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CONTENTS
BOOK ONE
Chapter
Preface
1 Foes of Christ's Name, for Christ's sake, were spared by the barbarians during the sack in Rome
2 A novelty in the history of warfare, that the victors should spare the vanquished for the sake of the gods they worshiped
3 The folly of imagining that their tutelary gods could help after they had failed to help Troy
4 The shrine of Juno in Troy saved none of the Greeks who fled to it, whereas the churches of the Apostles saved all who fled to them from the barbarians
.... felt about the general custom of war, of never sparing the cities conquered from the enemy
6 Not even the Romans, when they conquered a city, ever in the spared the vanquished who had sought refuge
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What Cato
...
temples
7 The cruelties perpetrated in the capture of Rome due to the customs of war, but the moderation practiced was due to the power of Christ's Name
8 Good and evil fall alike to the lot of both virtuous and wicked men
were
9 The reason why afflictions fall upon good and bad alike .
10 For just men, the privation of temporal goods is no loss at all
....
of earthly life, be it long or short the burial of a Christian body is forbidden, his
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The end
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When
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The reason why we should bury the bodies of
soul suffers no evil thereby
........ the just
14 Christians in captivity never lacked God's consolation man a of an offers
15 Marcus Aurelius Regulus example enduring voluntary captivity for religion ; except that, in his case, it profited him nothing because of his
paganism
16 Could the raping which holy virgins in captivity suffered of their souls? against their will pollute the virtue
17 Death freely chosen out of fear of pain or to avoid dishonor
18 The outrage of another's lust which the soul, without giving consent, must suffer in the body
19 Of Lucretia, who stabbed herself because Tarquin's son had raped her
20 Under no circumstances are Christians authorized to take their own life
21 Instances where killing a of homicide man does not involve the crime
22 Can suicide ever be a token of magnanimity ? .
23 What is to be said of the example of Cato, who slew himself because he could not bear the thought of Caesar's victory?
24 In that virtue in which Regulus surpasses Cato, the Christians are still more distinguished
25 It is wrong to avoid one sin by committing another
26 In certain peculiar cases, the example of the saints to be
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.
is
.
not
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followed
Is it right to
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have recourse to suicide as a means of avert-
ing sin?
.
28 By what judgment of God the enemy was permitted to work his sinful will on the bodies of the chaste
29 What reply should Christians make to the taunt of unbelievers that Christ did not deliver His followers from
...
the fury of the
enemy?
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30 Those who berate Christian times desire only shameful luxury
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to live in
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Chapter
31 The progressive series of vices which nourished the lust of empire among the Romans
32 The introduction of stage plays
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33 The vices of the Romans which the overthrow of their country did not avail to reform
34 God's mercy alone mitigated the ruin of the city
35 On the children of the Church who are hidden among the
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...
infidels,
and
false
Christians in the
bosom of
Church
36 Matters
to
be discussed in the following
treatises
the
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