Love Song: Augustine's Confessions for Modern Man (continued)
6. Job 12:13, kjv.
7. Colossians 2:8-9, rsv.
8. 1 John 2:4.
9. The sun and moon played important roles in the Manichean sys¬ tem, being considered in a certain sense divine.
10. Luke 15:16.
11. Cf. Genesis 3:8; 18:33.
12. Augustine's reference tells us something about the customs of a
Roman household. Servants were assigned particular duties and were forbidden others.
13. For offenses against nature, Augustine uses the term flagitia; for crimes against society, facinora. He continues to contrast the two types of behavior in Section 9 and in Book 4, Section 15.
14. 1 John 2:16.
15. Acts 26:14.
16. Psalm 78:38.
17. Psalm 102:20.
18. Cf. Genesis 22:1-2.
19. Cf. Psalm 144:7.
20. Psalm 86:13.
21. The measuring rule was the "rule of faith," that is, the gospel of
Jesus Christ.
22. Cf. Psalm 10:17.
23. Psalm 69:2.
24. Psalm 88:2.
25. The bishop's name remains unknown.
book four • The Rhetor as Dilettante
1. 2 Timothy 3:13, kjv.
2. The liberal arts taught by Augustine included rhetoric, grammar, literature, philosophy, mathematics, and music.
3. Psalm 106:47.