The City of God, Volume II. Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine

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2 Cor. xi. 1-3.

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Rom. ix. 2.

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Rom. x. 3.

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2 Cor. xii. 21.

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Mark iii. 5.

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John xi. 15.

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John xi. 35.

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Luke xxii. 15.

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Matt. xxvi. 38.

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Rom. i. 31.

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Ps. lxix. 20.

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Crantor, an Academic philosopher quoted by Cicero, Tusc. Quæst. iii. 6.

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1 John i. 8.

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1 John iv. 18.

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Rom. viii. 15.

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Ps. xix. 9.

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Ps. ix. 18.

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Matt. v. 28.

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Gen. i. 28.

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Gen. vi. 6, and 1 Sam. xv. 11.

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Eccles. vii. 29.

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John viii. 36.

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1 Tim. ii. 14.

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Rom. v. 12.

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Gen. iii. 12.

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Ecclus. x. 13.

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Matt. vii. 18.

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Defecit.

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Ps. lxxiii. 18.

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Gen. iii. 5.

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Prov. xviii. 12.

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That is to say, it was an obvious and indisputable transgression.

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Ps. lxxxiii. 16.

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Gen. iii. 12, 13.

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Phil. ii. 8.

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Ps. cxliv. 4.

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Cicero, Tusc. Quæst. iii. 6 and iv. 9. So Aristotle.

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1 Thess. iv. 4.

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Gen. ii. 25.

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An error which arose from the words, "The eyes of them both were opened," Gen. iii. 7. – See De Genesi ad lit. ii. 40.

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Gen. iii. 6.

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This doctrine and phraseology of Augustine being important in connection with his whole theory of the fall, we give some parallel passages to show that the words are not used at random: De Genesi ad lit. xi. 41; De Corrept. et Gratia, xi. 31; and especially Cont. Julian. iv. 82.

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Gen. iii. 7.

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See Plato's Republic, book iv.

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The one word being the Latin form, the other the Greek, of the same adjective.

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By Diogenes Laertius, vi. 69, and Cicero, De Offic. i. 41.

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Gen. i. 28.

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Ps. cxxxviii. 3.

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Gen. i. 27, 28.

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Matt. xix. 4, 5.

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Eph. v. 25.

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Luke xx. 34.

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See Virgil, Georg. iii. 136.

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Rom. i. 26.

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The position of Calama is described by Augustine as between Constantine and Hippo, but nearer Hippo. —Contra Lit. Petil. ii. 228. A full description of it is given in Poujoulat's Histoire de S. Augustin, i. 340, who says it was one of the most important towns of Numidia, eighteen leagues south of Hippo, and represented by the modern Ghelma. It is to its bishop, Possidius, we owe the contemporary Life of Augustine.

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Andr. ii. 1, 5.

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1 Tim. i. 5.

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Compare Basil's Homily on Paradise, and John Damascene, De Fide Orthod. ii. 11.

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Ps. cxi. 2.

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Ps. iii. 3.

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Ps. xviii. 1.

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Rom. i. 21-25.

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1 Cor. xv. 28.

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1 Cor. xv. 46.

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Rom. ix. 21.

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Gen. iv. 17.

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Comp. De Trin. xv. c. 15.

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Gal. iv. 21-31.

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Rom. ix. 22, 23.

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Wisdom viii. 1.

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Lucan, Phar. i. 95.

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Gal. v. 17.

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Gal. vi. 2.

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1 Thess. v. 14, 15.

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Gal. vi. 1.

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Eph. iv. 26.

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Matt. xviii. 15.

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1 Tim. v. 20.

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Heb. xii. 14.

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Matt. xviii. 35.

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Rom. vi. 12, 13.

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Gen. iv. 6, 7.

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Literally, "division."

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1 John iii. 12.

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We alter the pronoun to suit Augustine's interpretation.

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Gal. v. 17.

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Rom. vii. 17.

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Rom. vi. 13.

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Gen. iii. 16.

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Eph. v. 28, 29.

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C. Faustum. Man. xii. c. 9.

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Gen. iv. 17.

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Gen. iv. 25.

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Lamech, according to the LXX.

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Ex. xii. 37.

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Virgil, Æneid, xii. 899, 900. Compare the Iliad, v. 302, and Juvenal, xv. 65 et seqq.

"Terra malos homines nunc educat atque pusillos."

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Plin. Hist. Nat. vii. 16.

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