Wednesday, December 27, 2023
Holy Scriptures
Augustine, Sermons 71.11 (Patrologia Latina, vol. 38, col. 450 = Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina, vol. XLI A, p. 405; tr. Edmund Hill):
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Actually in the whole wide field of the holy scriptures we are nourished by the passages that are clear, exercised by those that are obscure; the first kind relieve us from hunger, the second save us from boredom.
In omni quippe copia Scripturarum sanctarum pascimur apertis, exercemur obscuris; illic fames pellitur, hic fastidium.
