Confessions, Book IX

Book IX

• Confessions IX.1 — He Praises God, the Author of Safety, and Jesus Christ, the Redeemer, Acknowledging His Own Wickedness. Chapter I.—He Praises God, the Author of Safety, and Jesus Christ, the Redeemer, Acknowledging His Own…vatican.va
• Confessions IX.2 — As His Lungs Were Affected, He Meditates Withdrawing Himself from Public Favour. Chapter II.—As His Lungs Were Affected, He Meditates Withdrawing Himself from Public Favour. 2. And it seemed good to me, as before…vatican.va
• Confessions IX.3 — Chapter III.—He Retires to the Villa of His Friend Verecundus, Who Was Not Yet a Christian, and Refers to His Conversion and Death, as Well as that of Nebridius. 5. Verecundus was wasted with anxiety at that our…vatican.va
• Confessions IX.4 — Chapter IV.—In the Country He Gives His Attention to Literature, and Explains the Fourth Psalm in Connection with the Happy Conversion of Alypius. He is Troubled with Toothache. 7. And the day arrived on which, in…vatican.va
• Confessions IX.5 — At the Recommendation of Ambrose, He Reads the Prophecies of Isaiah, But Does Not Understand Them. Chapter V.—At the Recommendation of Ambrose, He Reads the Prophecies of Isaiah, But Does Not Understand Them. 13. The…vatican.va
• Confessions IX.6 — He is Baptized at Milan with Alypius and His Son Adeodatus. The Book ‘De Magistro.’. Chapter VI.—He is Baptized at Milan with Alypius and His Son Adeodatus. The Book “De Magistro.” 14. Thence, when the time had…vatican.va
• Confessions IX.7 — Of the Church Hymns Instituted at Milan; Of the Ambrosian Persecution Raised by Justina; And of the Discovery of the Bodies of Two Martyrs. Chapter VII.—Of the Church Hymns Instituted at Milan; Of the Ambrosian…vatican.va
• Confessions IX.8 — Of the Conversion of Evodius, and the Death of His Mother When Returning with Him to Africa; And Whose Education He Tenderly Relates. Chapter VIII.—Of the Conversion of Evodius, and the Death of His Mother When…vatican.va
• Confessions IX.9 — He Describes the Praiseworthy Habits of His Mother; Her Kindness Towards Her Husband and Her Sons. Chapter IX.—He Describes the Praiseworthy Habits of His Mother; Her Kindness Towards Her Husband and Her Sons. 19.…vatican.va
• Confessions IX.10 — A Conversation He Had with His Mother Concerning the Kingdom of Heaven. 23. As the day now approached on which she was to depart this life (which day Thou knewest, we did not), it fell out—Thou, as I believe, by Thy…vatican.va
• Confessions IX.11 — His Mother, Attacked by Fever, Dies at Ostia. 27. What reply I made unto her to these things I do not well remember. However, scarcely five days after, or not much more, she was prostrated by fever; and while she was…vatican.va
• Confessions IX.12 — How He Mourned His Dead Mother. 29. I closed her eyes; and there flowed a great sadness into my heart, and it was passing into tears, when mine eyes at the same time, by the violent control of my mind, sucked back…vatican.va
• Confessions IX.13 — He Entreats God for Her Sins, and Admonishes His Readers to Remember Her Piously. Chapter XIII.—He Entreats God for Her Sins, and Admonishes His Readers to Remember Her Piously. 34. But,—my heart being now healed of…vatican.va