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Saint Augustine: Letters: Volume II (83–130) is unavailable, but you can change that!

These letters, taken as a whole, present a vivid and fascinating view of life in North Africa at the beginning of the fifth century. In addition to the comments about ecclesiastical and episcopal affairs, there are also letters on various threats to peace and security common in this period of the late empire, on slavery and the growth of the slave trade, and on Roman involvement in African...

Father with bodily eyes, or was He not able?’ Thus, if we should answer that He was not able, they would claim that we had belittled the onnipotence of God, but, if we should agree that He was able, they would consider their argument proved by your reply. Others fall into a more pardonable error who assert that our flesh will be changed into the substance of God and will become that which God is, for they at least would make the flesh fit to see God, and not removed from Him by its unlikeness. This
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