VI. CONFERENCE OF ABBOT THEODORE, ON THE DEATH OF THE SAINTS



Index

CHAPTER I: Description of the wilderness, and the question about the death of the saints.

CHAPTER II: Abbot Theodore's answer to the question proposed to him.

CHAPTER III: Of the three kinds of things there are in the world; viz., good bad, and indifferent.

CHAPTER IV: How evil cannot be forced on any one by another against his will.

CHAPTER V: An objection, how God Himself can be said to create evil.

CHAPTER VI: The answer to the question proposed.

CHAPTER VII: A question whether the man who causes the death of a good man is guilty, if the good man is the gainer by his death.

CHAPTER VIII: The answer to the foregoing question.

CHAPTER IX: The case of Job who was tempted by the devil i and of the Lord who was betrayed by Judas: and how prosperity as well as adversity is advantageous to a good man.

CHAPTER X: Of the excellence of the perfect man who is figuratively spoken of as ambidextrous.

CHAPTER XI: Of the two kinds of trials, which come upon us in a three-fold way.

CHAPTER XII: How the upright man ought to be like a stamp not of wax but of hard steel.

CHAPTER XIII: A question whether the mind can constantly continue in one and the same condition.

CHAPTER XIV: The answer to the point raised by the questioner.

CHAPTER XV: How one loses by going away from one's cell.

CHAPTER XVI: How even celestial powers above are capable of change.

CHAPTER XVII: That no one is dashed to the ground by a sudden fall.