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Saint Augustine: Letters: Volume V (204–270) 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...

who have been promised a heavenly inheritance with God for our Father and Christ for our Brother in the same kinship of love. These are eternal goods, these are spoiled by no deterioration of time, these are the more confident objects of our hope, because we are told that their attainment is not a matter of private but of universal privilege. You can recognize this in the case of your own mother. For, what made her free you from the entanglement in which you were just now, and turn you back and set
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