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The Example of a Woman
Sexual Renunciation and Augustine's Conversion
to Christianity in 386



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For you converted me to you so that I neither sought a
wife nor any other worldly hope. I was now standing in
the rule of faith in the same way that you had revealed
me to her so many years before. And you transformed her
mourning into a joy more abundant than she had wished
and much dearer and more chaste than that of having
grandchildren of my flesh.

These are the words that conclude Bk. 8 of the
Confessions, where Augustine recounts the dramatic final
moments of his conversion to Christianity. In these
words he speaks about God converting him "in such a......

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