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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light, - although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

4.1 “When Children Became People: the birth of childhood in early Christianity” (2005).

1.18 Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).

1.6 Ten Homilies on the First Epistle of John (414).

1.5 De Unitate Ecclesiae - On the Unity of the Church (c.

1.2 Psalmus Contra Partem Donati - Psalm Against the Donatists (c.

The use of this work is governed by the public domain. The City of God (Urbana, IL: Project Gutenberg, 2014), Trans. This text was taken from the following work.Īusustine, Aurelius, Bishop of Hippo. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride, “What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.” Citation and Use

Indeed, that was an apt and true reply which was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized.

If, by the admittance of abandoned men, this evil increase to such a degree that it holds places, fixes abodes, takes possession of cities, and subdues peoples, it assumes the more plainly the name of a kingdom, because the reality is now manifestly conferred on it, not by the removal of covetousness, but by the addition of impunity.

Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms? The band itself is made up of men it is ruled by the authority of a prince, it is knit together by the pact of the confederacy the booty is divided by the law agreed on. Editor’s Note: The following text is the fourth chapter (“How like kingdoms without justice are to robberies.”) of the fourth book (“Book Fourth – Argument”) of Augustine’s The City of God.