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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... 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 prohibited; for all these disasters they would ...
... sacrifices to devils. I have shown that they ought rather to attribute it to Christ, that for His name's sake the barbarians, incontravention of all custom and law of war, threwopen as sanctuaries the largest churches, and in many ...
... 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.
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... sacrifices are offered, and theplayers bywhom thedramas are acted, that they may notbeopen to the charge of doingan injury to alltheir gods, if theplays are pleasing toallof them, or (which were still worse) to their good gods, if the ...