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Saint Augustine: The City of God, Books VIII–XVI is unavailable, but you can change that!

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.

from both God and the body, is punished; but whatever of death there is up to and including that absolutely final and so-called second death. As soon as our first parents had disobeyed God’s commandment, they were immediately deprived of divine grace, and were ashamed of their nakedness. They covered themselves with fig leaves,1 which, perhaps, were the first thing noticed by the troubled pair. The parts covered remained unchanged except that, previously, they occasioned no shame. They
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