Conents -- Preface -- Select Bibliography -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I. Literary Form and Chronology -- II. Doctrinal Content -- Eighty-three Different Questions -- 1. Is the Soul Self-existent? -- 2. On Free Choice -- 3. Is God Responsible for Human Perversity? -- 4. What is the Cause of Human Perversity? -- 5. Can an Animal without Reason be Happy? -- 6. On Evil -- 7. What does 'Soul' Properly Refer to in a Living Being? -- 8. Is the Soul Self-moving? -- 9. Can Truth be Perceived by the Bodily Senses -- 10. Does Body Come from God? -- 11. Why was Christ Born of a Woman? -- 12. The Opinion of a Certain Wise Man -- 13. What Proof is There that Men are Superior to Animals? -- 14. That the Body of Christ was not a Phantom -- 15. On the Intellect -- 16. On the Son of God -- 17. On God's Knowledge -- 18. On the Trinity -- 19. On God and the Created -- 20. On the Place of God -- 21. Is not God the Author of Evil? -- 22. That God is not Subject to Need -- 23. On the Father and the Son -- 24. Do Sin and Right Conduct Result from a Free Choice of the Will? -- 25. On the Cross of Christ -- 26. On the Diversity of Sins -- 27. On Providence -- 28. Why did God Want to Make the World? -- 29. Is There an 'Above' and a 'Below' in the Universe? -- 30. Has Everything been Created for Man's Use? -- 31. Cicero's Opinion on the Division and Definition of the Virtues of the Soul -- Section 1 -- Section 2 -- Section 3 -- 32. Can Someone Understand Something Better than Someone Else, and Therefore Can There be an Endless Advance in the Understanding of the Thing? -- 33. On Fear -- 34. Must Nothing Else be Loved but Freedom from Fear? -- 35. What Ought to be Loved? -- Section 1 -- Section 2 -- 36. On Nourishing Charity -- Section 1 -- Section 2 -- Section 3 -- Section 4 -- 37. On the Forever Born -- 38. On the Structure of the Soul.

39. On the Sources of Nourishment -- 40. Since the Nature of Souls is the Same, Why are the Choices of Men Different? -- 41. Since God has Made Everything, Why did He not Make Everything Equal? -- 42. How was Christ Both in His Mother's Womb and in Heaven? -- 43. Why did the Son of God Appear as a Man and the Holy Spirit as a Dove? -- 44. Why did the Lord Jesus Christ Come so Long After Man Sinned and not in the Beginning? -- 45. Against the Mathematicians -- Section 1 -- Section 2 -- 46. On the Ideas -- Section 1 -- Section 2 -- 47. Will We Ever be Able to See our Own Thoughts? -- 48. On What can be Believed -- 49. Why is it that the Sons of Israel Used to Make Visible Sacrifices of Animal Victims? -- 50. On the Equality of the Son -- 51. On Man Made in the Image and Likeness of God -- Section 1 -- Section 2 -- Section 3 -- Section 4 -- 52. On the Scripture: "I am sorry that I have made man" -- 53. On the Gold and Silver Taken by the Israelites from the Egyptians -- Section 1 -- Section 2 -- Section 3 -- Section 4 -- 54. On the Scripture: "As for myself, it is good for me to cling to God" -- 55. On the Scripture: "There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and young women without number" -- 56. On the Forty-six Years for the Building of the Temple -- 57. On the One Hundred and Fifty-three Fish -- Section 1 -- Section 2 -- Section 3 -- 58. On John the Baptist -- Section 1 -- Section 2 -- Section 3 -- 59. On the Ten Virgins -- Section 1 -- Section 2 -- Section 3 -- Section 4 -- 60. "Concerning that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels in heaven nor the Son of Man-no one except the Father" -- 61. On the Gospel Story that the Lord Fed the Multitude on the Mountain with Five Loaves of Bread -- Section 1 -- Section 2 -- Section 3 -- Section 4 -- Section 5 -- Section 6 -- Section 7 -- Section 8.

62. On the Gospel passage: "that Jesus was baptizing more than John, although he himself baptized no one. Rather, his disciples [were baptizing]" -- 63. On the Word -- 64. On the Samaritan Woman -- Section 1 -- Section 2 -- Section 3 -- Section 4 -- Section 5 -- Section 6 -- Section 7 -- Section 8 -- 65. On the Resurrection of Lazarus -- 66. On the Text: "Or do you not know, brothers (for I speak to those who know the Law), that the Law is the master of a man as long as he lives?" to the Text: "He will bring even your mortal bodies to life through his Spirit living in you" -- Section 1 -- Section 2 -- Section 3 -- Section 4 -- Section 5 -- Section 6 -- Section 7 -- 67. On the Text: "For I do not consider the sufferings of this world to be worth much in comparison with the future glory which will be revealed in us," to the Text: "For we have been saved by hope" -- Section 1 -- Section 2 -- Section 3 -- Section 4 -- Section 5 -- Section 6 -- Section 7 -- 68. On the Scripture: "O man, who are you to answer back to God?" -- Section 1 -- Section 2 -- Section 3 -- Section 4 -- Section 5 -- Section 6 -- 69. On the Scripture: "Then even the Son himself will be subject to him who has subordinated all things to him" -- Section 1 -- Section 2 -- Section 3 -- Section 4 -- Section 5 -- Section 6 -- Section 7 -- Section 8 -- Section 9 -- Section 10 -- 70. On the Apostle's Claim: "Death has been swallowed up into victory. Where, O death, is your contending? Where, O death, is your sting? Now the sting of death is sin -- but the power of sin, the Law" -- 71. On the Scripture: "Bear one another's burdens, and in this way will you fulfill the law of Christ" -- Section 1 -- Section 2 -- Section 3 -- Section 4 -- Section 5 -- Section 6 -- Section 7 -- 72. On the Eternal Times -- 73. On the Scripture: "And having been found in the [bodily] habit (habitus) of a man".

Section 1 -- Section 2 -- 74. On the Text in Paul's Letter to the Colossians: "In whom we have redemption and remission of sins, who is the image of the invisible God" -- 75. On the Inheritance of God -- Section 1 -- Section 2 -- Section 3 -- 76. On the Claim of the Apostle James: "Would you like to know, you empty-headed man, that faith without works is useless?" -- Section 1 -- Section 2 -- 77. Is Fear a Sin? -- 78. On the Beauty of Pagan Idols -- 79. Why did Pharaoh's Magicians Perform Certain Miracles in the Manner of Moses the Servant of God? -- Section 1 -- Section 2 -- Section 3 -- Section 4 -- Section 5 -- 80. Against the Apollinarians -- Section 1 -- Section 2 -- Section 3 -- Section 4 -- 81. On Quadragesima and Quinquagesima -- Section 1 -- Section 2 -- Section 3 -- 82. On the Scripture: "For whom the Lord loves, he rebukes, and he scourges every son whom he receives" -- Section 1 -- Section 2 -- Section 3 -- 83. On Marriage, in the Light of the Lord's Claim: "If anyone should divorce his wife, except for reason of fornication" -- Indices -- General Index -- Index of Holy Scripture.