Notas del episodio
If the reading builds up love of God and neighbor, Augustine will not call the mistake a lie—but he still wants the man back on the road. Love of one’s own opinion can turn the reader against Scripture; and if faith totters, love grows cold. Faith and hope will one day give way to sight. Love will not. The Confessions then prays over the ordinary mystery we all speak without understanding: how long, how short, a double syllable, a potter’s wheel if the stars went out. Time is not simply the circuit of heaven. Aquinas brings the same measure to what we put on. Modesty is neither display nor the performance of looking unimpressed.
Today’s Readings:
Augustine of Hippo — On Christian Doctrine, Book 1, Chapters 36–38 (Sections 40–42)
Augustine of Hippo — The Confessions, Book 11, Chapters 22–23 (Sections 28–29)
Thomas Aquinas — Summa Theologica, Part 2–2, Question 169 (Modesty in Outward Apparel)
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