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NPNF2–09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus

NPNF2–09 CONTENTS

St. Hilary of Poitiers. Select Works

Treatise De Synodis

De Trinitate

The Homilies on Psalms I., LIII., CXXX

Exposition of the Orthodox Faith by John of Damascus

NPNF2–09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus

NPNF2–09 CONTENTS

St. Hilary of Poitiers. Select Works

Treatise De Synodis

On the Councils, or, The Faith of the Easterns

De Trinitate

On the Trinity

Book I

Book II

Book III

Book IV

Book V

Book VI

Book VII

Book VIII

Book IX

Book X

Book XI

Book XII

The Homilies on Psalms I., LIII., CXXX

Homilies on the Psalms

Psalm I

Psalm LIII. (LIV.)

Psalm CXXX. (CXXXI.)

Exposition of the Orthodox Faith by John of Damascus

Prologue

From the Latin of the Edition of Michael Lequien, as Given in Migne’s Patrology

An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith

Book I

Chapter I

That the Deity is incomprehensible, and that we ought not to pry into and meddle with the things which have not been delivered to us by the holy Prophets, and Apostles, and Evangelists

Chapter II

Concerning things utterable and things unutterable, and things knowable and thing unknowable

Chapter III

Proof that there is a God

Chapter IV

Concerning the nature of Deity: that it is incomprehensible

Chapter V

Proof that God is one and not many

Chapter VI

Concerning the Word and the Son of God: a reasoned proof

Chapter VII

Concerning the Holy Spirit, a reasoned proof

Chapter VIII

Concerning the Holy Trinity

Chapter IX

Concerning what is affirmed about God

Chapter X

Concerning divine union and separation

Chapter XI

Concerning what is affirmed about God as though He had body

Chapter XII

Concerning the Same

Chapter XIII

Concerning the place of God: and that the Deity alone is uncircumscribed

Chapter XIV

The properties of the divine nature

Book II

Chapter I

Concerning aeon or age

Chapter II

Concerning the creation

Chapter III

Concerning angels

Chapter IV

Concerning the devil and demons

Chapter V

Concerning the visible creation

Chapter VI

Concerning the Heaven

Chapter VII

Concerning light, fire, the luminaries, sun, moon and stars

Chapter VIII

Concerning air and winds

Chapter IX

Concerning the waters

Chapter X

Concerning earth and its products

Chapter XI

Concerning Paradise

Chapter XII

Concerning Man

Chapter XIII

Concerning Pleasures

Chapter XIV

Concerning Pain

Chapter XV

Concerning Fear

Chapter XVI

Concerning Anger

Chapter XVII

Concerning Imagination

Chapter XVIII

Concerning Sensation

Chapter XIX

Concerning Thought

Chapter XX

Concerning Memory

Chapter XXI

Concerning Conception and Articulation

Chapter XXII

Concerning Passion and Energy

Chapter XXIII

Concerning Energy

Chapter XXIV

Concerning what is Voluntary and what is Involuntary

Chapter XXV

Concerning what is in our own power, that is, concerning Free-will

Chapter XXVI

Concerning Events

Chapter XXVII

Concerning the reason of our endowment with Free-will

Chapter XXVIII

Concerning what is not in our hands

Chapter XXIX

Concerning Providence

Chapter XXX

Concerning Prescience and Predestination

Book III

Chapter I

Concerning the Divine OEconomy and God’s care over us, and concerning our salvation

Chapter II

Concerning the manner in which the Word was conceived, and concerning His divine incarnation

Chapter III

Concerning Christ’s two natures, in opposition to those who hold that He has only one

Chapter IV

Concerning the manner of the Mutual Communication

Chapter V

Concerning the number of the Natures

Chapter VI

That in one of its subsistences the divine nature is united in its entirety to the human nature, in its entirety and not only part to part

Chapter VII

Concerning the one compound subsistence of God the Word

Chapter VIII

In reply to those who ask whether the natures of the Lord are brought under a continuous or a discontinuous quantity

Chapter IX

In reply to the question whether there is Nature that has no Subsistence

Chapter X

Concerning the Trisagium (“the Thrice Holy”)

Chapter XI

Concerning the Nature as viewed in Species and in Individual, and concerning the difference between Union and Incarnation: and how this is to be understood, “The one Nature of God the Word Incarnate.”

Chapter XII

That the holy Virgin is the Mother of God: an argument directed against the Nestorians

Chapter XIII

Concerning the properties of the two Natures

Chapter XIV

Concerning the volitions and free-will of our Lord Jesus Christ

Chapter XV

Concerning the energies in our Lord Jesus Christ

Chapter XVI

In reply to those who say “If man has two natures and two energies, Christ must be held to have three natures and as many energies.”

Chapter XVII

Concerning the deification of the nature of our Lord’s flesh and of His will

Chapter XVIII

Further concerning volitions and free-wills: minds, too, and knowledges and wisdoms

Chapter XIX

Concerning the theandric energy

Chapter XX

Concerning the natural and innocent passions

Chapter XXI

Concerning ignorance and servitude

Chapter XXII

Concerning His growth

Chapter XXIII

Concerning His Fear

Chapter XXIV

Concerning our Lord’s Praying

Chapter XXV

Concerning the Appropriation

Chapter XXVI

Concerning the Passion of our Lord’s body, and the Impassibility of His divinity

Chapter XXVII

Concerning the fact that the divinity of the Word remained inseparable from the soul and the body, even at our Lord’s death, and that His subsistence continued one

Chapter XXVIII

Concerning Corruption and Destruction

Chapter XXIX

Concerning the Descent to Hades

Book IV

Chapter I

Concerning what followed the Resurrection

Chapter II

Concerning the sitting at the right hand of the Father

Chapter III

In reply to those who say “If Christ has two natures, either ye do service to the creature in worshipping created nature, or ye say that there is one nature to be worshipped, and another not to be worshipped.”

Chapter IV

Why it was the Son of God, and not the Father or the Spirit, that became man: and what having became man He achieved

Chapter V

In reply to those who ask if Christ’s subsistence is create or uncreate

Chapter VI

Concerning the question, when Christ was called

Chapter VII

In answer to those who enquire whether the holy Mother of God bore two natures, and whether two natures hung upon the Cross

Chapter VIII

How the Only-begotten Son of God is called first-born

Chapter IX

Concerning Faith and Baptism

Chapter X

Concerning Faith

Chapter XI

Concerning the Cross and here further concerning Faith

Chapter XII

Concerning Worship towards the East

Chapter XIII

Concerning the holy and immaculate Mysteries of the Lord

Chapter XIV

Concerning our Lord’s genealogy and concerning the holy Mother of God

Chapter XV

Concerning the honour due to the Saints and their remains

Chapter XVI

Concerning Images

Chapter XVII

Concerning Scripture

Chapter XVIII

Regarding the things said concerning Christ

Chapter XIX

That God is not the cause of evils

Chapter XX

That there are not two Kingdoms

Chapter XXI

The purpose for which God in His foreknowledge created persons who would sin and not repent

Chapter XXII

Concerning the law of God and the law of sin

Chapter XXIII

Against the Jews on the question of the Sabbath

Chapter XXIV

Concerning Virginity

Chapter XXV

Concerning the Circumcision

Chapter XXVI

Concerning the Antichrist

Chapter XXVII

Concerning the Resurrection

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