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He who makes the truth comes to the light.' The truth that
Augustine made in the Confessions had eluded him for years. It
appears before us as a trophy torn from the grip of the unsayable
after a prolonged struggle on the frontier between speech and
silence. What was at stake was more than words. The `truth' of
which Augustine spoke was not merely a quality of a verbal formula,
but veracity itself, a quality of a living human person.
Augustine `made the truth'ÄÄin this sense, became himself
truthfulÄÄwhen he found a pattern of words to say the true thing
well. But both the `truth' that Augustine made and the `light' to
which it led were for him scripturally guaranteed epithets of
Christ, the pre-existent second person of the trinity. For
Augustine to write a book, then, that purported to make truth and
seek light was not merely a reflection upon the actions of his life
but pure act itself, thought and writing become the enactment of
ideas.
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