论三位一体（De Trinitate）

"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 Retractations 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end of a.d. 415 (Ad Consentmm, Ep. 120, and two Ad JEvodmm, Epp. 162, 169), it is referred to as still unfinished and unpublished.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 portion of it, while it was still unrevised and incomplete, was in fact surreptitiously made public, — a proceeding which the letters above cited postpone apparently until at least after a.d. 415. It was certainly still in hand in A.D. 416, inasmuch as in Book XIII.…