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On the Fall of the Devil

St. Anselm of Canterbury

This book is in Portuguese.

Anselm’s dialogue between teacher and student on how the devil sinned and fell, and on the nature of evil as a privation, of the will, and of justice. Latin only, from the Migne text (Patrologia Latina 158, 1853), a machine-corrected OCR.

Contents

Source: The complete text with its chapter divisions and PL chapter summaries. PL page breaks, the column numbers and the apparatus of alternative chapter numbers (al.) are dropped; Scripture references stay in parentheses as printed. Dialogue turns are set as separate paragraphs. The OCR carries a few residual slips.