The Confessions of St. Augustine
Bishop of Hippo
Book 3. Three Years at Carthage
Chapter
1. DELUDED BY AN INSANE LOVE, HE, THOUGH FOUL AND DISHONOURABLE,
DESIRES TO BE THOUGHT ELEGANT AND URBANE.
Chapter
2. IN PUBLIC SPECTACLES HE IS MOVED BY AN EMPTY COMPASSION. HE
IS ATTACKED BY A TROUBLESOME SPIRITUAL DISEASE.
Chapter
3. NOT EVEN WHEN AT CHURCH DOES HE SUPPRESS HIS DESIRES. IN THE
SCHOOL OF RHETORIC HE ABHORS THE ACTS OF THE SUBVERTERS.
Chapter
4. IN THE NINETEENTH YEAR OF HIS AGE (HIS FATHER HAVING DIED TWO
YEARS BEFORE) HE IS LED BY THE "HORTENSIUS" OF CICERO TO "PHILOSOPHY,"
TO GOD, AND A BETTER MODE OF THINKING.
Chapter
5. HE REJECTS THE SACRED SCRIPTURES AS TOO SIMPLE, AND AS NOT TO
BE COMPARED WITH THE DIGNITY OF TULLY.
Chapter
6. DECEIVED BY HIS OWN FAULT, HE FALLS INTO THE ERRORS OF THE MANICHAEANS,
WHO GLORIED IN THE TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD AND IN A THOROUGH EXAMINATION
OF THINGS.
Chapter
7. HE ATTACKS THE DOCTRINE OF THE MANICHAEANS CONCERNING EVIL,
GOD, AND THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE PATRIARCHS.
Chapter
8. HE ARGUES AGAINST THE SAME AS TO THE REASON OF OFFENCES.
Chapter
9. THAT THE JUDGMENT OF GOD AND MEN AS TO HUMAN ACTS OF VIOLENCE,
IS DIFFERENT.
Chapter
10. HE REPROVES THE TRIFLINGS OF THE MANICHAEANS AS TO THE FRUITS
OF THE EARTH.
Chapter
11. HE REFERS TO THE TEARS, AND THE MEMORABLE DREAM CONCERNING
HER SON, GRANTED BY GOD TO HIS MOTHER.
Chapter
12. THE EXCELLENT ANSWER OF THE BISHOP WHEN REFERRED TO BY HIS
MOTHER AS TO THE CONVERSION OF HER SON.
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