Confessions (1900) - Page 19

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CHAPTER III.—He retires to the villa of his friend Verecundus, who was not yet a Christian, and refers to his conversion and death, as well as that of Nebridius,	164
CHAPTER IV.—In the country he gives his attention to literature and explains the fourth Psalm in connection with the happy conversion of Alypius. He is troubled with toothache,	166
CHAPTER V.—At the recommendation of Ambrose, he reads the prophecies of Isaiah, but does not understand them,	170
CHAPTER VI.—He is baptized at Milan with Alypius and his son Adeodatus. The book De Magistro Latin: "On the Teacher",	171
CHAPTER VII.—Of the Church hymns instituted at Milan; of the Ambrosian persecution raised by Justina; and of the discovery of the bodies of two martyrs,	172
CHAPTER VIII.—Of the conversion of Evodius and the death of his mother when returning with him to Africa; he tenderly relates her upbringing,	173
CHAPTER IX.—He describes the praiseworthy habits of his mother; her kindness toward her husband and her sons,	175
CHAPTER X.—A conversation he had with his mother concerning the kingdom of heaven,	178
CHAPTER XI.—His mother, attacked by fever, dies at Ostia,	180
CHAPTER XII.—How he mourned his dead mother,	181
CHAPTER XIII.—He entreats God for her sins and admonishes his readers to remember her piously,	184

BOOK TENTH

HAVING 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 LIFE MAY BE FOUND, HE ENLARGES ON THE NATURE AND POWER OF MEMORY. THEN HE EXAMINES HIS OWN ACTS, THOUGHTS, AND AFFECTIONS, VIEWED UNDER THE THREEFOLD DIVISION OF TEMPTATION; AND COMMEMORATES THE LORD, THE ONE MEDIATOR OF GOD AND MEN.


CHAPTER I.—In God alone is the hope and joy of man,	187
CHAPTER II.—That all things are manifest to God. That confession unto Him is not made by the words of the flesh, but of the soul and the cry of reflection,	187
CHAPTER III.—He who confesses rightly unto God best knows himself,	188
CHAPTER IV.—That in his Confessions he may do good, he considers others,	189