qualifies the statement; even if they do, they belong symbolically to the night.
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NOTES
1. Preached either during Easter day, or at the vigil of Easter night; the day is perhaps the more likely time, in view of the theme, This is the day which the Lord has made. It gives us an Augustine less than usually coherent, an indication, perhaps, of sheer exhaustion.
2. As the litttle poem has it; God sends his rain upon the just, And also on the unjust feller; But more upon the just, because The unjust has the just's umbrella. 3. A very peculiar quotation to make his point. The reference is, presumably, to the sort of day Jeremiah didn't mention; the opposite of the one he did. This is the first incoherence.
4. He is addressing himself primarily to the newly baptized infantes. 5. The second incoherence: the two texts are quite unconnected. 6. Really? What a comparatively virtuous society it must have been! But I think he immediately qualifies the statement; even if they do, they belong symbolically to the night.
7. The third, complex incoherence. He quotes the day of judgment coming like a thief in the night, to support his statement that to people who are night, in contrast to those who are the day which the Lord has made, night will be like a thief.
8. What is said in this text is just an echo of a common New Testament image, with its source in a saying of our Lord's, Mt 24:42-44. That is why it is called a "testimony" which we are here reminded of. A testimony in this context seems to be what one might almost call an axiom.
9. The verse This is the day which the Lord has made is the theme song of the Easter liturgy, throughout Easter week.
10. The day, we must remember, being here the new Christian who has gone and got drunk. 11. No; but preoccupation with health produces one of the most virulent species of bore.