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Sancti Augustini Vita Scripta a Possidio Episcope
Sancti Augustini Vita Scripta a Possidio Episcope Author:Possidius Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTES PG = Patrologia Graeca. PL = Patrologia Latina. Works of Augustine are quoted by title, those of other patristic writers according to the volume and... more » column of the Patrologia. PREFACE 1 exortu et procursu et debito fine: Possidius here has in mind Augustine's own words in which he sets forth the origin, development and end of the Civitas Dei and the Civitas terrena: exortu et excursu et debitis finibus: De Civitate Dei XI i. 2Patris luminum: From Jac. 1:17. 3ne de . . . putaret: From 2 Cor. 12:6. 4 honorificum est: Tobiae 12: 7. CHAPTER I 1 Tagastensi: Tagaste or Thagaste was a small town in the eastern part of the province of Numidia about fifty miles southeast of Hippo- Regius and about a hundred and fifty miles south-west of Carthage. Augustine names Tagaste as his birthplace: neque in hoc inviderunt ecclesiae Thagastensi, quae carnalis partia mea est: Ep. CXXVI 7. Alypius, Augustine's bosom friend, was ordained bishop of Tagaste in 394- 2 omnibus . . . vocant: Almost the same as Augustine's words: omnes libros artium quas liberates vocant: Confessiones IV xvi 30. 3 Ambrosius: Bishop of Milan 374-397. Before becoming bishop he had been consular magistrate of Liguria and Aemilia. The manner in which he was chosen bishop of Milan bears a close analogy to the election of Augustine as presbyter in the church at Hippo, seventeen years later: Paulinus, Vita Ambrosii, PL 14, 31. In the interesting little account which Augustine gives of Ambrose's passion for reading in the spare moments of leisure from his episcopal duties (Confessiones VI iii 3) we may possibly see a reflection of Augustine's own busy life, crowded with so many secular cares that he could scarcely find time to study the Scriptures. 4 Huius interea verbi . . . intendebat suspe...« less