Augustine
Tom Garlick /
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passage from book I of DCD
Latin
English
Interea Roma Gothorum inruptione agentium sub rege Alarico atque impetu magnae cladis eversa est , cuius eversionem deorum falsorum multorumque cultores , quos usitato nomine paganos vocamus , in Christianam religionem referre conantes solito acerbius et amarius Deum verum blasphemare coeperunt . Unde ego exardescens zelo domus Dei adversus eorum blasphemias vel errores libros de civitate Dei scribere institui . Quod opus per aliquot annos me tenuit eo quod alia multa intercurrebant quae differe non oporteret , et me prius ad solvendum occupabant . Hoc autem de civitate Dei grande opus tandem viginti duobus libris est terminatum .
In
the
meantime
Rome
had
been
swept
by
an
invasion
of
the
Goths
under
the
leadership
of
King
Alaric
and
the
impact
of
a
great
disaster
;
and
the
worshippers
of
the
many
false
gods
,
to
whom
we
commonly
give
the
name
of
pagans
,
attempting
to
attribute
this
visitation
to
the
Christian
religion
,
began
more
sharply
and
more
bitterly
than
usual
to
blaspheme
the
true
God
.
Burning
with
the
zeal
of
God’s
house
,
I
decided
to
write
against
their
blasphemies
and
errors
the
books
on
The
City
of
God
.
This
work
engaged
me
for
some
years
because
many
other
matters
intervened
that
I
could
not
conscientiously
postpone
,
and
kept
me
busy
completing
them
first
.
At
last
,
however
,
this
huge
work
on
The
City
of
God
was
brought
to
a
conclusion
in
twenty-two
books
.