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1 Int | religious authority.~At the same time, it was this essentially
2 Int | theological revival of our own time, the influence of Augustine
3 Int | nature, even down to our own time. Augustine is an essential
4 Int | of will and reason, of time and eternity, of creation
5 Int | succeeding centuries. At the same time the hallmark of the Augustinian
6 Int | Eastertide, A.D. 387. A short time later his mother, Monica,
7 Int | distinctively Christian. But by the time of his ordination to the
8 Int | sins.” But, at the same time, and more importantly, confiteri
9 Int | therefore, we discover why time is such a problem and how “
10 Int, 1 | bears the marks of his own time and there is much in these
11 1, III | that same part at the same time? Do singulars contain thee
12 1, VI | whom thou didst form me in time - for I cannot myself remember.
13 1, VII | myself? In what ways, in that time, did I sin? Was it that
14 1, VII | was it good, even in that time, to strive to get by crying
15 1, VII | what have I to do with a time from which I can recall
16 1, IX | sons of Adam. About this time, O Lord, I observed men
17 1, XI | perilous.~Thus, at that time, I “believed” along with
18 1, XI | baptism was deferred at that time? Was it indeed for my good
19 1, XII | CHAPTER XII~ ~19. But in this time of childhood - which was
20 1, XIII | learn it. There was also a time when, as an infant, I knew
21 2, III | holiday from school for a time - this idleness imposed
22 2, VIII | this? For had I at that time loved the pears that I stole
23 3, II | things?”59~4. But at that time, in my wretchedness, I loved
24 3, III | their blindness. And by this time I had become a master in
25 3, IV | did this, in Cicero’s own time and earlier, are censored
26 3, IV | bodily.”63 Since at that time, as thou knowest, O Light
27 3, VII | who had many wives at one time, and who killed men and
28 3, VII | lawful may become, after a time, unlawful - and something
29 3, VIII | 15. Can it ever, at any time or place, be unrighteous
30 3, IX | command at that particular time; and even though it may
31 3, IX | necessary at that particular time or they foreshow things
32 3, XI | dashed down. But all that time this chaste, pious, and
33 3, XII | But let him alone for a time,” he said, “only pray God
34 3, XII | to tell her at the same time how he himself, as a boy,
35 4, III | 5. There was at that time a wise man, very skillful
36 4, III | for myself.~But at that time, neither the proconsul nor
37 4, IV | that thou didst do at that time, O my God; how unsearchable
38 4, IV | myself cared little, at the time, presuming that his soul
39 4, V | these things are past and time has healed my wound. Let
40 4, VI | these things? Now is not the time to ask such questions, but
41 4, VI | them. Thus it was at that time with me. I wept most bitterly,
42 4, VIII | CHAPTER VIII~ ~13. Time never lapses, nor does it
43 4, VIII | things in the mind. Lo, time came and went from day to
44 4, X | not all exist at the same time, but by passing away and
45 4, XI | whatever exists in the present time should also pass away so
46 4, XIII | did not understand at that time, and I loved those inferior
47 5, III | what is thine. At the same time, with the most perverse
48 5, VI | delighted them. At the same time I realized that there is
49 5, VI | and gained his ear at a time when it was not inconvenient
50 5, VII | content myself, for the time being, with what I had stumbled
51 5, VIII | of my soul. At the same time, thou didst offer me at
52 5, VIII | although, at the very same time, thou wast using my longings
53 5, X | concealed in Rome at that time144 - made me slower to seek
54 5, X(143) | was known in Augustine's time chiefly through the writings
55 5, XIII | were aware of it at the time. They recommended that Symmachus,
56 6, I | finding the truth.~By this time my mother had come to me,
57 6, III | was never for long at a time - he was either refreshing
58 6, III | After we had sat for a long time in silence - for who would
59 6, III | distracted in the little time he could gain for the recruiting
60 6, III | material as he wished, if his time was occupied with others.
61 6, IV | because during the long time I had been deluded and deceived
62 6, IV | life,”157 while at the same time he drew aside the mystic
63 6, IV | taught was true. For all this time I restrained my heart from
64 6, V | V~ ~7. Still, from this time forward, I began to prefer
65 6, VI | How wretched I was at that time, and how thou didst deal
66 6, VI | increasing it at the same time - still and all we aimed
67 6, VI | true joy, but, at the same time, with all my ambitions,
68 6, VI | vanity. Yet, at the same time, this beggar was beyond
69 6, VII | a public school. At that time he was not attending my
70 6, VII | I had no thought at that time of curing Alypius of that
71 6, X | Treasury. There was at that time a very powerful senator
72 6, X | who clung to me at that time and who wavered in his purpose,
73 6, XI | I remembered how long a time had passed since my nineteenth
74 6, XI | heart hither and thither, time was slipping away. I delayed
75 6, XII | he had lived from that time down to the present most
76 6, I | absolutely nothing. For at that time my mind dwelt only with
77 6, V | unmeasured intervals of time in the past, and why, then,
78 6, V | out of it after so long a time? Or, if he wished now all
79 6, VI | told him that, at the same time his mother was about to
80 6, VI | knew instantly the exact time. It turned out, Firminus
81 6, VI | elevated to honors. At the same time, the slave, the yoke of
82 6, VII | soul, for which neither time nor speech was sufficient,
83 6, IX | wise. But, that “in due time, Christ died for the ungodly”
84 6, XV | after unnumbered periods of time - because all ages, both
85 6, XIX | all about it. For at one time to move the limbs by an
86 6, XIX | act of will, at another time not; at one time to feel
87 6, XIX | another time not; at one time to feel some emotion, at
88 6, XIX | some emotion, at another time not; at one time to speak
89 6, XIX | another time not; at one time to speak intelligibly through
90 7, V | a reason for giving his time wholly to thee. For this
91 7, VI | servants, although up to that time not familiar to me. When
92 7, VII | oppresses you. At the same time those who have not worn
93 7, X | course, open at the same time, and rob another man’s house;
94 7, X | concurring in the same space of time and all being equally longed
95 7, X | impossible to do at one time. For the mind is pulled
96 7, X | equally and all at the same time? Do not different wills
97 7, XII | was the way I felt at the time, and he realized it. I suppose
98 8, II | wait until the vacation time now so near. For if I had
99 8, II | a public office ahead of time, and had made the break
100 8, II | how near was the vintage time that I wished to anticipate
101 8, II | then, I bore it until my time ran out - it was perhaps
102 8, IV | When would there be enough time to recount all thy great
103 8, IV | didst bestow on us in that time, especially as I am hastening
104 8, IV | heard my words when, in that time of leisure, I pored over
105 8, IV(281) | Ever since the time of Ignatius of Antioch who
106 8, IV | goods which are wasted by time, for now I possessed, in
107 8, IV | of thy mercy. During that time thou didst torture me with
108 8, VI | CHAPTER VI~ ~14. When the time arrived for me to give in
109 8, VI | again in thee at the same time. He was already clothed
110 8, VII | disturbed city.~This was the time that the custom began, after
111 8, VII | mightest produce them at a fit time to check a woman’s fury -
112 8, VII | them over? And yet at that time, when the sweet savor of
113 8, VIII | overflowing buoyancy of her time of life, which bubbles up
114 8, VIII | What didst thou do at that time, O my God? How didst thou
115 8, VIII | happened to break out at that time and place; or perhaps she
116 8, XI | day and was for a short time quite unconscious. We hurried
117 8, XI | fear that, at the end of time, he should not know the
118 8, XIII | not dare say that from the time thou didst regenerate her
119 9, V | continue not to know until the time when my “darkness is as
120 9, VI | beauty, nor the splendor of time, nor the radiance of the
121 9, VI | place can contain, where time does not snatch away the
122 9, VIII | I wish; and at the same time, sounds do not break in
123 9, XI | even for short intervals of time, they are again so submerged -
124 9, XV | present in me. At the same time, unless there were some
125 9, XX | have been happy once on a time - either each of us individually
126 9, XXIV | retained in my memory from the time I learned of thee. For where
127 9, XXIV | who is the Truth. From the time I learned this I have not
128 9, XXIV | forgotten. And thus since the time I learned of thee, thou
129 9, XXV | dwell in my memory from the time I learned of thee. But why
130 9, XXV | remembered thee from the time I learned of thee, and I
131 9, XXX | Am I not myself at such a time, O Lord my God? And is there
132 9, XXXI | medicine. But during that time when I pass from the pinch
133 9, XXXIV | sight affect me all the time I am awake. There is no
134 10 | Creator and the Creation in time. Augustine ties together
135 10 | questions of the mode and time of creation. He ponders
136 10 | beginning of the world and time and shows that time and
137 10 | and time and shows that time and creation are cotemporal.
138 10 | cotemporal. But what is time? To this Augustine devotes
139 10 | analysis of the subjectivity of time and the relation of all
140 10, I | thee? Or, dost thou see in time an event at the time it
141 10, I | in time an event at the time it occurs? If not, then
142 10, II | sufficiently, the drops of time410 are very precious to
143 10, II | me and I have for a long time been burning with the desire
144 10, II(410) | An interesting symbol of time's ceaseless passage; the
145 10, III(419) | and involved analysis of time and creation which follows
146 10, VI | of a creature, itself in time, which sounded that voice,
147 10, VI | which were formed at that time the outer ear conveyed to
148 10, VI | those words which sounded in time with thy eternal word sounding
149 10, VI | earth by whose motions in time that voice might have had
150 10, VI | have had its occurrence in time. But there was nothing corporeal
151 10, VII | all things, at the same time and forever. For, otherwise,
152 10, VII | otherwise, we should have time and change and not a true
153 10, VII | coeternal with thee, at the same time and always thou sayest all
154 10, VII | speaking are made at the same time and always.~
155 10, XI | They would see that a long time does not become long, except
156 10, XI | let it431 see that all time past is forced to move on
157 10, XI(431) | heart" of those who confuse time and eternity.~
158 10, XIII | over the images of past time, and wonder that thou, the
159 10, XIII | ages? Or what periods of time would those be that were
160 10, XIII | times, if there was any time before thou madest heaven
161 10, XIII | For thou madest that very time itself, and periods could
162 10, XIII | procession. But if there was no time before heaven and earth,
163 10, XIII | then” when there was no time.~16. Nor dost thou precede
164 10, XIII | precede any given period of time by another period of time.
165 10, XIII | time by another period of time. Else thou wouldst not precede
166 10, XIII | not precede all periods of time. In the eminence of thy
167 10, XIII | thee.”433 Thou madest all time and before all times thou
168 10, XIII | art, and there was never a time when there was no time.~
169 10, XIII | a time when there was no time.~
170 10, XIV | CHAPTER XIV~ ~17. There was no time, therefore, when thou hadst
171 10, XIV | because thou hadst made time itself. And there are no
172 10, XIV | not be times.~For what is time? Who can easily and briefly
173 10, XIV | familiarly or knowingly than time? And surely we understand
174 10, XIV | speak of it.~What, then, is time? If no one asks me, I know
175 10, XIV | there would be no past time; and if nothing were still
176 10, XIV | there would be no future time; and if there were nothing
177 10, XIV | there would be no present time.~But, then, how is it that
178 10, XIV | and did not pass into past time, it obviously would not
179 10, XIV | it obviously would not be time but eternity. If, then,
180 10, XIV | but eternity. If, then, time present - if it be time -
181 10, XIV | time present - if it be time - comes into existence only
182 10, XIV | only because it passes into time past, how can we say that
183 10, XIV | can we not truly say that time is only as it tends toward
184 10, XV | And yet we speak of a long time and a short time; but never
185 10, XV | a long time and a short time; but never speak this way
186 10, XV | speak this way except of time past and future. We call
187 10, XV | ago, for example, a long time past. In like manner, we
188 10, XV | hundred years hence a long time to come. But we call ten
189 10, XV | call ten days ago a short time past; and ten days hence
190 10, XV | and ten days hence a short time to come. But in what sense
191 10, XV | even here? For that long time past: was it long when it
192 10, XV | us not, therefore, say, “Time past was long,” for we shall
193 10, XV | Rather, let us say that “time present was long, because
194 10, XV | soul, see whether present time can be long, for it has
195 10, XV | and measure the periods of time. How, then, will you answer
196 10, XV | years when present a long time? But, first, see whether
197 10, XV | current, then it is present time, and the other ninety and
198 10, XV | itself present one at a time, but the rest are either
199 10, XV | Thus it comes out that time present, which we found
200 10, XV | which we found was the only time that could be called “long,”
201 10, XV | future. If any fraction of time be conceived that cannot
202 10, XV | alone is what we may call time present. But this flies
203 10, XV | Where, therefore, is that time which we may call “long”?
204 10, XV | long. But in that case, time present cries aloud, in
205 10, XV(434) | extension either in space or time.~
206 10, XVI | do perceive intervals of time, and we compare them with
207 10, XVI | much longer or shorter this time may be than that time. And
208 10, XVI | this time may be than that time. And we say that this time
209 10, XVI | time. And we say that this time is twice as long, or three
210 10, XVI | as long, while this other time is only just as long as
211 10, XVI | we measure the passage of time when we measure the intervals
212 10, XVI | measured? Therefore, while time is passing, it can be perceived
213 10, XVII | have also taught boys - time past, time present, and
214 10, XVII | taught boys - time past, time present, and time future?
215 10, XVII | past, time present, and time future? Who can say that
216 10, XVII | can say that there is only time present because the other
217 10, XVII | but when, from the future, time becomes present, it proceeds
218 10, XVIII | longer, still exists in time past, which does not now
219 10, XVIII | this premeditation is in time present; but that the action
220 10, XVIII | then that action will be in time present, because then it
221 10, XVIII | then it is no longer in time future.~24. Whatever may
222 10, XVIII | that is, they are still in time future), but perhaps, instead,
223 10, XVIII | conceptions before them in time present.~Let me take an
224 10, XVIII | to rise. What I see is in time present, what I predict
225 10, XVIII | present, what I predict is in time future - not that the sun
226 10, XVIII | These two435 are seen in time present, in order that the
227 10, XVIII | that the event which is in time future may be predicted.~
228 10, XX | there are three times: a time present of things past;
229 10, XX | present of things past; a time present of things present;
230 10, XX | of things present; and a time present of things future.
231 10, XX | could not see them. The time present of things past is
232 10, XX | things past is memory; the time present of things present
233 10, XX | is direct experience; the time present of things future
234 10, XXI | that we measure periods of time as they pass so that we
235 10, XXI | that we can say that this time is twice as long as that
236 10, XXI | for the other fractions of time which we can count by measuring.~
237 10, XXI | saying, we measure periods of time as they pass. And if anyone
238 10, XXI | how do we measure present time since it has no extension?
239 10, XXI | measure, unless it is a time of some length? For we cannot
240 10, XXI | ways in which we speak of time, except in terms of the
241 10, XXI | length of the periods of time. But in what “length,” then,
242 10, XXI | then, do we measure passing time? Is it in the future, from
243 10, XXII | not know.~We speak of this time and that time, and these
244 10, XXII | speak of this time and that time, and these times and those
245 10, XXIII | moon, and stars constituted time; and I did not agree. For
246 10, XXIII | of all bodies constitute time? What if the lights of heaven
247 10, XXIII | round: would there be no time by which we might measure
248 10, XXIII | not also be speaking in time? Or would there not be in
249 10, XXIII | the first took a longer time to sound, and the others
250 10, XXIII | and the others a shorter time? O God, grant men to see
251 10, XXIII | there was, therefore, no time.~30. I thirst to know the
252 10, XXIII | power and the nature of time, by which we measure the
253 10, XXIII | not only to the length of time that the sun is above the
254 10, XXIII | sun stood still, as much time passed as the sun usually
255 10, XXIII | called a day, but rather what time is, for it is by time that
256 10, XXIII | what time is, for it is by time that we measure the circuit
257 10, XXIII | finished in half the period of time that it customarily takes
258 10, XXIII | heavenly bodies constitute time. For when the sun stood
259 10, XXIII | the sun stood still but time went on. For in as long
260 10, XXIII | For in as long a span of time as was sufficient the battle
261 10, XXIII | ended.442~I see, then, that time is a certain kind of extension.
262 10, XXIV | agree if anyone says that time is “the motion of a body”?
263 10, XXIV | no body is moved but in time; this thou tellest me. But
264 10, XXIV | motion of a body itself is time I do not hear; thou dost
265 10, XXIV | body is moved, I measure by time how long it was moving from
266 10, XXIV | long it was moving from the time when it began to be moved
267 10, XXIV | movement, except from the time when I began to see it until
268 10, XXIV | I look at it for a long time, I can affirm only that
269 10, XXIV | can affirm only that the time is long but not how long
270 10, XXIV | these two is to be called time. For, although a body is
271 10, XXIV | rest as well; and both by time! Thus we say, “It stood
272 10, XXIV | to our custom. Therefore, time is not the motion of a body.~
273 10, XXV | still ignorant as to what time is. And again I confess
274 10, XXV | speaking all these things in time, and that I have already
275 10, XXV | I have already spoken of time a long time, and that “very
276 10, XXV | already spoken of time a long time, and that “very long” is
277 10, XXV | measured by the duration of time. How, then, do I know this,
278 10, XXV | when I do not know what time is? Or, is it possible that
279 10, XXVI | do measure intervals of time? But what is it that I thus
280 10, XXVI | the motion of a body by time, but the time itself I do
281 10, XXVI | a body by time, but the time itself I do not measure.
282 10, XXVI | unless I could measure the time in which it is moving?~How,
283 10, XXVI | then, do I measure this time itself? Do we measure a
284 10, XXVI | Do we measure a longer time by a shorter time, as we
285 10, XXVI | longer time by a shorter time, as we measure the length
286 10, XXVI | measure space rather than time - but when we speak the
287 10, XXVI | But no certain measure of time is obtained this way; since
288 10, XXVI | slowly, it may take up more time than a longer one if it
289 10, XXVI | this it appears to me that time is nothing other than extendedness;445
290 10, XXVI | say either, roughly, “This time is longer than that,” or,
291 10, XXVI | know that I am measuring time. But I am not measuring
292 10, XXVI | that I am measuring? Is it time in its passage, but not
293 10, XXVI | in its passage, but not time past [praetereuntia tempora,
294 10, XXVI(445) | extensae, and its relation to time.~
295 10, XXVII | extended into some interval of time in which it might be measured,
296 10, XXVII | off. For we measure the time interval itself from some
297 10, XXVII(447)| raised in his analysis of time.~
298 10, XXVII | I measure the periods of time. Do not shout me down that
299 10, XXVII | I measure the periods of time. I measure as time present
300 10, XXVII | periods of time. I measure as time present the impression that
301 10, XXVII | when I measure periods of time. Either, then, these are
302 10, XXVII | these are the periods of time or else I do not measure
303 10, XXVII | or else I do not measure time at all.~What are we doing
304 10, XXVII | silence in a given span of time? For, even when both the
305 10, XXVII | motions, and we specify their time spans - how long this is
306 10, XXVII | silence gone through a span of time, and committed his sound
307 10, XXVII(449)| This theory of time is worth comparing with
308 10, XXVIII | things past. Who denies that time present has no length, since
309 10, XXVIII | absent. Therefore, future time, which is nonexistent, is
310 10, XXVIII | expectation of the future.” Nor is time past, which is now no longer,
311 10, XXX | see that where there is no time they cannot say “never.”
312 10, XXX | say that it was made in no time at all? Let them therefore
313 10, XXX | see that there could be no time without a created world,
314 10, XXX | there is a creature “above time.”~
315 10, XXXI(453) | transition from this analysis of time in Bk. XI to the exploration
316 11, VIII | numbered. The periods of time are measured by the changes
317 11, IX | without any lapse from the time in which it was created,
318 11, IX | all the rolling change of time. But this shapelessness -
319 11, XI | change and is extended by no time.~O blessed one - if such
320 11, XI | suffers no vicissitudes of time. This, in thy sight, is
321 11, XI | without motion there is no time, and where there is no form
322 11, XII | not within intervals of time, although neither is coeternal
323 11, XII | motion or of rest), and so time has no hold upon it. But
324 11, XII | that in them the changes of time may take place through the
325 11, XIII | these things. Thus, for the time being I understand that “
326 11, XV | changed in no respect by time and that his will is not
327 11, XV | although we can find no time before it (for wisdom was
328 11, XV | s - although we find no time before it, since what has
329 11, XV | precedes the creation of time. Still, the eternity of
330 11, XV | as created, though not in time (since time as yet was not),
331 11, XV | though not in time (since time as yet was not), even though
332 11, XV | yet was not), even though time belongs to its created nature.~
333 11, XV | Selfsame. Yet we find that time is not only not before it,
334 11, XVI | all of this at the same time, since thou art the one
335 11, XXII | received that beauty at the time God said of them, ‘Let the
336 11, XXVI | if I had been born in his time, and if thou hadst placed
337 11, XXVI | I had been Moses at the time that he was, and if I had
338 11, XXVII | begun and ended, sounding in time and then passing away, followed
339 11, XXVIII | thee or whether, removed in time and place by various degrees,
340 11, XXIX | eternity, and what proceeds in time; what comes from choice,
341 11, XXIX | priority is not that of a time interval. For in time we
342 11, XXIX | a time interval. For in time we do not first utter formless
343 11, XXIX | Such materials precede in time the forms of the things
344 11, XXIX | sound is heard at the same time. There is not first a formless
345 11, XXIX | Nor is the sound first in time, for it is given forth together
346 11, XXIX | formlessness was not made first in time, because the form of things
347 11, XXIX | of things gives rise to time; but now, in time, it is
348 11, XXIX | rise to time; but now, in time, it is intuited together
349 11, XXIX | it were the first in the time series though the last in
350 11, XXXII | of mind, what length of time, would suffice for all thy
351 11, XXXII(504)| that Augustine devotes more time and space to these opening
352 12, X | state than this from the time it was made, so that it
353 12, X | distinction between the time when we were darkness and
354 12, X | we were darkness and the time when we were made light.
355 12, XV | without any syllables in time, what thy eternal will intends.
356 12, XV | mercy, which proclaims in time thee who madest all times. “
357 12, XV | see him - although that time is not yet.~
358 12, XVIII | not be until the end of time. Thus thou dost grant the
359 12, XXVI | in Thessalonica you sent time and time again, according
360 12, XXVI | Thessalonica you sent time and time again, according to my need.”642
361 12, XXVIII | And there is the eighth time when thou didst see all
362 12, XXIX | found that there was no “time” in thy seeing which would
363 12, XXIX | But it speaks in terms of time, whereas time does not affect
364 12, XXIX | in terms of time, whereas time does not affect my Word -
365 12, XXIX | you see those things in time, I do not see them in time;
366 12, XXIX | time, I do not see them in time; and when you speak those
367 12, XXIX | you speak those things in time, I do not speak them in
368 12, XXIX | I do not speak them in time.”~
369 12, XXX | might not be able a second time to rebel against thee. And,
370 12, XXXII | these that the intervals of time are marked and noted. We
371 12, XXXIII | beginning and an end in time - a rising and a setting,
372 12, XXXIII | created by thee at the same time that thou didst form its
373 12, XXXIII | without any interval of time. Yet, since the matter of
374 12, XXXIII | both were done at the same time, so that form followed matter
375 12, XXXIV | and evening. But when, in time, thou didst begin to unfold
376 12, XXXIV | the things destined before time, so that thou mightest make
377 12, XXXVII | rest. Thou seest not in time, thou movest not in time,
378 12, XXXVII | time, thou movest not in time, thou restest not in time.
379 12, XXXVII | time, thou restest not in time. And yet thou makest all
380 12, XXXVII | things which are seen in time - indeed, the very times
381 12, XXXVII | that proceeds in and from time.~
382 12, XXXVIII | And now, in this present time, we have been moved to do
383 12, XXXVIII | Spirit; but in the former time, having forsaken thee, we
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