The confessions of s. Augustine, 10 books, a new tr. [by W.H. Hutchings].

Augustine (st.)

1883

Índice

• BOOK I: 1
• CHAP: 2
• vi: 6
• Infancy also is prone to sin: 10
• He was forced to go on with his Studies which however: 18
• Of childish Faults which pass on to mature Years: 30
• He commits a Theft in company with his Companions: 37
• He gives Thanks to God for the Forgiveness of his Sins: 43
• BOOK III: 47
• He turns against the Holy Scriptures on account of their: 54
• He argues against the Manichseans as to what Offences: 61
• What Answer the Mother of Augustine received from: 68
• CONTENTS: 70
• Why Weeping is sweet to the Miserable: 78
• All created Things are unstable God alone abiding: 85
• CHAP PAGE: 89
• BOOK V: 98
• The Knowledge of God alone gives Happiness: 104
• He sets out for Rome against his Mothers wish III: 111
• х CONTENTS: 121
• Feasts and Communion at the Tombs of the Martyrs: 128
• Of the Authority of the Holy Scriptures and their neces: 134
• Alypius is caught with a Passion for the Gladiatorial: 142
• A Wife is sought for Augustine: 153
• That Freewill was the Cause of: 162
• What Distress of Mind he suffered on the Question: 171
• CONTENTS: 178
• Christ alone the Way to Salvation: 185
• BOOK VIII: 192
• That God and the Angels rejoice more in the Conversion: 198
• He suffered inward Pangs when he heard what Ponti: 209
• The Struggle between the Spirit and the Flesh: 217
• CHAP: 221
• BOOK IX: 223
• At Cassiacum some Books were written Letters sent: 229
• CONTENTS: 235
• How he mourned for the Death of his Mother: 250
• known from His Creatures: 264
• God is not found by any corporeal or sensitive Faculty: 267
• What it is to learn: 273
• And Forgetfulness itself can be remembered: 279
• How Memory retains the Happy Life: 286
• He confesses his present Condition as to Carnal: 295
• How with regard to the Charms of Perfumes: 301
• How he is moved by Human Praise: 312

Pasajes populares

Página 180 - Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps: Fire and hail; snow and vapours: stormy wind fulfilling his word: Mountains and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars: Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl...

Página 263 - Thou art faithful, Who wilt not suffer us to be tempted above that we are able; but wilt with the temptation also make a way to escape, that we may be able to bear it.

Página 223 - Lord, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.

Página 221 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

Página 174 - Jesus : who, being in the form of God, counted it not a prize to be on an equality with God, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men...

Página 245 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.

Página 147 - He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. If, therefore, ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches ? And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?

Página 174 - God, is that true light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world." And that "He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not.

Página 299 - Not that I speak in respect of want : for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound : every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Página 73 - Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole : sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.

Información bibliográfica

• Título: The confessions of s. Augustine, 10 books, a new tr. [by W.H. Hutchings].; Número 353 de The confessions of s. Augustine, 10 books, a new tr. [by W.H. Hutchings], William Henry Hutchings
• Autor: Augustine (st.)
• Traducido por: William Henry Hutchings
• Publicado en: 1883
• Procedencia del original: Universidad de Oxford
• Digitalizado: 4 Sep 2006