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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... Mind. Remains. Inviolate. But istherea fear that evenanother's lustmay pollute theviolated? It will not pollute, ifitbe another's: ifit pollute, it is not another's, butis shared alsobythe polluted. But since purity isa virtue of the soul ...
... mind, to beunable tobear either the pains of bodily servitudeor the foolish opinion of thevulgar? And is not that to be pronouncedthe greatermind, which rather faces than flees the ills of life, and which,in comparisonof thelight ...
... mind,that among her enemies liehid those who are destined to be fellowcitizens, that she may not think it afruitless labor to bear what they inflict asenemies until they become confessors of the faith. So, too, as long as she is ...
... mind with what various and repeated disasters the prosperityof Rome was blighted, before ever Christ had comein the flesh, and before His namehad been blazoned among the nations with that glory which they vainly grudge. Letthem, ifthey ...
... mind to arbitrate between the lewdness of theatrical entertainments and of mysticrites; only this I say,and history bears me out in making the assertion, that those same entertainments, in which the fictions of poets are the main ...