Monarch Notes, January 1st, 1963
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 The City Of God: Books 1 - 8 Background. The city of Rome was captured and put to the sword by the army of Aleric in 410. This marked the first occasion that the capital of the once great empire had been seized in over seven hundred years. The pagans, still smarting from the political defeat by which they no longer were recognized as the state religion and were no longer given the freedom to exercise their beliefs, blamed the defeat of the Romans upon the rejection of the old gods under whom they had prospered. It would appear that if a Provident God existed as the Chr...
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