{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_003: And now this earth", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_98aabc636e9b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_016: This then is what I conceive, O my God, when I hear Thy Scripture saying, In ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "This then is what I conceive, O my God, when I hear Thy Scripture saying, In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth: and the Earth was invisible and without form, and darkness was upon the deep, and "}, {"id": "card_n_ec58b19c30e1", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_024: What now if another should say that \"this same formlessness and confusedness ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What now if another should say that \"this same formlessness and confusedness of matter, was for this reason first conveyed under the name of heaven and earth, because out of it was this visible world "}, {"id": "card_n_a6b76398421f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_034: But what is this, and what kind of mystery?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But what is this, and what kind of mystery? Behold, Thou blessest mankind, O Lord, that they may increase and multiply, and replenish the earth; dost Thou not thereby give us a hint to understand some"}, {"id": "card_n_b11fd37b562b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_037: I would also say, O Lord my God, what the following Scripture minds me of; ye...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I would also say, O Lord my God, what the following Scripture minds me of; yea, I will say, and not fear. For I will say the truth, Thyself inspiring me with what Thou willedst me to deliver out of th"}, {"id": "card_n_4025b1b3744f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_003: And now this earth was invisible and without form, and there was I know not w...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And now this earth was invisible and without form, and there was I know not what depth of abyss, upon which there was no light, because it had no shape. Therefore didst Thou command it to be written, "}, {"id": "card_n_79769921b892", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_028: And hereby, in Thy Word, not the deepness of the sea, but the earth separated...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And hereby, in Thy Word, not the deepness of the sea, but the earth separated from the bitterness of the waters, brings forth, not the moving creature that hath life, but the living soul. For now hath"}, {"id": "card_n_0c0c634ebee1", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_007: And I sought \"whence is evil,\" and sought in an evil way; and saw not the evi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And I sought \"whence is evil,\" and sought in an evil way; and saw not the evil in my very search. I set now before the sight of my spirit the whole creation, whatsoever we can see therein (as sea, ear"}, {"id": "card_n_5c0b9f551e48", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_002: The lowliness of my tongue confesseth unto Thy Highness, that Thou madest hea...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The lowliness of my tongue confesseth unto Thy Highness, that Thou madest heaven and earth; this heaven which I see, and this earth that I tread upon, whence is this earth that I bear about me; Thou m"}, {"id": "card_n_79438d46108b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_040: And now will I stand, and become firm in Thee, in my mould, Thy truth; nor wi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And now will I stand, and become firm in Thee, in my mould, Thy truth; nor will I endure the questions of men, who by a penal disease thirst for more than they can contain, and say, \"what did God befo"}, {"id": "card_n_ff3ed38a7864", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_012: Thus, I understood, by my own experience, what I had read, how the flesh lust...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Thus, I understood, by my own experience, what I had read, how the flesh lusteth against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh. Myself verily either way; yet more myself, in that which I approve"}, {"id": "card_n_c63aae5e49f5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_008: But that heaven of heavens was for Thyself, O Lord; but the earth which Thou ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But that heaven of heavens was for Thyself, O Lord; but the earth which Thou gavest to the sons of men, to be seen and felt, was not such as we now see and feel. For it was invisible, without form, an"}, {"id": "card_n_d5318e368d58", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_006: Behold, the heavens and the earth are; they proclaim that they were created; ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Behold, the heavens and the earth are; they proclaim that they were created; for they change and vary. Whereas whatsoever hath not been made, and yet is, hath nothing in it, which before it had not; a"}, {"id": "card_n_66d38a1bc34d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_005: I would hear and understand, how \"In the Beginning Thou madest the heaven and...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I would hear and understand, how \"In the Beginning Thou madest the heaven and earth.\" Moses wrote this, wrote and departed, passed hence from Thee to Thee; nor is he now before me. For if he were, I w"}, {"id": "card_n_5d5608da1ea3", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_029: And with regard to the understanding of the words following, out of all those...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And with regard to the understanding of the words following, out of all those truths, he chooses one to himself, who saith, But the earth was invisible, and without form, and darkness was upon the dee"}, {"id": "card_n_84f495238d6b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_001: O my God, let me, with thanksgiving, remember, and confess unto Thee Thy merc...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "O my God, let me, with thanksgiving, remember, and confess unto Thee Thy mercies on me. Let my bones be bedewed with Thy love, and let them say unto Thee, Who is like unto Thee, O Lord? Thou hast brok"}, {"id": "card_n_6e9ea53fc686", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_022: So, Lord, so, I beseech Thee, let there spring up, as Thou doest, as Thou giv...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "So, Lord, so, I beseech Thee, let there spring up, as Thou doest, as Thou givest cheerfulness and ability, let truth spring out of the earth, and righteousness look down from heaven, and let there be "}, {"id": "card_n_c39f91ab51be", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_003: Thou hadst pierced our hearts with Thy charity, and we carried Thy words as i...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Thou hadst pierced our hearts with Thy charity, and we carried Thy words as it were fixed in our entrails: and the examples of Thy servants, whom for black Thou hadst made bright, and for dead, alive,"}, {"id": "card_n_7cbba5b9d9b5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_025: We were saying then: If to any the tumult of the flesh were hushed, hushed th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We were saying then: If to any the tumult of the flesh were hushed, hushed the images of earth, and waters, and air, hushed also the pole of heaven, yea the very soul be hushed to herself, and by not "}, {"id": "card_n_eef7150c8404", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_009: This law holds in foul and accursed joy; this in permitted and lawful joy; th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "This law holds in foul and accursed joy; this in permitted and lawful joy; this in the very purest perfection of friendship; this, in him who was dead, and lived again; had been lost and was found. Ev"}, {"id": "card_n_4dae2cc029a5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_030: For should any attempt to dispute against these two last opinions, thus, \"If ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For should any attempt to dispute against these two last opinions, thus, \"If you will not allow, that this formlessness of matter seems to be called by the name of heaven and earth; Ergo, there was so"}]}