BOOK VI
Index
CHAPTER I: From the miracle of the feeding of the multitude from five barley loaves and two fishes he shows the majesty of Divine Power.
CHAPTER II: The author adapts the mystery of the number seven (made up of the five loaves and two fishes) to his own work.
CHAPTER III: He refutes his opponent by the testimony of the Council of Antioch.
CHAPTER IV: How the Creed has authority Divine as well as human.
CHAPTER V: He proceeds against his opponent with the choicest arguments, and shows that we ought to hold fast to the religion which we have received from our fathers.
CHAPTER VI: Once more he challenges him to the profession of the Creed of Antioch.
CHAPTER VII: He continues the same line of argument drawn from the Creed of Antioch.
CHAPTER VIII: How it can be said that Christ came and was born of a Virgin.
CHAPTER IX: Again he convicts his opponent of deadly heresy by his own confession.
CHAPTER X: He inveighs against him because though he has forsaken the Catholic religion, he nevertheless presumes to teach in the Church, to sacrifice, and to give decisions.
CHAPTER XI: He removes the silent objection of heretics who want to recant the profession of their faith made in childhood.
CHAPTER XII: Christ crucified is an offence and foolishness to those who declare that He was a mere man.
CHAPTER XIII: He replies to the objection in which they say that the child born ought to be of one substance with the mother.
CHAPTER XIV: He compares this erroneous view with the teaching of the Pelagians.
CHAPTER XV: He shows that those who patronize this false teaching acknowledge two Christs.
CHAPTER XVI: He shows further that this teaching is destructive of the confession of the Trinity.
CHAPTER XVII: Those who are under an error in one point of the Catholic religion, lose the whole faith, and all the value of the faith.
CHAPTER XVIII: He directs his discourse upon his antagonist with whom he is disputing, and begs him to return to his senses. The sacrament of reconciliation is necessary for the lapsed for their salvation.
CHAPTER XIX: That the birth of Christ in time diminished nothing of the glory and power of His Deity.
CHAPTER XX: He shows from what has been said that we do not mean that God was mortal or of flesh before the worlds, although Christ, who is God from eternity and was made man in time, is but one Person.
CHAPTER XXI: The authority of Holy Scripture teaches that Christ existed from all eternity.
CHAPTER XXII: The hypostatic union enables us to ascribe to God what belongs to the flesh in Christ.
CHAPTER XXIII: That the figure Synecdoche, in which the part stands for the whole, is very familiar to the Holy Scripture.