{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/101/1010221.htm","path":"chr/ecf/101/1010221.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/101/1010221.htm","text":"Chapter XX.\u2014In What Manner Time May Properly Be Designated.\n26. But what now is manifest and clear is, that neither are there future nor past things. Nor is it fitly said, \u201cThere are three times, past, present and future;\u201d but perchance it might be fitly said, \u201cThere are three times; a present of things past, a present of things present, and a present of things future.\u201d For these three do somehow exist in the soul, and otherwise I see them not: present of things past, memory; present of things present, sight; present of things future, expectation. If of these things we are permitted to speak, I see three times, and I grant there are three. It may also be said, \u201cThere are three times, past, present and future,\u201d as usage falsely has it. See, I trouble not, nor gainsay, nor reprove; provided always that which is said may be understood, that neither the future, nor that which is past, now is. For there are but few things which we speak properly, many things improperly; but what we may wish to say is understood.","title":"Nicene and Post Nicene-Fathers, Vol. I: The Confessions: ...","type":"page"}