Augustine vs The Grammar Police

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O Lord my God, be patient, as you always are, with the men of this world as you watch them and see how strictly they obey the rules of grammar which have been handed down to them, and yet ignore the eternal rules of everlasting salvation which they have received from you.

Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, trans R. S. Pine-Coffin (Penguin edn, London, 1961), 1.18, pp 38-9.
 
O Lord my God, be patient, as you always are, with the men of this world as you watch them and see how strictly they obey the rules of grammar which have been handed down to them, and yet ignore the eternal rules of everlasting salvation which they have received from you.

Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, trans R. S. Pine-Coffin (Penguin edn, London, 1961), 1.18, pp 38-9.

That's one of my favorite translations of Confessions, along with Henry Chadwick's from 30 years later. And how can one not like a last name like "Pine-Coffin"? LOL

R. S. Pine-Coffin (1917-1992)
 
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