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probably with the help of scribes
Both Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquinas fully supported the use of [[capital punishment]].<ref>[https://www.traditioninaction.org/religious/n012rp_DeathPenalty_Aquinas.htm St. Augustine and St. Thomas In Favor of the Death Penalty]</ref>
Both Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquinas fully supported the use of [[capital punishment]].<ref>[https://www.traditioninaction.org/religious/n012rp_DeathPenalty_Aquinas.htm St. Augustine and St. Thomas In Favor of the Death Penalty]</ref>
Augustine wrote about 5 million words that survive today -- much of it searchable in English online,<ref>[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1156 The Gutenberg Project has several online in English]</ref><ref>[https://www.online-literature.com/saint-augustine/ some of his combined works searchable here at the Literature Network]</ref> compared with an estimated 8 million words written by Aquinas. Augustine wrote in [[Latin]].
Augustine wrote about 5 million words that survive today -- much of it searchable in English online,<ref>[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1156 The Gutenberg Project has several online in English]</ref><ref>[https://www.online-literature.com/saint-augustine/ some of his combined works searchable here at the Literature Network]</ref> compared with an estimated 8 million words written by Aquinas. Augustine wrote in [[Latin]], probably with the help of scribes.
Augustine was mistaken on two points: he felt that the [[Gospel of Matthew]] was written before the [[Gospel of Mark]] (the reverse is true), and he felt that any conflicts in the [[Bible]] with [[science]] should be viewed as allegory rather than [[truth]] (in fact, science is what has been repeatedly shown to be false whenever it has conflicted with the Bible, see [[Biblical scientific foreknowledge]]).
Augustine was mistaken on two points: he felt that the [[Gospel of Matthew]] was written before the [[Gospel of Mark]] (the reverse is true), and he felt that any conflicts in the [[Bible]] with [[science]] should be viewed as allegory rather than [[truth]] (in fact, science is what has been repeatedly shown to be false whenever it has conflicted with the Bible, see [[Biblical scientific foreknowledge]]).