VIII. THE SECOND CONFERENCE OF ABBOT SERENUS ON PRINCIPALITIES
Index
CHAPTER I: Of the hospitality of Abbot Serenus.
CHAPTER II: Statements on the different kinds of spiritual wickednesses.
CHAPTER III: The answer on the many kinds of food provided in holy Scripture.
CHAPTER IV: Of the double sense in which Holy Scripture may be taken.
CHAPTER V: Of the fact that the question suggested ought to be included among those things to be held in a neutral or doubtful way.
CHAPTER VI: Of the fact that nothing is created evil by God.
CHAPTER VII: Of the origin of principalities or powers.
CHAPTER VIII: Of the fall of the devil and the angels.
CHAPTER IX: An objection seating that the fall of the devil took its origin from the deception of God.
CHAPTER X: The answer about the beginning of the devil's fall.
CHAPTER XI: The punishment of the deceiver and the deceived.
CHAPTER XII: Of the crowd of the devils, and the disturbance which they always raise in our atmosphere.
CHAPTER XIII: Of the fact that opposing powers turn the attack, which they aim at men, even against each other.
CHAPTER XIV: How it is that spiritual wickednesses obtained the names of powers or principalities.
CHAPTER XV: Of the fact that it is not without reason that the names of angels and archangels are given to holy and heavenly powers.
CHAPTER XVI: Of the subjection of the devils, which they show to their own princes, as seen in a brother's victim.
CHAPTER XVII: Of the fact that two angels always cling to every man.
CHAPTER XVIII: Of the degrees of wickedness which exist in hostile spirits, as shown in the case of two philosophers.
CHAPTER XIX: Of the fact that devils cannot prevail at all against men unless they have first secured possession of their minds.
CHAPTER XX: A question about the fallen angels who are said in Genesis to have had intercourse with the daughters of men.
CHAPTER XXI: The answer to the question raised.
CHAPTER XXII: An objection, as to how an unlawful intermingling with the daughters of Cain could be charged against the line of Seth before the prohibition of the law.
CHAPTER XXIII: The answer, that by the law of nature men were from the beginning liable to judgment and punishment.
CHAPTER XXIV: Of the fact that they were justly punished, who sinned before the flood.
CHAPTER XXV: How this that is said of the devil in the gospel is to be understood; viz., that "he is a liar, and his father."