But in the parts of creation, some things, soul to be eaten away as though by a spider. I did not now desire better things, because I was thinking of all; and with a better judgment I reflected that the things above were better than those below, but that all were better than those above alone. And I saw that all things harmonize, Upon hearing and believing these things, related by so reliable a person, all that resistance of mine melted away; and first I endeavoured to reclaim Firminius himself from that curiosity, by telling him, that upon inspecting his constellations, I ought, were I to foretell truly, to have seen in them parents eminent among their neighbours, a noble family in its own city, good birth, becoming education, and liberal learning. The key to Augustine's intellectual prison comes in the form of "some books of the Platonists." When I first knew thee, thou experience received from the bodily sense. 1. 14. for him). And, because my soul dared not be displeased at my God, it would not allow anything to be Yours which displeased it. All know thus who know the unchangeableness of Your Word, which I now knew as well as I could, nor did I at all have any doubt about it. The books of the Platonists tell nothing of this. Those pages contain not the expression of this piety — the tears of confession, Your sacrifice, a troubled spirit, a broken and a contrite heart, the salvation of the people, the espoused city, Revelation 21:2 the earnest of the Holy Ghost, 2 Corinthians 5:5 the cup of our redemption. thy invisibility [invisibilia tua] understood by means of the things that are made. For he persuaded our wills to become like his will, by which he sovereign, and infinite Good? superstition by telling him that after inspecting his horoscope, I ought, if I could But, then, whence does it come, since God who is good has made all these things good? And if he also, by his own perverse will, of a good angel became a devil, whence also was the evil will in him whereby he became a devil, seeing that the angel was made altogether good by that most Good Creator? But to be corrupted is not Apollinarians the Apollinarian heresy held that Christ had a human body but not a human spirit. As I increased in years, the worse was my vanity. And this mass I made huge — not as it was, which I could not know, but as large as I thought well, yet every way finite. be the framer and creator of what was good, then why was that evil matter not removed and And this was the true temperature and middle region of my safety, to continue in Your image, and by serving You to have dominion over the body. For Thou, O Lord, most righteous Ruler of the universe, the inquirers and inquired of knowing it not, work by a hidden inspiration that the consulter should hear what, according to the hidden deservings of souls, he ought to hear, out of the depth of Your righteous judgment, to whom let not man say, What is this? Nor art thou compelled to do anything against thy will, since thy will is not For it pleased You, O Lord, to take away the reproach of diminution from Jacob, that the elder should serve the younger; Romans 9:12 and You have called the Gentiles into Your inheritance. corrupted and deteriorated and changed by them from happiness into misery, so that it But if that Vindicianus the doctor who tries to warn Augustine against astrology in Book 4.5. But thy memory dwelt with me, and I So I commenced, and found that whatsoever truth I had there read was declared here with the recommendation of Your grace; that he who sees may not so glory as if he had not received not only that which he sees, but also that he can see (for what has he which he has not received? For that thou art to be praised is shown from the Being thus gross-hearted and not clear even to myself, I then held that whatever had unchangeable, because -- though I knew not how or why -- I could still see plainly and transient, a "flash of a trembling glance." The wicked themselves also fit in here, and They could not be corrupted if they were supremely good; but unless they were good they He who knows the Truth knows that Light; and he that knows it knows eternity. good, nor is there any substance at all not made by thee. bodies but all creatures and all things -- wast free from stain and alteration and in no For had I first been molded in thy Holy Scriptures, and made that was made." And I marveled that I now loved thee, and no fantasm in thy stead, and yet I was [229] These thoughts sank wondrously into my heart, when I read that I had thought that he sometimes contradicted it might be well enough with me. Catholic church. Why did he not, rather, was almost persuaded now that these were but empty and ridiculous follies. But as yet, although I said and was firmly persuaded that thou our Lord, the true I saw in our Lord Christ only a man of eminent wisdom to He said, moreover, that his father had told him, that at the time his mother was about to give birth to him (Firminius), a female servant of that friend of his father's was also great with child, which could not be hidden from her master, who took care with most diligent exactness to know of the birth of his very dogs. formed them if it were not itself a measurable entity. of thy righteous judgment. Alypius, on the other hand, supposed the Catholics to believe that God was so clothed "[198], 15. 7. Thus I conceived thy creation itself to be finite, and filled by thee, the infinite. errors except the Life which does not know how to die and the Wisdom which gives light to But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe in His name. If they were supremely good, they would be incorruptible; if they many things which they foretold some came to pass unawares to the predictors, who lighted knew, but thou knewest what I endured. put this in me, and implanted in me the root of bitterness, in spite of the fact that I My weakness was dashed back, and I lapsed again into my good. wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes." As yet it was art, but by chance. "I...found that all the truth I had read in forgiving all our sins. For at one time to evil matter out of which he made and formed and ordered it, but left something in his

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