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| ID |
5736 |
| Text |
Historiarum adversum paganos libri VII (417 - 418) Orosius |
| Quotation |
igitur ingrata Roma, quae sicut nunc sensit non ad remittendam sed ad reprimendam idololatriae praesumptionem iudicis Dei obliquam misericordiam, ita continuo propter uiuorum mortuorumque sanctorum piam recordationem Dei iram passura non plenam, si forte confusa paeniteat et per experientiam fidem discat, ab incursu Alarici regis et hostis sed Christiani aliquantulo ad tempus spatio differtur. |
| Translation |
Rome was so ungrateful that she did not realise that the indirect working of God’s Judgment was not to pardon their presumption in committing idolatry, but to put an end to it, so straightaway she was to suffer God’s Wrath, though not in full measure, for He loyally remembered the saints, both living and dead, there. In this way, the incursion of King Alaric, their enemy, though a Christian one, was put off for a short while, in case she should repent of her confusion and learn to be faithful from what she had experienced. |
| Quotation source |
Orosius, Histories VII, cap. 37, par. 17, trans. Fear, p. 399-401 |
| Temporal Coverage |
406 - 410 |
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