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Revisions, like many of Augustine’s works, has a singular purpose. Composed in his old age, he reviews nearly all his writings, summarizing and correcting and even expressing regret. The Revisions is important not only for establishing the chronology of Augustine’s works but also for providing insight into his own thought and self-evaluation. The Latin title for this work is Retractationes and...

(Ad Simplicianum Libri Duo)1 1. The first two books that I worked on as a bishop are addressed to Simplician, bishop of the church of Milan, who succeeded the most blessed Ambrose,2 on a miscellany of questions. Two of them I took from the epistle of the apostle Paul to the Romans and put in the first book. The first of these is on what is written, What, then, shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! (Rom 7:7) up to the point where it says, Who
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