This volume is one of three containing the complete Spanish translation from the Latin of Saint Augustine’s City of God (De Civitate Dei), written in the early fifth century, after the sack of Rome by the Visigoths. Augustine, bishop of Hippo in North Africa, developed the concept of the Church as a spiritual heavenly City of God in contrast to the material earthly City of Man. Even in times of upheaval, man should fix his eyes on the heavenly Jerusalem rather than on earthly political matters, for in the end, empires would fall, and God alone would triumph. Spanish, tempera and gold on parchment with a tooled leather binding.
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