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POLITICS AND FINITUDE

night. Evening turns to morning only so long as—and on the condition that—the song
of God’s praise and love be sung. Of course, theattentiorequired to sustain time and
history as the permanence underlying the intermingled occurrence of the two cities—no
night—is immense, the more so since no clear lines of identity, whether personal or
institutional, can be discerned. Nor are those cities governed and held together from a
center. And yet, from the viewpoint of durability and perseverance—from grace, that
is—the city of God is what it is, anytime and anywhere, no more, no less.

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