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Nor is the light of faith, joined to the truth of love, extraneous to the material world, for love is always lived out in body and spirit; the light of faith is an incarnate light radiating from the luminous life of Jesus. It also illumines the material world, trusts its inherent order and knows that it calls us to an ever widening path of harmony and understanding. The gaze of science thus benefits from faith: faith encourages the scientist to remain constantly open to reality in all its inexhaustible richness. Faith awakens the critical sense by preventing research from being satisfied with its own formulae and helps it to realize that nature is always greater. By stimulating wonder before the profound mystery of creation, faith broadens the horizons of reason to shed greater light on the world which discloses itself to scientific investigation.

The Asclepius is preserved among the philosophical works of Apuleius. Apuleius, however, cannot be its author, and his name does not in fact appear in either the title or subscriptio. This is the translation of a text greek (Λόγος τέλειος) of the beginning of the fourth century, as evidenced by the presence of the final prayer of the Logos in the Mimaut magical papyrus (about 300 AD), and by the presence of numerous references to Lactantius. The Latin translation is used also by Augustine in De civitate Dei. Scott tried to attribute this work to Marius Victorinus, but this attribution is excluded for linguistic reasons. Nock suggests that it was written by a pagan author of the late period, active in Rome, in Africa or in Egypt, and using a language very close to that of the Christian translations, while retaining a classic sensibility and a strong sense of rhythm, including the use of clausulae (dactylic endings are frequent). The original of which the Asclepius is a translation is known to us from the Mimaut papyrus, from Lactantius, Cyril, John Lidus and Stobaeus. These citations are in sufficient agreement with the Latin text to confirm that they are taken from the original; they cannot however be considered as representing the original. Moreover, the Latin translation is a free version, seeking solemnity more than precision (Nock). The original title Λόγος τέλειοςis transmitted in Lattanzio and Ps.-Augustine, who translate it respectively as sermo perfectus and verbum perfectum. The treatise opens with an invocation to Asclepius and presents itself as a dialogue between Asclepius and Trismegistus, in the presence of Tat and Ammon. The characters do not participate actively in the dialogue and the nature of the work is eminently that of a treatise. The aim of the work, defined in the initial invocation divinus sermo superior to all its predecessors for religious piety, is the teaching of mysteria, which will lead the disciple to knowledge. It covers a number of subjects of very different extent, which in any case make a unitary treatise, written perhaps by a single compiler, well versed in Hermetic literature (A. S. Ferguson). The unity of the treatise is apparently confirmed by a series of repetitions. textual references, and allusions to other parts of the work (D. Nock). There are many parallels between the original Greek of the Asclepius and Corpus Hermeticum IX, which presents itself as its continuation. In addition to themes that are common in this literary genre (the soul, man, God, the world, evil), a development of particular interest is the 'little apocalypse' (24-26), which contains allusions to Christian persecution against pagans and presents itself as a combination of the Stoic doctrine of periodic cosmic catastrophes and the myth of Plato's Republic with Egyptian-style prophecy and the Sibylline Oracles. These are eschatological commonplaces which should not be given too precise a content (see Ferguson, against Scott, who dates the prophecy to the years 268-273); they seem to indicate that the Asclepius is based on a Jewish text, transmitted from hand to hand or orally (Nock). [S. Rota; transl. L. Battezzato]]

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Again, I presume it was due to this natural equity andvirtue, that after the expulsion of King Tarquin, whose son hadviolated Lucretia, Junius Brutus the consul forced LuciusTarquinius Collatinus, Lucretia's husband and his own colleague,a good and innocent man, to resign his office and gointo banishment, on the one sole charge that he was of thename and blood of the Tarquins. This injustice was perpetratedwith the approval, or at least connivance, of thepeople, who had themselves raised to the consular office bothCollatinus and Brutus. Another instance of this equity andvirtue is found in their treatment of Marcus Camillus. Thiseminent man, after he had rapidly conquered the Veians, atthat time the most formidable of Rome's enemies, and whohad maintained a ten years' war, in which the Roman army hadsuffered the usual calamities attendant on bad generalship,after he had restored security to Rome, which had begun totremble for its safety, and after he had taken the wealthiestcity of the enemy, had charges brought against him by themalice of those that envied his success, and by the insolenceof the tribunes of the people; and seeing that the city borehim no gratitude for preserving it, and that he wouldcertainly be condemned, he went into exile, and even in hisabsence was fined 10,000 asses. Shortly after, however, hisungrateful country had again to seek his protection from theGauls. But I cannot now mention all the shameful andiniquitous acts with which Rome was agitated, when thearistocracy attempted to subject the people, and the peopleresented their encroachments, and the advocates of either party[Pg 69]were actuated rather by the love of victory than by any equitableor virtuous consideration.

To this epoch let us add also that of which Sallust says,that it was ordered with justice and moderation, while thefear of Tarquin and of a war with Etruria was impending. Forso long as the Etrurians aided the efforts of Tarquin to regainthe throne, Rome was convulsed with distressing war. Andtherefore he says that the state was ordered with justice andmoderation, through the pressure of fear, not through the influenceof equity. And in this very brief period, how calamitousa year was that in which consuls were first created, whenthe kingly power was abolished! They did not fulfil theirterm of office. For Junius Brutus deprived his colleagueLucius Tarquinius Collatinus, and banished him from thecity; and shortly after he himself fell in battle, at onceslaying and slain, having formerly put to death his own sonsand his brothers-in-law, because he had discovered that theywere conspiring to restore Tarquin. It is this deed that[Pg 112]Virgil shudders to record, even while he seems to praise it;for when he says,

When Tarquin the tyrant was expelled, L. Tarquinius Collatinus,the husband of Lucretia, was created consul alongwith Brutus. How justly the people acted, in looking moreto the character than the name of a citizen! How unjustlyBrutus acted, in depriving of honour and country his colleaguein that new office, whom he might have deprived of his name,if it were so offensive to him! Such were the ills, such thedisasters, which fell out when the government was "ordered[Pg 113]with justice and moderation." Lucretius, too, who succeededBrutus, was carried off by disease before the end of that sameyear. So P. Valerius, who succeeded Collatinus, and M. Horatius,who filled the vacancy occasioned by the death of Lucretius,completed that disastrous and funereal year, which hadfive consuls. Such was the year in which the Roman republicinaugurated the new honour and office of the consulship.

On the City of God Against the Pagans (Latin: De civitate Dei contra paganos), often called The City of God, is a book of Christian philosophy written in Latin by Augustine of Hippo in the early 5th century AD. The book was in response to allegations that Christianity brought about the decline of Rome and is considered one of Augustine's most important works, standing alongside The Confessions, The Enchiridion, On Christian Doctrine, and On the Trinity.[1] As a work of one of the most influential Church Fathers, The City of God is a cornerstone of Western thought, expounding on many questions of theology, such as the suffering of the righteous, the existence of evil, the conflict between free will and divine omniscience, and the doctrine of original sin.[2][3]

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The work De civitate Dei by the philosopher of religion and church father Augustine of Hippo, written 413-426, links political theory, theory of society, individual ethics and theology of history in a multilayered way. Ancient philosophy is rethought from a Christian perspective. The five contributors to this collection take up the challenge to provide access to this sophisticated work and to show ways how school students especially as well as university students can be introduced to Augustine's political theory and philosophy of religion.

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