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Perhaps one of the most profound treatises on Christianity and government, the City of God envisions Christianity as a spiritual force, which should preoccupy itself with the heavenly city, New Jerusalem, rather than the earthly municipal and state affairs. The Fathers of the Church Series has divided this ancient classic into three convenient volumes.

Of course, no one is foolish enough to think that God has any need of the things that are offered in sacrifice. Holy Scripture is full of proof to the contrary. Not to be tedious, let one short text from the Psalms suffice: ‘I have said to the Lord, thou art my God, for thou hast no need of my goods.’1 Thus, we are to understand that God has no need of cattle or other material things of earth, not even of man’s justice. In fact, it is man, not God, who benefits from the whole economy of
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