All 4 Uses of
Saint Augustine
in
The Canterbury Tales
- of them at the day of doom; eke when he behighteth [promiseth] or assureth to do things that he may not perform; eke when that by lightness of folly he missayeth or scorneth his neighbour; eke when he hath any wicked suspicion of thing, that he wot of it no soothfastness: these things, and more without number, be sins, as saith Saint Augustine.†
Chpt 10.24Saint Augustine = early leader of the Christian church (354-430)
- Saint Augustine will that abstinence be done for virtue, and with patience.†
Chpt 10.24 *
- For Saint Augustine saith, "If that thou, because of humility, makest a leasing on thyself, though thou were not in sin before, yet art thou then in sin through thy leasing."†
Chpt 10.24
- And though thou shrive thee oftener than once of sin of which thou hast been shriven, it is more merit; and, as saith Saint Augustine, thou shalt have the more lightly [easily] release and grace of God, both of sin and of pain.†
Chpt 10.24
Definition:
after a dramatic conversion to Christianity became an early leader of the Christian church with a keen mind and an emphasis on man's need for grace (354-430)