Contents – Book V Book V Chapter I That It Becomes the Soul to Praise God, and to Confess Unto Him. Chapter II On the...
BOOK FIVE A year of decision. Faustus comes to Carthage and Augustine is disenchanted in his hope for solid demonstration of the truth of Manichean...
BOOK FIVE CHAPTER II 2. Let the restless and the unrighteous depart, and flee away from thee. Even so, thou seest them and thy eye...
BOOK FIVE CHAPTER III 3. Let me now lay bare in the sight of God the twenty-ninth year of my age. There had just come...
BOOK FIVE CHAPTER IV 7. Yet, O Lord God of Truth, is any man pleasing to thee because he knows these things? No, for surely...
BOOK FIVE CHAPTER V 8. And who ordered this Mani to write about these things, knowledge of which is not necessary to piety? For thou...
BOOK FIVE CHAPTER VI 10. For almost the whole of the nine years that I listened with unsettled mind to the Manichean teaching I had...
BOOK FIVE CHAPTER VII 12. For as soon as it became plain to me that Faustus was ignorant in those arts in which I had...
BOOK FIVE CHAPTER VIII 14. Thou didst so deal with me, therefore, that I was persuaded to go to Rome and teach there what I...
BOOK FIVE CHAPTER IX 16. And lo, I was received in Rome by the scourge of bodily sickness; and I was very near to falling...
BOOK FIVE CHAPTER X 18. Thou didst restore me then from that illness, and didst heal the son of thy handmaid in his body, that...
BOOK FIVE CHAPTER XI 21. Furthermore, the things they censured in thy Scriptures I thought impossible to be defended. And yet, occasionally, I desired to...
BOOK FIVE CHAPTER XII 22. I set about diligently to practice what I came to Rome to do–the teaching of rhetoric. The first task was...
BOOK FIVE CHAPTER XIII 23. When, therefore, the officials of Milan sent to Rome, to the prefect of the city, to ask that he provide...
BOOK FIVE CHAPTER XIV 24. For, although I took no trouble to learn what he said, but only to hear how he said it–for this...
BOOK FIVE A year of decision. Faustus comes to Carthage and Augustine is disenchanted in his hope for solid demonstration of the truth of Manichean...
