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Surprisingly accessible, clear, and pastoral in tone—the first volume of Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament by St. Augustine examines 66 different passages from the Synoptic Gospels. Focusing on practical application to the lives of his parishioners, Augustine also takes care to emphasize the relevance of the various passages for his listeners’ spiritual lives. Modern readers,...

money who is called covetous; or a lover of honour, who is called ambitious; or a lover of beautiful women, who is called voluptuous. And who could enumerate all sorts of loves? Yet consider what labour all lovers undergo, and are not conscious of their labours; and then does any such one most feel labour, when he is hindered from labour. Since then the majority of men are such as their loves are, and that there ought to be no other care for the regulation of our lives, than the choice of that which
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