Although they do not inquire into the future, and either forget or
do not know the past, yet defame present times as most unusually beset,
as it were, by evils because there is belief in Christ and worship
of God, and increasingly less worship of idols...
-- Paulus Orosius, The Seven Books of History Against the Pagans, 418 A.D.
do not know the past, yet defame present times as most unusually beset,
as it were, by evils because there is belief in Christ and worship
of God, and increasingly less worship of idols...
-- Paulus Orosius, The Seven Books of History Against the Pagans, 418 A.D.
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