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 Main Index : Writings : Augustine : Confessions : Book 13 : Chapter 13
Chapter 12 | Chapter 13 | Chapter 14

CONFESSIONS - BOOK THIRTEEN
CHAPTER XIII

14. But even so, we still live by faith and not by sight, for we are saved by hope; but hope that is seen is not hope. Thus far deep calls unto deep, but now in "the noise of thy waterfalls."(see note 537) And thus far he who said, "I could not speak to you as if you were spiritual ones, but only as if you were carnal"(see note 538)--thus far even he does not count himself to have apprehended, but forgetting the things that are behind and reaching forth to the things that are before, he presses on to those things that are ahead,(see note 539) and he groans under his burden and his soul thirsts after the living God as the stag pants for the water brooks,(see note 540) and says, "When shall I come?"(see note 541)--"desiring to be further clothed by his house which is from heaven."(see note 542) And he called to this lower deep, saying, "Be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind."(see note 543) And "be not children in understanding, although in malice be children," in order that "in understanding you may become perfect."(see note 544) "O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you?"(see note 545) But this is not now only in his own voice but in thy voice, who sent thy Spirit from above through Him who both "ascended up on high"(see note 546) and opened up the floodgates of his gifts, that the force of his streams might make glad the city of God.(see note 547)

For that city and for him sighs the Bridegroom's friend,(see note 548) who has now the first fruits of the Spirit laid up with him, but who is still groaning within himself and waiting for adoption, that is, the redemption of his body.(see note 549) To Him he sighs, for he is a member of the Bride(see note 550); for him he is jealous, not for himself, but because not in his own voice but in the voice of thy waterfalls he calls on that other deep, of which he is jealous and in fear; for he fears lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtlety, his mind should be corrupted from the purity which is in our Bridegroom, thy only Son. What a light of beauty that will be when "we shall see him as he is"(see note 551)!--and when these tears shall pass away which "have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, `Where is your God?'"(see note 552)

Chapter 12 | Chapter 13 | Chapter 14




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