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 1 Pre|      Augustine. Wherefore, if it shall appear to any man that I
 2 Pre|    earnest entreaty, that if any shall wish to copy this work,
 3 Pre|       wish to copy this work, he shall be careful to place this
 4 Pre| pronounce a rash judgment, if he shall find offered here any thought
 5 1  |          do this in many ways, I shall adopt one which I consider
 6 1  |  although, on the grounds that I shall see fit to adopt, the conclusion
 7 4  |          than which nothing else shall be more excellent, then
 8 6  |      order that if, perchance, I shall wish to convince any one
 9 15 |       not supreme, that still it shall be in no wise greater or
10 18 |     destined to be; or when this shall cease to be true, and shall
11 18 |      shall cease to be true, and shall not be true, namely, that
12 18 |        truth had a beginning, or shall have an end; before it began
13 18 |          not exist, and after it shall be ended it will be true
14 18 |     truth will exist after truth shall be ended, which is a most
15 19 |          exist, and when nothing shall exist, that Being will not
16 19 |      existed; and the same Being shall no longer exist, when nothing
17 19 |       longer exist, when nothing shall still exist. Of what avail
18 19 |         be so explained, that it shall be understood that there
19 19 |       did exist; but, so that it shall be understood that, before
20 21 |      past or present. How, then, shall that proposition be valid,
21 21 |      supremely immutable? -- how shall this be so, if that Nature
22 22 |         and in none. ~How, then, shall these prepositions, that
23 22 |        because it was, or is, or shall be, has any part of its
24 25 |         him, nor like him. But I shall be able to sustain and to
25 25 |        toward him, as soon as he shall have been born, according
26 25 |       been born, according as he shall grow, or undergo change
27 25 | statement can be made, whence it shall be conceived of as mutable.~ ~
28 26 |          in any form.~How, then, shall it be maintained that it
29 29 |     through that expression, how shall that expression be anything
30 32 |          created through it, how shall we be sure that it is the
31 43 |    begets and he who is begotten shall be the same, and also that
32 43 |        that parent and offspring shall be the same, that the progenitor
33 46 |       him no imperfect imitation shall be conceived of, but the
34 57 |        that through this name it shall be signified that this love
35 60 |          Spirit as love, that it shall also be understood that
36 64 |      satisfied if this reasoning shall have brought him far enough
37 64 |    necessarily know so many; who shall explain how it knows and
38 64 |         the Son is begotten, who shall tell his generation?~ ~
39 65 |         since it is such, -- how shall whatever conclusion our
40 65 |      would be ineffable?~But how shall we meet the truth that has
41 69 |         supreme life.~How, then, shall it live? For is long life
42 70 |     might be a loving soul, what shall he give to the loving soul,
43 70 |         them? What return, then, shall the supreme Goodness make
44 70 |         for supreme blessedness, shall at some time receive that
45 70 |          soul that loves it; nor shall there be anything powerful
46 71 |          just as the loving soul shall rejoice in an eternal reward,
47 71 |        soul despising that Being shall suffer eternal punishment;
48 71 |    punishment; and as the former shall feel an immutable sufficiency,
49 71 |       sufficiency, so the latter shall feel an inconsolable need.~ ~
50 72 |         seem to be, what opinion shall be held regarding these?
51 75 |        same, except that whoever shall have come to it by striving
52 78 |   precisely appropriate term, he shall choose some one of those