![]() ![]() Knauer 41, `und daher scheint es, als habe Augustin durch den Teil des Psalmverses, der die ersten Worte des 6. was about to cross (aged thirty) one of the boundaries, which he marked carefully, between the six ages of mortal life (see on 1.8.13): 7.1.1, `ibam in iuventutem'. 1.7, `ante enim non in te sperabam quamvis tu fueris protector meus, qui me salvum perduxisti ad tempus quo in te discerem sperare.' A. 70.5, `quoniam tu es patientia mea, domine, domine, spes mea a iuventute mea, in te confirmatus sum ex utero de ventre matris meae tu es protector meus' en. la suite logique d'une stratégie familiale élaborée de longue date,' from the time when Patricius and Monnica began to promote A.'s education and prospects in the great world. 88(1987), 243, speaks of `une manière de roman balzacien avant la lettre. made a brilliant career, there would be lagniappe for the others. What about Nebridius? Trygetius? Licentius? If A. Who came with Monnica? At least Navigius and probably Lartidianus and Rusticus. clearly imbibed the Ambrosian view of scripture before he ever went near the platonicorum libri. errs here chiefly because he takes the last lines of this paragraph too literally he misreads the calendar besides, for A. Courcelle, Les Confessions 65: `Les sermons d'Ambroise ont pour effet provisoire de mettre Augustin en un péril plus grand, du point de vue de la foi chrétienne, qu'au temps ou il était manichéen.' In other words, they plunged him headlong ( `précipité trop avidement') into the Platonists and the Christology of Porphyry. Thus Courcelle, Recherches 86-87, marks these pages for the first weeks of June 385. We seem to have reached spring 385, after the seas opened again to allow Monnica to take ship ( BA 13.141n, arguing that his change of view regarding scripture must be dated to 385, leaving winter and spring 386 for reflection). The density of scriptural allusion here is a mark that an important stage has been reached. ![]() State of mind: interior monologue 6.12.21 - 6.13.23. ![]() In this regard, measured against the three temptations, the book represents undiluted, though often painful, progress. now show the vanity of such undertakings and the underlying failure of his ambition. The plans for the future that preoccupy A. The first section recounts doctrinal progress under the tutelage of Ambrose (with a reminder of the moral distance that remained to go), while the last section describes in detail the difficult personal choices that remained. treatment of Monnica: the two `digressions', each a conversion story in its own right, bracket A.'s central conversion story-in all three cases an admonitory word (see Brown 32) is decisive in effect. for the first time, to recount the early life of Alypius cf. The central section of the book takes the focus away from A. The Confessions of Saint Augustine, book 6 Book SixĪ. ![]()
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