Confessions, Book II

Book II

• Confessions II.1 — He Deplores the Wickedness of His Youth. 1. I Will now call to mind my past foulness, and the carnal corruptions of my soul, not because I love them, but that I may love Thee, O my God. For love of Thy love do I it,…vatican.va
• Confessions II.2 — Stricken with Exceeding Grief, He Remembers the Dissolute Passions in Which, in His Sixteenth Year, He Used to Indulge. Chapter II.—Stricken with Exceeding Grief, He Remembers the Dissolute Passions in Which, in His…vatican.va
• Confessions II.3 — Chapter III.—Concerning His Father, a Freeman of Thagaste, the Assister of His Son’s Studies, and on the Admonitions of His Mother on the Preservation of Chastity. 5. And for that year my studies were intermitted,…vatican.va
• Confessions II.4 — He Commits Theft with His Companions, Not Urged on by Poverty, But from a Certain Distaste of Well-Doing. Chapter IV.—He Commits Theft with His Companions, Not Urged on by Poverty, But from a Certain Distaste of…vatican.va
• Confessions II.5 — Concerning the Motives to Sin, Which are Not in the Love of Evil, But in the Desire of Obtaining the Property of Others. Chapter V.—Concerning the Motives to Sin, Which are Not in the Love of Evil, But in the Desire…vatican.va
• Confessions II.6 — Why He Delighted in that Theft, When All Things Which Under the Appearance of Good Invite to Vice are True and Perfect in God Alone. Chapter VI.—Why He Delighted in that Theft, When All Things Which Under the…vatican.va
• Confessions II.7 — He Gives Thanks to God for the Remission of His Sins, and Reminds Every One that the Supreme God May Have Preserved Us from Greater Sins. Chapter VII.—He Gives Thanks to God for the Remission of His Sins, and Reminds…vatican.va
• Confessions II.8 — In His Theft He Loved the Company of His Fellow-Sinners. 16. “What fruit had I then,” wretched one, in those things which, when I remember them, cause me shame—above all in that theft, which I loved only for the…vatican.va
• Confessions II.9 — It Was a Pleasure to Him Also to Laugh When Seriously Deceiving Others. 17. By what feelings, then, was I animated? For it was in truth too shameful; and woe was me who had it. But still what was it? “Who can…vatican.va
• Confessions II.10 — With God There is True Rest and Life Unchanging. 18. Who can unravel that twisted and tangled knottiness? It is foul. I hate to reflect on it. I hate to look on it. But thee do I long for, O righteousness and…vatican.va