Episode 99: The Boy Who Stole Pears (Augustine's Confessions, Books 1-7)
Literature and History
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Augustine's Confessions Book 2 - Adolescence
Augustine writes that by 16 he was wholly subsumed by lust. Augustine quotes a quartet of New Testament passages central to clerical celibacy movement in 4th century. His father, who seems to have supported young Augustine's education enthusiastically, sought to send him to the regional center of Carthage.
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