The City of God, Book 4: 1-4# Thoughts - 思考者
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BOOK IV.(1)
ARGUMENT.
IN THIS BOOK IT IS PROVED THAT THE EXTENT AND LONG DURATION
OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE IS TO BE
ASCRIBED, NOT TO JOVE OR THE GODS OF THE HEATHEN, TO WHOM
INDIVIDUALLY SCARCE EVEN SINGLE
THINGS AND THE VERY BASEST FUNCTIONS WERE BELIEVED TO BE
ENTRUSTED, BUT TO THE ONE TRUE GOD,
THE AUTHOR OF FELICITY, BY WHOSE POWER AND JUDGMENT EARTHLY
KINGDOMS ARE FOUNDED AND
MAINTAINED.
CHAP. 1.--OF THE THINGS WHICH HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED IN THE
FIRST BOOK.
HAVING begun to speak of the city of God
ARGUMENT.
IN THIS BOOK IT IS PROVED THAT THE EXTENT AND LONG DURATION
OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE IS TO BE
ASCRIBED, NOT TO JOVE OR THE GODS OF THE HEATHEN, TO WHOM
INDIVIDUALLY SCARCE EVEN SINGLE
THINGS AND THE VERY BASEST FUNCTIONS WERE BELIEVED TO BE
ENTRUSTED, BUT TO THE ONE TRUE GOD,
THE AUTHOR OF FELICITY, BY WHOSE POWER AND JUDGMENT EARTHLY
KINGDOMS ARE FOUNDED AND
MAINTAINED.
CHAP. 1.--OF THE THINGS WHICH HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED IN THE
FIRST BOOK.
HAVING begun to speak of the city of God