Confessions

Saint Augustine of Hippo · the golden age of the Fathers · 13 parts

Parts

• Confessions — Book 1 (St. Augustine) · 49 paragraphsCommencing with the invocation of God, Augustin relates in detail the beginning of his life, his infancy and boyhood, up to his fifteenth year; at…
• Confessions — Book 2 (St. Augustine) · 26 paragraphsBook II. ———————————— He advances to puberty, and indeed to the early part of the sixteenth year of his age, in which, having abandoned his studies,…
• Confessions — Book 3 (St. Augustine) · 36 paragraphsBook III. ———————————— Of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth years of his age, passed at Carthage, when, having completed his course of…
• Confessions — Book 4 (St. Augustine) · 44 paragraphsBook IV. ———————————— Then follows a period of nine years from the nineteenth year of his age, during which having lost a friend, he followed the…
• Confessions — Book 5 (St. Augustine) · 41 paragraphsHe describes the twenty-ninth year of his age, in which, having discovered the fallacies of the Manichæans, he professed rhetoric at Rome and Milan.…
• Confessions — Book 6 (St. Augustine) · 49 paragraphsBook VI. ———————————— Attaining his thirtieth year, he, under the admonition of the discourses of Ambrose, discovered more and more the truth of the…
• Confessions — Book 7 (St. Augustine) · 50 paragraphsBook VII. ———————————— He recalls the beginning of his youth, i.e. the thirty-first year of his age, in which very grave errors as to the nature of…
• Confessions — Book 8 (St. Augustine) · 48 paragraphsBook VIII. ———————————— He finally describes the thirty-second year of his age, the most memorable of his whole life, in which, being instructed by…
• Confessions — Book 9 (St. Augustine) · 52 paragraphsBook IX. ———————————— He speaks of his design of forsaking the profession of rhetoric; of the death of his friends, Nebridius and Verecundus; of…
• Confessions — Book 10 (St. Augustine) · 111 paragraphsHaving manifested what he was and what he is, he shows the great fruit of his confession; and being about to examine by what method God and the happy…
• Confessions — Book 11 (St. Augustine) · 63 paragraphsBook XI. ———————————— The design of his confessions being declared, he seeks from God the knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, and begins to expound the…
• Confessions — Book 12 (St. Augustine) · 65 paragraphsBook XII. ———————————— He continues his explanation of the first Chapter of Genesis according to the Septuagint, and by its assistance he argues,…
• Confessions — Book 13 (St. Augustine) · 81 paragraphsBook XIII. ———————————— Of the goodness of God explained in the creation of things, and of the Trinity as found in the first words of Genesis. The…