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- Contents. xvii
CH :P. PAG
XIX. He did not yet clearly understand that passage of S. John, “The Word was made Flesh” 130
XX. He is glad that his journeying has been from Platonism to the Holy Scriptures, instead of in the reverse direction 131
XXI. He finds in Holy Scripture many consolations and helps not found in the writings of the Platonists 132
**Book V333.**
AT LAST HE REACHES THE RECORD OF HIS THIRTY-SECOND YEAR, BY FAR THE MOST MEMORABLE OF HIS WHOLE LIFE, IN WHICH HAVING BEEN INSTRUCTED BY SIMPLICIANUS, WITH REFERENCE TO THE CONVERSION OF OTHERS, AND ON THE REASON FOR SUCH A COURSE OF ACTION, AFTER A VIOLENT MENTAL STRUGGLE HIS WHOLE SPIRIT IS RENEWED, AND HE IS CONVERTED TO GOD.
I. In the struggle between his devotion to Divine things, and his captivity to his passions, he consults Simplicianus concerning spiritual Renewal. 134
II. That holy veteran, Simplicianus, is glad that he has read Plato and the Scriptures; and tells him how Victorinus the Rhetorician read the Sacred Books, and was converted to the faith 136
III. That God and the angels rejoice more over one sinner that repenteth, than over many just persons. 138
IV. He shows by the example of Victorinus that there is more joy in the conversion of nobles 140
V. The conflict of will, which hindered his return to God 141
VI. Pontitianus relates how two of his companions were converted by reading the life and miracles of S. Anthony 143
VII. The words of Pontitianus pierce his soul, which sullenly clings to its old habits 146
VIII. He retires into the garden, and is greatly agitated. Alypius accompanies him 147
IX. Whence it happens that the body obeys the mind, but the mind obeys not itself 149
X. He refutes the Manichaean doctrine that the conflict of wills implies two conflicting natures and principles, one Good, the other Evil 149
XI. He describes the violence of his inward struggle as he sought to resolve to renounce his old habits 152
XII. The voice which came to him in the garden, and decided his conversion 153
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