At the end of July, 386, in the garden of the house in Milan where he was living with his mother and with his former pupil, Alypius (a competent lawyer who, in 386, was still shedding Manichee beliefs and, later, became bishop of Thagaste), Augustine finally came to the point of decision. His health had [...]
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Augustine’s “Point of Decision”
Posted in "The Confessions", Augustine, Henry Chadwick on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Augustine on Alypius’s Integrity
Posted in "The Confessions", Augustine, Henry Chadwick on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One thing, alone, almost led him astray because of his passion for books. He could have manuscripts copied for his own use at special government rates. He deliberated on the justice of this, and decided on the better choice, judging it more expedient to keep integrity, which would forbid it, than to use the power [...]
Augustine on His Mother
Posted in "The Confessions", Augustine on October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
With her husband, may she rest in peace. She had no one as her husband before him and after him. She served him by offering you “fruit with patience” (Luke 8:15) so as to gain him for you also. My Lord, my God, inspire your servants - my brothers, your sons, my masters – to whose [...]
Augustine’s Reaction to the Psalms
Posted in "The Confessions", Augustine on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How I cried out to you, my God, when I read the Psalms of David, those hymns of faith, those songs of a pious heart in which the spirit of pride can find no place! I was new to your true love. I was a catechumen living at leisure in that country house with Alypius, [...]
Augustine Confesses
Posted in "The Confessions", Augustine on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How I cried out to you, my God, when I read the psalms of David, those hymns of faith, those songs of a pious heart in which the spirit of pride can find no place! I was new to your true love. I was a catechumen living at leisure in that country house with Alypius, [...]
On Augustine’s “Confessions”
Posted in "The Confessions", Augustine on March 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There is no need to say much of the contents of this book. Some of it will attract by its devotion, some by its philosophy, perhaps; but all it will charm by its complete sincerity. The scenes of Augustine’s early life stand out like pictures; and his mother lives before our mind’s eye as if [...]
