The City of God, Volume IIAugustine, of Hippo, Saint
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The City of God, Volume II
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint
Apologetics -- Early works to 1800; Kingdom of God -- Early works to 1800
But let us now at last finish this book, after thus far treating of,
and showing as far as seemed sufficient, what is the mortal course
of the two cities, the heavenly and the earthly, which are mingled
together from the beginning down to the end. Of these, the earthly one
has made to herself of whom she would, either from any other quarter,
or even from among men, false gods whom she might serve by sacrifice;
but she which is heavenly, and is a pilgrim on the earth, does not make
false gods, but is herself made by the true God, of whom she herself
must be the true sacrifice. Yet both alike either enjoy temporal good
things, or are afflicted with temporal evils, but with diverse faith,
diverse hope, and diverse love, until they must be separated by the
last judgment, and each must receive her own end, of which there is no
end. About these ends of both we must next treat.
FOOTNOTES:
[497] Sallust, _Bell. Cat._ c. 8.
[498] In the Hebrew text, Gen. xxv. 7, a hundred and seventy-five
years.
[499] Gen. xlix. 10.
[500] Ἄρης and παγος.
[501] 1 Cor. xv. 46, 47.
[502] The priests who officiated at the Lupercalia.
[503] _Æneid_, viii. 321.
[504] Isa. xlviii. 20.
[505] Virgil, _Eclogue_, viii. 70.
[506] Virgil, _Eclogue_, v. 11.
[507] Varro, _De Lingua Latina_, v. 43.
[508] _Æneid_, vi. 767.
[509] Hos. i. 1.
[510] Amos i. 1.
[511] Isa. i. 1. Isaiah's father was Amoz, a different name.
[512] Mic. i. 1.
[513] The chronicles of Eusebius and Jerome.
[514] Hos. i. 10.
[515] Hos. i. 11.
[516] Gal. ii. 14-20.
[517] Hos. iii. 4.
[518] Hos. iii. 5.
[519] Rom. i. 3.
[520] Hos. vi. 2.
[521] Col. iii. 1.
[522] Amos iv. 12, 13.
[523] Amos ix. 11, 12; Acts xv. 15-17.
[524] Isa. lii. 13-liii. 13. Augustine quotes these passages in full.
[525] Isa. liv. 1-5.
[526] Mic. iv. 1-3.
[527] Mic. v. 2-4.
[528] Joel ii. 28, 29.
[529] Obad. 17.
[530] Obad. 21.
[531] Col. i. 13.
[532] Nah. i. 14-ii. 1.
[533] Hab. ii. 2, 3.
[534] Hab. iii. 2.
[535] Luke xxiii. 34.
[536] Hab. iii. 3.
[537] Ps. lvii. 5, 11.
[538] Hab. iii. 4.
[539] John iii. 17.
[540] Joel ii. 13.
[541] Matt. v. 4.
[542] Matt. x. 27.
[543] Ps. cxvi. 16.
[544] Rom. xii. 12.
[545] Heb. xi. 13, 16.
[546] Rom. x. 3.
[547] Ps. xl. 2, 3.
[548] Jer. ix. 23, 24, as in 1 Cor. i. 31.
[549] Lam. iv. 20.
[550] Bar. iii. 35-37.
[551] Jer. xxiii. 5, 6.
[552] Jer. xvi. 19.
[553] Jer. xvii. 9.
[554] Jer. xxxi. 31; see Bk. xvii. 3.
[555] Zeph. iii. 8.
[556] Zeph. ii. 11.
[557] Zeph. iii. 9-12.
[558] Isa. x. 22; Rom. ix. 27.
[559] Dan. vii. 13, 14.
[560] Ezek. xxxiv. 23.
[561] Ezek. xxxvii. 22-24.
[562] Hag. ii. 6.
[563] Zech. ix. 9, 10.
[564] Zech. ix. 11.
[565] Ps. xl. 2.
[566] Mal. i. 10, 11.
[567] Mal. ii. 5-7.
[568] Mal. iii. 1, 2.
[569] John ii. 19.
[570] Mal. iii. 13-16.
[571] Mal. iii. 17-iv. 3.
[572] Esdras iii. and iv.
[573] Acts vii. 22.
[574] Heb. xi. 7; 1 Pet. iii. 20, 21.
[575] Jude 14.
[576] Ex. xx. 12.
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