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This book is a critical edition of the first of two volumes of Saint Augustine's monumental work, De Civitate Dei, or The City of God. The book is a theological and philosophical meditation on the nature of human society and the relationship between the temporal and the eternal. The book is an important work of Christian theology, and a cornerstone of Western philosophical and literary tradition.
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