Confessions, Book III

Book III

• Confessions III.1 — Deluded by an Insane Love, He, Though Foul and Dishonourable, Desires to Be Thought Elegant and Urbane. Chapter I.—Deluded by an Insane Love, He, Though Foul and Dishonourable, Desires to Be Thought Elegant and…vatican.va
• Confessions III.2 — In Public Spectacles He is Moved by an Empty Compassion. He is Attacked by a Troublesome Spiritual Disease. Chapter II.—In Public Spectacles He is Moved by an Empty Compassion. He is Attacked by a Troublesome…vatican.va
• Confessions III.3 — Not Even When at Church Does He Suppress His Desires. In the School of Rhetoric He Abhors the Acts of the Subverters. Chapter III.—Not Even When at Church Does He Suppress His Desires. In the School of Rhetoric He…vatican.va
• Confessions III.4 — Chapter IV.—In the Nineteenth Year of His Age (His Father Having Died Two Years Before) He is Led by the “Hortensius” Of Cicero to “Philosophy,” To God, and a Better Mode of Thinking. 7. Among such as these, at that…vatican.va
• Confessions III.5 — He Rejects the Sacred Scriptures as Too Simple, and as Not to Be Compared with the Dignity of Tully. Chapter V.—He Rejects the Sacred Scriptures as Too Simple, and as Not to Be Compared with the Dignity of Tully. 9.…vatican.va
• Confessions III.6 — Chapter VI.—Deceived by His Own Fault, He Falls into the Errors of the Manichæans, Who Gloried in the True Knowledge of God and in a Thorough Examination of Things. 10. Therefore I fell among men proudly raving, very…vatican.va
• Confessions III.7 — He Attacks the Doctrine of the Manichæans Concerning Evil, God, and the Righteousness of the Patriarchs. Chapter VII.—He Attacks the Doctrine of the Manichæans Concerning Evil, God, and the Righteousness of the…vatican.va
• Confessions III.8 — He Argues Against the Same as to the Reason of Offences. 15. Can it at any time or place be an unrighteous thing for a man to love God with all his heart, with all his soul, and with all his mind, and his neighbour…vatican.va
• Confessions III.9 — That the Judgment of God and Men as to Human Acts of Violence, is Different. 17. But amidst these offences of infamy and violence, and so many iniquities, are the sins of men who are, on the whole, making progress;…vatican.va
• Confessions III.10 — He Reproves the Triflings of the Manichæans as to the Fruits of the Earth. 18. These things being ignorant of, I derided those holy servants and prophets of Thine. And what did I gain by deriding them but to be…vatican.va
• Confessions III.11 — He Refers to the Tears, and the Memorable Dream Concerning Her Son, Granted by God to His Mother. Chapter XI.—He Refers to the Tears, and the Memorable Dream Concerning Her Son, Granted by God to His Mother. 19. And…vatican.va
• Confessions III.12 — The Excellent Answer of the Bishop When Referred to by His Mother as to the Conversion of Her Son. Chapter XII.—The Excellent Answer of the Bishop When Referred to by His Mother as to the Conversion of Her Son. 21.…vatican.va