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3505 7, VII | confuted. Yet it resisted in sullen disquiet, fearing the cutting
3506 10, XXVII(447) | Here Augustine begins to summarize his own answers to the questions
3507 11, XIX(487) | this chapter, Augustine summarizes what he takes to be the
3508 Int, 1 | that the shortest complete summary of the Christian faith is
3509 Int | the nearest equivalent to summation in the whole of the Augustinian
3510 8, II | Furthermore, this same summer my lungs had begun to be
3511 Int | into what were, for him, summings up. The result of the first
3512 11, XVI | us in placing it on the summit of authority for us to follow,
3513 12, II(509) | catch the light on their summits. The abyss he called "the
3514 2, VI(53) | Deus summum bonum et bonum verum meum.~
3515 8, XIII | thought to have her body sumptuously wrapped or embalmed with
3516 6, XI(167) | begins a long soliloquy which sums up his turmoil over the
3517 12, XXXIV | were over us and we had sunk into profound darkness away
3518 10, XXIII | not be a day if from one sunrise to another there were a
3519 12, XV | them praise thy name - this super-celestial society, thy angels, who
3520 12, IX | understand the changeless supereminence of the divine Being above
3521 Int, 1 | a good man should - not superficially, but as a Christian in Christian
3522 11, II(457) | Hebrew, of emphasizing a superlative (e.g., "King of kings," "
3523 11, II(457) | singular thing can be described superlatively only in terms of itself!~
3524 1, VI | temporal things - tell me, thy suppliant, O God, tell me, O merciful
3525 2, V | financial difficulties in supplying the needs of his family -
3526 10, XX(437) | direct experience back to the supporting memories and forward to
3527 12, XXXII | of the atmosphere which supports the flights of birds is
3528 9, XXVIII | ordeal, and that without surcease?~
3529 6, II | to be cast forth from a surfeited stomach - for out of this
3530 8, VIII | and bitter insult, like a surgeon’s knife from thy secret
3531 6, III | briefly. However, those surgings in me required that he should
3532 1, VII | of others and what I can surmise from observing other infants,
3533 6, VI | future things. But men’s surmises have oftentimes the help
3534 11, XXVI | authority - and were to surmount the words of all false and
3535 7, I | fettered in that vanity. I had surmounted it, and from the united
3536 10, II | voice is my joy; thy voice surpasses in abundance of delights.
3537 6, IV | And what can take thee by surprise, since thou knowest all,
3538 9, XXXIII | the mind ought never to be surrendered nor by them enervated -
3539 4, X | sorrows, even though it is surrounded by beautiful things outside
3540 1, XVIII | while a thronging multitude surrounds him, and inveighs against
3541 1, XIX | not willed that I should survive my boyhood. For I existed
3542 6, IX | because he had more than once suspected them of stealing the goods
3543 6, IV(158) | the Academic doctrine of suspendium (epoch); cf. Bk. V, Ch.
3544 3, I | burning iron rods of jealousy, suspicion, fear, anger, and strife.~
3545 5, VI | another kind of man who is suspicious even of truth itself, if
3546 1, IV | gathering, yet needing nothing; sustaining, pervading, and protecting;
3547 6, I | endeavored to brush away the swarm of unclean flies that swarmed
3548 6, I | swarm of unclean flies that swarmed around the eyes of my mind.
3549 2, II | madness of lust held full sway in me - that madness which
3550 7, VIII | will, not staggering and swaying about this way and that -
3551 8, XII | bitterness of my grief was not sweated from my heart.~Then I slept,
3552 8, VI | moved by the voices of thy sweet-speaking Church! The voices flowed
3553 4, V | that thou wilt hear us that sweetens it? This is true in the
3554 8, IX | as often as she saw them swerving from thee. Lastly, to all
3555 Int | in sense experience but swiftly passes beyond it, through
3556 3, VI | from the husks of those swine whom I fed with husks.68
3557 1, XVI(30) | torrent of human custom" now switches its focus to the poets who
3558 3, V | to be a little one and, swollen with pride, I looked upon
3559 12, XXI(614) | Ihsouz Cristos, Qeou Uioz, Swthr; cf. Smith and Cheetham,
3560 8, IV(279) | A symbolic reference to the "cedars
3561 12, XXI(614) | for a full account of the symbolism and pictures of early examples.~
3562 5, XIII | time. They recommended that Symmachus, who was then prefect, after
3563 3, II | those days in the theaters I sympathized with lovers when they sinfully
3564 12, XIX(598) | Cf. for this syntaxis, Matt. 19:16-22 and Ex.
3565 Int | this into an unsystematic synthesis which is still our best
3566 4, XIV | expressed amazement that a Syrian, who had first studied Greek
3567 Int | interested in writing a systematic summa theologica, and would
3568 7, IV | never to be that in thy tabernacle the persons of the rich
3569 6, VI | observation or expressed in those tables which the astrologer uses
3570 8, IV | And I wrote it down on the tablet and gave it to them to read.
3571 10, XII | ridiculed - and by such tactics gain praise for a worthless
3572 9, IV | censers.326 And, O Lord, who takest delight in the incense of
3573 8, VI | wonderful I found in him. His talent was a source of awe to me.
3574 6, VI | Nebridius, that remarkably talented young man. The former declared
3575 1, XVII | speak a little of those talents, thy gifts, and of the follies
3576 5, VII | he was not one of those talkative people - from whom I had
3577 7, X | presence, O God, as vain talkers, and deceivers of the soul
3578 9, XXXV | tempted, and who can keep the tally on how often I succumb?
3579 12, XXI | Thus may the wild beast be tamed, the cattle subdued, and
3580 8, VI | sacraments, and was so brave a tamer of his body that he would
3581 5, XI | the New Testament had been tampered with by unknown persons
3582 2, X | unravel such a twisted and tangled knottiness? It is unclean.
3583 8, VIII | would hold a cup under the tap; and then, before she poured
3584 2, II | didst hold thy peace, O my tardy Joy! Thou didst still hold
3585 8, III | to his being married). We tarried for Nebridius to follow
3586 8, X | thing for which I wished to tarry a little in this life, and
3587 9, XXXV | how it smells, see how it tastes, see how hard it is.” Thus,
3588 8, VIII | drunkard.” Stung by this taunt, my mother saw her own vileness
3589 8, VIII | corrupts, so often do the taunts of enemies instruct. Yet
3590 7, VI(254) | from postal inspection and tax collection to espionage
3591 1, XVIII | that if he who practices or teaches the established rules of
3592 8, XII | celebrate that death with tearful wails and groanings. This
3593 10, XXIV | moved but in time; this thou tellest me. But that the motion
3594 2, III | recalling as well as I can the temperaments of my parents. Meantime,
3595 12, XXIV | human affections ruled by temperance (signified by “the living
3596 6, II | diluted according to her own temperate palate, which she would
3597 8, VIII | when they were fed very temperately - she would not allow them
3598 7, VIII | did not live there. The tempest in my breast hurried me
3599 10, XXVI | time past [praetereuntia tempora, non praeterita]? This is
3600 9, XXXVIII | solicited compliments. It tempts me, even when I inwardly
3601 6, IX | him away, gathering the tenants of the market place about
3602 8, XII | life toward thee, her holy tenderness and attentiveness toward
3603 1, XVII | might have propped up the tendrils of my heart by thy Scriptures;
3604 6, IV | in its sound doctrine any tenet that would involve pressing
3605 6, XIX | of heretics220 makes the tenets of thy Church and sound
3606 Int | career there were lively tensions and massive prejudices in
3607 Int, 1 | so. The first through the tenth books were written about
3608 7, VI(255) | usually with precarious tenure.~
3609 6, II | much watered but also quite tepid with carrying it about.
3610 12, I(506) | neque ut sic te colam quasi terram, ut sis uncultus si non
3611 12, XVII(579) | bitterness of life in the civitas terrena; cf. XIX, 5.~
3612 3, III | God, my refuge from those terrible dangers in which I wandered
3613 9, XXIV | 35. Behold how great a territory I have explored in my memory
3614 10, II | exhortations and of all thy terrors and comforts and leadings
3615 Int | Latin Christianity from Tertullian to Ambrose; he appropriated
3616 6, X | character had also been tested, not only by the bait of
3617 8, IV | to the villa.275 My books testify to what I got done there
3618 6, XXI | teaching did not agree with the testimonies of the Law and the Prophets;
3619 1, XVII | all the approaches of the Teucrian king.”33~ ~I had learned
3620 7, VI | of my wearisome rhetoric textbooks. At this, he looked up at
3621 Int, 1 | There are two good critical texts of the Enchiridion and I
3622 12, XXVII(645) | enrolled as catechumens. See Th. Zahn in Neue kirkliche
3623 9, XXII | to those who worship thee thankfully - and this joy thou thyself
3624 6, IX(201) | Origen's Epistle to Gregory Thaumaturgus (ANF, IX, pp. 295, 296);
3625 4, I | garlands and the vanity of theatricals and intemperate desires.
3626 6, IX | was that had committed the thefts. But the custodian had often
3627 10, II | madest heaven and earth, and thenceforward to the everlasting reign
3628 Int | profession, a Christian theologian, a pastor and teacher in
3629 Int | writing a systematic summa theologica, and would have been incapable
3630 | Thereupon
3631 11, XXV(495) | The essential thesis of the De Magistro; it has
3632 12, XIV(561) | 1 Thess. 5:5.~
3633 12, XXVI | except you only. For even in Thessalonica you sent time and time again,
3634 6, VII | against his neck, with the thick bosses of my buckler,”182
3635 7, X | and thus have become a thicker darkness than they were;
3636 5, X | called the earth or in a thin and subtle form as, for
3637 6, IX(201) | the liberty of Christian thinkers in appropriating whatever
3638 5, XIII | whether it flowed fuller or thinner than others said it did.
3639 5, VI | precious draught for which I thirsted? My ears had already had
3640 8, XI | year of her life and the thirty-third of mine,302 that religious
3641 6, XII(207) | Confessions, Bks. XII-XIII, and Thomas Aquinas, Summa contra gentes,
3642 2, III | straitened finances. The thornbushes of lust grew rank about
3643 Int | confront him with the opposite threat that all knowledge is uncertain.
3644 2, VI | the sudden changes which threaten things beloved, and is wary
3645 1, V | do it not, art angry and threatenest vast misery? Is it, then,
3646 6, IX | very uproarious and full of threatenings they were - to come along
3647 7, III | storm tosses the voyagers, threatens shipwreck, and everyone
3648 12, XI | Person so that they are each threefold, or whether both these notions
3649 Int | Confessions, he stands on the threshold of his career in the Church.
3650 6, XV | only it ceased to burn and throb, and began to fester, and
3651 4, XV | my gaze, and I turned my throbbing soul away from incorporeal
3652 9, XXXVI | who aspired to exalt his throne in the north,385 that in
3653 11, XXII | apostle distinctly speaks: ‘thrones,’ ‘dominions,’ ‘principalities,’ ‘
3654 1, XVIII | before a human judge, while a thronging multitude surrounds him,
3655 6, XX | made. And, even when I was thrown back, I still sensed what
3656 1, XVI | the stories of Jove the thunderer - and the adulterer?30 How
3657 9, XXXVI | to the humble.”383 Thou thunderest down on the ambitious designs
3658 8, VIII | got as far as Ostia on the Tiber, my mother died. ~I am passing
3659 3, I | joyfully bound with troublesome tics, so that I could be scourged
3660 9, XXXI | mean between slackness and tightness. And who, O Lord, is he
3661 2, III | how barren I was to thy tillage, O God, who art the one
3662 6, XII(207) | fundamental premise in Augustine's metaphysics: it reappears
3663 9, XXXV | just because these are such tiny creatures? From them I proceed
3664 10, XXVI(444) | between the elbow and the tip of the middle finger; in
3665 8, VIII | bottle, she would wet the tips of her lips with a little
3666 9, XXXI(362) | Titus 1:15.~
3667 8, XII(308) | Sir Tobie Matthew (adapted). For Augustine'
3668 3, VI | the depths of hell”71 - toiling and fuming because of my
3669 7, VI | we seeking in all these toils of ours? What is it that
3670 4, XII | farther in these difficult and toilsome ways? There is no rest where
3671 4, VIII | with joy. These and similar tokens of friendship, which spring
3672 9, XXXV | idle tales, we begin by tolerating them lest we should give
3673 7, II | name one to the other, in tones of jubilation. Who was there
3674 Int, 1 | Christian hope, he turns in a too-brief concluding section to the
3675 10, V | earth, and what was the tool of such a mighty work as
3676 8, IV | didst torture me with a toothache; and when it had become
3677 9, VII | is he that is beyond the topmost point of my soul? Yet by
3678 8, II | temper, that we might not topple back into the abyss. And
3679 7, II | Babylonian dignity, as from the tops of the cedars of Lebanon
3680 6, VI | for by many a wretched and tortuous turning - namely, the joy
3681 3, XI | allow me still to tumble and toss around in that darkness.~
3682 7, III | of the triumph. The storm tosses the voyagers, threatens
3683 11, IV | in the world nearer to a total formlessness than the earth
3684 11, II(457) | The LXX reading (o ouranoz tou ouranou) seems to rest on
3685 9, XXXI | all, and thereafter not touching it, as I was able to do
3686 7, VI | thine, and began to “build a tower”, counting the cost - namely,
3687 5, VI | or simple words are like town-made or rustic vessels - both
3688 6, XIV | especially Romanianus, my fellow townsman, an intimate friend from
3689 1, XIII | sportiveness of those who toyed with me. I learned all this,
3690 6, XVI | Neoplatonism. Augustine traces his growing disenchantment
3691 7, X | may go forward on a single track instead of remaining as
3692 9, XVI | not now searching out the tracts of heaven, or measuring
3693 Int | established one of the main traditions in European conceptions
3694 3, II | sad by viewing doleful and tragic scenes, which he himself
3695 8, VIII | not attribute this good training of hers as much to the diligence
3696 11, XXVII | lest those who pass by trample on the unfledged bird,501
3697 6, X | Threats were employed, but he trampled them underfoot - so that
3698 2, II | Then they might have been tranquilized and satisfied with having
3699 5, VIII | For those who disturbed my tranquillity were blinded by shameful
3700 11, XXVIII | past and times future are transcended by thy eternal and stable
3701 1, XVIII | sins as we grow older are transferred from tutors and masters;
3702 1, XVI | were Homer’s fictions; he transfers things human to the gods.
3703 9, III | make me blessed in thee, transforming my soul by faith and thy
3704 Int | repentance, faith, and praise. It transforms the human will so that it
3705 4, XII | Return to your heart, O you transgressors, and hold fast to him who
3706 4 | searching analysis of grief and transience. He reports on his first
3707 11, IV | other and higher parts, all translucent and shining. Therefore,
3708 Int | original sin and seminal transmission of guilt but he did set
3709 1, XVI(29) | ark, as the means of safe transport from earth to heaven.~
3710 6, XVII | steadily. Instead I was transported to thee by thy beauty, and
3711 3, VI | snares of the devil - a trap made out of a mixture of
3712 5, IX | for me, or how she still travailed for me in the spirit with
3713 1, IX | we too were compelled to travel, multiplying labor and sorrow
3714 3, III | to drag me down into the treacherous abyss, into the beguiling
3715 12, XXIV | begotten by seed. But if we treat these words figuratively,
3716 3, VIII | another, either by humiliating treatment or by injury. Either of
3717 Int, 1 | Augustini Confessionum Libri Tredecim (Leipzig, 1934) - itself
3718 9, XXXVI | foundations of the hills” tremble.384~And yet certain offices
3719 Int, 1 | civitate Dei, and after the tremendous turmoil of the Pelagian
3720 11, XIV | them: an awe of honor and a tremor of love. Their enemies I
3721 7, VI(253) | Trèves, an important imperial town
3722 7, VI(253) | E.A. Freeman, "Augusta Trevororum," in the British Quarterly
3723 1, XIII | the schoolmaster to the trials of the martyr and has the
3724 Int, 1 | who was the brother of the tribune Dulcitius (for whom Augustine
3725 5, III | numbered among us and paid tribute to Caesar.128 And they do
3726 Int, 1 | patterns. But it is a very tricky business to convey such
3727 7, VI | a certain afternoon, at Trier,253 when the emperor was
3728 4, VIII | pleasant books together; to trifle together; to be earnest
3729 6, XI | let us dismiss these idle triflings. Let me devote myself solely
3730 10, II | from care, carest for us. Trim away from my lips, inwardly
3731 11, VII(467) | Trina unitas.~
3732 11, VII | O God, one Trinity, and trine Unity?467 And, therefore,
3733 10, XXI | single, and double, and triple, and equal, and all the
3734 4, VI(97) | Cf. Ovid, Tristia, IV, 4:74.~
3735 6, XXI(226) | orthodox, for the Arians triumphantly appealed to them as proof
3736 7, III | So it is.” The commander triumphs in victory; yet he could
3737 2, III | city, my invisible enemy trod me down and seduced me,
3738 1, XIII | soldiers, and the holocaust of Troy, and the spectral image
3739 11, XXXII | thy servant meant, that is truest and best, and for that I
3740 9, XXX | am still imperfect. I am trusting that thou wilt perfect thy
3741 3, IV | how erudite, polished, and truthful, did not quite take complete
3742 6, XIX | because they were written truthfully, I acknowledged a perfect
3743 8, IV(275) | Fastidianus (relatives), Alypius, Trygetius, and Licentius (former pupils).~
3744 6, XVII | invisibility [invisibilia tua] understood by means of
3745 7, V(249) | conscious literary device: tuae caritati me dedere quam
3746 Int, 1 | Enchiridion (zweite Auflage, Tübingen, 1930), and Jean Rivière,
3747 7, XI | still enthralled me. They tugged at my fleshly garments and
3748 3, V(64) | I.e., Marcus Tullius Cicero.~
3749 3, XI | didst allow me still to tumble and toss around in that
3750 11, X | scarcely hear it for the tumults of my boisterous passions.
3751 8, VII | reason for the people’s tumultuous joy, rushed out and begged
3752 7, I | whole life was one of inner turbulence and listless indecision,
3753 6, XXI(226) | here quoting familiar Scripture and filling it with the
3754 Int, 1 | Seminary Library; and Decherd Turner, of our Bridwell Library
3755 Int | need to retrace the crucial turnings of the way by which he had
3756 1, XVIII | deceived, with endless lies, my tutor, my masters and parents -
3757 6 | BOOK SIX~ ~Turmoil in the twenties. Monica follows Augustine
3758 4, I | my nineteenth year to my twenty-eighth, I went astray and led others
3759 5, III | in the sight of God the twenty-ninth year of my age. There had
3760 4, XV | was about twenty-six or twenty-seven when I wrote those books,
3761 4, XV | punishment.~27. I was about twenty-six or twenty-seven when I wrote
3762 6, VI | thoughts to those that are born twins, who generally come out
3763 2, X | Who can unravel such a twisted and tangled knottiness?
3764 7, VIII | and that - a changeable, twisting, fluctuating will, wrestling
3765 11, XIV | wouldst slay them with thy two-edged sword, so that they should
3766 8, XII | sorrow and was wasted with a twofold sadness.~32. So, when the
3767 Int | in his thought over this twoscore years, but one can hardly
3768 12, XXI(612) | An allegorical ideal type of the perfecti in the Church.~
3769 7, V | For the law of sin is the tyranny of habit, by which the mind
3770 7, VI(254) | secret police work. They were ubiquitous and generally dreaded by
3771 7, VII | myself, that I might see how ugly I was, and how crooked and
3772 12, XXI(614) | phrase Ihsouz Cristos, Qeou Uioz, Swthr; cf. Smith and Cheetham,
3773 7, VII | and sordid, bespotted and ulcerous. And I looked and I loathed
3774 1, XVIII | ominem,” and thus make it “a ‘uman being”], he will offend
3775 6, V | since we are too weak by unaided reason to find out truth,
3776 6, V | was impressed with what an unalterable assurance I believed which
3777 6, XIV | soothe my brain, though I was unaware of it, and closed my eyes
3778 12, XXXIV | didst gather the society of unbelievers652 into a conspiracy, in
3779 12, XXXIV | for the instruction of the unbelieving nations, thou didst out
3780 9, XXXIII | powerfully, but thou didst unbind and liberate me. In those
3781 5, VI | been looking forward with unbounded eagerness to the arrival
3782 12, XXI | Restrain yourselves from the unbridled wildness of pride, from
3783 12, XXXV | hadst created them all in unbroken rest - and this so that
3784 7, VII | have had their shoulders unburdened and have received wings
3785 3, III | strangers, tormenting them by uncalled-for jeers, gratifying their
3786 9, XXXVII | tried, O Lord; we are tried unceasingly. Our daily “furnace” is
3787 6, IV | petulance, prated of so many uncertainties as if they were certain.
3788 9, XXXI | wanting to be served. In this uncertainty my unhappy soul rejoices,
3789 6, XIX | knows this who knows the unchangeableness of thy Word, and this I
3790 1, IV | ways, leaving thy plans unchanged; thou recoverest what thou
3791 2, II | down over the cliffs of unchaste desires and plunged me into
3792 11, XXIX | understood. For it is an uncommon and lofty vision, O Lord,
3793 6, VII | love of virtue, which was uncommonly marked in a man so young.
3794 12, I(506) | colam quasi terram, ut sis uncultus si non te colam.~
3795 5, XI | able to breathe it pure and undefiled.~
3796 6, X | employed, but he trampled them underfoot - so that all men marveled
3797 11, XXVIII | various degrees, they cause or undergo the beautiful changes of
3798 1, VI | ordinance and thy bounty which underlie all things. For it was thou
3799 11, XXXII(504) | Something of an understatement! It is interesting to note
3800 10, XXII | Grant it, since I have undertaken to understand it, and hard
3801 Int | had a complex motive for undertaking such a self-analysis.1 His
3802 5, VII | had endured so much - who undertook to teach me what I wanted
3803 11, XX | matter which contained, undifferentiated, heaven and earth, from
3804 8, IX | the kind of bloated and undigested discord which often belches
3805 6, XII | together and to have as much undistracted leisure in the love of wisdom
3806 6, XIV | while the rest were left undisturbed. But when we began to reflect
3807 2, IV | loved it. I loved my own undoing. I loved my error - not
3808 2, IX | was I animated? It was undoubtedly depraved and a great misfortune
3809 6, VI | seethed with the fever of my uneasiness. For, while walking along
3810 11, XXII | neither sound faith nor unerring understanding doubts that
3811 2, VI | and unfailing abundance of unfading joy. Prodigality presents
3812 11, XI | thee, it continually and unfailingly clings to thee and suffers
3813 8, IX | no cause to complain of unfaithfulness in him, which she had endured
3814 12, III | light” - I interpret, not unfitly, as referring to the spiritual
3815 11, XXVII | who pass by trample on the unfledged bird,501 and send thy angel
3816 12, XXXIV | time, thou didst begin to unfold the things destined before
3817 1, XVI | thinking; so helpful in unfolding your opinions.” Verily,
3818 2, IX | done it! O friendship all unfriendly! You strange seducer of
3819 12, XXIV(632) | his mysterious, unwearied, unfrustrated redemptive love. All are
3820 10, VII | Lord, and whoever is not ungrateful for certain truths knows
3821 9, VI | to all whose senses are unimpaired? Why, then, does it not
3822 Int, 1 | between the comparatively unimportant knowledge of nature and
3823 5, V | them, I can tolerate his uninformed opinion; and I do not see
3824 11, VII(467) | Trina unitas.~
3825 4, XIII | What is it that allures and unites us to the things we love;
3826 11, XVII | wished first to indicate universally and briefly this whole visible
3827 Int, 1 | here at Southern Methodist University, were especially generous
3828 3, XII | my errors, to help me to unlearn evil and to learn the good81 -
3829 1, XIII | once came to Carthage, the unlearned will reply that they do
3830 | unlikely
3831 6, VIII | entered through his ears and unlocked his eyes to make way for
3832 9, XXVII | I sought thee out there. Unlovely, I rushed heedlessly among
3833 2, II | woman,”43 and, “He that is unmarried cares for the things that
3834 9, XXX | forced upon it I remain unmoved? Does reason cease when
3835 6, V | evil by which the heart is unnecessarily stabbed and tortured - and
3836 4, XI | and with him is a place of unperturbed rest, where love is not
3837 11, III(460) | Abyssus, literally, the unplumbed depths of the sea, and as
3838 4, XIV | Because if he had gone unpraised, and these same people had
3839 2, X | CHAPTER X~ ~18. Who can unravel such a twisted and tangled
3840 6, III | the divine books could be unraveled. ~I soon understood that
3841 8, IX | if he had been excited unreasonably. As a result, while many
3842 6, VI | his condition being still unrelaxed, continued to serve his
3843 4, XV | rise to carnal desires is unrestrained - so also, in the same way,
3844 8, XI(301) | silent save for the brief and unrevealing references in De beata vita,
3845 9, XXXVI | unrighteous man is blessed in his unrighteousness - a man is praised for some
3846 7, XI | I was being called - for unruly habit kept saying to me, “
3847 4, IV | that time, O my God; how unsearchable are the depths of thy judgments!
3848 5, VI | years that I listened with unsettled mind to the Manichean teaching
3849 11, XX | inner eye and who believe unshakably that thy servant Moses spoke
3850 2, VI | Where, really, is there unshaken security save with thee?
3851 8, VIII | healest one soul by the unsoundness of another; so that no man,
3852 Int, 1 | essay in which he tries unsuccessfully to subdue his natural digressive
3853 Int | he drew all this into an unsystematic synthesis which is still
3854 2, VI | she cannot find pure and untainted until she returns to thee.
3855 3, XII | answered that I was still unteachable, being inflated with the
3856 12, I | so that thou wouldst go untended if I did not tend thee.506
3857 3, IX | commandest something unusual or unthought of - indeed, something thou
3858 11, VI | various knots thou hast untied for me about this question,
3859 8, III | Verecundus - our friendship untouched - reconciling him to our
3860 11, XXV | fully if he happens to be untrained. But when he says, “Moses
3861 12, I(506) | This is a compound - and untranslatable - Latin pun: neque ut sic
3862 11, XVI | with groanings that are unutterable now in my pilgrimage,482
3863 5, VI | meats that are wholesome and unwholesome, and courtly or simple words
3864 6, VII | everything, both witting and unwitting, and in the order which
3865 6, VIII | eyes on the bloody pastime, unwittingly drinking in the madness -
3866 Int | memory as it re-presents the upheavals of his youth and the stages
3867 10, V(421) | pre-existent matter (to upodoch) and imposes as much form
3868 2, V | is the sweetness of the upright in heart.~11. When, therefore,
3869 11, XXXII | lead me into the land of uprightness,”503 which thou thyself,
3870 6, IX | still around - and very uproarious and full of threatenings
3871 12, XIX | earth is really fruitful? uproot the brier patch of avarice; “
3872 Int | wisdom, and how the Academics upset his confidence in certain
3873 3, III | first, and altogether turned upside down. They were secretly
3874 3, I | to be thought elegant and urbane. And I did fall precipitately
3875 9, XXIII | to do what you cannot do urgently enough to make you able
3876 8, XII | ut quies ~Reddat laboris usui ~Mentesque fessas allevet, ~
3877 9, XXXIII | to acknowledge the great utility of this custom. Thus I vacillate
3878 6, II | should be abhorred at first utterance. This line of argument,
3879 5, V | sought to claim that his own utterances were as if they had been
3880 7, II | when he had not shrunk from uttering his own words before the
3881 12, XIX | to the day (“day unto day utters speech”605) and let the
3882 9, XXXIII | utility of this custom. Thus I vacillate between dangerous pleasure
3883 6, V | and thou didst hear me. I vacillated, and thou guidedst me. I
3884 11, III(459) | 1:2 over the inanis et vacua of the Vulgate, which was
3885 4, VII | there, it sank through the vacuum and came rushing down again
3886 3, III | and not thine - loving a vagrant liberty!~6. Those studies
3887 6, III | had not the faintest or vaguest notion. Still rejoicing,
3888 3, IV | from a reprehensible and vainglorious motive, and a delight in
3889 12, XXXII(651) | res autem in abdito est valde); cf. Retract., 2:6.~
3890 8, VII | mother of the boy-emperor Valentinian, had persecuted thy servant
3891 Int | assistant bishop to the aged Valerius, whom he succeeded the following
3892 6, VIII | more audacious than truly valiant - also it was weaker because
3893 Int, 1 | manuscript and made many valuable suggestions; and to Professor
3894 9, XXXVII | lesser and trifling goods are valued more highly than they should
3895 1, VII | faults, but because they will vanish as the years pass. For,
3896 Int, 1 | give us two very important vantage points from which to view
3897 6, XIII | fire, and hail, snow and vapors, stormy winds fulfilling
3898 3, VII | another. Is justice, then, variable and changeable? No, but
3899 7, X | are all good, and are at variance with each other until one
3900 6, XVI(174) | A variation on "restless is our heart
3901 11, XV | Moreover, all thought that varies thus is mutable, and nothing
3902 9, VIII | flow of the rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the orbits
3903 1, XVI | man, not do the same?~I’ve done it, and with all my
3904 6, XI | and the winds of opinions veered about and tossed my heart
3905 7, VIII | VIII~ ~19. Then, as this vehement quarrel, which I waged with
3906 3, II | also springs from that same vein of friendship. But whither
3907 6, VII | easily beguiled with the veneer of what was only a shadowy
3908 6, XXI | then, I fastened upon the venerable writings of thy Spirit and
3909 7, XII | more plentiful than she had ventured to desire, and dearer and
3910 5, V | the doctrine of piety, or ventures to assert dogmatic opinions
3911 5, IX | increased, and I was on the verge of passing away and perishing;
3912 6, X(205) | Some MSS. add "immo vero" ("yea, verily"), but not
3913 2, VI(53) | Deus summum bonum et bonum verum meum.~
3914 11, XXIX | silver from which a chest or vessel is made. Such materials
3915 8, XII | omnium, ~Polique rector, vestiens ~Diem decoro lumine, ~Noctem
3916 11, VI | to remove altogether all vestiges of form whatever if I wished
3917 10, X(429) | containers, he says: Carnalitas vetustas est, gratia novitas est, "
3918 10, X(429) | Pleni vetustatis suae. In Sermon CCLXVII,
3919 3, XII | inexperienced persons with vexatious questions, as she herself
3920 3, IX | 17. But among all these vices and crimes and manifold
3921 11, XI | clings to thee and suffers no vicissitudes of time. This, in thy sight,
3922 1, XVIII | I often sought dishonest victories, being myself conquered
3923 5, XIV | neither did it seem yet victorious.~25. But now I earnestly
3924 9, VI(335) | De Labriolle) instead of vident (as in Skutella).~
3925 9, VI(335) | Reading videnti (with De Labriolle) instead
3926 Int, 1 | is their own affair [ipse viderint]; but I do know that they
3927 Int, 1 | XXXIII text of Pius Knöll (Vienna, 1896) - and the second
3928 8, VII | part in those anxieties and vigils, lived there in prayer.
3929 6, XV | nursed up and kept in its vigor or even increased until
3930 1, XIX | being deceived; I had a vigorous memory; I was gifted with
3931 Int | primacy of God’s grace, he vigorously insisted on both double
3932 1, XVI(30) | gods; see De civ. Dei, II, vii-xi; IV, xxvi-xxviii.~
3933 4, XIII(105) | Against the Manicheans, VIII-XV; City of God, XI, 18; De
3934 12, XX | separating the precious from the vile you are made the mouth of
3935 2, V | himself loved not his own villainies, but something else, and
3936 7, V(249) | cedere; sed illud placebat et vincebat, hoc libebat et vinciebat.~
3937 7, V(249) | vincebat, hoc libebat et vinciebat.~
3938 9, XXXVI | heal me of the lust for vindicating myself, so that thou mightest
3939 2, IV | pear tree close to our own vineyard, heavily laden with fruit,
3940 5, XIII(146) | 104:15; the phrase sobriam vini ebrietatem is almost certainly
3941 11, XXV | destructive contention, to violate love itself, on behalf of
3942 Int | CCCLV, 2) and in actual violation of the eighth canon of Nicea (
3943 9, VIII | scent of lilies from that of violets while actually smelling
3944 6, XVI | even more fault with the viper and the little worm, which
3945 4, XII | coming first into the virginal womb, where the human creature,
3946 7, VI | likewise dedicated their virginity to thee.~
3947 7, XI | grave widows and ancient virgins; and continence herself
3948 10, I(408) | The "virtues" of the Beatitudes, the
3949 2, X | beautiful and comely to all virtuous eyes - I long for thee with
3950 11, VI(464) | Visibiles et compositas, the opposite
3951 7 | worldly affairs. He is then visited by a court official, Ponticianus,
3952 6, III | custom that the arrival of visitors should be announced to him -
3953 8, II | were, thrust through our vitals. The examples of thy servants
3954 2, III | praise. What is worthy of vituperation except vice itself? Yet
3955 4, III | conversation was replete with vivacity, life, and earnestness.
3956 Int | denouement in Book VIII is a vivid and believable convergence
3957 12, XXIII | words have to be pronounced vocally is because of the abyss
3958 Int | completus, Series Latina (Vols. 32-45). In his old age,
3959 3, VI | their pride, carnal and voluble, whose mouths were the snares
3960 5, III | doctrines of Mani, who in his voluminous folly wrote many books on
3961 8, IV | been troubled, and have vomited up their error, and thou
3962 11, XXIV | thy servant, and I have vowed in this book an offering
3963 6, XV | she went back to Africa, vowing to thee never to know any
3964 7, VIII | vehement quarrel, which I waged with my soul in the chamber
3965 9, XLII | immortal. But since “the wages of sin is death,”394 what
3966 8, XII | boy Adeodatus burst out wailing; but he was checked by us
3967 8, XII | that death with tearful wails and groanings. This is the
3968 8, IX | on this account. For she waited for thy mercy upon him until,
3969 9, XXX | otherwise in dreams, when we wake up, we return to peace of
3970 7, VIII | little heart - see where we wallow in flesh and blood! Because
3971 3, XI | years passed in which I wallowed in the mud of that deep
3972 8, I | seeking and getting, of wallowing in the mire and scratching
3973 8, XII(308) | the Latin text, see A. S. Walpole, Early Latin Hymns (Cambridge,
3974 11, XI | emptiness of his own heart, wanders about and begins to be dizzy
3975 9, XXXI | sensual snare of desire still wanting to be served. In this uncertainty
3976 9, XIV(338) | Saint Bonaventure (Sheed & Ward, New York, 1938), ch. XI.~
3977 7, IV | is fuller, in that they warm one another, catch fire
3978 8, IV | I trembled with fear and warmed with hope and rejoiced in
3979 3, IV | and with an incredible warmth of heart I yearned for an
3980 9, XXXV | weakness, thou dost speedily warn me to rise above such a
3981 7, XII | me so. By these words of warning he was strengthened, and
3982 12, XXXIV | with an exalted authority, warranted to them by their spiritual
3983 11, XXIV | single interpretation which warrants our saying confidently that
3984 7, V | another law in my members warred against the law of my mind
3985 6, XXI | law in his members which wars against the law of his mind,
3986 2, VI | threaten things beloved, and is wary for its own security; but
3987 12, XIX | CHAPTER XIX~ ~24. But, first, “wash yourselves and make you
3988 6, XIII | once married, I might be washed clean in health-giving baptism
3989 8, XII | balaneion], because it washes anxiety from the mind. Now
3990 1, XI | forthwith for my initiation and washing by thy life-giving sacraments,
3991 1, VII | speak; it was livid as it watched another infant at the breast.~
3992 9, IV | who didst beget me and who watcheth over me; thou art the Selfsame
3993 3, XI | answer, given through my watchful mother, in the fact that
3994 12, XXI | but only cunning in their watchfulness - exploring only as much
3995 12, XVII | their different ends - thou waterest them by a secret and sweet
3996 12, XXXII | We see on every side the watery elements, fruitful with
3997 6, XVI | judgment, which, amid all the waverings of my opinions, never faded
3998 6, XXI | ways in vain, opposed and waylaid by fugitives and deserters
3999 4, II | woman I had discovered in my wayward passion, void as it was
4000 7, IV | Victorinus (that sharp, strong weapon with which the devil had
4001 3, III | unseemly iniquities did I wear myself out, following a
4002 2, VI | 13. For thus we see pride wearing the mask of high-spiritedness,
4003 12, XXX | collect and fashion and weave them together, as if from
4004 6, XII | to Alypius himself by me, weaving and lying in his path, by
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