Tag: Augustine
The 6th sense
Psuedo-Clement writing. “For from the rising of the sun, even to its going down, My name shall be great among the Gentiles; In every place incense shall be offered to My name, And a pure offering; For My name shall be great among the nations,” Says the Lord of hosts.” – Malachi written 450-430 BCE according to wide scholarly consensus. “Indeed He says, ‘It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also give You as a light to the … Continue reading The 6th sense
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The poor man
Domestics are to be treated like ourselves
Pre-Nicea means the unanimous view of Christian writers for about the first 300 years of Christianity’s existence. Pre Constantine and so pre Colonialism and pre Translatlantic slave trade and pre crusades etc etc etc. Rather, during a time when Christianity was expanding without the aid of the state and actually being persecuted on and off by the state itself. This was before Galerius had his change of heart and Constantine and Licinius changed the status of Christianity in the Roman empire. God bless… Continue reading Domestics are to be treated like ourselves
Pre-Nicea means the unanimous view of Christian writers for about the first 300 years of Christianity’s existence. Pre Constantine and so pre Colonialism and pre Translatlantic slave trade and pre crusades etc etc etc. Rather, during a time when Christianity was expanding without the aid of the state and actually being persecuted on and off by the state itself. This was before Galerius had his change of heart and Constantine and Licinius changed the status of Christianity in the Roman empire. God bless… Continue reading
Where now are Jovii and the Herculii
I relate all those things on the authority of well-informed persons; and I thought it proper to commit them to writing exactly as they happened, lest the memory of events so important should perish, and lest any future historian of the persecutors should corrupt the truth, either by suppressing their offences against God, or the judgment of God against them. To His everlasting mercy ought we to render thanks, that, having at length looked on the earth, He deigned to collect again and to restore His flock, partly laid waste by ravenous wolves, and partly scattered abroad, and to extirpate … Continue reading Where now are Jovii and the Herculii
The mother of Galerius, a woman exceedingly superstitious, was a votary of the gods of the mountains. Being of such a character, she made sacrifices almost every day, and she feasted her servants on the meat offered to idols: but … Continue reading
Entangled
Thus it comes to pass that the poor and humble, who are unencumbered, more readily believe God than the rich, who are entangled with many hindrances; yea, rather, in chains and fetters they are enslaved to the nod of desire, their mistress, which has ensnared them with inextricable bonds; nor are they able to look up to heaven, since their mind is bent down to the earth Lactantius. 1886. “The Divine Institutes.” In Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries: Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus, Dionysius, Apostolic Teaching and Constitutions, Homily, and Liturgies, edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. … Continue reading Entangled
Let the waybof destruction be deserted
And not only pointed it out, but also went before us in it, that no one might dread the path of virtue on account of its difficulty. Let the way of destruction and deceit, if it is possible, be deserted, in which death is concealed, being covered by the attractions of pleasure. And the more nearly each one, as his years incline to old age, sees to be the approach of that day in which he must depart from this life, let him reflect how he may leave it in purity, how he may come to the Judge in innocency; … Continue reading Let the waybof destruction be deserted
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