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Les confessions de Saint Augustin
CHAPITRE XXXVII. COMMENT DIEU SE REPOSE EN NOUS.
52. Alors votre repos en nous sera, comme aujourd’hui votre opération en nous. Et notre repos sera le vôtre, comme aujourd’hui nos oeuvres sont les vôtres; car vous, Seigneur, vous êtes à la fois le mouvement et le repos éternel. Votre vue, votre action, votre repos ne connaissent pas le temps; et cependant vous faites notre vue dans le temps, vous faites le temps, et le repos qui nous sort du temps.
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The Confessions of St. Augustin In Thirteen Books
Chapter XXXVII.--Of Rest in God Who Ever Worketh, and Yet is Ever at Rest.
52. For even then shalt Thou so rest in us, as now Thou dost work in us; and thus shall that be Thy rest through us, as these are Thy works through us. 1 But Thou, O Lord, ever workest, and art ever at rest. Nor seest Thou in time, nor movest Thou in time, nor restest Thou in time; and yet Thou makest the scenes of time, and the times themselves, and the rest which results from time.
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Compare his De Gen. ad Lit. iv. 9: "For as God is properly said to do what we do when He works in us, so is God properly said to rest when by His gift we rest." ↩