Letters
Augustine of Hippo · 420 · Before the division · public-domain-translation
5 claims in this dataset rest on this source.
Sentences remembered from it
- Ambrose NPNF1 I, Letters, Letter LIV (to Januarius), 3
- Augustine of Hippo NPNF1 I, Letters, Letter XCIII (to Vincentius), 5
- Augustine of Hippo NPNF1 I, Letters, Letter CCXI (to the nuns of Hippo), 11
- Augustine of Hippo NPNF1 I, Letters, Letter CLXXXIX (to Boniface), 6
- Augustine of Hippo NPNF1 I, Letters, Letter CCXI (to the nuns of Hippo), 1
A selection of 167 of the letters, running from 386 to 429 — the working correspondence of a bishop: a rule for a convent, an argument with Jerome about Galatians, the case for coercing the Donatists, and a letter to a general on how to wage war and stay a peacemaker. Where the Confessions are addressed to God, these are addressed to whoever wrote last.