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1503 12, XIX(602) | and the Sessorianus, in firmamento mundi.~
1504 6, IX | birthright; so that thy first-born people worshiped the head
1505 4, XIII | beauty that comes from mutual fitness - as the harmony of one
1506 8, XII | now believe that thou wast fixing in my memory, by this one
1507 6, XVII | changeable. And thus with the flash of a trembling glance, it
1508 8, VIII | and renounced it.~As the flattery of friends corrupts, so
1509 2, II | me, mercifully angry and flavoring all my unlawful pleasures
1510 9, VIII | passages of the nostrils; all flavors by the gate of the mouth;
1511 Int, 1 | credit for preventing many flaws, but naturally no responsibility
1512 4, XV | Church to become safely fledged and to nourish the wings
1513 9, XLIII | my heart and considered flight into the wilderness. But
1514 12, XXXII | atmosphere which supports the flights of birds is increased by
1515 7, XI | him; fear not. He will not flinch and you will not fall. Cast
1516 1, VI | my soul. And so I would fling my arms and legs about and
1517 4, XV | unconsciously exiled - I used flippantly and foolishly to ask them, “
1518 9, XXXIV | I go during the day. It flits about me in manifold forms
1519 1, IX | was slow to learn, I was flogged. For this was deemed praiseworthy
1520 12, XIII | high”546 and opened up the floodgates of his gifts, that the force
1521 5, XIII | provided thy people with the flour of thy wheat, the gladness
1522 12, XXVI | last your care of me has flourished again, in which you were
1523 9, VI | nor the fragrant smell of flowers and ointments and spices;
1524 10, XXVII | Both have sounded, have flown away, have passed on, and
1525 12, XVII | everything, although they may fluctuate within an innumerable diversity
1526 6, VII | from the faith by these fluctuations of thought. I still believed
1527 5, VI | disputation, and with the fluent and apt words with which
1528 5, VI | themselves did, although more fluently and in a more agreeable
1529 11, XVII | matter, before its unlimited fluidity was harnessed, and before
1530 6, VI | is governed, even to the fluttering leaves of the trees?) -
1531 2, II | But, fool that I was, I foamed in my wickedness as the
1532 Int, 1 | Exposés généraux de la foi (Paris, 1947).~It remains
1533 8, VIII | by the gravity of the old folks. And so, adding daily a
1534 Int, 1 | sense, he was a consistent follower of his own principle of “
1535 4, XIV | them, I would be even more fond of him; but if he disapproved,
1536 3, VI(65) | Puech, Le Manichéisme, son fondateur - sa doctrine (Paris, 1949);
1537 2, VI | supremely. Indeed, ignorance and foolishness themselves go masked under
1538 10, XVIII | formed in the mind, like footprints in their passage through
1539 4, III | fail me in that old man, or forbear from healing my soul? Actually
1540 9, XXXIV | And it presents itself so forcibly that if it is suddenly withdrawn
1541 1, IX | deemed praiseworthy by our forefathers and many had passed before
1542 1, XIII | the tedium of learning a foreign language mingled gall into
1543 10, XXXI | abounds in knowledge and foreknowledge, to which all things past
1544 3, VII | lawful for him to do in the forenoon. Or, again, as if, in a
1545 8, II | with mendacious follies and forensic strifes, might no longer
1546 6, VI | art existed by which we foresee future things. But men’s
1547 10, XVIII | the manner of this secret foreseeing of future things, nothing
1548 1, XI | of childhood! These were foreseen by my mother, and she preferred
1549 3, VII | them to do, but also for foreshadowing things to come, as God revealed
1550 3, IX | particular time or they foreshow things to come.~
1551 8, V | believe it was because Isaiah foreshows more clearly than others
1552 10, II | been written in vain. Those forests are not without their stags
1553 10, XVIII | similar explanation for the foretelling of future events - that
1554 10, XXVII | prolonged sound, and if, in forethought, he has decided how long
1555 8, XIII | mercy, and from the heart forgave her debtors their debts.313
1556 8, VII | great as they were, I had forgetfully passed them over? And yet
1557 2, III | which the world so often forgets thee, its Creator, and falls
1558 6, IX | lowliness and our trouble and forgiving all our sins.”196 But those
1559 9, XXXVII | works, we should as little forgo its companionship as the
1560 7, VII | not - I winked at it and forgot it.~17. But now, the more
1561 12, XXVII(645) | Christian community but had not formally enrolled as catechumens.
1562 4, XIII | beauty which comes from their forming a whole and another kind
1563 Int | the earth” is the basic formula of a massive Christian metaphysical
1564 Int, 1 | his early and his mature formulation. From them, we can gain
1565 5, XII | people are base indeed; they fornicate against thee, for they love
1566 2, II | and I boiled over in my fornications - and yet thou didst hold
1567 4, XI | forsaken unless it first forsakes. Behold, these things pass
1568 12, XXV | stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God, that it
1569 Int, 1 | by the “may have been” [forte] which I added. And in Book
1570 9, VIII | treasured up again to be forthcoming when I want them. All of
1571 8, VI | which called for unusual fortitude. We took with us the boy
1572 Int | however, it is a useful and fortunate thing that at the very beginning
1573 8, II | weapons for their frenzy. Fortunately, there were only a few days
1574 | forty
1575 Int | understanding.~In the space of some forty-four years, from his conversion
1576 8, VI | who didst inspire us to foster him in thy discipline, and
1577 9, XXXVI | designs of the world, and “the foundations of the hills” tremble.384~
1578 Int | edition of St. Maur) fill fourteen volumes as they are reprinted
1579 7, VI | the emperor’255? But how frail, how beset with peril, is
1580 9, VI | body.333 I asked the whole frame of earth about my God, and
1581 6, V | good should not also be the framer and creator of what was
1582 Int, 1 | Christian truth.~For his framework, Augustine chooses the Apostles’
1583 10, II | well to serve the cause of fraternal love. Thou seest in my heart
1584 8, XIII | bar her way by force or fraud. For she will not reply
1585 8, III | adoption, O Lord, and not a freedman any longer. There he lives;
1586 7, VI(253) | probably Gratian. Cf. E.A. Freeman, "Augusta Trevororum," in
1587 8, XIII | of thee, but “accept the freewill offerings of my mouth, O
1588 6, II | religious life, in which she frequented the church with good works, “
1589 8, III | world - with the perpetual freshness of thy paradise in which
1590 11, XXV | CHAPTER XXV~ ~34. Let no man fret me now by saying, “Moses
1591 11, XXX | ones of good hope are not frightened by these words of thy Book,
1592 4, IV | that he was gone - became a frightful torment. My eyes sought
1593 4, XIV | And yet, there it is in front of us. And to me it was
1594 8, VI | body that he would walk the frozen Italian soil with his naked
1595 6 | another, and continues his fruitless search for truth.~
1596 6, XVII(211) | from beneath; the vision is frustrated" (Enneads, VI, 9:4).~
1597 9, XXXVII | myself how much more or less frustrating it is to me not to have
1598 6, III | Nor did he know my own frustrations, nor the pit of my danger.
1599 7, XII | provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof.”263 I
1600 6, XIII | and vapors, stormy winds fulfilling thy word; mountains, and
1601 5, VIII | wast hastening me on to the fulfillment of all longing. Thus the
1602 3, VI | of hell”71 - toiling and fuming because of my lack of the
1603 8, XII | it was to prepare for the funeral went about their task according
1604 6, II | and also because these funereal memorials were very much
1605 9, XXXVII | unceasingly. Our daily “furnace” is the human tongue.386
1606 Int | of this enterprise was to furnish the motifs of the Church’
1607 9, VI | it life, whereas no body furnishes life to a body. But your
1608 12, XVII | hands of the powerful - furnishing him with the sheltering
1609 2, III | hindrance but actually a furtherance toward my eventual return
1610 7, XI | were, behind my back; and furtively plucking at me as I was
1611 9, VI(332) | the primary element in h fusigz. Cf. Cicero's On the Nature
1612 1, IV | thou dost rejoice at thy gains; art never greedy, yet demandest
1613 11, XVI | my confessions and their gainsaying.”~
1614 12, XIII | perfect.”544 “O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you?”545
1615 1, XIII | foreign language mingled gall into the sweetness of those
1616 3, III | regarded as the very badge of gallantry) among whom I lived with
1617 3, III(60) | This was the nickname of a gang of young hoodlums in Carthage,
1618 8, IV | also with us - in woman’s garb, but with a man’s faith,
1619 7, IV(246) | A garbled reference to the story of
1620 7, VI | went out for a walk in the gardens close to the city walls.
1621 4, II | answered “that, even if the garland was of imperishable gold,
1622 4, I | striving for the straw garlands and the vanity of theatricals
1623 6, IX(186) | several years before; cf. M.P. Garvey, St. Augustine: Christian
1624 3, VII | judging by human judgment and gauging their judgment of the mores
1625 7, VIII | away from him, while he gazed at me in silent astonishment.
1626 8, XI | earthly concerns, and then gazing at me she said, “See how
1627 Int, 1 | Opuscules, IX: Exposés généraux de la foi (Paris, 1947).~
1628 6, XII(207) | Thomas Aquinas, Summa contra gentes, II: 45.~
1629 5, II | plagued, fleeing from thy gentleness and colliding with thy justice,
1630 5, II | wanderings; and thou wilt gently wipe away their tears.122
1631 Int, 1 | contact with his reader in genuine respect and openness. He
1632 4, XV | fields of rhetoric or logic, geometry, music, or arithmetic, I
1633 8, VII | where lay the bodies of Gervasius and Protasius, the martyrs,
1634 2, VI | Did I wish, if only by gesture, to rebel against thy law,
1635 6 | admire Ambrose but Augustine gets no help from him on his
1636 6, VII | convey by adding a biting gibe at those whom that madness
1637 1, XIX | a vigorous memory; I was gifted with the power of speech,
1638 4, III | resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble.”92
1639 12, XXVII | fed, and by which it is gladdened. And, therefore, fishes
1640 12, XV(574) | those used by retiarii, the gladiators who used nets to entangle
1641 6, III | Now, as he read, his eyes glanced over the pages and his heart
1642 1, VIII | changes of countenance, glances of the eye, gestures and
1643 9, XXVII | my deafness. Thou didst gleam and shine, and didst chase
1644 4, VIII | never lapses, nor does it glide at leisure through our sense
1645 Int, 1 | of insight and his sudden glimpses of God’s glory. Augustine’
1646 9, XXXV | it glows,” “Smell how it glistens,” “Taste how it shines,”
1647 4, VII | rest. All things looked gloomy, even the very light itself.
1648 5, XIII(146) | hymns, Splendor paternae gloriae, which Augustine had doubtless
1649 5, IV | if knowing thee as God he glorifies thee and gives thanks and
1650 7, II | about him. For it contains a glorious proof of thy grace, which
1651 2, III | disgraceful exploits - yes, and glorying all the more the worse their
1652 1, X | and a similar curiosity glowed more and more in my eyes
1653 3, VI | Yet they still served me glowing fantasies in those dishes.
1654 9, XXXV | not say, “Listen how it glows,” “Smell how it glistens,” “
1655 6, XII | be stuck so fast in the gluepot of pleasure as to maintain,
1656 6, IV | could retain as certain gnawed all the more sharply into
1657 5, VIII | of the living,”136 didst goad me thus at Carthage so that
1658 8, IV | thee, O Lord: the inward goads by which thou didst subdue
1659 Int | brought to their proper goals. In sum, Augustine is one
1660 9 | and man to have been the God-Man.~
1661 7, VII | through perverse ways of godless superstition - not really
1662 1, XVI | Terence had not introduced a good-for-nothing youth upon the stage, setting
1663 12, XV | spread shall, with all its goodliness, pass away; but thy Word
1664 7, I | But I had now found the goodly pearl; and I ought to have
1665 10, II | and precious stones, nor gorgeous apparel, nor honors and
1666 5, IX | and this not for vain gossiping, nor old wives’ fables,
1667 6, VI | which the whole universe is governed, even to the fluttering
1668 7, VI(254) | Agentes in rebus, government agents whose duties ranged
1669 6, XI | if I push my claims, a governorship may be offered me, and a
1670 1, XVI | adultery. Yet which of our gowned masters will give a tempered
1671 5, XII | which begrimes the hand that grabs it; they embrace the fleeting
1672 5, VII | not draw back or retire gracefully. For this I liked him all
1673 12, IX(523) | Canticum graduum. Psalms 119 to 133 as numbered
1674 12, XVIII | fail not thou preparest a granary for our transient years.
1675 2, II | me - that madness which grants indulgence to human shamelessness,
1676 8, XI | the human mind capable of grasping things divine - that this
1677 Int | his aptest title, Doctor Gratiae. The central theme in all
1678 7, VI(253) | referred to here was probably Gratian. Cf. E.A. Freeman, "Augusta
1679 3, III | them by uncalled-for jeers, gratifying their mischievous mirth.
1680 6, IX | to hack away at the lead gratings. But when the noise of the
1681 7, I | God, let me remember with gratitude and confess to thee thy
1682 4, XV | little and even down to our gray hairs thou wilt carry us.
1683 3, VII | of the body, should put a greave on his head and a helmet
1684 1, XIII | into the sweetness of those Grecian myths. For I did not understand
1685 9, XLI | things, but I, because of my greed, did not wish to lose thee.
1686 9, XX | Latin, this happiness which Greeks and Latins and men of all
1687 6, VII | scholars before me, he came in, greeted me, sat himself down, and
1688 9, XXV | feel when we rejoice or are grief-stricken, when we desire, or fear,
1689 3, II | the reason for my love of griefs: that they would not probe
1690 Int, 1 | English translations! He grips our hearts and minds and
1691 6, I | as it were.~2. Being thus gross-hearted and not clear even to myself,
1692 4, VII | it down. Not in pleasant groves, nor in sport or song, nor
1693 3, VII | was forbidden, one were to grumble at not being allowed to
1694 1, VIII | means of whimperings and grunts and various gestures of
1695 6, XXI | highway that leads thither, guarded by the hosts of the heavenly
1696 11, XVI | source of Light, its Father, Guardian, Husband; its chaste and
1697 11, VI | desired to know, not to guess. And, if my voice and my
1698 6, V | I vacillated, and thou guidedst me. I roamed the broad way
1699 Int | inmost heart and will. It guides and impels the pilgrimage
1700 9, XXVI | and at once, O Truth, thou guidest all who consult thee, and
1701 7, XII | The streams of my eyes gushed out an acceptable sacrifice
1702 9, XIX | by the crippling of its habitual working; hence, it demanded
1703 9, XIX | remember, because it was not habitually thought of in association
1704 7, XI | worse way, to which I was habituated, was stronger in me than
1705 6, V(159) | Nisi crederentur, omnino in hac vita nihil ageremus, which
1706 6, IX | silversmith shop and began to hack away at the lead gratings.
1707 6, XIII | and all deeps; fire, and hail, snow and vapors, stormy
1708 7, VIII | other way. Thus if I tore my hair, struck my forehead, or,
1709 Int | centuries. At the same time the hallmark of the Augustinian philosophy
1710 6, XIX | learned from what has been handed down to us in the books
1711 12, XXVI | receiving a righteous man, handing a cup of cold water to a
1712 6, III | that I was altogether the handiwork of my most sweet God? If
1713 8, VII | permitted to touch with his handkerchief the bier of thy saints,
1714 3, VII | house, he sees a servant handle something that the butler
1715 9, VIII | I am neither tasting nor handling them, but only remembering
1716 8, XIII | spices. Nor did she covet a handsome monument, or even care to
1717 6, IV | error. Instead, by this hanging in suspense, I was being
1718 1, XIII | the grammar school there hangs a veil. This is not so much
1719 5, I | sight into it, nor does the hardness of our heart hold back thy
1720 6, VI | endured the most bitter hardships, in which thou wast being
1721 12, XXI | subdued, and the serpent made harmless. For, in allegory, these
1722 6, XII | corrupted. For corruption harms; but unless it could diminish
1723 11, XVII | its unlimited fluidity was harnessed, and before it was enlightened
1724 3, VIII | Three and the Seven, that harp of ten strings, thy Decalogue,
1725 8, XII | she had never heard any harsh or reproachful sound from
1726 6, IX | that he went off in great haste. Being curious to know the
1727 6, XII | accusing questions that the hasty and stolen delight, which
1728 4, XV | the while I was erring so hatefully and with such sacrilege
1729 1, XVIII | could destroy him whom he hates more completely than he
1730 12, XXI | mind: that is to say, the haughtiness of pride, the delight of
1731 6, VII | for thou hadst humbled the haughty as one that is wounded.
1732 9, XLI | infirmities of my sins, under the headings of the three major “lusts,”
1733 8, VIII | was much respected by the heads of that Christian household.
1734 4, XII | my soul confesses, and he heals it, because it had sinned
1735 6, XIII | might be washed clean in health-giving baptism for which I was
1736 9, XXXIII | between dangerous pleasure and healthful exercise. I am inclined -
1737 6, XVI | palate is pleasant to a healthy one; or that the light,
1738 5, X | saints”; and not their “hearers” only, such as the man was
1739 11, XXVI | and rest of my toil, who hearest my confessions and forgivest
1740 6, V | to know otherwise than by hearsay. By bringing all this into
1741 12, XXI | need of baptism, as the heathen had, or as it did when it
1742 7, I | in my breast, and I was hedged round about by thee on every
1743 9, XXVII | there. Unlovely, I rushed heedlessly among the lovely things
1744 6, XVIII | lowering their pride and heightening their love, to the end that
1745 9 | the flesh and the soul are heirs, and comes finally to see
1746 8, XIII | fool, shall be in danger of hell-fire.”310 And there would be
1747 6, VII | O Lord, who holdest the helm of all that thou hast created,161
1748 3, VII | greave on his head and a helmet on his shin and then complain
1749 1, XVI | your way of thinking; so helpful in unfolding your opinions.”
1750 4, XIV | spectators. See where the helpless soul lies prostrate that
1751 Int | opere operato, birth sin and hereditary guilt. He never wearied
1752 | herein
1753 6, XIX | For there must also be heresies [factions] that those who
1754 6, XVI | and to be drawn to him in hesitant faith.~
1755 9, XXIII | falsehood. They will no more hesitate to answer, “In truth,” than
1756 4, XIV | dedicate these books to Hierius, an orator of Rome, a man
1757 2, VI | pride wearing the mask of high-spiritedness, although only thou, O God,
1758 6, X | stood in fear. In his usual highhanded way he demanded to have
1759 10, XXXI(454) | title, somewhat like "Your Highness."~
1760 3, VIII | another, as in the case of the highwayman and the traveler; else they
1761 6, VI | full belly - joking and hilarious. And I sighed and spoke
1762 Int, 0(1) | autobiographical sections in Hilary of Poitiers and Cyprian
1763 11, X | thy fountain. Let no one hinder me; here will I drink and
1764 4, III | he had already understood Hippocrates, he was fully qualified
1765 Int | world in which such personal histories and revelations do occur?
1766 12, XIV | darkness,561 which we have been hitherto. Between those children
1767 3, IX | this is done merely from a hoarding impulse. Or, again, when
1768 7, V(249) | illud placebat et vincebat, hoc libebat et vinciebat.~
1769 2, IV | but to dump out to the hogs, after barely tasting some
1770 8, IV | that happened during those holidays? I have not forgotten them;
1771 10, XXII | in his name, the Holy of Holies, let no man interrupt me. “
1772 1, XIII | armed soldiers, and the holocaust of Troy, and the spectral
1773 12, XIV | voice of him that keeps holyday.553 And still it is cast
1774 4, VIII | impatience and welcoming the homecomer with joy. These and similar
1775 9, XXXV | Jerusalem, our pure and chaste homeland, I beseech thee that where
1776 1, XVIII | aspirating the first syllable of “hominem” [“ominem,” and thus make
1777 1, XVIII | hominibus [instead of inter homines], but he takes no heed lest,
1778 6, XI | and may be otherwise and honestly interpreted. I will set
1779 6, V | was with moderation and honesty that it commanded things
1780 8, IV | against these writings, honeyed with the honey of heaven
1781 10, XXXI(454) | Celsitudo, an honorific title, somewhat like "Your
1782 12, XIX | appear and bring forth the honoring of fathers and mothers and
1783 3, III(60) | nickname of a gang of young hoodlums in Carthage, made up largely,
1784 1, IX | indifferently those racks and hooks and other torture weapons
1785 6, VII | mightest cauterize and cure the hopeful mind thus languishing. Let
1786 8, IV | in writing, which was now hopefully devoted to thy service;
1787 8, IV | slaying my old man, and hoping in thee with the new resolve
1788 5, XIV(148) | interpretation opened new horizons for Augustine in Biblical
1789 4, III | was given to books of the horoscope-casters, but he, in a kind and fatherly
1790 8, IX | persons who, through the horrid and far-spreading infection
1791 3, III | themselves in jeering and horseplay at the expense of others.~
1792 1, XVIII | younger son did not charter horses or chariots, or ships, or
1793 4, II(87) | Cf. Hos. 12:1.~
1794 5, X | fail openly to dissuade my host from his confidence which
1795 6, VII | frivolous spectacles are hotly followed - he had been inveigled
1796 4, XV | blasphemies before men, and bayed, houndlike, against thee. What good
1797 3, III | still thy faithful mercy hovered over me from afar. In what
1798 8, IX | to be enough in a truly humane man merely not to incite
1799 Int | baptismal font in Milan as humbly as any other catechumen.
1800 3, VIII | harm another, either by humiliating treatment or by injury.
1801 2, IX | seducer of the soul, who hungers for mischief from impulses
1802 4, XIV | or the great gladiatorial hunter, famed far and wide and
1803 1, XVIII | who by an unwearied law hurlest down the penalty of blindness
1804 10, XXVI | one if it is pronounced hurriedly. The same would hold for
1805 9, VIII | hidden recess. Other things hurry forth in crowds, on the
1806 1, VII | given me, would have been hurtful; or to be bitterly indignant
1807 11, XI | sin. No one’s sin either hurts thee or disturbs the order
1808 7, II | and suddenly they were hushed that they might hear him.
1809 11, XVI(483) | in Julian's Dictionary of Hymnology, pp. 580-583. The original
1810 6, II | corrupted. But on their hypothesis that Word was itself corruptible
1811 12, XXXVIII(655)| between Bk. XIII and Bks. I-X.~
1812 4, IV(96) | Ibid.~
1813 2, VII | away my sin as if it were ice. To thy grace also I attribute
1814 12, XXI(614) | The Greek word for fish, icquz, was arranged acrostically
1815 12, XXI(612) | An allegorical ideal type of the perfecti in
1816 12, XXIII(631) | Another reminder that, ideally, knowledge is immediate
1817 6, XXI(226) | 1:15. Augustine is here identifying the figure of Wisdom in
1818 12, XXVII(645) | Idiotae: there is some evidence
1819 6, XIV | more the temple of its own idol, an abomination to thee.
1820 12, XIV | to noble, and others to ignoble, use563?~
1821 7, II | submitting his forehead to the ignominy of the cross.~4. O Lord,
1822 12, XXI(614) | acrostically to make the phrase Ihsouz Cristos, Qeou Uioz, Swthr;
1823 6, IV(179) | conceived." Cf. Proslogium, II-V.~
1824 4, VIII | differ at times without ill-humor, as a man might do with
1825 9, XXIII | blind and sick, so base and ill-mannered, desires to lie hidden,
1826 5, XII | on account of their own illicit acts. Still, such people
1827 4, III | must bear the blame of our ills and misfortunes. But who
1828 7, V(249) | meae cupiditati cedere; sed illud placebat et vincebat, hoc
1829 12, III | life which thou couldst illuminate. But, since it had not merited
1830 12, XIX | not put them out, and they illumine in its proper mode. For
1831 12, II | it that same Word, and, illumined by that Word, had been “
1832 2, VIII | explain it to me but God, who illumines my heart and searches out
1833 4, XV | fickle pride. Thus I went on imagining corporeal forms, and, since
1834 2, VI | theft? And wherein was I imitating my Lord, even in a corrupted
1835 Int | Jesus Christ, and it remains immanent in the Holy Spirit in the
1836 6, V | parts be filled from the immeasurable sea.180~Thus I conceived
1837 6, IV | which, however extended and immense, would still be bounded
1838 6, I | beyond in all directions, to immensity without end; so that the
1839 7, VI(252) | strong. But incontinence and immersion in his career were too firmly
1840 7, III | hope, or never been in such imminent danger? For thou also, O
1841 6, X(205) | Some MSS. add "immo vero" ("yea, verily"), but
1842 10, XXX | XXX~ ~40. And I will be immovable and fixed in thee, and thy
1843 6, VII | these convictions safe and immovably settled in my mind, I eagerly
1844 6, V | that those Scriptures were imparted to mankind by the Spirit
1845 6, XXI | way thither - to attempt impassable ways in vain, opposed and
1846 4, VIII | for someone absent with impatience and welcoming the homecomer
1847 6, XV | torn from my side as an impediment to my marriage, and my heart
1848 3, XII | things which more strongly impel me to confess to thee -
1849 Int | and will. It guides and impels the pilgrimage of those
1850 12, IV | thou art perfect, and their imperfection is displeasing. Therefore
1851 10, III(419) | Genesi ad litteram, liber imperfectus (both written before the
1852 4, II | even if the garland was of imperishable gold, I would still not
1853 3, II | though it was feigned and impersonated on the stage, that performance
1854 6, III | that put this in me, and implanted in me the root of bitterness,
1855 11, XXII | we understand that it is implied in the term ‘heaven and
1856 3, VII | nor had I observed their import. They met my eyes on every
1857 Int | the same time, and more importantly, confiteri means to acknowledge,
1858 3, XII | bishop, a little vexed at her importunity, exclaimed, “Go your way;
1859 2, III | for a time - this idleness imposed upon me by my parents’ straitened
1860 Int, 1 | natural digressive manner by imposing on it a patently artificial
1861 4, III | I consulted those other impostors, whom they call “astrologers” [
1862 Int | without serious distortion and impoverishment of one’s historical and
1863 7, IV | the devil had held in an impregnable stronghold) and the tongue
1864 5, XI | Manicheans, had begun to impress me, even when I was at Carthage;
1865 5 | who confronts him as an impressive witness for Catholic Christianity
1866 10, XX | more about which we speak improperly - though we understand one
1867 6, V(180) | Augustine's apparently original improvement on Plotinus' similar figure
1868 11, XXV | not of knowledge, but of impudence. It comes not from vision
1869 6, XIX | the rest would risk the imputation of falsehood, and there
1870 6, XII | then be astonished at my inability to give it up - when I spoke
1871 11, III(459) | version of Gen. 1:2 over the inanis et vacua of the Vulgate,
1872 12, XXIII | the firmament, for it is inappropriate for them to judge by so
1873 11, XVII | darkened abyss,” may not inappropriately be understood to refer to
1874 6, VII | and I esteemed him for his inborn love of virtue, which was
1875 7, VIII | weakened by disease, or incapacitated in some other way. Thus
1876 Int | pride. God’s grace became incarnate in Jesus Christ, and it
1877 10, XXVI(444) | and measures it was 17.5 inches.~
1878 12, II | at thy hands, so that the inchoate and the formless, whether
1879 Int | up a series of remembered incidents that inflamed his desire
1880 8, IX | humane man merely not to incite or increase the enmities
1881 5, X | that my heart might not incline to evil speech, to make
1882 7, VI | prayers. And with hearts inclining again toward earthly things,
1883 4 | among the Manicheans. It includes the account of his teaching
1884 10, XI | forced to move on by the incoming future; that all the future
1885 10, XI | they may see that they are incommensurable? They would see that a long
1886 11, III(459) | preferred the invisibilis et incomposita of the Old Latin version
1887 9, XVI | other, even though it is incomprehensible and inexplicable, I am still
1888 9, XXXI | but the uncleanness of an incontinent appetite. I know that permission
1889 1, XIII | would cause the greatest inconvenience in our life, if it were
1890 5, VI | at a time when it was not inconvenient for him to enter into a
1891 10, X(430) | different versions, and was incorporated into the Manichean rejection
1892 6, XVI | dawning understanding of God’s incorruptibility. But his thought is still
1893 3, II | than we do and art more incorruptibly compassionate, although
1894 9, XXXI | corruptible with an eternal incorruption. But now the necessity of
1895 10, XXVII | into the past. The past increases by the diminution of the
1896 5, X | sin then was all the more incurable because I did not deem myself
1897 Int | his expository method so incurably digressive, but also because
1898 5, IX | the enmity137 that I had incurred from thee through my sins.
1899 6, X | to whose favors many were indebted, and of whom many stood
1900 11, VI(462) | described as to apeiron (the indefinite). . . . Matter is indeterminateness
1901 11, VI(462) | indefinite). . . . Matter is indeterminateness and nothing else." In short,
1902 7, III | one is sick and his pulse indicates danger; all who desire his
1903 11, XXII | gathered together,’491 thus indicating that their gathering together
1904 11, XXIV(492) | Confessions as a whole; a further indication that Bk. XII is an integral
1905 1, IX | courage that he can regard indifferently those racks and hooks and
1906 7, VIII | myself with a turbulent indignation because I had not entered
1907 9, XI | already contains - but in an indiscriminate and confused manner - and
1908 11, XX | heaven and earth were as yet indistinguished; but now that they have
1909 12, XXI | wildness of pride, from the indolent passions of luxury, and
1910 2, IV | gratuitously wanton, having no inducement to evil but the evil itself.
1911 8, III | not believe that he is so inebriated by that draught as to forget
1912 Int, 1 | confession, although this inept expression may be tempered
1913 1, XI | deferred, as if it were inevitable that, if I should live,
1914 4, III | The cause of your sin is inevitably fixed in the heavens,” and, “
1915 Int | regards political order as inextricably involved in moral order.
1916 1, XVIII | thy eyes, what was more infamous than I was already, since
1917 3 | philosophical interest, his infatuation with the Manichean heresy,
1918 3, II | impatient of thy care, I became infected with a foul disease? This
1919 8, IX | horrid and far-spreading infection of sin, not only repeat
1920 9, XVI | forget.~From this it is to be inferred that when we remember forgetfulness,
1921 6, XXI(229) | solitary traveler in a bandit-infested land and the safety of an
1922 12, XXVII | uninstructed645 and the infidels, who require the mysteries
1923 7, IV | us up and call us back; inflame us and draw us to thee;
1924 3, II | scratching was followed by inflammation, swelling, putrefaction,
1925 9, XXXIII | psalm to use so slight an inflection of the voice that it was
1926 9, XXXIX | being cured by thee than not inflicted by me on myself.~
1927 7 | his decision, and the two inform the rejoicing Monica.~
1928 7, VI(255) | advisers; usually rather informally appointed and usually with
1929 12, XXXIII | from formless matter (de informi materia). But both were
1930 11, VI(462) | else." In short, materia informis is sheer possibility; not
1931 4, VIII | and even through these infrequent dissensions to find zest
1932 8, VIII | angry slave girl wanted to infuriate her young mistress, not
1933 5, VII | more. For the modesty of an ingenious mind is a finer thing than
1934 5, XI | unknown persons who desired to ingraft the Jewish law into the
1935 2, IV | s hearts, which not even ingrained wickedness can erase. For
1936 4, VIII | tongue, eyes, and a thousand ingratiating gestures - were all so much
1937 11, XI | in thee, its everlasting Inhabitant and its Light. I cannot
1938 9, VI | and the whole air with its inhabitants answered, “Anaximenes332
1939 6, XX | observing, but also the inhabiting of the blessed country.
1940 5, VIII | and saw in her agony the inheritance of Eve - seeking in sorrow
1941 6, VIII | place became a tumult of inhuman frenzy. But Alypius kept
1942 12, II(507) | Compare the notions of the initiative of such movements in the
1943 5, III | up in memory many of the injunctions of the philosophers, I began
1944 2, V | him; or else, having been injured, he was burning to be revenged.
1945 6, IV | that corruption in no way injures our God, by no inclination,
1946 9, XXXVII | one which is, with equal injustice, cast upon another in my
1947 Int | himself as much less an innovator than a summator. He was
1948 9, XXXII | concealed, so that when my mind inquires into itself concerning its
1949 9, XVI | distances of the stars or inquiring about the weight of the
1950 5, III | proud, even if in their inquisitive skill they may number the
1951 9, XXXV | this is broken off by the inroads of I know not what idle
1952 5, VIII | death-in-life - by their insane conduct in the one place
1953 8, IV | medicines281 - and raved insanely against the cure that might
1954 12, XXX | who speak thus are mad [insani], since they do not see
1955 3, X | mocked in turn by thee? Insensibly and little by little, I
1956 8, IV | at first refused to have inserted in our writings. For at
1957 Int | God’s grace, he vigorously insisted on both double predestination
1958 Int | Augustinian philosophy is its insistent demand that reflective thought
1959 4, XII | you love is from him, and insofar as it is also for him, it
1960 Int, 1 | Augustine will not willingly be inspected from a distance or by a
1961 6, VI | by telling him that after inspecting his horoscope, I ought,
1962 7, VI(254) | duties ranged from postal inspection and tax collection to espionage
1963 10, XVIII | senses. My childhood, for instance, which is no longer, still
1964 10, XXVII | measured except from the instant when it began to sound,
1965 4, III | human mind, by some higher instinct which does not know what
1966 1, VI | give them. And they, by an instinctive affection, were willing
1967 6, XIII(171) | was twelve! Cf. Justinian, Institutiones, I, 10:22.~
1968 8, VIII | severity when necessary and instructing them with a sober sagacity.
1969 8, IX | thou, her most intimate instructor, didst teach her in the
1970 1, XII | without warrant. Thus by the instrumentality of those who did not do
1971 8, IX | should think of them as instruments by which they were made
1972 8, V | to serve thee and also my insufficiency for the task, because of
1973 9, IV | weakness known to thee. I am insufficient, but my Father liveth forever,
1974 6, IV | be believed, and not have insultingly opposed it as if it were
1975 8, IX | of family discipline to insure the future harmony of its
1976 11, I | the poverty of the human intellect expresses itself in an abundance
1977 8, IV(276) | P. Alfaric, L'Évolution intellectuelle de Saint Augustin (Paris,
1978 6, V(159) | famous nisi crederitis, non intelligetis (Enchiridion, XIII, 14).
1979 6, XIX | not; at one time to speak intelligibly through verbal signs, at
1980 11, XXIV | of them he did actually intend to express in these words
1981 12, XV | time, what thy eternal will intends. They read, they choose,
1982 8, X | physical sense and the most intense illumination of physical
1983 3, I | myself for not feeling more intensely a sense of hunger. I was
1984 Int | will and thought in their interaction, and his exploration of
1985 9, XXXI | overcome the world”369 intercedeth with thee for my sins, numbering
1986 5, VIII | she still continued her intercessions for me to thee. She returned
1987 8, III | about to do when at last the interim ended. The days had seemed
1988 9, XXI | delighted if it were not some interior knowledge; and they would
1989 8, VI | put into the mouth of my interlocutor are his, though he was then
1990 9, VIII | light, whether external or internal to the body. The vast cave
1991 6, I(177) | constructs, which may be internally coherent but correspond
1992 6, I | through infinite space, interpenetrating the whole mass of the world,
1993 9, VIII | present as before, do not interpose themselves or interrupt
1994 10, V | by which, as if he had an interpreter, he may communicate from
1995 11, XXIV | truths which occur to the interpreters of these words (understood
1996 10, XXVII | still sounding without any interruption to break its continued flow.
1997 7, II | himself, whom he had known intimately at Rome. And I cannot refrain
1998 1, VIII | of the eye, gestures and intonations which indicate a disposition
1999 5, XIII | of thy oil, and the sober intoxication of thy wine.146 To him I
2000 5, VI | room, I was not allowed to introduce and raise any of those questions
2001 9, XL | thee. And sometimes thou introducest me to a most rare and inward
2002 9, XI | our senses, but which we intuit within ourselves without
2003 11, XXIX | but now, in time, it is intuited together with its form.
2004 9, XII | physical objects whatever, but intuits them within himself. I have
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