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Death is the penalty of sin.
 • 348/A:2
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Mors est poena peccati.

— Augustine of Hippo

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Mors est poena peccati." in the context of "Death is the penalty of sin.
 • 348/A:2" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Augustine of Hippo

About Augustine of Hippo

St. Augustine of Hippo (13 November 354 – 28 August 430) was a Christian theologian, rhetor, North African bishop, Doctor of the Catholic Church, saint, and a philosopher influenced in his early years by Manichaeism and the Neo-Platonism of Plotinus.