Thursday, April 26, 2007
Excerpt from Augustine's Confessions
(Edward Pusey translation)
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Book V, Chapter II
On the Vanity of Those Who Wished to Escape the Omnipotent God.
They discourse many things truly concerning the creature; but Truth, Artificer of the creature, they seek not piously, and therefore find Him not; or if they find Him, knowing Him to be God, they glorify Him not as God, neither are thankful, but become vain in their imaginations, and profess themselves to be wise...
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