Contents – Book VIII Book VIII Chapter I He, now given to divine things, and yet entangled by the lusts of love, consults simplicanus in...
BOOK EIGHT Conversion to Christ. Augustine is deeply impressed by Simplicianus’ story of the conversion to Christ of the famous orator and philosopher, Marius Victorinus....
BOOK EIGHT CHAPTER II 3. I went, therefore, to Simplicianus, the spiritual father of Ambrose (then a bishop), whom Ambrose truly loved as a father....
BOOK EIGHT CHAPTER III 6. O good God, what happens in a man to make him rejoice more at the salvation of a soul that...
BOOK EIGHT CHAPTER IV 9. Go on, O Lord, and act: stir us up and call us back; inflame us and draw us to thee;...
BOOK EIGHT CHAPTER V 10. Now when this man of thine, Simplicianus, told me the story of Victorinus, I was eager to imitate him. Indeed,...
BOOK EIGHT CHAPTER VI 13. And now I will tell and confess unto thy name, O Lord, my helper and my redeemer, how thou didst...
BOOK EIGHT CHAPTER VII 16. Such was the story Ponticianus told. But while he was speaking, thou, O Lord, turned me toward myself, taking me...
BOOK EIGHT CHAPTER VIII 19. Then, as this vehement quarrel, which I waged with my soul in the chamber of my heart, was raging inside...
BOOK EIGHT CHAPTER IX 21. How can there be such a strange anomaly? And why is it? Let thy mercy shine on me, that I...
BOOK EIGHT CHAPTER X 22. Let them perish from thy presence, O God, as vain talkers, and deceivers of the soul perish, who, when they...
BOOK EIGHT CHAPTER XI 25. Thus I was sick and tormented, reproaching myself more bitterly than ever, rolling and writhing in my chain till it...
BOOK EIGHT CHAPTER XII 28. Now when deep reflection had drawn up out of the secret depths of my soul all my misery and had...
BOOK EIGHT Conversion to Christ. Augustine is deeply impressed by Simplicianus’ story of the conversion to Christ of the famous orator and philosopher, Marius Victorinus....
