The City of GodAeterna Press, 1950 - Всего страниц: 117 The glorious city of God is my theme in this work, which you, my dearest son Marcellinus, suggested, and which is due to you by my promise. I have undertaken its defence against those who prefer their own gods to the Founder of this city,—a city surpassingly glorious, whether we view it as it still lives by faith in this fleeting course of time, and sojourns as a stranger in the midst of the ungodly, or as it shall dwell in the fixed stability of its eternal seat, which it now with patience waits for, expecting until “righteousness shall return unto judgment,” and it obtain, by virtue of its excellence, final victory and perfect peace. A great work this, and an arduous; but God is my helper. Aeterna Press |
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... Jupiter ratherthan to hearwhat Plato taught or Cato censured. Hencetheyoung profligate inTerence, whenhe sees on thewall a fresco representing thefabled descent ofJupiter into thelapof Danaein the form of agoldenshower, accepts this as ...
... Jupiter, Martialis forMars, andQuirinalis for Romulus (for when the ardorof his fellowcitizens hadgiven Romulus a seat among the gods, they gavehim this new name Quirinus). And thus by this honor Romulus has been preferred toNeptune and ...
... Jupiter was delivered to him by Lucius Titius,to the effect that hewould conquer Mithridates; and so it came to pass. And afterwards, when he was meditating a return to Rome for the purpose of avenging in the blood of the citizens ...
... Jupiter, king ofthe sea, it really was not seemly thathe shouldbe ignorant ofwhat was to happen. For he is introducedby Homer(who lived andwrote before the building of Rome) as predicting something great of the posterity of AEneas, who ...
... Jupiter himself had not hischief temple,—it being King Tarquin who builtthe Capitol. And AEsculapius leftEpidaurus for Rome, that in this foremost city he might have a finer field for theexercise of his great medical skill. The motherof ...