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Saint Augustine of Hippo

Saint Augustine of Hippo (c. 354-430)

“Why are you relying on yourself, only to find yourself unreliable?”

  • From St. Augustine’s Confessions (Book 8, chapter 11, section 27), in Christianity in Late Antiquity, edited by Bart D. Ehrman and Andrew S. Jacobs. New York, Oxford University Press, 2004.

 

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