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Various Church Fathers
NPNF1-01. The Confessions and Letters of St. Augustine, with a Sketch of his Life and Work
Translated by ANF/NPNF editors
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Contents 3 sections
- Commencing with the invocation of God, Augustin relates in detail the beginning of his life, his infancy and boyhood, up to his fifteenth year; at which age he acknowledges that he was more inclined to all youthful pleasures and vices than to the study of letters.
- He advances to puberty, and indeed to the early part of the sixteenth year of his age, in which, having abandoned his studies, he indulged in lustful pleasures, and, with his companions, committed theft.
- to Celer
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