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Chapter XXXIX.
Augustine,2636
of Africa,
bishop of Hipporegensis, a man renowned throughout the world for
learning both sacred and secular, unblemished in the faith, pure in
life, wrote works so many that they cannot all be gathered. For who is
there that can boast himself of having all his works, or who reads with
such diligence as to read all he has written?2637
| 2637 all he has written e T A 30 31 a Her.;
25 Fabr. add “wherefore on account of his much speaking
Solomon’s saying came true that ‘In the multitude of
words there wanteth not sin.’” This expression in the
editions has been the ground of much comment on Gennadius’
Semi-pelagian bias, but it almost certainly does not represent the
original form of the text. | As an old man even, he published
fifteen books On the Trinity which he had begun as a young man.
In which, as scripture says, brought into the chamber of the king and
adorned with the manifold garment of the wisdom of God, he exhibited a
church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing. In his work On
the incarnation of the Lord also he manifested a peculiar piety. On
the resurrection of the dead he wrote with equal sincerity, and left it
to the less able to raise doubts respecting abortions.2638
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| 2639 T 31 end thus; A omits and left…abortions but
adds a few lines of other matter; e adds differing matter; a adds
remained a catholic; 30 adds remained a catholic and died in
the same city—the city which is still called Hypporegensis;
while 25 adds a vast amount. | E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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