Resultados24 letters/passages
augustine_hippo · c. 403 · score 0.02
Augustine to Nectarius, greetings. I am writing once more about the Calama affair, because the matter is still unresolved and because your latest letter, while gracious as always, does not quite address the substance of my concern. You ask me to forgive. I have forgiven. Forgiveness is not in question. The question is …
augustine_hippo · c. 388 · score 0.02
Maximus of Madaura to Augustine. 1. I keep hoping to receive frequent communications from you, and to be stimulated by that reasoning of yours which recently challenged me in the most pleasant way — without any breach of good manners. So I have not held back from replying in the same spirit, lest you take my silence fo …
augustine_hippo · c. 401 · score 0.02
To my lord, sincerely most worthy and holy brother and fellow presbyter Cyprianus — Augustine, greetings in the Lord. 1. I have sent a letter to our blessed daughter Italica, which I ask you to be so kind as to deliver to her. In it I have addressed certain arguments against the opinion of those who think that nothing …
augustine_hippo · c. 398 · score 0.02
When you conquer, I too shall conquer, if I come to understand my error; and conversely, when I conquer, you prevail, for parents store up treasure for children, not children for parents. Let us then respond to everything, and — if Christ commands — resolve these many questions in brief discourse. You say you received …
augustine_hippo · c. 398 · score 0.02
I received three letters at once — or rather three short treatises — from your Dignity through the deacon Cyprian, containing what you call various questions but what I perceive to be criticisms of my works. If I wished to respond to everything, a book-length volume would be needed. Still, I shall try not to exceed the …
augustine_hippo · c. 406 · score 0.02
From Jerome to Augustine. There are those who limp along on both feet and refuse to bow their heads even when their necks are broken — clinging to their old errors even after they've lost the freedom to proclaim them openly. The holy brethren here with me send you their warmest regards, and especially your devoted and …
augustine_hippo · c. 398 · score 0.01
Jerome to Augustine, greetings. I have received — at last, and by a roundabout route — letters that are said to be from you. I say "said to be" because they reached me not through any messenger you sent but through copies that were circulating in Rome and elsewhere before I ever saw them myself. Imagine my surprise at …
augustine_hippo · c. 392 · score 0.01
Last year I sent a letter to your Dignity through our brother Asterius the subdeacon [a minor cleric below the rank of deacon], fulfilling my ready duty of greeting, which I trust was delivered to you. Now also, through my holy brother Praesidius the deacon, I entreat you first to remember me, and then to regard the be …
augustine_hippo · c. 387 · score 0.01
Letter 5 (388 AD) To Augustine — Nebridius sends greetings. Is it true, my dear Augustine, that you are wearing yourself out on the business of your fellow citizens in Thagaste [Augustine's hometown in North Africa, modern Souk Ahras, Algeria], and that the undisturbed leisure you so desperately wanted is still being k …
augustine_hippo · c. 418 · score 0.01
At all times I have venerated your Blessedness with the honor that is fitting, and I have loved the Lord and Savior who dwells in you. But now, if it is possible, I heap something upon the summit and fill what is already full, so that I do not let a single hour pass without mention of your name. You have stood firm wit …
augustine_hippo · c. 401 · score 0.01
Nectarius to Augustine, my noble and esteemed brother, greetings. I write to you, revered bishop, on behalf of the citizens of Calama, who have recently committed acts that I know are indefensible — but for whom I plead mercy nonetheless. You have heard what happened. During a pagan festival, a mob attacked the Christi …
augustine_hippo · c. 398 · score 0.01
But intelligence is not a substitute for reading widely, and good faith is not a substitute for knowing what earlier scholars have already said about a passage before publishing your own corrections. Write again if you wish. But send the letter to me, not to the public. Your brother in Christ, Jerome. [Context: Jerome' …
augustine_hippo · c. 398 · score 0.01
You maintain that the apostolic reproof was not a diplomatic arrangement but genuine. I shall state plainly what I think. The dispute between Paul and Peter was arranged beforehand, so that through Paul's reproof, the Gentile believers might understand that they were not bound by the Law; and through Peter's yielding, …
augustine_hippo · c. 387 · score 0.01
Letter 6 (389 AD) To Augustine — Nebridius sends greetings. 1. I treasure your letters as carefully as I treasure my own eyes. They are great — not in length, but in the greatness of the subjects they discuss and the brilliance with which they demonstrate the truth about those subjects. They bring to my ears the voice …
augustine_hippo · c. 388 · score 0.01
These people met the ignominious end their character deserved, and capped their criminal careers by pretending to die nobly for a good cause — though they knew full well what infamous deeds had condemned them. The tombs of these individuals (it is a folly almost beneath our notice) are thronged by crowds of simpletons …
augustine_hippo · c. 405 · score 0.01
Letter from Dioscorus to Augustine. 1. A preface before you is not only unnecessary but even tiresome, since you desire the substance, not fancy words. So hear me plainly. The aged Alypius, whom I asked, had repeatedly promised to discuss with you a few questions from the dialogues [of Cicero]. But since I see that you …
augustine_hippo · c. 390 · score 0.01
Paulinus and Therasia, sinners, to our lord and brother Augustine — beloved and venerable — greetings. 1. The love of Christ that holds us together, and that unites us across every distance in the bond of a common faith, has given me the courage to set aside my hesitation and write to you. It has planted you deep in my …
augustine_hippo · c. 397 · score 0.01
Letter 68 — Jerome to Augustine: A Measured and Cautious Response (A.D. 402) To Augustine, my lord, truly holy and most blessed father — Jerome sends greetings in Christ. My kinsman, our holy son Asterius the subdeacon, was just on the point of setting out when your Grace's letter arrived, in which you clear yourself o …
augustine_hippo · c. 391 · score 0.01
Paulinus and Therasia, sinners, to our lord, holy and beloved brother Augustine — greetings. 1. My beloved brother in Christ — having come to know you through your holy and devout works without your knowledge, and having seen you in my mind though you were absent and far away — my heart embraced you with unreserved aff …
augustine_hippo · c. 397 · score 0.01
Far be it from me to presume to attack anything your Grace has written. It is quite enough for me to defend my own views without finding fault with others. But it is well known to a man of your wisdom that every person is content with his own opinion, and that it is the puerile vanity of the young to seek glory by assa …
augustine_hippo · c. 399 · score 0.01
Augustine to Jerome, greetings in the Lord. A short note this time, brother — not because I have nothing to say, but because I want to keep the channel open between us without always burdening it with controversy. I am sending you this letter by a trusted brother, and I beg you: if you have written anything in reply to …
augustine_hippo · c. 387 · score 0.01
1. As I hasten to reach the matter at hand, no preamble, no introduction pleases me. How does it happen, my dear Augustine, and what is that method which the higher powers — by which I mean the heavenly ones — employ when it pleases them to present certain dreams to us as we sleep? What method, I say — that is, how do …
augustine_hippo · c. 414 · score 0.01
Augustine to Jerome, greetings. I am writing about Pelagius. I know you have encountered his teachings — perhaps more directly than I have, since he has been in the East for some time. You have read his works. You have spoken with his followers. I want to know what you think. Here is what troubles me: Pelagius teaches …
augustine_hippo · c. 387 · score 0.01
2. Listen to this further question too: why do we not say that the imagination generates all its images from within itself, rather than saying it receives them from the senses? It is possible that just as the intellect owes nothing to the senses for the objects it contemplates, but only for the prompting that awakens i …