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1003 1, XV | hast forgiven me my sin of delighting in those vanities. In those
1004 3, VI | Thus I fell among men, delirious in their pride, carnal and
1005 6, IX | sparedst not thy only Son, but deliveredst him up for us all”193 -
1006 6, XVI | thou art near, and thou deliverest us from our wretched wanderings
1007 5, X | Rome, I again joined those deluding and deluded “saints”; and
1008 4, III | that you are following this delusion in free will and not necessity.
1009 6, XI | the empty hopes and mad delusions of vain desires. Behold,
1010 Int | philosophy is its insistent demand that reflective thought
1011 1, IV | gains; art never greedy, yet demandest dividends. Men pay more
1012 11, I | loquacious than discovery. Demanding takes longer than obtaining;
1013 1, VIII | which I used to reinforce my demands), I myself repeated the
1014 12, IV(510) | Timaeus, 29D-30A, "He [the Demiurge-Creator] was good: and in the good
1015 10, V(421) | 48E-50C), in which the Demiurgos (craftsman) fashions the
1016 7, II | offending his friends, proud demon worshipers, from the height
1017 7, II | sacrilegious rites of those proud demons, whose pride he had imitated
1018 11, XXVIII(502) | The thicket denizens mentioned above.~
1019 Int | climaxes so skillfully that the denouement in Book VIII is a vivid
1020 9, XVII | the innumerable fields and dens and caverns of my memory,
1021 5, X | extended body - either in a dense form which they called the
1022 7, III | the deepest! Thou never departest from us, and yet only with
1023 5, VIII | who grieved deeply over my departure and followed me down to
1024 12, XX | instructed and initiated and made dependent on thy corporeal mysteries
1025 1, XVI | precious vessels, but I do deplore the wine of error which
1026 2, III | make me do anything. She deplored and, as I remember, warned
1027 9, XL | investigating some things, depositing other things, taking out
1028 9, XXXV | heart of ours is made the depot of such things and is overrun
1029 Int | simply cannot be ignored or depreciated in any estimate of Western
1030 2, VI | sudden to thee? Or who can deprive thee of what thou lovest?
1031 6, IV | three are ten. I was not so deranged as to believe that this
1032 3, VIII | shows or the people who deride and mock at others. These
1033 6, XIV | and this vision was not derived from the flesh.~
1034 10, XXVI(445) | spread-out-ness"; cf. Descartes' notion of res extensae,
1035 1, XVI | telling the tale~ ~“Of Jove’s descending in a golden shower ~Into
1036 6, XIII | certain feeling impossible to describe, between thy revelations
1037 12, XXXIV | the creation and in the description of things in this particular
1038 Int | world. His observations and descriptions of human motives and emotions,
1039 12, XXI | pass away. Therefore, this desertion is restrained by thy Word
1040 9, XXXVI | thunderest down on the ambitious designs of the world, and “the foundations
1041 4, III | according to his works and despisest not “a broken and a contrite
1042 6, XIX | to set us an example of despising worldly things for the attainment
1043 6, IX(201) | interpretation of the Israelites' despoiling the Egyptians (Ex. 12:35,
1044 12, XXXIV | begin to unfold the things destined before time, so that thou
1045 Int | Holy Spirit; to shape the destinies of all creation and the
1046 9, XXXI | until that day when thou destroyest both food and stomach, when
1047 9, XXXIV | whom they were made and destroying what they themselves have
1048 1, XVIII | more completely than he destroys his own soul by this same
1049 Int | little interest in historical detail, wrought out the first comprehensive “
1050 3, VI(70) | For the details of the Manichean cosmogony,
1051 6, II | should be corrupted and deteriorated and changed by them from
1052 8, V | I gave as my reasons my determination to serve thee and also my
1053 3, VIII | all times to be held in detestation and should be punished.
1054 11, XXV(497) | Cf. Deut. 6:5; Lev. 19:18; see also
1055 Int | may mark off significant developments in his thought over this
1056 2, V | depart from thee, O Lord, nor deviate from thy law. The life which
1057 7, V(249) | as a conscious literary device: tuae caritati me dedere
1058 4, I | in my present memory the devious ways of my past errors and
1059 9, XXXVI | we do not love thee, nor devotedly fear thee. Therefore “thou
1060 9, XXXIV | night. But the craftsmen and devotees of these outward beauties
1061 12, XVII(579) | have become like fishes devouring one another." In The City
1062 8, II | guise of good counsel, and devours what it loves as though
1063 12, XXXII | them and which drop down in dew on clear nights, and those
1064 Int | see Bibliography), and di Capua, Miscellanea Agostiniana,
1065 3, III | for this stupid and diabolical name was regarded as the
1066 4, XV | it orally, but drew many diagrams in the sand - they scarcely
1067 11, VI(463) | Dictare: was Augustine dictating
1068 6, III | of evil their answer was dictated by a wicked pride, which
1069 11, VI(463) | Dictare: was Augustine dictating his Confessions? It is very
1070 Int | Augustine wrote - mostly at dictation - a vast sprawling library
1071 12, XXI(614) | 673f.; see also Cabrol, Dictionnaire d'archéologie chrétienne,
1072 6, IX(186) | acquired some knowledge of the Didaskalikos of Albinus; cf. R.E. Witt,
1073 8, XII | Polique rector, vestiens ~Diem decoro lumine, ~Noctem sopora
1074 8, IX | a peacemaker between any differing and discordant spirits,
1075 Int, 1 | character of evil. From this he digresses into an extended comment
1076 6, II | stomach - for out of this dilemma they could find no way of
1077 12, XV(569) | Legunt, eligunt, diligunt.~
1078 6, II | one little cup of wine, diluted according to her own temperate
1079 9, XXXIV | when his fleshly “eyes were dim, so that he could not see”374
1080 6, XII | harms; but unless it could diminish goodness, it could not harm.
1081 10, XXVII | The past increases by the diminution of the future until by the
1082 3, I | filth of concupiscence and I dimmed its luster with the slime
1083 3, VII | would be prohibited in a dining room, and then a person
1084 1, XI | not, then why is it still dinned into our ears on all sides, “
1085 6, VIII | students returning from dinner; and, with a friendly violence,
1086 8, IV | store up for themselves dire wrath against the day of
1087 4, VI | uncleanness of such affections, directing my eyes toward thee and
1088 6, I | reaching out beyond in all directions, to immensity without end;
1089 12, XXII | need another man as his director, to show him how to imitate
1090 1, XIII | I was a boy, he was most disagreeable to me. I believe that Virgil
1091 11, XXIII | reporters. There is one disagreement about the truth of the things
1092 11, XXIII | I see that two sorts of disagreements may arise when anything
1093 5 | experiences at Rome prove disappointing and he applies for a teaching
1094 4, XIV | him in a tone of scorn and disapproval, I should never have been
1095 10, XVII | things could in no way be discerned if they did not exist. There
1096 12, XVIII | prophecy; to another, the discerning of spirits; to another,
1097 10, VIII | Master teacheth all his disciples.425 There, O Lord, I hear
1098 7, I | passed in such a zealous discipleship in thy way, he appeared
1099 12, XXI | fountain of life - a soul disciplined by thy Word, by thy evangelists,
1100 12, XXIII | then made to live by the disciplining of her affections in chastity,
1101 9, XXXV | purpose of experiencing the discomfort that often accompanies them,
1102 8, IX | between any differing and discordant spirits, and when she heard
1103 12, XXIII | interpreting, expounding, discoursing, disputing, blessing, invoking
1104 5, II | Or in what way have they discredited thy power, which is just
1105 7, VI | But in this he acted very discreetly, taking care not to become
1106 7, VI | pursue or read or listen to discussions about wisdom.~14. On a certain
1107 9, XXI | to mind, sometimes with disdain and at other times with
1108 5, X | expansive. And from this diseased beginning, the other sacrileges
1109 5 | Carthage and Augustine is disenchanted in his hope for solid demonstration
1110 6, XVI | Augustine traces his growing disenchantment with the Manichean conceptions
1111 7, VI | so. Alypius was with me, disengaged at last from his legal post,
1112 4, XV | through those studies and disentangle all those knotty volumes,
1113 8, IX | marks of blows on their disfigured faces, and would in private
1114 2, III | heard them boasting of their disgraceful exploits - yes, and glorying
1115 9, XLII | they sought was the devil, disguising himself as an angel of light.393
1116 6, XII | Instead, feeling sorrow and disgust at it, he had lived from
1117 3, II | spectator, he goes away disgusted and complaining. But if
1118 1, XVIII | of play, I often sought dishonest victories, being myself
1119 5, IX | I had since increased in dishonor, and I madly scoffed at
1120 7, III | in the case of base and dishonorable pleasure. But it is also
1121 3, VIII | their private likes and dislikes.~This is what happens whenever
1122 6, XI | Perish everything and let us dismiss these idle triflings. Let
1123 4, V | thou - though omnipresent - dismissed our miseries from thy concern?
1124 6 | Augustine becomes engaged, dismisses his first mistress, takes
1125 Int | youth and the stages of his disorderly quest for wisdom. He omits
1126 12, XXXIV | and mightest reorder our disorders - since our sins were over
1127 6, XII | and therefore too easily disparaged, was not to be compared
1128 6, VI | had messengers ready to dispatch to one another as soon as
1129 12, II(507) | the darkness. . . . To dispel the darkness and thus come
1130 12, XV | through whom thou didst dispense it to us have departed this
1131 8, XIII | that the holy sacrifice was dispensed by which that handwriting
1132 11, XXX | this servant of thine, the dispenser of this Scripture, full
1133 12, VI | not teach me vain notions. Disperse its shadows and tell me,
1134 9, VI | lovely sound, where no breeze disperses the sweet fragrance, where
1135 12, XXIV | except through their signs displayed corporeally and by the things
1136 6, XVI | ones. Thy righteousness displeases the wicked, and they find
1137 8, II | might somewhat temper the displeasure of those who for their sons’
1138 9, XXXV | the wonderful Creator and Disposer of all things; but it is
1139 9, XXXVII | some other man is unjustly dispraised than when it happens to
1140 11, XXV | hear what I say to this disputant. Hear it, because I say
1141 5, XI | Elpidius, who spoke and disputed face to face against these
1142 12, XXIII | expounding, discoursing, disputing, blessing, invoking thee,
1143 7, VII | Yet it resisted in sullen disquiet, fearing the cutting off
1144 6, VII | to be the case. Indeed, disregarding his father’s will in the
1145 5, VIII | furious gestures, would disrupt the discipline which the
1146 Int | save Christianity from the disruption of heresy and the calumnies
1147 5, XII | been told, those riotous disruptions by young blackguards were
1148 8, IX | infidelity and never had any dissension with her husband on this
1149 4, VIII | through these infrequent dissensions to find zest in our more
1150 9, XXXIV | strength for thee, and not dissipate it in delights that pass
1151 2, III | fancied, even to the point of dissoluteness. And in all this there was
1152 8, XIII | For when the day of her dissolution was so close, she took no
1153 5, X | I did not fail openly to dissuade my host from his confidence
1154 9, XVI | heaven, or measuring the distances of the stars or inquiring
1155 6, XVI | marvel that bread which is distasteful to an unhealthy palate is
1156 4, III | physician, however; and for this distemper “only thou canst heal who
1157 4, III | own hand he placed on my distempered head the crown I had won
1158 10, XXVI(445) | Distentionem, "spread-out-ness"; cf.
1159 8, IV(276) | Cassiciacum dialogues has any distinctive or substantial Christian
1160 Int | understanding, decisively or distinctively Christian. But by the time
1161 11, XXII | others of which the apostle distinctly speaks: ‘thrones,’ ‘dominions,’ ‘
1162 9, XXXVI | mimicking thee in perverse and distorted ways.~But see, O Lord, we
1163 6, III | that he was unwilling to be distracted in the little time he could
1164 10, XXIX | that are before me. Not distractedly now, but intently, I follow
1165 Int | within itself. The trivial distraction of a child’s voice, chanting, “
1166 9, XXXV | fields, it quite easily distracts me even from some serious
1167 6, II | carrying it about. She would distribute it by small sips to those
1168 11, XI | sin either hurts thee or disturbs the order of thy rule, either
1169 4, XV | But I imagined that in the disunity there was some kind of substance
1170 6, V | unformed on many points and diverged from the rule of right doctrine,
1171 3, II | past recognition, being diverted and corrupted from its celestial
1172 1, IV | never greedy, yet demandest dividends. Men pay more than is required
1173 4, III | at the whole business of divination - could persuade me to give
1174 Int, 1 | Raymond P. Morris, of the Yale Divinity School Library; Robert Beach,
1175 11, XI | wanders about and begins to be dizzy in his own fancies? Who
1176 3, XII(81) | Dedocere me mala ac docere bona; a typical Augustinian
1177 8, III(273) | The heresy of Docetism, one of the earliest and
1178 Int | Augustine his aptest title, Doctor Gratiae. The central theme
1179 6, XIX(219) | presumably been receiving doctrinal instruction in preparation
1180 4, XV | Omnipotent One, “who alone doest great wonders.”107 And so
1181 5, V | piety, or ventures to assert dogmatic opinions in matters in which
1182 11, XXXII(504) | 1;2, in the Kirchliche Dogmatik, III, I, pp. 103-377.~
1183 Int | they loosed him from the dogmatism of the Manicheans only to
1184 6, VI | birth dates even of his dogs. And so it happened to pass
1185 11, XXII | distinctly speaks: ‘thrones,’ ‘dominions,’ ‘principalities,’ ‘powers’490 -
1186 11, II(457) | and K.J.): Caelum caeli domino, etc. Augustine finds a
1187 Int, 1 | thou, O Lord.”~ ~II. De Dono Perseverantiae, XX, 53 (
1188 6, II | forbidden to do so by the doorkeeper [ostiarius]. And as soon
1189 6, VI | with me; and I fretted, and doubled that very ill. And if any
1190 4, IV | asked my soul why she was so downcast and why this disquieted
1191 4, I | thee but a guide to my own downfall? Or what am I, even at the
1192 9, III | heart so that it will stop dozing along in despair, saying, “
1193 6, XIII | from the fact that “earth, dragons, and all deeps; fire, and
1194 12, VII | weight of concupiscence which drags us downward into the deep
1195 8, VIII | store, and with one thrust drain off all that putrefaction?
1196 10, II | wish to see those hours drained into anything else which
1197 Int, 1 | point where we can view the drama of God’s enterprise in human
1198 7, V | at all to reply but the drawling and drowsy words: “Presently;
1199 6, II | no way of escape without dreadful sacrilege of mind and tongue,
1200 5, VI | more true because it was dressed up in rhetoric; nor could
1201 12, XV | stretches high over all that now drift under it; whereas while
1202 12, XVIII | a babe in Christ, and a drinker of milk, until he is strong
1203 8, III | mouth to thy fountain, and drinks wisdom as he desires and
1204 9, XXXV | religion itself, this prompting drives us to make trial of God
1205 2, IX | them when something very droll presents itself to their
1206 10, II | do this sufficiently, the drops of time410 are very precious
1207 11, XVI | deny these things bark and drown their own voices with as
1208 7, V | reply but the drawling and drowsy words: “Presently; see,
1209 8, II | which helped to support the drudgery had gone, and I would have
1210 6, II | for those who were already drunken (and also because these
1211 Int, 1 | possible form. Augustine dryly comments that the shortest
1212 12, XXIV | with human offspring. Its dryness is the symbol of its thirst
1213 12, XXX(647) | Manichean cosmogony and similar dualistic doctrines of "creation."~
1214 8, VII | they were discovered and dug up and brought with due
1215 Int, 1 | Augustine wrote the De octo dulcitii quaestionibus in 423-425).
1216 Int, 1 | the brother of the tribune Dulcitius (for whom Augustine wrote
1217 6, XX | sensed what it was that the dullness of my soul would not allow
1218 2, IV | to eat ourselves, but to dump out to the hogs, after barely
1219 8, XIII | lest she be convicted and duped by that cunning deceiver.
1220 8, XII | illness, when she praised my dutiful attention and called me
1221 1, XVIII | then thought it my whole duty to please, for I did not
1222 4, XV | sex. The other I called a Dyad, which showed itself in
1223 10, IX | shall be renewed like the eagle’s.”427 For by this hope
1224 7, I | I was weak and chose the easier way, and for this single
1225 8, VII | after the manner of the Eastern Church, that hymns and psalms
1226 Int | Ambrose at Milan during Eastertide, A.D. 387. A short time
1227 7, III | portion of creation thus ebbs and flows, alternately in
1228 Int, 1 | of the Corpus Scriptorum ecclesiasticorum Latinorum XXXIII text of
1229 5, III | moon or the sun will be eclipsed, and it will come to pass
1230 11, XXVII | discourse about it and, with an economy of language, it overflows
1231 6, XVII(214) | language. This is one of two ecstatic visions reported in the
1232 11, II(457) | Soncino edition of The Psalms, edited by A. Cohen; cf. also R.
1233 Int, 1 | the other major critical editions: Martin Skutella, S. Aureli
1234 Int, 1 | appreciation to the General Editors of this Library for their
1235 1, XIII | a free curiosity is more effective in learning than a discipline
1236 6, IV | endowed them with such great efficacy.~
1237 1, XI(24) | believed, established the effigiem Christi in the human soul.~
1238 5, VIII | perpetrated with astounding effrontery, things that would be punishable
1239 12, XXXI(650) | of the Vulgate Ex. 3:14: ego sum qui sum.~
1240 6, IX(201) | Israelites' despoiling the Egyptians (Ex. 12:35, 36) made it
1241 Int | XII and XIII, Augustine elaborates, in loving patience and
1242 6, XV | the two years that should elapse before I could obtain the
1243 10, XXVI(444) | the distance between the elbow and the tip of the middle
1244 6, IX | minority from Jacob, that the elder should serve the younger
1245 8, VIII | as to that of a certain elderly maidservant who had nursed
1246 9, XXV | over all. Yet thou hast elected to dwell in my memory from
1247 3, X(79) | Electi sancti. Another Manichean
1248 5, VI | profit was there to me in the elegance of my cupbearer, since he
1249 6, I | would be more of thee in an elephant than in a sparrow, because
1250 6, VI | increased in wealth, and elevated to honors. At the same time,
1251 10 | BOOK ELEVEN~ ~The eternal Creator and
1252 11, XXV | true opinions which can be elicited from these words, rashly
1253 12, XV(569) | Legunt, eligunt, diligunt.~
1254 10, XXVII(449) | in modern poetry, in T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets and especially "
1255 3, X(79) | term for the perfecti, the elite and "perfect" among them.~
1256 5, VI | that because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not
1257 5, XI | already the words of one Elpidius, who spoke and disputed
1258 5, X | believe that anything could emanate from thee which had the
1259 8, XIII | body sumptuously wrapped or embalmed with spices. Nor did she
1260 3, III | lived with a sort of ashamed embarrassment that I was not even as they
1261 12, XVII | 20. Who has gathered the “embittered ones”579 into a single society?
1262 Int | there had been Ambrose, who embodied for Augustine the dignity
1263 9, VI | and fragrance and food and embracement of my inner man - where
1264 7, VI | reading, he meditated on embracing just such a life, giving
1265 10, XIII | periods of time. In the eminence of thy ever-present eternity,
1266 Int, 1 | for Augustine’s Latin is eminently readable! On the other side,
1267 11 | of his Scripture text. He emphasizes the importance of tolerance
1268 11, II(457) | familiar way, in Hebrew, of emphasizing a superlative (e.g., "King
1269 6, X | his heart. Threats were employed, but he trampled them underfoot -
1270 7, VI | life, giving up his worldly employment to seek thee alone. These
1271 3, I | with it, but because the emptier I became the more I loathed
1272 7 | Victorinus. He is stirred to emulate him, but finds himself still
1273 6, V | been present when they were enacted - such as many of the events
1274 6, XI | daily death in myself. I was enamored of a happy life, but I still
1275 7, XI | but recover strength and enchain me yet more securely.~I
1276 5, VIII | through the agency of men enchanted with this death-in-life -
1277 6, V | them good; behold how he encircles and fills them. Where, then,
1278 10, XXVIII | Before I begin, my attention encompasses the whole, but once I have
1279 Int | memory, to the ineffable encounter between God and the soul
1280 2, VIII | passions inflamed by the encouragement of my accomplices. But since
1281 11, XXV | said all the things we are endeavoring to explain!~
1282 5, VII | bent of mind. But all my endeavors to make further progress
1283 1, XVIII | kind and deceived, with endless lies, my tutor, my masters
1284 Int | Mediator and Redeemer; to endue the Church with the indwelling
1285 9, XXVIII | bear and makes shipwreck of endurance. Is not the life of man
1286 9, XXVIII | For no man loves what he endures, though he may love to endure.
1287 4, VII | foolish man that I was then, enduring with so much rebellion the
1288 1, VII | and endowed with all vital energies for its well-being and health -
1289 Int, 1 | must devote a good deal of energy and subtle speculation to
1290 9, XXXIII | surrendered nor by them enervated - often beguile me while
1291 6, IX | to the selfsame effect, enforced by many and various reasons
1292 2, VIII | was in the crime itself, enhanced by the companionship of
1293 9, XXXVII | continence that thou hast enjoined on us - that is, what things
1294 9, XXIX | quenched. O Love, O my God, enkindle me! Thou commandest continence;
1295 3 | Cicero’s Hortensius, the enkindling of his philosophical interest,
1296 8, IV | didst hear me; thou didst enlarge me when I was in distress.
1297 9, VIII | what we cogitate, either by enlarging or reducing our perceptions,
1298 9, XXXI | knockest at my ears and enlightenest my heart. Deliver me from
1299 12, III | should be a life capable of enlightenment, so neither, when it already
1300 8, IV | are not that Light that enlightens every man, but we are enlightened
1301 Int, 1 | truth in solitude. He must enlist his fellows in seeing and
1302 8, II | fully and from my heart enlisted in thy service, I permitted
1303 Int, 1 | our hearts and minds and enlists us in the great enterprise
1304 4, X | unless toward thee, it is enmeshed in sorrows, even though
1305 8, IX | to incite or increase the enmities of men by evil-speaking;
1306 Int | glance at them shows how enormous was his range of interest.
1307 Int | not ceased to animate and enrich various philosophic reflections
1308 5, V | Spirit, the Comforter and Enricher of thy faithful ones, was
1309 12, XXVII(645) | community but had not formally enrolled as catechumens. See Th.
1310 12, XV(574) | gladiators who used nets to entangle their opponents.~
1311 12, XV | hath seen us through the entanglement574 of our flesh, and he
1312 7, V | of being freed from all entanglements as we ought to fear to be
1313 9, XXXV | catching flies, or a spider entangling them as they fly into her
1314 6, VIII | only with those who first enticed him, but even without them;
1315 5, VIII | didst offer me at Rome an enticement, through the agency of men
1316 2, VI | whither or by whom? The enticements of the wanton claim the
1317 11, II | though not everywhere in its entirety - and our earth is the lowest
1318 5, VII | Thus that Faustus who had entrapped so many to their death -
1319 3, XII | repeated more earnestly her entreaties, and shed copious tears,
1320 9, XXXV | something more than the entreating: let it be that as thou
1321 7, VIII | struck my forehead, or, entwining my fingers, clasped my knee,
1322 11, XVII | then after this, by an enumeration of the days, he could point
1323 8, X | so ravish and absorb and envelop its beholder in these inward
1324 9, XXXIX | friends, but as if they envied that grace to others. In
1325 6, V | thou, O Lord, I imagined as environing the mass on every side and
1326 12, XXVI | things they had sent by Epaphroditus; yet I see why he rejoiced.
1327 8, IV(281) | sacraments; cf. Ignatius, Ephesians 20:2.~
1328 Int, 1 | doctrine of grace was the exact epicenter. Sometime in 421, Augustine
1329 Int | to recall those crucial episodes and events in which he can
1330 6, IX(201) | explicitly developed in Origen's Epistle to Gregory Thaumaturgus (
1331 8, IV(278) | Cf. Epistles II and III.~
1332 3, VIII | equal to himself or whose equality he resents. They may even
1333 6, VI | met one another at a point equidistant from either house, so that
1334 5, III | either the solstices or the equinoxes, or the eclipses of the
1335 2, IV | ingrained wickedness can erase. For what thief will tolerate
1336 6, II | brought to certain oratories, erected in the memory of the saints,
1337 4, XV | since all the while I was erring so hatefully and with such
1338 11, XVI(483) | the Liber meditationum, erroneously ascribed to Augustine himself.~
1339 3, VI(65) | In the sect, there was an esoteric minority called perfecti,
1340 7, VI(254) | inspection and tax collection to espionage and secret police work.
1341 6, XXI | salvation of thy people, the espoused City, the earnest of the
1342 6, XX(222) | Non peritus, sed periturus essem.~
1343 Int | and the gift of hope. It establishes the ground of Christian
1344 6, XVI | wretched wanderings and establishest us in thy way, and thou
1345 Int | ignored or depreciated in any estimate of Western civilization
1346 6, VI | would help to overthrow my estimation of that art. His name was
1347 1, XVIII | carried toward vanity and was estranged from thee, O my God, when
1348 6, IX(200) | Porphyry's De abstinentia ab esu animalium.~
1349 3, VI(65) | strict rules of an ascetic ethic; the rest were auditores,
1350 12, XVII(582) | bearing its fruits and the ethical "fruit-bearing" of the Christian
1351 9, VI(333) | Gilson, Introduction à l'étude de Saint Augustin, pp. 74-
1352 8, IV(281) | Antioch who referred to the Eucharist as "the medicine of immortality,"
1353 4, XIV | who is praised when the eulogist is believed to give his
1354 5, XII | transfer to another teacher, to evade paying their master’s fees.
1355 Int | Protestant Reformation, the evangelical elements in Augustine’s
1356 12, XXXII | birds is increased by the evaporation of the waters. We see the
1357 12, XXXVII | But thou, O Lord, workest evermore and art always at rest.
1358 3, III(60) | Eversores, "overturners," from overtere,
1359 9, XXI | be happy, but absolutely everybody. Unless we knew happiness
1360 4, IX | nothing from the other but the evidences of his love. This is the
1361 8, IX | increase the enmities of men by evil-speaking; he ought likewise to endeavor
1362 8, IV(276) | Platonism; cf. P. Alfaric, L'Évolution intellectuelle de Saint
1363 10, XXVII | measured. Let us measure it exactly; and let us say how much
1364 6, VI | records with the most diligent exactness of the birth dates even
1365 5, VI | even exceeded them - in exalting and praising him. Yet it
1366 5, VI | joined with others - and even exceeded them - in exalting and praising
1367 8, VI | old, but his intelligence excelled that of many grave and learned
1368 9, XXXVIII | complacency in one’s own excellency, and then goes around collecting
1369 6, XIV | have, the whole plan, so excellently framed, collapsed in our
1370 1, XIII | is given to restrain the excesses of freedom; this ranges
1371 3, I | was, I still craved, in excessive vanity, to be thought elegant
1372 4, VIII | to indulge in courteous exchanges; to read pleasant books
1373 Int, 1 | and contradicted him so excitedly that they nearly came to
1374 7, VIII | knew what I said, and in my excitement I flung away from him, while
1375 1, XIII | curtain for error. Let them exclaim against me - those I no
1376 2, II | blunt the thorns which were excluded from thy paradise!41 For
1377 12, XXIV | and by the things being excogitated by the mind.~We thus interpret
1378 5, X | myself a sinner. It was an execrable iniquity, O God Omnipotent,
1379 9, XXI | which I now detest and execrate as I call them to mind.
1380 11, III(459) | phrase in the succeeding exegesis this reading can hardly
1381 Int | mysteries of creation - exegeting the first
1382 8, XII(303) | Horace's famous memorial ode, Exegi monumentum aere perennius . . .
1383 12, XXIV | fruitful and multiply” can be exemplified differs widely. Thus a single
1384 2, V | and wealth, and thus be exempt from the fear of the laws
1385 1, XVII | else on which I could have exercised my wit and tongue? Thy praise,
1386 7, XII | was strengthened, and by exercising his good resolution and
1387 6, XIX | of immortality, and thus exhibiting his divine care for us.
1388 6, VI | rather, to please men by its exhibition - and this not to instruct,
1389 8, III | him to our conversion and exhorting him to a faith fit for his
1390 3, IX | the doer, and the hidden exigency of the situation all vary
1391 10, IV | having something not already existent is what it means to be changed
1392 Int | contemporary depth psychology and existentialist philosophy. His view of
1393 Int, 1 | too brief, he proceeds to expand it in an essay in which
1394 Int, 1 | topics; indeed, he actually expands some of his most rigid ideas
1395 12, XXXII | lower) waters651 or the expanse of air - which is also called “
1396 5, X | contracted and the good more expansive. And from this diseased
1397 9, IV | judgment. Let them breathe expansively at the one and sigh over
1398 11, XI | affection, having no future to expect and no past that it remembers;
1399 10, XX(437) | Memoria, contuitus, and expectatio: a pattern that corresponds
1400 2, III | his son with the necessary expenses for a far journey in the
1401 9, XXXV | not with the purpose of experiencing the discomfort that often
1402 6, XII | would have gone on to the experiment itself, and then perhaps
1403 9, XXXV | but out of a passion for experimenting and knowledge.~For what
1404 6, XX | chattered away as if I were an expert; but if I had not sought
1405 2, III(47) | Ps. 130:1) - and the most explicit statement we have from Augustine
1406 6, IX(201) | and Origen and was quite explicitly developed in Origen's Epistle
1407 Int | Christendom.” His metaphysical explorations of the problems of being,
1408 12, XXI | in their watchfulness - exploring only as much of this temporal
1409 9, XXIII | exposed by her she will indeed expose against their will, and
1410 9, XXIII | who are unwilling to be exposed by her she will indeed expose
1411 Int, 1 | première série: Opuscules, IX: Exposés généraux de la foi (Paris,
1412 Int | extraordinarily complex and his expository method so incurably digressive,
1413 6, III | hearer would ask him to expound it or discuss some of the
1414 12, XXIII | firmament, interpreting, expounding, discoursing, disputing,
1415 8, X | 26. Such a thought I was expressing, and if not in this manner
1416 12, XXI | and mysteries and mystical expressions, in which ignorance - the
1417 10, XIII | precedest all times past, and extendest beyond all future times,
1418 7, XI | come and doubt nothing, extending her holy hands, full of
1419 10, XXVI(445) | Descartes' notion of res extensae, and its relation to time.~
1420 6, XIX(218) | heresy was condemned but not extinct.~
1421 8, IX | endeavor by kind words to extinguish them. Such a one was she -
1422 7, VII | have satisfied rather than extinguished. And I had wandered through
1423 2, III | faithful life? ~Who did not extol and praise my father, because
1424 5, VI | language eloquent. But they who extolled him to me were not competent
1425 7, VIII | cried out to me to enter, extolling it to the skies. The way
1426 7, XI | silence the outcome of my extraordinary agitation.~
1427 5, III | Nor do they curb their own extravagances as they do those of “the
1428 3, I | and, full of sores, it exuded itself forth, itching to
1429 5, III | those who understand them exult and are exalted. Both, by
1430 7, IV | slain so many), all the more exultingly should Thy sons rejoice
1431 6, VIII | disordered and darkened eyesight of my mind was from day
1432 3, VI(65) | doctrine (Paris, 1949); F.C. Burkitt, The Religion of
1433 6, V | knowledge and then many fabulous and absurd things were forced
1434 10, XII | is reported to have done facetiously (shrugging off the force
1435 9, XI | agito [do frequently], and facio [make] and factito [make
1436 6, XIX | there must also be heresies [factions] that those who are approved
1437 9, XI | frequently], and facio [make] and factito [make frequently]. But the
1438 6, VII | miserably tossed about in this fad, I was teaching rhetoric
1439 10, VI | in words that sound and fade away thou didst say that
1440 6, XVI | waverings of my opinions, never faded from my breast. And I discussed
1441 2, VI | in the Lord? Luxury would fain be called plenty and abundance;
1442 8, XI | While she was sick, she fainted one day and was for a short
1443 6, III | substance I had not the faintest or vaguest notion. Still
1444 5, XIV | to commit the cure of my fainting soul to the philosophers,
1445 7, XI | But now it said this very faintly; for in the direction I
1446 12, XV | of our flesh, and he is fair-speaking, and he hath enkindled us,
1447 12, XX | things art inexpressibly fairer. And if Adam had not fallen
1448 11, XXXI | think that I speak more faithfully when I say, “Why could he
1449 12, XV | in the heavens, and thy faithfulness reaches to the clouds.”570
1450 7, II | philosophers, which were full of fallacies and deceit, “after the beggarly
1451 9, VIII(337) | refutation of skepticism, Si fallor, sum in On Free Will, II,
1452 Int, 1 | readable English. And this falsifies the text in another way,
1453 4, XV | my conception of thee was falsity, not truth. It was a figment
1454 10, XIV | we refer to nothing more familiarly or knowingly than time?
1455 8, II | of our detractors might fan the flame and not blow it
1456 10, V | from body, according to the fancy of his mind, able somehow
1457 6, VI | study and consultation, fanned the flame of their affection
1458 8, IX | through the horrid and far-spreading infection of sin, not only
1459 5, II | near even to those who go farthest from thee. Let them, therefore,
1460 10, V(421) | the Demiurgos (craftsman) fashions the universe from pre-existent
1461 6, VI | hast freed her from that fast-sticking glue of death.~How wretched
1462 11, V | something for our sense to fasten to [in this concept of unformed
1463 8, IV(275) | s brother), Rusticus and Fastidianus (relatives), Alypius, Trygetius,
1464 9, XXXIV | lovers with a tempting and fatal sweetness. Those who know
1465 6, VII | then came to discover how fatally he doted upon the circus,
1466 4, III | horoscope-casters, but he, in a kind and fatherly way, advised me to throw
1467 8, X | for the voyage after the fatigues of a long journey.~We were
1468 2, III | bulged out, as it were, with fatness!51~
1469 5, VIII | not leave until he had a favorable wind to set sail. Thus I
1470 11, XXXI | Certainly - and I say this fearlessly and from my heart - if I
1471 Int, 1 | made us, remade us [sed qui fecit, refecit]. As, then, you
1472 8, X | unfailing plenty where thou feedest Israel forever with the
1473 1, XIII | freedom; this ranges from the ferule of the schoolmaster to the
1474 6, II | church with good works, “fervent in spirit.”153 Thus he would,
1475 8, XII | laboris usui ~Mentesque fessas allevet, ~Luctusque solvat
1476 6, XV | and throb, and began to fester, and was more dangerous
1477 7, III | And the joy of the solemn festival of thy house constrains
1478 6, II | brought her basket with the festive gifts, which she would taste
1479 5, IX | all over and above that fetter of original sin whereby
1480 3, VIII | delight in conspiracies and feuds according to their private
1481 4, XV | back; thou didst resist my fickle pride. Thus I went on imagining
1482 4, VI | they tell (unless it be fiction) of the friendship of Orestes
1483 3, II | although this was done fictitiously in the play. And when they
1484 Int, 1 | given. He is never the blind fideist; even in the face of mystery,
1485 4, II | sending out some flashes of fidelity amid much smoke - guiding
1486 1, XVIII | his enemy with the most fierce hatred, he takes most vigilant
1487 8, VI | noble lad. He was barely fifteen years old, but his intelligence
1488 8, IV(275) | Adeodatus (Augustine's fifteen-year-old son), Navigius (Augustine'
1489 8, XI | of her sickness, in the fifty-sixth year of her life and the
1490 4, XV | falsity, not truth. It was a figment of my own misery, not the
1491 12, XXIV | from thus interpreting the figurative sayings in thy books. For
1492 12, XXIV | if we treat these words figuratively, as I judge that the Scripture
1493 12, XXI | For, in allegory, these figures are the motions of our mind:
1494 9, IX | were, in the most wonderful filing system, and are thence produced
1495 2, III | by my parents’ straitened finances. The thornbushes of lust
1496 2, V | fear of the laws and from financial difficulties in supplying
1497 6, X | lived - leaving behind his fine family estate, his house,
1498 5, VII | of an ingenious mind is a finer thing than the acquisition
1499 9, XII | lines of the craftsmen, the finest of which are like a spider’
1500 3, II | if they had been poisoned fingernails, their scratching was followed
1501 6, XI | suppose death cuts off and finishes all care and feeling. This
1502 8, II | into the abyss. And they fired us exceedingly, so that
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