This volume continues the translation of St. Augustine's monumental
work The City of God, a product of his vast erudition. Three books
in particular, viz. 8, 9, and 10, reveal Augustine's grasp of the
tenets of the Platonists, Peripatetics and Cynics. The greater part
of this continuation, however, is concerned with Augustine's
treatment of theological and scriptural topics. There is no
strictly logical sequence, however, and numerous digressions
intervene. In the course of books 11 and 16, he finds occasion to
discuss, among many other topics, the creation of angels and their
nature, demons and evils, the age of the earth and of the human
race, death and dying, and the purpose of marriage. From the
discussion of such topics, he passes easily to comments on the
Hebrew and Greek texts of the Bible, the accuracy of the Septuagint
and Latin translations, the discrepancies among various texts. As a
product of his times, Augustine shares the opinion that Hebrew may
be the oldest, and perhaps most common, language before the Tower
of Babel incident recorded in Scripture. Most of Augustine's
treatment of scriptural passages is concerned with allegorical
interpretation. In book 14, however, the former professor of
rhetoric at milan comes through again in his discussion of the
semantics of the words caritas, amor, dilago, and amo
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