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Book I


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Chapter I.—Preface—The Author’s Object—The Utility of Written Compositions.

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Chapter II.—Objection to the Number of Extracts from Philosophical Writings in These Books Anticipated and Answered.

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Chapter III.—Against the Sophists.

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Chapter IV.—Human Arts as Well as Divine Knowledge Proceed from God.

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Chapter V.—Philosophy the Handmaid of Theology.

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Chapter VI.—The Benefit of Culture.

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Chapter VII.—The Eclectic Philosophy Paves the Way for Divine Virtue.

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Chapter VIII.—The Sophistical Arts Useless.

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Chapter IX.—Human Knowledge Necessary for the Understanding of the Scriptures.

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Chapter X.—To Act Well of Greater Consequence Than to Speak Well.

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Chapter XI.—What is the Philosophy Which the Apostle Bids Us Shun?

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Chapter XII.—The Mysteries of the Faith Not to Be Divulged to All.

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Chapter XIII.—All Sects of Philosophy Contain a Germ of Truth.

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Chapter XIV.—Succession of Philosophers in Greece.

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Chapter XV.—The Greek Philosophy in Great Part Derived from the Barbarians.

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Chapter XVI.—That the Inventors of Other Arts Were Mostly Barbarians.

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Chapter XVII.—On the Saying of the Saviour, “All that Came Before Me Were Thieves and Robbers.”

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Chapter XVIII.—He Illustrates the Apostle’s Saying, “I Will Destroy the Wisdom of the Wise.”

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Chapter XIX.—That the Philosophers Have Attained to Some Portion of Truth.

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Chapter XX.—In What Respect Philosophy Contributes to the Comprehension of Divine Truth.

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Chapter XXI.—The Jewish Institutions and Laws of Far Higher Antiquity Than the Philosophy of the Greeks.

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Chapter XXII.—On the Greek Translation of the Old Testament.

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Chapter XXIII.—The Age, Birth, and Life of Moses.

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Chapter XXIV.—How Moses Discharged the Part of a Military Leader.

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Chapter XXV.—Plato an Imitator of Moses in Framing Laws.

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Chapter XXVI.—Moses Rightly Called a Divine Legislator, And, Though Inferior to Christ, Far Superior to the Great Legislators of the Greeks, Minos and Lycurgus.

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Chapter XXVII.—The Law, Even in Correcting and Punishing, Aims at the Good of Men.

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Chapter XXVIII.—The Fourfold Division of the Mosaic Law.

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Chapter XXIX.—The Greeks But Children Compared with the Hebrews.

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Elucidations

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