St. Augustine, Of the citie of God vvith the learned comments of Io. Lod. Viues. Englished by I.H.

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Title: St. Augustine, Of the citie of God vvith the learned comments of Io. Lod. Viues. Englished by I.H.
Author: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
Publication: London :: Printed by George Eld,; 1610.
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L. VIVES.

WH•…•… (a) they] 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 is a messenger: and thence in the Greekès we read often 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, * 1.1 the messengers face. Euripid. Iphgen. So the Daemones being held the goddes messengers and interpretors, are called Angeli, and so is Mercury for his office: Trismegistus and Capella both call him so, and auerre the duenesse of his name as declaring our secret thought to the higher powers. (b) Wee (as Scripture] The Ghospell speakes much of good Angels, and Christ nameth the diuels Angels. (c) Pagans] I said before, that after Christ was borne, the name of a Daemon grew into suspect, and so into hatred, as the epithite of an euill essence, as well to the vulgar as the Phylosophers.

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* 1.1

〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…t it is.

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