augustine the narrator
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- The author and narrator of the text, who recounts his mother's virtues and their shared, profound spiritual experiences, particularly their conversation at Ostia.
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- boyhood
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- servant of God, baptized
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- narrator, son of Narrator's Mother
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- unhappy
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- confesses toGod
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- Augustine openly admits his past sins and moral failings directly to God, expressing his gratitude and seeking preservation.
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- These things I speak and confess to Thee, my God
- commitsSins of Boyhood
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- Augustine describes the various moral transgressions he engaged in during his childhood, which later evolve into similar sins in adulthood.
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- For these very sins, as riper years succeed, these very sins are transferred from tutors and masters, from nuts and balls and sparrows, to magistrates and kings, to gold and manors and slaves, just as severer punishments displace the cane.
- is enslaved byGreediness
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- Augustine acknowledges that his desire for material things and to please others led him to moral bondage, prompting him to commit thefts.
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- Thefts also I committed, from my parents' cellar and table, enslaved by greediness
- seeksPreeminence
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- Augustine admits to desiring superiority over others, even in childhood games, driven by a vain desire for unfair conquests.
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- In this play, too, I often sought unfair conquests, conquered myself meanwhile by vain desire of preeminence.
- struggles withLustfulness
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- Augustine recounts how intense and unholy desires, rising from 'muddy concupiscence', clouded his judgment and prevented him from discerning true love.
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- but out of the muddy concupiscence of the flesh, and the bubblings of youth, mists fumed up which beclouded and overcast my heart, that I could not discern the clear brightness of love from the fog of lustfulness.
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- 2026-03-02T21:55:27.623Z
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- conversed withNarrator's Mother
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- Augustine and his mother engaged in a profound and sweet spiritual discourse about the nature of the eternal life awaiting the saints, while at Ostia.
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- We were discoursing then together, alone, very sweetly; and forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, we were enquiring between ourselves in the presence of the Truth, which Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man
- was located atOstia
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- Augustine was present with his mother at Ostia, where they rested during a journey and shared a significant spiritual conversation.
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- she and I stood alone, leaning in a certain window, which looked into the garden of the house where we now lay, at Ostia
- briefly touched uponWisdom (Divine)
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- In their deep spiritual discourse and mental ascent, Augustine momentarily apprehended or experienced a connection with the divine Eternal Wisdom.
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- we slightly touched on her with the whole effort of our heart
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- 2026-03-02T21:55:42.026Z
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