Complex sentence: Augustine, "Confessions" iv.3 This practice was very common among the early Christians, who substituted the Bible and the Psalter for Homer and Virgil: many councils repeatedly condemned these "Sortes Sanctorum" (sacred lots), as they were called.
Split into simpler sentences: Augustine, "Confessions" iv.3 This practice was very common among the early Christians, who substituted the Bible and the Psalter for Homer and Virgil. Many church councils repeatedly condemned these "Sortes Sanctorum" (sacred lots), as they were called.