These are scans of a copy of Origen’s Commentary on Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Romans that Augustine owned. The notes in the margins refer to the Pelagian controversy.
The amazing Hannah found the book, which is all scanned online, and sifted through hundreds of pages with me.
This is sooooo gangster!
- 2 months ago
- 55
"I never have any difficulty believing in miracles, since I experienced the miracle of a change in my own heart."
— St. Augustine
- 4 months ago
- 139
"Let us celebrate the festive day on which he who is the great and eternal day came from the great and endless day of eternity into our own short day of time."
— St. Augustine
- 5 months ago
- 34
"O Love, ever burning, never extinguished, O Charity, my God, set me on fire! You command continence: give what You command, and then command what you will."
— Saint Augustine, The Confessions, X.29 (via versolalto)
(Source: shortbreadsh)
- 5 months ago
- 47
"Even though it profits ourselves and not the saints,when we honor them; still, to be content with merely praising the saints without following them would be nothing but dishonest flattery."
— Augustine
- 6 months ago
- 6
"Not everyone in the Kingdom of Heaven is Catholic, and not all Catholics are in the Kingdom of Heaven."
— St Augustine of Hippo (via thepapacyisawesome)
(Source: thepapacyandlestradeareawesome)
- 6 months ago
- 31
