 | Concetta Carestia Greenfield - 1981 - 356 pages
...The most important statement on this question is the passage in De doctrina Christiana (2. 440. 60) : Just as the Egyptians had not only idols and grave...clothing which the Israelites took with them secretly as they fled, as if to put them to a better use. They did not do this on their authority, but at God's... | |
 | Julia Reinhard Lupton - 1996 - 310 pages
...Doctrine, Augustine builds a scriptural precedent to defend Christian borrowing from classical learning: Just as the Egyptians had not only idols and grave...silver and clothing which the Israelites took with them when they fled, as if to put them to a better use. ... In the same way all the teachings of the pagans... | |
 | Theresa Enos - 1996 - 836 pages
...between 396 and 426(, Augustine used this figure to promote the conscientious use of pagan philosophy: Just as the Egyptians had not only idols and grave...ornaments of gold and silver and clothing which the Istaelites took with them secretly when they fled, as if to put them to better use. ilL x 1.60( Augustine... | |
 | David Lyle Jeffrey - 1996 - 420 pages
...accommodated to our faith, should not be feared." Rather they should be "converted" to Christian use. Just as the Egyptians had not only idols and grave burdens which the people of lsrael detested and avoided, so also they had vases and ornaments of gold and silver and clothing which... | |
 | J. Martin Evans - 1998 - 204 pages
...as from unjust possessors and converted to our use. Just as the Egyptians had not only idols . . . which the people of Israel detested and avoided, so...if to put them to a better use. ... In the same way all the teachings of the pagans contain not only simulated and superstitious imaginings . . . which... | |
 | John Shand - 2003 - 468 pages
...rather, what they have said should be taken from them as from unjust possessors and converted to our use. Just as the Egyptians had not only idols and grave...secretly when they fled, as if to put them to a better use.17 Philosophers after Augustine no longer had any qualms about incorporating elements of classical... | |
 | Julia Reinhard Lupton - 2005 - 291 pages
...(1953; reprint, New York: Harper and Row, 1971), i: 133-40. 30. See Augustine, Of Christian Doctrine: "Just as the Egyptians had not only idols and grave...silver and clothing which the Israelites took with them when they fled, as if to put them to a better use. ... In the same way, all the teachings of the pagans... | |
 | Julia Reinhard Lupton - 2005 - 291 pages
...also they had vases and ornaments of gold and silver and clothing which the Israelites took with them when they fled, as if to put them to a better use. ... In the same way, all the teachings of the pagans contain not only simulated and superstitious imaginings and grave burdens... | |
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Just as the Egyptians had not only idols and grave burdens which the people of Israel detested and avoided, so also they had vases and ornaments of gold and silver and clothing which the Israelites took with them secretly when they fled, as if to put... 