City of God
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phrases used to refer to Heaven
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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.
The act of faith, which separates us from all men, unites us for the first time in real brotherhood; and they who, one by one, come to Jesus and meet Him alone, next find that they are come to the city of God "and to an innumerable company.
At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.
the Celestial City was Christian's goal in Bunyan's `Pilgrim's Progress'
City of God edited and abridged by Vernon J. Bourke 1958 Moreover, Augustine in that passage demonstrates his own personal preference for the Greek thus eliminating any possibility that Saint Jerome translated the OT from Greek.
Augustine also preached that one was not a member of his or her city, but was either a citizen of the City of God (Civitas Dei) or the City of Man ( Civitas Terrena).