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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... evil omens? Would itnot be wiserto believe, not that Romewould never have falleninto so greatacalamity hadnot they first perished, butrather that they wouldhave perished long since had not Rome preserved them as long asshe could? For ...
... evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just andon the unjust.” Forthough some of these men, taking thought ofthis, repent of their wickedness and reform, some, as theapostle says, “despising the riches of His goodness and long ...
... evil happens to the faithful andgodly which cannot be turnedto profit. Orshall we say that the question is needless, and thatthe apostle is vaporing when he says, “We know that all things work together for good to them that loveGod ...
... evil only bythe retribution which follows it. They, then, who aredestined to die, need not becareful to inquire what deaththey are to die,butinto what place death will usher them. And since Christians are well aware thatthe death ofthe ...
... evil, because they arenot gods, but evilspirits), orwhether, as Labeo thinks, a distinction is made betweenthe offerings presented to the different gods the Greeks areequally justified in honoring alike the priests by whomthe sacrifices ...