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Augustine of Hippo is one of the most important thinkers for Western theology and philosophy. His understanding of the self, of sin, of redemption, and of sanctification set the tone for all subsequent theology. Even those who disagree with him must still interact with the effects of his thought. St. Augustine’s Confessions introduced the idea of the inner self to the world. It was the first work...

them: and how that a long time cannot be made long, but out of a many motions still passing onwards, which cannot at the same instant be drawn out together: but that all this while in the eternal nothing is flitting, but all is at once present, whereas no time is all at once present: and that he may perceive all time past to be driven away by time to come; and all time to come, to follow upon the past; and that all both past and to come, is made up, and flows out of that which is always present?
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