De Principiis.

 De Principiis.

 Book I

 Book I.

 Chapter II.—On Christ.

 Chapter III.—On the Holy Spirit.

 Chapter IV.—On Defection, or Falling Away.

 Chapter V.—On Rational Natures.

 Chapter VI.—On the End or Consummation.

 Chapter VII.—On Incorporeal and Corporeal Beings.

 Chapter VIII.—On the Angels.

 Fragment from the First Book of the de Principiis.

 Another Fragment from the Same.

 Book II

 Book II.

 Chapter II.—On the Perpetuity of Bodily Nature.

 Chapter III.—On the Beginning of the World, and Its Causes.

 Chapter IV.—The God of the Law and the Prophets, and the Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ, is the Same God.

 Chapter V.—On Justice and Goodness.

 Chapter VI.—On the Incarnation of Christ.

 Chapter VII.—On the Holy Spirit.

 Chapter VIII.—On the Soul (Anima).

 Chapter IX.—On the World and the Movements of Rational Creatures, Whether Good or Bad And on the Causes of Them.

 Chapter X.—On the Resurrection, and the Judgment, the Fire of Hell, and Punishments.

 1. Let us now briefly see what views we are to form regarding promises. It is certain that there is no living thing which can be altogether inactive a

 Book III

 Book III.

 Translated from Latin of Rufinus.

 Translation from the Greek.

 Chapter II.—On the Opposing Powers.

 Chapter III.—On Threefold Wisdom.

 Chapter IV.—On Human Temptations.

 Chapter V.—That the World Took Its Beginning in Time.

 Chapter VI.—On the End of the World.

 IV

 Book IV.

 Translated from the Greek.

 From the Latin.

 Elucidations.

Fragment from the First Book of the de Principiis.

Translated by Jerome in His Epistle to Avitus.

“It is an evidence of great negligence and sloth, that each one should fall down to such (a pitch of degradation), and be so emptied, as that, in coming to evil, he may be fastened to the gross body of irrational beasts of burden.”