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- The Confessions of S. Augustine. 31
that Physician, through whose aid it was that he was not sick, or rather was less sick: and for this let him love Thee as much, yea and more; since by whom he sees me to have been freed from the weary exhaustion of my sins, by Him he sees that he was saved from entanglement in the like exhaustion.
## CHAPTER VIII.
*That in the theft, it was the companionship of his fellow-sinners that he liked.*
“WHAT fruit had I then, “wretched man,” in those things, of the remembrance whereof I am now ashamed?” (Rom. vi. 21). Especially, in that theft wherein I loved theft itself? there was nothing else to love in it; and since itself was nothing, was not I more wretched even than the theft? Yet alone I had not done it: for I remember that my mind even then discerned that of myself I had never done it. I loved then in it also the companionship of the accomplices, with whom I did it? Did I then love nothing else but the theft? yea rather I did love nothing else, for that companionship was also nothing. What is, in truth? who can teach me, save He that enlighteneth my heart, and discovereth its shadows? What is it which hath come into my mind to enquire, and discuss, and consider? For had I then loved the pears I stole, and wished to enjoy them, I might have done it alone, if the committing of that wickedness had sufficed to attain my pleasure; nor needed I have inflamed the itching of my covetousness, by the flattery of accomplices. But since my pleasure was not in those pears, it was in the offence itself, which the association with fellow-sinners occasioned.
## CHAPTER IX.
*There is pleasure in laughter, and in the deceiving of others.*
WHAT then was that inclination of the mind? For of a truth it was too foul: and woe was me, who had it. But yet what was it? “Who can understand his errors” (Ps. xix. 12). It was the sport, which as it were,
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