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Week 6: Augustinus: De civitate dei.

Reading #3: De civitate dei, 22:17-18

Nonnulli [...] nec in sexu femineo resurrecturas feminas credunt, sed in uirili omnes aiunt,	nec = et non resurrecturas (esse) feminas: accusative + infinitive in indirect statement, introduced by credunt in virili (sexu resurrecturos esse) omnes: parallel structure Nonnulli credunt feminas resurrecturas (esse) non in sexu femineo, sed aiunt omnes (resurrecturos esse) in virili (sexu)
	according to some people, what kind of bodies will women have after they are resurrected?
quoniam Deus solum uirum fecit ex limo, feminam ex uiro.	feminam (Deus fecit) ex viro: parallel structure
	why do they believe that women will have the bodies of men after they are resurrected?
Sed mihi melius sapere uidentur qui utrumque sexum resurrecturum esse non dubitant.	sapere: complementary infinitive with videntur melius: neuter comparative of bonus, used as adverb videntur: passive of video in the sense of "seem, seem to" qui: relative pronoun (those who...) utrumque sexum resurrecturum esse: indirect statement, introducted by dubitant
	what does Augustine think instead?
Non enim libido ibi erit, quae confusionis est causa.	enim: postpositive erit: future quae: relative pronoun (antecedent is libido)
	what is going to be different after the resurrection?
Nam priusquam peccassent, nudi erant, et non confundebantur uir et femina.	peccassent = peccavissent: subjunctive
	how did things used to be before the "original sin"?
Corporibus ergo illis uitia detrahentur, natura seruabitur.	ergo: postpositive illis corporibus = corporibus feminarum detrahentur, servabitur: future tense verbs (i.e. in the future, when they will be resurrected after death)
	what will happen to women's bodies after the resurrection?
Non est autem uitium sexus femineus, sed natura.	autem: postpositive
	does Augustine think that to have a woman's body is a vice?
[...] Vt enim in exordio generis humani de latere uiri dormientis costa detracta femina fieret,	enim: postpositive generis: s.v. genus latere: s.v. latus costa detracta: ablative absolute ut...fieret: ut + subjunctive (see Biblical passage for the description of woman's creation in Genesis)
	how was the first woman's body created?
Christum et ecclesiam tali facto iam tunc prophetari oportebat.	tali facto = i.e., by the creation of woman from man prophetari: complementary infinitive with oportebat tunc: then, at that time (i.e. at the creation of mankind)
	what did this act of creation symbolize?
Sopor quippe ille uiri mors erat Christi,	quippe: postpositive sopor ille viri: the sleep of Adam
	what does the sleeping Adam symbolize?
cuius exanimis in cruce pendentis latus lancea perforatum est	cuius: relative pronoun (antecedent is Christus) exanimis: genitive singular, agrees with cuius pendentis: genitive singular, agrees with cuius latus: neuter singular, subject of verb perforatum est lancea: ablative
	what happened to Christ while on the cross?
atque inde sanguis et aqua defluxit;	inde: thence, from there (i.e. from the side of Christ) defluxit: s.v. defluo
	what came forth from the side of Christ?
quae sacramenta esse nouimus,	quae: relative pronoun (neuter plural, "these things") esse: infinitive in indirect statement, introduced by novimus quae = haec (sanguinem et aquam), accusative subject of infinitive esse, in indirect statement, introducted by novimus
	what is this water and this blood?
quibus aedificatur ecclesia.	quibus: relative pronoun (antecedent is haec sacramenta)
	what is the foundation of the church, according to Augustine?

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