Love Song: Augustine's Confessions for Modern Man
Notes 131
book two • The Pears of Adolescence
1. Psalm 39:11.
2. 1 Corinthians 7:28; 7:1; 7:32-33; translator's rendition.
3. Matthew 19:12. 4. Psalm 116:16.
5. Jeremiah 50:8; 51:6.
6. The reference is to chastity such as Augustine later embraced.
7. Psalm 73:7.
8. Psalm 64:10, kjv.
9. Lucius Sergius Catilina (108-62 b.c.) was a Roman army officer who entered into conspiracy to assassinate the governing consuls and plunder Rome. He is described as being "of great physical strength, reckless, ambitious, unscrupulous, with a certain charm which blinded many to his true nature" (Oxford Classical Dic¬ tionary). The conspiracy was broken up by Cicero.
10. Cicero, In Catilinam, 1-4.
11. Psalm 116:12.
12. Romans 6:21.
13. Psalm 19:12, kjv.
14. Matthew 25:21.
book three • The Young Carthaginian
1. 2 Corinthians 2:16, kjv.
2. In context it would appear that Augustine is speaking meta¬ phorically in this passage.
3. Deuteronomy 32:17.
4. Romans 7:5.
5. Cicero's treatise Hortensius has been lost in antiquity, but it con¬ sisted of two books in praise of the study of philosophy. Fragments are quoted in Augustine's writings.