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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... his own example, in fact, hetaught that the gods do not secure the temporal happinessof their worshippers; since he himself, who was devoted totheir worship,as both conqueredin battle and taken prisoner, and then ... ofhis native land.
... ofhis native land without hope of finding another, and fall into the handsof his enemies, and beput to death by a longdrawn and exquisite torture, much less ought the Christian name tobe chargedwith thecaptivity of those who believe in ...
... of his own death, as he was more innocentof thatoffence forwhich he doomed himself to die. Dowe justly execrate ... ofhis crime,his killing himself was another crime. Why,then, shoulda man who has done noilldo illto himself, and by ...
... of his unconquered spirit. Neither was it loveoflife that prevented himfrom killing himself. This was plainly enough indicated byhis unhesitatingly returning, on account ofhis promiseand oath,to the same enemieswhom he hadmore ...
... ofhis history, in the very exordium of his work,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 ...