Confessions of Augustine: Confessions as Scriptural Interpretation (Part VI)
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I Want to Go to Heaven, but I Don't Want to Go Without You
Augustine's last three books constitute a meditation on human life and specifically human life in the church. He spends pages of pages contemplating time, which is an exercise in humility since every moment that we're living through is slipping away so quickly. In book 11 he says if future and past things do exist, I want to know where they are. If this is not yet within my compass, I do not know at any rate that wherever they are, they're not yet there as future or past, but as present. But when a true account is given a past events what is brought forth from the memory is not the events themselves have passed away, but words formed from images of those events,.
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