Note sull'episodio
The two great commandments do not forget the self. Augustine says we already love our own life the way the beasts do; what had to be commanded is God above us and the neighbor beside us—and then the whole current of that love, even love of enemies, is to run toward the one Good no one who finds Him will regret. The Confessions leaves the prophets in God’s hand: He to whom nothing is future somehow teaches what is not yet, and Augustine cannot see the way. Aquinas takes us to the first hearing of a better-sounding word. The serpent did not create the possibility of sin. It offered wisdom and greatness on new terms, and the will chose that appearance over the command already given.
### Today’s Readings:
Augustine of Hippo — On Christian Doctrine, Book 1, Chapters 26–29 (Sections 27–30)
Augustine of Hippo — The Confessions, Book 11, Chapter 19 (Section 25)
Thomas Aquinas — Summa Theologica, Part 2–2, Question 165 (The Temptation of Our First Parents)
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