Special revelation is revelation that is only available if you have access to that special place where God has made it known. And the most important locus there for us, as Christians, is Scripture. Special revelation refers to God’s self revelation in particulars—in the history of Israel, in the incarnation of Jesus Christ, and then in the Scriptures as testimony to God’s work in Israel and in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. So Augustine might have had some vague, restless sense that