What you ‘provided’ was YOUR interpretation of what you’ve think Augustine’s intentions were.
Do you disagree with what I stated his intentions were?
The text either stands on it's own or it doesn't.
” . . . there are many other things which most justly keep me in her (the Catholic Church’s) bosom . . . The succession of priests keeps me, beginning from the very seat of the Apostle Peter, to whom the Lord, after His resurrection, gave it in charge to feed His sheep, down to the present episcopate. (Against the Epistle of Manchaeus Called Fundamental [Contra Epistolam Manichaei Quam Vacant Fundamenti.]
http://www.gnosis.org/library/contfe.htm
When; in the timeline of things; was this quote located as compared to the first ones I posted?
These folks await your deft touch...
Basil, Bede, Cassiodorus, Chrysostom, Cyril, Origen, Hilary