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1 Int | the first effort is the Confessions, which is his most familiar
2 Int | twenty years later. In the Confessions, he stands on the threshold
3 Int | episcopal duties he began his Confessions, completing them probably
4 Int | sustained prayer to God.~The Confessions are not Augustine’s autobiography.
5 Int | does not read far in the Confessions before he recognizes that
6 Int | reconciliation.~Thus the Confessions are by no means complete
7 Int, 0(1) | to be compared with the Confessions to see how different they
8 Int, 1 | bookshelf.”~Taken together, the Confessions and the Enchiridion give
9 Int, 1 | his allegorizing (e.g., Confessions, Bk. XIII, or Enchiridion,
10 Int, 1 | useful critical text of the Confessions is that of Pierre de Labriolle (
11 Int, 1 | TESTIMONY CONCERNING~THE CONFESSIONS~ ~I. The Retractations,
12 Int, 1 | II, 6 (A.D. 427)~ ~1. My Confessions, in thirteen books, praise
13 Int, 1 | the [thirteen] books of my Confessions? And, although I published
14 Int, 1 | son, take the books of my Confessions and use them as a good man
15 Int, 1 | 33, c. 1025).~~ ~ ~The Confessions of Saint Augustine~ ~
16 2, III(47) | and aim in writing these "confessions."~
17 5, I | Accept this sacrifice of my confessions from the hand of my tongue.
18 5, X | at me if they read these confessions. Yet such was I.~
19 6, XII(207) | scholastic metaphysics; cf. Confessions, Bks. XII-XIII, and Thomas
20 6, XVII(214)| visions reported in the Confessions; the other is, of course,
21 8, VIII | hasten. Receive, O my God, my confessions and thanksgiving for the
22 8, XIII | them as shall read these confessions may also at thy altar remember
23 8, XIII | gained for her through these confessions of mine than by my prayers
24 9 | motives for these written “confessions,” and seeks to chart the
25 9, III | that men should hear my confessions as if it were they who were
26 9, III | gain in doing this? For the confessions of my past sins (which thou
27 9, III | very moment of making my confessions? Many different people desire
28 9, III | that I am not lying in my confessions, and the love in them believes
29 9, IV | then, is the fruit of my confessions (not of what I was, but
30 10, I(406) | the very first sentence of Confessions, Bk. I, Ch. I. Here we have
31 10, I(406) | and recurrent motif of the Confessions from beginning to end: the
32 10, I(406) | concluding section of the Confessions, Bks. XI-XIII, with the
33 10, III(419) | both written before the Confessions); De Genesi ad litteram,
34 10, III(419) | both written after the Confessions).~
35 10, XX(437) | Augustine's thought in the Confessions: from direct experience
36 11, VI(463) | Augustine dictating his Confessions? It is very probable.~
37 11, XVI | God, the judge between my confessions and their gainsaying.”~
38 11, XXIV(492)| a constant theme in the Confessions as a whole; a further indication
39 11, XXVI | my toil, who hearest my confessions and forgivest my sins, since
40 11, XXX | Moses, these would not be my confessions did I not confess to thee
41 12 | survey to a climax and his confessions to an end with a meditation
42 12, XXIV(632)| motif in the whole of his "confessions": the primacy of God, His
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