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confessions

In St. Augustine’s Confessions, St. Augustine refutes the opinions of the Manichaeansas to two kinds of minds, a good one and an evil one. Augustine breaks down in tears beneath a fig tree. He hears a voice saying, “Take and read.” Interpreting this as a message from God, he picks up his copy of the letters of St. Paul and reads a passage that puts his mind at rest. He resolves to dedicate his entire life to God, and Alypius joins him in this resolve. He also goes on to argue the manner in which the spirit struggles with the flesh, that it might be untied from the oppression of pride or self morals. At the end of the book in chapter twelve having prayed to god, he pours out a spell tears, and, admonished by a voice, he opens the book and r

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