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Though Aurelius Augustinus had won a bit of renown, he would surely be unknown to history were it not for the celebrated September day in A.D. 386 when he seemed to hear a child's singsong voice chanting "Tolle lege, tolle lege" (Take up and read, take up and read). Snatching the Bible, which he had once disdained, he read the first words his eyes fell upon: St. Paul's admonition in Romans 13 to abandon wanton living and "put on the Lord Jesus Christ." Instantly, he later wrote, "a light of certainty pierced my heart and all the shadow...
...accumulating a sizable library of his own, a library which includes books in German, French, Latin, and assorted languages. Located in a large and pleasant room, book-lined on all sides, it contains many classic and compendious volumes of which the oldest book is a 1478 edition of "Augustinus Triumphus," beautifully done on what he calls "real paper, not this cheap modern stuff...
...Cornelius Jansen Bishop of Ypres in his Augustinus suggested five heretical propopositions based on St. Augustine's Doctrine of Grace. One important group of still exists in Holland...
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