Confessions book viii Augustine Peter Constantine “I was now certain of Your eternal life but still saw it as if through a glass darkly” extreme devotion with worthy zeal quantitative linguistics Spanish wife “tightly fettered to womankind” “piety is wisdom” “seek not to seem wise, because they who claimed themselves wise become fools” Simplicianus Ambrose Platonists “submitting his forehead to the reproach of the cross” Victorinus “so is it walls that make Christians”
