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Book Nine
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- Book Nine
- Chapter I - He Praises God, The Author Of Safety, And Jesus Christ, The Redeemer, Acknowledging His Own Wickedness.
- Chapter II - As His Lungs Were Affected, He Meditates Withdrawing Himself From Public Favour.
- Chapter III - He Retires To The Villa Of His Friend Verecundus, Who Was Not Yet A Christian, And Refers To His Conversion And Death, As well As That Of Nebridius.
- Chapter IV - In the Country He Gives His Attention To Literature, And Explains The Fourth Psalm In Connection With The Happy Conversion Of Alypius. He Is Troubled With Toothache.
- Chapter IX - He Describes The Praiseworthy Habits Of His Mother; Her Kindness Towards Her Husband And Her Sons.
- Chapter V - At The Recommendation Of Ambrose, He Reads The Prophecies Of Isaiah, But Does Not Understand Them.
- Chapter VI - He Is Baptized At Milan With Alypius And His Son Adeodatus. The Book "De Magistro."
- Chapter VII - Of The Church Hymns Instituted At Milan; Of The Ambrosian Persecution Raised By Justina; And Of The Discovery Of The Bodies Of Two Martyrs.
- Chapter VIII - Of The Conversion Of Evodius, And The Death Of His Mother When Returning With Him To Africa; And Whose Education he Tenderly Relates.
- Chapter X - A Conversation He Had With His Mother Concerning The Kingdom Of Heaven.
- Chapter XI - His Mother, Attacked By Fever, Dies At Ostia.
- Chapter XII - How He Mourned His Dead Mother.
- Chapter XIII - He Entreats God For Her Sins, And Admonishes His Readers To Remember Her Piously.
- Contents - Book IX