About the book of Genesis

The treatise “On the Book of Genesis” was written by Bl. Aurelius Augustine in 401-415. and consists of 12 books. Books 1-11 contain a detailed philosophical and theological analysis of the first 3 chapters of the book of Genesis. Book 12 is devoted to a detailed disclosure of the question of paradise and the third heaven, where the Apostle Paul was caught up. Blzh. Augustine defends the truth of the Old Testament, rejected by the Manichaeans. He literally analyzes the biblical text point by point and provides a fairly simple exegesis. The Bishop of Hippo allegorically explains the biblical story of the life of our first parents in paradise. 7 days of creation are 7 eras of human history. The rest of God at the end of His creative activity symbolizes the peace that Christians will receive in God for their good deeds: “It is great (good) for us that we came from Him, but it will be even greater (good) to rest in Him... He is blessed not because He created us, but because, not needing what was created, He rested in Himself, and not in created things.” When interpreting the life of our forefathers in paradise, the blj. Augustine introduces a number of principles that he will later emphasize in his disputes with the Pelagians. For example, he argues that in the angelic life that Adam and Eve lived before the Fall, there was no concupiscence. They led an exclusively rational life, untouched by sexual desire. Childbirth had to have one single purpose: the production of a certain number of people who were to be transformed here for heavenly life. Accordingly, virginity was not originally a laudable state. When considering the origin of the world, the bl. Augustine deals with the problem of the creation of the human soul and traducianism. The author asks the question: when God created Eve from the rib of a man, did he bring out her soul in the same way or did he create her separately? The Bishop of Hippo uses an allegorical method in his interpretations against the Manichaeans and a literal one in addressing Christians. This publication also contains the unfinished book of the same name (the so-called “early edition” of 393-394). The goal of the blzh. Augustine - to show that there are no contradictions between the creation of the world and humanity, and human sciences, represented, in particular, by philosophy. *The title of the work in Latin is De Genesi ad litteram. Book 1. The beginning of the book of Genesis is explained [from verse 1]: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth until verse 5: And God called the light of day, and so on. Chapter I. Why in St. Scripture needs to pay attention to what 1st and 2nd Art. Genesis. Chapter II. About verse 3. As God said: Let there be light, whether through creation, or through the eternal Word? Chapter III. About the same verse 3. What is light? Why is it not said: Let there be heaven, etc., just as it is said: Let there be light. The first answer. Chapter IV. Second answer to the above question. Chapter V. Rational nature becomes formless if it is not improved by turning to the Divine Word. Why is it said that the Holy Spirit hovered over the waters before it is said that God spoke the words: Let there be light? Chapter VI. About verse 4. The Trinity, indicated both at the beginning and at the continuation of creation. Chapter VII. Why is it said about the Holy Spirit that He moved on top of the water. Chapter VIII. God's love for creatures determines both their existence and [subsequent] existence. Chapter IX. Again about verse 3. Is it said in time: Let there be light, or outside of time? Chapter X. About verse 5. How was the first day spent - in creation, or after the creation of light? The first method of explanation is accepted. The second way of understanding is associated with difficulties. Chapter XI. There is a new difficulty in the above method of explanation regarding the purpose of the sun. Chapter XII. Another difficulty concerns the sequence of three days and nights before the creation of the sun. - How the meeting of waters took place. Chapter XIII. When were water and earth created? Chapter XIV. The reason why the first verse of Genesis implies formless matter. Chapter XV. Matter precedes form in origin, not in time. Chapter XVI. Another basis for explaining how day and night occurred, namely, through the expansion and contraction of light, is rejected. Chapter XVII. Difficulty regarding spiritual light - how can there be evening and morning in this light, as well as separation from darkness? Chapter XVIII. How God works. Chapter XIX. In obscure passages of Scripture nothing should be asserted without reasoning. Chapter XX. Why, when explaining the book of Genesis, different opinions are given, and not one is affirmed? Chapter XXI. What is the result of such an explanation, in which nothing is affirmed without reasoning? Book 2. From the words: And God said: let there be a firmament, etc. until verse 19: And it was evening. At the end of the book there are some remarks against stargazers. Chapter I. What is firmament in the middle of water. Some deny that there can be waters higher than the starry sky. Chapter II. Air is higher than water. Chapter III. Fire is higher than air. Chapter IV. Water above the airy sky, which, as someone noted, is called the firmament. What are rains? Chapter V. Waters above the starry sky. Chapter VI About the added words: And God created, etc.: do they indicate the Person of the Son of God? Chapter VII. About the same subject. Chapter VIII. Why was the addition not made regarding light: And God created, as is usually done regarding other creations Chapter IX. About the figure of the sky. Chapter X. On the movement of the sky. Chapter XI. About verses 9 and 10 of Genesis. Chapter XII. About Genesis 11, 12 and 13. Chapter XIII. About the 14th and 15th verses of Genesis. - Why were the luminaries created on the fourth day? Chapter XIV. How the luminaries serve in signs, and in times, and in days, and in years. Chapter XV. How was the moon created? Chapter XVI. Do the luminaries shine with the same light? Chapter XVII. About stargazers. Chapter XVIII. Difficulty as to whether the stars are governed and animated by spirits. Book 3. From verse 20: and God said: let the waters bring forth... and so on until the end of the first chapter. Chapter I. The origin of animals from water is spoken of earlier than their origin from earth, because water is closer to the air, and air is closer to the sky. Chapter II. The destruction of the heavens by the flood means that the air became the nature of waters. Chapter III. Opinions on the transformation of elements. There is no air lost in the Genesis story. Chapter IV. The five senses are related to the four elements. Chapter V. How the power of sensation in the five senses is manifested differently in relation to the four elements. Chapter VI. The element of air was not omitted by the writer of Genesis. Chapter VII. It is not without reason that those who fly are called created from water. Chapter VIII. Why are fish called reptiles of the souls of the living? Chapter IX. That some philosophers attributed their own animals to each element. Chapter X. With the assumption that demons are creatures of the air, the teaching of Scripture that those who fly are made from water does not suffer at all. - Winds. - Thunder. - Clouds. - Rain. - Hail. - Clear weather. Chapter XI. Verses 23 and 24 explained. About the various kinds of animals created from the earth. Chapter XII. What does the expression “according to kind” mean, used about some creatures, but not used about man. Chapter XIII. Why is the blessing given, like man, only to aquatic animals. The duty to give birth. Chapter XIV. About the creation of insects. Chapter XV. About the creation of poisonous animals. Chapter XVI. Why were animals created that harm each other? Chapter XVII. Misunderstanding about dead bodies. Chapter XVIII. Why and when were thorns and thistles and barren trees created? Chapter XIX. About verses 26, 27 and gave. Why is it that when only man was created it was said: Let us create, and so on. Chapter XX. In what respect was man created in the image of God and why is it not said about the creation of man: and so it was. Chapter XXI. The difficulty regarding the immortality of man arising from the provision of food to him. Chapter XXII. The opinion of some is that in the words: and God create, and so on. denotes the creation of the soul, and with the words: and God created, and so on. creation of the body. Chapter XXIII. What does the expression of verse 30 refer to: and so it was. Chapter XXIV. Why is it not said specifically about man, as about other animals: God is seen as good. Book 4. The beginning of the second chapter of Genesis is explained, and, after some [remarks] on the perfection of the sixfold number, the question is again raised about the 5th verse of the 1st chapter - the question precisely of how, with the creation of light, evening and morning occurred, and thus the days to the sixth and seventh were counted. Chapter I. How six days should be understood. Chapter II. On the perfection of the sixfold number. Chapter III. About what is written in Wisdom XI, 21: all in measure, and in number, and so on. Chapter IV. That God is measure without measure, number without number, weight without weight - the Trinity. Chapter V. The idea of ​​measure, number and weight, according to which everything is arranged, exists in God Himself Chapter VI. Where God contemplated, placing everything. Chapter VII. How we contemplate the perfection of the sixfold number. Chapter VIII. How to understand God's rest on the seventh day. Chapter IX. In what sense is it said that God rests? - Sorrow worthy of praise. Chapter X. The question whether God could rest in the proper sense. Chapter XI. How two thoughts are reconciled, that God rested on the seventh day and continues to do so. Chapter XII. Another basis for the reconciliation of Scripture is the rest and continued action of God. Chapter XIII. About celebrating Saturday. - Christian Saturday. Chapter XIV. Why did God sanctify the day of His rest. Chapter XV. Resolution of the question posed above. Chapter XVI. God's rest on the seventh day from His works Chapter XVII. Our rest is in God. Chapter XVIII. Why did the seventh day have morning, but not evening? Chapter XIX. Another reason for the explanation is that the seventh day had no evening. Chapter XX. Was the seventh day created? Chapter XXI. About the light that before the luminaries caused the changes of day and night. Chapter XXII. How to understand that spiritual light produced the change of day and night. Chapter XXIII. Knowing things in God's Word and in ourselves. Chapter XXIV. Knowledge of Angels. Chapter XXV. Why is night not mentioned during the six days? Chapter XXVI. How to understand the number of days. Chapter XXVII. The ordinary days of the week are very different from the seven days of Genesis. Chapter XXVIII. The explanation given for the light and the spiritual day should not be considered improper and figurative. Chapter XXIX. Day, evening and morning in Angelic knowledge. Chapter XXX. Angelic knowledge does not become any lower, although there is both evening and morning in it. Chapter XXXI. How, at the beginning of the creation of things, in angelic knowledge there were not simultaneously day, evening and morning. Chapter XXXII. Although in the knowledge of the Angels everything was at once, however, not without some order. Chapter XXXIII. Was everything created at once, or in intervals of days? Chapter XXXIV. Everything was created at once and, nevertheless, in six days. Chapter XXXV. Conclusion about the days of Genesis. Book 5. From the words of chapter 2 of Genesis: This is the Book of the being of the heavens and the earth, and so on. to the words: A fountain came out of the earth, etc. inclusive. Chapter I. That six or seven days of Genesis can be considered a repetition of one day. Chapter II. Why was field grass added? Chapter III. The order of the story makes us understand that everything was created at once. Chapter IV. Why is it said that grass appeared that had not yet grown? Chapter V. The order of the creation of things within six days, not according to periods of time, but according to the connection of causes. Chapter VI. About verse 5 of chapter 2 of Genesis, where it reads: don’t rain, etc. Isn’t it clear from here that everything was created at once? Chapter VII. About the source that watered the earth. - Seeds of things. Chapter VIII. What Scripture is silent about, helping us to discover through guesswork. Chapter IX. Difficulties regarding the source that watered the entire land. Chapter X. How to understand this source that watered the whole earth. Chapter XI. That the first creation was accomplished without delay of time; management [happens] differently. Chapter XII. The works of God from a threefold point of view. Chapter XIII. Everything, before it was created, was in the Wisdom of God. Chapter XIV. What arrangement should be made of the words of John: the hedgehog came, etc. Chapter XV. What life does everything have in God? Chapter XVI. We comprehend God more easily with our minds than creation. Chapter XVII. Until the century, from the century, in the century. Chapter XVIII Many creatures are unknown. – In what sense are they known by God and Angels? – Morning and evening knowledge. Chapter XIX. Angels, messengers of God, have known the kingdom of heaven from time immemorial. Chapter XX. About what God is still doing. Chapter XXI. That everything is controlled by divine providence. Chapter XXII. Evidence of divine providence. Chapter XXIII. How God created everything at once and continues to do so. Book 6. About the words of Genesis chapter 2, verse 7: And God created man, dust from the earth, and so on. It is examined how or when man was formed from the earth; Leaving aside the discussion of the soul for now, the body of Adam is spoken of. Chapter I. Is it necessary to say: And God created, etc. understand the primary formation of man, carried out on the sixth day, or the secondary, produced later and already in the course of time. Chapter II. An explanation of this subject from the context of Scripture, namely verse 28 of the first chapter of Genesis. Chapter III. The same question is answered from other passages of Scripture. Chapter IV. The same argument develops. Chapter V. About the same thing. Chapter VI. Reveals his opinion more clearly so as not to be misunderstood. Chapter VII. That God could not create the soul before the body. Chapter VIII. Difficulty from the voice of God to man on the sixth day. Chapter IX. How was Jeremiah known to God before he was formed [in his mother's womb]. The merits of the unborn. Chapter X. Objects existing in different ways. Chapter XI. How the works of creation were already completed on the sixth day and still begin. Chapter XII. Is the human body designed in a special way by God? Chapter XIII. At what age or height was Adam created? Chapter XIV. What kind of causal principles were originally communicated to the world? Chapter XV. The first man was formed not differently, but in the way that was contained in the primary reasons. Chapter XVI. That a thing can be something is in its nature, but what it will be depends only on the will of God. Chapter XVII. What exactly from the future is truly the future. Chapter XVIII. The conclusion is drawn that Adam was formed not contrary to what was established in the primary causes. Chapter XIX. That God formed Adam not a spiritual body, but a spiritual one. Chapter XX. Difficulties in view of the above saying. – The opinion that Adam’s body was first created by the soul, and then, in paradise, by the spirit. Chapter XXI. Refutation of the previous opinion. Chapter XXII. The incorrect opinion of some is that Adam, by his sin, brought upon himself not bodily death, but the death of the soul. Chapter XXIII. About those who say that Adam’s body in paradise was changed from spiritual to spiritual. Chapter XXIV. How in renewal we receive what Adam lost. Chapter XXV. Adam's body was both mortal and immortal. Chapter XXVI. Adam's body and ours are different. Chapter XXVII. How we are renewed in mind and body by what Adam lost. Chapter XXVIII. Although in paradise Adam was spiritual in mind, he was spiritual in body. Chapter XXIX. The next book will talk about the soul. Book 7. In which, through a detailed discussion about the soul, the words of verse 7 of chapter 2 of Genesis are explained: And I will breathe into his nostrils the breath of life, and so on. Chapter I. The discussion about the soul begins. Chapter II. It is proved that the soul is not of the same nature as God. Chapter III. The same proof continues. Chapter IV. By a breath God created the soul, not from Himself or from the elements. Chapter V. Is the soul made from nothing? Chapter VI. Was there any matter in advance for the soul, as there was for the body Chapter VII. It is impossible to say what kind of soul matter this was. Chapter VIII. This matter cannot be allowed to be blissful. Chapter IX. Nor is this matter some kind of irrational soul. It is not a body that can change, as if evaporating. Chapter X It does not follow from the similarity of morals that the soul of a person. turns into an animal. Chapter XI. Fictional migrations of some souls. – The opinion of the Manichaeans is worse than the opinion of the philosophers. Chapter XII. The soul is not from the corporeal element. Chapter XIII and XIV. Doctors' opinions about the human body. – The soul is not made of elements. Chapter XV. The soul is incorporeal. Chapter XVI. Why is it said: and man became a living soul. Chapter XVII. Why is it said that God blew on the face of man. Chapter XVIII. Three cavities of the brain. Chapter XIX. The superiority of the soul over bodily objects. Chapter XX. The other is the soul and the other is the organs of the body. Chapter XXI. The soul is not from any body, nor is the body itself. Chapter XXII. Was the causal principle of the soul created during the days of Genesis. Chapter XXIII. Isn’t the causal principle of the soul embedded in the angelic nature? Chapter XXIV. How in renewal we receive what Adam lost. Chapter XXV. Adam's body was both mortal and immortal. Chapter XXVI. Adam's body and ours are different. Chapter XXVII. The soul strives for the body by the force of its own attraction. Chapter XXVIII. Although in paradise Adam was spiritual in mind, he was spiritual in body. Chapter XXIX. The next book will talk about the soul. Book 8. From the words of the 8th verse of the 2nd chapter of Genesis: And God planted paradise in Eden, and so on, to the words of the 17th article: But from the tree, which you understand good and evil, you will not tear it down, and so on. Chapter I. The paradise planted in Eden must be understood in its own and allegorical sense. Chapter II. Why did he explain the book of Genesis against the Manichaeans allegorically? Chapter III. Verses 8 and 9 of Chapter 2 are explained. Genesis. Chapter IV. About the second part of verse 9. The Tree of Life actually existed and represented wisdom. Chapter V. About the same tree of life, that it was both an image and at the same time a real object. Chapter VI. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil is a true and harmless tree. - Obedience. - Disobedience. Chapter VII. About verses 10, 11, 13 and 14 of chapter 2 of Genesis. The Tiber, formerly Abula, the Nile, formerly Geon, the Ganges, formerly the Pison, should be taken as real rivers. Chapter VIII. About the 15th verse of the 2nd chapter of Genesis. Is man brought into heaven to engage in agriculture? Chapter IX. Farming in an allegorical sense. Chapter X. What does it mean: “to make and store.” Chapter XI. Why is the word Lord added here? - True Lord. Chapter XII. Man cannot do anything good without God. Departure from God. Chapter XIII. Why was it forbidden to [eat] from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. - Disobedience. Chapter XIV. The test of evil comes from disobeying the divine commandment. Chapter XV. Why is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil so named? Chapter XVI. Before experiencing evil, a person could understand what evil is. Chapter XVII. Was the commandment given to both Adam and Eve together? Chapter XVIII. How did God speak to man? Chapter XIX. How should we think about God in order to understand His action in creatures. Chapter XX. A corporeal creature changes in place and time, a spiritual creature only in time, and the Creator in neither one nor the other way. Chapter XXI. How God, without moving Himself, moves creatures, we must form a concept about this by analogy with the soul. Chapter XXII. How God moves and how the soul moves. Chapter XXIII. God is a being who is always at rest and yet all-active. Chapter XXIV. What natures are subordinate to the blessed angels. Chapter XXV. How God controls the universe and its parts. Chapter XXVI. God is always the same and controls everything, being Himself motionless. Chapter XXVII. From what has been said, it can be deduced how God spoke to Adam. Book 9. From the words of Art. 18 Chapter 2 Genesis: And the Lord God said: It is not good for man to be alone, and so on. to the words: And the two will become one flesh. Chapter I. Why it is said: And God created from the earth, and so on. Chapter II. As God said: It is not good for man to be alone, etc. Chapter III. The wife was created to be a helper for the sake of offspring. Chapter IV. Why did the ancestors not have intercourse in paradise? Chapter V. The woman was created for no other reason than that of offspring. Chapter VI. What would be the succession of children if Adam had not sinned? Chapter VII. The wife was created for the sake of childbearing. - Where praiseworthy virginity and marriage come from. – The triple blessing of marriage. - A book about marital well-being. Chapter VIII. The transition of vices to the opposite. Chapter IX. The wife was created to give birth to children, even if sin did not necessitate death. Chapter X. The disease of lust is from sin. Chapter XI. The female sex is formed for the purpose of procreation, but without lust, if the person had not sinned. Chapter XII. The animals were indeed brought to Adam so that he could give them names, but this actual event also signifies something else. Chapter XIII. The education of the wife, as her creation is described, prefigured something else. Chapter XIV. How the animals were brought to Adam. Chapter XV. The education of a woman is brought about by none other than God. Chapter XVI. The dullness of human understanding is unable to comprehend the action of God. Chapter XVII. The idea of ​​the formation of a wife existed before the causal creation of the human spirit dates back to the sixth day. Chapter XVIII. The idea of ​​educating a wife existed previously in a way that corresponds to the sacrament. Chapter XIX. Ecstasy of Adam. Book 10 which deals with the origin of souls. Chapter I. The opinion of some that the soul of a wife is created from the soul of the husband. Chapter II. What is found in the previous Books regarding the origin of souls. Chapter III. Three ways of origin of souls. Chapter IV. Which is true concerning the nature and origin of souls. Chapter V. The soul is neither of the angels, nor of the elements, nor of the substance of God. Chapter VI. Two opinions concerning the soul, weighed by the evidence of Scripture. Chapter VII. Which of the two opinions is favored by the saying: but the soul receives good? Chapter VIII. The saying of Psalm 29, verse 103 does not contradict either one or the other opinion: take away their spirit, and so on. Chapter IX. In the same way, the saying: and will return, etc., is reconciled with both opinions. Chapter X. The question of the soul is not easily resolved from Scripture. Chapter XI. Can the saying: one person, etc., be reconciled with both opinions? - Infant baptism. Chapter XII. The cause of carnal lust lies not in the flesh alone, but also in the soul. Chapter XIII and XIV. An explanation of this opinion about the lust of the flesh. - Sins of children. - The argument in favor of the opinion of the origin of souls by transition is revealed, drawn from the guilt and baptism of the infant. Chapter XV. The same argument is explored further. Chapter XVI. About the same argument. Chapter XVII. Evidence from the words of Wisdom: The youth was witty, and so on. can be interpreted in either direction. Chapter XVIII. The words of Wisdom: The youth is witty and so on... can they be applied to the soul of Christ? Chapter XIX. The soul of Christ was not in the loins of Abraham, and therefore did not appear by way of transition. Chapter XX. What must be answered to this argument, which is turned by the defenders of the transfer of souls in their favor. Chapter XXI. Christ could not have failed to give the tithe if His soul had been in Abraham. Chapter XXII. The very basis of this opinion is being overthrown. Chapter XXIII. Which of these two opinions about the soul has the advantage? – The custom of the Church is to baptize children. Chapter XXIV. What should be feared by those who believe that souls come by way of transition? Chapter XXV. Tertullian's misconception about the soul. Chapter XXVI. What Tertullian imagined about the growth of the soul. Book 11. For words, chapter 2. Verse 25: And the besta are both naked, and so on, and for the entire 3rd chapter, for the illumination of which it speaks of the creation and fall of the devil. Chapter I. After reading the text of the book of Genesis, verse 25 is explained. 2 chapters; Chapter 3 is read and explained. Chapter II. What was the wisdom of the serpent and where did it come from? Chapter III. The devil was allowed to tempt only through the serpent. Chapter IV. Why is man's temptation allowed? Chapter V. Man is seduced by the tempter through pride. Chapter VI. Why did God allow man to be tempted? Chapter VII. Why was man not created in such a way that he would never want to sin? Chapter VIII. Why were those created that God foresaw would be evil? Chapter IX. Same problem. Chapter X God can turn the will of the evil for good: why doesn’t he do so? Chapter XI. God does not need to punish the evil, but promotes the salvation of the good. Chapter XII Why temptation was allowed through the serpent. Chapter XIII. Against the Manichaeans, who do not want to think of the devil among the creatures of God. Chapter XIV. The reason for the angel's fall. - Pride, envy. Chapter XV Pride and private love are sources of evil. - Two kinds of love. - Two hail. - An essay about the City of God is promised. Chapter XVI. When the devil fell. Chapter XVII. Was the devil blessed before sin? Chapter XVIII. How was man blessed before sin? Chapter XIX. The state of angels. Chapter XX. The opinion that the devil was created evil. Chapter XXI. This opinion is being refuted. Chapter XXII. The very basis of this opinion is being overthrown. Chapter XXIII. How one must understand that the devil did not stand in the truth. Chapter XXIV. Words: How Dennitsa fell from heaven, etc. we need to understand about the mysterious body of the devil. – The Body of Christ is the Body of the Devil. Chapter XXV. The following is also said about the same body: You are the seal of likeness, and so on. Paradise - Church. Chapter XXVI. Conclusion about the creation and fall of the devil. Chapter XXVII. About the temptation committed by the devil through the serpent. Chapter XXVIII Did the serpent understand the words he spoke? Chapter XXIX. Why is the serpent called the most prudent? Chapter XXX. Conversation between the serpent and his wife. - Forgetting the commandment of God. Chapter XXXI. What did the eyes of Adam and Eve open to? Chapter XXXII The Beginning of Mortality and Lust. - Fig aprons. Chapter XXXIII. The voice of God walking in paradise. Chapter XXXIV. Adam, hiding because of his nakedness, is questioned by God. - Carnal nakedness. Chapter XXXV. Apology from Adam and Eve. Chapter XXXVI. Curse of the serpent. Chapter XXXVII. Wife's punishment. – Dominance of the husband. Chapter XXXVIII. Adam's punishment and the name given to his wife. Chapter XXXIX. Leather clothes. - Reproach for pride. Chapter XL. Expulsion from paradise. - Excommunication. Chapter XLI. Opinions about human sin, what it consisted of. - Marriage ceremonies. Chapter XLII. Did Adam believe the serpent and by what force of argument was he brought to sin? - Idolatry of Solomon. Book 12 which talks about heaven and the third heaven, where Paul was caught up. Chapter I. The words of the Apostle about paradise are subject to consideration. Chapter II. The apostle might not know whether he saw heaven outside the body if he saw it in ecstasy. Chapter III. The apostle, although sure that he saw the third heaven, was not sure how he saw it. Chapter IV. The heaven into which the Apostle was caught up was indeed the third heaven. - The difficulty is how the Apostle was sure about the sky he saw and was not sure about how he saw it. Chapter V. The same difficulty is resolved. Chapter VI. Three kinds of vision. Chapter VII Kinds of vision - bodily, spiritual, rational. – Corporeal in the proper and figurative sense. – Spiritual in many different senses. Chapter VIII. Where does the name spiritual come from for the second kind, vision. Chapter IX. Prophecy belongs to the mind Chapter X. The rational kind of vision. Chapter XI. The relationship of bodily vision to spiritual, and spiritual to rational. Chapter XII. Bodily and spiritual vision. Chapter XIII. Does the soul have the power of divination? Chapter XIV. Reasonable vision does not deceive. It is not always dangerous to be mistaken, mistaking one for the other. Chapter XV. Adulterous dreams happen without sin. Chapter XVI. The spirit itself forms ideas about bodily objects. Chapter XVII. From where the similarities imprinted in the spirit become known to the demons. – Some amazing visions. - Phrenetics. - Sick boy. Chapter XVIII. About the reasons for visions. Chapter XIX. Where do visions come from? Chapter XX. Visions that happen in the body do not come from the body. Chapter XXI. Visions similar to those of the body, which the soul admires, are not of a different nature. Chapter XXII. How do visions occur, from which prophecies arise from a hidden impulse? Chapter XXIII. There is a spiritual nature within us, in which, for various reasons, similarities of bodily objects are formed. Chapter XXIV. Rational vision is superior to spiritual vision, and spiritual vision is superior to physical vision. Chapter XXV. Only rational vision does not deceive. Chapter XXVI. Double admiration of the soul - through spiritual vision and rational vision. Chapter XXVII. With what kind of vision God sees the reality of Moses. How, I think, should we understand what is written about Moses (Num. XII, 8). Chapter XXVIII. The third heaven and paradise, which the Apostle speaks of, can be understood about the third kind of vision. Chapter XXIX Are there many degrees in spiritual and rational vision, just as there are many heavens? Chapter XXX In spiritual vision, some visions are as if divine, and others - human Chapter XXXI. In rational vision there is one thing that is contemplated in the soul, and another is the light by which it is contemplated. – The light of the soul is God. Chapter XXXII. Where the soul goes after being separated from the body. Chapter XXXIII. Question about hell. - The soul is incorporeal. - Abraham's bosom. Chapter XXXIV. About heaven and the third heaven, where Paul was caught up. Chapter XXXV. Why is the resurrection of bodies necessary for the complete bliss of the soul? Chapter XXXVI. In what form will the three types of vision remain? Chapter XXXVII. The opinion of some about the third heaven. Unfinished book (“early edition”) Chapter I. Preliminary considerations about the Catholic faith. What is sin? What is the punishment for sin? Sins are natural. Why is the church called catholic? Chapter II. Ways of explaining the Law. Story. Allegory. Analogy. Etiology. Chapter III. Explained verse 1 of Genesis Chapter IV. Genesis 2 and 3 explained. Abyss. Four elements. Similarities about the Spirit above the waters. Chapter V. About verses 3 and 4 of Genesis. Threefold light - ethereal, sensual and intelligent. What is light? Chapter VI. The first half of verse 5 of Genesis is explained. Why is a name called a name? Chapter VII. About the second half of verse 5 of Genesis. Chapter VIII and IX and IX. Genesis 6 explained. Planet Saturn. Explaining Genesis 8. Chapter X. Genesis 9 and 10 explained. What does it mean to get in shape? Chapter XI. Genesis 11, 12 and 13 explained. Chapter XII. The first half of Genesis 14 is explained. Chapter XIII. About the second half of verse 14 and about verses 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19. The great, so-called Platonov colloquially, year. Chapter XIV. Genesis 20 explained. Chapter XV. About the same verse 20, as well as verses 21, 22, 23 and 24 of Genesis. Chapter XVI. Genesis 25 and 26 explained. – What is an image? - Similarity in the proper sense of the word. -Where does beauty come from? - Universe. - Mind. You might be interested in: