Part 1

THE WORKS

AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,

BISHOP OF HIPPO.

A NEW TRANSLATION.

=Edited by the=

REV. MARCUS DODS, M.A.

VOL. I.

THE CITY OF GOD,

VOLUME I.

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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.

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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.

CONTENTS.

BOOK I.

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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

BOOK II.