The first autobiography in the European tradition, written around 400 and addressed throughout to God rather than to a reader. Nine books of a life, one on memory, and three on the opening of Genesis — which the first readers found as odd an ending as readers do now.
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Every run of seven words or more that appears both here and in another book on this shelf, merged into the longest passage they have in common. The Confessions shares wording with 5 of the other 37. This is quotation, or a common source, or one translator doing both — not a resemblance inferred from vocabulary.
presseth down the soul, and the earthly tabernacle weigheth down the mind that museth upon many thingsBook 7 and Book 13
For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knockethLuke 11 and Book 12
the soul, and the earthly tabernacle weigheth down the mind that museth upon many thingsTractate 69 and Book 7
For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knockethMatthew 7 and Book 12
out of the mouth of babes and sucklingsHomily 7 and Book 13
Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.
Translator: E. B. Pusey, 1838. Source: Gutenberg 3296.
The text here is E. B. Pusey’s translation, 1838, public domain, from Project Gutenberg ebook 3296, set unaltered.
Augustine also wrote on this gospel shelf: his 124 tractates on St John are at /fathers/augustine-on-john/.
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