Of the Good of Widowhood

St. Augustine of Hippo

1. 0. Greeting
2. Chapter 20
3. Chapter 21
4. Chapter 22
5. Chapter 23
6. Chapter 24
7. Chapter 25
8. Chapter 26
9. Chapter 27
10. Chapter 28
11. Chapter 29

Book concerning the Good of Marriage, and in another Book concerning Holy Virginity, and in a Book which we composed with as great pains as we could against Faustus the Manichee; since, by most biting reproaches in his writings of the chaste marriages of Patriarchs and Prophets, he had turned aside the minds of certain unlearned persons from soundness of faith.