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On the government of God: a treatise wherein are shown by argument and by examples drawn from the abandoned society of the times the ways of God toward His creatures
of Marseilles Salvian and Eva Matthews Sanford
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Frontmatter
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INTRODUCTION
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I. A Fifth Century Tract for the Times (page 3)
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II. The Life of Salvian (page 5)
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III. Salvian's Literary Work (page 15)
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IV. On the Government of God (page 18)
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V. Style and Latinity (page 28)
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VI. The Editions of Salvian's Works (page 31)
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VII. Estimates of Salvian's Work (page 32)
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ON THE GOVERNMENT OF GOD
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Preface, to Salonius.--That the salutary purpose of the present work should atone for its lack of the vain adornments of rhetoric (page 37)
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Book I.--The government of God proved by the general conviction of mankind, and by his judgment recounted in the books of Moses (page 39)
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Book II.--The immediate judgment of God as seen in the history of King David (page 66)
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Book III.--On the obligations of the Christian life (page 77)
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Book IV.--On the oppressions wrought by the Roman nobles, and the guilt of Christians as compared with pagans (page 98)
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Book V.--On heresy, and on the oppression of the poor by the powerful throughout the Roman Empire (page 133)
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Book VI.--On the ruinous influence of circuses and spectacles (page 157)
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Book VII.--Wherein Roman vice is contrasted with Vandal virtue (page 189)
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Book VIII.--That the sins of the Romans are alone responsible for their ruin (page 224)
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BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 233)
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INDEX (page 235)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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AJP | 52.2 (1931): 196 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/290117 |
CP | 26.3 (Jul. 1931): 344 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/264521 |
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Published: 1930
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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