Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series • VOLUME 1
Augustine — Confessions & Letters
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Letter CCXXXI.
Letter CCXXXI. (a.d. 429.) To Darius, His Son, and a Member of Christ, Augustin, a Servant of Christ and of the Members of Christ, Sends Greeting in the Lord. 1. You requested an answer from me as a proof that I had gladly received your letter. [2998] Behold, then, I write again; and yet I cannot express the pleasure I felt, …
2,463 wordsSECTION 362Letter CCXXXII.
7. I have sent you also other books which you did not ask, that I might not rigidly restrict myself to what you asked:--my works on Faith in Things Unseen, on Patience, on Continence, on Providence, and a large work on Faith, Hope, and Charity. If, while you are in Africa, you shall read all these, either send your opinion of th…
2,417 wordsSECTION 363Letter CCXXXVII.
7. O men of Madaura, my brethren, nay, my fathers, [3009] I beseech you to awake at last: this opportunity of writing to you God has given to me. So far as I could, I rendered my service and help in the business of brother Florentinus, by whom, as God willed it, you wrote to me; but the business was of such a nature, that even w…
1,281 wordsSECTION 364Letter CCXLVI.
Letter CCXLVI. To Lampadius, Augustin Sends Greeting. 1. On the subject of Fate and Fortune, by which, as I perceived when I was with you, and as I now know in a more gratifying and more reliable way by your own letter, your mind is seriously disturbed, I ought to write you a considerable volume; the Lord will enable me to exp…
737 wordsSECTION 365Letter CCL.
Letter CCL. To His Beloved Lord and Venerable Brother and Partner in the Priestly Office, Auxilius, [3016] Augustin Sends Greeting in the Lord. 1. Our son Classicianus, a man of rank, has addressed to me a letter complaining bitterly that he has suffered excommunication wrongfully at the hand of your Holiness. His account of t…
1,685 wordsSECTION 366Letter CCLIV.
Letter CCLIV. To Benenatus, My Most Blessed Lord, My Esteemed and Amiable Brother and Partner in the Priestly Office, and to the Brethren Who are with Him, Augustin and the Brethren Who are with Him Send Greeting in the Lord. The maiden [3023] about whom your Holiness wrote to me is at present disposed to think, that if she we…
2,398 wordsSECTION 367Letter CCLXIX.
[3025] For requiritur the Benedictine editors suggest recurrit, as a conjectural emendation of the text. We propose, and adopt in the translation, a simpler and perhaps more probable alteration, and read requiruntur. [3026] Sursum sit cor et sicci erunt oculi. [3027] In the Latin word sapere here employed, there is an allusion…
2,200 wordsSECTION 368Books, the Manichæan, [228]83
the words, "In the beginning," interpreted differently, [214]183, [215]187 Bible literary, merit of the, [216]62 (note), [217]81 (note) the Psalms "a Bible in little," [218]131 (note) Birds of the air symbolical of pride, [219]80 (note) Blessedness, true, to be attained only by adhering to God, [220]190 (note) Blind man, t…
2,201 wordsSECTION 369Grace, the fulfilment of love, [578]183 (note)
Grace, the fulfilment of love, [578]183 (note) Grammar, the Christians forbidden by Julian to teach, [579]120 Grammar schools entrances of, covered with veils, [580]51 and note Great, joy in the conversion of the, [581]120 and note influence of the, [582]120 (note) Greek, Augustin's dislike to, [583]51 the reason of his …
2,207 wordsSECTION 370Moon, sun and, Manichean belief as to the, 63
Moon, sun and, Manichean belief as to the, 63 its falsity, [906]82, [907]83 and note influence of the, [908]103 (note) the natural man and the, [909]198 Morality of the Manichæans, [910]95 Morals, authority and, [911]65 Mortality, skins the emblem of, [912]112 and note, 195 Mortification, pain better than, [913]100 and no…
2,200 wordsSECTION 371pen of the, [1214]114 (note)
pen of the, [1214]114 (note) leadings of the, [1215]153 gifts of the, [1216]197 Spiritual body, the, [1217]112 (note) Stage-plays, Augustin's love of, [1218]60 reprobated by the Fathers, those who went to them being excluded from baptism, [1219]60 (note) Stars, knowledge of the, etc., [1220]80, [1221]81 Manichean teachin…
1,145 wordsSECTION 372LETTERS OF ST. AUGUSTIN
LETTERS OF ST. AUGUSTIN INDEX OF SUBJECTS Academic philosophy, [1394]401-[1395]407, [1396]444 Acclamations in ecclesiastical meetings, [1397]569 Ambrose, conversation of Monica with, [1398]270, [1399]300 Anaxagoras refuted [1400]446 Anaximenes refuted, [1401]446 Anecdote of Vendicianus [1402]482 Anecdote of Gennadius, [1…
2,217 wordsSECTION 373John
John [2909]1:1 [2910]1:1 [2911]1:1 [2912]1:1-5 [2913]1:1-5 [2914]1:3 [2915]1:3 [2916]1:6-9 [2917]1:7-8 [2918]1:9 [2919]1:9 [2920]1:9 [2921]1:9 [2922]1:9 [2923]1:10 [2924]1:10 [2925]1:11 [2926]1:12 [2927]1:12 [2928]1:14 [2929]1:14 [2930]1:14 [2931]1:14 [2932]1:14 [2933]1:16 [2934]1:16 [2935]1:16 [2936]1:16-17 [2937]1:16-17 [2938…
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