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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... Sallust, ahistorian of distinguished veracity, writes) “that virgins and boys areviolated, children torn from the embrace of their parents, matrons subjected to whatever should be the pleasure of the conquerors, temples and houses ...
... Sallust, that “equity and virtue prevailed among the Romans not more byforceof laws thanof nature.” I presume itis to this inborn equity and goodness of disposition we areto ascribe the rape of the Sabine women. What, indeed, could be ...
... resented their encroachments, and the advocates ofeither party were actuated rather by the love of victory than byany equitable or virtuous consideration. Chapter 18 What theHistory of Sallust RevealsRegarding theLife of the.
Saint Augustine of Hippo, Aeterna Press. Chapter 18 What theHistory of Sallust RevealsRegarding theLife of the Romans, EitherWhen Straitened by Anxiety or Relaxed in Security I will therefore pause, and adduce the testimony of Sallust ...
... Sallust's brief sum and sketch of this period may be read in his own history, in which he shows how the profligate manners which were propagated by prosperity resulted at last evenin civilwars. He says: “And fromthis timethe primitive ...