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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... Plato's book in whichhe treats of theimmortality of the soul, threw himself from a wall, and so passed fromthislife to that which he believed tobe better. For he was not hard pressed by calamity, nor by any accusation, false or true ...
... Plato's writings in a “Temple of Plato,” than tobe present inthe temples ofdevils to witness the priests of Cybele mutilating themselves, the effeminate being consecrated, the raving fanatics cutting themselves, and whatever other cruel ...
... 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 authoritative precedent forhis ...
... be honored. The Romans addthe minor:But such menmust by no means be honoured. The Christiansdraw the conclusion: Therefore such gods must by no meansbe worshipped. Chapter 14 That Plato, Who Excluded Poets from a WellOrdered.
... Plato, expelling poets from the city that the citizens beuninjured, with the divine nature as you see it in these gods exacting playsin their own honor. Plato strove, though unsuccessfully,to persuade the lightminded and lascivious ...