{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/101/1010198.htm","path":"chr/ecf/101/1010198.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/101/1010198.htm","text":"Chapter XLI.\u2014Having Conquered His Triple Desire, He Arrives at Salvation.\n66. And thus have I reflected upon the wearinesses of my sins, in that threefold \u201clust,\u201d 969 and have invoked Thy right hand to my aid. For with a wounded heart have I seen Thy brightness, and being beaten back I exclaimed, \u201cWho can attain unto it?\u201d \u201cI am cut off from before Thine eyes.\u201d 970 Thou art the Truth, who presidest over all things, but I, through my covetousness, wished not to lose Thee, but with Thee wished to possess a lie; as no one wishes so to speak falsely as himself to be ignorant of the truth. So then I lost Thee, because Thou deignest not to be enjoyed with a lie.","title":"Nicene and Post Nicene-Fathers, Vol. I: The Confessions: ...","type":"page"}