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THE WORKS

OF

AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,
BISHOP OF HIPPO.

 A NEW TRANSLATION.

 Edited by the
REV. MARCUS DODS, M.A.

VOL. I.
THE CITY OF GOD,
VOLUME I.

EDINBURGH:
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MDCCCLXXI.
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THE

CITY OF GOD.



 Translated by the
REV. MARCUS DODS, M.A.



VOLUME I.



EDINBURGH:
T. & T. CLARK, 38, GEORGE STREET.
MDCCCLXXI.
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Of the following Work, Books IV. XVII. and XVIII. have been translatedby the Rev. George Wilson, Glenluce; Books V. VI. VII. and VIII. bythe Rev. J. J. Smith.
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 CONTENTS.
BOOK I.
 
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Augustine censures the pagans, who attributed the calamities of theworld, and especially the sack of Rome by the Goths, to the Christianreligion and its prohibition of the worship of the gods,1
 
 
BOOK II.
 
A review of the calamities suffered by the Romans before the time ofChrist, showing that their gods had plunged them into corruptionand vice,48
 
 
BOOK III.
 
The external calamities of Rome,91
 
 
BOOK IV.
 
That empire was given to Rome not by the gods, but by the One TrueGod,135
 
 
BOOK V.
 
Of fate, freewill, and God's prescience, and of the source of the virtuesof the ancient Romans,177
 
 
BOOK VI.
 
Of Varro's threefold division of theology, and of the inabili                        
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