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Confessions

Augustine of Hippo · 1900

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Chapter XXXII.—First, the sense of the writer is to be discovered, then that is to be brought out which Divine Truth intended,	290

BOOK THIRTEENTH

OF THE GOODNESS OF GOD EXPLAINED IN THE CREATION OF THINGS,

AND OF THE TRINITY AS FOUND IN THE FIRST WORDS OF GENESIS.

THE STORY CONCERNING THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD (GEN. i.)

IS ALLEGORICALLY EXPLAINED, AND HE APPLIES IT TO THOSE

THINGS WHICH GOD WORKS FOR SANCTIFIED AND BLESSED MAN.

FINALLY, HE MAKES AN END OF THIS WORK, HAVING IMPLORED

ETERNAL REST FROM GOD.

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Chapter I.—He calls upon God, and proposes to himself to worship Him,	292
Chapter II.—All creatures subsist from the plenitude of divine goodness,	293
Chapter III.—Genesis i. 3—Of "light," he understands as it is seen in the spiritual creature,	294
Chapter IV.—All things have been created by the grace of God, and are not of Him as standing in need of created things,	294
Chapter V.—He recognizes the Trinity in the first two verses of Genesis,	295
Chapter VI.—Why the Holy Ghost should have been mentioned after the mention of heaven and earth,	296
Chapter VII.—That the Holy Spirit brings us to God,	296
Chapter VIII.—That nothing whatever, short of God, can yield to the rational creature a happy rest,	297
Chapter IX.—Why the Holy Spirit was only "borne over" the waters,	298
Chapter X.—That nothing arose save by the gift of God,	298
Chapter XI.—That the symbols of the Trinity in man, To Be, To Know, and To Will, are never thoroughly examined,	299
Chapter XII.—Allegorical explanation of Genesis, chap. i., concerning the origin of the Church and its worship,	300
Chapter XIII.—That the renewal of man is not completed in this world,	300
Chapter XIV.—That out of the children of the night and of the darkness, children of the light and of the day are made,	301
Chapter XV.—Allegorical explanation of the firmament and upper works, ver. 6,	302
Chapter XVI.—That no one but the Unchangeable Light knows himself,	304
Chapter XVII.—Allegorical explanation of the sea and the fruit-bearing earth, verses 9-11,	305

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