{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_011: But when that man o", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_95f6231ca650", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_034: But why doth \"truth generate hatred,\" and the man of Thine, preaching the tru...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But why doth \"truth generate hatred,\" and the man of Thine, preaching the truth, become an enemy to them? whereas a happy life is loved, which is nothing else but joying in the truth; unless that trut"}, {"id": "card_n_d8df57262ee0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_033: Let no man harass me then, by saying, Moses thought not as you say, but as I ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Let no man harass me then, by saying, Moses thought not as you say, but as I say: for if he should ask me, \"How know you that Moses thought that which you infer out of his words?\" I ought to take it i"}, {"id": "card_n_f34b7ca6db45", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_045: But they who by Thy Spirit see these things, Thou seest in them.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But they who by Thy Spirit see these things, Thou seest in them. 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