Tag: Augustine
Acknowledge
Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended. When the earnest attention of the human mind and its acute sagacity and memory has reached Him, all ways being, as it were, summed up and exhausted, it stops, it is at a loss, it fails; nor is there anything beyond to which it can proceed. But because that which exists must of necessity have had a beginning, it follows that since there was nothing before Him, He … Continue reading Acknowledge
So distasteful
Father and Judge
Truth can not be attained
But they did not obtain the object of their wish, and at the same time lost their labour and industry; because the truth, that is the secret of the Most High God, who created all things, cannot be attained by our own ability and perceptions. Otherwise there would be no difference between God and man, if human thought could reach to the counsels and arrangements of that eternal majesty. And because it was impossible that the divine method of procedure should become known to man by his own efforts, God did not suffer man any longer to err in search … Continue reading Truth can not be attained
We shall speak of hope
And we now commence this work under the auspices of your name, O mighty Emperor Constantine, who were the first of the Roman princes to repudiate errors, and to acknowledge and honour the majesty of the one and only true God. For when that most happy day had shone upon the world, in which the Most High God raised you to the prosperous height of power, you entered upon a dominion which was salutary and desirable for all, with an excellent beginning, when, restoring justice which had been overthrown and taken away, you expiated the most shameful deed of others. … Continue reading We shall speak of hope
Call us impious
“Thus you shall say to them, “The gods that did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under the heavens.” – Jeremiah 10:11 “Heaven and earth shall pass away; but My words shall never pass away” – Jesus Arnobius and all the early church fathers were indeed wise to have trusted Christ over the gods of Rome. Continue reading Call us impious
A monstrous act
Are men really good?
Arnobius makes a pretty cool point below but first the only Jesus that has been spreading and enduring across this planet for the last two thousand years (the Jesus of the Bible): “The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I TESTIFY OF IT, that the works thereof are evil.” John 7:7 “Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men, And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.” John 2:24–25 “Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, YE WOULD LOVE ME: for I proceeded … Continue reading Are men really good?
Grant pardon
Does it not occur to you to reflect and to examine in whose domain you live? on whose property you are? whose is that earth which you till?11 whose is that air which you inhale, and return again in breathing? whose fountains do you abundantly enjoy? whose water? who has regulated the blasts of the wind? who has contrived the watery clouds? who has discriminated the productive powers of seeds by special characteristics? Does Apollo give you rain? Does Mercury send yon water from heaven? Has Æsculapius, Hercules, or Diana devised the plan of showers and of storms? And how … Continue reading Grant pardon
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