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3005 12, XXXIV | things manifest and mightest reorder our disorders - since our
3006 7, VI(254) | populace; cf. J.S. Reid, "Reorganization of the Empire," in Cambridge
3007 8, VIII | enemies instruct. Yet thou repayest them, not for the good thou
3008 7, II | And I cannot refrain from repeating what he told me about him.
3009 3, V | For my inflated pride was repelled by their style, nor could
3010 7, III | rejoice more over one that repents than over ninety and nine
3011 2, VI | teeming with spawning life, replacing in birth that which dies
3012 9, XXXIII | trained voice, I still find repose; yet not so as to cling
3013 12, VIII | adhered to thee and had not reposed in thy Spirit, which moved
3014 3, IV | be eminent, though from a reprehensible and vainglorious motive,
3015 Int, 1 | perspective as a whole, since they represent both his early and his mature
3016 3, II | entirely imaginary - are represented so as not to touch the feelings
3017 Int, 1 | on the grace of God and represents Augustine’s fully matured
3018 Int | fourteen volumes as they are reprinted in Migne, Patrologiae cursus
3019 8, XII | where none of them heard, I reproached myself for the mildness
3020 8, XII | never heard any harsh or reproachful sound from my mouth against
3021 7, XI | was sick and tormented, reproaching myself more bitterly than
3022 1, XVII | applause who most strikingly reproduced the passions of anger and
3023 9, XXXI | wilderness truly deserved their reproof, not because they desired
3024 9, XXXVIII | precisely because it is reproved. For a man may often glory
3025 12, XXIII | approving what is right and reproving what he finds amiss in the
3026 4, VII | not what he was, was now repulsive and hateful, except my groans
3027 11, XI | your God?”471; if now it requests of thee just one thing and
3028 12, XXXV(653) | Cf. this requiescamus in te with the requiescat
3029 12, XXXV(653) | requiescamus in te with the requiescat in te in Bk. I, Ch. I.~
3030 6, I | dwelt only with ideas, which resembled the forms with which my
3031 3, VIII | himself or whose equality he resents. They may even be done for
3032 6, VI | frequently - though with some reservation - that no art existed by
3033 3, IX | For example, when suitable reserves for hard times are provided,
3034 4, XI | perishable parts shall be reshaped and renovated, and made
3035 5, V | faithful ones, was personally resident in him with full authority.
3036 12, XIV | beforehand in darkness, whose residue we still bear about us in
3037 8, II | endure them, so that I might resign in due form and, now bought
3038 8 | Augustine tells of his resigning from his professorship and
3039 6, VI | reliable a person all my resistance melted away. First, I endeavored
3040 4, III | only thou canst heal who resisteth the proud and giveth grace
3041 7 | Bible; a text from Paul resolves the crisis; the conversion
3042 9, XL | from my necessary duties, I resort to this kind of pleasure.
3043 Int, 1 | the other side, when one resorts to the unavoidable paraphrase
3044 6, X | widely known for his great resources of helping his friends and
3045 3, III | generally accounted as respectable, were aimed at distinction
3046 8, VIII | character, she was much respected by the heads of that Christian
3047 6, VII | me, so that there was no respite or breathing space. They
3048 Int, 1 | wholly unmerited grace has responded in the incarnation of the
3049 8, XII | with the whole household responding, the psalm, “I will sing
3050 Int | everything he wrote was in response to a specific problem or
3051 10, XXVII(449) | comparing with its most notable restatement in modern poetry, in T.S.
3052 12, XXIV(632) | as in a coda, Augustine restates his central theme and motif
3053 12, XXXVII | movest not in time, thou restest not in time. And yet thou
3054 12, XX | boisterously swelling, so restlessly moving, would never have
3055 1, XVIII | spectacles, a stage-struck restlessness to imitate what I saw in
3056 9, XIX | hence, it demanded the restoration of what was lacking.~For
3057 10, VIII | bridegroom’s voice,”426 restoring us to the source whence
3058 12, IX | gates of death.521 Our peace rests in the goodness of will.
3059 8, XI | the place whence he is to resurrect me.” And so on the ninth
3060 9, XVII | emotions are, which the memory retains even though the mind feels
3061 12, XV(574) | Retia, literally "a net"; such
3062 12, XV(574) | such as those used by retiarii, the gladiators who used
3063 5, VII | he could not draw back or retire gracefully. For this I liked
3064 12, XXXII(651) | in abdito est valde); cf. Retract., 2:6.~
3065 8, I | from what deep and secret retreat was it called forth in a
3066 3, VII | things and, though I was retreating from the truth, I appeared
3067 11, XXXII | through those words, wast revealing to future readers, even
3068 2, V | injured, he was burning to be revenged. Would a man commit murder
3069 6, V | seemed to me all the more revered and worthy of devout belief
3070 8, IX | thou madest her fair and reverently amiable, and admirable to
3071 Int | complete until the process is reversed and man has looked as deeply
3072 Int | In his old age, Augustine reviewed his authorship (in the Retractations)
3073 8, IV | been a bitter and blind reviler against these writings,
3074 Int | the important theological revival of our own time, the influence
3075 6, I | arise!”151 and then he would revive and begin to speak, and
3076 6, V | himself.~Such perplexities I revolved in my wretched breast, overwhelmed
3077 11, XV | all extension and every revolving temporal period, and it
3078 Int, 1 | order. He was always a Latin rhetor; artifice of style had come
3079 4, III | the crown I had won in a rhetorical contest. He did not do this
3080 6, VI | education and was a cultivated rhetorician. It so happened that he
3081 8, XIII | mother desired of me - more richly in the prayers of so many
3082 4, IV | absent. I became a hard riddle to myself, and I asked my
3083 10, XII | asked a deep question to be ridiculed - and by such tactics gain
3084 Int, 1 | expands some of his most rigid ideas of God’s ruthless
3085 7, XII | eyes first fell: “Not in rioting and drunkenness, not in
3086 5, XII | as I had been told, those riotous disruptions by young blackguards
3087 4, IV | sweet friendship, being ripened by the zeal of common studies.
3088 1, XI | unformed clay should be risked to them rather than the
3089 Int, 1 | Tübingen, 1930), and Jean Rivière, Enchiridion in the Bibliothèque
3090 6, VIII | and forbade his mind to roam abroad after such wickedness.
3091 6, V | and thou guidedst me. I roamed the broad way of the world,
3092 1, XVI | against your rocky shore and roar: “Here words may be learned;
3093 4, VI | enemy, that death which had robbed me of him. I even imagined
3094 1, XVI | And you beat against your rocky shore and roar: “Here words
3095 3, I | scourged with the burning iron rods of jealousy, suspicion,
3096 6, XIV | were very rich - especially Romanianus, my fellow townsman, an
3097 9, XXXV | curious longing in the soul, rooted in the same bodily senses,
3098 12, XXX | fastened to the earth by their roots. But [they say] a hostile
3099 1, VIII | did not teach me words by rote, as they taught me my letters
3100 2, VI | and following a shadow! O rottenness! O monstrousness of life
3101 4, VIII | ears”99 by its adulterous rubbing. And that fable would not
3102 11, XVII | people to whom he spoke were rude and carnal, so that he judged
3103 4, XII | Where do you go along these rugged paths? Where are you going?
3104 6, VII | problem, to prevent him from ruining his excellent mind in his
3105 1, V | enlarged by thee. It is in ruins; do thou restore it. There
3106 12, XXIV | and to human affections ruled by temperance (signified
3107 9, XIV | brought up out of the belly by rumination, so also these things are
3108 9, XXXV | go and see it or if some rumor of its beauty had attracted
3109 8, IX | marveled that it had never been rumored, nor was there any mark
3110 3, VI(65) | Cambridge, 1925); and Steven Runciman, The Medieval Manichee (
3111 1, XIII | myself was seeking the lowest rung of thy creation, having
3112 4, X | sufficient to stay things from running their courses from the beginning
3113 5, VI | words are like town-made or rustic vessels - both kinds of
3114 8, IV(275) | Navigius (Augustine's brother), Rusticus and Fastidianus (relatives),
3115 Int, 1 | most rigid ideas of God’s ruthless justice toward the damned.
3116 11, II(457) | by A. Cohen; cf. also R.S.V., Ps. 115:16. The LXX reading (
3117 3, VI(65) | Manichéisme, son fondateur - sa doctrine (Paris, 1949);
3118 5, III | own pride - as they do the sacrificial fowls - nor their own curiosities
3119 5, X | diseased beginning, the other sacrileges followed after.~For when
3120 Int | canon of Nicea (cf. Mansi, Sacrorum conciliorum, II, 671, and
3121 4, XV | of thy Church to become safely fledged and to nourish the
3122 9, XXXIII | itself. In this mood, the safer way seemed to me the one
3123 6, VI | struggled against Vindicianus, a sagacious old man, and Nebridius,
3124 8, VIII | instructing them with a sober sagacity. Thus, except at mealtimes
3125 Int, 1 | great Christian saint and sage. There are important differences
3126 6, I | voyage she comforted the sailors - to whom the inexperienced
3127 5, VIII | wind blew and filled our sails, and the shore dropped out
3128 11, XI | together in the peace of those saintly spirits who are citizens
3129 12, XIX | let us reason together, saith the Lord”597 - that there
3130 6, XVI | my friends for their own sakes, and felt that they in turn
3131 1, XVI | auspices of laws which give a salary over and above the fees.
3132 12, XVII(579) | this world, with its bitter saltiness and troubled storms, where
3133 3, IV | also manifest that most salutary admonition of thy Spirit,
3134 6, VIII | made whole by the stinging salve of wholesome grief.~
3135 Int | essential themes and can sample the characteristic flavor
3136 3, X(79) | Electi sancti. Another Manichean term
3137 9, XXXIV | sacrifice of praise to my Sanctifier, because those beautiful
3138 12, VII | of worldly care; and the sanctity of thy Spirit raises us
3139 9, XXV | thyself there? What kind of sanctuary hast thou built for thyself?
3140 4, XV | drew many diagrams in the sand - they scarcely understood
3141 5, III | number the stars and the sands, and map out the constellations,
3142 8, IV | that might have made them sane! I wished they could have
3143 8, VII | though not enlarged to the sanity of a full faith, was nevertheless
3144 3, X | was plucked and that the sap of the mother tree was tears.
3145 5, VII | him able to show me in any satisfactory fashion what I so ardently
3146 9, II | thou shinest forth and satisfiest. Thou art beloved and desired;
3147 6, XII | slave to it was the habit of satisfying an insatiable lust; but
3148 4, III | the doing of Venus, or of Saturn, or of Mars” - all this
3149 7, IV | be called Paul instead of Saul, his former name, in testimony
3150 4, I | those who have not yet been savingly cast down and stricken by
3151 8, VII | that time, when the sweet savor of thy ointment was so fragrant,
3152 8, XI | countenance, because he savored of such earthly concerns,
3153 8, XII(308) | Augustine's own analysis of the scansion and structure of this
3154 9, XXXVI | blessedness presses hard upon us, scattering everywhere his snares of “
3155 Int | them down. Then comes the scene in the Milanese garden which
3156 3, II | viewing doleful and tragic scenes, which he himself could
3157 9, VIII | pleasure. And I distinguish the scent of lilies from that of violets
3158 6, XI | borrow them? Let me set a schedule for my days and set apart
3159 Int, 1 | have collated them: Otto Scheel, Augustins Enchiridion (
3160 Int, 1 | it a patently artificial schematism. Despite its awkward form,
3161 6, VI | his begging, I was still scheming for by many a wretched and
3162 Int | Victorinus (a more famous scholar than Augustine ever hoped
3163 1, XIII | ranges from the ferule of the schoolmaster to the trials of the martyr
3164 9, IX | has learned of the liberal sciences, and has not forgotten -
3165 12, XVIII | But the word of knowledge, scientia, in which is contained all
3166 9, XXXVII | truly do not know. On this score I know less of myself than
3167 8, XII | man, who would have made a scornful comment about my weeping.
3168 1, VI | speak and not to a man who scorns me. Yet perhaps even thou
3169 2, IV | habit was - a group of young scoundrels, and I among them, went
3170 3, I | tics, so that I could be scourged with the burning iron rods
3171 3, I | itching to be scratched by scraping on the things of the senses.58
3172 3, I | itself forth, itching to be scratched by scraping on the things
3173 9, XIV(338) | Medieval Philosophy (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1940),
3174 6, XXI(226) | is here quoting familiar Scripture and filling it with
3175 Int, 1 | recension of the Corpus Scriptorum ecclesiasticorum Latinorum
3176 4, III | III~ ~4. And yet, without scruple, I consulted those other
3177 6, IV | name of Christ had been sealed upon me as an infant - did
3178 2, VIII | who illumines my heart and searches out the dark corners thereof?
3179 1, XI | sign of his cross, and was seasoned with his salt even from
3180 7, VIII | the place where we were seated. For to go along that road
3181 6, VIII | arena, and had taken what seats they could get, the whole
3182 Int | it found of him?)? And, secondly, how may we interpret God’
3183 6, X | Rome he was assessor to the secretary of the Italian Treasury.
3184 Int, 0(1) | and the autobiographical sections in Hilary of Poitiers and
3185 Int, 1 | stumbling in them for the modern secularist - and even for the modern
3186 7, XI | and enchain me yet more securely.~I kept saying to myself, “
3187 3, III | Still I was relatively sedate, O Lord, as thou knowest,
3188 2, IX | unfriendly! You strange seducer of the soul, who hungers
3189 6, VII | however, a senseless and seducing continence, which ensnared
3190 9, XXXIV | desire to be. I resist the seductions of my eyes, lest my feet
3191 6, X | me, he wavered; an ardent seeker after the true life and
3192 12, XXXI | they who see, but God who seeth that it is good.~It is,
3193 6, VI | this sense of guilt and it seethed with the fever of my uneasiness.
3194 3, II | that torrent of pitch which seethes forth those huge tides of
3195 3, I | caldron of unholy loves was seething and bubbling all around
3196 6, VI | smiled upon me, I loathed to seize it, for almost before I
3197 9, VIII | rises in me; astonishment seizes me. Men go forth to marvel
3198 11, XXXII | more briefly to thee and select some one, true, certain,
3199 11, XXI | following words, one man selects for himself, from all the
3200 Int | Church’s faith. His own self-chosen project was to save Christianity
3201 6, XVIII | might go on no farther in self-confidence - but rather should become
3202 6, V | read in the books of the self-contradicting philosophers could once
3203 12, XV | down the adversary and the self-defender who resists thy reconciliation
3204 10, III(420) | truth, for Augustine, is self-evidence and the final source of
3205 9, XXVI(345) | all, God is known as the Self-evident. This is, of course, not
3206 2, I | recalling in the bitterness of self-examination my wicked ways, that thou
3207 6, XVI(210) | assertion of the desire for self-ownership" (Plotinus, Enneads, V,
3208 Int | his heart that cast his self-recollection into the form of a sustained
3209 7, VII | while unwilling to exercise self-scrutiny. And now thou didst set
3210 11, VIII(469) | really exists but never is self-sufficient.~
3211 8, II | nevertheless looked like a self-vaunting not to wait until the vacation
3212 6, XVI(210) | overtakes us has its source in self-will, in the entry into the sphere
3213 3, VIII | what happens when through self-willed pride a part is loved under
3214 3, VII | not being allowed to go on selling as it had been lawful for
3215 6, IX(186) | Platonism" does not resemble any single known text closely
3216 Int | doctrines of original sin and seminal transmission of guilt but
3217 Int, 1 | of the Union Theological Seminary Library; and Decherd Turner,
3218 7, II | teacher of so many noble senators; one who, as a mark of his
3219 7 | song, overheard by chance, sends him to the Bible; a text
3220 5, VI | orations, a very few books of Seneca, and some of the poets,
3221 6, XX | was thrown back, I still sensed what it was that the dullness
3222 6, VII | unfeigned. It was, however, a senseless and seducing continence,
3223 11, III(459) | Augustine may have had the sensibilities and associations of his
3224 10, XXIII | is above the earth (which separates day from night), but also
3225 12, XX | that have life.608 For by separating the precious from the vile
3226 5, III | calculations in the orderly sequence of seasons and in the visible
3227 11, XXII | orders of ‘cherubim’ and ‘seraphim’ and those others of which
3228 1, IV | art angry, yet remainest serene. Thou changest thy ways,
3229 7, IV(246) | story of the conversion of Sergius Paulus, proconsul of Cyprus,
3230 Int, 1 | de S. Augustin, première série: Opuscules, IX: Exposés
3231 6, V | closest attention of the most serious-minded - so that it might receive
3232 8, IX | tongues, admonishing them seriously - though in a jesting manner -
3233 Int | less important than his services to the Christian Church.
3234 7, I | burden to go on in such servitude. For, compared with thy
3235 12, XIX(602) | here, with Knöll and the Sessorianus, in firmamento mundi.~
3236 Int, 1 | the Church. Augustine then sets forth the benefits of redeeming
3237 12, IX | There thy good pleasure will settle us so that we will desire
3238 6, XIV | bringing together what we severally owned and thus making of
3239 Int | death of his mother and the severance of his strongest earthly
3240 7, VI | deliver me from the chain of sexual desire by which I was so
3241 9, VIII | and white and the other shades as I wish; and at the same
3242 11, XXVIII | longer a nest but, rather, a shady thicket, spy the fruits
3243 1, XVI | Great Jove, ~Who shakes the highest heavens with
3244 1, XVI | But so it says, and the sham thunder served as a cloak
3245 6, IX | triumph over Alypius, were shamed. And so he went away home,
3246 7, II | bold-faced against vanity and shamefaced toward the truth. Thus,
3247 2, II | grants indulgence to human shamelessness, even though it is forbidden
3248 11, IX | change of time. But this shapelessness - this earth invisible and
3249 9, IV | companions of my joy and sharers of my mortality, my fellow
3250 4, XIV | be given to an actor, who shares our nature. Do I then love
3251 6, XVIII | feet the Deity made weak by sharing our coats of skin - so that
3252 3, IV | return to thee. It was not to sharpen my tongue further that I
3253 6, I | it would be after a still sharper convulsion which physicians
3254 6, IV | certain gnawed all the more sharply into my soul, and I felt
3255 3, V | their style, nor could the sharpness of my wit penetrate their
3256 9, XIV(338) | Philosophy of Saint Bonaventure (Sheed & Ward, New York, 1938),
3257 12, XXVI | food, drink, clothing, shelter, and aid. But “the fruit”
3258 12, XVII | furnishing him with the sheltering protection which comes from
3259 12, XVIII | hungry, let us bring the shelterless poor to our house; let us
3260 Int | conflict. There is a radical shift in mood and will, he turns
3261 6, IX | affair. Thus the guilt was shifted to that household and the
3262 3, VII | head and a helmet on his shin and then complain because
3263 6, IX | light of men. And the light shined in darkness; and the darkness
3264 9, II | dissatisfied with myself, thou shinest forth and satisfiest. Thou
3265 5, VIII | place quite close to our ship, where there was a shrine
3266 4, XV | sitting or standing, is shod or armed, or is doing something
3267 4, XIII | body with its whole, or a shoe with a foot, and so on.
3268 9, XXXIV | manufactures in our clothes, shoes, vessels, and all such things;
3269 5, X(143) | This kind of skepticism shook Augustine's complacency
3270 3, IX | bearing fruit, like the green shoot of the growing corn. And
3271 6, IX | protected the silversmith shop and began to hack away at
3272 10, XXVIII | enlarged - and expectation is shortened - until the whole expectation
3273 Int, 1 | dryly comments that the shortest complete summary of the
3274 10, XXVII | periods of time. Do not shout me down that it exists [
3275 6, VIII | say more? He looked, he shouted, he was excited, and he
3276 12, VII | about spiritual gifts516 and showeth us a more excellent way
3277 6, III | by the Manicheans - and I shrank from them with my whole
3278 5, VIII | ship, where there was a shrine in memory of the blessed
3279 10, XII | to have done facetiously (shrugging off the force of the question). “
3280 7, II | thy flock, when he had not shrunk from uttering his own words
3281 12, I(506) | untranslatable - Latin pun: neque ut sic te colam quasi terram, ut
3282 5, IX | thee as if they had thy own signature. For thou, “because thy
3283 1, XI | in our pride, and I was signed with the sign of his cross,
3284 9, XXXIV | moderate use of them or their significance for the life of piety -
3285 Int | parallels - but also differs significantly from - the Plotinian vision
3286 4, X | accomplished by sounds which signify meanings, but a meaning
3287 6, IX | bars which protected the silversmith shop and began to hack away
3288 6, IX | the hatchet was heard the silversmiths below began to call to each
3289 6, XVII(214) | particular interest in their similarities as well as their significant
3290 3, II | could he who is truly and sincerely compassionate wish that
3291 3, II | sympathized with lovers when they sinfully enjoyed one another, although
3292 11, XXIX | ordered by the soul of the singer, so that from it he may
3293 9, XXXV | whom I owe all humble and singlehearted service, with what subtle
3294 1, III | Do singulars contain thee singly? Do greater things contain
3295 1, III | part at the same time? Do singulars contain thee singly? Do
3296 8, IV | their joys from without sink easily into emptiness and
3297 12, IX | water; water poured on oil sinks under the oil. They are
3298 9, XLII | reconciled, art immortal and sinless. But a mediator between
3299 8, XII(308) | own analysis of the scansion and structure of this hymn,
3300 6, II | would distribute it by small sips to those around, for she
3301 8, XII(308) | Sir Tobie Matthew (adapted).
3302 12, I(506) | te colam quasi terram, ut sis uncultus si non te colam.~
3303 8, II | service, I permitted myself to sit a single hour in the chair
3304 8, XIII | hang upon the tree and who sittest at thy right hand “making
3305 6 | BOOK SIX~ ~Turmoil in the twenties.
3306 6, II | had in me, who was still a skeptic in all these matters and
3307 5, X(143) | Followers of the skeptical tradition established in
3308 7, VIII | enter, extolling it to the skies. The way therein is not
3309 4, II | offered for sale speaking skills with which to conquer others.
3310 12, XV | thou didst clothe men with skins when they became mortal
3311 9, XXXI | held in the mean between slackness and tightness. And who,
3312 5, III | themselves. For they do not slaughter their own pride - as they
3313 8, IV | had offered my sacrifice, slaying my old man, and hoping in
3314 3, VI | our food awake; yet the sleepers are not nourished by it,
3315 7, XI | again give way and that same slender remaining tie not be broken
3316 9, XI | again so submerged - and slide back, as it were, into the
3317 7, VIII | more readily obeyed the slightest wish of the soul in moving
3318 3, I | dimmed its luster with the slime of lust. Yet, foul and unclean
3319 1, XVIII | that his tongue does not slip in a grammatical error,
3320 6, XI | hither and thither, time was slipping away. I delayed my conversion
3321 2, VI | is himself harmed. Human sloth pretends to long for rest,
3322 6, I | greatest parts as well as the smallest, was ready to receive thy
3323 9, VIII | of violets while actually smelling nothing; and I prefer honey
3324 3, XI | approaching her, joyous and smiling at her, while she was grieving
3325 12, XXI(614) | Cristos, Qeou Uioz, Swthr; cf. Smith and Cheetham, Dictionary
3326 9, VI | thee, O Lord. Thou hast smitten my heart with thy Word,
3327 7, II | touch the mountains and they smoked,”242 by what means didst
3328 8, IV | straightening my crookedness, and smoothing my rough ways. And I remember
3329 9, XIX | it was not operating as smoothly as usual and was being held
3330 6, XIII | all deeps; fire, and hail, snow and vapors, stormy winds
3331 6, II | turn as sick at a hymn to sobriety as drunkards do at a draught
3332 Int | order. His conception of a societas as a community identified
3333 Int | the ends of the two human societies, the “city of earth” and
3334 Int, 1 | principle of “Christian Socratism,” developed in the De Magistro
3335 3, VIII | example, were those of the Sodomites; and, even if all nations
3336 5, I | thy hands, for thou canst soften it at will, either by mercy
3337 7, XI | my fleshly garments and softly whispered: “Are you going
3338 1, XVIII | guilty of a barbarism or a solecism; but who could tell of their
3339 6, XI | triflings. Let me devote myself solely to the search for truth.
3340 10, III | ask him and entreat him solemnly that in thy name he would
3341 1, XIX | I lived and felt and was solicitous about my own well-being -
3342 2, III | me privately with great solicitude, “not to commit fornication;
3343 6, I | breadth nor density nor solidity, and did not or could not
3344 8, IV(277) | English translation of the Soliloquies. ~
3345 6, XXI(229) | compares the dangers of the solitary traveler in a bandit-infested
3346 7, VI | thee, and to the teeming solitudes of the wilderness, of which
3347 3, VI | devoid of prudence, who, in Solomon’s obscure parable, sits
3348 5, III | any account, of either the solstices or the equinoxes, or the
3349 3, VI(65) | apparently profound and rational solution to the problem of evil,
3350 8, XII | gratia;~ Artus solutos ut quies ~Reddat laboris
3351 8, XII | fessas allevet, ~Luctusque solvat anxios.”~ ~“O God, Creator
3352 6, IV | 6. For in my struggle to solve the rest of my difficulties,
3353 | Sometime
3354 | somewhere
3355 11, II(457) | heavens of Yahweh"; cf. the Soncino edition of The Psalms, edited
3356 6, XIV | to thee. But thou didst soothe my brain, though I was unaware
3357 9, XXXIV | me in manifold forms and soothes me even when I am busy about
3358 4, II(86) | The rites of the soothsayers, in which animals were killed,
3359 11, VI(462) | doctrine of nonbeing (cf. Sophist, 236C-237B), but he clearly
3360 8, XII | Diem decoro lumine, ~Noctem sopora gratia;~ Artus
3361 7, VII | was, and how crooked and sordid, bespotted and ulcerous.
3362 3, I | unhealthy; and, full of sores, it exuded itself forth,
3363 9, XIX | rest as the familiar and sought-for object. And where does this
3364 6, XIII | ranged over all, and with a sounder judgment I reflected that
3365 Int, 1 | Bridwell Library here at Southern Methodist University, were
3366 12, XVIII | others have labored in the sowing and sending laborers also
3367 12, XVIII | laborers also to make new sowings whose harvest shall not
3368 10, XXVII | and we specify their time spans - how long this is in relation
3369 1, IX | pray so fervently to be spared; and can they scorn those
3370 6, IX | ungodly” and that thou “sparedst not thy only Son, but deliveredst
3371 4, XIV | Instead, one catches the spark of love from one who loves.
3372 6, I | in an elephant than in a sparrow, because one is larger than
3373 1, XVIII | from nuts and balls and sparrows, to magistrates and kings,
3374 10, XV(434) | Spatium, which means extension either
3375 2, VI | or the sea - teeming with spawning life, replacing in birth
3376 Int, 1 | interest to any but the specialist. There are many stones of
3377 11, XVII | set in order during those specified “days.”~25. But now, what
3378 10, XXVII | measures of motions, and we specify their time spans - how long
3379 11, XIII | speaking about earlier, without specifying a day.~
3380 1, XIII | holocaust of Troy, and the spectral image of Creusa were all
3381 6, VI | did not quite decline to speculate about the matter or to tell
3382 Int, 1 | deal of energy and subtle speculation to the questions about the
3383 9, XXXV | me my weakness, thou dost speedily warn me to rise above such
3384 4, III | throw them away and not to spend idly on these vanities care
3385 6, XVI(210) | self-will, in the entry into the sphere of process and in the primal
3386 8, IV | easily into emptiness and are spilled out on those things that
3387 5, XIII(146) | Bibamus sobriam ebrietatem spiritus." Cf. W.I. Merrill, Latin
3388 4, III | most dear Nebridius - a splendid youth and most circumspect,
3389 4, II | anything beyond corporeal splendors. And does not a soul, sighing
3390 9, XXXVI | may be caught unawares and split off our joy from thy truth
3391 3, IV | servant: “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and
3392 Int | mover on that way, it was a spontaneous expression of his heart
3393 4, VIII | friendship, which spring spontaneously from the hearts of those
3394 1, X | my eyes for the shows and sports of my elders. Yet those
3395 4, XIII | and so on. And this idea sprang up in my mind out of my
3396 Int | mostly at dictation - a vast sprawling library of books, sermons,
3397 10, XXVI(445) | Distentionem, "spread-out-ness"; cf. Descartes' notion
3398 12, XVIII | by an eternal design thou spreadest the heavenly blessings on
3399 8, XII | they might flow at will, spreading them out as a pillow beneath
3400 5, IV | high it is or how wide it spreads - is better than the man
3401 8, X | thee,295 that we might be sprinkled with its waters according
3402 3, II | these actions the more he is spuriously involved in these affections.
3403 8, X | now made his servant and spurning all earthly happiness. What
3404 6 | personal problems. Ambition spurs and Alypius and Nebridius
3405 11, XXVIII | rather, a shady thicket, spy the fruits concealed in
3406 7, X | both; whether he should squander his money to buy pleasure
3407 6, V | the heart is unnecessarily stabbed and tortured - and indeed
3408 12, XIII | after the living God as the stag pants for the water brooks,540
3409 1, XVIII | frivolous spectacles, a stage-struck restlessness to imitate
3410 7, VIII | strong and single will, not staggering and swaying about this way
3411 12, XX | them up - the waters whose stagnant bitterness was the reason
3412 10, II | forests are not without their stags which keep retired within
3413 6, III | things - wast free from stain and alteration and in no
3414 5, VI | because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed
3415 6, XI | Lord my God, since thou standest in no need of my goodness.~
3416 6, XIV | hearts, but “Thy counsel standeth fast forever.”172 In thy
3417 4, III | not from the art of the stargazers.~
3418 3, VI | in these dishes - while I starved for thee - they served up
3419 8, IV | and temporal, and in their starving thoughts they lick their
3420 6, XI | is not in vain, that the stately authority of the Christian
3421 6, III | temptations that beset his high station, what solace in adversity,
3422 9, XXXIV | such things as pictures and statuary - and all these far beyond
3423 7, II | both merited and obtained a statue in the Roman Forum - which
3424 4, XV | of a man, his kind, his stature, how many feet high, and
3425 4, XV | family relationship, his status, when born, whether he is
3426 7, XII | with weeping. And so he stayed alone, where we had been
3427 2, II | Instead, the mists of passion steamed up out of the puddly concupiscence
3428 7, II | Gainst Venus and Minerva, steel-clad Mars,”241~ ~whom Rome once
3429 4, IX | the gloom of sorrow, the steeping of the heart in tears, all
3430 5, VIII | kept under the control of stern discipline, so that they
3431 3, VI(65) | Manichees (Cambridge, 1925); and Steven Runciman, The Medieval Manichee (
3432 6, IX | who was to be the future steward of thy Word and judge of
3433 9, XXX | wrenched free from the sticky glue of lust so that it
3434 3, III | in which I wandered with stiff neck, receding farther from
3435 5, XI | ensnared and to some extent stifled, I was borne down by those
3436 6, VII | knew it not, and when in stillness I sought earnestly, those
3437 6, VIII | to day made whole by the stinging salve of wholesome grief.~
3438 6, VIII | deformity, and by inward stings thou didst disturb me so
3439 12, XXI | by living before them and stirring them up to imitation.~For
3440 Int | calling. The story that stirs him most, perhaps, relates
3441 4, I | the laboratory of their stomachs, they should make into angels
3442 6, V | spiritual profundity. While it stooped to all in the great plainness
3443 9, XIII | things and also that I am now storing away in my memory what I
3444 8, IV | and hills of my thoughts, straightening my crookedness, and smoothing
3445 3, VI(65) | that it appeared to offer a straightforward, apparently profound and
3446 8, X | without these, as we two now strained ourselves to do, we then
3447 7, I | reluctant to pass through the strait gate.~And thou didst put
3448 2, III | imposed upon me by my parents’ straitened finances. The thornbushes
3449 3, III | attacked the modesty of strangers, tormenting them by uncalled-for
3450 6, IV | in suspense, I was being strangled.158 For my desire was to
3451 1, XVII | Yet we were compelled to stray in the footsteps of these
3452 3, II | it that an unhappy sheep, straying from thy flock and impatient
3453 10, II | ignorance of it - from the first streaks of thy light in my mind
3454 11, XXVII | wider fields than any single stream led off from the same spring
3455 12, XXIV | nature of things, in their strictly literal sense, and not allegorically,
3456 8, II | mendacious follies and forensic strifes, might no longer purchase
3457 10, IX | that shineth through me and striketh my heart without injury,
3458 Int | The first was the dramatic striking off of the slavery of incontinence
3459 1, XVII | won most applause who most strikingly reproduced the passions
3460 8, XIII | But since thou dost not so stringently inquire after our sins,
3461 3, VIII | Seven, that harp of ten strings, thy Decalogue, O God most
3462 12, VIII | own darkness when they are stripped of the garments of thy light,
3463 7, VI | to walk two by two, one strolled away with him, while the
3464 7, IV | had held in an impregnable stronghold) and the tongue of Victorinus (
3465 5, XIV | spiritual substance, all their strongholds would have collapsed and
3466 6, VI | my obstinacy with which I struggled against Vindicianus, a sagacious
3467 6, IX | sins.”196 But those who strut in the high boots of what
3468 Int | perplexity in religion was his stubborn, materialistic prejudice
3469 Int | Christian faith while he stubbornly clings to his pride and
3470 6, XVI | astrology and turns to the stud of Neoplatonism. There follows
3471 4, XV | difficulty, even by the studious and the intelligent, until
3472 6, III | was I again cast down and stultified. Yet I was not plunged into
3473 5, VII | time being, with what I had stumbled upon one way or another,
3474 8, VIII | calling her “a drunkard.” Stung by this taunt, my mother
3475 3, III | The Wreckers”60 (for this stupid and diabolical name was
3476 Int | the soul in man’s inmost subject-self. But such a journey is not
3477 10 | brilliant analysis of the subjectivity of time and the relation
3478 9, XI | time, they are again so submerged - and slide back, as it
3479 8, IX | servants, she conquered by submission, persevering in it with
3480 12, XV | confession and make my neck submissive to thy yoke, and invite
3481 7, II | the yoke of humility and submitting his forehead to the ignominy
3482 8, II(270) | His subsequent baptism; see below, Ch.
3483 11, XVII | that out of this, as it is subsequently related, all the visible
3484 12, XIV | until the Lord’s wrath subsides - that wrath whose children
3485 6, IV | this image of thine could subsist, I should have knocked on
3486 11, VI(462) | matter is analyzed as a substratum without quantity or quality;
3487 12, XIII | serpent seduced Eve by his subtlety, his mind should be corrupted
3488 3, VII | And so it was that I was subtly persuaded to agree with
3489 11, XVIII | profitable for nothing but the subverting of the hearer.484 But the
3490 7 | against himself. He almost succeeds in making the decision for
3491 2, I | dared to grow wild in a succession of various and shadowy loves.
3492 12, XXXIII | privation. Thus, they have their successions of morning and evening,
3493 Int | indeed. Yet he builds his successive climaxes so skillfully that
3494 Int | productive impulses at work.~A succinct characterization of Augustine
3495 9, XXXV | the tally on how often I succumb? How often, when people
3496 1, VI | very first I knew how to suck, to lie quiet when I was
3497 4, I | even at the best, but one suckled on thy milk and feeding
3498 12, XV | of the mouth of babes and sucklings, perfect thy praise.568
3499 3, II | viewing fictitious and unreal sufferings? The spectator is not expected
3500 11, XXXII | what length of time, would suffice for all thy books to be
3501 12, V | Light comes to be a life suffused with beauty. Thus it would
3502 7, XI | forever?” What were they suggesting to me in those words “this
3503 9, XXXV | service, with what subtle suggestion the enemy still influences
3504 11, XXIV | it truly and expressed it suitably.~
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