The Confessions and Letters of St. Augustin, with a Sketch of his Life and Work

Cover......Page 1 About this book......Page 2 Table of Contents......Page 3 Title Page......Page 23 Preface......Page 24 Contents......Page 26 Sources......Page 27 Biographies......Page 28 Special Treatises on the System of Augustin......Page 29 A Sketch of the Life of St. Augustin......Page 30 Estimate of St. Augustin......Page 34 The Writings of St. Augustin......Page 39 The Influence of St. Augustin on Posterity, and His Relation to Catholicism and Protestantism......Page 49 Chief Events in the Life of St. Augustin......Page 57 Translator’s Preface......Page 59 The Opinion of St. Augustin Concerning His Confessions......Page 65 Commencing with the invocation of God, Augustin relates in detail the beginning of his life, his infancy and boyhood, up to his fifteenth year; at which age he acknowledges that he was more inclined to all youthful pleasures and vices than to the study of letters.......Page 66 That the God Whom We Invoke is in Us, and We in Him.......Page 67 The Majesty of God is Supreme, and His Virtues Inexplicable.......Page 68 He Seeks Rest in God, and Pardon of His Sins.......Page 69 He Describes His Infancy, and Lauds the Protection and Eternal Providence of God.......Page 70 He Shows by Example that Even Infancy is Prone to Sin.......Page 72 Concerning the Hatred of Learning, the Love of Play, and the Fear of Being Whipped Noticeable in Boys: and of the Folly of Our Elders and Masters.......Page 73 Through a Love of Ball-Playing and Shows, He Neglects His Studies and the Injunctions of His Parents.......Page 74 Seized by Disease, His Mother Being Troubled, He Earnestly Demands Baptism, Which on Recovery is Postponed—His Father Not as Yet Believing in Christ.......Page 75 He Delighted in Latin Studies and the Empty Fables of the Poets, But Hated the Elements of Literature and the Greek Language.......Page 76 Why He Despised Greek Literature, and Easily Learned Latin.......Page 77 He Disapproves of the Mode of Educating Youth, and He Points Out Why Wickedness is Attributed to the Gods by the Poets.......Page 78 He Continues on the Unhappy Method of Training Youth in Literary Subjects.......Page 79 Men Desire to Observe the Rules of Learning, But Neglect the Eternal Rules of Everlasting Safety.......Page 80 Stricken with Exceeding Grief, He Remembers the Dissolute Passions in Which, in His Sixteenth Year, He Used to Indulge.......Page 82 Concerning His Father, a Freeman of Thagaste, the Assister of His Son’s Studies, and on the Admonitions of His Mother on the Preservation of Chastity.......Page 84 He Commits Theft with His Companions, Not Urged on by Poverty, But from a Certain Distaste of Well-Doing.......Page 85 Concerning the Motives to Sin, Which are Not in the Love of Evil, But in the Desire of Obtaining the Property of Others.......Page 86 Why He Delighted in that Theft, When All Things Which Under the Appearance of Good Invite to Vice are True and Perfect in God Alone.......Page 87 In His Theft He Loved the Company of His Fellow-Sinners.......Page 88 With God There is True Rest and Life Unchanging.......Page 89 Deluded by an Insane Love, He, Though Foul and Dishonourable, Desires to Be Thought Elegant and Urbane.......Page 90 In Public Spectacles He is Moved by an Empty Compassion. He is Attacked by a Troublesome Spiritual Disease.......Page 91 Not Even When at Church Does He Suppress His Desires. In the School of Rhetoric He Abhors the Acts of the Subverters.......Page 92 He Rejects the Sacred Scriptures as Too Simple, and as Not to Be Compared with the Dignity of Tully.......Page 93 Deceived by His Own Fault, He Falls into the Errors of the Manichæans, Who Gloried in the True Knowledge of God and in a Thorough Examination of Things.......Page 94 He Attacks the Doctrine of the Manichæans Concerning Evil, God, and the Righteousness of the Patriarchs.......Page 96 He Argues Against the Same as to the Reason of Offences.......Page 98 That the Judgment of God and Men as to Human Acts of Violence, is Different.......Page 99 He Reproves the Triflings of the Manichæans as to the Fruits of the Earth.......Page 100 He Refers to the Tears, and the Memorable Dream Concerning Her Son, Granted by God to His Mother.......Page 101 Concerning that Most Unhappy Time in Which He, Being Deceived, Deceived Others; And Concerning the Mockers of His Confession.......Page 102 He Teaches Rhetoric, the Only Thing He Loved, and Scorns the Soothsayer, Who Promised Him Victory.......Page 103 Not Even the Most Experienced Men Could Persuade Him of the Vanity of Astrology to Which He Was Devoted.......Page 104 Sorely Distressed by Weeping at the Death of His Friend, He Provides Consolation for Himself.......Page 106 Why Weeping is Pleasant to the Wretched.......Page 107 His Friend Being Snatched Away by Death, He Imagines that He Remains Only as Half.......Page 108 That His Grief Ceased by Time, and the Consolation of Friends.......Page 109 That All Things Exist that They May Perish, and that We are Not Safe Unless God Watches Over Us.......Page 110 That Portions of the World are Not to Be Loved; But that God, Their Author, is Immutable, and His Word Eternal.......Page 111 Love is Not Condemned, But Love in God, in Whom There is Rest Through Jesus Christ, is to Be Preferred.......Page 112 Love Originates from Grace and Beauty Enticing Us.......Page 113 Concerning the Books Which He Wrote ‘On the Fair and Fit,’ Dedicated to Hierius.......Page 114 While Writing, Being Blinded by Corporeal Images, He Failed to Recognise the Spiritual Nature of God.......Page 115 He Very Easily Understood the Liberal Arts and the Categories of Aristotle, But Without True Fruit.......Page 117 That It Becomes the Soul to Praise God, and to Confess Unto Him.......Page 119 On the Vanity of Those Who Wished to Escape the Omnipotent God.......Page 120 Having Heard Faustus, the Most Learned Bishop of the Manichæans, He Discerns that God, the Author Both of Things Animate and Inanimate, Chiefly Has Care for the Humble.......Page 121 Of Manichæus Pertinaciously Teaching False Doctrines, and Proudly Arrogating to Himself the Holy Spirit.......Page 123 Faustus Was Indeed an Elegant Speaker, But Knew Nothing of the Liberal Sciences.......Page 124 Clearly Seeing the Fallacies of the Manichæans, He Retires from Them, Being Remarkably Aided by God.......Page 126 He Sets Out for Rome, His Mother in Vain Lamenting It.......Page 127 Being Attacked by Fever, He is in Great Danger.......Page 128 When He Had Left the Manichæans, He Retained His Depraved Opinions Concerning Sin and the Origin of the Saviour.......Page 130 Helpidius Disputed Well Against the Manichæans as to the Authenticity of the New Testament.......Page 132 He is Sent to Milan, that He, About to Teach Rhetoric, May Be Known by Ambrose.......Page 133 Having Heard the Bishop, He Perceives the Force of the Catholic Faith, Yet Doubts, After the Manner of the Modern Academics.......Page 134 His Mother Having Followed Him to Milan, Declares that She Will Not Die Before Her Son Shall Have Embraced the Catholic Faith.......Page 135 She, on the Prohibition of Ambrose, Abstains from Honouring the Memory of the Martyrs.......Page 137 As Ambrose Was Occupied with Business and Study, Augustin Could Seldom Consult Him Concerning the Holy Scriptures.......Page 138 He Recognises the Falsity of His Own Opinions, and Commits to Memory the Saying of Ambrose.......Page 140 Faith is the Basis of Human Life; Man Cannot Discover that Truth Which Holy Scripture Has Disclosed.......Page 141 On the Source and Cause of True Joy,—The Example of the Joyous Beggar Being Adduced.......Page 143 He Leads to Reformation His Friend Alypius, Seized with Madness for the Circensian Games.......Page 144 The Same When at Rome, Being Led by Others into the Amphitheatre, is Delighted with the Gladiatorial Games.......Page 145 Innocent Alypius, Being Apprehended as a Thief, is Set at Liberty by the Cleverness of an Architect.......Page 147 The Wonderful Integrity of Alypius in Judgment. The Lasting Friendship of Nebridius with Augustin.......Page 148 Being Troubled by His Grievous Errors, He Meditates Entering on a New Life.......Page 149 Discussion with Alypius Concerning a Life of Celibacy.......Page 151 The Design of Establishing a Common Household with His Friends is Speedily Hindered.......Page 152 The Fear of Death and Judgment Called Him, Believing in the Immortality of the Soul, Back from His Wickedness, Him Who Aforetime Believed in the Opinions of Epicurus.......Page 153 He recalls the beginning of his youth, i.e. the thirty-first year of his age, in which very grave errors as to the nature of God and the origin of evil being distinguished, and the Sacred Books more accurately known, he at length arrives at a clear knowledge of God, not yet rightly apprehending Jesus Christ.......Page 154 He Regarded Not God Indeed Under the Form of a Human Body, But as a Corporeal Substance Diffused Through Space.......Page 155 The Disputation of Nebridius Against the Manichæans, on the Question ‘Whether God Be Corruptible or Incorruptible.’......Page 156 That the Cause of Evil is the Free Judgment of the Will.......Page 157 Questions Concerning the Origin of Evil in Regard to God, Who, Since He is the Chief Good, Cannot Be the Cause of Evil.......Page 158 He Refutes the Divinations of the Astrologers, Deduced from the Constellations.......Page 160 He is Severely Exercised as to the Origin of Evil.......Page 161 By God’s Assistance He by Degrees Arrives at the Truth.......Page 162 He Compares the Doctrine of the Platonists Concerning the Λόγος With the Much More Excellent Doctrine of Christianity.......Page 163 Divine Things are the More Clearly Manifested to Him Who Withdraws into the Recesses of His Heart.......Page 166 That Creatures are Mutable and God Alone Immutable.......Page 167 It is Meet to Praise the Creator for the Good Things Which are Made in Heaven and Earth.......Page 168 Evil Arises Not from a Substance, But from the Perversion of the Will.......Page 169 Above His Changeable Mind, He Discovers the Unchangeable Author of Truth.......Page 170 Jesus Christ, the Mediator, is the Only Way of Safety.......Page 171 He Does Not Yet Fully Understand the Saying of John, that ‘The Word Was Made Flesh.’......Page 172 He Rejoices that He Proceeded from Plato to the Holy Scriptures, and Not the Reverse.......Page 174 What He Found in the Sacred Books Which are Not to Be Found in Plato.......Page 175 He, Now Given to Divine Things, and Yet Entangled by the Lusts of Love, Consults Simplicianus in Reference to the Renewing of His Mind.......Page 177 The Pious Old Man Rejoices that He Read Plato and the Scriptures, and Tells Him of the Rhetorician Victorinus Having Been Converted to the Faith Through the Reading of the Sacred Books.......Page 179 That God and the Angels Rejoice More on the Return of One Sinner Than of Many Just Persons.......Page 182 He Shows by the Example of Victorinus that There is More Joy in the Conversion of Nobles.......Page 183 Of the Causes Which Alienate Us from God.......Page 184 Pontitianus’ Account of Antony, the Founder of Monachism, and of Some Who Imitated Him.......Page 186 He Deplores His Wretchedness, that Having Been Born Thirty-Two Years, He Had Not Yet Found Out the Truth.......Page 189 The Conversation with Alypius Being Ended, He Retires to the Garden, Whither His Friend Follows Him.......Page 191 He Refutes the Opinion of the Manichæans as to Two Kinds of Minds,—One Good and the Other Evil.......Page 192 In What Manner the Spirit Struggled with the Flesh, that It Might Be Freed from the Bondage of Vanity.......Page 194 Having Prayed to God, He Pours Forth a Shower of Tears, And, Admonished by a Voice, He Opens the Book and Reads the Words in Rom. XIII. 13; By Which, Being Changed in His Whole Soul, He Discloses the Divine Favour to His Friend and His Mother.......Page 195 He speaks of his design of forsaking the profession of rhetoric; of the death of his friends, Nebridius and Verecundus; of having received baptism in the thirty-third year of his age; and of the virtues and death of his mother, Monica.......Page 196 He Praises God, the Author of Safety, and Jesus Christ, the Redeemer, Acknowledging His Own Wickedness.......Page 197 As His Lungs Were Affected, He Meditates Withdrawing Himself from Public Favour.......Page 198 He Retires to the Villa of His Friend Verecundus, Who Was Not Yet a Christian, and Refers to His Conversion and Death, as Well as that of Nebridius.......Page 199 In the Country He Gives His Attention to Literature, and Explains the Fourth Psalm in Connection with the Happy Conversion of Alypius. He is Troubled with Toothache.......Page 200 He is Baptized at Milan with Alypius and His Son Adeodatus. The Book ‘De Magistro.’......Page 204 Of the Church Hymns Instituted at Milan; Of the Ambrosian Persecution Raised by Justina; And of the Discovery of the Bodies of Two Martyrs.......Page 205 Of the Conversion of Evodius, and the Death of His Mother When Returning with Him to Africa; And Whose Education He Tenderly Relates.......Page 206 He Describes the Praiseworthy Habits of His Mother; Her Kindness Towards Her Husband and Her Sons.......Page 208 A Conversation He Had with His Mother Concerning the Kingdom of Heaven.......Page 209 His Mother, Attacked by Fever, Dies at Ostia.......Page 211 How He Mourned His Dead Mother.......Page 212 He Entreats God for Her Sins, and Admonishes His Readers to Remember Her Piously.......Page 214 That All Things are Manifest to God. That Confession Unto Him is Not Made by the Words of the Flesh, But of the Soul, and the Cry of Reflection.......Page 217 He Who Confesseth Rightly Unto God Best Knoweth Himself.......Page 218 That in His Confessions He May Do Good, He Considers Others.......Page 219 The Love of God, in His Nature Superior to All Creatures, is Acquired by the Knowledge of the Senses and the Exercise of Reason.......Page 220 Of the Nature and the Amazing Power of Memory.......Page 222 Literature is Not Introduced to the Memory Through the Senses, But is Brought Forth from Its More Secret Places.......Page 224 On the Recollection of Things Mathematical.......Page 225 Concerning the Manner in Which Joy and Sadness May Be Brought Back to the Mind and Memory.......Page 226 The Privation of Memory is Forgetfulness.......Page 227 God Cannot Be Attained Unto by the Power of Memory, Which Beasts and Birds Possess.......Page 228 What It is to Remember.......Page 229 We Should Not Seek for God and the Happy Life Unless We Had Known It.......Page 230 A Happy Life is to Rejoice in God, and for God.......Page 231 All Wish to Rejoice in the Truth.......Page 232 He is Glad that God Dwells in His Memory.......Page 233 On the Misery of Human Life.......Page 234 Of the Perverse Images of Dreams, Which He Wishes to Have Taken Away.......Page 235 About to Speak of the Temptations of the Lust of the Flesh, He First Complains of the Lust of Eating and Drinking.......Page 237 Of the Charms of Perfumes Which are More Easily Overcome.......Page 239 He Overcame the Pleasures of the Ear, Although in the Church He Frequently Delighted in the Song, Not in the Thing Sung.......Page 240 Of the Very Dangerous Allurements of the Eyes; On Account of Beauty of Form, God, the Creator, is to Be Praised.......Page 241 Another Kind of Temptation is Curiosity, Which is Stimulated by the Lust of the Eyes.......Page 242 A Third Kind is ‘Pride’ Which is Pleasing to Man, Not to God.......Page 244 He is Forcibly Goaded on by the Love of Praise.......Page 245 Vain-Glory is the Highest Danger.......Page 246 The Only Safe Resting-Place for the Soul is to Be Found in God.......Page 247 In What Manner Many Sought the Mediator.......Page 248 That Jesus Christ, at the Same Time God and Man, is the True and Most Efficacious Mediator.......Page 249 By Confession He Desires to Stimulate Towards God His Own Love and That of His Readers.......Page 251 He Begs of God that Through the Holy Scriptures He May Be Led to Truth.......Page 252 Heaven and Earth Cry Out that They Have Been Created by God.......Page 254 God Created the World Not from Any Certain Matter, But in His Own Word.......Page 255 By His Co-Eternal Word He Speaks, and All Things are Done.......Page 256 Wisdom and the Beginning.......Page 257 They Who Ask This Have Not as Yet Known the Eternity of God, Which is Exempt from the Relation of Time.......Page 258 Before the Times Created by God, Times Were Not.......Page 259 There is Only a Moment of Present Time.......Page 260 Time Can Only Be Perceived or Measured While It is Passing.......Page 261 Past and Future Times Cannot Be Thought of But as Present.......Page 262 How Time May Be Measured.......Page 263 That Time is a Certain Extension.......Page 264 We Measure Longer Events by Shorter in Time.......Page 266 Times are Measured in Proportion as They Pass by.......Page 267 That Human Life is a Distraction But that Through the Mercy of God He Was Intent on the Prize of His Heavenly Calling.......Page 269 How the Knowledge of God Differs from that of Man.......Page 270 He continues his explanation of the first Chapter of Genesis according to the Septuagint, and by its assistance he argues, especially, concerning the double heaven, and the formless matter out of which the whole world may have been created; afterwards of the interpretations of others not disallowed, and sets forth at great length the sense of the Holy Scripture.......Page 271 Of the Darkness Upon the Deep, and of the Invisible and Formless Earth.......Page 272 He Confesses that at One Time He Himself Thought Erroneously of Matter.......Page 273 Out of Nothing God Made Heaven and Earth.......Page 274 Heaven and Earth Were Made ‘In the Beginning;’ Afterwards the World, During Six Days, from Shapeless Matter.......Page 275 What May Be Discovered to Him by God.......Page 276 Of the Intellectual Heaven and Formless Earth, Out of Which, on Another Day, the Firmament Was Formed.......Page 278 He Argues Against Adversaries Concerning the Heaven of Heavens.......Page 279 He Wishes to Have No Intercourse with Those Who Deny Divine Truth.......Page 281 He Mentions Five Explanations of the Words of Genesis I. I.......Page 282 What Error is Harmless in Sacred Scripture.......Page 283 Of the Words, ‘In the Beginning,’ Variously Understood.......Page 284 He Discusses Whether Matter Was from Eternity, or Was Made by God.......Page 285 Two Kinds of Disagreements in the Books to Be Explained.......Page 286 Out of the Many True Things, It is Not Asserted Confidently that Moses Understood This or That.......Page 287 It Behoves Interpreters, When Disagreeing Concerning Obscure Places, to Regard God the Author of Truth, and the Rule of Charity.......Page 288 The Style of Speaking in the Book of Genesis is Simple and Clear.......Page 289 The Words, ‘In the Beginning,’ And, ‘The Heaven and the Earth,’ Are Differently Understood.......Page 290 Concerning the Opinion of Those Who Explain It ‘At First He Made.’......Page 291 Moses is Supposed to Have Perceived Whatever of Truth Can Be Discovered in His Words.......Page 292 Of the goodness of God explained in the creation of things, and of the Trinity as found in the first words of Genesis. The story concerning the origin of the world (Gen. I.) is allegorically explained, and he applies it to those things which God works for sanctified and blessed man. Finally, he makes an end of this work, having implored eternal rest from God.......Page 293 All Creatures Subsist from the Plenitude of Divine Goodness.......Page 294 Genesis I. 3,—Of ‘Light,’—He Understands as It is Seen in the Spiritual Creature......Page 295 Why the Holy Ghost Should Have Been Mentioned After the Mention of Heaven and Earth.......Page 296 That the Holy Spirit Brings Us to God.......Page 297 Why the Holy Spirit Was Only ‘Borne Over’ The Waters.......Page 298 That Nothing Arose Save by the Gift of God.......Page 299 That the Symbols of the Trinity in Man, to Be, to Know, and to Will, are Never Thoroughly Examined.......Page 300 That the Renewal of Man is Not Completed in This World.......Page 301 That Out of the Children of the Night and of the Darkness, Children of the Light and of the Day are Made.......Page 302 Allegorical Explanation of the Firmament and Upper Works, Ver. 6.......Page 303 Allegorical Explanation of the Sea and the Fruit-Bearing Earth—Verses 9 and 11.......Page 305 Of the Lights and Stars of Heaven—Of Day and Night, Ver. 14.......Page 306 All Men Should Become Lights in the Firmament of Heaven.......Page 308 Concerning Reptiles and Flying Creatures (Ver. 20),—The Sacrament of Baptism Being Regarded.......Page 309 Concerning the Living Soul, Birds, and Fishes (Ver. 24)—The Sacrament of the Eucharist Being Regarded.......Page 311 He Explains the Divine Image (Ver. 26) of the Renewal of the Mind.......Page 312 That to Have Power Over All Things (Ver. 26) is to Judge Spiritually of All.......Page 313 Why God Has Blessed Men, Fishes, Flying Creatures, and Not Herbs and the Other Animals (Ver. 28).......Page 315 He Explains the Fruits of the Earth (Ver. 29) of Works of Mercy.......Page 316 In the Confessing of Benefits, Computation is Made Not as to The ‘Gift,’ But as to the ‘Fruit,’—That Is, the Good and Right Will of the Giver.......Page 317 Although It is Said Eight Times that ‘God Saw that It Was Good,’ Yet Time Has No Relation to God and His Word.......Page 319 We Do Not See ‘That It Was Good’ But Through the Spirit of God Which is in Us.......Page 320 Of the Particular Works of God, More Especially of Man.......Page 321 He Briefly Repeats the Allegorical Interpretation of Genesis (Ch. I.), and Confesses that We See It by the Divine Spirit.......Page 322 The Seventh Day, Without Evening and Setting, the Image of Eternal Life and Rest in God.......Page 323 Of the Difference Between the Knowledge of God and of Men, and of the Repose Which is to Be Sought from God Only.......Page 324 Preface......Page 325 To Hermogenianus......Page 327 To Nebridius......Page 329 To Nebridius......Page 332 Nebridius to Augustin......Page 333 Nebridius to Augustin......Page 334 To Nebridius......Page 335 Nebridius to Augustin......Page 338 To Nebridius......Page 339 To Nebridius......Page 340 To Nebridius......Page 342 To Nebridius......Page 344 To Nebridius......Page 346 To Romanianus......Page 347 Maximus to Augustin......Page 348 To Maximus......Page 350 To Cœlestinus......Page 352 To Gaius......Page 353 To Antoninus......Page 354 To Bishop Valerius......Page 355 To Bishop Aurelius......Page 357 To Maximin......Page 361 from Paulinus and Therasia......Page 366 To Licentius......Page 368 To Paulinus......Page 371 To Jerome......Page 374 to Alypius......Page 378 From Paulinus and Therasia......Page 383 To Paulinus and Therasia......Page 384 To Proculeianus......Page 388 To Eusebius......Page 391 To Eusebius......Page 393 To Casulanus......Page 395 To Simplicianus......Page 403 To Profuturus......Page 404 From Jerome......Page 405 To Jerome......Page 406 To Aurelius......Page 410 To Glorius, Eleusius, etc.......Page 411 To Eleusius, Glorius, and the Two Felixes......Page 425 From Publicola......Page 431 To Publicola......Page 434 To Eudoxius......Page 438 To Honoratus......Page 439 To Crispinus......Page 440 To Generosus......Page 443 To Januarius......Page 447 To Januarius......Page 451 To Pammachius......Page 471 To Victorinus......Page 472 To Aurelius......Page 473 To Theodorus......Page 474 to Severus......Page 475 To Severus......Page 476 To Quintianus......Page 478 To Xantippus......Page 480 to Crispinus......Page 481 From Jerome......Page 483 To Castorius......Page 485 To Naucelio......Page 486 To Jerome......Page 487 From Jerome......Page 489 To Jerome......Page 491 From Jerome......Page 497 To the Donatists......Page 511 To Felix and Hilarinus......Page 513 To the Clergy, etc., of the Church of Hippo......Page 514 A Challenge to a Manichæan Teacher......Page 520 From Jerome......Page 521 To Jerome......Page 522 To Alypius......Page 539 To Novatus......Page 541 To Paulus......Page 542 To Emeritus......Page 544 To Januarius......Page 550 To Festus......Page 556 To Nectarius......Page 560 To Lady Italica......Page 565 To Vincentius......Page 568 To Paulinus and Therasia......Page 596 To Olympius......Page 601 To Olympius......Page 602 To Boniface......Page 604 To the Very Devout Italica......Page 609 To Donatus......Page 611 To Memor......Page 612 To Deogratias......Page 614 From Nectarius......Page 631 To Nectarius......Page 633 To Victorianus......Page 641 To Fortunatus......Page 646 To Generosus......Page 647 From Dioscorus......Page 648 To Dioscorus......Page 649 To His Well-Beloved Brethren the Clergy, etc.......Page 666 To Albina, Pinianus, and Melania......Page 667 To Alypius......Page 669 To Albina......Page 672 To Proba......Page 678 To Proba......Page 693 To Marcellinus......Page 694 From Volusianus......Page 696 From Marcellinus......Page 698 To Volusianus......Page 699 To Marcellinus......Page 710 To Marcellinus......Page 720 To Marcellinus......Page 723 To the Inhabitants of Cirta......Page 729 To Anastasius......Page 730 To Pelagius......Page 734 To Fortunatianus......Page 735 To Proba and Juliana......Page 743 To Cæcilianus......Page 744 From Evodius......Page 751 To Evodius......Page 756 To Evodius......Page 759 To Marcellinus and Anapsychia......Page 769 To Jerome......Page 771 To Jerome......Page 784 To Evodius......Page 794 From Jerome......Page 800 To Donatus......Page 801 To Oceanus......Page 806 To Juliana......Page 808 To Boniface......Page 814 To Sixtus......Page 817 To Cælestine......Page 819 Honorius Augustus and Theodosius Augustus to Bishop Aurelius......Page 820 Jerome to Alypius and Augustin......Page 821 To Largus......Page 822 To Felicia......Page 823 To Cælestine......Page 826 To Felicitas, Rusticus, etc.......Page 829 To the Nuns......Page 830 To Quintilianus......Page 837 Augustin Designates his Successor......Page 838 To Palatinus......Page 841 To Proculus and Cylinus......Page 843 To Boniface......Page 844 To Alypius......Page 849 To Honoratus......Page 850 To Darius......Page 856 To Darius......Page 858 To the People of Madaura......Page 861 To Ceretius......Page 865 To Possidius......Page 866 To Lampadius......Page 867 To Auxilius......Page 868 To Benenatus......Page 870 To Sapida......Page 871 To Nobilius......Page 874 The Confessions of St. Augustin: Index of Subjects......Page 875 Letters of St. Augustin: Index of Subjects......Page 907 Index of Scripture References......Page 912 Greek Words and Phrases......Page 918 French Words and Phrases......Page 921 Index of Pages of the Print Edition......Page 922