Teaching Christianity
Augustine of Hippo
Theology
Teaching Christianity (De doctrina Christiana) — Augustine of Hippo.
Chapters 103
- Edmund. II. Rotelle, John E. III. Augustinian ≈ 55 min
- chez Jean Chrysostome et Augustin," in Jean Chrysostome et ≈ 7 min
- [117]. Mt 28:19. ≈ 76 min
- the development of Augustine's thought are M. Wundt, "Ein ≈ 175 min
- which I consider can be not inappropriately passed on to ≈ 3 min
- work, when they fail to understand the rules I will be laying ≈ 3 min
- those who do not understand what I write is this: I am not the ≈ 3 min
- received a divine gift, and are proud of understanding and ≈ 3 min
- to quarrel about it. After all, I am clearly dealing with ≈ 3 min
- temptations to pride, and let us rather reflect on how the ≈ 3 min
- eunuch, who was reading the prophet Isaiah without ≈ 3 min
- whatever is obscure in the scriptures by a gift from God, ≈ 3 min
- listeners obviously knows what he is pronouncing, while the ≈ 26 min
- said to have come to us, but by appearing to mortals in ≈ 14 min
- ourselves, if you consider the matter straightforwardly, ≈ 6 min
- it can lord it over its fellows, that is over other human beings. ≈ 3 min
- are waging war against their bodies as if they were their ≈ 18 min
- he says, For, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not ≈ 3 min
- neighbor, either to whom the duty of compassion is to be ≈ 6 min
- 37. But when you enjoy a human being in God, you are ≈ 9 min
- mean something which the writer did not mean are mistaken, ≈ 23 min
- conventional. Natural ones are those which have the effect of ≈ 11 min
- no such comparison were forthcoming from the divine ≈ 3 min
- the third stage of knowledge, which I have undertaken to ≈ 3 min
- on this light as it sheds its rays from afar, and on perceiving ≈ 3 min
- saying is to be the subject of our consideration,[19] consists of ≈ 14 min
- original language, when they are insufficiently familiar with ≈ 5 min
- by such instances the less sense they have; and they show ≈ 11 min
- figurative expressions obscure, when we are ignorant of the ≈ 3 min
- not understanding many things which are put down ≈ 6 min
- and veils understanding of not a few mysteries; thus one ≈ 8 min
- observances of the stupidest kind, if a limb twitches or jerks, ≈ 8 min
- tiny moment of time which separates the birth of twins ≈ 3 min
- trifling or harmful nature, which have been instituted through ≈ 8 min
- representative works of this sort,[88] especially those by ≈ 5 min
- aside the Greek writers, there can be no denying what a big ≈ 3 min
- about human institutions of the past, history itself must not ≈ 3 min
- matter for narrative but for description, and scripture has ≈ 6 min
- conclusions, which follow from the error of the person one is ≈ 17 min
- things just so that he can give himself airs among the ≈ 3 min
- and Syrian[121] and Egyptian words and names, and those of ≈ 6 min
- believers done? Can we not see how much gold and silver ≈ 23 min
- in 396, about the time he was writing this work, he treats the number ≈ 27 min
- that heretical phrasing: In principio erat Verbum et Verbum ≈ 3 min
- neither possibility is against the faith, and therefore the ≈ 3 min
- by the standard of faith nor by the actual context of the ≈ 5 min
- syllables, and this of course is also a matter of pronunciation. ≈ 16 min
- not according to the gravity of the evil desire involved, but ≈ 3 min
- spirit to find joy in God for his own sake, and in oneself and ≈ 6 min
- places and times and persons, in order not to judge behavior ≈ 3 min
- the heavenly kingdom to themselves, and foretold it.[32] ≈ 11 min
- could be chaste in his association with many wives, another ≈ 3 min
- should not even be honored and praised, since they ≈ 3 min
- neither puffed up when they were looked up to by people, ≈ 3 min
- restrain themselves from giving way to an unforgivable ≈ 3 min
- anything else with what moderation and self-restraint those ≈ 9 min
- seen to be like other things, we should not think it is de ≈ 3 min
- takes two forms: thus things can signify this as well as that in ≈ 3 min
- considered not in their general use, but in any particular ≈ 3 min
- learn how they are to be understood in obscurer places. After ≈ 6 min
- tropes in this way; after all, common speech gets as far as ≈ 6 min
- rules, he attributed such effective force to them, that if only ≈ 15 min
- Things are often said, after all, which obviously apply to it, ≈ 3 min
- Israel of the flesh, which is one nation, by newness of grace, ≈ 6 min
- divine scripture gives pride of place to, like seven or ten or ≈ 6 min
- of the sons of Noah were being listed, These are the sons of ≈ 3 min
- recapitulation, as where in the gospel the Lord says, On the ≈ 3 min
- called "about the promises and the law," result in one thing ≈ 20 min
- [64]. What he says literally is "… that none of these seven is to be ≈ 6 min
- dashing the expectations of any readers, who may think ≈ 8 min
- speech and pronunciation of speakers; why cannot people ≈ 6 min
- wisely even what he cannot say eloquently, it is supremely ≈ 6 min
- style of our authors because it is more inflated, not because it ≈ 3 min
- confuted certain people, who were pseudo-apostles from the ≈ 6 min
- acknowledge that these phrases which the Greeks call ≈ 3 min
- passage, or to demonstrate these things from other places in ≈ 3 min
- Paul as being our only eloquent writer. Where he says, after ≈ 3 min
- prophet, was attacking the godless, the proud, the lovers of ≈ 3 min
- piece of eloquence? First of all, with what a roar is that ≈ 3 min
- be experienced under an iniquitous king is drawing near, ≈ 3 min
- ears.[23] Now music can be wisely engaged in by the wise; so ≈ 3 min
- felt nothing for the grinding down of Joseph; it can be said in ≈ 3 min
- rules of eloquence, which can be discovered in this very ≈ 8 min
- with one or several persons, but also and above all in ≈ 9 min
- taught before being moved. And perhaps when they are ≈ 6 min
- said to the Lord, In a grave people I will praise you (Ps ≈ 18 min
- secular judgments and lawsuits (what kind, to be sure, if not ≈ 3 min
- should conduct their secular business, whether on their own ≈ 11 min
- Do not rebuke an older man, but entreat him as a father, ≈ 3 min
- of a speech, which consists of rhythmic concluding phrases, ≈ 3 min
- removed as can be from this moderate kind, being not so ≈ 3 min
- concerned that the persecutions of this world should be ≈ 3 min
- of it is written in the calm style of speaking, except for its ≈ 9 min
- matter of the Holy Spirit, to demonstrate his equality with ≈ 3 min
- 47. In the moderate style there is that praise of virginity ≈ 3 min
- speaking, when he is proposing to professed virgins a kind of ≈ 3 min
- speaking from the works of both of them. Both, that is to say, ≈ 3 min
- Hence arise those incentives to vice, that they paint their faces ≈ 12 min
- calm and plain kind of speaking—but so as to know what ≈ 8 min
- eloquent churchman neither leaves it entirely unadorned, nor ≈ 3 min
- audience with the grand manner (which is necessary when ≈ 3 min
- do not do, but they would benefit far, far more by doing what ≈ 6 min
- and enunciate well, but cannot think up and compose ≈ 25 min
| Author | Augustine of Hippo |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Era | Modern |
| Categories | Theology · Bible Study |
| Length | 103 chapters · ≈ 16 h 16 min read |
| Formats | Web Book · PDF |