Australia was born in Taggart, North Africa in June 65438 +065438+ 10/3354. At that time, North Africa had entered the territory of the Roman Empire and was completely enveloped by Roman culture. My father's name is Battalius, an ordinary citizen of our city, and my mother's name is Moniga, a Christian. Ossie was influenced by her mother since childhood, but she was not formally baptized. When I was a child, I studied in this city, and later I went to Madura (now Mdaourouch, Algeria) and Carthage to study grammar and eloquence (at that time, Roman education was divided into three levels, and primary schools were literacy and arithmetic. At the age of 12 to 16, he entered grammar school to study grammar, poetry, literature and history, and at the age of 16 to 20, he entered eloquence school to study rhetoric and philosophy. /kloc-at the age of 0/9, he began to love philosophy. He converted to Manichaeism because he explored the root of evil. After graduation, I first taught in my city, and then worked as an eloquence professor in Carthage for eight years. Dissatisfied with Carthage's style of study, he traveled across the ocean to Rome and became a professor of eloquence in Milan. Ossie was already dissatisfied with Manichaeism when he was in Carthage. After arriving in Milan, influenced by Ambrosius, the Christian leader of the city, he officially left Manichaeism. He was once fascinated by neo-Platonism and doubted everything, but gradually approached Christianity in concept. Finally, after a fierce ideological struggle, he decided to believe in Christianity in the autumn of 386; He resigned from his teaching post and prepared to devote himself to the church. The following year, she was baptized in Milan, set off for her hometown and arrived at the mouth of the Tiber River. Her mother died of illness. Therefore, I postponed my return to Africa for one year. In 39 1 year, he was promoted to the priest of Xibo (now the bone of Pengcheng, Algeria). In 395, the Duke taught patients, and Ossie was appointed Bishop of Hippo. From then on, he began a series of activities in the church, and had a heated debate with various denominations of the church, becoming the central figure of Christian academic circles at that time. In 430, the Vandals invaded North Africa. On August 28th, 2008, the third month after Xibo City was besieged, Ossie died of illness.
Auschwitz was the most prolific Latin godfather of ancient Christianity. According to Auschwitz himself, there were 93 kinds of works revised by 427, but letters and sermons were not included. Among his works, Confessions is the most widely read.
Confessions, formerly known as confessions, is interpreted as "confession and repentance" in classical Latin texts, but in church literature, it is of great significance to admit the greatness of God. Auschwitz initially focused on the latter meaning, that is, describing God's grace in his life and praising God; But most people pay attention to the first meaning, so our country is used to calling this book Confessions, and in Europe Confessions has become another name for autobiography.
This book has thirteen volumes, which can be divided into two parts in content. 1 to 9 volumes is a history from his birth to the death of his mother at the age of 33. 10 to 13, that is, the author wrote this book (according to scholars' research, the time to write Confessions should be around 400 years, after Austin was promoted to bishop, that is, 395 or 396 to 40 1 year).
The first part: The first volume, after praising God, describes the deeds from birth to the age of fifteen. The second and third volumes describe his youth and life when he was studying in Carthage. Volumes 4 and 5 describe his teaching career before going to Milan. The sixth and seventh volumes describe the process of his ideological transformation. The eighth volume describes the cause, process and result of his ideological struggle. The ninth volume is a story from his conversion to Christianity to his mother's death.
The second part: Volume 10 is his ideological analysis when writing a book. Volumes 10 to 13 explain the first chapter of Genesis in the Old Testament, pay tribute to God's six-day creative project, and end the book in praise of God.
In his book, Ossie not only shows sincere feelings, but also makes a very profound analysis of his own behavior and thoughts. His writing is delicate and vivid, and his style is unique. He has become a masterpiece in late Latin literature and is listed as one of the masterpieces in ancient western literature.
In the Middle Ages, before European printing was invented, this book was copied in large quantities, especially the old manuscripts of European Catholic Benedictine monasteries. The Complete Works of Auschwitz was published in 1506, and its later important editions are: 1576- 1577, the edition of Louvain University in Belgium, and 1679, the edition of Benedictine in Paris, France (later included in the Latin godfather anthology in MiG: Patrogialatina). By 1926, Professor Labriolle of France copied the Vienna edition, consulted eighteen ancient manuscripts and four Indian editions from the 7th to1century, and published a bound edition, which became the most perfect edition. Now this book is
Based on this, it was translated from the school.