Saint Augustine: Letters: Volume III (131

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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...

to be dissolved and to be with Christ,’6 but with the instinct of the flesh revolts against this and runs from it, and, if it were possible, he does not wish to be ‘unclothed but to be clothed upon that the mortal may be swallowed up in life,’7 that is, that the body itself may be transferred from infirmity to immortality without the intervention of death. But these words in which the human day and length of this life are desired are the words of sins, and are far from that salvation8 which we now

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