Contents – Book III Book III Chapter I Deluded by an Insane Love, He, Though Foul and Dishonourable, Desires to be Thought Elegant and Urbane....
BOOK THREE The story of his student days in Carthage, his discovery of Cicero’s Hortensius, the enkindling of his philosophical interest, his infatuation with the Manichean...
BOOK THREE CHAPTER II 2. Stage plays also captivated me, with their sights full of the images of my own miseries: fuel for my own...
BOOK THREE CHAPTER III 5. And still thy faithful mercy hovered over me from afar. In what unseemly iniquities did I wear myself out, following...
BOOK THREE CHAPTER IV 7. Among such as these, in that unstable period of my life, I studied the books of eloquence, for it was...
BOOK THREE CHAPTER V 9. I resolved, therefore, to direct my mind to the Holy Scriptures, that I might see what they were. And behold,...
BOOK THREE CHAPTER VI 10. Thus I fell among men, delirious in their pride, carnal and voluble, whose mouths were the snares of the devil–a...
BOOK THREE CHAPTER VII 12. For I was ignorant of that other reality, true Being. And so it was that I was subtly persuaded to...
BOOK THREE CHAPTER VIII 15. Can it ever, at any time or place, be unrighteous for a man to love God with all his heart,...
BOOK THREE CHAPTER IX 17. But among all these vices and crimes and manifold iniquities, there are also the sins that are committed by men...
BOOK THREE CHAPTER X 18. But I was ignorant of all this, and so I mocked those holy servants and prophets of thine. Yet what...
BOOK THREE CHAPTER XI 19. And now thou didst “stretch forth thy hand from above”[80] and didst draw up my soul out of that profound darkness...
BOOK THREE CHAPTER XII 21. Meanwhile, thou gavest her yet another answer, as I remember–for I pass over many things, hastening on to those things...
BOOK THREE The story of his student days in Carthage, his discovery of Cicero’s Hortensius, the enkindling of his philosophical interest, his infatuation with the Manichean...
