Introduction
Foreword
Translator’s Note
Book One　THE FIRST FIFTEEN YEARS
Prayer to God and Meditation upon God
Augustine’S Infancy
Learning to Speak
Schooldays
Reasons for Gratitude to God
Book Two　THE SIXTEENTH YEAR
Adolescence
Robbing a Pear-tree
Book Three　FROM SIXTEEN TO EIGHTEEN
First Days at Carthage
Cicero and Scripture
Joins the Manichees
His Mother’s Anxiety
Book Four　FROM EIGIlTEEN TO TWENTY-SEWN
Searching for Deliverance
Loss of a Friend
The Transcience of Created Things
He Writes a Book
Reads Aristotle on the Categories
Book Five　AGED TWENTY-EIGHT
Prayer
Faustus Comes to Carthage
Augustine Goes to Rome
At Milan
Book Six　AGED TWENTY-NINE
Monica Comes to Milan
His Mind Still Searches
Disappointments in Worldly Affairs
Alypius and Nebridius
The Problem of Continence
Book Seven　AGED THIRTY
Realisation That God Is Incorruptible
The Problem of the Origin of Evil
Finally Rejects Astrology
Beginning of Emancipation from Too
Corporeal Thinking
The Need for Christ
Book Eight　AGED THIRTY-ONE
The Conversion of Victorinus
Augustine’s Conversion
Book Nine　AGED THIRTY-TWO
Reception into the Church
The Death of Monica
Book Ten　CONCLUDES AUGUSTINE’S CONFESSION
Why He Makes This Confession
what Is GOd?
Analysis of Memory
Prayer
Augustine’S Present State
The True Mediator
Book Eleven
IN THE BEGINNING GOD GOD CRESTED(Genesis1.1)
Why He Writes
His Passionate Desire to Meditate upon God’s Law
He Would Know the Meaning of Gen 1.1
God Created Heaven and Earth in His Word
How Did GOd Speak His Word?
Meaning of“In the Beginning”
Time and the Universe Began Together
What Is Time?
Eternal Knowledge
Book Twelve
HEAVEN AND EARTH(Genesis 1-2)
Truth Has Given a Promise
Heaven Does Not Mean the Sky but the Heaven of Heaven
Earth Means Sheer Formlessness
Summarizes All We Have Learnt Thus Far of Creation
The Creation of the Material Heaven and Earth
Why the Creation of Heaven and Earth (of Gen．I.1)Is Not in the Enumeration of Days
He Answers Those Whe Deny That This
Is what Moses Meant by Gen．1，1
Whether Moses Meant This or Not，It Is True
Their Various Statements of What Moses Meant
It Does Not Greatly Matter，Provided All Are True in Themselves
Various Interpretations of Gen．1.2
Discussion of Two of These Interpretations
Fruitlessness of Wrangling
Had He Been Moses
How the Uninstructed Conceive Creation
Another Interpretation of In the Beginning
The Right Attitude of Mind and Heart
Book Thirteen　THE DAYS OF CREATION(Genesis．2-31)
God Does Not Need Us
Why God Created
Be Light Made(Verse 3)
Moved 0ver the Waters(Versc 2)
The Blessed Trinity in the Account of Creation
Why It Is Not Written That Father and Son Moved Over the Waters
Be Light Made
Why It Is Not Written That Father and Son Moved over the Waters
Bc Light Made
The Blessed Trinity
He Divided the Light from the Darkness(Verse 4)
Let There Be a Firmament Made and Let It Divide the Waters from the Waters(Verse 6)
An Earth without Water
Let the Waters Be Gathered Together
Let the Earth Bring Forth Fruit(Verse 9)
Let There Be Light Made in the Firmament of Heaven(Verse 14)
Let the Waters Bring Forth(Verse 20)
Let the Earth Bring Forth the Living Creature(Verse 24)
Let Us Make Man to Our Image and Likeness(Verse 26)
Let Him Have Dominion(Verse 28)
Increase and Multiply(Verse 28)
…That hey May Have to Feed upon(Verse 30)
God Saw All the Things That He Had Made(Verse 31)
Figurative Signification of the Order of Creation
The Seventh Day