author: saint augustine bishop of hippo

This large print edition of St Augustine's "Confessions" is printed on high quality paper in an easy-to-read format.

... one flesh " ? Whilst Scripture , in the Book of Genesis , was speaking of Adam and Eve , it came to these words , " Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother , and shall cleave to his wife ; and they two shall be one flesh . " 1 ...

Her beautiful contemporary translation of the ancient Confessions makes the classic work more accessible to modern readers.

The work outlines Saint Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity.

... you . Call upon Him , say to Him , Thou hast praise , and of this our own exposition , -that called us , we call upon Thee ... shall be my disciples indeed ; and ye shall know the truth , and the truth shall set you free . " What means that- ...

... the eleventh , which must happen in the very time of Antichrist . I do not ... the eleventh and last shall be inflicted by Antichrist . They reckon as the ... plague , in which the Egyptians , while following the Hebrews with hostility ...

... the eleventh , > which must happen in the very time of Antichrist . - I do ... the eleventh and last shall be inflicted by Antichrist . They reckon as the ... plague , in which the Egyptians , while following the Hebrews with hostility ...

You've heard his name--now read his classic spiritual autobiography. Here is St. Augustine's "Confessions, " an important and powerful book abridged and updated for today's reader.

... dragons , and say , ' Great is the Lord Who made these , ' then the dragons praise God by your voices . Dragons and all abysses . 10. Fire , hail , snow , ice , wind of storms , which do His ver . 8 . word . Wherefore added he here ...

Recalls crucial events in the author's life, including his origins in rural Algeria, his lavish lifestyle in Milan, his struggle with sexual desires, his eventual renunciation of secular ambitions and marriage, and the recovery of his ...

" The work is thought to be divisible into books which symbolize various aspects of the Trinity and trinitarian belief.

This volume, which aims to be usable by students who are new to Augustine, alerts readers to the verbal echoes and allusions of Augustine's brilliant and varied Latin, and explains his theological and philosophical questioning of what God ...

The Confessions of Saint Augustine By Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine

... God, since Rom 13:1 maintains that there is no power except from God; on the other hand, the gift of the power does ... 4, wills that all be saved? Augustine proposes as a somewhat tentative answer that the free choice we have received from ...

... Saturn dared to prohibit the worship of a second deity . He did not venture to interdict the worship even of this very Jupiter , who is said to have expelled him from his kingdom , -the son thus expelling the father . And if Jupiter ...

... Saturn , say they , is length of time.1 There- fore they who worship Saturn worship Time ; and it is insinu- ated that Jupiter , the king of the gods , was born of Time . For is anything unworthy said when Jupiter and Juno are said to ...

Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.), Vernon Joseph Bourke. Augustine's Analysis of the City of God ( Letter to Firmus ) 199 How the Two Cities Differ ( City of God XIV , 1 ) Two Loves Make Two Cities ( Literal Commentary on Genesis XI ...

... the visible light be naturally more allied to visible filth : how much less therefore could the Word of God , Which is neither corporeal nor visible , be polluted out of a female body , where It assumed human flesh together with soul ...

... to remain among men , but , after leaving a proof of His resurrection by showing Himself in the flesh to those whom He deigned to have for His witnesses of the great event , He ascended into heaven , withdrawing Himself even from their ...

... sayings , and by turning unto a more gentle meaning , such things in them as they think to be said rather v . Civ . to excite terror than as the true . For God forgetteth not , 18. 24. they say , to be gracious , neither will He in His ...