• Home
  • Works
  • Introduction Guide Collaboration Sponsors / Collaborators Copyrights Contact Imprint
Bibliothek der Kirchenväter
Search
DE EN FR
Works Augustine of Hippo (354-430) Confessiones

Translation Hide
The Confessions of St. Augustin In Thirteen Books

Chapter V.--What May Have Been the Form of Matter.

5. So that when herein thought seeketh what the sense may arrive at, and saith to itself, "It is no intelligible form, such as life or justice, because it is the matter of bodies; nor perceptible by the senses, because in the invisible and formless there is nothing which can be seen and felt;--while human thought saith these things to itself, it may endeavour either to know it by being ignorant, or by knowing it to be ignorant.

Translation Hide
Les confessions de Saint Augustin

CHAPITRE V. SA NATURE.

5. Et lorsque notre pensée y cherche ce que les sens en peuvent atteindre, en se disant Ce n’est ni une forme intelligible, comme la vie, comme la justice, puisqu’elle est matière des corps; ni une forme sensible, puisque ni la vue, ni le sens n’ont de prise sur ce qui est invisible et sans forme; quand l’esprit de l’homme, dis-je, se parle ainsi, il faut qu’il se condamne à l’ignorance pour la connaître, et se résigne à l’ignorer en la connaissant.

  Print   Report an error
  • Show the text
  • Bibliographic Reference
  • Scans for this version
Editions of this Work
Confessiones (CSEL) Compare
Confessiones (PL) Compare
Translations of this Work
Bekenntnisse Compare
Les confessions de Saint Augustin
The Confessions of St. Augustin In Thirteen Books
Commentaries for this Work
Einleitung in die Confessiones
Prolegomena
The Opinion of St. Augustin Concerning His Confessions, as Embodied in His Retractations, II. 6
Translator's Preface - Confessions

Contents

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

© 2025 Gregor Emmenegger
Imprint
Privacy policy