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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... the blandishments of pleasure or theviolence ofpain. If this reason were agoodone, then we should be impelled to exhortmen at once to destroy themselves, as soon as they havebeen washed in the ... from takinghis ownlife? Why does anyperson ...
... from a WellOrdered City, Was BetterThan TheseGods WhoDesire to Be Honoured by Theatrical Plays We have still to inquirewhy the poetswho write theplays, and who by the lawof the twelvetables are prohibited from injuring the goodname ...
... that even at thattime, when avery brief interval had elapsed afterthe government hadpassed from kings to consuls, the more powerful men beganto act unjustly, andoccasioned the defection of the people fromthe patricians, andother disorders ...
... the virgin deity, and the matron who witnessed the spectacle returned home from the temple a wiser woman. Some, indeed, ofthe more prudent women turned their faces from the immodest movementsof the players, andlearned the art of wickedness ...