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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... religion,and its prohibition ofthe worship ofthe gods.He speaks of the blessings and illsoflife, whichthen, as always,happened to good and bad men alike.Finally, he rebukes the shamelessness of those who cast up to the Christians that ...
... religion, and imputeto Christ theills thathave befallen their city;but the preservation of their own life—a boon which they owe to the respect entertainedfor Christ by the barbarians—they attribute not to our Christ, buttotheir own good ...
... Religion; Which YetDidNot Profit Him, Though He Was a Worshipper of the Gods But among their own famousmen they haveavery noble example of the voluntary endurance of captivity in obedience to a religious scruple. Marcus Attilius Regulus ...
... religion ina fashion not less imprudentthan impudent, consider this andhold their peace; forif it was no reproachto their godsthat amost punctilious worshipperof theirs should,forthe sake of keeping hisoath to them, bedeprived ofhis ...
... religion, because itprohibits the offering of sacrifices tothe gods. For thisend Imust recount all, oras many as mayseem sufficient, of thedisasters which befellthat city and its subject provinces, before these sacrifices were ...