{"id":507,"date":"2011-03-04T12:17:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T20:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/?p=507"},"modified":"2024-03-26T12:36:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T19:36:26","slug":"two-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/2011\/03\/04\/two-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-508\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/03\/TWOCITIES.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/03\/TWOCITIES.jpg 545w, https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/03\/TWOCITIES-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/03\/TWOCITIES-500x229.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Augustine of Hippo (354 \u2013 430):<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em><span style=\"font-size: large\">Mankind is divided into two sorts: such as live according to man, and such as live according to God. These we call the two cities&#8230;. The Heavenly City outshines Rome. There, instead of victory, is truth.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;color: #888888\"><em>From St. Augustine&#8217;s classic work, The City of God<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>What about you? What city are you living in? <em>Are you living\u2014ultimately\u2014in the city of God? Or are you living\u2014ultimately\u2014in the city of man?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augustine of Hippo (354 \u2013 430): Mankind is divided into two sorts: such as live according to man, and such as live according to God. These we call the two cities&#8230;. The Heavenly City outshines Rome. There, instead of victory, is truth. From St. Augustine&#8217;s classic work, The City of God What about you? What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[989],"tags":[1039,1043,1041,1045,1044,1042,1046,1040],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-quotes","tag-augustine-of-hippo","tag-citizenship","tag-heavenly-city","tag-holiness","tag-holy","tag-rome","tag-set-apart","tag-two-cities","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8815,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/8815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}