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Along with his Confessions, The City of God is undoubtedly St. Augustine’s most influential work. In the context of what begins as a lengthy critique of classic Roman religion and a defense of Christianity, Augustine touches upon numerous topics, including the role of grace, the original state of humanity, the possibility of waging a just war, the ideal form of government, and the nature of...

all who are born into this life. I know this: that no one has died who was not going to die at some point. What is more, the end of life makes a long life the same as a short one; for the one is not better and the other worse, the one is not greater and the other less, once they are the same in no longer existing at all.35 What does it matter what kind of death puts an end to this life, since the one whose life ends is not compelled to die a second time? In the daily chances of this life, every mortal
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