The Confessions of St. Augustine
Bishop of Hippo
Book 11. Time and Eternity
Chapter
1. THE REASON FOR WRITING THIS BOOK
Chapter
2. HE BEGS OF GOD THAT THROUGH THE HOLY SCRIPTURES HE MAY BE LED
TO TRUTH.
Chapter
3. HE BEGINS FROM THE CREATION OF THE WORLD NOT UNDERSTANDING
THE HEBREW TEXT.
Chapter
4. HEAVEN AND EARTH CRY OUT THAT THEY HAVE BEEN CREATED BY GOD.
Chapter
5. GOD CREATED THE WORLD NOT FROM ANY CERTAIN MATTER, BUT IN HIS
OWN WORD.
Chapter
6. HE DID NOT, HOWEVER, CREATE IT BY A SOUNDING AND PASSING WORD.
Chapter
7. BY HIS CO- ETERNAL WORD HE SPEAKS, AND ALL THINGS ARE DONE.
Chapter
8. THAT WORD ITSELF IS THE BEGINNING OF ALL THINGS, IN THE WHICH
WE ARE INSTRUCTED AS TO EVANGELICAL TRUTH.
Chapter
9. WISDOM AND THE BEGINNING.
Chapter
10. THE RASHNESS OF THOSE WHO INQUIRE WHAT GOD DID BEFORE HE CREATED
HEAVEN AND EARTH.
Chapter
11. THEY WHO ASK THIS HAVE NOT AS YET KNOWN THE ETERNITY OF GOD,
WHICH IS EXEMPT FROM THE RELATION OF TIME.
Chapter
12. WHAT GOD DID BEFORE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD.
Chapter
13. BEFORE THE TIMES CREATED BY GOD, TIMES WERE NOT.
Chapter
14. NEITHER TIME PAST NOR FUTURE, BUT THE PRESENT ONLY, REALLY
IS.
Chapter
15. THERE IS ONLY A MOMENT OF PRESENT TIME.
Chapter
16. TIME CAN ONLY BE PERCEIVED OR MEASURED WHILE IT IS PASSING.
Chapter
17. NEVERTHELESS THERE IS TIME PAST AND FUTURE.
Chapter
18. PAST AND FUTURE TIMES CANNOT BE THOUGHT OF BUT AS PRESENT.
Chapter
19. WE ARE IGNORANT IN WHAT MANNER GOD TEACHES FUTURE THINGS.
Chapter
20. IN WHAT MANNER TIME MAY PROPERLY BE DESIGNATED.
Chapter
21. HOW TIME MAY BE MEASURED.
Chapter
22. HE PRAYS GOD THAT HE WOULD EXPLAIN THIS MOST ENTANGLED ENIGMA.
Chapter
23. THAT TIME iS A CERTAIN EXTENSION.
Chapter
24. THAT TIME IS NOT A MOTION OF A BODY WHICH WE MEASURE BY TIME.
Chapter
25. HE CALLS ON GOD TO ENLIGHTEN HIS MIND.
Chapter
26. WE MEASURE LONGER EVENTS BY SHORTER IN TIME.
Chapter
27. TIMES ARE MEASURED IN PROPORTION AS THEY PASS BY.
Chapter
28. TIME IN THE HUMAN MIND, WHICH EXPECTS, CONSIDERS, AND REMEMBERS.
Chapter
29. THAT HUMAN LIFE IS A DISTRACTION BUT THAT THROUGH THE MERCY
OF GOD HE WAS INTENT ON THE PRIZE OF HIS HEAVENLY CALLING.
Chapter
30. AGAIN HE REFUTES THE EMPTY QUESTION, "WHAT DID GOD BEFORE
THE CREATION OF THE WORLD?"
Chapter
31. HOW THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD DIFFERS FROM THAT OF MAN.
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