concerned, since how can we know what great abundance of grace was conferred
on her to conquer sin in every way, seeing that she merited to conceive and bear
him who certainly had no sin at all?”
The City of God Against the Pagans (Inter 410-427 AD):
Bk. 10 (Ante 417 AD)
“The homage due to man, of which the Apostle spoke when he commanded
servants to obey their masters, and which in Greek is called dulia, is distinct from
Latria, which denotes the homage that consists in the worship of God.”
Bk. 20, Ch. 9 (Ante 427 AD)
“Neither are the souls of the pious dead separated from the Church which even
now is the Kingdom of Christ. Otherwise there would be no remembrance of them
at the altar of God in the communication of the Body of Christ.”
Against the Pelagians (420 AD):
4, 10, 27
“Now let us see the third point which, in the Pelagians, is no less shocking to
Christ’s every member and to His whole body. They contend that in this life there
are or have been righteous men having no sin at all. By this presumption they
most clearly contradict the Lord’s Prayer, in which all the members of Christ cry
aloud with true heart these words to be said each day: ‘Forgive us our debts’.”
Adulterous Marriages (419 aut 420 AD):
50, 2
“For a woman is bound as long as her husband is alive. As a consequence,
therefore, the husband is also bound as long as the wife is alive. This bond renders
any further union impossible without the implication of adultery. Hence four
adulterers are produced of necessity from the two marriages whenever the wife
remarries and the husband marries an adulteress.”
The Annunciation of the Lord (Date Unknown):
3
“It is written (Ezekiel 44, 2): ‘This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and
no man shall pass through it. Because the Lord the God of Israel hath entered in
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