Begun after Rome was sacked in 410, when pagans were saying the city fell because it had abandoned its gods. Twenty-two books answering that, and in answering it inventing the philosophy of history: two cities, one earthly and one heavenly, running together through time and separated only at the end.
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Every run of seven words or more that appears both here and in another book on this shelf, merged into the longest passage they have in common. The City of God shares wording with 11 of the other 37. This is quotation, or a common source, or one translator doing both — not a resemblance inferred from vocabulary.
called according to His purpose. For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first-born among many brethrenTractate 105 and Book 13
It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing."[416] TheJohn 6 and Book 13
thing that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in youHomily 2 and Book 22
The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in CharranHomily 15 and Book 22
presseth down the soul, and the earthly tabernacle weigheth down the mind that museth upon many thingsBook 7 and Book 13
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of SongsBook 22 and Book 5
the day before the ides of AprilBook 13 and Book 1
oration in praise of his aunt JuliaBook 13 and Life 34
fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of the image of corruptible man, andSermon 65 and Book 13
of three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a pigeon. AndBook 22 and Book 1
at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than JonasMatthew 12 and Book 22
Quotation, here, means a named attribution or a commentary working through the text — not a guess from shared vocabulary.
Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.
Translator: Marcus Dods, 1871. Source: Gutenberg 45304–5.
The text here is Marcus Dods’ translation, T. & T. Clark, 1871, public domain, from Project Gutenberg ebooks 45304 and 45305, set unaltered.
The longest book on this shelf: 474,000 words. Augustine took thirteen years over it.
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