Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Isaiah 32:13

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 1, page 77, footnote 5 (Image)

Augustine: Prolegomena: St. Augustine's Life and Work, Confessions, Letters

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Then follows a period of nine years from the nineteenth year of his age, during which having lost a friend, he followed the Manichæans—and wrote books on the fair and fit, and published a work on the liberal arts, and the categories of Aristotle. (HTML)

He Very Easily Understood the Liberal Arts and the Categories of Aristotle, But Without True Fruit. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 343 (In-Text, Margin)

... or beauty, so that they should exist in Thee as their subject, like as in bodies, whereas Thou Thyself art Thy greatness and beauty? But a body is not great or fair because it is a body, seeing that, though it were less great or fair, it should nevertheless be a body. But that which I had conceived of Thee was falsehood, not truth,—fictions of my misery, not the supports of Thy blessedness. For Thou hadst commanded, and it was done in me, that the earth should bring forth briars and thorns to me,[Isaiah 32:13] and that with labour I should get my bread.