Robert Grosseteste: On the Six Days of Creation: A Translation of the Hexaemeron (Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi)

By C.f.j. Martin. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 349-352. Front Cover Preface Text PROEMIUM PART 2 G How the hearer of theology should be 5 G The cause of the mistake made by Inquiries about the poisonous and harmful PART EIGHT That the human being is said to be made PART ELEVEN Chapter I A description of Paradise Were the first seven days days of time, or not? A doubt: is the bringing forth of all trees recorded here? On the tree of life Is Paradise to be understood only in a literal sense, or also figuratively? Figurative understandings of Paradise On the fruit-bearing trees in Paradise On the tree of life On the tree of the knowledge of good and evil On the four rivers flowing out of Paradise: the literal understanding On the river Phison, i e the Ganges, literally On the river Gehon, i e the Nile, literally On the river Tigris, literally On the river Euphrates, literally On the river that waters Paradise On the land of Hevilath Bdellium Onyx The carbuncle The prase stone The emerald The river flowing out of Paradise, what it means in a spiritual sense The spring, what it means in a spiritual sense The four rivers, what they mean in a spiritual sense The commentary of Ambrose on these rivers And the Lord God took man, etc The pleasures of tilling the ground, according to Augustine How it should be understood, in a mystical sense, that God took man And he commanded him, etc Why our first parent was forbidden to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil Bibliography