The City of God, Volume I
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Of the following Work, Books IV. XVII. and XVIII. have been translated by the Rev. GEORGE WILSON, Glenluce; Books V. VI. VII. and VIII. by the Rev. J. J. SMITH.
Augustine censures the pagans, who attributed the calamities of the world, and especially the sack of Rome by the Goths, to the Christian religion and its prohibition of the worship of the gods, 1
A review of the calamities suffered by the Romans before the time of Christ, showing that their gods had plunged them into corruption and vice, 48
That empire was given to Rome not by the gods, but by the One True God, 135
Of fate, freewill, and God's prescience, and of the source of the virtues of the ancient Romans, 177
Of Varro's threefold division of theology, and of the inability of the gods to contribute anything to the happiness of the future life, 228