Episode 99: The Boy Who Stole Pears (Augustine's Confessions, Books 1-7)
Literature and History
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Augustine's Confessions Book 1
Augustine's Confessions begins with a series of prayers and invocations of Scripture. Augustine writes that, though wet nurses fed him when he was an infant, it was God who filled their breasts with milk. His recollections of his earliest months soon turn toward a meditation on inherent human wickedness.
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