Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: First Series, Volume II St. Augustine: City of God, Christian DoctrinePhilip Schaff Cosimo, Inc., 01/05/2007 - 640 páginas "The Council of Nicaea in 325 AD marked the beginning of a new era in Christianity. For the first time, doctrines were organized into a single creed. The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers did most of their writing during and after this important event in Church history. Unlike the previous era of Christian writing, the Nicene and Post-Nicene era is dominated by a few very important and prolific writers. In Volume II of the 14-volume collected writings of the Nicenes and Post-Nicenes (first published between 1886 and 1889), readers will discover one of Augustines masterworks: City of God. In this groundbreaking work, Augustine proposes a philosophy that sees history as having a purpose and direction. Coming at a time when Roman civilization was failing, this work argued that Romans could find comfort in Christianity because all of history was merely a struggle between the City of God (believers) and the City of Man (nonbelievers). Should Romans put their faith in the City of God, even their declining civilization should cause them no grief. Even though it was written at a very particular time in history, City of God appeals to all Christians seeking inspiration to continue their religious practice." |
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... wicked to repentance , even as the scourge of God educates the good to patience . And so , too , does the mercy of God embrace the good that it may cherish them , as the severity of God arrests the wicked to punish them . To the divine ...
... wicked to repentance , even as the scourge of God educates the good to patience . And so , too , does the mercy of God embrace the good that it may cherish them , as the severity of God arrests the wicked to punish them . To the divine ...
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... wicked men an unlikeness in the sufferers ; and though is distasteful to the good , and therefore they exposed to the same anguish , virtue and vice do not fall with them into that damnation are not the same thing . For as the same fire ...
... wicked men an unlikeness in the sufferers ; and though is distasteful to the good , and therefore they exposed to the same anguish , virtue and vice do not fall with them into that damnation are not the same thing . For as the same fire ...
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... wicked , when God is pleased to visit with temporal punishments the profligate manners of a community . They are punished together , not because they have spent an equally corrupt life , but because the good as well as the wicked ...
... wicked , when God is pleased to visit with temporal punishments the profligate manners of a community . They are punished together , not because they have spent an equally corrupt life , but because the good as well as the wicked ...
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... wicked rich man who lay in purple and fine linen , what harm could these terrific deaths do to the dead who had lived well ? slain could be detrimental to the future life . Or will some one perhaps take so absurd a position as to ...
... wicked rich man who lay in purple and fine linen , what harm could these terrific deaths do to the dead who had lived well ? slain could be detrimental to the future life . Or will some one perhaps take so absurd a position as to ...
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... wicked man ; but he passed from this vate the horror of captivity by adding that not only wives and unmarried maidens , but even Christ , but with his own : for though he killed consecrated virgins , were violated . But truly , himself ...
... wicked man ; but he passed from this vate the horror of captivity by adding that not only wives and unmarried maidens , but even Christ , but with his own : for though he killed consecrated virgins , were violated . But truly , himself ...
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Página 260 - God made the earth and the heavens, and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew ; for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth-, and there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of- the ground.
Página 286 - For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Página 477 - Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee ; Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way ; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Página 216 - And God said, Let there be light : and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Página 216 - ... as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Página 286 - But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh ; but he of the freewoman was by promise. Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.