and prophecies. He urges him to be baptized as soon as possible and offers a benediction: “May the Lord God, in whom you now trust, both in this world and in the world to come, keep you—you, my rightly honored lord and brother in Christ, most loved and most longed for.”16 Several new themes on friendship are sounded in the writings of Augustine. If a title is to be given to this score, it is best named The Grace of Theological Friendships. We have seen him redefine friendship