{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/101/1010162.htm","path":"chr/ecf/101/1010162.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/101/1010162.htm","text":"Chapter V.\u2014That Man Knoweth Not Himself Wholly.\n7. For it is Thou, Lord, that judgest me; 835 for although no \u201cman knoweth the things of a p. 144 man, save the spirit of man which is in him,\u201d 836 yet is there something of man which \u201cthe spirit of man which is in him\u201d itself knoweth not. But Thou, Lord, who hast made him, knowest him wholly. I indeed, though in Thy sight I despise myself, and reckon \u201cmyself but dust and ashes,\u201d 837 yet know something concerning Thee, which I know not concerning myself. And assuredly \u201cnow we see through a glass darkly,\u201d not yet \u201cface to face.\u201d 838 So long, therefore, as I be \u201cabsent\u201d from Thee, I am more \u201cpresent\u201d with myself than with Thee; 839 and yet know I that Thou canst not suffer violence; 840 but for myself I know not what temptations I am able to resist, and what I am not able. 841 But there is hope, because Thou art faithful, who wilt not suffer us to be tempted above that we are able, but wilt with the temptation also make a way to escape, that we may be able to bear it. 842 I would therefore confess what I know concerning myself; I will confess also what I know not concerning myself. And because what I do know of myself, I know by Thee enlightening me; and what I know not of myself, so long I know not until the time when my \u201cdarkness be as the noonday\u201d 843 in Thy sight.\nSee Nebridius\u2019 argument against the Manich\u00e6ans, as to God\u2019s not being violable, in vii. sec. 3, above, and the note thereon.\n144:841\nSee his Enarr. in Ps. lv. 8 and xciii. 19, where he beautifully describes how the winds and waves of temptation will be stilled if Christ be present in the ship. See also Serm. lxiii.; and Eps. cxxx. 22, and clxxvii. 4.\n144:842 144:843","title":"Nicene and Post Nicene-Fathers, Vol. I: The Confessions: ...","type":"page"}