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of the text's magna affectu, which would mean something like "great in feeling," which would

of the text's magna affectu, which would mean something like "great in feeling," which would

272 SAINT A UG USTINE - SERMONS obvious sense, the answer to the question. It could perhaps be regarded as a marginal gloss on the immediately preceding account of bread-making, which a copyist then inserted in the wrong place.

8. Where the bishop's throne was. 9. Reading magna effectu (which I have "double translated" as "meaning and effect"), instead of the text's magna affectu, which would mean something like "great in feeling," which would hardly be to the point.

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