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Introductory Note to the Instructions of Commodianus.
I.--Preface.
II.--God's Indignation.
III.--The Worship of Demons.
IV.--Saturn.
V.--Jupiter.
VI.--Of the Same Jupiter's Thunderbolt.
VII.--Of the Septizonium and the Stars.
VIII.--Of the Sun and Moon.
IX.--Mercury.
X.--Neptune.
XI.--Apollo the Soothsaying and False.
XII.--Father Liber--Bacchus.
XIII.--The Unconquered One.
XIV.--Sylvanus.
XV.--Hercules.
XVI.--Of the Gods and Goddesses.
XVII.--Of Their Images.
XVIII.--Of Ammydates and the Great God.
XIX.--Of the Vain Nemesiaci.
XX.--The Titans.
XXI.--The Montesiani.
XXII.--The Dulness of the Age.
XXIII.--Of Those Who are Everywhere Ready.
XXIV.--Of Those Who Live Between the Two.
XXV.--They Who Fear and Will Not Believe.
XXVI.--To Those Who Resist the Law of Christ the Living God.
XXVII.--O Fool, Thou Dost Not Die to God.
XXVIII.--The Righteous Rise Again.
XXIX.--To the Wicked and Unbelieving Rich Man.
XXX.--Rich Men, Be Humble.
XXXI.--To Judges.
XXXII.--To Self-Pleasers.
XXXIII.--To the Gentiles.
XXXIV.--Moreover, to Ignorant Gentiles.
XXXV.--Of the Tree of Life and Death.
XXXVI.--Of the Foolishness of the Cross.
XXXVII.--The Fanatics Who Judaize.
XXXVIII.--To the Jews.
XXXIX.--Also to the Jews.
XL.--Again to the Same.
XLI.--Of the Time of Antichrist.
XLII.--Of the Hidden and Holy People of the Almighty Christ, the Living God.
XLIII.--Of the End of This Age.
XLIV.--Of the First Resurrection.
XLV.--Of the Day of Judgment.
XLVI.--To Catechumens.
XLVII.--To the Faithful.
XLVIII.--O Faithful, Beware of Evil.
XLIX.--To Penitents.
L.--Who Have Apostatized from God.
LI.--Of Infants.
LII.--Deserters.
LIII.--To the Soldiers of Christ.
LIV.--Of Fugitives.
LV.--Of the Seed of the Tares.
LVI.--To the Dissembler.
LVII.--That Worldly Things are Absolutely to Be Avoided.
LVIII.--That the Christian Should Be Such.
LIX.--To the Matrons of the Church of the Living God.
LX.--To the Same Again.
LXI.--In the Church to All the People of God.
LXII.--To Him Who Wishes for Martyrdom.
LXIII.--The Daily War.
LXIV.--Of the Zeal of Concupiscence.
LXV.--They Who Give from Evil.
LXVI.--Of a Deceitful Peace.
LXVIII.--To Ministers.
LXIX.--To God's Shepherds.
LXX.--I Speak to the Elder-Born.
LXXI.--To Visit the Sick.
LXXII.--To the Poor in Health.
LXXIII.--That Sons are Not to Be Bewailed.
LXXIV.--Of Funeral Pomp.
LXXV.--To the Clerks.
LXXVI.--Of Those Who Gossip, and of Silence.
LXXVII.--To the Drunkards.
LXXVIII.--To the Pastors.
LXXIX.--To the Petitioners.
LXXX.--The Name of the Man of Gaza.
Elucidation.