1、 第第 7 卷卷 圣奥古斯丁圣奥古斯丁忏悔录忏悔录 百年哈佛 50 部经典 英文版 Harvard Classics 第 7 卷 圣奥古斯丁忏悔录 2/403 总目录总目录 第第 1 卷卷 富兰克林自传富兰克林自传 第第 2 卷卷 柏拉图对话录：辩解篇、菲多柏拉图对话录：辩解篇、菲多篇、克利多篇篇、克利多篇 第第 3 卷卷 培根论说文集及新阿特兰蒂斯培根论说文集及新阿特兰蒂斯 第第 4 卷卷 约翰米尔顿英文诗全集约翰米尔顿英文诗全集 第第 5 卷卷 爱默生文集爱默生文集 第第 6 卷卷 伯恩斯诗歌集伯恩斯诗歌集 第第 7 卷卷 圣奥古斯丁忏悔录圣奥古斯丁忏悔录 第第 8 卷卷 希腊戏剧希腊戏剧
2、 第第 9 卷卷 论友谊、论老年及书信集论友谊、论老年及书信集 第第 10 卷卷 国富论国富论 第第 11 卷卷 物种起源论物种起源论 第第 12 卷卷 普卢塔克比较列传普卢塔克比较列传 第第 13 卷卷 伊尼亚德伊尼亚德 第第 14 卷卷 唐吉坷德唐吉坷德 百年哈佛 50 部经典 英文版 Harvard Classics 第 7 卷 圣奥古斯丁忏悔录 3/403 第第 15 卷卷 天路历程天路历程 第第 16 卷卷 天方夜谭天方夜谭 第第 17 卷卷 民间传说与预言民间传说与预言 第第 18 卷卷 英国现代戏剧英国现代戏剧 第第 19 卷卷 浮士德浮士德 第第 20 卷卷 神曲神曲 第第 2
3、1 卷卷 许婚的爱人许婚的爱人 第第 22 卷卷 奥德赛奥德赛 第第 23 卷卷 两年水手生涯两年水手生涯 第第 24 卷卷 伯克文集伯克文集 第第 25 卷卷 穆勒文集穆勒文集 第第 26 卷卷 欧洲大陆戏剧欧洲大陆戏剧 第第 27 卷卷 英国名家随笔英国名家随笔 第第 28 卷卷 英国与美国名家随笔英国与美国名家随笔 第第 29 卷卷 比格尔号上的旅行比格尔号上的旅行 第第 30 卷卷 科学论文集：物理学、化学、科学论文集：物理学、化学、天文学、地质学天文学、地质学 百年哈佛 50 部经典 英文版 Harvard Classics 第 7 卷 圣奥古斯丁忏悔录 4/403 第第 31 卷卷
4、 切利尼自传切利尼自传 第第 32 卷卷 文学和哲学名家随笔文学和哲学名家随笔 第第33卷卷 古代与现代著名航海与旅行记古代与现代著名航海与旅行记 第第 34 卷卷 法国和英国著名哲学家法国和英国著名哲学家 第第 35 卷卷 见闻与传奇见闻与传奇 第第 36 卷卷 君王论君王论 第第 37 卷卷 17、18 世纪英国著名哲学家世纪英国著名哲学家 第第 38 卷卷 物理学、医学、外科学和地质物理学、医学、外科学和地质学学 第第 39 卷卷 著名之前言和序言著名之前言和序言 第第 40 卷卷 英文诗集（卷）从乔叟到格英文诗集（卷）从乔叟到格雷雷 第第 41 卷卷 英文诗集（卷）从科林斯到英文诗集（
5、卷）从科林斯到费兹杰拉德费兹杰拉德 第第 42 卷卷 英文诗集（卷）从丁尼生到英文诗集（卷）从丁尼生到惠特曼惠特曼 第第 43 卷卷 10001904 第第 44 卷卷 圣书圣书(卷一卷一):孔子孔子 希伯来书希伯来书 基基百年哈佛 50 部经典 英文版 Harvard Classics 第 7 卷 圣奥古斯丁忏悔录 5/403 督圣经督圣经()第第 45 卷卷 圣书圣书(卷二卷二)基督圣经基督圣经()第第 46 卷卷 伊丽莎白时期戏剧（卷）伊丽莎白时期戏剧（卷）第第 47 卷卷 伊丽莎白时期戏剧（卷）伊丽莎白时期戏剧（卷）第第 48 卷卷 帕斯卡文集帕斯卡文集 第第 49 卷卷 史诗与传说史
6、诗与传说 第第 50 卷卷 哈佛经典讲座哈佛经典讲座 百年哈佛 50 部经典 英文版 Harvard Classics 第 7 卷 圣奥古斯丁忏悔录 6/403 第第 7 卷卷 圣奥古斯丁忏悔录圣奥古斯丁忏悔录 INTRODUCTORY NOTE AURELIUS AUGUSTINUS,better known as Saint Augustine,was born of poor parents in the small town of Thagaste in Numidia,North Africa,A.D.354.His father,Patricius,a pagan of somew
7、hat loose life,was converted to Christianity before his death;his mother Monnica,on account of her personal piety and her influence on her son,is one of the most revered women in the history of the Christian Church.Augustine was educated at the University of Carthage,and according to his own account
8、 belonged to a fast set and joined in their dissipations.While there he entered into a relation which lasted for fourteen years with a young woman who became the mother of his son Adeodatus;and he joined the heretical sect of the Manichans,who professed to have received from their founder,Manes,a hi
9、gher form of truth than that taught by Christ.At the close of his university career,which had been brilliant in spite of distractions,he returned to his native town,and first there,and later in Carthage and Rome,he practised as a teacher of rhetoric,training young lawyers in the art of pleading.By t
10、he time he was about twenty-seven he had begun to have doubts as to the validity of Manichism,but it was not till 387,while he was Professor of Rhetoric in the University of Milan,that he was converted to Catholic Christianity,and received baptism.He now gave up his profession and became an ascetic,
11、studying the foundations of the faith,writing,chiefly against his former sect,and conversing with a group of disciples,first at Rome and then in his native town.When he was on a visit to Hippo,not far from Thagaste,he was forced into the priesthood,and in 395 he became Bishop of Hippo,an office whic
12、h he filled for the 百年哈佛 50 部经典 英文版 Harvard Classics 第 7 卷 圣奥古斯丁忏悔录 7/403 remaining thirty five years of his life.Though he took a leading part in the activities of the African Church through all this time,and gradually became one of the most distinguished ecclesiastical figures in the Empire,the ca
13、re of his diocese and the writing of his books formed his chief occupations.He continued to lead a life of extreme simplicity and self-denial,and in his episcopal establishment he trained a large number of disciples who became leaders in the Church.The strength of his hold on these younger men was d
14、ue not merely to his intellectual ascendancy,but also to the charm and sweetness of his disposition.A large part of his literary activity was devoted to controversy with the heretics of his time,first the Manichans,then the Donatists,and finally the Pelagians.It was in his writings against these las
15、t and most important opponents that he elaborated his statement of the doctrines of Predestination,Irresistible Grace and Final Perseverance,through which he has left his chief mark upon the creeds of later times.The theology of the Schoolmen,such as Thomas Aquinas,and of the Calvinists of the Refor
16、mation,is built upon an Augustinian basis.His two most important books are“The City of God”and the“Confessions.”The former of these was provoked by the attacks upon Christianity,roused by the disasters that began to fall upon the Western Empire in the beginning of the fifth century;and Augustine rep
17、lies by pointing out the failure of the heathen gods in former times to protect the peoples who trusted in them,and goes on to expose the evil influence of the belief in the old mythology,in a minute examination of its traditions and mysteries.The second part of the book deals with the history of th
18、e“City of Man,”founded upon love of self,and of the“City of God,”founded upon love of God and contempt of self.This work is a vast storehouse of the knowledge of the time,and is a monument not only to Augustines great learning,but also to the keenest metaphysical mind of the age.百年哈佛 50 部经典 英文版 Harv
19、ard Classics 第 7 卷 圣奥古斯丁忏悔录 8/403 The“Confessions,”here printed,speaks for itself.The earliest of autobiographies,it remains unsurpassed as a sincere and intimate record of a great and pious soul laid bare before God.THE CONFESSIONS OF ST.AUGUSTINE THE FIRST BOOK Confessions of the greatness and uns
20、earchableness of God,of Gods mercies in infancy and boyhood,and human wilfulness;of his own sins of idleness,abuse of his studies,and of Gods gifts up to his fifteenth year.GREAT art Thou,O Lord,and greatly to be praised;great is Thy power,and Thy wisdom infinite.注 1And Thee would man praise;man,but
21、 a particle of Thy creation;man,that bears about him his mortality,the witness of his sin,the witness that Thou resistest the proud:注 2yet would man praise Thee;he,but a particle of Thy creation.Thou awakest us to delight in Thy praise;for Thou madest us for Thyself,and our heart is restless,until i
22、t repose in Thee.Grant me,Lord,to know and understand which is first,to call on Thee or to praise Thee?and,again,to know Thee or to call on Thee?for who can call on Thee,not knowing Thee?for he that knoweth Thee not,may call on Thee as other than Thou art.Or,is it rather,that we call on Thee that we
23、 may know Thee?but how shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed?or how shall they believe without a preacher?注 3and they that seek the Lord shall praise Him:注4for they that seek shall find Him,注 5and they that find shall praise Him.I will seek Thee,Lord,by calling on Thee,and will call
24、on Thee;believing in Thee;for to us hast Thou been preached.My faith,Lord,shall call on Thee,which Thou hast given me,wherewith Thou hast inspired me,through the Incarnation of Thy Son,through the ministry of the Preacher.And how shall I call upon my God,my God and Lord,since,when I call for Him,I s
25、hall be calling Him to myself?and what room is there within me,whither my God can come into me?whither can God come into me,God who made heaven and earth?is there,indeed,O Lord my God,aught 百年哈佛 50 部经典 英文版 Harvard Classics 第 7 卷 圣奥古斯丁忏悔录 9/403 in me that can contain do then heaven and earth,which Th
26、ou hast made,and wherein Thou hast made me,contain Thee?or,because nothing which exists could exist without Thee,doth therefore whatever exists contain Thee?Since,then,I too exist,why do I seek that Thou shouldest enter into me,who were not,wert Thou not in me?Why?because I am not gone down in hell,
27、and yet Thou art there also.For if I go down into hell,Thou art there.注 6I could not be then,O my God,could not be at all,wert Thou not in me;or,rather,unless I were in Thee,of whom are all things,by whom are all things,in whom are all things?注 7Even so,Lord,even so.Whither do I call Thee,since I am
28、 in Thee?or whence canst Thou enter into me?for whither can I go beyond heaven and earth,that thence my God should come into me,who hath said,I fill the heaven and the earth.注 8 Do the heaven and earth then contain Thee,since thou fillest them?or dost Thou fill them and yet overflow,since they do no
29、t contain Thee?And whither,when the heaven and the earth are filled,pourest Thou forth the remainder of Thyself?or hast Thou no need that aught contain Thee,who containest all things,since what Thou fillest Thou fillest by containing it?for the vessels which Thou fillest uphold Thee not,since,though
30、 they were broken,Thou wert not poured out.And when Thou art poured out注 9on us,Thou art not cast down,but Thou upliftest us;Thou art not dissipated,but Thou gatherest us.But Thou who fillest all things,fillest Thou them with Thy whole self?or,since all things cannot contain Thee wholly,do they cont
31、ain part of Thee?and all at once the same part?or each its own part,the greater more,the smaller less?And is,then,one part of Thee greater,another less?or,art Thou wholly everywhere,while nothing contains Thee wholly?What art Thou then,my God?what,but the Lord God?For who is Lord but the Lord?or who
32、 is God save our God?注 10Most highest,most good,most potent,most omnipotent;most merciful,yet most just;most 百年哈佛 50 部经典 英文版 Harvard Classics 第 7 卷 圣奥古斯丁忏悔录 10/403 hidden,yet most present;most beautiful,yet most strong;stable,yet incomprehensible;unchangeable,yet all-changing;never new,never old;all
33、-renewing,and bringing age upon the proud,and they know it not;ever working,ever at rest;still gathering,yet nothing lacking;supporting,filling,and overspreading;creating,nourishing,and maturing;seeking,yet having all things.Thou lovest,without passion;art jealous,without anxiety;repentest,yet griev
34、est not;art angry,yet serene;changest Thy works,Thy purpose unchanged;receivest again what Thou findest,yet didst never lose;never in need,yet rejoicing in gains;never covetous,yet exacting usury.注 11Thou receivest over and above,that Thou mayest owe;and who hath aught that is not Thine?Thou payest
35、debts,owing nothing;remittest debts,losing nothing.And what have I now said,my God,my life,my holy joy?or what saith any man when he speaks of Thee?Yet woe to him that speaketh not,since mute are even the most eloquent.Oh!that I might repose on Thee!Oh!that Thou wouldest enter into my heart,and ineb
36、riate it,that I may forget my ills,and embrace Thee,my sole good?What art Thou to me?In Thy pity,teach me to utter it.Or what am I to Thee that Thou demandest my love,and,if I give it not,art wroth with me,and threatenest me with grievous woes?Is it then a slight woe to love Thee not?Oh!for Thy merc
37、ies sake,tell me,O Lord my God,what Thou art unto me.Say unto my soul,I am thy salvation.注 12So speak,that I may hear.Behold,Lord,my heart is before Thee;open Thou the ears thereof,and say unto my soul,I am thy salvation.After this voice let me haste,and take hold on Thee.Hide not Thy face from me.L
38、et me dielest I dieonly let me see Thy face.Narrow is the mansion of my soul;enlarge Thou it,that Thou mayest enter in.It is ruinous;repair Thou it.It has that within which must offend Thine eyes;I confess and know it.But who shall cleanse it?or to whom should I cry,save Thee?Lord,cleanse me from my
39、 secret faults and spare Thy servant from the power of the enemy.注 13I believe,and therefore do 百年哈佛 50 部经典 英文版 Harvard Classics 第 7 卷 圣奥古斯丁忏悔录 11/403 I speak.注 14Lord,Thou knowest.Have I not confessed against myself my transgressions unto Thee,and Thou,my God,hast forgiven the iniquity of my heart?
40、注 15I contend not in judgment with Thee,注 16who art the truth;I fear to deceive myself;lest mine iniquity lie unto itself.注17Therefore I contend not in judgment with Thee;for if Thou,Lord,shouldest mark iniquities,O Lord,who shall abide it?注 18 Yet suffer me to speak unto Thy mercy,me,dust and ashes
41、.注 19Yet suffer me to speak,since I speak to Thy mercy,and not to scornful man.Thou too,perhaps,despisest me,yet wilt Thou return and have compassion注 20upon me.For what would I say,O Lord my God,but that I know not whence I came into this dying life(shall I call it?)or living death.Then immediately
42、 did the comforts of Thy compassion take me up,as I heard(for I remember it not)from the parents of my flesh,out of whose substance Thou didst sometime fashion me.Thus there received me the comforts of womans milk.For neither my mother nor my nurses stored their own breasts for me;but Thou didst bes
43、tow the food of my infancy through them,according to Thine ordinance,whereby Thou distributest Thy riches through the hidden springs of all things.Thou also gavest me to desire no more than Thou gavest;and to my nurses willingly to give me what Thou gavest them.For they,with a heaven-taught affectio
44、n,willingly gave me what they abounded with from Thee.For this my good from them,was good for them.Nor,indeed,from them was it,but through them;for from Thee,O God,are all good things,and from my God is all my health.This I since learned,Thou,through these Thy gifts,within me and without,proclaiming
45、 Thyself unto me.For then I knew but to suck;to repose in what pleased,and cry at what offended my flesh;nothing more.Afterwards I began to smile;first in sleep,then waking:for so it was told me of myself,and I believed it;for we see the like in other infants,though of myself I remember it not.Thus,
46、little by little,I became conscious where I was;and to have a wish to express my wishes to those 百年哈佛 50 部经典 英文版 Harvard Classics 第 7 卷 圣奥古斯丁忏悔录 12/403 who could content them,and I could not;for the wishes were within me,and they without;nor could they by any sense of theirs enter within my spirit.S
47、o I flung about at random limbs and voice,making the few signs I could,and such as I could,like,though in truth very little like,what I wished.And when I was not presently obeyed(my wishes being hurtful or unintelligible),then I was indignant with my elders for not submitting to me,with those owing
48、me no service,for not serving me;and avenged myself on them by tears.Such have I learnt infants to be from observing them;and that I was myself such,they,all unconscious,have shown me better than my nurses who knew it.And,lo!my infancy died long since,and I live.But Thou,Lord,who for ever livest,and
49、 in whom nothing dies:for before the foundation of the worlds,and before all that can be called“before,”Thou art,and art God and Lord of all which Thou hast created:in Thee abide,fixed for ever,the first causes of all things unabiding;and of all things changeable,the springs abide in Thee unchangeab
50、le:and in Thee live the eternal reasons of all things unreasoning and temporal.Say,Lord,to me,Thy suppliant;say,all-pitying,to me,Thy pitiable one;say,did my infancy succeed another age of mine that died before it?was it that which I spent within my mothers womb?for of that I have heard somewhat,and
