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Excerpt from The Confessions of St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo
City of God, even in the New Jerusalem, there will be no longer confession of sin, but there will be confession Of praise.l It is not surprising, that with this view of confession he should hinge on the incidents of his life such considerations as tend to elevate the mind and heart of the reader. When, for example, he speaks of his youthful sins,2 he diverges into a disquisition on the motives to sin; when his friend dies,3 he moralizes on death; and - to give one example Of a re verse process - his profound psychological review of memory4 recalls his former sin (which at times haunts him in his dreams), and leads up to devout re?ections on God's power to cleanse from sin. This undertone of penitence and praise which per vades the Confessions in all its episodes, like the golden threads which run through the texture of an Eastern garment, presents one Of its peculiar charms.
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