249Nature Cannot Be Without Some Good.  The Manichæans Dwell Upon the Evils. 251Evil Alone is Corruption.  Corruption is Not Nature, But Contrary to Nature.  Corruption Implies Previous Good. 252The Source of Evil or of Corruption of Good. 253God Alone Perfectly Good. 255Nature Made by God; Corruption Comes from Nothing. 256In What Sense Evils are from God. 257Corruption Tends to Non-Existence. 258Corruption is by God’s Permission, and Comes from Us. 259Exhortation to the Chief Good. 260Conclusion. 261Reply to Faustus the Manichæan. 261Title Page. 262Preface. 263Who Faustus was.  Faustus’s object in writing the polemical treatise that forms the basis of Augustin’s reply.  Augustin’s remarks thereon. 265Faustus claims to believe the Gospel, yet refuses to accept the genealogical tables on various grounds which Augustin seeks to set aside. 270Faustus objects to the incarnation of God on the ground that the evangelists are at variance with each other, and that incarnation is unsuitable to deity.  Augustin attempts to remove the critical and theological difficulties. 274Faustus’s reasons for rejecting the Old Testament, and Augustin’s animadversions thereon. 276Faustus claims that the Manichæans and not the Catholics are consistent believers in the Gospel, and seeks to establish this claim by comparing Manichæan and Catholic obedience to the precepts of the Gospel.  Augustin exposes the hypocrisy of the Manichæans and praises the asceticism of Catholics. 284Faustus avows his disbelief in the Old Testament and his disregard of its precepts, and accuses Catholics of inconsistency in neglecting its ordinances, while claiming to accept it as authoritative.  Augustin explains the Catholic view of the relation of the Old Testament to the New. 295The genealogical question is again taken up and argued on both sides. ix