Res divina
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Res divina Latin for service of the gods, was the laws of the Roman state that dealt with the religious duties of the state and its officials. Roman law was divided into res divina and res publica. (The term res publica then became the title of the state.)
Res divina also means, as a technical term, ritual sacrifice; Augustine played on this, and the root sense of "divine concern" to form a new Christian term.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ J. Den Boeft. "Some Etymologies in Augustine's De Civitate Dei X" Vigiliae Christianae 1979 p. 250. Accessed on JSTOR 26 June 2007.
