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S. AURELII AUGUSTINI CONFESSIONES - World eBook Library

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144 S. <strong>AUGUSTINI</strong> EPISCOPI CONF. LIB. VIII.<br />

se retulit, mihique aperuit. Sed tali admonitione firmatus<br />

est, placitoque ac proposito bono et congruentissimo suis<br />

moribus, quibus a me in melius jam olim valde longeque<br />

distabat, sine ulla tiu-bulenta cunctatione conjunctus est.<br />

Inde ad matrem ingredimur : indicamus ; gaudet. Narramus<br />

quemadmodum gestum sit ; exsultat et triumphat ; et bene-<br />

Eph. 3, dicebat tibi, qui iJotens es ultra quam petimus aut intelligimiis<br />

^^'<br />

facere, quia tanto amplius sibi a te concessum de me videbat,<br />

quam petere solebat miserabilibus flebilibusque gemitibus.<br />

Convertisti enim me ad te, ut nec uxorem quaererem, nec<br />

aliquam spem hujus saeculi, stans in ea regula fidei^ in qua<br />

Ps. 29, me ante tot annos ei revelaveras. Et cotivertisti luctum ejus<br />

in gaudium multo uberius quam vohierat ; et multo charius<br />

atque castius, quam de nepotibus carnis meae requirebat.<br />

B Vid. sup. 1. iii. c. 1 1.<br />

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