“LOL! Your few paragraphs, plucked out of the entire life’s work of a Doctor of the Catholic Church”
Here is what the good Doctor concluded from his life’s work of study: “Why dost thou ready thine teeth and stomach? Believe, and thou hast eaten already.”
No matter how often you assert that it is out of context or in error, it simply is not persuasive since you consistently fail to even attempt at reconciling it with your views. Quoting one sentence over and over again as if it is a response, when Augustine declares later that that sentence is figurative, does not help your cause.
No assertion that St. Augustine was somehow a proto-Protestant or a Crypto-Calvinist will be taken as anything other than a wishful hallucination.
No matter how often you assert that it is out of context or in error, it simply is not persuasive since you consistently fail to even attempt at reconciling it with your views. Quoting one sentence over and over again as if it is a response, when Augustine declares later that that sentence is figurative, does not help your cause.
Within the context then, what is it a figure of???