Above all, don't forget this: not to be unduly troubled when you don't yet understand the holy scriptures; when you do understand them, not to get a swollen head.
Illud ante omnia retinete, ut Scripturis sanctis nondum intellectis non perturbemini; intelligentes autem non inflemini.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Sunday, December 03, 2023
Don't Forget This
Augustine, Sermons 51.35 (Patrologia Latina, vol. 38, col. 354; tr. Edmund Hill):