The Divine Institutes: Book VII. Of a Happy Life
by Lactantius
On the end of all things, the judgment, and the happy life for which humanity was made.
Chap. I.—Of the world, and those who are about to believe, and those who are not; and in this the censure of the faithlessChap. II.—Of the error of the philosophers, and of the divine wisdom, and of the golden ageChap. III.—Of nature, and of the world; and a censure of the Stoics and EpicureansChap. IV.—That all things were created for some use, even those things which appear evil; on what account man enjoys reason in so frail a bodyChap. V.—Of the creation of man, and of the arrangement of the world, and of the chief goodChap. VI.—Why the world and man were created. How unprofitable is the worship of false godsChap. VII.—Of the variety of philosophers, and their truthChap. VIII.—Of the immortality of the soulChap. IX.—Of the immortality of the soul, and of virtueChap. X.—Of vices and virtues, and of life and deathChap. XI.—Of the last times, and of the soul and bodyChap. XII.—Of the soul and the body, and of their union and separation and returnChap. XIII.—Of the soul, and the testimonies concerning its eternityChap. XIV.—Of the first and last times of the worldChap. XV.—Of the devastation of the world and change of the empiresChap. XVI.—Of the devastation of the world, and its prophetic omensChap. XVII.—Of the false prophet, and the hardships of the righteous, and his destructionChap. XVIII.—Of the fortunes of the world at the last time, and of the things foretold by the soothsayersChap. XIX.—Of the advent of Christ to judgment, and of the overcoming of the false prophetChap. XX.—Of the judgment of Christ, of Christians, and of the soulChap. XXI.—Of the torments and punishments of soulsChap. XXII.—Of the error of the poets, and the return of the soul from the lower regionsChap. XXIII.—Of the resurrection of the soul, and the proofs of this factChap. XXIV.—Of the renewed worldChap. XXV.—Of the last times, and of the city of RomeChap. XXVI.—Of the loosing of the devil, and of the second and greatest judgmentChap. XXVII.—An encouragement and confirmation of the pious