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501 9, XXXIV | delights that pass into boredom. And for myself, though
502 6, XI | them? From whom could I borrow them? Let me set a schedule
503 Int, 1 | reviews his famous (and borrowed!) doctrine of the privative
504 6, VII | his neck, with the thick bosses of my buckler,”182 even
505 5, XIII(146) | I. Merrill, Latin Hymns (Boston, 1904), pp. 4, 5.~
506 8, VIII | poured the wine into the bottle, she would wet the tips
507 2, IV | didst pity even in that bottomless pit. Behold, now let my
508 9, VIII | O my God - a large and boundless inner hall! Who has plumbed
509 4, VII | or song, nor in fragrant bowers, nor in magnificent banquetings,
510 7, II | Christ, a babe at thy font, bowing his neck to the yoke of
511 8, VII | Justina, the mother of the boy-emperor Valentinian, had persecuted
512 12, XX | fallen away from thee, that brackish sea - the human race - so
513 12, XXI | separated from the brackishness of the water, that brought
514 6, XIV | But thou didst soothe my brain, though I was unaware of
515 5, IV | measure it and count all its branches, but neither owns it nor
516 3, VI | reach. I came upon that brazen woman, devoid of prudence,
517 5, XII | of the Roman students - breakers of faith, who, for the love
518 10, XVIII(435) | The breaking light and the image of the
519 12, XIV | and endure until the day breaks and the shadows flee away.557
520 12, XXI | even though they were bred in the sea, will yet be
521 9, VI | the lovely sound, where no breeze disperses the sweet fragrance,
522 4, XIV | stability of truth! Just as the breezes of speech blow from the
523 4, XV | earth should bring forth briars and thorns for me, and that
524 6, X | This Alypius resisted. A bribe was promised, but he scorned
525 7, VI | Both of them had affianced brides who, when they heard of
526 9, XXXI | do with fornication. The bridle of the throat, therefore,
527 Int, 1 | and Decherd Turner, of our Bridwell Library here at Southern
528 Int, 1 | point!~The Enchiridion is a briefer treatise on the grace of
529 Int, 1 | Christian teaching in the briefest possible form. Augustine
530 12, XIX | really fruitful? uproot the brier patch of avarice; “sell
531 12, XIX | was grieved, and the briers choked the word.601~25.
532 8, VII | this thy glory shone more brightly. And also from this the
533 7, VI(253) | Augusta Trevororum," in the British Quarterly Review (1875),
534 11, XXVII | one another truth, by the broader survey of various interpretations.
535 1, IX | and, in calling on thee, broke the bands of my tongue.
536 12, XIII | stag pants for the water brooks,540 and says, “When shall
537 2, V | Even for that savage and brutal man [Catiline], of whom
538 12, XXIII | reduced to the level of the brute beasts, and made like them.626~
539 8, VIII | her time of life, which bubbles up with sportiveness and
540 3, I | unholy loves was seething and bubbling all around me. I was not
541 6, VII | with the thick bosses of my buckler,”182 even the lower things
542 12, XVII | commanding it - our souls may bud forth in works of mercy
543 12, XX | made their way amid the buffeting billows of the world, to
544 12, XXX | into the ramparts of the building, they might not be able
545 6, IX | had charge of the public buildings. The captors were especially
546 2, III | my God; and my iniquity bulged out, as it were, with fatness!51~
547 8, IX | did not observe it were bullied and vexed.~20. Even her
548 8, VIII | but out of the overflowing buoyancy of her time of life, which
549 3, XI | dost love - was now more buoyed up with hope, though no
550 10, XXII | CHAPTER XXII~ ~28. My soul burns ardently to understand this
551 10, XXVII(449) | Quartets and especially "Burnt Norton."~
552 6, I | light penetrates it, not by bursting nor dividing, but filling
553 8, XI | in this place shall you bury your mother.” I was silent
554 8, IX | served as her lord. And she busied herself to gain him to thee,
555 3, VII | handle something that the butler is not permitted to touch,
556 12, XXI | miraculous works by which to buttress faith. For such a soul does
557 9, XXXV | things of this sort still buzz around our daily lives -
558 6, I | before they gathered again, buzzed against my face, and beclouded
559 12, XXI(614) | Antiquities, pp. 673f.; see also Cabrol, Dictionnaire d'archéologie
560 11, II(457) | Vulgate and K.J.): Caelum caeli domino, etc. Augustine finds
561 11, II(457) | both Vulgate and K.J.): Caelum caeli domino, etc. Augustine
562 5, III | among us and paid tribute to Caesar.128 And they do not know
563 9, XXXI | our infirmity), even our calamity is called pleasure.~44.
564 5, III | read and from them may be calculated in what year and month and
565 3, I | came to Carthage, where a caldron of unholy loves was seething
566 Int | storms of his breast to be calmed; he longed to imitate these
567 6, V | merciful hand, drawing and calming my heart, thou didst persuade
568 Int | of infant baptism which cancels, ex opere operato, birth
569 10, XXV | speak. Thou shalt light my candle; thou, O Lord my God, wilt
570 Int | violation of the eighth canon of Nicea (cf. Mansi, Sacrorum
571 12, IX | our heart, and we sing a canticle of degrees523; we glow inwardly
572 8, VI | I weep in thy hymns and canticles; how deeply was I moved
573 12, IX(523) | Canticum graduum. Psalms 119 to 133
574 9, XXXII | lamentable darkness in which my capabilities are concealed, so that when
575 6, XVII | this belongs even to the capacities of the beasts - and thence
576 1, VII | I, would not indulge my capricious desires. Was it a good thing
577 5, VIII | discipline, so that they did not capriciously and impudently rush into
578 6, XXI | and deserters under their captain, the “lion” and “dragon”228;
579 2, VI | actually - so that, even as a captive, I might produce a sort
580 6, IX | the public buildings. The captors were especially glad to
581 Int | see Bibliography), and di Capua, Miscellanea Agostiniana,
582 4, IV | knowledge. And I myself cared little, at the time, presuming
583 5, XIII | subject matter, I was only a careless and contemptuous listener.
584 7, III | There is no pleasure in caring and drinking unless the
585 7, V(249) | conscious literary device: tuae caritati me dedere quam meae cupiditati
586 10, X(429) | old containers, he says: Carnalitas vetustas est, gratia novitas
587 5, X(143) | Academy by Arcesilaus and Carneades in the third century B.C.
588 3, VII | each of these different cases, but the same law throughout.
589 8, VIII | maiden to draw wine from the cask, she would hold a cup under
590 11, III(459) | can hardly have been the casual citation of the old and
591 4, XIV | praise? Not so. Instead, one catches the spark of love from one
592 9, XXXV | sitting at home a lizard catching flies, or a spider entangling
593 Int, 1 | the De Magistro and the De catechezandis rudibus.~Even the best of
594 11, XXV(495) | Christian nurture; cf. the De catechizandis rudibus.~
595 Int | the corruptions of popular Catholicism - yet even those corruptions
596 6, XIX | other hand, supposed the Catholics to believe that God was
597 6, VII | with which thou mightest cauterize and cure the hopeful mind
598 9, VIII | internal to the body. The vast cave of memory, with its numerous
599 9, XVII | innumerable fields and dens and caverns of my memory, full without
600 Int | his own part (cf. Sermon CCCLV, 2) and in actual violation
601 10, X(429) | vetustatis suae. In Sermon CCLXVII, 2 (PL 38, c. 1230), Augustine
602 Int, 1 | son, pray for me! (Epist. CCXXXI, PL, 33, c. 1025).~~ ~ ~
603 9, XXXIV | are easily ensnared. Thou ceasest not to pluck them out, but
604 5, I | creation praises thee without ceasing: the spirit of man, by his
605 7, V(249) | dedere quam meae cupiditati cedere; sed illud placebat et vincebat,
606 Int | guilt. He never wearied of celebrating God’s abundant mercy and
607 6, III | held him in honor. Only his celibacy appeared to me a painful
608 6, XII | could not possibly live a celibate life. And when I urged in
609 9, VIII | appearance out of its secret cell. Some things suggest themselves
610 10, XXXI(454) | Celsitudo, an honorific title, somewhat
611 9, IV | brotherly hearts - which are thy censers.326 And, O Lord, who takest
612 Int | throughout the succeeding centuries. At the same time the hallmark
613 6, IV | Manichean] promises of certainties, I had, with childish petulance,
614 2, II | deafened by the clanking of the chains of my mortality, the punishment
615 8, II | sit a single hour in the chair of falsehood. I will not
616 7, XI | she smiled on me with a challenging smile as if to say: “Can
617 7, XII | and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife
618 Int | stands forth as triumphant champion of orthodox Christianity.
619 11, VIII | itself469 - for its very changeableness appears in this, that its
620 Int | impulses at work.~A succinct characterization of Augustine is impossible,
621 11, XI | formlessness would then be characterized by temporal change? And
622 3, II | If the misfortunes of the characters - whether historical or
623 8, XIII | wound - so far as it can be charged against me as a carnal affection -
624 4, XIV | feeling toward the renowned charioteer, or the great gladiatorial
625 9, XIV(338) | of Medieval Philosophy (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York,
626 9 | confessions,” and seeks to chart the path by which men come
627 1, XVIII | That younger son did not charter horses or chariots, or ships,
628 10, XXXI | 41. O Lord my God, what a chasm there is in thy deep secret!
629 9, XXX | purposes in mind, continue most chastely in them, and yield no assent
630 6, X | And I understood that thou chastenest man for his iniquity, and
631 3, III | fruit. For this thou didst chastise me with grievous punishments,
632 1, XVIII | succeeded by more severe chastisements. It was, then, the fact
633 6, XX | too weak to enjoy thee. I chattered away as if I were an expert;
634 1, VIII | could not speak, but now a chattering boy. I remember this, and
635 8, X | with all its joys, seemed cheap to us even as we spoke.
636 6, VII | from thee, and my bloated cheeks blinded my eyes.~
637 12, XXXII | moon and the stars to give cheer in the night; and we see
638 12, XXI(614) | Uioz, Swthr; cf. Smith and Cheetham, Dictionary of Christian
639 7, XII | than the desire she used to cherish of having grandchildren
640 6, III | burden. But what hope he cherished, what struggles he had against
641 11, XXII | such as the orders of ‘cherubim’ and ‘seraphim’ and those
642 7, VII | and my conscience was to chide me: “Where are you, O my
643 6, V | he is the greatest and chiefest Good, and hath created these
644 11, XXVIII | pluck them with cheerful chirpings: For when they read or hear
645 Int, 1 | his framework, Augustine chooses the Apostles’ Creed and
646 12, XV | never passes away. For by choosing and by loving they read
647 12, XXI(614) | Dictionnaire d'archéologie chrétienne, Vol. 14, cols. 1246-1252,
648 Int | the Christian vision of “Christendom.” His metaphysical explorations
649 1, XI(24) | established the effigiem Christi in the human soul.~
650 Int | theology was never adequately Christocentric, and this reflects itself
651 8, III(273) | and most persistent of all Christological errors.~
652 7, VI(255) | The inner circle of imperial advisers; usually
653 5, IV | though he does not know the circlings of the Great Bear. Just
654 4, III | splendid youth and most circumspect, who scoffed at the whole
655 6, V | thou wouldst not, under any circumstances, have given such eminent
656 11, III(459) | hardly have been the casual citation of the old and familiar
657 6, V | numerous reports of places and cities which I had not seen; or
658 10, X(430) | nihilo which Augustine is citing here. He returns to the
659 12, XVII(579) | bitterness of life in the civitas terrena; cf. XIX, 5.~
660 6, XI | else; and, if I push my claims, a governorship may be offered
661 4, XV | those sensory images which clamored in the ears of my heart.
662 2, II | had been deafened by the clanking of the chains of my mortality,
663 5, VII | despair of his being able to clarify and explain all these perplexities
664 6, VII | he was not attending my classes because of some ill feeling
665 6, XII(207) | A locus classicus of the doctrine of the privative
666 4, XV | innumerable things that are classified under these nine categories (
667 1, XVII | above that of many of my classmates and fellow students? Actually,
668 5, VIII | impudently rush into the classroom of a teacher not their own -
669 3, VI | but only as sound and the clatter of tongues, for their heart
670 Int, 1 | artful balancing of his clauses, his laconic use of parataxis,
671 4, VI | remember it well, O my Hope who cleansest me from the uncleanness
672 1, XI | forgiveness of sins. So my cleansing was deferred, as if it were
673 10, IX | that shineth through me, clearing away my fog, which so readily
674 6, IX(201) | was a favorite theme of Clement of Alexandria and Origen
675 10, II(410) | reference is to a water clock (clepsydra).~
676 7, VI | now waiting for private clients to whom he might sell his
677 2, II | unstable youth down over the cliffs of unchaste desires and
678 Int | tells us this story. The climactic moment in it is, of course,
679 Int | he builds his successive climaxes so skillfully that the denouement
680 9, XXXIII | repose; yet not so as to cling to them, but always so as
681 11, XI | one - if such there be - clinging to thy blessedness! It is
682 1, XVI | sham thunder served as a cloak for him to play at real
683 9, XXXV | bodily senses, which is cloaked under the name of knowledge
684 10, II(410) | reference is to a water clock (clepsydra).~
685 8 | and his grief. The book closes with a moving prayer for
686 6, V | style, it yet required the closest attention of the most serious-minded -
687 11, XVI | myself I will enter into my closet481 and there sing to thee
688 7, XII | doubt vanished away.264~30. Closing the book, then, and putting
689 9, XXXIV | and manufactures in our clothes, shoes, vessels, and all
690 10, VI | the voice came from the cloud saying, “This is my beloved
691 6, XIII | the earth, having its own cloudy and windy sky of like nature
692 12, XIX | wind, and there appeared cloven tongues of fire, and they
693 3, VI(65) | cosmogony in which good was co-ordinated with light and evil with
694 Int | of Hippo Regius (a small coastal town nearby). Here in 395 -
695 6, XVIII | made weak by sharing our coats of skin - so that they might
696 12, XXIV(632) | Here, again, as in a coda, Augustine restates his
697 12, XXIX | Word - my Word which exists coeternally with myself. Thus the things
698 6, XXI(226) | the Church to affirm the coeternity and consubstantiality of
699 9, XI | and must be collected [cogenda] so that they can become
700 9, XI | we get the word cogitate [cogitare]. For cogo [collect] and
701 9, XII | them does so without any cogitation of physical objects whatever,
702 9, XI | For cogo [collect] and cogito [to go on collecting] have
703 12, XX | senses that in our mental cognition a single thing may be figured
704 9, XI | cogitate [cogitare]. For cogo [collect] and cogito [to
705 11, II(457) | The Psalms, edited by A. Cohen; cf. also R.S.V., Ps. 115:
706 6, VI | had obtained through a few coins, got by his begging, I was
707 Int, 1 | brother of mine (an episcopal colleague), he could not bear them
708 7, VI(254) | postal inspection and tax collection to espionage and secret
709 5, II | from thy gentleness and colliding with thy justice, and falling
710 9, XI | they must be gathered up [colligenda] from their dispersion.
711 Int, 1 | therefore idiomatic, and often colloquial. Even in his knottiest arguments,
712 9, X | eyes say, “If they were colored, we reported that.” The
713 Int | Introduction.~ ~Like a colossus bestriding two worlds, Augustine
714 12, XXI(614) | archéologie chrétienne, Vol. 14, cols. 1246-1252, for a full account
715 6, VIII | also! For when one of the combatants fell in the fight, a mighty
716 6, I | dangers of the voyage she comforted the sailors - to whom the
717 5, V | that the Holy Spirit, the Comforter and Enricher of thy faithful
718 6, XVI | us in thy way, and thou comfortest us and sayest, “Run, I will
719 8, III | us.~Thus, then, we were comforting the unhappy Verecundus -
720 10, II | and of all thy terrors and comforts and leadings by which thou
721 7, III | crying out, “So it is.” The commander triumphs in victory; yet
722 11, XXX | rightly to the end of the commandment which is pure love. Thus,
723 11, XXVIII | he understands simply the commencement of creation, and interprets
724 9, XXXI | and that “meat does not commend us to God”365; and that “
725 6, XIV | voice was of great weight in commending it because his estate was
726 5, XIV(148) | principle in his sermons and commentaries; cf. M. Pontet, L'Exégèse
727 12, XVII(579) | Psalms and The City of God. Commenting on Ps. 65, Augustine says: "
728 Int, 1 | possible form. Augustine dryly comments that the shortest complete
729 3, II | people so that he might commiserate them. Some grief may then
730 3, VIII | against thee, they are also committing impiety against their own
731 5, X | thought just as they are commonly reputed to do. And I did
732 10, XXII | understand. They are quite commonplace and ordinary, and still
733 12, XXIV | waters”); and in the earthly commonwealth still steeped in their bitterness (
734 10, XXIX | are mangled by various commotions until I shall flow together
735 10, XXIII(440) | Communes notitias, the universal
736 7, II | a worshiper of idols, a communicant in the sacrilegious rites
737 1, VI | which my feelings could be communicated to others.~Whence could
738 3, VIII | contrary to the customs or compacts of any nation, even though
739 6, XXI(229) | A figure that compares the dangers of the solitary
740 4, II | once they are born they compel our love.~3. I remember
741 Int | unexpected outcome. Now he felt a compelling need to retrace the crucial
742 9, XXXI | passing thither, and necessity compels us to pass. And while health
743 4, II | that, when I decided to compete for a theatrical prize,
744 9, XXXVII | myself to be gratified by the competence or insight of my neighbor;
745 3, II | goes away disgusted and complaining. But if his feelings are
746 1, XVI(31) | rather common philosopher's complaint against Olympian religion
747 5, VIII | and filled thy ears with complaints and groans which thou didst
748 Int | he began his Confessions, completing them probably in 398 (cf.
749 Int | Migne, Patrologiae cursus completus, Series Latina (Vols. 32-
750 12, III | because thou alone art without complication. For thee it is not one
751 9, XXXVIII | around collecting solicited compliments. It tempts me, even when
752 11, XXIX | is the sound itself the composer of the tune; rather, the
753 11, VI(464) | Visibiles et compositas, the opposite of "invisible
754 11, VI | receive these visible and composite forms.464~
755 12, I(506) | This is a compound - and untranslatable - Latin
756 5, X | does not have the power of comprehending any certain truth, for,
757 12, XXX | thou didst make under the compulsion of necessity - such as the
758 4, XV | conceived by my own vain conceit out of sensory notions.
759 2 | BOOK TWO~ ~He concentrates here on his sixteenth year,
760 11, V | sense to fasten to [in this concept of unformed matter], and
761 Int | Nicea (cf. Mansi, Sacrorum conciliorum, II, 671, and IV, 1167) -
762 11, XV | and put together, and I conclude that my God, the eternal
763 1 | experiences in school. He concludes with a paean of grateful
764 11, XXX | opinions let Truth itself bring concord, and may our God have mercy
765 12, XXXIII | They were created from concreated matter - that is, matter
766 7, X | opportunity - all these things concurring in the same space of time
767 Int | thought were appealed to in condemnation of the corruptions of popular
768 9, XXXVI | commended by the men whom thou condemnest will not be defended by
769 9, XLI | thee, for thou wilt not condescend to be enjoyed along with
770 5, IX | endureth forever,”140 hast so condescended to those whose debts thou
771 5, XI | occasionally, I desired to confer on various matters with
772 Int, 1 | Skutella, S. Aureli Augustini Confessionum Libri Tredecim (Leipzig,
773 8, IX | And when they asked her confidentially the reason for this, she
774 1, III | which thou dost fill do not confine thee, since even if they
775 5, X | think that thou couldst be confined by the form of a human body
776 11, XVI | which thou dost conform and confirm forever, O my God, my Mercy.
777 5, III | creation, and I saw the confirmation of their calculations in
778 Int | time, and more importantly, confiteri means to acknowledge, to
779 11, XVI | promised me which thou dost conform and confirm forever, O my
780 8, IX | to punish them for it. In conformity with his mother’s wish,
781 12, XX | falsely? Am I mingling and confounding and not rightly distinguishing
782 Int | of the Manicheans only to confront him with the opposite threat
783 10, XI(431) | unstable "heart" of those who confuse time and eternity.~
784 2, II | unholy desire. Both boiled confusedly within me, and dragged my
785 7, X | God, thou dost reprove and confute and convict them. For both
786 7, VII | arguments were exhausted and confuted. Yet it resisted in sullen
787 6, II | forth into praise of her, congratulating me that I had such a mother -
788 7, II | the presence of the holy congregation. For there was no salvation
789 8, VII | indeed, by almost all thy congregations throughout the rest of the
790 11, XXVI | that too would be found congruent to my words.~
791 2, II(41) | Cf. Gen. 3:18 and De bono conjugali, 8-9, 39-35 (N-PNF, III,
792 6, XIII | fantastic things, such as are conjured up by the strong preoccupation
793 12, XXII | Let us make man,” is also connected with the statement in the
794 10, I(406) | The repetition of it here connects this concluding section
795 Int | virtue of continence had been consciously preferred; there was a strong
796 Int | and IV, 1167) - he was consecrated assistant bishop to the
797 11, XIX(487) | takes to be the Christian consensus on the questions he has
798 9, XXXV | beseech thee that where any consenting to such thoughts is now
799 9, XXX | that it neither commits nor consents to these debasing corruptions
800 Int | thought issue in practical consequence; no contemplation of the
801 Int | it was this essentially conservative genius who recast the patristic
802 Int | He gathered together and conserved all the main motifs of Latin
803 5, VIII | me there - though these considerations did affect my decision.
804 9, VIII | my eyes, and which I am considering, because the sounds which
805 10 | the being of God. He then considers the question of the beginning
806 4, XV | I conceived that unity consisted of the rational soul and
807 Int | hardly miss the fundamental consistency in his entire life’s work.
808 5, V | books could be explained consistently with his theories. If they
809 3, XI | dream by which thou didst console her, so that she permitted
810 3, VIII | take audacious delight in conspiracies and feuds according to their
811 9, XLII | princes of the air,392 their conspirators and companions in pride,
812 5, XII | value on justice - would conspire together and suddenly transfer
813 5, III | the sands, and map out the constellations, and trace the courses of
814 6, III | be so analyzed as not to constrain me by any answer to believe
815 6, I | a human body, yet I was constrained to conceive thee to be some
816 7, III | solemn festival of thy house constrains us to tears when it is read
817 10, XVIII | already passed, but words constructed from the images of the perceptions
818 6, I(177) | Phantasmata, mental constructs, which may be internally
819 6, XXI(226) | affirm the coeternity and consubstantiality of Jesus Christ and God
820 7, IV(246) | conversion of Sergius Paulus, proconsul of Cyprus, in Acts 13:4-
821 6, VI | They, in combined study and consultation, fanned the flame of their
822 6, VI | who was not a negligent consulter of the astrologers even
823 6, XIV | Many in my band of friends, consulting about and abhorring the
824 9, XXXI | thirst are actual pain. They consume and destroy like fever does,
825 5, III | so that thou, O Lord, “a consuming fire,”125 mayest burn up
826 Int | reconstructed and “placed” with consummate dramatic skill. We see how
827 10, XXVII | the future until by the consumption of all the future all is
828 10, X(429) | who pour new wine into old containers, he says: Carnalitas vetustas
829 4, XV | errors and false opinions contaminate life if the rational soul
830 8, VIII | that little - for “he that contemns small things shall fall
831 11, XI | than “Thy house” - which contemplates thy delights without any
832 5, XIII | was only a careless and contemptuous listener. I was delighted
833 7, X | perceive two wills to be contending with each other in the same
834 2, VI | possessor of all things. Envy contends that its aim is for excellence;
835 9, XXXVII | know whether I should be contented or troubled at having to
836 6, IV | Catholic Church with a blind contentiousness. I had not yet discovered
837 9, XXXI | pinch of emptiness to the contentment of fullness, it is in that
838 6, I | space is emptied of all its contents (of earth, water, air, or
839 4, I | applause, entering poetic contests, striving for the straw
840 6, XII | down to the present most continently. I quoted against him the
841 10, XXVIII | Yet, our attention has a continuity and it is through this that
842 9, VIII | themselves without effort, and in continuous order, just as they are
843 11, XXV | whose breast there is no contradiction, pour thy soothing balm
844 6, XVII | abstracting itself from the contradictory throng of fantasms in order
845 Int | has come about that his contributions to the larger heritage of
846 Int, 1 | no thought of trying to contrive an English equivalent for
847 10, XX(437) | Memoria, contuitus, and expectatio: a pattern
848 7, X | whether he should go to their conventicle or to the theater, the Manicheans
849 3, VIII | what is agreed upon by convention, and confirmed by custom
850 Int | is a vivid and believable convergence of influences, reconstructed
851 11, X | have revived. Speak to me; converse with me. I have believed
852 8, X | a long journey.~We were conversing alone very pleasantly and “
853 2, VI(54) | Avertitur, the opposite of convertitur: the evil will turns the
854 10, VI | that time the outer ear conveyed to the conscious mind, whose
855 9, IX | sense of smell - which then conveys into the memory the image
856 7, X | reprove and confute and convict them. For both wills may
857 11, XXVII | and to hold as certain the conviction that God made all entities
858 6, VII | after this death.~With these convictions safe and immovably settled
859 6, IX | they thought they could convince him who it was that had
860 6, XXI(229) | the safety of an imperial convoy on a main highway to the
861 5, XI | forward any uncorrupted copies. Still thinking in corporeal
862 3, XII | her entreaties, and shed copious tears, still beseeching
863 9, XXXIV | the delight of the eye, copying the outward forms of the
864 Int, 1 | penetrate to its inner dynamic core.~There is no need to justify
865 2, VIII | and searches out the dark corners thereof? What is it that
866 Int | guilt but he did set them as cornerstones in his “system,” matching
867 12, IV(510) | every way better" (F. M. Cornford, Plato's Cosmology, New
868 12, XXIV(633) | valid - implications and corollaries.~
869 9, XXXV | the sight of a lacerated corpse, which makes you shudder?
870 5, XII | love them if they will be corrected and come to prefer the learning
871 1, XIII | learned this will answer correctly, in accordance with the
872 9, XXXIII | by I know not what secret correlation. But the pleasures of my
873 10, XX(437) | expectatio: a pattern that corresponds vaguely to the movement
874 2, I | wasted away, and I became corrupt in thy eyes, yet I was still
875 8, VIII | the flattery of friends corrupts, so often do the taunts
876 Int | eternity, of creation and cosmic order, have not ceased to
877 Int, 1 | on the vast stage of the cosmos itself. The Creator is the
878 7, VI | build a tower”, counting the cost - namely, of forsaking all
879 10 | that time and creation are cotemporal. But what is time? To this
880 4, VII | pleasures of the bed or the couch; not even in books or poetry
881 2, III | toward its outskirts. For in counseling me to chastity, she did
882 6, X | Even the official whose counselor Alypius was - although he
883 2, VI | might produce a sort of counterfeit liberty, by doing with impunity
884 7, VI | one Ponticianus, a fellow countryman of ours from Africa, who
885 3, II | wickedness than for one who counts himself unfortunate because
886 4, VIII | with him; to indulge in courteous exchanges; to read pleasant
887 8, III | However, he invited us most courteously to make use of his country
888 6, II | which she would taste out of courtesy. And, if there were many
889 5, VI | wholesome and unwholesome, and courtly or simple words are like
890 3, III | aimed at distinction in the courts of law - to excel in which,
891 1, XIII | not so much the sign of a covering for a mystery as a curtain
892 12, VIII | until it is hidden in “the covert of thy presence.”520 Only
893 8, XIII | with spices. Nor did she covet a handsome monument, or
894 6, X | a spirit, which neither coveted the friendship nor feared
895 11, XXVII | himself beyond his fostering cradle, he will, alas, fall away
896 10, V(421) | in which the Demiurgos (craftsman) fashions the universe from
897 4, XV | beauty] lay really in thy craftsmanship, O Omnipotent One, “who
898 9, XXXV | such a wilderness so vast, crammed with snares and dangers,
899 7, I | substance. Nor did I any longer crave greater certainty about
900 3, I | unclean as I was, I still craved, in excessive vanity, to
901 2, IX | mirth and wantonness, who craves another’s loss without any
902 11, XXVI | as yet understand how God createth would still not reject my
903 10, X(430) | the Christian doctrine of creatio ex nihilo which Augustine
904 12, XXIV(632) | primacy of God, His constant creativity, his mysterious, unwearied,
905 6, V(159) | Nisi crederentur, omnino in hac vita nihil
906 6, V(159) | alongside the more famous nisi crederitis, non intelligetis (Enchiridion,
907 Int, 1 | Augustine chooses the Apostles’ Creed and the Lord’s Prayer. The
908 6, V | does it come and how has it crept in? What is its root and
909 1, XIII | and the spectral image of Creusa were all a most delightful -
910 7, II | dog Anubis, and a medley crew~Of monster gods who ‘gainst
911 9, XIX | was being held up by the crippling of its habitual working;
912 12, XXI(614) | to make the phrase Ihsouz Cristos, Qeou Uioz, Swthr; cf. Smith
913 6, II | could bring herself to turn critic of her own customs, rather
914 11, XIV | there are others who are not critics but praisers of the book
915 8, IV | thoughts, straightening my crookedness, and smoothing my rough
916 10, XXVI | measure the length of a crossbeam in terms of cubits?444 Thus,
917 9, XXXIV | laid his hands mystically crossed upon his grandchildren by
918 8, X | place, removed from the crowd, we were resting ourselves
919 8, II | and from death to life, crowded into the bosom of our thoughts
920 6, II | had been sacrificed and crowned. But yet it seems to me,
921 12, XVIII | hand”589; and because “thou crownest the year with blessing,”590
922 5, IX | how could he do so by the crucifixion of a phantom, which was
923 8, IX | forth bitter words, when crude malice is breathed out by
924 11, XVI(481) | Cubile, i.e., the heart.~
925 10, XXVI | a crossbeam in terms of cubits?444 Thus, we can say that
926 10, XXVI(444) | Cubitum, literally the distance
927 6, VI | liberal education and was a cultivated rhetorician. It so happened
928 12, I | service I pay thee like the cultivation of a field, so that thou
929 5, VI | me in the elegance of my cupbearer, since he could not offer
930 7, V(249) | caritati me dedere quam meae cupiditati cedere; sed illud placebat
931 6, VII | thought at that time of curing Alypius of that plague.
932 5, III | sacrificial fowls - nor their own curiosities by which, like the fishes
933 8, XI(301) | about whom Augustine is curiously silent save for the brief
934 Int | judged most important. Even a cursory glance at them shows how
935 Int | reprinted in Migne, Patrologiae cursus completus, Series Latina (
936 1, XIII | covering for a mystery as a curtain for error. Let them exclaim
937 6, IX | committed the thefts. But the custodian had often met Alypius at
938 6, XI | here? But suppose death cuts off and finishes all care
939 3, IV(61) | XIV, 9:12, 19:26; Epist. CXXX, 10.~
940 7, IV(246) | Sergius Paulus, proconsul of Cyprus, in Acts 13:4-12.~
941 11, XXVII | 37. For just as a spring dammed up is more plentiful and
942 7, XII | having heard the like. So, damming the torrent of my tears,
943 Int | wholly just and appalling damnation. He never denied the reality
944 Int, 1 | ruthless justice toward the damned. Having thus treated the
945 1, XVI | in a golden shower ~Into Danae’s bosom... ~With a woman
946 2, VII | upon his own infirmity, dares to ascribe his chastity
947 Int, 1 | 1025).~ ~III. Letter to Darius (A.D. 429)~ ~Thus, my son,
948 7, IX | human punishment and in the darkest contritions of the sons
949 6, VI | diligent exactness of the birth dates even of his dogs. And so
950 8, IX | us as if she had been the daughter of us all.~
951 8, VIII | The care of her master’s daughters was also committed to her,
952 6, XVI | of God and evil and the dawning understanding of God’s incorruptibility.
953 9, XXXIV | occasionally find in silence. For daylight, that queen of the colors,
954 6, X | shining forth upon me thy dazzling beams of light, and I trembled
955 4, XI | the tumult of your vanity deafen the ear of your heart. Be
956 2, II | knew it not. I had been deafened by the clanking of the chains
957 3, IV | how thou wast even then dealing with me. For with thee is
958 6, III | a matter which could be dealt with briefly. However, those
959 6, II | salvation, she loved him most dearly; and he loved her truly,
960 12, XXI | been restrained from their death-dealing ways, they live and become
961 3, XI | accustomed to weep for the bodily deaths of their children. For by
962 6, III | wanted it, because I was debarred from hearing and speaking
963 9, XXX | commits nor consents to these debasing corruptions which come through
964 1, IV | payest out to them as if in debt to thy creature, and when
965 8, XIII | from the heart forgave her debtors their debts.313 I beseech
966 12, XXXIII | setting, a growth and a decay, a form and a privation.
967 4, XI | will lose nothing. What is decayed will flourish again; your
968 2, VI | birth that which dies and decays. Indeed, it did not have
969 9, XXXVI | truth and fix it on the deceits of men. In this way we come
970 8, XIII | and duped by that cunning deceiver. Rather, she will answer
971 Int, 1 | Theological Seminary Library; and Decherd Turner, of our Bridwell
972 6, IX | learn that, in making just decisions, a man should not readily
973 Int | had so long held him from decisive commitment to the Christian
974 Int | theological understanding, decisively or distinctively Christian.
975 1, XVII | assignment was that I should declaim the words of Juno, as she
976 1, XVII | true Life, my God, that my declaiming was applauded above that
977 12, XXIV | and behold what Scripture declares, and how the voice pronounces
978 11, XI | thy delights without any declination toward anything else and
979 6, VI | opinion, I did not quite decline to speculate about the matter
980 6, II | done to thee if thou hadst declined the combat?” If they replied
981 7, VI | to return, as the day was declining. But the first two, making
982 8, XII | Polique rector, vestiens ~Diem decoro lumine, ~Noctem sopora gratia;~
983 8, VIII | thirst of the girls to such a decorous control that they no longer
984 10, VI | was made by thee. Was it decreed by thy Word that a body
985 7, V(249) | device: tuae caritati me dedere quam meae cupiditati cedere;
986 4, XIV | God, that prompted me to dedicate these books to Hierius,
987 3, XII(81) | Dedocere me mala ac docere bona;
988 11, XXV | that Moses meant what you deduce from his words?”, I ought
989 1, IX | was flogged. For this was deemed praiseworthy by our forefathers
990 9, XXXVII | hand, I am sorry for the defect in him when I hear him dispraise
991 7, V | yet a man will usually defer shaking off his drowsiness
992 2, III | above all things never to defile another man’s wife.” These
993 3, VIII | harm thee who canst not be defiled; or how can deeds of violence
994 9, XIV | particular species, and by defining it, I still find what to
995 3, IV | was this book which quite definitely changed my whole attitude
996 6, IV(179) | Cf. the famous "definition" of God in Anselm's ontological
997 8, VI | hast power to reform our deformities - for there was nothing
998 2, II | fields of sorrow, in proud dejection and restless lassitude.~
999 12, XXXIII | followed matter with no delaying interval.~
1000 Int | he freely received and deliberately reconsecrated the religious
1001 7, X | longer deny that when anyone deliberates there is one soul fluctuating
1002 7, X | ashamed.258~While I was deliberating whether I would serve the
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