Book XIII

Chapter XI

12. Who can understand the omnipotent Trinity? And yet who does not speak about it, if indeed it is of it that he speaks? Rare is the soul who, when he speaks of it, also knows of what he speaks. And men contend and strive, but no man sees the vision [...]

for us he was unto thee both the Victor and the Victim,
and therefore Victor, because he was the Victim
for us he was unto thee both the Priest and the Sacrifice,
and therefore the Priest, because he was the Sacrifice
…I meditate upon the price of my redemption

Confessions X, xliii

intus utique mihi, intus in domicilio cogitationis nec hebraea nec graeca nec latina nec barbara veritas sine oris et linguae organis, sine strepitu syllabarum diceret:  ‘verum dicit’…

Confessions XI.iii

Unless you read a bit of Latin you probably will depend upon a translation in order to understand what Auggie saying here.  He has been writing [...]

for us he was unto thee both the Victor and the Victim,
and therefore Victor, because he was the Victim
for us he was unto thee both the Priest and the Sacrifice,
and therefore the Priest, because he was the Sacrifice
…I meditate upon the price of my redemption

Confessions X, xliii

In Book VII of the Confessions, Augustine tells us how he read “certain books of the Platonists, translated out of Greek into Latin.” (VII.ix)  “Therein I read”, he tells us, “that in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”  He discovered the truth of what we [...]

Well, there you have it.  By the end of Book V Augustine has mostly despaired of finding the
big T truth from the Manichaeans.  He has run across some sceptics who
would argue that we can’t really know these sorts of things for sure.  Yet he wants a kind of certainty about these [...]

In Book V of the Confessions, a remarkable number of events transpire which move Augustine both geographically and spiritually.  In V.i he gives us a hint of what is to come in philosophical terms:  “the whole creation is never slack in thy praises”, which leads the human soul to contemplate nature, and so to raise [...]

All sin is a false imitation of God.  As Augustine wrote in book III, our various faults seek to imitate the goodness of God in some respect.  In book IV of the Confession, Augustine highlights some details of his life after he took up with the Manichaeans:

he began to teach rhetoric, and was taken [...]