“I now make an open account and confession of my sins; if my reader is one whom you have called, who has followed your voice and avoided the same sins, let them not laugh at me as they read my account. I have been healed by the same Physician whose care has kept them from falling ill at all, or at least not so severely. Let them see that it is through you, who have saved me from the sickness of my sins, that they too do not suffer to the same degree from the sickness of their own.” — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
“Augustine of Hippo (354-430), a Roman magistrate transformed into a bishop of the early Church, formulated his notion of Christian morality as a response to his having been sorely tempted by a peach.” — Lapham, Lewis H., editor. Lapham’s Quarterly. Volume 1.1.
Carpaccio, Vittore. Vision of St Augustin. 1502. Tempera on canvas.
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