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Chapter Twelve: Augustine Sets the Seal
1 It proved a profound shock when ‘the unmediated urgency of the angular
street-Greek’ of Paul reached the west for the first time, after centuries in which
Jerome’s elegant translation had reigned supreme. MacCulloch, p.83.
MacCulloch says of the discovery of Paul’s original Greek text: ‘if there is any
one explanation why the Latin West experienced a Reformation and the Greekspeaking
lands to the east did not, it lies in this experience of listening to a new
voice in the New Testament text’.
2 I am indebted to Froehlich, pp.279—99.
3 Quoted in Ayres, Young, and Louth, Chapter Twenty-Seven, David Hunter,
‘Fourth Century Latin Writers: Hilary, Victorinus, Ambrosiaster, Ambrose’,
p.305.
4 Hill, Introduction, p.39.
5 Sanders, p.2.
6 Froehlich, p.291.
7 Poem ‘On the Providence of God’, Gaul, 416. Quoted in Ward-Perkins, p.29.
8 See Betz.
9 Quoted in Fitzgerald, p.621 (article by Fredriksen on Paul).
10 For the debate with Pelagius, see any standard life of Augustine, such as
Brown, Augustine of Hippo, or Lancel. Augustine’s theology is covered in
Harrison, and in Rist.
11 See the whole debate in Arianism and Other Heresies, Volume 18 of the
Works of Saint Augustine, with introduction and notes by Roland Teske SJ, New
York, 1995, pp.175—338.
12 Augustine, The City of God, Book XIX, Chapter 4.
13 Augustine, Confessions, Book XIII, 12.
14 Letter 169.1. Lancel, Chapter Thirty, is very good on the background to De
Trinitate.