• Home
  • Works
  • Introduction Guide Collaboration Sponsors / Collaborators Copyrights Contact Imprint
Bibliothek der Kirchenväter
Search
DE EN FR
Works Augustine of Hippo (354-430) Retractationes Retractationes (PL)
*LIBER PRIMUS.* IN QUO RETRACTANTUR LIBRI QUOS SCRIPSIT NONDUM EPISCOPUS.
CAPUT XIII. *De Vera Religione, liber unus.*

9.

Item alio loco: Ad unum Deum tendentes, inquam, et ei uni religantes animas nostras, unde religio dicta creditur, omni superstitione careamus 1. In his verbis meis ratio quae reddita est, unde sit dicta religio, plus mihi placuit. Nam non me fugit aliam nominis hujus originem exposuisse latini sermonis auctores, quod inde sit appellata religio, quod religitur: quod verbum compositum est a legendo, id est eligendo, ut ita latinum videatur religo sicut eligo. Hic liber sic incipit: Cum omnis vitae bonae ac beatae via.


  1. Cap. 55, n. 111 ↩

pattern
  Print   Report an error
  • Show the text
  • Bibliographic Reference
  • Scans for this version
Editions of this Work
Retractationes (PL)
Translations of this Work
Le Rétractations Compare

Contents

Faculty of Theology, Patristics and History of the Early Church
Miséricorde, Av. Europe 20, CH 1700 Fribourg

© 2025 Gregor Emmenegger
Imprint
Privacy policy