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If, also,\r\nanother Roman chief, surnamed Torquatus, slew his son, not\r\nbecause he fought against his country, but because, being\r\nchallenged by an enemy, he through youthful impetuosity\r\nfought, though for his country, yet contrary to orders which\r\nhe his father had given as general; and this he did, notwithstanding\r\nthat his son was victorious, lest there should be more\r\nevil in the example of authority despised, than good in the\r\nglory of slaying an enemy;—if, I say, Torquatus acted thus,\r\nwherefore should they boast themselves, who, for the laws of\r\na celestial country, despise all earthly good things, which are<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_211\">[Pg 211]</a></span>\r\nloved far less than sons? If Furius Camillus, who was condemned\r\nby those who envied him, notwithstanding that he\r\nhad thrown off from the necks of his countrymen the yoke of\r\ntheir most bitter enemies, the Veientes, again delivered his\r\nungrateful country from the Gauls, because he had no other\r\nin which he could have better opportunities for living a life\r\nof glory;—if Camillus did thus, why should he be extolled as\r\nhaving done some great thing, who, having, it may be, suffered\r\nin the church at the hands of carnal enemies most grievous\r\nand dishonouring injury, has not betaken himself to heretical\r\nenemies, or himself raised some heresy against her, but has\r\nrather defended her, as far as he was able, from the most pernicious\r\nperversity of heretics, since there is not another church,\r\nI say not in which one can live a life of glory, but in which\r\neternal life can be obtained? If Mucius, in order that peace\r\nmight be made with King Porsenna, who was pressing the\r\nRomans with a most grievous war, when he did not succeed\r\nin slaying Porsenna, but slew another by mistake for him,\r\nreached forth his right hand and laid it on a red-hot altar,\r\nsaying that many such as he saw him to be had conspired for\r\nhis destruction, so that Porsenna, terrified at his daring, and at\r\nthe thought of a conspiracy of such as he, without any delay\r\nrecalled all his warlike purposes, and made peace;—if, I say,\r\nMucius did this, who shall speak of his meritorious claims to\r\nthe kingdom of heaven, if for it he may have given to the flames\r\nnot one hand, but even his whole body, and that not by his own\r\nspontaneous act, but because he was persecuted by another?\r\nIf Curtius, spurring on his steed, threw himself all armed\r\ninto a precipitous gulf, obeying the oracles of their gods,\r\nwhich had commanded that the Romans should throw into\r\nthat gulf the best thing which they possessed, and they could\r\nonly understand thereby that, since they excelled in men and\r\narms, the gods had commanded that an armed man should be\r\ncast headlong into that destruction;—if he did this, shall we\r\nsay that that man has done a great thing for the eternal city\r\nwho may have died by a like death, not, however, precipitating\r\nhimself spontaneously into a gulf, but having suffered this\r\ndeath at the hands of some enemy of his faith, more especially\r\nwhen he has received from his Lord, who is also King of<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_212\">[Pg 212]</a></span>\r\nhis country, a more certain oracle, \"Fear not them who kill\r\nthe body, but cannot kill the soul?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_214_214\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_214_214\">[214]</a> If the Decii dedicated\r\nthemselves to death, consecrating themselves in a form of\r\nwords, as it were, that falling, and pacifying by their blood\r\nthe wrath of the gods, they might be the means of delivering\r\nthe Roman army;—if they did this, let not the holy martyrs\r\ncarry themselves proudly, as though they had done some meritorious\r\nthing for a share in that country where are eternal life\r\nand felicity, if even to the shedding of their blood, loving not\r\nonly the brethren for whom it was shed, but, according as had\r\nbeen commanded them, even their enemies by whom it was\r\nbeing shed, they have vied with one another in faith of love\r\nand love of faith. If Marcus Pulvillus, when engaged in\r\ndedicating a temple to Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva, received\r\nwith such indifference the false intelligence which was brought\r\nto him of the death of his son, with the intention of so agitating\r\nhim that he should go away, and thus the glory of dedicating\r\nthe temple should fall to his colleague;—if he received\r\nthat intelligence with such indifference that he even ordered\r\nthat his son should be cast out unburied, the love of glory\r\nhaving overcome in his heart the grief of bereavement, how\r\nshall any one affirm that he has done a great thing for the\r\npreaching of the gospel, by which the citizens of the heavenly\r\ncity are delivered from divers errors, and gathered together\r\nfrom divers wanderings, to whom his Lord has said, when\r\nanxious about the burial of his father, \"Follow me, and let\r\nthe dead bury their dead?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_215_215\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_215_215\">[215]</a> Regulus, in order not to break\r\nhis oath, even with his most cruel enemies, returned to them\r\nfrom Rome itself, because (as he is said to have replied to the\r\nRomans when they wished to retain him) he could not have\r\nthe dignity of an honourable citizen at Rome after having been\r\na slave to the Africans, and the Carthaginians put him to\r\ndeath with the utmost tortures, because he had spoken against\r\nthem in the senate. If Regulus acted thus, what tortures are\r\nnot to be despised for the sake of good faith toward that\r\ncountry to whose beatitude faith itself leads? Or what will\r\na man have rendered to the Lord for all He has bestowed upon\r\nhim, if, for the faithfulness he owes to Him, he shall have<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_213\">[Pg 213]</a></span>\r\nsuffered such things as Regulus suffered at the hands of his\r\nmost ruthless enemies for the good faith which he owed to\r\nthem? And how shall a Christian dare vaunt himself of his\r\nvoluntary poverty, which he has chosen in order that during\r\nthe pilgrimage of this life he may walk the more disencumbered\r\non the way which leads to the country where the true riches\r\nare, even God Himself;—how, I say, shall he vaunt himself\r\nfor this, when he hears or reads that Lucius Valerius, who\r\ndied when he was holding the office of consul, was so poor\r\nthat his funeral expenses were paid with money collected by\r\nthe people?—or when he hears that Quintius Cincinnatus,\r\nwho, possessing only four acres of land, and cultivating them\r\nwith his own hands, was taken from the plough to be made\r\ndictator,—an office more honourable even than that of consul,—and\r\nthat, after having won great glory by conquering the\r\nenemy, he preferred notwithstanding to continue in his poverty?\r\nOr how shall he boast of having done a great thing, who has\r\nnot been prevailed upon by the offer of any reward of this\r\nworld to renounce his connection with that heavenly and\r\neternal country, when he hears that Fabricius could not be prevailed\r\non to forsake the Roman city by the great gifts offered\r\nto him by Pyrrhus king of the Epirots, who promised him the\r\nfourth part of his kingdom, but preferred to abide there in his\r\npoverty as a private individual? For if, when their republic,—that\r\nis, the interest of the people, the interest of the country,\r\nthe common interest,—was most prosperous and wealthy, they\r\nthemselves were so poor in their own houses, that one of them,\r\nwho had already been twice a consul, was expelled from that\r\nsenate of poor men by the censor, because he was discovered\r\nto possess ten pounds weight of silver-plate,—since, I say,\r\nthose very men by whose triumphs the public treasury was\r\nenriched were so poor, ought not all Christians, who make\r\ncommon property of their riches with a far nobler purpose,\r\neven that (according to what is written in the Acts of the\r\nApostles) they may distribute to each one according to his\r\nneed, and that no one may say that anything is his own, but\r\nthat all things may be their common possession,<a id=\"FNanchor_216_216\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_216_216\">[216]</a>—ought they\r\nnot to understand that they should not vaunt themselves, because<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_214\">[Pg 214]</a></span>\r\nthey do that to obtain the society of angels, when those\r\nmen did well-nigh the same thing to preserve the glory of the\r\nRomans?</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK FIFTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-397"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"70c630521303cfda71b2e4e94f935b04501854f95fa52c7a740a1dcfa0648758","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume I","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Book IV)","J. 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