On Genesis

Name: On Genesis
Author: Augustine of Hippo

Augustine of Hippo

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Genesis," The University of Dayton Review 22 ( 1994) 55-67. ≈ 4 min
(Kirchengeschichtliche Quellen und Studien 4; St. Ottilien, 1960) 163-195. ≈ 4 min
Augustiniennes 5 ( 1 968) 95- 1 37. ≈ 4 min
ecclesiastique 72 (1971) 81-105, especially 85-78, 90-93. ≈ 4 min
8. 1bid., 11, 1, 1 (CSEL 89, 45). ≈ 4 min
9. See Vannier, "Creatio" (note 1, above), 20-66, 175-179. ≈ 4 min
Metafisica 20 (1965) 122-141; idem, "Sul fondamento teoretico della 'religione,'" Filosofia e ≈ 4 min
Boulding, The Confessions [Hyde Park, NY: New City Press. 1997] 288. Henceforth: ≈ 4 min
Boulding, The Confessions [Hyde Park, NY: New City Press. 1997] 288. Henceforth: ≈ 4 min
15. See Confessions X1, 3, 5; X11, 18, 27; X11, 24, 33 (CCL 27, 196, 229, 233). ≈ 4 min
understanding"; ibid., V11, 24, 35: "if there is no scriptural authority or evident argument of ≈ 4 min
18. See The Trinity XV, 2. 2 (CCL 50A, 460-62). ≈ 4 min
(Lewiston, 1988)1; A. S. Pease, "Caeli enarrant," Harvard Theological Review 34 (1941) ≈ 4 min
sa reception (Paris, 1988); eadem, "Lire en grec le recit de la creation: interpretation de la ≈ 4 min
d'Alexandrie 1; Paris, 1961) 17-112. ≈ 4 min
23. 1bid., 6, 22; 6, 24, 2 (Schwartz, 243). ≈ 4 min
premiers versets de la Genese (Paris: etudes Augustiniennes, 1973) 61-94; G. T. Armstrong, ≈ 4 min
on Genesis (Chicago, 1912); Y. Congar, "Le theme de Dieu-Createur et les explications de ≈ 4 min
Testament (Stuttgarter Biblische Beitrage 36; Stuttgart, 1 997) 1 1 8- 1 33; G. Rinaldi (ed.). Biblia ≈ 4 min
koniglichen Gesellschafl der Wissenschaften in Gdttingen. Phil.-hist. Klasse (1915) 26-136; ≈ 4 min
(Turin. 1960). ≈ 4 min
29. See Bouhout, "Pentateuque chez les Peres" (note 19, above). 708. ≈ 4 min
30. See Vannier, "Creatio" (note 1, above), 68. ≈ 4 min
idem, "Eustathius, der lateinische ubersetzer der Hexaemeron-Homilien Basilius des ≈ 4 min
DC, 1944); J. De Blic, "Platonisme et christianisme dans la conception augustinienne du dieu ≈ 4 min
DC, 1944); J. De Blic, "Platonisme et christianisme dans la conception augustinienne du dieu ≈ 4 min
35. See A. H. Armstrong, St. Augustine and Christian Platonism (Villanova, 1967) 15. ≈ 4 min
46 (1953) 1-25; G. Madec, Sam/ Augustin et la philosophie (Collection des etudes ≈ 4 min
Polemic and Beyond (American University Series, Theology and Religion 205; New York, ≈ 4 min
this Trinity is called one God. and that he made and created all the things that are, insofar as ≈ 4 min
1nterpretations des premiers versets de la Genise (Paris: etudes Augustiniennnes, 1973) ≈ 4 min
and A. Grillmeier; Freiburg. 1963) 62-65. ≈ 4 min
Sant' Agostino, La Genesi 1 (Nuova Biblioteca Agostiniana 9/1 ; Rome, 1988) LX1-LXXX. ≈ 4 min
42. The Literal Meaning of Genesis X11, 1,1. ≈ 4 min
43. See ibid., 1V, 22, 39. ≈ 1 min
44. Confessions X111, 4, 5 (CCL 27, 244); Boulding, 345. ≈ 1 min
jungen Augustinus von 373 (Dissertation; Miinster. 1975) 568-588. ≈ 3 min
jungen Augustinus von 373 (Dissertation; Miinster. 1975) 568-588. ≈ 3 min
Bible see K. Pollmann, Doctrina christiana. Untersuchungen zu den Anfdngen der ≈ 3 min
1997) 121. ≈ 3 min
augustinienne de la creation," in J. C. Schnaubelt and F. Van Fleieren (eds.), Augustine: ≈ 4 min
See P. Courcelle, Recherches sur les Confessions de Saint Augustin (Paris, 1968) 96-103. R.-J. ≈ 4 min
7. See Confessions V1, 3, 4 (CCL 27, 76). ≈ 4 min
8. Confessions, V, 14, 25 (Boulding, 132). ≈ 4 min
9. The Literal Meaning ofGenesis V111, 2, 5. ≈ 4 min
1 1. See R. J. O'Connell, St. Augustine's Early Theory ofMan, A.D. 386-391 (Cambridge, Mass., ≈ 4 min
1 3. Later on (3%), in his Answer to the Letter ofMani Known as "The Foundation. " Augustine ≈ 4 min
15. On Genesis: A Refutation of the Manichees 1. 4, 7. ≈ 4 min
Genesis against the Manichees, and The Literal Interpretation of Genesis: An Unfinished ≈ 4 min
(CSEL 34/1 , 79), in which Paulinus of Nola describes Augustine's On Genesis: A Refutation of ≈ 4 min
18. On Genesis: A Refutation of the Manichees 11, 29, 43. ≈ 4 min
19. See Augustine. The Instruction ofBeginners 17, 28—18, 30 (CCL 46, 152-155). ≈ 4 min
20. See On Genesis: A Refutation ofthe Manichees 1, 1, 1. ≈ 4 min
21. For example, ibid., 1, 22, 34. ≈ 4 min
22. For example, ibid., 1, 6, 10. ≈ 4 min
V111, 1, 4; V111, 2, 5. On the general question of biblical interpretation in On Genesis: A ≈ 4 min
V111, 1, 4; V111, 2, 5. On the general question of biblical interpretation in On Genesis: A ≈ 4 min
V111, 1, 4; V111, 2, 5. On the general question of biblical interpretation in On Genesis: A ≈ 4 min
V111, 1, 4; V111, 2, 5. On the general question of biblical interpretation in On Genesis: A ≈ 4 min
V111, 1, 4; V111, 2, 5. On the general question of biblical interpretation in On Genesis: A ≈ 4 min
and P. Bright (eds.), De Doctrina Christiana: A Classic of Western Culture (Notre Dame, ≈ 4 min
and P. Bright (eds.), De Doctrina Christiana: A Classic of Western Culture (Notre Dame, ≈ 4 min
Augustiniennes\(\95%)243-2%(>. ≈ 4 min
Augustiniennes\(\95%)243-2%(>. ≈ 4 min
Man and the Ages of the World," Revue des ttudes augustiniennes 12 (1966) 193-228; K.-H. ≈ 4 min
33. On Genesis: A Refutation ofthe Manichees 1, 23, 41. ≈ 4 min
contra Manichaeos" Studio Patristica 33 (1996) 274-279. ≈ 4 min
contra Manichaeos" Studio Patristica 33 (1996) 274-279. ≈ 4 min
36. On Genesis: A Refutation ofthe Manichees 11, 2, 3. ≈ 7 min
39. 1bid., 1, 2, 3. ≈ 4 min
39. 1bid., 1, 2, 3. ≈ 4 min
de saint Augustin," in De Genesi contra Manichaeos, De Genesi ad litteram liber imperfectus ≈ 4 min
41. See On Genesis: A Refutation ofthe Manichees 11, 7, 8-8, 11. ≈ 4 min
Manichaeos," Augustinian Studies 22 (1991) 141-154; R. J. O'Connell, book review of "R. J. ≈ 4 min
(ed.), Origeniana Quinta (Leuven, 1992) 179-185. ≈ 4 min
(ed.), Origeniana Quinta (Leuven, 1992) 179-185. ≈ 4 min
(ed.), Origeniana Quinta (Leuven, 1992) 179-185. ≈ 4 min
SantAgostino, Le Genesi difesa contro i Manichei (note 16, above) 3-46. ≈ 4 min
SUndenfalls in De Genesis contra Manichaeos," in L'Etica cristiana nei secoli III e IV: Eredita ≈ 4 min
(CCL 39, 672f.) 67, 39 (CCL 39, 896f.); True Religion 8, 1 5 (CCL 32, 197f.); City ofGod XV1, ≈ 4 min
(CCL 39, 672f.) 67, 39 (CCL 39, 896f.); True Religion 8,15 (CCL 32, 1 97f.); City ofGod XV1, ≈ 4 min
birds, but the pure hearts of people who trust and believe God, and turn from a ≈ 4 min
Catholic truth." For the brief "intertwining" of what the Manichees say and what the Catholics ≈ 4 min
Chapter 84 ≈ 4 min
possibly signifying life (11,3,4); since the better translations have "hay" instead ≈ 4 min
Aquinas, and an essential element in the Catholic doctrine: that original sin is not a personal ≈ 4 min
6. See Rom 5:12. ≈ 4 min
7. The word natura in Latin being actually derived from nascor, "1 am born." ≈ 4 min
the Old Testament, which they have next to no knowledge of, and of mocking ≈ 4 min
joke someone is said to have made: 'He was getting hell ready for people who inquisitively ≈ 4 min
joke someone is said to have made: 'He was getting hell ready for people who inquisitively ≈ 4 min
4. SeeJn 1:1-3. ≈ 4 min
make heaven and earth?" but leave out the "suddenly," andjust say, "Why did it ≈ 5 min
between God' s eternity and the eternity of time. But he repeats this "if' clause, and answers the ≈ 5 min
version of the bible; but where Augustine's bible used the word for anything created, we will ≈ 5 min
at this point, either in transmission, or else because Augustine was distracted by something ≈ 5 min
1 :2). The Manichees find fault with this by saying: "So was God in darkness ≈ 4 min
8. See the extract from Revisions, section 2, above. ≈ 4 min
did the actual water come from, over which the Spirit of God was being borne? ≈ 13 min
good"?1 1 What a hue and cry they would raise, what charges they would bring! ≈ 5 min
12. See Mt 8:10. ≈ 9 min
14. As indeed it does in the Jewish way of reckoning! ≈ 4 min
15. The sea of Galilee, for example—the only example, perhaps. ≈ 12 min
starting ofthe day and the lesser lampfor the starting ofthe night: it is really as if ≈ 4 min
can cast a slur and say, "How had God already divided earlier on between day ≈ 4 min
11,25,32, when dealing with the fourth day of creation, this curious problem arose from the ≈ 8 min
substitutes "order" for "weight." ≈ 4 min
lights and the aristocrats of the movement, and the Hearers, who were, so to say, its second ≈ 5 min
21. For example: ears in Jas 5:4, 1 Pt 3:12; eyes in Heb4:13, 1 Pt 3:12; feet in Mt 5:35. ≈ 5 min
faithful who have a spiritual understanding do not believe that God is circum ≈ 4 min
22. SeeMk 16:19, Heb 1:3. ≈ 4 min
23. See Lk 11:20. ≈ 4 min
24. See Eph 6:16-17. ≈ 4 min
would have been no sexual relations between Adam and Eve, in the extract from the Revisions, ≈ 4 min
diet as all animals, the analogues ofour emotions. Augustine, we must remember, is all the time ≈ 5 min
this volume. ≈ 9 min
manner of speaking in many places of God's scriptures. What else, after all, is ≈ 4 min
29. 1n accordance with the same style he also said that the Father alone knows the very day, ≈ 4 min
of childhood, and stretches up to Abraham in ten more generations.32 And it can ≈ 4 min
say—for example, instead of blind ditches we talk of blind corners. ≈ 4 min
31. SeeGn5. ≈ 4 min
32. See Gn 11:10-27. ≈ 4 min
adolescence. And it can be suitably compared with the third day, in which the ≈ 4 min
bles youth; and in very truth, among all the ages ofman youth reigns as king, and ≈ 4 min
33. SeeGn 11:1-9. ≈ 4 min
34. See Mt 1:17. ≈ 4 min
the people was gently set down to have a holiday abroad." And this age reaches ≈ 4 min
Jesus Christ, and thus the fifth day is brought to an end; now begins the sixth in ≈ 4 min
abroad, so much the vogue nowadays, are presumably meant to be. ≈ 4 min
useful distinction between middle and old age. ≈ 4 min
beginning of this volume. ≈ 5 min
Adam, from the mud of the earth in Genesis 2:7; so one has sometimes to translate him, as here, ≈ 5 min
used by the 1talian editors refers to Hebrews 2:6, whose author Augustine would certainly not ≈ 5 min
40. SeeMt 1:17. ≈ 4 min
Augustine's Christian spirituality to accept, to trust, to believe the material world as telling us ≈ 5 min
Augustine's Christian spirituality to accept, to trust, to believe the material world as telling us ≈ 11 min
which the Lord God had made. And the serpent said to the woman: Why did God ≈ 4 min
understood the phrase: that God brought the animals to Adam, not so that he, God, might see ≈ 8 min
and Hagar and their children. Gal 4:21-31. ≈ 4 min
and Hagar and their children. Gal 4:21-31. ≈ 4 min
the new heaven and the new earth, 1,22,33—23.42. ≈ 5 min
beginning of this work. ≈ 5 min
Revisions, 3, placed at the beginning of this work. ≈ 4 min
9. See below. 22,34. ≈ 4 min
from—if, that is, it is now just talking about the formation of the body. That, you ≈ 4 min
10. He just says "of the old books.' ≈ 4 min
1 3. That is, 1 take it, first by his keeping the word ofGod, as uttered in the command not to eat of the ≈ 5 min
14. See Lk 23:43. ≈ 5 min
conversion, living and expressing himself in a plalonic frame of thought, in which the truly real ≈ 5 min
1 8. Which should be "stretching out to what lies ahead," that is, to God, "and forgetting what lies ≈ 5 min
is totally foreign to any human lips, because it is inexpressible, so that if you ≈ 4 min
mentioned in Sirach 24:27, where after naming the other three rivers of paradise, the author ≈ 4 min
Genesis, V111,7,13. and note 25 there. ≈ 4 min
22. SeeLk 10:30. ≈ 4 min
utter" (2 Cor 12:4). ≈ 4 min
plural, a most useful and necessary idiom in a case like this. ≈ 4 min
hidden sight of it is signified, in my opinion, by the slumber which God sent ≈ 4 min
25. See Gal 5:17. ≈ 4 min
word the loving affection with which we should love our own souls, and not be ≈ 4 min
those we are in charge of; and also 1 suggest changing the mood of the verb from the ≈ 4 min
those we are in charge of; and also 1 suggest changing the mood of the verb from the ≈ 4 min
29. 1n the altogether wider meaning of the term current in Christian writings of Augustine's time, ≈ 4 min
stick to his wife, and they shall be two in oneflesh (Gn 2:24), l can find no way of ≈ 4 min
31. See 9,12 above. ≈ 4 min
32. See Lk 22:3, Jn 13:2. ≈ 4 min
was goodfor the eyes to see and to gain knowledge (Gn 3:6). How could she see, ≈ 5 min
that the idea behind this odd illustration of the point? ≈ 4 min
themselves were not steady in keeping his commandment; and very properly at evening, that is, ≈ 4 min
the answers. ≈ 4 min
passed on him, because he is incapable of confessing to sin, and also has abso ≈ 4 min
and the woman. This is surely not because he doesn't tempt men and take them ≈ 4 min
occult, something he is more inclined to accuse the Neoplatonists of than the Manichees. But ≈ 4 min
occult, something he is more inclined to accuse the Neoplatonists of than the Manichees. But ≈ 4 min
39. Magnum sacramentum. ≈ 4 min
made of earth oppresses the mind as it thinks about many things" (Wis 9: 1 5). ≈ 4 min
41. See Mk 4:18-19. ≈ 4 min
42. That is, in figurative terms, feed upon the truth. ≈ 4 min
nature from the start, and with which God threatened Adam when he gave the ≈ 4 min
sententiam; sed agendum est ut saltern in hac tantum vita sentiatur. ≈ 4 min
44. See above. 19.29. ≈ 4 min
following way, mockery by which we in our turn are being advised as much as ≈ 4 min
know good and evil (Gn 3:22). This ambiguous expression involves a figure of ≈ 4 min
them now. ≈ 4 min
point in the Latin, tanquam unus ex nobis, as 1 hope will become clear shortly. 1 think the figure ≈ 4 min
ever, God sent him awayfrom paradise (Gn 3:22-23). Notice the nice choice of ≈ 5 min
employ "lest" in the ambiguous way he goes on to illustrate. 1n the text he proceeds to quote ≈ 5 min
48. See Lk 15:32, the conclusion of the parable of the prodigal son. ≈ 5 min
who is stretching out to the tree of life has to undergo in this life, while the ≈ 4 min
"which turns." ≈ 4 min
Ps 7 1 (72), and on Ps 98(99); also in his Questions on Exodus, 11, q. 1 05. 1t would seem to have ≈ 4 min
51. See 11,2.3 above. ≈ 4 min
52. See Col 1:18. ≈ 4 min
baptism, the two sacraments that as it were constitute the Church; but Augustine here seems to ≈ 4 min
54. See Jn 7:37-39; 4:14. ≈ 4 min
than the serpent saying: You will not die the death;for Godknew that on the day ≈ 5 min
whom Augustine would have learned, in all probability, from the handbook Heresies of the ≈ 5 min
Manichees and goes along with them, as he had done himself not so very long before. ≈ 5 min
Church, against which that snake charmer, the apostle, sings his spell when he ≈ 4 min
and xviii,27 and note 32 there, for the curious or inquisitive being signified by its eating earth. ≈ 8 min
knowing that you are going to be hanged in the morning." ≈ 8 min
Biblioteca Agostiniana 9/1; Rome, 1988) 185-193; M. Marin, "11 De Genesi ad litteram ≈ 3 min
Biblioteca Agostiniana 9/1; Rome, 1988) 185-193; M. Marin, "11 De Genesi ad litteram ≈ 3 min
succubuit. Zu Augustins friihen Versuchen einer Genesis-Exegese," in L'esegesi dei Padri ≈ 3 min
everything as in accordance with Catholic faith." ≈ 3 min
everything as in accordance with Catholic faith." ≈ 3 min
everything as in accordance with Catholic faith." ≈ 3 min
everything as in accordance with Catholic faith." ≈ 3 min
everything as in accordance with Catholic faith." ≈ 3 min
received from the plainer passages of scripture and from the authority of the Church" (trans. ≈ 4 min
14. 1bid., 3, 10. ≈ 4 min
14. 1bid., 3, 10. ≈ 4 min
14. 1bid., 3, 10. ≈ 4 min
9f.); Confessions X11, 1 8. 27; X11, 32, 43 (CCL 27, 229 and 240). See Th.Finan. "St Augustine ≈ 4 min
19. 1bid., 2, 5; The Advantage of Believing 3. 5 (CSEL 25/1. 7f.). On the subject see A. Penna, ≈ 4 min
19. 1bid., 2, 5; The Advantage of Believing 3. 5 (CSEL 25/1. 7f.). On the subject see A. Penna, ≈ 4 min
20. Revisions 1. 18, 1 (CCL 57, 54). ≈ 4 min
could be by human beings (ita narratum est, ut hominihus potuit)." See Marin, 1 35- 1 38. ≈ 4 min
could be by human beings (ita narratum est, ut hominihus potuit)." See Marin, 1 35- 1 38. ≈ 4 min
could be by human beings (ita narratum est, ut hominihus potuit)." See Marin, 1 35- 1 38. ≈ 4 min
could be by human beings (ita narratum est, ut hominihus potuit)." See Marin, 1 35- 1 38. ≈ 4 min
Augustine's Exegesis," Augustinian Studies 27 (1996) 7-25; F. Young, "The Rhetorical ≈ 4 min
Augustine's Exegesis," Augustinian Studies 27 (1996) 7-25; F. Young, "The Rhetorical ≈ 4 min
27. See Unfinished Literal Commentary on Genesis 9, 31; 10, 33; 13, 39 and 42; 15, 48. ≈ 4 min
28. See ibid., 3, 6; 4, 11-12; 6, 26; 7, 28; 1 6, 57. ≈ 4 min
48-49 and 51-53; 16,54. ≈ 4 min
34. 1bid., 1,1. ≈ 4 min
34. 1bid., 1,1. ≈ 4 min
34. 1bid., 1,1. ≈ 4 min
attempts at cracking open and exploring the divine writings (index . . . non inutilis ≈ 9 min
whole ofcreation through his only-begotten Son, that is, through his wisdom and ≈ 3 min
time—and which for most of his life he tended to equate too readily with Pauline and other ≈ 3 min
time—and which for most of his life he tended to equate too readily with Pauline and other ≈ 3 min
Dei natura, "not of God's nature/substance." ≈ 3 min
while evil things are not part of nature, but everything that is called evil is either ≈ 5 min
Christ, when God's inexpressible and unchangeable Wisdom herself deigned to ≈ 5 min
Creed in its African form, that is. the baptismal creed of the African Church, with occasional ≈ 5 min
in modern versions. But R.H. Lightfoot in his commentary, published posthumously (Oxford, ≈ 5 min
Or is it impossible for heaven and earth to have been the first thing to have been ≈ 5 min
be said in the following passage, And God said. Let lights be made in thefirma ≈ 5 min
the humanity of Christ, to the man Christ Jesus: thus giving a double justification to Jesus ≈ 5 min
the source of the Thames. ≈ 5 min
11. See 1 Cor 11:3. ≈ 5 min
12. The opinion of most of Augustine"s older contemporaries, such as Basil and Ambrose. ≈ 5 min
the whole of creation, so that both this visible firmament of ether13 is called ≈ 4 min
lower atmosphere, and treated by Aristotle and others as a "fifth element" (a quintessence), of ≈ 4 min
and put together that he called heaven and earth, or whether it was on the origi ≈ 4 min
14. A double translation of the single word speciosas. ≈ 4 min
15. The image seems to be that of something like a foundry for making instruments of bronze or ≈ 4 min
16. The Manichees; and earlier on in the second century Marcion and his followers. ≈ 4 min
abyss was underneath and the darkness above, as though places had already been ≈ 4 min
dity be supposed or understood that ether is more mobile even than air. But it ≈ 4 min
end that was suggested, what it was made for, that is; secondly its formlessness, ≈ 4 min
fire, air, earth and water—and the fifth "celestial" element of ether. ≈ 9 min
the spirit ofGod to be a created vitality by which this whole visible world and all ≈ 5 min
that by the word "spirit" the element air was designated, so that in this way the ≈ 5 min
way we often talk about "what nature intends," or "the purposes of nature." ≈ 5 min
Plato's Timaeus, 29c, in Cicero's translation. He quotes the passage in The Trinity, 1V, 24-25: ≈ 5 min
23. See 2 Cor 4:18. ≈ 5 min
out before these eyes of flesh, or some hidden kind which it is not given us to see ≈ 4 min
24. See Rom 8:6. ≈ 4 min
before the sky or the heavens existed, and the lamps in the sky, which are set out ≈ 4 min
understood as signifying, not joy at some unexpected good, but approval of the ≈ 4 min
can be gathered with what ease the divine work produced these effects. There is ≈ 4 min
God's uncreated wisdom, that is, with the Word. He must, 1 suppose, mean the angelic ≈ 4 min
their contrary lacks can be given the name of darkness. Thus there is the light ≈ 5 min
One supposes that he is pretending they do not exist, just to show his contempt for them. ≈ 5 min
ethereal variety, or the sensual in which animals share, or the rational which both ≈ 4 min
Maurists, and read, sed etiam intellegere per rationem et cogitationes nostras nosse ≈ 4 min
29. Which opinion? 1 think we have to refer back to the beginning of 5. 20. ≈ 4 min
3 1 . Here he adds a parenthesis, non enim aliterpoterat, "for it could not have been otherwise." the ≈ 5 min
could be construed both ways: Vocavit Dens lucem diem et lenebras vocavit noctem. ≈ 5 min
wishes it to be taken as this day that starts with sunrise and closes at sunset, and ≈ 4 min
34. A very free paraphrase of ipsa spatia horarum, literally, "these spaces of hours." ≈ 4 min
elaborate more fully in his final The Literal Meaning ofGenesis 11,8. 19 and 1V.22.39-23.40. 1t ≈ 5 min
rationem operationum of the CSEL text; "After all, it was not the very essence of the works..." ≈ 5 min
1n the text 1 have avoided rendering the Latinfirmamentum as "firmament," because the latter ≈ 4 min
one word, aqua, "water," and then punctuating with a full stop instead of a comma at the end of ≈ 4 min
let it be dividing between water and water. And thus it was made. After saying ≈ 4 min
the water which was below the solid structure and the water which was above ≈ 4 min
Phaenon we, and certainly the classical Latin authors before Augustine, call Saturn. Perhaps he ≈ 4 min
40. See above, footnote 34. ≈ 4 min
reflect on what was discussed above about naming things;42 it is not every solid ≈ 4 min
text's afferat, "bringing forward." We must remember that in the older orthography the letter ≈ 4 min
discussed here is precisely a difference between the order of things mentioned above and ≈ 4 min
discussed here is precisely a difference between the order of things mentioned above and ≈ 4 min
44. See above, 6, 26. ≈ 4 min
sea (Gn 1:10). This matter of names is still with us; not every piece of water is ≈ 4 min
more regular creation narrative than the Massoretic Hebrew text, which both the Latin Vulgate ≈ 4 min
earth with their roots and are continuous with it, and again are somehow separate ≈ 4 min
46. To distinguish them from the earth, presumably, in which they are rooted. ≈ 4 min
to shine. Question: whether this was only said about the fixed stars, or also about ≈ 4 min
where he discusses the morning and evening of the first day; or in 8, 43 below, where we come ≈ 4 min
Ptolemy, but deriving ultimately from Pythagoras and Aristotle, the planets, including sun and ≈ 4 min
die iinr caelum etfirmamentum, "as in this place when it talks of heaven and firmament," and in ≈ 4 min
50. Like mere astronomers? ≈ 4 min
shine upon the earth. It had already been said above, Let lamps be made in the ≈ 4 min
and the lesser lamp the beginning ofthe night™and the stars (Gn 1:16). What he ≈ 4 min
reluctant to call by its Latin name. See note 39 above. ≈ 4 min
(Gn 1:18). This is what he had already said, the beginning ofday and the begin ≈ 5 min
modern translations: "Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon on our feast day." ≈ 5 min
(Gn 1:19). If we think of these days which are marked by the rising and the ≈ 4 min
translated "constellations," but that would not do here. Substantively, it is tantalizing that ≈ 4 min
Greek Septuagint. But it is hard to make sense ofhis further questions here. Did he mean fins by ≈ 4 min
58. Another mystery of Augustinian natural history! ≈ 4 min
tures call everything the solid structure of heaven right down to these spaces, so ≈ 4 min
words Let the water be collected together that water was made from that mish ≈ 4 min
during the winter; and he himself must have seen, or at least been aware of, the Alps during the ≈ 4 min
were made. Those, you see, who inquire more minutely into these matters and ≈ 4 min
dictionary that 1 have at hand. 1t looks like an Augustinian invention (or perhaps an invention of ≈ 4 min
which the waters threw up according to their kind, and every wingedflying thing ≈ 4 min
order" much more regularly than the Hebrew Massoretic text and our modem versions which ≈ 4 min
order" much more regularly than the Hebrew Massoretic text and our modem versions which ≈ 4 min
the sea; and letflying things multiply upon the earth (Gn 1 :22). He wished the ≈ 4 min
weak and mortal"—nonsense! ≈ 4 min
1:23). Here, after he had said And thus it was made, he did not add his usual ≈ 4 min
of warming, but usually with a liquid object. ≈ 4 min
enough. His returning to it at this particular place, and at unnecessarily greater length is hard to ≈ 4 min
68. 1n verse 21. ≈ 4 min
quadrupeds and of serpents and of beasts of the earth according to kind and ≈ 3 min
here we must observe both a certain connection with and a distinction from the ≈ 3 min
made, and it was made, while here God said, Let us make, so that in this way too ≈ 5 min
Every image is like the thing it is the image of; and yet not everything that is like ≈ 5 min
the Son, the Word, who is much more commonly identified with the wisdom of God. ≈ 5 min
the Son, the Word, who is much more commonly identified with the wisdom of God. ≈ 5 min
already said to the image is that it was to show that what was called the image is ≈ 5 min
made, extends to the imposing of specific form on things, is indeed something ≈ 5 min
there is no other nature, you see, placed between them, seeing that the human ≈ 4 min
being the same, "like themselves," all through life. ≈ 4 min
What has been said above is certainly a sufficient explanation of these words of ≈ 5 min
next section. See the passage at the beginning of this volume quoted from Revisions 1,18, and ≈ 5 min
little section to this work of his comparative youth some thirty-six years previously. Having ≈ 5 min
was not repeated and it did not say, "and God made man to the image and like ≈ 3 min
imagine the Father saying to the Son "Let us make man to my image and likeness, which is ≈ 3 min
2. Revisions 11, 24, 2 (CCL 57, 109); see The Literal Meaning of Genesis 1, 1 , 2; V111, 2, 5. ≈ 3 min
3. See ibid., V1, 9, 15; V11, 9, 13. ≈ 3 min
4. See ibid., V11, 9, 13. ≈ 3 min
Sant'Agostino, La Genesi 1 (Nuova Biblioteca Agostiniana 9/1; Rome, 1988) LV111-LX. ≈ 4 min
7. 1bid., 1, 19,39. ≈ 7 min
14. 1bid., V111, 4, 8. ≈ 4 min
14. 1bid., V111, 4, 8. ≈ 4 min
17. See On Genesis: A Refutation ofthe Manichees 11, 6, 7; 11, 9, 12. ≈ 4 min
18. The Literal Meaning ofGenesis V111, 1, 2. ≈ 4 min
22. 1bid., 1, 1 7, 34: "According to their proper meaning of what actually happened, not according to ≈ 4 min
22. 1bid., 1, 1 7, 34: "According to their proper meaning of what actually happened, not according to ≈ 4 min
23. See ibid., 1, 2, 4; V111. 1,3. ≈ 4 min
24. On Genesis: A Refutation ofthe Manichees 1, 14, 20. ≈ 4 min
25. See The Literal Meaning of Genesis V, 16, 34. ≈ 4 min
26. See, for example, ibid.. V1, 12, 20. ≈ 4 min
27. See Teaching Christianity 1. 2, 2 (CCL 32, 7). ≈ 4 min
28. See The Literal Meaning ofGenesis 1V, 28, 45. ≈ 4 min
32. 1bid. 1, 21, 41. See Agaesse and Solignac.La Genese au sens litteral 1-V11, note ≈ 4 min
32. 1bid. 1, 21, 41. See Agaesse and Solignac.La Genese au sens litteral 1-V11, note ≈ 4 min
35. 1bid., 1, 19,38. ≈ 4 min
von De Genesi ad litteram X11," Recherches Augustiniennes 2 ( 1 962) 33-57. ≈ 4 min
Augustinus-Lexikon 1 (Basel, 1996) 76. ≈ 4 min
Augustinus-Lexikon 1 (Basel, 1996) 76. ≈ 4 min
University of America dissertation; Washington, DC, 1926); J. M. Brady, "St. Augustine's ≈ 4 min
41. See The Literal Meaning of Genesis V1, 11, 19. ≈ 4 min
42. See ibid., 1V, 33, 51; V1. 1 1, 18. ≈ 4 min
Fribourg, 1 99 1 ) 88: Agaesse and Solignac, La Genese au sens litie'ral 1-V11, 25-3 1 . ≈ 3 min
Fribourg, 1 99 1 ) 88: Agaesse and Solignac, La Genese au sens litie'ral 1-V11, 25-3 1 . ≈ 3 min
Fribourg, 1 99 1 ) 88: Agaesse and Solignac, La Genese au sens litie'ral 1-V11, 25-3 1 . ≈ 3 min
PA, 1980); A. Di Giovanni, Sant'Agostino, La Genesi 1 (Nuova Biblioteca Agostiniana 9/1; ≈ 3 min
PA, 1980); A. Di Giovanni, Sant'Agostino, La Genesi 1 (Nuova Biblioteca Agostiniana 9/1; ≈ 3 min
PA, 1980); A. Di Giovanni, Sant'Agostino, La Genesi 1 (Nuova Biblioteca Agostiniana 9/1; ≈ 3 min
49. The Literal Meaning ofGenesis 1, 20. 40. ≈ 2 min
2. Thus on the first three chapters of Genesis. ≈ 3 min
allegorical significance, by ln the beginning God made heaven and earth (Gn ≈ 3 min
testaments, but its all having both a figurative and a literal meaning. His giving priority to the ≈ 3 min
moment in which it was made, in all its perfection and everlasting blessedness, ≈ 4 min
2. The Aristotelian concept of "prime matter." ≈ 4 min
sound, as did the voice of God when he said, You are my Son, the beloved (Mk ≈ 4 min
the intelligible meaning of the audible utterance, Let light be made, and not the ≈ 4 min
3. SeeGn 11:1-9. ≈ 4 min
and not like this: ln the beginning God said, Let heaven and earth be made; and ≈ 4 min
4. See Jn 10:30. ≈ 4 min
the Father, and so being God from God. Light from Light, true God from true God. ≈ 9 min
time, for God to say in time Let light be made, it is rather difficult to work out. ≈ 4 min
heaven. For this idea of a "heaven of heaven" see note 19 below. ≈ 4 min
7. SeeGn 1:2. ≈ 4 min
8. SeeGn 1:5. ≈ 4 min
we are to understand that Let light be made was said, a movement produced by ≈ 4 min
single satisfactory translation can be provided. ≈ 4 min
without any spacing of syllables, as an idea of his eternal Word, why it should ≈ 4 min
this have taken, even if he had done it with the sound of a voice, syllable by ≈ 4 min
10. Rationes in the Latin. ≈ 4 min
surely it never set, did it, to be succeeded by night? While if it was corporeal, ≈ 5 min
all sides to cover it all, whether it was stationary or circling round, there would ≈ 4 min
editors, neither the Maurists nor their predecessors, nor the editors of the CSEL. ≈ 4 min
occupied the whole surface ofthe earth—those waters, that is to say, which were ≈ 4 min
10.214, which has compos salts. But it was a common kind of expression in classical poetic ≈ 4 min
10.214, which has compos salts. But it was a common kind of expression in classical poetic ≈ 4 min
he will have known ofcourse about Atlantic tides beyond the Pillars of Hercules—the straits of ≈ 4 min
as mist has appeared, is not absolutely shapeless and without form. ≈ 4 min
visible species and qualities ofthe waters and the lands ofthe earth; l mean, there ≈ 4 min
Why did God not "see that it was good" after creating formless matter, ≈ 4 min
out of something lacking form or shape) and at the same time Catholic faith ≈ 4 min
general sense of the passage. 1n neither edition is there any note in the apparatus, so 1 conclude ≈ 8 min
to be signified by the words. Now the earth was invisible and shapeless, and ≈ 4 min
that light as constituting day and night; but if so, we cannot see any reason why it ≈ 4 min
that it is achieved by the eyes emitting rays which touch the objects seen and then transmit the ≈ 4 min
light, so that evening might be made? From what sort of darkness, for that ≈ 4 min
what we have undertaken in this work. We undertook, you see, to talk here about ≈ 4 min
Vulgate: Caelum caeli Domino; see also Dt 10: 14. He has made the same allusion earlier on, in ≈ 4 min
Vulgate: Caelum caeli Domino; see also Dt 10: 14. He has made the same allusion earlier on, in ≈ 4 min
immediately after the light had been made, when he could have said this after all ≈ 5 min
expression like "the light of reason," as involving the figurative, or metaphorical (if not ≈ 5 min
our experience, which are patient of various explanations that do not contradict ≈ 4 min
of theology there, and died in 373. ≈ 4 min
These have a much wider range of meaning in Latin, to cover the whole notion of fostering or ≈ 4 min
24. See Lk 13:34; 1 Cor 14:20. ≈ 4 min
about the other elements of this world, about the movements and revolutions or ≈ 4 min
scripturae Dei det honorem. The CSEL text reads . . . non potest scripturam, Deo det ≈ 4 min
26. The sort of person he had been himself before his conversion. ≈ 4 min
heavenly bodies, how many there are—nothing so banal. He means the harmonies of their ≈ 4 min
justified in switching the preposition. ≈ 5 min
be above the heaven of the constellations, because their proper specific gravity ≈ 3 min
argument on the weights of the elements,2 maintaining that the sky cannot ≈ 4 min
mistake ofrelying on the evidence of a scriptural text against those who produce ≈ 4 min
2. The four elements of ancient chemistry: earth, water, air, and fire. ≈ 4 min
3. See Book 1,19,39. ≈ 4 min
little ones is not entirely characteristic of him. 1 think. But underlying it is his assumption, ≈ 8 min
prevent the waters from being able to lie above that lofty heaven in the form of ≈ 4 min
Aquinas Summa Theologiae, 1,68, 1 . Saint Thomas in this volume (questions 65 - 74 of the first ≈ 4 min
Greek natural philosophers, who put forward the earliest atomic theory, that the material world ≈ 4 min
next few paragraphs it is clear that he means the latter. ≈ 4 min
Where Augustine and the pagan opponents he has in mind took their astronomy from is really ≈ 5 min
("And it was so" in the usual translation) before the longer statement, "And God made" etc. ≈ 5 min
particular reason for him to bring in the reference to life here; it has nothing really to do with the ≈ 5 min
14. See Book 1, note 12. ≈ 9 min
senses of the body, as animals do; but even if they do make use of such senses, 17 ≈ 4 min
formed in that primal fashioning of light, what he was going to create from then ≈ 4 min
bodies of a sort, bodies even finer than air or fire; and if bodies, then bodily senses. ≈ 4 min
18. This is the translator's amplification of the text, to make the image more vivid. ≈ 4 min
rational creation formed by the eternal light, whenever we hear in the creation of ≈ 4 min
20. See note 3 above, and book 1,19,39. ≈ 4 min
shape of a sphere or globe, not contradicted by what is written in our literature: ≈ 5 min
will make no difficulty for those who say the sky is a globe; it is reasonable to ≈ 5 min
The Hebrew is less contrary to the "skin" of Ps 1 04, having "like a curtain," The word 1 have ≈ 5 min
The Hebrew is less contrary to the "skin" of Ps 1 04, having "like a curtain," The word 1 have ≈ 5 min
"dome" is rendered by "vault," and there is no reference to the text from 1saiah. ≈ 5 min
about his real intentions, and his thoroughly "anti-fundamentalist" understanding of the literal ≈ 9 min
26. Book 1,12,26 to 13,27. ≈ 8 min
been the formation of the spiritual creation, did it not rather then follow that the ≈ 4 min
creation here: His concern is only at the moment with the material "heaven and earth." ≈ 4 min
creation here: His concern is only at the moment with the material "heaven and earth." ≈ 4 min
reference, to a work of Claudianus Mamertus from the end of the fifth century, two generations ≈ 4 min
order, with the CSEL text. The consistent patristic tradition, set out clearly by Saint Thomas at ≈ 4 min
because "day" and "night" are only mentioned in the work of the first day, when God said. "Let ≈ 4 min
And what signs is he talking about, when he says of the heavenly bodies, Let ≈ 5 min
predictions of astrologers to have any validity. But the sequence of his thoughts in this whole ≈ 5 min
predictions of astrologers to have any validity. But the sequence of his thoughts in this whole ≈ 5 min
beginning of the sentence, "all days" instead of "the whole circuit." 1n rendering "from the east ≈ 5 min
which the Romans call thebissextus," literally "the twice sixth," the day they inserted after ≈ 5 min
the new moon, when the moon isfull, on ourfeast. This does at least suggest that at one time it ≈ 5 min
scale. At the highest the rationes of things are in the Word; at the middle level in the ≈ 5 min
lighthouse with a revolving shutter, one half of its globe being blacked out, the other ≈ 5 min
the moon was first made by God halfway through the month, not because we ≈ 4 min
and the stars which you established. The Hebrew text of the psalm seems to picture the heavens ≈ 4 min
to the Father who is in heaven. As for us, though, it is not our business to inquire ≈ 4 min
the word to signify the fulfillment, the verification of their predictions. ≈ 4 min
when these things have been conclusively demonstrated to them, that the ≈ 4 min
literally, "they can lose the stars if they pay attention to these things." But the verb considero ≈ 4 min
43. See Gn 25:25-27. ≈ 4 min
people, that it is said under some hidden prompting which human minds can ≈ 4 min
q.70. a.3, lists the various opinions, both of the philosophers and the Christian fathers. Some, ≈ 5 min
dicitur, quando dicimus orbem terrarum et orbem terrae; which, as this literal translation will ≈ 3 min
in its entirety by the name of "earth," it was right that animals should first be ≈ 5 min
being overwhelmed in theflood. But he is interpreting it in the light of the next verse which ≈ 5 min
roughly 1 8 inches. 1t ought to be the same measure as the archaic English ell, also related to the ≈ 5 min
with the Maurists and the text of William Walker's Corpus Poetarum Latinorum (London, ≈ 5 min
account any element ofthis world was overlooked, it being generally agreed that ≈ 4 min
have in mind here a place where he discusses the point more extensively. ≈ 4 min
established, in Book 11,3,6, that the upper sky or heaven, where the sun and moon and stars ≈ 4 min
single one of the elements is in all things." But particular things, like trees and stones and ≈ 5 min
humid exhalations! But it seems to go like this; the living body, consisting mainly of earth, is ≈ 5 min
"sea monsters," dracones in the Latin, to the end of verse 8 after "the spirit of the tempest" or ≈ 4 min
11. He is hinting that it does have invisible inhabitants, namely angels. ≈ 4 min
earth, both the billowing flood and the sighing breeze can also be perceived; that ≈ 4 min
are not called "live soul" but reptiles of live souls is that they lack any kind of ≈ 4 min
Augustine preached Sermon 30 1 A (Denis 17), and upbraided the citizens for still continuing to ≈ 4 min
Academia, or rather a much narrower one. Aristotle, the philosopher of the ancient world for ≈ 4 min
has "dragon" instead of the "Leviathan" we may be more familiar with, and in the ≈ 4 min
"humus" to mean something slightly different. The Latin is simply an archaic word meaning ≈ 4 min
17. He discusses this opinion at slightly greater length in Book X1. 16.22 below. ≈ 4 min
gressed, it is also hardly surprising if these were turned as a punishment into ≈ 5 min
angels elsewhere, without particular reference also to demons, does Augustine assume that ≈ 5 min
apart from some serpents, walk on four feet, unless for all that he had wanted ≈ 5 min
Authorized Version on, have it cursed "beyond all cattle." 1n this they follow not only the ≈ 5 min
would be born of them and in succeeding to them would preserve the shape and ≈ 4 min
likeness according to kind," since human reproduction is an obvious fact? Was it ≈ 4 min
of creatures were also introduced in the original establishment of things, whose ≈ 4 min
reproduce Augustine's jingle: in ipsius aposwli manu mortifera vipera inhaesitnec laesit. He, ≈ 4 min
reproduce Augustine's jingle: in ipsius aposwli manu mortifera vipera inhaesitnec laesit. He, ≈ 4 min
reproduce Augustine's jingle: in ipsius aposwli manu mortifera vipera inhaesitnec laesit. He, ≈ 4 min
Here, instead of"weights" as the last of the trio, Augustine has ordines. He discusses this text at ≈ 4 min
25. By, for example, being eaten by another! This is surely what he must mean in the context. ≈ 4 min
given, because after his sin the man was told about the earth: thorns and thistles ≈ 4 min
26. See Lk 12:7. ≈ 4 min
27. Fructus derived from fruor, 1 enjoy. ≈ 4 min
Augustine's way, as can be seen most clearly in The Trinity X11.6.8. There he formally explains ≈ 5 min
version Augustine was using had invented it, because they had just used the good Latin word ≈ 9 min
he had been leading up to this central idea of his, which governs his whole interpretation of the ≈ 4 min
intercourse would be unnecessary in a "non-lapsarian society" and that all births would be ≈ 5 min
series) and indeed practically constructs the rest of that book on the idea. Our passage here ≈ 5 min
defense of Augustine against his feminist critics, some ofwhom insist on maintaining that this ≈ 5 min
after that. There are two points being argued simultaneously here, in a typically complex and ≈ 5 min
36. See Genesis 5: and then for the process to be resumed after the flood, 10 and 1 1. ≈ 5 min
to sin, and not to remain in the perfection ofhis image, and so did not wish to call ≈ 6 min
hackneyed one) from the business of weaving cloth on a loom. ≈ 4 min
hackneyed one) from the business of weaving cloth on a loom. ≈ 4 min
counted together and added up. There are other numbers, you see, whose parts ≈ 5 min
things in measure andnumber and weight. Number meant so much more than mere arithmetic ≈ 5 min
which is one; eight has three, an eighth, a quarter and a half, that is one, two and ≈ 5 min
found which only have one such part, like the numbers three and five, and the ≈ 5 min
means by certis intervallorum rationibus pauciores; "fewer by definite reasons of intervals." ≈ 5 min
works, which he had made. That, you see, is what is written: AndGodfinishedon ≈ 5 min
mathematics to translate Augustine'spi/uj quam perfecti. Curiosity led me to look for a list of ≈ 5 min
have the same, and are followed by some modern commentators, for example Bruce Vawter, A ≈ 5 min
imagine them as dots arranged in geometrical patterns; we inherit this manner when we talk ≈ 10 min
that can be measured and see measure without measure, to soar beyond every ≈ 4 min
thought about in other things besides stones and planks and similar masses of ≈ 4 min
with reference to visible objects, you have a slave's knowledge ofthem.14 So you ≈ 5 min
co-ordinating the trio measure, number and weight, with another trio, whose translation is not ≈ 5 min
conventional one he also often makes between servile fear and filial fear, the latter being ≈ 5 min
higher things, the less you are caro with reference to lower things." ≈ 5 min
in which according to the evidence of scripture God has arranged all things, have ≈ 4 min
arranged all things in measure and number and weight, as though it meant that ≈ 4 min
own measures and numbers and weights, where did the one who was arranging ≈ 4 min
reference—as indeed 1 infer the Maurists did themselves, after finding it in earlier editions. ≈ 4 min
perishable bodies, and whose thoughts, thinking of many things, are pressed ≈ 4 min
ourselves, as we do bodies with our eyes, nor inside ourselves either as we do the ≈ 4 min
18. See Mt 5:18; Mk 13:31. ≈ 4 min
should be made, which then were made forthwith, was not hard, laborious toil ≈ 4 min
himself to the rational creation in which he also created the man, after perfecting ≈ 4 min
discussing matters of taste, we could translate, "to show taste like that is to be utterly tasteless"; ≈ 4 min
thing it is true, and for another it does not call for great perspicacity to see that ≈ 5 min
said : Do not grieve the Holy Spirit ofGod, in whom you were sealedon the day of ≈ 5 min
where he said: But now, having come to know God, or rather being known by ≈ 5 min
that difficult text of Mk 1 3:32, where Jesus says that not even the Son knows the hour and the ≈ 5 min
21. See Rom 5:5. ≈ 9 min
until now, points to the continuousness of his work, by which he holds together ≈ 4 min
parasceve. My guess is that it was the usual word in Christian circles for what we call Good ≈ 4 min
parasceve. My guess is that it was the usual word in Christian circles for what we call Good ≈ 4 min
24. See Wis 7:24. ≈ 4 min
25. See Ex 20:8. ≈ 4 min
celebrated by the saints in the heavenly Jerusalem, as in Peter Abelard's splendid hymn, O ≈ 4 min
28. See Lk: 11:38-42. ≈ 4 min
of his sermons, usually in the context of the ten commandments; the commandment about ≈ 5 min
of his sermons, usually in the context of the ten commandments; the commandment about ≈ 5 min
brought to our attention? lf you understand the perfection of the number six, ≈ 5 min
an exalted and arduous truth to reflect upon, as God resting from all his works ≈ 5 min
have divided into two sentences) is rather incoherently written. This illustrates very well what ≈ 5 min
have divided into two sentences) is rather incoherently written. This illustrates very well what ≈ 5 min
we took evening to represent the finishing post for the creature that had been ≈ 5 min
times such as now occur in the period of every day, I cannot see what should ≈ 5 min
restrained), sibimet succedentes currendo temporalia peragere spatia; "following one another ≈ 5 min
those six days, in no way at least can the opinion be upheld that on the morning ≈ 5 min
day represents is, in my judgment, the start of creation's sharing in the quiet rest ≈ 5 min
34. A comparison not actually found in the original Latin. ≈ 5 min
by Albert Blaise, Dictionnaire Latin-Franfais desAuteurs Chretiens (Strasbourg, 1954), are ≈ 4 min
cinema or television or computer. But all the same, the image is extremely apt for his thought, ≈ 5 min
37. See 1,4,9—5,11; 10,19-22; 14,28-30; 17,32-35. ≈ 5 min
38. The darkness that was over the abyss. Gn 1 :2. ≈ 9 min
Wisdom saying, The Lord created me in the beginning ofhis ways. This was a real crux for the ≈ 4 min
40. Rationes in the Latin. ≈ 4 min
slight expansion 1 give it, echoing a phrase from the well-known hymn to Our Lady, "Hail ≈ 8 min
4:11; 1 Ft 2:4-8. ≈ 4 min
44. SeeHeb 12:22. ≈ 8 min
one at a time, nonetheless the idea of a creature to be fashioned came first in the ≈ 4 min
moving, nor did the fashioning of the ages take the time that they themselves do ≈ 5 min
clearly has in mind Wisdom 1 1 :20: You have arranged all things in measure and number and ≈ 5 min
clearly has in mind Wisdom 1 1 :20: You have arranged all things in measure and number and ≈ 5 min
angels in the Word of God, because these cannot be said to have been made or created. Rather ≈ 4 min
vals of time, while one can indeed talk about "simultaneous" as well as about ≈ 5 min
touch" with the object like the antennae of certain insects, see Book 1, 1 6,3 1 , and note 20 on that ≈ 5 min
gigantic river encircling the earth. So Augustine's glance, sent on such a painstaking journey ≈ 5 min
said that it would happen in the blink ofan eye ( 1 Cor 1 5 :52) . Nothing more rapid, ≈ 4 min
not corrected; it is exceedingly dense and sometimes really defies grammatical analysis. So the ≈ 7 min
solid structure when he had created it, together with all the bodies in it; and the ≈ 5 min
inserted clause when the day was made, should extort the admission from ≈ 9 min
one day (Gn 1 :5); after which it goes on to count the second on which the solid ≈ 4 min
longer sentence, a longer question than we have in the Latin. The editors end the question at ≈ 4 min
things simul." ≈ 4 min
is that all things were made in the very Word of God before they sprang up on the ≈ 5 min
way they are all there already in their seeds, before they evolve somehow or ≈ 5 min
seminales, insitae rationes. ≈ 5 min
sprang up? As though it was one thing for them to be made together with heaven ≈ 5 min
6. The angelic intelligence. ≈ 5 min
made was formless and formable material, both spiritual and corporeal, from ≈ 4 min
evidently and naturally said to have been created or made or fashioned; and the ≈ 4 min
through this knowledge it presented itself somehow or other six times as six ≈ 5 min
potentialis meant "powerfully" and "powerful." Perhaps Augustine was the first writer to use ≈ 5 min
"heaven"). ≈ 5 min
beginning Godmade heaven and earth (Gn 1 : 1 ) as a kind of formability , if I may ≈ 4 min
12. A word undoubtedly of Augustine's own coining. ≈ 4 min
coming upfrom the earth, and was watering all theface ofthe earth (Gn 2:6)? ≈ 4 min
capable of watering the face of the whole earth. lf it existed at that time, after all, ≈ 5 min
gigantic spring, so that the things he had originally planted in it could from now ≈ 5 min
most likely that Augustine and his contemporaries also thought of it like that. 1t is in origin a ≈ 5 min
beginning to end, is derived from it so totally. ≈ 9 min
place somewhere or other, or was it called one spring as being a kind of single ≈ 5 min
happily, is. ≈ 5 min
geological instinct that mountains are of comparatively recent geophysical formation? Hardly, ≈ 5 min
without number. 1n verse 30 it has "frogs" in the plural; but Augustine's version may well have ≈ 4 min
God' s Wisdom knew all things before they were made? And how does this rhetorical question, ≈ 4 min
support to this judgment. The evangelist, you see, goes on to say: What was ≈ 5 min
have: What was made, in him was life, so that we should understand "was life" in ≈ 5 min
offacere, "to make," we may concede that it is absurd. But taking them in the weaker sense the ≈ 5 min
"numbered off is enumeravit, which usually means simply to count up, to tote up. But for ≈ 4 min
hundred means "to exist," on the hundredth occasion, exclusive apparently to Augustine, it ≈ 5 min
thought here, and anticipates what he is going to say about it below in 1 9,38, where the subject ≈ 4 min
kingdom of heaven, which was revealed at the appropriate time for our salva ≈ 4 min
words; it was the law, not the seed, that was mediated through angels, and not in the hand ofthe ≈ 4 min
definitely saying that the mystery hidden from the ages in God is only made known to the ≈ 4 min
definitely saying that the mystery hidden from the ages in God is only made known to the ≈ 4 min
is also apparent to them here when it is published and put into effect, is some ≈ 4 min
see 17, 35 above, and note 23. ≈ 4 min
28. See Book 1V.9,17 above, note 20. ≈ 4 min
29. Was this, perhaps, a naive Christian variation on the Stoic idea of a "world soul"? ≈ 4 min
30. With an intrusion from some other similar, half remembered text, like Jn 14:10.1 1. ≈ 9 min
31. See Lk 12:28.6. ≈ 4 min
32. See Wis 11:20. ≈ 4 min
order would constitute a tree, were all invisibly and simultaneously present in ≈ 4 min
it himself, to the original production of trees from the earth on the third day of creation; it is ≈ 4 min
it himself, to the original production of trees from the earth on the third day of creation; it is ≈ 4 min
the day was made God made heaven and earth and all the greenery ofthefield ≈ 4 min
sixth day. Perhaps, that is to say, the man may have been made on the sixth day ≈ 8 min
planted Paradise, and placed in it the man he had made and brought the animals ≈ 4 min
tiful look about it, he makes it perfectly clear that he was now casting up trees ≈ 5 min
on the third day, but that some kinds were put aside to be created on the sixth, ≈ 5 min
female some days later, since on the sixth day itself it says as clearly as anything, ≈ 5 min
3. SeeGn 1:27. ≈ 4 min
4. SeeGn 2:19-22. ≈ 4 min
5. SeeGn 1:20.24. ≈ 9 min
the baptism of Jesus ( Mk 1 : 1 1 ). at his transfiguration (Mk 9:7), and when he was answered by ≈ 4 min
the baptism of Jesus ( Mk 1 : 1 1 ). at his transfiguration (Mk 9:7), and when he was answered by ≈ 4 min
whose life on earth has lasted but a day, ispure ofsin (Job 14:5, LXX), and in that ≈ 4 min
9. See Rom 9:1 l;Gn 25:22-25. ≈ 4 min
the whole batch or lump1 1 of the human race contracted from the sin of our first ≈ 4 min
254), which was condemned as heretical long after his death. ≈ 4 min
the Maurists and earlier editors—rightly in my opinion. 1t is unlikely that Augustine would ≈ 5 min
started—he did not, you see, finish some works and start others, but finished and ≈ 5 min
potuit verbis, quae temporaliter cogitantur et voce proferuntur, "as could have been said ≈ 5 min
gave the order and they were made"; he made both the man and them, after all, ≈ 5 min
when he discusses the making of the man, here in this book. ≈ 5 min
when he discusses the making of the man, here in this book. ≈ 5 min
the roots of a vine, it is led up into the vine-stock as rich nourishment, and there ≈ 4 min
17. SeeGn 1:2. ≈ 4 min
18. See Jn 2:7-10. ≈ 4 min
19. See Ex 4:3; 7: 10. ≈ 9 min
arranged all things in measure, and number and weight." ≈ 5 min
things"—a general statement, rather than a particular one with reference to Adam, which 1 am ≈ 4 min
things"—a general statement, rather than a particular one with reference to Adam, which 1 am ≈ 4 min
literally "soulish," that which has. is quickened by, an anima; and to translate spiritale as ≈ 5 min
conventional patristic exegesis to see the first robe which the father ordered to be brought out ≈ 5 min
would normally be translated "animated" and "spiritual." But he is. in line with his quotation ≈ 5 min
life-giving spirit;" CSEL prints it, but in brackets, and indicates that it is absent from all the ≈ 5 min
Maurists, of CSEL, and presumably the other manuscripts. But here 1 think Augustine is ≈ 5 min
sin," but: the body is dead because ofsin (Rom 8:10). ≈ 5 min
reason and immortal for another; mortal, that is, because it was able to die, and ≈ 5 min
"righteousness"; the word "justice" is avoided because it is considered to have too limited a ≈ 5 min
thinkers of that time, the heavenly bodies also. ≈ 5 min
32. See Gn 3:22-24. ≈ 5 min
of God according to which he was made. This is not to be taken as meaning that nothing of it ≈ 5 min
of God according to which he was made. This is not to be taken as meaning that nothing of it ≈ 5 min
36. See note 34 above. ≈ 4 min
into hisface the puffoflife. Several codices, you see, have breathed or exhaled1 ≈ 3 min
souls from bodies. ≈ 4 min
souls from bodies. ≈ 4 min
that God by puffing made the soul in the man. But then it could possibly be ≈ 4 min
God created out of nothing the nature which is called soul and which did not ≈ 5 min
man's body was made from it, and thus contributing to the totality of the ≈ 4 min
would be made, or if there is any from which souls are still being made, what ≈ 4 min
which the rational, that is the human, soul is made, again the question has to be ≈ 5 min
which the rational, that is the human, soul is made, again the question has to be ≈ 5 min
clamant: "human affairs themselves scream." ≈ 4 min
insects. 1 was tempted to use the obsolete word "pismires," which means ants; clearly repulsive ≈ 4 min
insects. 1 was tempted to use the obsolete word "pismires," which means ants; clearly repulsive ≈ 4 min
phers, or any others hooked on this futile theory of the transmigration or succes ≈ 4 min
some kind ofbody that was both earthy and moist? ln no way; that rather is what ≈ 4 min
some kind ofbody that was both earthy and moist? ln no way; that rather is what ≈ 4 min
material being some kind of spiritual matter. The non-rational soul he hasjust also dismissed is ≈ 4 min
1 1 . Chapter 4, section 6. ≈ 4 min
about any bodily things that are not hidden from it. So much, however, is it ≈ 5 min
him—see Book 1, 1 6,3 1 , note 20. The sense of sight was clearly thought of as functioning by a ≈ 5 min
prickle, the kind which it was hard for Saul to kick against (Acts 26: 14); in this context more ≈ 5 min
talks of them conveying light round the body, elsewhere he will talk of them being filled with ≈ 5 min
have, as it were, three little bellies" (three ventricles). ≈ 4 min
have, as it were, three little bellies" (three ventricles). ≈ 13 min
to be ignorant of itself—even when it is seeking to know itself. When it is ≈ 5 min
quintessence was precisely the "fire" of which the celestial spheres and bodies are composed, a ≈ 5 min
of the soul—that is, of the mind. ≈ 5 min
every nature and substance that is to say, it is not indeed a manner of speech that ≈ 5 min
predecessor, Tertullian, who quite happily calls God a body. He does in fact use the word to ≈ 5 min
been set up; so how then could it be said, God made the man to the image ofGod ≈ 5 min
vacans. Augustine's whole drift is still clearly interrogative here, and he is still asking about ≈ 5 min
CSEL text omits causae; but 1 think this must be only a printer's error, as there is no reference to ≈ 4 min
perhaps a side swipe at various pagan myths about the origin of the soul. ≈ 9 min
been made, if one can rightly understand it to have been made in those first ≈ 4 min
not, were made, so too this among them." ≈ 4 min
from mud on the sixth day, but that this was mentioned later on by way of reca ≈ 4 min
27. He is here harking back to his extended commentary on Gn 1 :2 in Book 1. ≈ 4 min
none doubt the veracity but unbelievers or the ungodly, that we were led to the ≈ 5 min
explanation. ≈ 5 min
explanation. ≈ 5 min
God breathed into the man by blowing into his face, except that it comes from ≈ 2 min
30. That is, neither like the Son nor like the Holy Spirit. ≈ 2 min
language you find in the Song of Songs, but quite simply tells of things that ≈ 3 min
4. See Gn 4:1. ≈ 4 min
5. See Gn 5, passim: especially 5:24; and the story of Sarah, Gn 18:9-15 and 21:1-7. ≈ 4 min
6. On Genesis: A Refutation ofthe Manichees, 11. which he will shortly be quoting. ≈ 4 min
Africa from Milan, when he was settled on his own property in Thagaste with a few ≈ 4 min
for it in Lewis & Short'sLatin Dictionary, They refer to Teaching Christianity 11,13,20, ≈ 4 min
for it in Lewis & Short'sLatin Dictionary, They refer to Teaching Christianity 11,13,20, ≈ 4 min
every seed-bearingfodder seeding seed which is over all the earth, etc., are not ≈ 5 min
it is to be found in the Vienna Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, which also refers us to Sermon 239 ≈ 4 min
it is to be found in the Vienna Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, which also refers us to Sermon 239 ≈ 4 min
15. See Ex 12:3-11. ≈ 4 min
making of the human soul (using figurative language, ofcourse). The Alexandrian theologian, ≈ 4 min
making of the human soul (using figurative language, ofcourse). The Alexandrian theologian, ≈ 4 min
making of the human soul (using figurative language, ofcourse). The Alexandrian theologian, ≈ 4 min
making of the human soul (using figurative language, ofcourse). The Alexandrian theologian, ≈ 4 min
20. See Lk 16:19-26. ≈ 4 min
else does, that Wisdom is not a body, and therefore not a tree either. But you will ≈ 4 min
Questions on the Gospels 1I,38,5, when he is again discussing the story of the rich man and ≈ 4 min
22. See 1 Kgs 19:4-8, Elijah's flight from Jezebel, and his journey to Horeb. ≈ 4 min
have not found Ambrose saying anything quite like this in his little work on Paradise; so it ≈ 4 min
have not found Ambrose saying anything quite like this in his little work on Paradise; so it ≈ 4 min
25. See Virgil's Aeneid. V1H,332. ≈ 4 min
26. See Lk 10:30-35. ≈ 4 min
the sources ofsome ofthem are well known, those ofothers are utterly unknown, ≈ 4 min
is human reason more able after a fashion to converse with "The Nature of ≈ 4 min
Latin poet Lucretius, older contemporary ofCicero, and enthusiastic advocate ofthe Epicurean ≈ 4 min
governs the rest of that work. Chief among signs is language and words; but then some things ≈ 4 min
governs the rest of that work. Chief among signs is language and words; but then some things ≈ 8 min
it said above and there was no man to work the land (Gn 2:5)—it is the same ≈ 4 min
face? The man of course was put in Paradise to work this same paradise, as we ≈ 4 min
would not happen except to him having sinned"; in other words, the past participlepeccato is ≈ 4 min
33. See Gn 2:20; 1:29-30. ≈ 4 min
erly to be preferred, that God should work and guard the man himself. Just as a ≈ 5 min
guarded it well, may be seen as carrying a profound and important implication. What did ≈ 5 min
English versions start using the phrase from 2:4, following the Hebrew, in which it is in fact ≈ 5 min
operari eum. The pronoun is masculine, and so can agree in Latin either with Paradise or with ≈ 5 min
it neatly cultivated and fertile, and going away once he has finished his work, ≈ 4 min
into being good and "guard" them. We ought always to go on being made by ≈ 4 min
patient going away from him, rather than the one with the ploughman's work remaining after ≈ 4 min
how great an evil disobedience is in itself, than that the man became guilty of ≈ 5 min
his Lord and master, when he committed an act where the only reason to be ≈ 5 min
beings, who takes pleasure in the good without any experience of evil, so that ≈ 4 min
the tradition as being presented to us under the figure of the king of Babylon, and Ez 28:2. ≈ 4 min
the tradition as being presented to us under the figure of the king of Babylon, and Ez 28:2. ≈ 4 min
the oxymoron, even if it means changing the metaphor. ≈ 4 min
the oxymoron, even if it means changing the metaphor. ≈ 4 min
the oxymoron, even if it means changing the metaphor. ≈ 4 min
the oxymoron, even if it means changing the metaphor. ≈ 4 min
44. Latin, of course; the two-syllable word he mentions is nihil. ≈ 4 min
accordingly they shrank from losing it, and were able to understand God, by ≈ 4 min
45. See Gn 3:8. ≈ 4 min
46. See above, chapters 8 and 9, sections 15-18. ≈ 4 min
formlessness or shapelessness of the earth in Gn 1 :2. The terms he uses are that the basic ≈ 4 min
ment without starting it from that part's pivotaljoint which it does not move; and ≈ 4 min
movements, the mechanics of which he has been rather curiously setting forth. The phrase he ≈ 8 min
holy angels, insofar as in itself it is just and is wise, is only assisted inwardly and ≈ 4 min
Greek, "a word we now also make use of in Latin." As we make even more common use of it in ≈ 4 min
which God addresses the minds of the angels through his own substance, then ≈ 4 min
and who was and who is to come. ≈ 4 min
53. SeeGn 1:3. etc.: Ps 148:5. ≈ 4 min
he had in mind here. But 1 doubt if this is the case. While the Arians did indeed hold that the Son ≈ 5 min
55. Possibly he has The Trinity 11, in mind. ≈ 8 min
ioned from the earth all the beasts of the field, and from the waters all the flying ≈ 4 min
woman, who only comes in when Adam has named all the animals, and "no helper like him" ≈ 4 min
hair white as wool, at another with the lower part of his body like gilt brass,4 at ≈ 4 min
they are reported to have come together and brought forth, I still cannot see what ≈ 4 min
himself at the end of this chapter and section 4. ≈ 4 min
4. See Rv 1:14-15, which is quoting respectively Dn 7:9 and Ez 1 :27, somewhat modified. ≈ 4 min
paying attention to the usual way in which nature runs its course after sin and the ≈ 5 min
spur or sting that Paul was given, to stop him getting swollen-headed. ≈ 4 min
believe what they have usually seen" (above, 3,7). ≈ 4 min
13. "They" are the saints of the Old Testament of whose faith we are reminded in Heb 11. ≈ 4 min
14. See Gn 5:21-24. ≈ 12 min
countless millions that it would not be right for them to be coupled in marriage if ≈ 5 min
17. Corpus animale in the Latin. See note 6 above. ≈ 5 min
some measure, and if this is ruined to the extent that a lethal disease is already ≈ 5 min
incoherent, the question of how God makes souls (a question Augustine never succeeded in ≈ 4 min
nally, before the pride that constructed that tower after the flood divided human ≈ 4 min
20. See Gn 1 1 : 1 -8, the story of the tower of Babel. ≈ 4 min
riddles, but to emphasize the proper or historical sense as a trustworthy account ≈ 8 min
also the non-rational as in cattle and flying things and fish, is moved by the sight ≈ 4 min
animal's sensory equipment. ≈ 4 min
animal's sensory equipment. ≈ 4 min
26. 1 think he must have had in mind here a text like Rom 6:6. which in fact, however, talks of "the ≈ 4 min
nels when he irrigates;28 but it is not his work to ensure that water flows down ≈ 5 min
summer when it was most needed, was of course not a matter of hose-pipes and sprinklers, but ≈ 5 min
summer when it was most needed, was of course not a matter of hose-pipes and sprinklers, but ≈ 5 min
itself. But since God administers the whole ofhis creation, as we explained in the ≈ 4 min
30. Book V111,9,17-18; 21-26. 40-48. ≈ 4 min
of human beings and of trees is God, and we faithfully believe that the woman ≈ 5 min
printed at the beginning ofBook 1 in this work. He refers there to the first occasion on which he ≈ 5 min
laws of its own, according to which both the spirit oflife which is a creature34 has ≈ 4 min
and so condense, curdle, stiffen, congeal, etc.; 1 am simply quoting Lewis & Short! That ≈ 4 min
34. As distinct from the uncreated Spirit of life. ≈ 4 min
1saac; Nm 22:28, Balaam's donkey reproving him. ≈ 4 min
1saac; Nm 22:28, Balaam's donkey reproving him. ≈ 4 min
in the world, as are the causal formulae of all things that are going to take their ≈ 5 min
manifold wisdom ofGod might be made known to the princes and the powers in ≈ 5 min
God; but it will become clear at the end of this section that Augustine has in mind Eph 3:9: to ≈ 5 min
Christ with his Church: Christ weakened and "asleep" on the cross, and the Church, in the form ≈ 5 min
39. See note 32 above. ≈ 5 min
40. See Eph 5:32. ≈ 2 min
that the woman' s soul was made from the soul ofthe man, is that the text does not ≈ 8 min
2. See Book V11.6,9—9,13. ≈ 4 min
with the opinion according to which the man is taken both to have been made to ≈ 5 min
3. See in particular Book 1,19,38 and 11I,20,30-31. ≈ 5 min
4. The opinion espoused by Augustine himself, and defended in detail in Book V1. ≈ 5 min
declared the most likely, we need have no fear of seeming to take a line against ≈ 4 min
quite clearly in the previous sentence! ≈ 4 min
6. See Wis 1:7. ≈ 8 min
7. See below, 17,30,31. ≈ 5 min
9. 1 have transferred "as Job says" from just after "despise themselves," where it is fairly clearly ≈ 5 min
nothing that God made the soul which he gave to the first man, not out of some ≈ 5 min
author of sin, if he gives a soul to flesh in which it must necessarily sin, or ≈ 4 min
word, frustra. Without it, he would seem to be suggesting that it is contrary to the Church's ≈ 4 min
Church does. Augustine was certainly inclined to favor it; but in 14,24 below he will at least try ≈ 4 min
Church does. Augustine was certainly inclined to favor it; but in 14,24 below he will at least try ≈ 4 min
Christian piety in the African Church. ≈ 5 min
18. See Rom 8:10. ≈ 5 min
people are unwilling to hold responsible for their own personal sins until the age ≈ 5 min
no sin of its own deliberate choice may be justified through that one man's obedi ≈ 5 min
hardly ever, be rendered by is "soul," as if it were just a synonym for anima. The kind of ≈ 5 min
bodies of human beings one by one; but to this end, that in the sinfulflesh (Rom ≈ 5 min
derived from him, is the flaw or "vice of nature" which we are all born with, as we are born with ≈ 5 min
soul's total unconsciousness in infancy—and of course in the womb. Such lack of ≈ 5 min
wonderful Hebrew pair, hesed and emeth; essentially family virtues, the parents' love for their ≈ 5 min
the sacrament of the Mediator, because through it Christ imparts to the soul the grace of God, ≈ 5 min
now, what case in answer to this the others can make for their own point of view, ≈ 5 min
24. See Rom 9:11. ≈ 5 min
blocked? But perhaps those who insist on the lightness of this view25 can ≈ 4 min
derived through parents from the soul of the first man, Adam. ≈ 8 min
Augustine's time. ≈ 4 min
would much rather hear about it from those better qualified and more learned ≈ 4 min
eliminate that concupiscentia, that lust forbidden by the law which says "You shall not covet ≈ 4 min
eliminate that concupiscentia, that lust forbidden by the law which says "You shall not covet ≈ 4 min
the apostles vacated by Judas, Acts 1:21-26. ≈ 10 min
33. SeeMt 1:1; Gal 3:15. ≈ 4 min
the flesh, was still in his loins in the same way as Abraham had been in his ≈ 4 min
Abraham's loins. ≈ 4 min
is a soul seed by which parents reproduce souls as well as the body seed by which they generate ≈ 4 min
harmonia, applied to the construction of the human body. So 1 feel at liberty, indeed ≈ 4 min
harmonia, applied to the construction of the human body. So 1 feel at liberty, indeed ≈ 4 min
39. 1 think this is what it must mean; but it is a very odd phrase in the Latin: nee omnino credenda ≈ 4 min
40. See Mt 2:16-18. ≈ 4 min
42. For example in Book V11, 15,21—21,31 above, especially 27-31. See also77ie Trinity ≈ 4 min
ought to have heard and seen God—the kind the soul performs with in ≈ 5 min
Carthage, the son of a Roman centurion, about 155, died in Rome shortly after 220. ≈ 5 min
ought to have seen the Lord, he is no doubt thinking of texts like Mk 8:18: Having eyes, do you ≈ 5 min
ought to have seen the Lord, he is no doubt thinking of texts like Mk 8:18: Having eyes, do you ≈ 5 min
visions, and wish to prescribe to us from the scriptures that, not the soul, but God ≈ 5 min
about the Ethiopian all one sentence, and put the question mark here. That gives the sense: ". . . ≈ 5 min
visions are first and foremost Joseph in the first instance and Saint Peter in the second. ≈ 5 min
like that? But they are ideas to be feared, not to be laughed at. Would he ever ≈ 5 min
comparison with gold or silver he is using some technical goldsmith's language. 1n particular at ≈ 5 min
49. On the Soul 37. ≈ 5 min
50. At what comes next in Genesis, which is the story of the fall. ≈ 8 min
have before us, I consider it advisable to repeat the reminder which l remember ≈ 5 min
alliteration in the Latin: Quae illospoena peccatipostperpetrationem praevaricationis secuta ≈ 4 min
4. Book 1X.3.5— 11,19. ≈ 22 min
displayed both God's goodness and fairness? ≈ 4 min
what God actually did wish, that they should be what they wished; fruitlessly ≈ 4 min
8. See 8,10 above. ≈ 4 min
1 1 1 :2). He foresees those who are going to be good and creates them; he foresees ≈ 4 min
and why God allowed him to be tempted, after our long digression through the temptations that ≈ 4 min
10. See Gn 1:24-25. ≈ 4 min
11. See Mk 5:12-13. ≈ 4 min
12. He has the Manichees in mind. ≈ 4 min
the Latin: so from now on 1 will render it only by "jealousy," though this does not have quite ≈ 4 min
other private, one taking thought for the common good because of the compan ≈ 4 min
there, where 1 remark that any notion of the sacred rights of private property would have been ≈ 4 min
Proconsul Marcellinus, a year or so after the sack of Rome by the Visigoths under Alaric in ≈ 5 min
body, and was still to be admitted, if he lived obediently, to the company of the ≈ 4 min
19. Their pietas, that wonderful, untranslatable word! ≈ 4 min
1 7; also Book V1, 19,30, notes 23 and 25; and on a similar point of language, with reference to ≈ 5 min
one of supercelestials, among whom the one that became the devil by falling was ≈ 9 min
is 1s 1 1 :2, the list of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, in which wisdom is the first and piety the last. ≈ 5 min
is 1s 1 1 :2, the list of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, in which wisdom is the first and piety the last. ≈ 5 min
is 1s 1 1 :2, the list of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, in which wisdom is the first and piety the last. ≈ 5 min
devil. We have the benefit in English of definite and indefinite articles which were not at his ≈ 5 min
singular verb for neuter plural subject; so 1 follow suit, on the principle of translating scriptural ≈ 5 min
31.1 emend the text's principem spiritum nequitiae, "the prince spirit of wickedness," to . . . ≈ 5 min
Ps 80:1, 1s 37:16. As for God's seat or throne being interpreted as meaning multiplicata ≈ 5 min
Ps 80:1, 1s 37:16. As for God's seat or throne being interpreted as meaning multiplicata ≈ 5 min
Ps 80:1, 1s 37:16. As for God's seat or throne being interpreted as meaning multiplicata ≈ 5 min
meaning of whose names he happily expatiates in Sermons 280 to 282 (again Vol. 111/8). 1 feel ≈ 4 min
36. See 2 Pt 2:4. ≈ 4 min
a marginal comment of some reader or copyist which later crept into the text: "moving its ≈ 4 min
a marginal comment of some reader or copyist which later crept into the text: "moving its ≈ 4 min
39. See Jn 13:2. ≈ 4 min
should reckon that animals innocent of reason have a human understanding of ≈ 5 min
God knew that on the day you take a bite ofit your eyes will be opened, andyou ≈ 4 min
doctrine, but the transmigration of souls. ≈ 4 min
43. See Ex 7:10-1 1.22; 8:7.18-19. ≈ 4 min
44. See 18,24. note 19, above. ≈ 4 min
the mystical virtue Augustine thinks must lie hidden in the fruit of the tree of life. 1t is purely ≈ 4 min
46. See Prv 3:18. ≈ 4 min
1n the second ofthese, on our Lord seeing Nathanael under the fig tree (Jn 1 :48), Augustinejust ≈ 4 min
the middle ofthe wood which is in Paradise (Gn 3:8). When God turns his face ≈ 4 min
because l am naked, and l hid myself(Gn 3:10). It is probable enough that God ≈ 4 min
who was sent for by Ahab to prophesy before the battle of Ramoth-gilead, and said: Hear the ≈ 4 min
them to hear God's voice: but he is making the contrast with what he is just going on to call ≈ 4 min
50. SeeGn 18:1-15. ≈ 4 min
woman said: The serpent ledme astray, andl took a bite (Gn 3 : 1 3) . Nordoes this ≈ 4 min
51. Book X1, 1,2 above. ≈ 4 min
use of the word "members" to mean in fact the whole body. ≈ 4 min
use of the word "members" to mean in fact the whole body. ≈ 4 min
54. See 1 Tm 2:12. ≈ 4 min
edge ofgood and evil (Gn 3:22). Since it was God who said this, by whatever ≈ 5 min
and likeness. Gn 1 :26, to which he has just alluded a few sentences earlier. We have to ≈ 5 min
56. See Prv 3:18. ≈ 5 min
pleasure (Gn 3:24). This too was done in order to signify something, but still it ≈ 4 min
pre-empted their marriage and slept together before the one who had created ≈ 4 min
"sacrament"; but since by "sacrament" he meant any sacred sign, or sign of the sacred (like the ≈ 4 min
really to believe that he believed there is anything to be gained by worshiping ≈ 4 min
addita est, "the woman was joined on, was brought in." Treating adita est as a straightforward ≈ 4 min
59. See Gal 3:28; also 2 Cor 3: 18: Col 3: 10. ≈ 4 min
convinced that in no way at all could he have been led astray by that serpentine ≈ 3 min
60. See 1 Kgs 11:1-13. ≈ 3 min
61. See 2Cor 11:3. ≈ 3 min
62. See above, 30,39. ≈ 3 min
next, whether he meant us to understand Paradise as being there, or whether after ≈ 8 min
scarcely able to express what he perceived;3 he knew both that he was awake and ≈ 4 min
that dish let down from heaven appeared to Peter, or as everything that John ≈ 4 min
them more carefully, and make this our indisputable starting point, that the ≈ 4 min
4. See Acts 10:10-16; Rv 1:10-20; Ez 37:1-10; 1s 6:1-13. ≈ 4 min
the tabernacle, when Moses went in there to speak with the Lordface toface, as a man speaks to ≈ 5 min
similar to a bodily one, then it would have also been in an image of his own body ≈ 5 min
vision of the river issuing from the east gate of the temple in the new Jerusalem, Ez 47:1-14; ≈ 5 min
vision of the river issuing from the east gate of the temple in the new Jerusalem, Ez 47:1-14; ≈ 5 min
do not know, so that believers may not be misled? The same man, he says, was ≈ 5 min
pains to distinguish between what he knew and what he did not, could not ≈ 5 min
CSEL editors, however, without quoting their manuscript support (presumably one ≈ 5 min
called the inner senses, memory and imagination. No, not quite its least spiritual meaning; it is ≈ 5 min
quo absentia corpora corporalia cogitantur, "by which absent bodily bodies are thought ≈ 5 min
a more long-drawn-out and complicated treatment, for which there is really no ≈ 5 min
1 4. 1t is intriguing that Messrs Lewis & Short do list the word mentalis, as late Latin, giving as their ≈ 5 min
body, as it is going to be in the resurrection of the saints, is called spiritual by the ≈ 5 min
The way 1 have myself translated this text is: "When it is sown it embodies the soul, when it is ≈ 5 min
16. See Gn 41: 1-32. ≈ 4 min
a head of gold and feet of clay, and then interprets it. ≈ 4 min
18. See 6,15 above. ≈ 4 min
away through a sense of the body the image of the thing done in a bodily way was ≈ 5 min
strings21 being lowered from heaven, full of a variety of animals, when he also ≈ 5 min
2 1 . See Acts 1 0: 1 0- 1 1 . Since Peter was in Joppa (Jaffa) on the roof of a house overlooking the ≈ 5 min
2 1 . See Acts 1 0: 1 0- 1 1 . Since Peter was in Joppa (Jaffa) on the roof of a house overlooking the ≈ 9 min
the body, and the spiritual vision is engaged with the images of bodily realities, ≈ 4 min
one manuscript; the CSEL follows the others, and even earlier editors, in readings; ≈ 4 min
one manuscript; the CSEL follows the others, and even earlier editors, in readings; ≈ 4 min
demon sometimes say true things which are not apparent to the senses of ≈ 4 min
leads people to do them that are against good morals or the rule of faith; then it ≈ 4 min
both of bodily vision and of the images of bodily realities which are exhibited in ≈ 4 min
how many are the matters where it does the soul no harm to treat them as other ≈ 4 min
24. And hence there is no intellectual vision. Not, 1 think, a very convincing line of argument. ≈ 4 min
25. See Acts 12:6-9. ≈ 4 min
brought to light by whatever we have been seeing in dreams and other forms of "spiritual ≈ 4 min
non-construable). or the qua of the Maurists, which would yield the sense, "by which God ≈ 4 min
the image of a body comes after the body, still nevertheless, because that which ≈ 4 min
note 1 7, about the ventricles of the brain and the inner senses. ≈ 4 min
note 1 7, about the ventricles of the brain and the inner senses. ≈ 4 min
dwelling oppresses the mind thinking many things." ≈ 4 min
dwelling oppresses the mind thinking many things." ≈ 4 min
airy bodies. This and the other paranormal phenomena he is talking about here are also ≈ 4 min
airy bodies. This and the other paranormal phenomena he is talking about here are also ≈ 4 min
while confined to his house used to announce when a priest from twelve miles ≈ 5 min
telling that a certain woman would shortly die. But this certainly did not look like ≈ 5 min
suffer the most acute pain in the genitals, and the doctors were quite unable to ≈ 5 min
marvelous light, and the various and atrocious pains of the ungodly in outer ≈ 4 min
"skere" means, and I reply "steep or sheer,"34 and that does not satisfy him, but ≈ 4 min
an ordinary one necessarily took me away from words meaning the same as the Latin. 1t would ≈ 4 min
human person, the body is the person's dwelling, its senses the windows through which the ≈ 4 min
confused of course with the good and evil spirits he is shortly going to mention. ≈ 4 min
perception ofbodily realities is set up, when it occurs in the body. lf, you see, it is ≈ 5 min
manuscripts, and is almost certainly what Augustine actually dictated, or wrote, while no doubt ≈ 4 min
legs, pretended while in a staging post for travelers that they were astrologers, ≈ 4 min
there were many idols set up throughout some festival of the pagans; he was not ≈ 4 min
38. SeeJn 11:49-51. ≈ 4 min
there to begin with, or are they introduced already formed and then perceived by ≈ 4 min
agitated"—which would not, 1 think, be a more acceptable translation. ≈ 13 min
secretaries on this phenomenon. ≈ 5 min
of the Cambridge area, Mrs. Eleanor Witter, 1 was put in touch with the top authority on bees in ≈ 5 min
to find himself among these bodily likenesses which are seen in spirit, so too he ≈ 4 min
in fact knowable. ≈ 4 min
45. See Nm 12:8; compare also 1 Cor 13: 12. ≈ 4 min
46. See Ex 19:18:33:9. ≈ 4 min
"your prophet" translates two words which could indeed mean that in the right context, but in ≈ 4 min
"your prophet" translates two words which could indeed mean that in the right context, but in ≈ 4 min
of the future," that is. presumably, with reference to the future. But almost all figurative or ≈ 5 min
of the future," that is. presumably, with reference to the future. But almost all figurative or ≈ 5 min
Melchizedek being king of Salem. The first part of the name Jerusalem, however, has no ≈ 5 min
the heavenly Jerusalem realized on earth in the Church, and turning Eph 3: 10 on its head for the ≈ 5 min
correct form. ≈ 4 min
Greek eleos, from the Hebrew hesed, which like the Latin pietas is the essential family virtue, ≈ 4 min
editors to bring order and sense into a whole variety of defective manuscript readings. The ≈ 5 min
& Short and other dictionaries for this extremely rare word is "a hauling ashore of a ship." with ≈ 5 min
or "spiritual" exegesis, mainly by Alexandrian scholars; it was from them that Philo and later ≈ 5 min
regions," where all the dead go, and then later takes on the meaning of our English hell, as a ≈ 5 min
think 1 ought simply to have taught about hell that it is under the earth, rather than giving ≈ 5 min
netherworld given to the place where the souls of the just are at rest. We do ≈ 4 min
with sorrow to the netherworld (Gn 44:29); what he really seems to have been ≈ 4 min
grief, of being brought down to Sheol, the Hebrew equivalent of the Greek Hades and the Latin ≈ 4 min
61. See 2 Cor 2:7. ≈ 4 min
earth; the souls of the dead, after all, deserve hell by having sinned out of love of ≈ 5 min
63. 1t is just the Persian word for a park, after all. ≈ 5 min
64. See Sir 40:27. ≈ 5 min
65. See Rom 5:5; Ps 94:19. ≈ 5 min
66. A charming etymology for Hades: as if it came from a + hedys, "un-sweet." ≈ 5 min
sky and in general whatever is above the waters and the earth,67 while the second ≈ 4 min
67. SeeGn 1:6-8, ≈ 4 min
68. See Acts 10:10-12. ≈ 4 min
69. See Book X1, 18,24 above and note 19 there. ≈ 4 min
giving precise references. ≈ 143 min

Author	Augustine of Hippo
Language	English
Era	Modern
Categories	Bible Commentaries · Theology
Length	1019 chapters · ≈ 78 h 28 min read
Formats	Web Book · PDF

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