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Augustinian, but somehow not the language; at least it is not the language of Augustine the preacher.

Augustinian, but somehow not the language; at least it is not the language of Augustine the preacher.

332 SAINT A UGUSTINE - SERMONS

I express a certain skepticism about the fragment's authenticity; at the very least about whether it comes from a sermon at all.

The number 229Q has been given to a sermon that has been lost; lost, I imagine, "within living memory," since otherwise how would it have been known about, in order to be given a number in this series, as an Easter octave sermon? The Revue Benedictine, 1969, may have an explanation of this little mystery.

2. See Gn 1:3-7.

3. Which means, of the Father and of the Son. 4. The authenticity of this fragment strikes me as rather dubious. The ideas are indeed Augustinian, but somehow not the language; at least it is not the language of Augustine the preacher.

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