NPNF1-02. St. Augustin's City of God and Christian Doctrine

NPNF1-02. St. Augustin's City of God and Christian
Doctrine
He Who is Mature in Faith, Hope and Love, Needs Scripture No
Longer.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 762
What Manner of Reader Scripture Demands.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 762
Book II. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 763
Signs, Their Nature and Variety.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 763
Of the Kind of Signs We are Now Concerned with.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 764
Among Signs, Words Hold the Chief Place.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 764
Origin of Writing.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 765
Scripture Translated into Various Languages.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 765
Use of the Obscurities in Scripture Which Arise from Its Figurative
Language.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 766
Steps to Wisdom: First, Fear; Second, Piety; Third, Knowledge; Fourth,
Resolution; Fifth, Counsel; Sixth, Purification of Heart; Seventh, Stop or
Termination, Wisdom.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 767
The Canonical Books.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 768
How We Should Proceed in Studying Scripture.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 769
Unknown or Ambiguous Signs Prevent Scripture from Being
Understood.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 770
Knowledge of Languages, Especially of Greek and Hebrew, Necessary
to Remove Ignorance or Signs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 770
A Diversity of Interpretations is Useful. Errors Arising from Ambiguous
Words.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 771
How Faulty Interpretations Can Be Emended.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 772
How the Meaning of Unknown Words and Idioms is to Be
Discovered.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 773
Among Versions a Preference is Given to the Septuagint and the
Itala.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 774
The Knowledge Both of Language and Things is Helpful for the
Understanding of Figurative Expressions.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 775
Origin of the Legend of the Nine Muses.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 777
No Help is to Be Despised, Even Though It Come from a Profane
Source.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 778
Two Kinds Of Heathen Knowledge.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 778
The Superstitious Nature of Human Institutions.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 778
Superstition of Astrologers.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 779
The Folly of Observing the Stars in Order to Predict the Events of a
Life.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 780
Why We Repudiate Arts of Divination.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 781
The Intercourse and Agreement with Demons Which Superstitious
Observances Maintain.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 782
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Philip Schaff