City of God by Augustine (available from Amazon or free on the internet, here for example)
And then in one chapter at the end of Book 16 we are given a whirlwind summary of the city of God during the period of Moses, Joshua, the judges and the kings.
What grabbed me
A good lesson was taught from Lot's life: 'After this promise Lot was delivered out of Sodom, and a fiery rain from heaven turned into ashes that whole region of the impious city, where custom had made sodomy as prevalent as laws have elsewhere made other kinds of wickedness. But this punishment of theirs was a specimen of the divine judgment to come. For what is meant by the angels forbidding those who were delivered to look back, but that we are not to look back in heart to the old life which, being regenerated through grace, we have put off, if we think to escape the last judgment? Lot’s wife, indeed, when she looked back, remained, and, being turned into salt, furnished to believing men a condiment by which to savor somewhat the warning to be drawn from that example.'
We are not supposed to long for our old life of sin. Don't look back.
Commence Book 17 by reading Chapters 1 to 8.
Now it's your turn
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