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Confessiones (PL)

CAPUT II. Deum quem invocat in ipso esse, ipsumque in Deo.

2. Et quomodo invocabo Deum meum, Deum et Dominum meum? Quoniam utique in me ipsum eum vocabo, cum invocabo eum. Et quis locus est in me quo veniat in me Deus meus? quo Deus veniat in me, Deus qui fecit coelum et terram? Itane, Domine Deus meus, est quidquam in me quod capiat te? An vero coelum et terra quae fecisti, et in quibus me fecisti, capiunt te? An quia sine te non esset quidquid est, fit ut quidquid est capiat te? Quoniam itaque et ego sum, quid peto ut venias in me, qui non essem, nisi esses in me? Non enim ego jam in inferis, et tamen etiam ibi es. Nam etsi descendero in infernum, ades ¹. Non ergo essem, Deus meus, non omnino essem, nisi esses in me. An potius non essem, nisi essem in te, ex quo omnia, per quem omnia, in [Col. 0662] quo omnia ²? Etiam sic, Domine, etiam sic. Quo te invoco, cum in te sim? aut unde venias in me? Quo enim recedam extra coelum et terram, ut inde in me veniat Deus meus, qui dixit: Coelum et terram ego impleo? ³

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The Confessions of St. Augustin In Thirteen Books

Chapter II.--That the God Whom We Invoke is in Us, and We in Him.

2. And how shall I call upon my God--my God and my Lord? For when I call on Him I ask Him to come into me. And what place is there in me into which my God can come--into which God can come, even He who made heaven and earth? Is there anything in me, O Lord my God, that can contain Thee? Do indeed the very heaven and the earth, which Thou hast made, and in which Thou hast made me, contain Thee? Or, as nothing could exist without Thee, doth whatever exists contain Thee? Why, then, do I ask Thee to come into me, since I indeed exist, and could not exist if Thou wert not in me? Because I am not yet in hell, though Thou art even there; for "if I go down into hell Thou art there." ¹ I could not therefore exist, could not exist at all, O my God, unless Thou wert in me. Or should I not rather say, that I could not exist unless I were in Thee from whom are all things, by whom are all things, in whom are all things? ² Even so, Lord; even so. Where do I call Thee to, since Thou art in me, or whence canst Thou come into me? For where outside heaven and earth can I go that from thence my God may come into me who has said, I fill heaven and earth"? ³