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# Contents.
## Book V33.
HE RECALLS THE BEGINNING OF HIS MANHOOD, TO WIT THE THIRTY-FIRST YEAR OF HIS AGE; IN WHICH HAVING ABANDONED HIS MOST SERIOUS ERRORS CONCERNING THE NATURE OF GOD, AND THE ORIGIN OF EVIL, AND HAVING MADE A MOST ACCURATE STUDY OF THE SACRED SCRIPTURES, HE ATTAINS AT LAST TO A TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD, THOUGH NOT YET RIGHTLY UNDERSTANDING THE INCARNATION OF JESUS CHRIST.
| CHAP. | PAGE |
| --- | --- |
| I. His conception of God, not exactly in the form of a human body, but as a corporeal substance, diffused through space | 110 |
| II. An argument of Nebridius against the Manichæans, upon the question, “Whether God be or be not corruptible?” | 112 |
| III. That the freedom of the will is the cause of evil | 113 |
| IV. That God is not corruptible, or He would cease to be God | 114 |
| V. Questions concerning the relation of evil to God: since if He be the sovereign good, He cannot be the cause of evil | 115 |
| VI. He rejects astrological divinations | 116 |
| VII. He is terribly distressed about the origin of evil | 119 |
| VIII. By the help of God he little by little draws nigh to the truth | 120 |
| IX. He compares the Platonist teaching concerning the Word, with the Christian doctrine, which latter he finds by far more excellent | 121 |
| X. In the inmost recesses of his heart, things divine begin to grow more clear | 123 |
| XI. That creatures are subject to change; and God alone unchangeable | 124 |
| XII. Whatsoever things the most good God hath made, are truly good | 124 |
| XIII. Whatsoever is in heaven and earth, being made good, ought to praise God | 125 |
| XIV. They only invent the figment of two primary substances, whom some creature displeaseth | 126 |
| XV. Whatsoever things exist owe their being to God | 127 |
| XVI. Evil originates, not from some substance, but from perverseness of will | 127 |
| XVII. Above the changing mind, he finds the unchanging Author of Truth | 128 |
| XVIII. Jesus Christ, the Mediator, is the one only way of salvation | 129 |
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