Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_012: But Thou, Lord, abidest for ever, yet not for ever art Thou angry with us; be...
Source: Augustine, Confessions (c. AD 400) (aug_conf_07_012) · father
But Thou, Lord, abidest for ever, yet not for ever art Thou angry with us; because Thou pitiest our dust and ashes, and it was pleasing in Thy sight to reform my deformities; and by inward goads didst Thou rouse me, that I should be ill at ease, until Thou wert manifested to my inward sight. Thus, by the secret hand of Thy medicining was my swelling abated, and the troubled and bedimmed eyesight of my mind, by the smarting anointings of healthful sorrows, was from day to day healed.
Witnesses (Deuteronomy 19:15)
- manuscript_tradition: Patrologia Latina (Migne) vol. 32 — Confessions Latin text
- critical_edition: Corpus Christianorum Series Latina (CCSL) 27 — Verheijen
- translation: Pusey translation (1838) — Library of Fathers
- translation: Pine-Coffin translation (Penguin Classics, 1961)
- republication: Internet Archive — Confessions (multiple editions)
- republication: Project Gutenberg — Confessions
- citation_tradition: Aquinas, Summa Theologica — cites Confessions extensively