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And that you are yet alive is due to God, who spares you that you may
be admonished to repent and reform your lives. It is He who has
permitted you, ungrateful as you are, to escape the sword of the
enemy, by calling yourselves His servants, or by finding asylum in
the sacred places of the martyrs.
It is said that Romulus and Remus, in order to increase the
population of the city they founded, opened a sanctuary in which every
man might find asylum and absolution of all crime, a remarkable
foreshadowing of what has recently occurred in honor of Christ. The
destroyers of Rome followed the example of its founders. But it was
not greatly to their credit that the latter, for the sake of increasing
tile number of their citizens, did that which the former have done,
lest the number of their enemies should be diminished.
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