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1 12, XIV(555) | Cf. Ps. 119:105.~
2 4, IV(94) | Cf. Ps. 106:2.~
3 8, XIII(317) | Ps. 119:108.~
4 9, XXXVIII(389)| Ps. 109:22.~
5 12, XVII(581) | Cf. Gen. 1:10f.~
6 11, II(457) | Vulgate, Ps. 113:16 (cf. Ps. 115:16, K.J.;
7 Int | conciliorum, II, 671, and IV, 1167) - he was consecrated assistant
8 10, I(409) | Ps. 118:1; cf. Ps. 136.~
9 6, XX(223) | Cf. 1 Cor. 3:11f.~
10 9, XXXIV(378) | Ps. 121:4.~
11 10, X(429) | Sermon CCLXVII, 2 (PL 38, c. 1230), Augustine has a similar
12 12, XXI(614) | chrétienne, Vol. 14, cols. 1246-1252, for a full account
13 8, III(272) | Ps. 125:3.~
14 12, XXI(614) | chrétienne, Vol. 14, cols. 1246-1252, for a full account of the
15 12, IX(523) | Canticum graduum. Psalms 119 to 133 as numbered in the Vulgate
16 5, III(123) | Cf. Ps. 138:6.~
17 1, I(6) | Cf. Ps. 145:3 and Ps. 147:5.~
18 5, XIII(147) | Ps. 119:155.~
19 6, X(205) | Labriolle, op. cit., I, p. 162.~
20 9, XIV(338) | Sons, New York, 1940), pp. 173-188; and E. Gilson, The
21 11, XV(478) | Ps. 119:176.~
22 7, VI(253) | British Quarterly Review (1875), 62, pp. 1-45.~
23 9, XIV(338) | New York, 1940), pp. 173-188; and E. Gilson, The Philosophy
24 Int, 1 | text of Pius Knöll (Vienna, 1896) - and the second edition
25 12, XXVII(645) | Neue kirkliche Zeitschrift (1899), pp. 42-43.~
26 5, XIII(146) | Merrill, Latin Hymns (Boston, 1904), pp. 4, 5.~
27 8, IV(276) | de Saint Augustin (Paris, 1918).~
28 8, XII(308) | Latin Hymns (Cambridge, 1922), pp. 44-49.~
29 3, VI(65) | the Manichees (Cambridge, 1925); and Steven Runciman, The
30 Int, 1 | William Montgomery (Cambridge, 1927).~There are two good critical
31 Int, 1 | zweite Auflage, Tübingen, 1930), and Jean Rivière, Enchiridion
32 6, XVII(214) | The Vision of God (London, 1932), pp. 319‑346.~
33 Int, 1 | Libri Tredecim (Leipzig, 1934) - itself a recension of
34 9, XIV(338) | Sheed & Ward, New York, 1938), ch. XI.~
35 6, IX(186) | Neo-Platonist (Milwaukee, 1939). There is also a fair probability
36 9, XIV(338) | Scribner's Sons, New York, 1940), pp. 173-188; and E. Gilson,
37 11, XVIII(486) | Augustin prédicateur (Lyons, 1944), chs. II and III.~
38 5, XIV(148) | Augustin prédicateur (Lyons, 1946).~
39 9, XX(341) | of the Church (New York, 1948).~
40 3, VI(65) | fondateur - sa doctrine (Paris, 1949); F.C. Burkitt, The Religion
41 9, XXIII(344) | Cf. Enchiridion, VI, 19ff.~
42 3, VI(65) | religious teacher, Mani (c. A.D. 216-277). They professed a highly
43 3, VI(69) | Ovid, Metamorphoses, VII, 219-224.~
44 9, XXXIV(374) | Augustine's Sermon IV, 20:21f.~
45 5, III(129) | Cf. Rom. 1:21ff.~
46 3, VI(69) | Metamorphoses, VII, 219-224.~
47 11, VI(462) | of nonbeing (cf. Sophist, 236C-237B), but he clearly is deeply
48 6, III(155) | Cf. Gen. 1:26f.~
49 6, V(159) | History (XIX, 4, 1950), pp. 271-294.~
50 6, VII(161) | Cf. Plato, Politicus, 273 D.~
51 11, XXXII(504) | Genesis. Cf. Karl Barth's 274 pages devoted to Gen., chs.
52 3, VI(65) | teacher, Mani (c. A.D. 216-277). They professed a highly
53 6, V(159) | XIX, 4, 1950), pp. 271-294.~
54 6, IX(201) | Thaumaturgus (ANF, IX, pp. 295, 296); cf. Augustine, On
55 6, IX(201) | Thaumaturgus (ANF, IX, pp. 295, 296); cf. Augustine, On Christian
56 12, IV(510) | Cf. Timaeus, 29D-30A, "He [the Demiurge-Creator]
57 10, V(421) | creation in Plato's Timaeus (29D-30C; 48E-50C), in which the
58 6, XVII(214) | God (London, 1932), pp. 319‑346.~
59 6, XII(207) | elsewhere (see note, infra, p. 343). This doctrine of the goodness
60 6, XVII(214) | London, 1932), pp. 319‑346.~
61 11, XXXII(504) | Dogmatik, III, I, pp. 103-377.~
62 Int | happened in his thought between 385 and 391. He had other questions,
63 Int | conversion in Milan (A.D. 386) to his death in Hippo Regius (
64 Int | coastal town nearby). Here in 395 - with grave misgivings
65 2, II(41) | 8-9, 39-35 (N-PNF, III, 396-413).~
66 5, X(142) | Cf. Ps 141:3f.~
67 2, II(41) | 39-35 (N-PNF, III, 396-413).~
68 Int, 1 | exact epicenter. Sometime in 421, Augustine received a request
69 Int, 1 | dulcitii quaestionibus in 423-425). This Laurentius wanted
70 12, XVIII(592) | Gibb and Montgomery, p. 424 (see Bibl.), for a comment
71 Int, 1 | dulcitii quaestionibus in 423-425). This Laurentius wanted
72 Int, 1 | Retractations, II, 6 (A.D. 427)~ ~1. My Confessions, in
73 Int, 1 | Perseverantiae, XX, 53 (A.D. 428)~ ~Which of my shorter works
74 Int, 1 | Letter to Darius (A.D. 429)~ ~Thus, my son, take the
75 Int | death in Hippo Regius (A.D. 430), Augustine wrote - mostly
76 1, XIII(27) | Aeneid, VI, 457~
77 10, V(421) | Plato's Timaeus (29D-30C; 48E-50C), in which the Demiurgos (
78 9, XXXV | only to make trial of him.~56. In such a wilderness so
79 9, XXXV | willingly to follow thy lead.~57. Now, really, in how many
80 11, XVI(483) | Dictionary of Hymnology, pp. 580-583. The original text is
81 11, XVI(483) | Dictionary of Hymnology, pp. 580-583. The original text is found
82 1, XVI(32) | Terence, Eunuch., 584-591; quoted again in De
83 9, XXXVI | I feared to take it up.~59. But, O Lord - thou who
84 1, XVI(32) | Terence, Eunuch., 584-591; quoted again in De civ.
85 9, XXXVII | having to do without it.~61. What is it, then, that
86 9, XLI | CHAPTER XLI~ ~66. And now I have thus considered
87 9, XLII | CHAPTER XLII~ ~67. Whom could I find to reconcile
88 Int | Sacrorum conciliorum, II, 671, and IV, 1167) - he was
89 12, XXI(614) | Christian Antiquities, pp. 673f.; see also Cabrol, Dictionnaire
90 Int | Miscellanea Agostiniana, II, 678).~Augustine had a complex
91 7, II(241) | Virgil, Aeneid, VIII, 698.~
92 9, XLIII | and dwelt among us.”401~70. Terrified by my sins and
93 6, I(149) | Cf. Ps. 71:5.~
94 2, III(51) | Cf. Ps. 73:7.~
95 7, XII(259) | Cf. Ps. 6:3; 79:8.~
96 4, X(101) | Ps. 80:3.~
97 12, XVIII(583) | Cf. Ps. 85:11.~
98 1, XVIII(34) | Cf. Ps. 103:8 and Ps. 86:15.~
99 9, XLIII(398) | Cf. Ps. 88:5; see Ps. 87:6 (Vulgate).~
100 11, VI(462) | Plotinus; cf. Enneads, II, 4:8f., where matter is analyzed
101 6, XXI(228) | Cf. Ps. 91:13.~
102 1, VII(22) | Cf. Ps. 92:1.~
103 12, XVII(580) | Cf. Ps. 95:5.~
104 12, XIX(602) | Cf. Matt. 97 Reading here, with Knöll
105 9, VI(333) | E. Gilson, Introduction à l'étude de Saint Augustin,
106 6, IX(200) | Porphyry's De abstinentia ab esu animalium.~
107 6, XI | therefore, do I delay in abandoning my hopes of this world and
108 7, VII | was, still postponing the abandonment of this world’s happiness
109 12, XXXII(651) | very obscure" (res autem in abdito est valde); cf. Retract.,
110 6, XIV | friends, consulting about and abhorring the turbulent vexations
111 2, V | celestial goods they are abject and contemptible. A man
112 6, VI | lowliness of his origin, the abjectness of his condition, and everything
113 5, IX | in Christ, neither had he abolished by his cross the enmity137
114 Int | of Christian humility by abolishing the ground of human pride.
115 4, II | win. But I detested and abominated such filthy mysteries,86
116 9, XXXV | overrun by the throng of these abounding vanities, then our prayers
117 10, XXXI | is a mind that so greatly abounds in knowledge and foreknowledge,
118 8, X | one should so ravish and absorb and envelop its beholder
119 6, XVII(214) | pilgrimage of the soul from its absorption in things to its rapturous
120 6, II | pagans), she most willingly abstained from it. And, in place of
121 10, XIII | is it said that thou wast abstaining from working? For thou madest
122 9, XXXI | blessed with a wonderful abstinence, was not polluted by the
123 6, IX(200) | An echo of Porphyry's De abstinentia ab esu animalium.~
124 6, XVII | thoughts from experience, abstracting itself from the contradictory
125 6, VI | divinations and impious absurdities of the astrologers. Let
126 5, XIV | objections adequately and without absurdity. Nor could I see that what
127 9, II | Lord, to whose eyes the abysses of man’s conscience are
128 11, III(460) | Abyssus, literally, the unplumbed
129 3, XII(81) | Dedocere me mala ac docere bona; a typical Augustinian
130 6, IV(158) | Another reference to the Academic doctrine of suspendium (
131 5, X(143) | writings of Cicero; cf. his Academica. This kind of skepticism
132 5, X(143) | established in the Platonic Academy by Arcesilaus and Carneades
133 9, XL | according to its dignity, accepting some things upon the report
134 11, III(459) | Vulgate, which was surely accessible to him. Since this is to
135 4, XV(116) | of essence and the nine "accidents." This existed in a Latin
136 9, XXXV | the discomfort that often accompanies them, but out of a passion
137 8, VIII | the slave girl who used to accompany her to the cellar fell to
138 7, VIII | my soul obeyed itself to accomplish in the will alone its great
139 1, XIII | will answer correctly, in accordance with the conventional understanding
140 Int, 1 | will give the reader an accurate medium of contact with Augustine’
141 5, X | to excuse my soul and to accuse something else inside me (
142 4, IX | that a man’s conscience accuses itself if he does not love
143 2, X | shall have no fear and shall achieve excellence in the Excellent.
144 Int, 1 | after the magnificent achievements of the De Trinitate and
145 Int, 1 | faith, hope, and love. Then, acknowledging that this answer might indeed
146 10, I | Certainly not in order to acquaint thee with them through me;
147 6, VIII | chance a company of his acquaintances and fellow students returning
148 4, III | Actually when I became better acquainted with him, I used to listen,
149 6, II | who had forbidden it, she acquiesced so devoutly and obediently
150 12, XXI(614) | fish, icquz, was arranged acrostically to make the phrase Ihsouz
151 4, XIV | to praise and love me as actors were praised and loved -
152 9, XX | who are happy neither in actuality nor in hope. But even these,
153 4, XV | quickness in understanding and acuteness in insight are thy gifts.
154 11, XXIX | without singing and then adapt or fashion them into the
155 7, XII | if what was read had been addressed to him: “Go and sell what
156 Int | was the development of an adequate understanding of the Christian
157 12, VIII | thy heavenly city had not adhered to thee and had not reposed
158 7, X | which carries their own adherents and those captivated by
159 10, II | to preach thy Word and to administer thy sacraments to thy people?
160 4, XIV | could - the same kind of admiration should be given to an actor,
161 12, XVIII | able to view all things in admiring contemplation, although
162 4, XIV | it to him. I regarded it admiringly, though no one else joined
163 12, XX | unless, after the word of its admission, it did not look beyond
164 8, IX | would blame their tongues, admonishing them seriously - though
165 2 | year of idleness, lust, and adolescent mischief. The memory of
166 5, VIII | manners that I would not adopt as a student I was compelled
167 5, XIV(148) | Biblical interpretation and he adopted it as a settled principle
168 3, IV | name, using it to color and adorn their own errors. And almost
169 12, XXXII | from the darkness for the adornment of these parts, from which
170 1, VII | tolerated patiently in an adult.~12. Therefore, O Lord my
171 1, XVI | the thunderer - and the adulterer?30 How could he be both?
172 4, VIII | itching ears”99 by its adulterous rubbing. And that fable
173 3, VIII | in order to obtain some advantage over another, as in the
174 Int, 1 | averse to it, but actually adverse. As for the other ways in
175 9, XXVIII | joy. There is woe in the adversities of this world - a second
176 4, III | a kind and fatherly way, advised me to throw them away and
177 7, VI(255) | inner circle of imperial advisers; usually rather informally
178 6, VII | so. Yet I had no means of advising him, or any way of reclaiming
179 5, XIV | just because it had learned advocates who could answer objections
180 8, XII(303) | memorial ode, Exegi monumentum aere perennius . . . non omnis
181 4, XIII(105) | the rest of Augustine's aesthetic theories. Cf. The Nature
182 6, XII | God and had been loyal and affectionate to their friends. I fell
183 9, IX | vanished into the wind, affects the sense of smell - which
184 10, XVII | truth, O Father; I am not affirming it. O my God, direct and
185 9, XXXI | these things through the afflatus of thy inspiration: “I can,”
186 6, XII | interested us but slightly. What afflicted me most and what had made
187 12, XXVI | have shared with me in my affliction.”641 This is what he finds
188 9, XXX | might restrain it - should afford gratification to the feelings
189 12, XVII | of our best strength in affording them the aid of protection (
190 11, XXVII | up is more plentiful and affords a larger supply of water
191 Int | assistant bishop to the aged Valerius, whom he succeeded
192 8, VIII | serving as a secret service agent, was converted to thee and
193 6, V(159) | omnino in hac vita nihil ageremus, which should be set alongside
194 7, I | setting before him all my agitations - which would be the most
195 9, XI | each other as ago [do] and agito [do frequently], and facio [
196 5, VIII | and mourned and saw in her agony the inheritance of Eve -
197 Int | and di Capua, Miscellanea Agostiniana, II, 678).~Augustine had
198 5, VI | more fluently and in a more agreeable style. But what profit was
199 4, VIII | zest in our more frequent agreements; sometimes teaching, sometimes
200 12, V | abyss - speaking of the aimless flux of its being spiritually
201 2 | probing of the motives and aims of sinful acts. “I became
202 9, VI(332) | physiologers" who taught that aiqhr was the primary element
203 2, III | Babylon50 and was progressing, albeit slowly, toward its outskirts.
204 1, XIII | tormenting, but merely by being alert to the blandishments of
205 6, IX(201) | favorite theme of Clement of Alexandria and Origen and was
206 9, XXXIII | concerning Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, who required the readers
207 8, IV(276) | Christian Platonism; cf. P. Alfaric, L'Évolution intellectuelle
208 8, IV | formerly in darkness may now be alight in thee. If only they could
209 3, VII | she presides are not all alike because they are different
210 10, XIII | thou, the Almighty God, the All-creating and All-sustaining, the
211 12, IV | immutable will - in itself all-sufficient for itself - moved over
212 10, XIII | God, the All-creating and All-sustaining, the Architect of heaven
213 7, III | thirst - and when the drink allays this, it causes pleasure.
214 6, X | responsibility on to Alypius, alleging that he would not permit
215 12 | THIRTEEN~ ~The mysteries and allegories of the days of creation.
216 Int, 1 | labyrinthine mazes of his allegorizing (e.g., Confessions, Bk.
217 8, XII | laboris usui ~Mentesque fessas allevet, ~Luctusque solvat anxios.”~ ~“
218 7, III | and is this all thou hast allotted to them: that, from the
219 8, IX | since of thy favor thou allowest thy servants to speak -
220 9, XXXII | not much troubled by the allurement of odors. When they are
221 4, XIII | beauty? What is it that allures and unites us to the things
222 5, IX | who was so constant in her alms, so gracious and attentive
223 12, XXIII | faithful, such as in their almsgiving, which is signified by the
224 11, III | all, showing itself rising aloft and giving light? Therefore,
225 6, V(159) | ageremus, which should be set alongside the more famous nisi crederitis,
226 9, VI | The creatures will not alter their voice - that is, their
227 9, VIII | reducing our perceptions, or by altering one way or another those
228 7, III | creation thus ebbs and flows, alternately in want and satiety? Is
229 10, XXVII | verse of eight syllables alternates between short and long syllables.
230 5, V | clearly decided whether the alternation of day and night, and of
231 9, XXXVI | Thou thunderest down on the ambitious designs of the world, and “
232 12, XXIII | the people may answer, “Amen.”630 The reason that all
233 12, XXXIV | those above who would be amenable to thee and those beneath
234 6, VII | And in order that his amendment might plainly be attributed
235 8, IX | her fair and reverently amiable, and admirable to her husband.
236 11, XVIII(486) | perspectives on truth which amounted to different levels and
237 6, VIII | objecting vehemently, into the amphitheater, on a day of those cruel
238 6, XIV | his estate was far more ample than that of the others.
239 5, VI | would be quite easily and amply cleared away. When at last
240 12, XX | been wrought, which are analogous to the huge whales. The
241 6, X | true life and a most acute analyst of the most abstruse questions.
242 2, VI | at all, so that I could analyze the case with you? Those
243 4, XV(116) | section of the Organon, which analyzes the problem of predication
244 4, XV | when I wrote those books, analyzing and reflecting upon those
245 9, VI(332) | philosophy), I, 10: "After Anaximander comes Anaximenes, who taught
246 6, IX(201) | theme of Clement of Alexandria and Origen and was quite
247 6, IX(201) | to Gregory Thaumaturgus (ANF, IX, pp. 295, 296); cf.
248 8, X | not in fleshly tongue or angelic voice, nor sound of thunder,
249 6, IX(200) | s De abstinentia ab esu animalium.~
250 5, VI | Yet it was a source of annoyance to me that, in his lecture
251 8, XII | countenance; and I was greatly annoyed that these human things
252 9, XXXVII | the oil of sinners, to anoint my head.”388~
253 6, IV(179) | famous "definition" of God in Anselm's ontological argument: "
254 3, VI | with their various colors, answering to “the five caves of darkness”70 (
255 7, X | pulled four ways by four antagonistic wills - or even more, in
256 12, I | have done; and thou hast anticipated all my good deserts so as
257 8, IV(281) | the time of Ignatius of Antioch who referred to the Eucharist
258 12, XXXVIII(656)| This final ending is an antiphon to Bk. XII, Ch. I, 1 above.~
259 8, VII(288) | introduction into the West of antiphonal chanting, which was already
260 12, XXI(614) | Dictionary of Christian Antiquities, pp. 673f.; see also Cabrol,
261 Int | Ponticianus he hears the story of Antony and about the increasing
262 7, II | of Osiris and~ ~“The dog Anubis, and a medley crew~Of monster
263 8, VII | a leading part in those anxieties and vigils, lived there
264 8, XII | allevet, ~Luctusque solvat anxios.”~ ~“O God, Creator of us
265 | Anyhow
266 11, VI(462) | must be described as to apeiron (the indefinite). . . .
267 Int | Greco-Roman world to a new apologetic use in maintaining the intelligibility
268 1, XVI(30) | This apostrophe to "the torrent of human
269 Int | condemned to a wholly just and appalling damnation. He never denied
270 10, II | precious stones, nor gorgeous apparel, nor honors and power, nor
271 Int | clings to his pride and appetence.~In Book VIII, Augustine
272 12, XVII(579) | with perverse and depraved appetites have become like fishes
273 3, II | more he grieves the more he applauds the actor of these fictions.
274 5, XIII | proved me by audition, should appoint me.~And to Milan I came,
275 8, XII | day with lovely light, ~Appointing gracious sleep by night:~ ~
276 4, III | turns out to be wondrously apposite to the reader’s present
277 4, XIV | different himself; only the appraisals of the spectators. See where
278 6, XVII | how it was that I could appreciate the beauty of bodies, both
279 Int, 1 | remains for me to express my appreciation to the General Editors of
280 12, XIII | not count himself to have apprehended, but forgetting the things
281 11, XXIII | theories as well as my weak apprehension allows, and I confess my
282 1, XVII | Bar off Italy~From all the approaches of the Teucrian king.”33~ ~
283 3, XI | and saw a bright youth approaching her, joyous and smiling
284 Int | Tertullian to Ambrose; he appropriated the heritage of Nicene orthodoxy;
285 6, IX(201) | of Christian thinkers in appropriating whatever was good and true
286 9, XXXVII | were unwilling that the approval of others should add anything
287 12, XXIII | spiritual man also judges by approving what is right and reproving
288 Int, 1 | translation is, at best, only an approximation - and an interpretation
289 5, VI | and with the fluent and apt words with which he clothed
290 Int | in giving Augustine his aptest title, Doctor Gratiae. The
291 3, III | therefore, could they be more aptly called than “wreckers”? -
292 2, III(46) | famed as the birthplace of Apuleius, the only notable classical
293 11, XXV(493) | Cf. De libero arbitrio, II, 8:20, 10:28.~
294 5, X(143) | the Platonic Academy by Arcesilaus and Carneades in the third
295 12, XXI(614) | also Cabrol, Dictionnaire d'archéologie chrétienne, Vol. 14, cols.
296 Int, 1 | Augustine’s temper and mode of argumentation. There has been no thought
297 6, XXI(226) | the Fourth Gospel. In the Arian controversy both these references
298 3, II | of compassion is it that arises from viewing fictitious
299 9, XXXIX | there is yet another evil arising from the same sort of temptation.
300 Int | at heart than a “proper” Aristotelian. In the Protestant Reformation,
301 4, XV | logic, geometry, music, or arithmetic, I could understand without
302 12, XVII | which comes from the strong arm of a righteous judgment.582~
303 3, VII | It is as if a man in an armory, not knowing what piece
304 12, XXX | didst neither make them nor arrange them - for example, all
305 11, XXVI | expression and such an art of arrangement to be given me, that those
306 12, XXXV | All this most beautiful array of things, all so very good,
307 6, IX | whispers and sent men to arrest whomsoever they should find.
308 6, IX | thou didst allow him to be arrested by the police officers in
309 9, XXXV | into her webs, oftentimes arrests me? Is the feeling of curiosity
310 9, XL | point life might not then arrive. But still, by these wretched
311 11, XII | privation of all form without arriving at nothing. From this formlessness
312 9, XLII | thou, O Lord, to whom they arrogantly sought to be reconciled,
313 11, XXV | we lose it. For if anyone arrogates to himself what thou hast
314 8, II | thou hadst given us sharp arrows and hot burning coals to
315 Int, 1 | his constant wordplay, the artful balancing of his clauses,
316 Int, 1 | was always a Latin rhetor; artifice of style had come to be
317 Int, 1 | imposing on it a patently artificial schematism. Despite its
318 10, V | madest his body for the artisan, and thou madest the mind
319 9, XXXIV | the human soul into the artist’s hands come from that beauty
320 8, XII | sopora gratia;~ Artus solutos ut quies ~Reddat
321 4, XII | deeds, death, life, descent, ascension - crying aloud to us to
322 8, II | public; although, in our ascent from the “valley of tears”
323 3, VI | nourished by it, for they are asleep. But the fantasies of the
324 11, XVIII | did not understand this aspect of the truth even though
325 Int | some of the non-evangelical aspects of Augustine’s thought and
326 1, XVIII | grammatical usage) without aspirating the first syllable of “hominem” [“
327 9, XXXVI | punishment - the one who aspired to exalt his throne in the
328 6, VI | 9. I was still eagerly aspiring to honors, money, and matrimony;
329 Int, 1 | wretched and wild verbal assault,4 do you not remember how
330 6, IV | restrained my heart from assenting to anything, fearing to
331 6, XVI(210) | process and in the primal assertion of the desire for self-ownership" (
332 6, II | incorruptible, then all these assertions of theirs are false and
333 4, XV | springs is depraved and asserts itself insolently and mutinously -
334 9, XXXIII | heart; and I can hardly assign them a fitting one. Sometimes,
335 7, III | movement to the last, thou wast assigning to all their proper places
336 1, XVII | of shame or stripes. The assignment was that I should declaim
337 Int | 1167) - he was consecrated assistant bishop to the aged Valerius,
338 6, V | something good without being assisted by that matter which had
339 4, IV | about my own age, who was associated with me in the same studies.
340 11, III(459) | had the sensibilities and associations of his readers in mind -
341 7, V(249) | Augustine's love of wordplay and assonance, as a conscious literary
342 8, XII | found my grief not a little assuaged. And as I lay there on my
343 6, IV | of my difficulties, I now assumed henceforth as settled truth
344 8, III | consolations, and faithful promises assure us that thou wilt repay
345 10, XXXI | exceeding marvel and altogether astonishing. For whatever is past and
346 6, XVII(214) | This is an astonishingly candid and plain account
347 5, VIII | outrages they perpetrated with astounding effrontery, things that
348 6, VI | in those tables which the astrologer uses to examine when he
349 4, III | for the authority of the astrological authors influenced me more
350 6, XIX | books about him - that he ate, drank, slept, walked, rejoiced
351 6, IX | And thou saidst unto the Athenians by the mouth of thy apostle
352 9, XXXVII | wickedly or lead a life so atrocious and abandoned that everyone
353 3, III | in which they insolently attacked the modesty of strangers,
354 6, XX | thought that wisdom could be attained by the study of those [Platonist]
355 6, XIX | despising worldly things for the attainment of immortality, and thus
356 6, XXI | find the way thither - to attempt impassable ways in vain,
357 11, V | things to itself, it may be attempting either to know by being
358 7, VI | daily sighing to thee. I attended thy church as frequently
359 6, VII | At that time he was not attending my classes because of some
360 8, XII | her holy tenderness and attentiveness toward us, which had suddenly
361 3, VI(65) | not their rules. The chief attraction of Manicheism lay in the
362 4 | his taking a mistress, the attractions of astrology, the poignant
363 2, V | here has its own peculiar attractiveness because it has a certain
364 1, XVI | but he attributed divine attributes to sinful men, that crimes
365 6, VIII | mighty cry from the whole audience stirred him so strongly
366 5, XIII | after he had proved me by audition, should appoint me.~And
367 Int, 1 | Augustins Enchiridion (zweite Auflage, Tübingen, 1930), and Jean
368 4, II(86) | animals were killed, for auguries and propitiation of the
369 6, XII(207) | a fundamental premise in Augustine's metaphysics: it reappears
370 8, II(268) | holiday season, from late August to the middle of October.~
371 7, VI(253) | Gratian. Cf. E.A. Freeman, "Augusta Trevororum," in the British
372 Int, 1 | Martin Skutella, S. Aureli Augustini Confessionum Libri Tredecim (
373 Int, 1 | Enchiridion in the Bibliothèque Augustinienne, Œuvres de S. Augustin,
374 Int, 1 | collated them: Otto Scheel, Augustins Enchiridion (zweite Auflage,
375 Int, 1 | editions: Martin Skutella, S. Aureli Augustini Confessionum Libri
376 Int, 0(1) | the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius and the autobiographical
377 1, XVI | on in the forum under the auspices of laws which give a salary
378 9, XXXIII | I err out of too great austerity. Sometimes I go to the point
379 12, XXXII(651) | question is very obscure" (res autem in abdito est valde); cf.
380 5, VII | need not have affected the authenticity of his piety, if he had
381 4, III | authority of the astrological authors influenced me more than
382 Int | Augustine reviewed his authorship (in the Retractations) and
383 Int, 0(1) | Marcus Aurelius and the autobiographical sections in Hilary of Poitiers
384 12, XIX | uproot the brier patch of avarice; “sell what you have, and
385 1, VI | on me as slaves - and I avenged myself on them by crying.
386 2, VI | Anger seeks revenge; but who avenges more justly than thou? Fear
387 2, VI(54) | Avertitur, the opposite of convertitur:
388 3, VI | I fed on them - not with avidity, for thou didst not taste
389 12, XXI | from it. The soul lives by avoiding those things which bring
390 4, XV | not blush when I openly avowed my blasphemies before men,
391 10, IX | and through patience we await thy promises. Let him that
392 Int | Cicero’s Hortensius first awakened his thirst for wisdom, how
393 5, XIV | spoke, there also came an awareness of how truly he spoke -
394 Int | through and beyond the awesome mystery of memory, to the
395 Int, 1 | schematism. Despite its awkward form, however, the Enchiridion
396 5, X(143) | Carneades in the third century B.C. They taught the necessity
397 8, VIII | back, as big girls carried babies. Because of her long-time
398 1, VII | I have myself observed a baby to be jealous, though it
399 7, II | from the height of whose Babylonian dignity, as from the tops
400 2, III | they walk who turn their backs to thee and not their faces.~
401 8, IX | knowing what a furious, bad-tempered husband she endured, they
402 3, XI | doom she was lamenting, he bade her rest content and told
403 3, III | was regarded as the very badge of gallantry) among whom
404 11, X | for of myself I have lived badly. I was death to myself;
405 6, X | tested, not only by the bait of covetousness, but by
406 9, XXXI | the snare of appetite lies baited for me. For the passage
407 Int, 1 | redeeming grace and weighs the balance between faith and good works
408 Int | incapable of producing a balanced digest of his multifaceted
409 Int, 1 | constant wordplay, the artful balancing of his clauses, his laconic
410 1, XVIII | they pass from nuts and balls and sparrows, to magistrates
411 8, XII | that the word for bath [balneum] took its name from the
412 5, X(144) | Manicheans were under an official ban in Rome.~
413 6, XIV | CHAPTER XIV~ ~24. Many in my band of friends, consulting about
414 6, XXI(229) | the solitary traveler in a bandit-infested land and the safety
415 1, IX | calling on thee, broke the bands of my tongue. Small as I
416 4, VII | bowers, nor in magnificent banquetings, nor in the pleasures of
417 12, XII | Spirit.” In thy name we baptize, in the name of the Father,
418 10, III | nor Greek, nor Latin, nor barbarian, without any organs of voice
419 11, XVI | those who deny these things bark and drown their own voices
420 3, VI | wandering away from thee, being barred even from the husks of those
421 6, IX | in as far as the leaden bars which protected the silversmith
422 11, XXXII(504) | text of Genesis. Cf. Karl Barth's 274 pages devoted to Gen.,
423 1, XIII | learning than a discipline based on fear. Yet, by thy ordinance,
424 2, III | the more the worse their baseness was. What is worse, I took
425 7, II | likely to be afraid through bashfulness. But Victorinus chose rather
426 8, VII | brought with due honor to the basilica of Ambrose, as they were
427 8, XII | heard that the word for bath [balneum] took its name
428 8, XII | be a good thing to go and bathe, for I had heard that the
429 2, III | father saw me one day at the baths and perceived that I was
430 Int, 1 | Divinity School Library; Robert Beach, of the Union Theological
431 10, I(408) | The "virtues" of the Beatitudes, the reward for which is
432 3, VI | stead, the sun and moon thy beauteous works - but still only thy
433 1, VII | senses, shaped with limbs, beautified with form, and endowed with
434 6, I | buzzed against my face, and beclouded my vision. I no longer thought
435 4, III | more, lest a worse thing befall you.”89 All this wholesome
436 8, VI | clothed with the humility that befits thy sacraments, and was
437 9, IV | is the Selfsame who didst beget me and who watcheth over
438 12, XXII | This is why thy minister - begetting children by the gospel so
439 7, II | fallacies and deceit, “after the beggarly elements of this world,”240
440 1, XII | inordinate desires of a rich beggary and a shameful glory. But
441 10, XXXI | heaven and earth in their beginnings without any division in
442 12, XXX | every way contrary to thee - begot and framed all these things
443 5, XII | and the filthy gain which begrimes the hand that grabs it;
444 9, XXXIII | by them enervated - often beguile me while physical sense
445 6, VII | virtue, and who were easily beguiled with the veneer of what
446 6, XIV | and I awoke in thee, and beheld thee as the Infinite, but
447 8, X | and absorb and envelop its beholder in these inward joys that
448 12, XXIII | an authority. Nor does it behoove them to judge concerning
449 8, IX | undigested discord which often belches forth bitter words, when
450 Int | Book VIII is a vivid and believable convergence of influences,
451 6, V | things were forced upon believers because they were incapable
452 6, VII | thy ears, all of which I bellowed out in the anguish of my
453 6, VII | friends together used to bemoan our lot in our common talk;
454 7, XII | quickly returned to the bench where Alypius was sitting,
455 3, V | who could enter into it or bend my neck to follow its steps.
456 Int | remains of which (in the Benedictine edition of St. Maur) fill
457 11, XXVII | minister: it is intended to benefit many who are likely to discourse
458 Int, 1 | Augustine then sets forth the benefits of redeeming grace and weighs
459 6, XI | have given it, if I had beseeched thy ears with heartfelt
460 7, VII | how crooked and sordid, bespotted and ulcerous. And I looked
461 12, XXVI | itself, given by one who bestows life’s necessities on another -
462 Int | Introduction.~ ~Like a colossus bestriding two worlds, Augustine stands
463 11, XI | thee and nowhere and never betrays its own mutability, for
464 7, III | her any less, whom as his betrothed he longed for.~8. This can
465 12, XIII | foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you?”545 But this is not
466 5, XIII(146) | doubtless learned in Milan: "Bibamus sobriam ebrietatem spiritus."
467 Int, 1 | especially generous in their bibliographical assistance. Last, but not
468 Int | De Labriolle, I, vi (see Bibliography), and di Capua, Miscellanea
469 Int, 1 | Rivière, Enchiridion in the Bibliothèque Augustinienne, Œuvres de
470 8, VIII | him around on her back, as big girls carried babies. Because
471 12, XX | their way amid the buffeting billows of the world, to instruct
472 2, V | a sweetness of its own, binding many souls together as one.
473 2, III(46) | from Tagaste, famed as the birthplace of Apuleius, the only notable
474 6, IX | for which Esau lost his birthright; so that thy first-born
475 6, VII | wanted to convey by adding a biting gibe at those whom that
476 11, VI | mind turned away from, as bizarre and incongruous, before
477 5, XII | riotous disruptions by young blackguards were not practiced here.
478 4, III | corruption, may regard himself as blameless, while the Creator and Ordainer
479 1, XIII | me find some rest, for in blaming my own evil ways I may come
480 1, XIII | merely by being alert to the blandishments of my nurses, the jests
481 5, X | thy spiritual ones smile blandly and lovingly at me if they
482 6, V | since no wranglings of blasphemous questions such as I had
483 6, XV | torn and wounded till it bled. And she went back to Africa,
484 10, VII | certain truths knows and blesses thee along with me. We know,
485 9, II | myself; because thou, O Lord, blessest the righteous, but first
486 11, XI | to thy blessedness! It is blest in thee, its everlasting
487 5, VIII | always been asking.~The wind blew and filled our sails, and
488 9, XVI | forgetfulness, by its presence, blots out even what it finds already
489 11, XVI | I would send them away, blowing up the dust and raising
490 8, IX | than hers bore the marks of blows on their disfigured faces,
491 2, II | also with a tender hand to blunt the thorns which were excluded
492 9, XLII | mortality of the flesh, he could boast that he was immortal. But
493 11, X | it for the tumults of my boisterous passions. And now, behold,
494 12, XX | race - so deeply prying, so boisterously swelling, so restlessly
495 10, XII | creature is included, I make bold to say further: “Before
496 7, II | shared. From this he became bold-faced against vanity and shamefaced
497 7, II | faith with an excellent boldness, and all desired to take
498 2, II(41) | Cf. Gen. 3:18 and De bono conjugali, 8-9, 39-35 (N-PNF,
499 Int, 1 | leave as “baggage on his bookshelf.”~Taken together, the Confessions
500 6, IX | those who strut in the high boots of what they deem to be
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