THE WORKS
OF
AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,
BISHOP OF HIPPO.
_A NEW TRANSLATION._
=Edited by the=
REV. MARCUS DODS, M.A.
VOL. I.
THE CITY OF GOD,
VOLUME I.
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MDCCCLXXI.
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=Translated by the=
REV. MARCUS DODS, M.A.
VOLUME I.
EDINBURGH:
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MDCCCLXXI.
Of the following Work, Books IV. XVII. and XVIII. have been
translated by the Rev. GEORGE WILSON, Glenluce; Books V. VI. VII. and
VIII. by the Rev. J. J. SMITH.
CONTENTS.
BOOK I.
PAGE
Augustine censures the pagans, who attributed the calamities of the
world, and especially the sack of Rome by the Goths, to the
Christian religion and its prohibition of the worship of the
gods, 1