Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers First Series, Volume I: The Confessions and Letters of St. Augustin with a Sketch of His Life and Work (Protestant Edition)
Overview
This collection includes St. Augustine’s Confessions—the influential church father’s magnum opus detailing his conversion to Christ—as well as many of his personal and ecclesiastical letters.
Product Details
- Title: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers First Series, Volume I
- Author: Philip Schaff
- Publisher: Christian Literature Company
- Publication Date: 1886
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“For what can be more wretched than the wretch who pities not himself shedding tears over the death of Dido for love of Æneas, but shedding no tears over his own death in not loving Thee, O God, light of my heart, and bread of the inner mouth of my soul, and the power that weddest my mind with my innermost thoughts? I did not love Thee, and committed fornication against Thee; and those around me thus sinning cried, ‘Well done! Well done!’ For the friendship of this world is fornication against Thee;4 and ‘Well done! Well done!’ is cried until one feels ashamed not to be such a man.” (Page 51)
“From Thee, therefore, I had now learned, that because a thing is eloquently expressed, it should not of necessity seem to be true; nor, because uttered with stammering lips, should it be false; nor, again, perforce true, because unskilfully delivered; nor consequently untrue, because the language is fine; but that wisdom and folly are as food both wholesome and unwholesome, and courtly or simple words as town-made or rustic vessels,—and both kinds of food may be served in either kind of dish.” (Page 82)
“Then, in the weakness of the infant’s limbs, and not in its will, lies its innocency. I myself have seen and known an infant to be jealous though it could not speak. It became pale, and cast bitter looks on its foster-brother. Who is ignorant of this?” (Page 48)
“But as my enjoyment was not in those pears, it was in the crime itself, which the company of my fellow-sinners produced.” (Page 59)
“And my whole hope is only in Thy exceeding great mercy. Give what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt.” (Page 153)
- Title: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 1.1: The Confessions and Letters of St. Augustin with a Sketch of His Life and Work
- Authors: Augustine of Hippo, Philip Schaff
- Series: Early Church Fathers (Protestant Edition)
- Volume: 1
- Publisher: Christian Literature Company
- Print Publication Date: 1886
- Logos Release Date: 2001
- Era: era:nicene
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Christian literature, early; Fathers of the church
- Resource ID: LLS:6.60.1
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T16:48:53Z
