Love Song: Augustine's Confessions for Modern Man
Notes 135
13. The Platonic Academy of skeptics, established in Athens in the third century b.c., taught the necessity of suspended judgment in all questions of truth.
14. If Augustine had been a Christian, he probably would not have been awarded the post, as Symmachus, a distinguished orator him¬ self, was a leader of the pagan opposition to Christianity.
15. Psalm 4:7; 45:7; Ephesians 5:18.
16. Psalm 119:155.
book six • Locked in Immortal Combat
1. Job 35:11.
2. John 4:14, kjv.
3. 2 Timothy 2:15.
4. Genesis 1:2j, rsv.
5. The Roman emperor was Valentinian II, at that time fifteen or sixteen years old.
6. He is referring to the intellectual awakening he experienced on reading Cicero's essay Hortensius. See p. 38.
7. 1 Peter 5:7.
8. According to the best information available, in the Roman Em¬ pire the normal minimum legal age for marriage was twelve years.
9. Adeodatus ("gift of God"), the brilliant child of Augustine and his mistress of eleven years, was born in Africa in 372. He died about 390, a year before Augustine was ordained.
10. Alypius, Augustine's closest friend and onetime pupil, was also born in Thagaste. He followed Augustine into the Manichean religion, and later received baptism with him from Ambrose.
About a.d. 394 Alypius was named Bishop of Thagaste. Nebridius, also an African, was converted from Manicheism shortly after Augustine and Alypius.
11. Epicurus (3427-270 JB.c.) was a Greek philosopher who taught that pleasure is the only good in life and the goal of all morality.