On the Profit of Believing

St. Augustine of Hippo · 391–392 AD

1 of 37

Section 1

Translator’s Preface

Retract. i. cap. 14. Moreover now at Hippo-Regius as Presbyter I wrote a book on the Profit of Believing, to a friend of mine who had been taken in by the Manichees, and whom I knew to be still held in that error, and to deride the Catholic school of Faith, in that men were bid believe, but not taught what was truth by a most certain method. In this book I said, &c. * * *. This book begins thus, “Si mihi Honorate, unum atque idem videretur esse.”

The remarks in the Retractations are given in notes to the passages where they occur.