faults and the way to overcome them.
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Chapter II. Abbot Serapion's enumeration of eight principal faults.iv.iv.vi.ii
Chapter III. Of the two classes of faults and their fourfold manner of acting on us.iv.iv.vi.iii
Chapter IV. A review of the passions of gluttony and fornication and their remedies.iv.iv.vi.iv
Chapter V. How our Lord alone was tempted without sin.iv.iv.vi.v
Chapter VI. Of the manner of the temptation in which our Lord was attacked by the devil.iv.iv.vi.vi
Chapter VII. How vainglory and pride can be consummated without any assistance from the body.iv.iv.vi.vii
Chapter VIII. Of covetousness, which is something outside our nature, and of the difference between it and those faults which are natural to us.iv.iv.vi.viii
Chapter IX. How dejection and accidie generally arise without any external provocation, as in the case of other faults.iv.iv.vi.ix
Chapter X. How six of these faults are related, and the two which differ from them are akin to one another.iv.iv.vi.x
Chapter XI. Of the origin and character of each of these faults.iv.iv.vi.xi
Chapter XII. How vainglory may be useful to us.iv.iv.vi.xii
Chapter XIII. Of the different ways in which all these faults assault us.iv.iv.vi.xiii
Chapter XIV. Of the struggle into which we must enter against our faults, when they attack us.iv.iv.vi.xiv
Chapter XV. How we can do nothing against our faults without the help of God, and how we should not be puffed up by victories over them.iv.iv.vi.xv
Chapter XVI. Of the meaning of the seven nations of whose lands Israel took possession, and the reason why they are sometimes spoken of as “seven,” and sometimes as “many.”iv.iv.vi.xvi
Chapter XVII. A question with regard to the comparison of seven nations with eight faults.iv.iv.vi.xvii
Chapter XVIII.iv.iv.vi.xviii
Chapter XIX. The reason why one nation is to be forsaken, while seven are commanded to be destroyed.iv.iv.vi.xix
Chapter XX. Of the nature of gluttony, which may be illustrated by the simile of the eagle.iv.iv.vi.xx
Chapter XXI. Of the lasting character of gluttony as described to some philosophers.iv.iv.vi.xxi
Chapter XXII. How it was that God foretold to Abraham that Israel would have to drive out ten nations.iv.iv.vi.xxii
Chapter XXIII. How it is useful for us to take possession of their lands.iv.iv.vi.xxiii
Chapter XXIV. How the lands from which the Canaanites were expelled, had been assigned to the seed of Shem.iv.iv.vi.xxiv
Chapter XXV. Different passages of Scripture on the meaning of the eight faults.iv.iv.vi.xxv
Chapter XXVI. How when we have got the better of the passion of gluttony we must take pains to gain all the other virtues.iv.iv.vi.xxvi
Chapter XXVII. That our battles are not fought with our faults in the same order as that in which they stand in the list.iv.iv.vi.xxvii