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Augustine: The City of God Against the Pagans
Augustine: The City of God Against the Pagans | Augustine, R. W. Dyson
The first new rendition for a generation of one of the classic texts of Western civilisation.
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MrBook
City of God (Revised) | Augustine of Hippo
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Stopped by the library bookstore again. Got some books again. 🙈😆 Anyone want to buddy read CoG? 😂🙃

#LitsyLovesLibraries

saresmoore Been there, done that! Never again. 6y
MrBook @saresmoore 😂👏🏻 6y
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jillrhudy
The City of God | Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.)
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Part of the Heineman volumes of Greek and Roman classics at the Peabody Library, The Johns Hopkins University #library #oldcoolbooks

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JPrecht
City of God (Revised) | Augustine of Hippo
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Participating in a Twitter read-along (#CivDei) of this chunky book, and finding it to be a compelling, and strikingly current-feeling reading!

Purepages Love the pic! I like the book a lot but never have seen it through to the end. (edited) 7y
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saresmoore
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I think I perfected the art of sleep-reading when we studied this fat volume in college.

1182 pages, XXII books of 😴

Why do I still have this?

#funfridayphoto

rabbitprincess I read pagans as penguins! 🐧😜 8y
saresmoore @rabbitprincess Bahahaha! Now that would be a very different book. 8y
LauraBeth I had to read this for Political Philosophy in college - I can't remember any of it 🙀 8y
saresmoore @LauraBeth Me either! Something about a Christian utopia. 8y
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GoneFishing
City of God | Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.), Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, John Healey

Thus, a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but what is worse, as many masters as he has vices.