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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... received atthe hands of the angels,who didnot carry him outto amarble tomb, but bore himaloftto Abraham's bosom. The men against whom I have undertakento defend thecityof God laugh at allthis. Buteven their own philosophers have ...
... received ideas ofhonor? Cato, then, cannot have deemed ittobe shameful tolive under Caesar's rule; for hadhe done so, the father's sword would have delivered hisson from this disgrace. The truth is,that his son, whom he bothhoped and ...
... received the forgivenessof all sin. Then is the time toescape all future sin, when all past sinis blottedout. And if thisescape belawfully secured by suicide, why not then specially?Why does anybaptized person hold his hand from ...
... whydid these gods permit the disasters I amto speak of to fall on their worshippers before the preaching ofChrist's name offended them, and putanendto their sacrifices? Chapter 4 Thatthe Worshippersof the GodsNever Received from Them Any.
... Received Good Laws from Them, Insteadof Having to Borrow Them from Other Nations Moreover, ifthe Romans hadbeen able to receive a rule of life fromtheir gods, they would not have borrowed Solon's laws from the Athenians, as they did ...