augustine

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• formerly_held_beliefManichaeism

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  Augustine recounts how his soul had previously adopted the Manichaean opinion of two substances, leading to unrest.

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  Hence it had gone into the opinion of two substances, and had no rest, but talked idly.

• perceivedThe Unchangeable

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  Through a process of reasoning, Augustine's mind ascended to perceive the Unchangeable and true Eternity of Truth.

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  I had found the unchangeable and true Eternity of Truth above my changeable mind.

• embracedJesus Christ

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  Augustine found the strength to enjoy God only after he embraced Jesus Christ as the Mediator.

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  found it not, until I embraced that Mediator betwixt God and men, the Man Christ Jesus

• affirmedJesus Christ

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  Augustine affirmed that Jesus Christ, as a perfect man, possessed a complete human nature including a sensitive soul and a rational mind.

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  I acknowledged a perfect man to be in Christ; not the body of a man only, nor, with the body, a sensitive soul without a rational, but very man

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• meditates_onTime

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  Augustine deeply ponders the nature and definition of time, acknowledging its elusive yet familiar presence in human discourse.

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  For what is time? Who can readily and briefly explain this? Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it?

• addressesGod

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  Augustine frequently appeals to God, seeking guidance and truth in his philosophical inquiry.

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  O my Lord, my Light, shall not here also Thy Truth mock at man?

• recallsChildhood

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  Augustine uses his own childhood as an example of a past event that, while no longer existing in reality, is present in his memory through its image.

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  Thus my childhood, which now is not, is in time past, which now is not: but now when I recall its image, and tell of it, I behold it in the present, because it is still in my memory.

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• lovesTruth

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  Augustine expresses his love for truth, distinguishing it from loving an opinion merely because it is one's own.

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  Otherwise they would equally love another true opinion, as I love what they say, when they say true: not because it is theirs, but because it is true

• hearsGod

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  Augustine acknowledges God hearing his confessions and forgiving his sins.

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  Who hearest my confessions, and forgivest my sins

• believes_inTwo precepts of charity

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  Augustine states that adherence to these two precepts is essential to properly interpret Moses' intent without making God a liar.

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  unless we believe that Moses meant, whatsoever in those books he did mean, we shall make God a liar, imagining otherwise of our fellow servant's mind, than he hath taught us.

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• rises fromAlypius

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  Augustine leaves Alypius's side to seek solitude for his intense weeping.

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  I rose from Alypius

• casts self down underFig-tree

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  Augustine finds a specific spot under a fig-tree to weep and pray in solitude.

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  I cast myself down I know not how, under a certain fig-tree

• laysBook of Scripture

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  Augustine had placed the volume of the Apostle near Alypius before his emotional outburst.

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  there had I laid the volume of the Apostle

• reads fromPauline Epistles

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  Augustine opens and reads a section from the volume containing the Apostle's writings.

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• showsRomans 13:13-14

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  Augustine reveals the scripture passage he read to Alypius.

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  I showed him

• goes toAugustine's Mother

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  Augustine and Alypius go to tell Augustine's mother about the conversion.

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  Thence we go in to my mother

• stands inRule of Faith

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  After his conversion, Augustine adopts and adheres to a new spiritual doctrine or way of life.

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  standing in that rule of faith

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• taught atPublic School (Augustine's)

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  Augustine, the narrator, was a rhetoric professor at a public school, where Alypius later became his scholar.

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  I, professing rhetoric there, had a public school

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• was_inspired_byVictorinus

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  Augustine was set 'on fire to imitate' Victorinus after hearing his story of conversion and obedience to God.

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  I was on fire to imitate him; for for this very end had he related it

• experienced_internal_conflict_betweenAugustine's Will

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  Augustine experienced internal conflict as his two wills, one new and one old, struggled against each other, causing discord in his soul.

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  Thus did my two wills, one new, and the other old, one carnal, the other spiritual, struggle within me; and by their discord, undid my soul

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