[HarleyD]

I understand what Augustine wrote. I don't agree with him. I'm not sure if he was using the poorly translated version or if his mind was set in this superstitious belief.

Do not summon against me professors of the Christian name, who neither know nor give evidence of the power of their profession. Do not hunt up the numbers of ignorant people, who even in the true religion are superstitious, or are so given up to evil passions as to forget what they have promised to God. I know that there are many worshippers of tombs and pictures. I know that there are many who drink to great excess over the dead, and who, in the feasts which they make for corpses, bury themselves over the buried, and give to their gluttony and drunkenness the name of religion. I know that there are many who in words have renounced this world, and yet desire to be burdened with all the weight of worldly things, and rejoice in such burdens. - Augustine, Morals of the Catholic Church

[kosta50]

I'm not sure if he was using the poorly translated version or if his mind was set in this superstitious belief

Could be both. His Greek was very marginal and he is known to have made some conceptual errors based on his poor understanding and/or translation of Greek sources.

And when +Augustine makes an error, an entire section of western Christians falls into it because, to some, he is the only Church Father they follow.