"I cannot believe that you gave your most faithful servant Moses a lesser gift than I should desire for myself from you"
...and continues to define the gift:
"by the use of my heart and my tongue, those books might be produced which so long after were to profit all nations throughout the whole world - from such a great pinnacle of authority- and were to surmount the words of all false and proud teachings."
Of course, he was referring to Genesis, but great is the providence of God, that this gift was to be offered to Saint Augustine himself.
Of course, he was referring to Genesis, but great is the providence of God, that this gift was to be offered to Saint Augustine himself.
Written in the late 300s AC, Confessions is still as prominent today; such is a gift of God.
I say "divine providence" as Saint Augustine likes to refer to fate and destiny by that term. For to him, man is free and chooses his path, yet this path is overseen and known to the most high. By divine providence, he was granted that which he wrongfully conditioned to God and thus did not ask for "if i had been born in his time" preceded his statement... and by divine providence, this statement was declared in his autobiography - Confessions- How much more beauty can God's providence hold?
