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of God and to eternal fellowship with Him, according to the true predictions and statements of the Holy Scriptures, they may storm at our position, but they cannot storm it.
And therefore, in these ten books, though not meeting, I dare say, the expectation of some, yet I have, as the true God and Lord has vouchsafed to aid me, satisfied the desire of certain persons, by refuting the objections of the ungodly, who prefer their own gods to the Founder of the holy city, about which we undertook to speak. Of these ten books, the first five were directed against those who think we should worship the gods for the sake of the blessings of this life, and the second five against those who think we should worship them for the sake of the life which is to be after death. And now, in fulfilment of the promise I made in the first book, I shall go on to say, as God shall aid me, what I think needs to be said regarding the origin, history, and deserved ends of the two cities, which, as already remarked, are in this world commingled and implicated with one another.
FOOTNOTES:
[364] Rom. i. 21.
[365] Eph. vi. 5.
[366] Namely, δουλεία: comp. Quæst. in Exod. 94; Quæst. in Gen. 21; Contra Faustum, 15, 9, etc.
[367] Agricolæ, coloni, incolæ.
[368] Virgil, Eneid, i. 12.
[369] 2 Chron. xxx. 9; Eccl. xi. 13; Judith vii. 20.
[370] Ps. lxxxii. 6.
[371] John i. 6-9.
[372] Ibid. 16.
[373] Augustine here remarks, in a clause that cannot be given in English, that the word religio is derived from religere.--So Cicero, De Nat. Deor. ii. 28.
[374] Matt. xxii. 37-40.
[375] Ps. lxxiii. 28.
[376] Ex. xxii. 20.
[377] Ps. xvi. 2.
[378] Ps. li. 16, 17.
[379] Ps. l. 12, 13.
[380] Ps. l. 14, 15.
[381] Micah vi. 6-8.
[382] Heb. xiii. 16.
[383] Hos. vi. 6.
[384] Matt. xxii. 40.
[385] On the service rendered to the Church by this definition, see Waterland's Works, v. 124.
[386] Literally, a sacred action.
[387] Ecclus. xxx. 24.
[388] Rom. vi. 13.
[389] Rom. xii. 1.
[390] Rom. xii. 2.
[391] Ps. lxxiii. 28.
[392] Rom. xii. 3-6.
[393] Ps. lxxxvii. 3.
[394] Ex. xxii. 20.
[395] Gen. xviii. 18.
[396] Gen. xv. 17. In his Retractations, ii. 43, Augustine says that he should not have spoken of this as miraculous, because it was an appearance seen in sleep.
[397] Gen. xviii.
[398] Goetia.
[399] 2 Cor. xi. 14.
[400] Virgil, Georg. iv. 411.
[401] Ex. xxxiii. 13.
[402] Plotin. Ennead. III. ii. 13.
[403] Matt. vi. 28-30.
[404] Acts vii. 53.
[405] Ennead. I. vi. 7.
[406] Meaning, officious meddlers.
[407] Pharsal. vi. 503.
[408] Ps. lxxiii. 28.
[409] Æneid, vii. 310.
[410] Æneid, iii. 438, 439.
[411] Teletis.
[412] The Platonists of the Alexandrian and Athenian schools, from Plotinus to Proclus, are at one in recognising in God three principles or hypostases: 1st, the One or the Good, which is the Father; 2d, the Intelligence or Word, which is the Son; 3d, the Soul, which is the universal principle of life. But as to the nature and order of these hypostases, the Alexandrians are no longer at one with the school of Athens. On the very subtle differences between the Trinity of Plotinus and that of Porphyry, consult M. Jules Simon, ii. 110, and M. Vacherot, ii. 37.--SAISSET.
[413] See below, c. 28.
[414] Ennead. v. 1.
[415] John i. 14.
[416] John vi. 60-64.
[417] John viii. 25; or "the beginning," following a different reading from ours.
[418] Ps. lxxiii. 28.
[419] Ps. lxxxiv. 2.
[420] Matt. xxiii. 26.
[421] Rom. viii. 24, 25.
[422] See above, c. 9.
[423] Virgil, Eclog. iv. 13, 14.
[424] Isa. xxix. 14.
[425] 1 Cor. i. 19-25.
[426] According to another reading, "You might have seen it to be," etc.
[427] John i. 1-5.
[428] John i. 14.
[429] Comp. Euseb. Præp. Evan. xiii. 16.
[430] Ennead. iii. 4. 2.
[431] Æneid, vi. 750, 751.