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Chapter I. Our arrival at Abbot Serapion's cell, and inquiry on the different kinds of faults and the way to overcome them.
Chapter II. Abbot Serapion's enumeration of eight principal faults.
Chapter III. Of the two classes of faults and their fourfold manner of acting on us.
Chapter IV. A review of the passions of gluttony and fornication and their remedies.
Chapter V. How our Lord alone was tempted without sin.
Chapter VI. Of the manner of the temptation in which our Lord was attacked by the devil.
Chapter VII. How vainglory and pride can be consummated without any assistance from the body.
Chapter VIII. Of covetousness, which is something outside our nature, and of the difference between it and those faults which are natural to us.
Chapter IX. How dejection and accidie generally arise without any external provocation, as in the case of other faults.
Chapter X. How six of these faults are related, and the two which differ from them are akin to one another.
Chapter XI. Of the origin and character of each of these faults.
Chapter XII. How vainglory may be useful to us.
Chapter XIII. Of the different ways in which all these faults assault us.
Chapter XIV. Of the struggle into which we must enter against our faults, when they attack us.
Chapter XV. How we can do nothing against our faults without the help of God, and how we should not be puffed up by victories over them.
Chapter XVI. Of the meaning of the seven nations of whose lands Israel took possession, and the reason why they are sometimes spoken of as “seven,” and sometimes as “many.”
Chapter XVII. A question with regard to the comparison of seven nations with eight faults.
Chapter XVIII.
Chapter XIX. The reason why one nation is to be forsaken, while seven are commanded to be destroyed.
Chapter XX. Of the nature of gluttony, which may be illustrated by the simile of the eagle.
Chapter XXI. Of the lasting character of gluttony as described to some philosophers.
Chapter XXII. How it was that God foretold to Abraham that Israel would have to drive out ten nations.
Chapter XXIII. How it is useful for us to take possession of their lands.
Chapter XXIV. How the lands from which the Canaanites were expelled, had been assigned to the seed of Shem.
Chapter XXV. Different passages of Scripture on the meaning of the eight faults.
Chapter XXVI. How when we have got the better of the passion of gluttony we must take pains to gain all the other virtues.
Chapter XXVII. That our battles are not fought with our faults in the same order as that in which they stand in the list.
الأخطاء الثمانية، للأب سرابيون (مناظرة 5 من سلسلة المناظرات)
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