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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... hesaid. “For,” he says,“the oppressive measures of the powerful, andthe consequent secessions of the plebs from the patricians, and other civil dissensions, had existed from thefirst,and affairswere administered with equityand ...
... he says, that “equity and virtue prevailed among them notmore by force of law than of nature.” Now, ifthese were the days in which the Roman republicshows fairest andbest, what are we to say or think of the succeedingage, when, to use ...
... hesays that games had been celebrated for ten days together, and thatnothing had been omitted which could pacifythe gods:as if it had notbeen more satisfactory to irritate the gods by temperance,than to pacify them bydebauchery; and to ...
... hesays, in roundterms, “The founderof this city, Romulus, we have raisedto immortality anddivinity by kindly ... he says that they “producethe samedarkness as covered the death of Romulus, which happened duringan eclipse ofthe sun ...