Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers First Series, Volume III: St. Augustin On the Holy Trinity, Doctrinal Treatises, Moral Treatises
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This edition of Phillip Schaff’s Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers includes works by St. Augustine, including his work On the Holy Trinity, Doctrinal Treatises, and Moral Treatises.
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- On the Holy Trinity
- The Enchiridion
- On the Catechising of the Uninstructed
- A Treatise on Faith and the Creed
- Concerning Faith of Things Not Seen
- On the Profit of Believing
- On the Creed: A Sermon to the Catechumens
- On Continence
- On the Good of Marriage
- Of Holy Virginity
- On the Good of Widowhood
- On Lying
- Against Lying
- Of the Work of Monks
- On Patience
- On Care to Be Had for the Dead
Top Highlights
“And therefore it is useful that many persons should write many books, differing in style but not in faith, concerning even the same questions, that the matter itself may reach the greatest number—some in one way, some in another.” (Page 19)
“Further, it is difficult to contemplate and fully know the substance of God; who fashions things changeable, yet without any change in Himself, and creates things temporal, yet without any temporal movement in Himself. And it is necessary, therefore, to purge our minds, in order to be able to see ineffably that which is ineffable; whereto not having yet attained, we are to be nourished by faith, and led by such ways as are more suited to our capacity, that we may be rendered apt and able to comprehend it.” (Page 18)
“The following dissertation concerning the Trinity, as the reader ought to be informed, has been written in order to guard against the sophistries of those who disdain to begin with faith, and are deceived by a crude and perverse love of reason.” (Page 17)
“In order, therefore, that the human mind might be purged from falsities of this kind, Holy Scripture, which suits itself to babes, has not avoided words drawn from any class of things really existing, through which, as by nourishment, our understanding might rise gradually to things divine and transcendent.” (Page 18)
“It is enough for the Christian to believe that the only cause of all created things, whether heavenly or earthly, whether visible or invisible, is the goodness of the Creator, the one true God; and that nothing exists but Himself that does not derive its existence from Him; and that He is the Trinity—to wit, the Father, and the Son begotten of the Father, and the Holy Spirit proceeding from the same Father, but one and the same Spirit of Father and Son.” (Page 240)
