Love Song: Augustine's Confessions for Modern Man (continued)
13° LOVE SONG
17. Psalm 102:27.
18. Ibid.
19. However, Scripture does not say (nor does Augustine) that infants are accountable for their sins. Cf. Mark 10:14.
20. Psalm 92:1.
21. Psalm 51:5.
22. The whipping might have been a cane applied to the hands or a rod to the body (Gibb, op. cit., p. 14). 23. Psalm 94:22.
24. Augustine speaks of the church as the spiritual home of all be¬ lievers in Christ.
25. Infant baptism was not established in general use among the churches until the fifth century. Many followers of Christ in Augustine's day (like Emperor Constantine and Augustine's own father, Patricius) deferred baptism until the hour of death, think¬ ing of it as a sacrament not of initiation but of fulfillment. Salt, on the other hand, was placed on the tongue of a catechumen in North Africa at stated times (cf. Gibb, op. cit., pp. 17-18). 26. Psalm 78:39, kjv.
27. Citations from Vergil's Aeneid on this and succeeding pages are taken from Book 1, 38; Book 2, 772; Book 6, 457. 28. Psalm 73:27.
29. Cf. Psalm 40:15.
30. James 4:4.
31. Psalm 86:15.
32. Cf. Psalm 27:8.
33. Luke 15:11-24.
34. The grammatical slip will be recognized more quickly in Britain than in America. Apparently an unlettered North African treated the Latin aspirant (as in homo) much as the British Cockney treats it in his own tongue. Augustine's point is well taken.
35. Psalm 123:1, kjv.
36. Matthew 18:3.