Book V.Book V.------------He describes the twenty-ninth year of his age, in which, having discovered the fallacies of the Manichaeans, he professed rh...
Matthew 26:18 And he said, go into the city to such a man That is, to such a man in the city of Jerusalem, for, as yet, they were in Bethany, or at th...
Chapter 1010:1 Brethren, 1 my hearts desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. (1) Purposing to set forth in the Jews an examp...
Chapter?30One would have thought that the threatenings in the close of the foregoing chapter had made a full end of the people of Israel, and had left...
Second Instruction.Second Instruction.To those about to be illuminated; and concerning women who adorn themselves with plaiting of hair, and gold, and...
Ecclesiastes 5:2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter [any] thing before God In private conversation care should be t...
Romans 15:9 And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy In choosing them in Christ as vessels of mercy, and in redeeming them by Christ as w...
Book VII.Book VII.Concerning the Christian Life, and the Eucharist, and the Initiation into Christ. Sec. I.-On the Two Ways,(1) -The Way of Life and t...
Exodus 16:31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof manna For till now they had given it no name; which shows that the words are not to be re...
THE CHURCH IN PRAYER. Why loiterest within Simon's walls, Hard by the barren sea, Thou Saint! when many a sinner calls To preach and set him free...
CHAPTER XII The Old-Time Religion I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world's heart for two thousand ...
Psalm LXXXV. Psalm LXXXV. 1. ...Its title is, A Psalm for the end, to the sons of Core. Let us understand no other end than that of which the Apostle ...
Psalm XCV. Psalm XCV. 1. I could wish, brethren, that we were rather listening to our father: but even this is a good thing, to obey our father. Since...
Homily LXIX.Homily LXIX. John xii. 42, 43.-Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on Him; but because of the Pharisees they did not co...
Psalm LXXI. Psalm LXXI. 1. In all the holy Scriptures the grace of God that delivereth us commendeth itself to us, in order that it may have us commen...
Tractate LXXX.Tractate LXXX. John XV. 1-3.1. This passage of the Gospel, brethren, where the Lord calls Himself the vine, and His disciples the branch...
THE ELEVENTH BOOK. AUGUSTINE BREAKS OFF THE HISTORY OF THE MODE WHEREBY GOD LED HIM TO HOLY ORDERS, IN ORDER TO CONFESS GOD'S MERCIES IN OPENING TO ...
PSALM 15 OVERVIEW SUBJECT, &c. This Psalm of David bears no dedicatory title at all indicative of the occasion upon which it was written, but it is e...
THE THIRTEENTH BOOK. CONTINUATION OF THE EXPOSITION OF GENESIS I. ? IT CONTAINS THE MYSTERY OF THE TRINITY, AND A TYPE OF THE FORMATION, EXTENSION, A...
Psalm XLV. Psalm XLV. 1. This Psalm, even as we ourselves have been singing with gladness together with you, we would beg you in like manner to consid...