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A Treatise on the Spirit and the Letter

sant'Agostino d'Ippona (354–430 d.C.) · De spiritu et littera · PL 44, 201–246

  1. extract-from-augustins-retract. Extract from Augustin’s Retractations
  2. 1. The Occasion of Writing This Work; A Thing May Be Capable of Being Done, and Yet May Never Be Done
  3. 2. The Examples Apposite
  4. 3. Theirs is Comparatively a Harmless Error, Who Say that a Man Lives Here Without Sin
  5. 4. Theirs is a Much More Serious Error, Requiring a Very Vigorous Refutation, Who Deny God’s Grace to Be Necessary
  6. 5. True Grace is the Gift of the Holy Ghost, Which Kindles in the Soul the Joy and Love of Goodness
  7. 6. The Teaching of Law Without the Life-Giving Spirit is 'The Letter that Killeth.'
  8. 7. What is Proposed to Be Here Treated
  9. 8. Romans Interprets Corinthians
  10. 9. Through the Law Sin Has Abounded
  11. 10. Christ the True Healer
  12. 11. From What Fountain Good Works Flow
  13. 12. Paul, Whence So Called; Bravely Contends for Grace
  14. 13. Keeping the Law; The Jews’ Glorying; The Fear of Punishment; The Circumcision of the Heart
  15. 14. In What Respect the Pelagians Acknowledge God as the Author of Our Justification
  16. 15. The Righteousness of God Manifested by the Law and the Prophets
  17. 16. How the Law Was Not Made for a Righteous Man
  18. 17. The Exclusion of Boasting
  19. 18. Piety is Wisdom; That is Called the Righteousness of God, Which He Produces
  20. 19. The Knowledge of God Through the Creation
  21. 20. The Law Without Grace
  22. 21. The Law of Works and the Law of Faith
  23. 22. No Man Justified by Works
  24. 23. How the Decalogue Kills, If Grace Be Not Present
  25. 24. The Passage in Corinthians
  26. 25. The Passage in Romans
  27. 26. No Fruit Good Except It Grow from the Root of Love
  28. 27. Grace, Concealed in the Old Testament, is Revealed in the New
  29. 28. Why the Holy Ghost is Called the Finger of God
  30. 29. A Comparison of the Law of Moses and of the New Law
  31. 30. The New Law Written Within
  32. 31. The Old Law Ministers Death; The New, Righteousness
  33. 32. The Christian Faith Touching the Assistance of Grace
  34. 33. The Prophecy of Jeremiah Concerning the New Testament
  35. 34. The Law; Grace
  36. 35. The Old Law; The New Law
  37. 36. The Law Written in Our Hearts
  38. 37. The Eternal Reward
  39. 38. The Re-Formation Which is Now Being Effected, Compared with the Perfection of the Life to Come
  40. 39. The Eternal Reward Which is Specially Declared in the New Testament, Foretold by the Prophet
  41. 40. How that is to Be the Reward of All; The Apostle Earnestly Defends Grace
  42. 41. The Law Written in the Heart, and the Reward of the Eternal Contemplation of God, Belong to the New Covenant; Who Among the Saints are the Least and the Greatest
  43. 42. Difference Between the Old and the New Testaments
  44. 43. A Question Touching the Passage in the Apostle About the Gentiles Who are Said to Do by Nature the Law’s Commands, Which They are Also Said to Have Written on Their Hearts
  45. 44. The Answer Is, that the Passage Must Be Understood of the Faithful of the New Covenant
  46. 45. It is Not by Their Works, But by Grace, that the Doers of the Law are Justified; God’s Saints and God’s Name Hallowed in Different Senses
  47. 46. How the Passage of the Law Agrees with that of the Prophet
  48. 47. The Law ‘Being Done by Nature’ Means, Done by Nature as Restored by Grace
  49. 48. The Image of God is Not Wholly Blotted Out in These Unbelievers; Venial Sins
  50. 49. The Grace Promised by the Prophet for the New Covenant
  51. 50. Righteousness is the Gift of God
  52. 51. Faith the Ground of All Righteousness
  53. 52. Grace Establishes Free Will
  54. 53. Volition and Ability
  55. 54. Whether Faith Be in a Man’s Own Power
  56. 55. What Faith is Laudable
  57. 56. The Faith of Those Who are Under the Law Different from the Faith of Others
  58. 57. Whence Comes the Will to Believe?
  59. 58. The Free Will of Man is an Intermediate Power
  60. 59. Mercy and Pity in the Judgment of God
  61. 60. The Will to Believe is from God
  62. 61. Conclusion of the Work
  63. 62. He Returns to the Question Which Marcellinus Had Proposed to Him
  64. 63. An Objection
  65. 64. When the Commandment to Love is Fulfilled
  66. 65. In What Sense a Sinless Righteousness in This Life Can Be Asserted
  67. 66. Although Perfect Righteousness Be Not Found Here on Earth, It is Still Not Impossible

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Philip Schaff (ed.), Buffalo/New York: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886-1889. Public domain: English translation first published 1885-1900 (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series). Latin: Migne, Patrologia Latina (1844-1855), public domain; transcription from Corpus Corporum (University of Zurich).

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