Augustine -
- the ace of anti-Biblical allegory,
- the instigator of illogical logic,
- the excuser of Biblical revelation.
Gimme a break, I am so weary of Catholics and Protestants alike referring to Augustine as some infallible sage.
The point is not that he was infallible (he wasn’t).
The point is that he was the greatest Western theologian for a thousand years, and writing in an era (400s) way before modern science. So he can’t be accused of superimposing modernity on the text.
Another thing about Augustine. You study his “On the Literal Interpretation of Genesis” as I have the last few months, and you immediately get a sense of his humility before the text. He offers competing ideas, shoots some down, but is honestly not sure about others.
I wish modern commentators would be so humble. I can’t help but notice, for example, that you call him “unBiblical” as if your hermeneutic was the standard against which his should be judged.