On the Trinity (De Trinitate)

Augustine

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English

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THE WORKS AURELIUS AUGIUSTINE, BISHOP OF HIPPO. A NEW TRANSLATION, eeuiteti 1)1) tl^t REY. MARCUS DODS, M.A. VOL. VII. 0:N" THE TEINITY. EDINBURGH: T. & T. CLARK, 38, GEORGE STREET. MDOOCLXXIII. PRINTED BY MUJRRAY AND GIBB, T. & T. CLAKK, EDINBURGH. LONDON, .... HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO. DUBLIN, .... JOHN ROBERTSON AND CO. NEW YORK, . . . C. SCRIBNER AND CO. ON THE TRINITY. Craiislatelr 6u tjjt REV. ARTHUR WEST HAD DAN, B.D. HON. CANON OF WORCESTER, AND RECTOR OF BARTON-ON-THE-HEATH, WARWICKSHIRE. EDINBUEGH: T. & T. CLAEK, 38, GEOEGE STEEET. MDCCCLXXIII. ihi INSTITUTE' OF MFDIAEVAl ^rtUSlS^^' s^ JO ELMSLEY PLACE '^' Toronto &^ Canada, "While the last sheet of this volume was passing through the press, the labours of the accomplished translator were terminated by death. Mr. Haddan is mourned by all who knew him as an accurate and careful scholar, and an able and earnest man. TRANSLATOE'S PREFACE. THE history of St. Augustine's treatise on the Trinity, as gathered by Tillemont and others from his own allusions to it, may be briefly given. It is placed by him in his Retrac- tations among the works written (w^hich in the present case, it appears, must mean begun) in a.d. 400. In letters of a.d. 410, 414, and the end of a.d. 415 (Ad Consentmm, Ep. 120, and two Ad JEvodmm, Epp. 162, 169), it is referred to as still unfinished and unpublished. But a letter of A.D. 412 (Ad Marcellinum, Ep. 143) intimates that -friends were at that time importuning him, although without success, to complete and publish it. And the letter to Aurelius, which was sent to that bishop with the treatise itself when actually completed, informs us that a

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