There are many stones of
stumbling in them for the modern secularist -- and even for the
modern Christian! Despite all this, it is impossible to read him
with any attention at all without recognizing how his genius and
his piety burst through the limitations of his times and his
language -- and even his English translations! He grips our
hearts and minds and enlists us in the great enterprise to which
his whole life was devoted: the search for and the celebration of
God's grace and glory by which his faithful children are sustained
and guided in their pilgrimage toward the true Light of us all.
The most useful critical text of the Confessions is that of
Pierre de Labriolle (fifth edition, Paris, 1950). I have collated
this with the other major critical editions: Martin Skutella, S.
Aureli Augustini Confessionum Libri Tredecim (Leipzig, 1934) --
itself a recension of the Corpus Scriptorum ecclesiasticorum
Latinorum XXXIII text of Pius Knoll (Vienna, 1896) -- and the
second edition of John Gibb and William Montgomery (Cambridge,
1927).
There are two good critical texts of the Enchiridion and I
have collated them: Otto Scheel, Augustins Enchiridion (zweite
Auflage, Tubingen, 1930), and Jean Riviere, Enchiridion in the
Bibliotheque Augustinienne, Oeuvres de S.
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