unfolded the concealed facts of the Scriptures, I may cite the
following from the thirteenth book of the "Confessions;" his
object is to show that the doctrine of the Trinity is contained
in the Mosaic narrative of the creation:

"Lo, now the Trinity appears unto me in a glass darkly, which is
thou my God, because thou, O Father, in him who is the beginning
of our wisdom, which is thy wisdom, born of thyself, equal unto
thee and coeternal, that is, in thy Son, createdst heaven and
earth. Much now have we said of the heaven of heavens, and of the
earth invisible and without form, and of the darksome deep, in
reference to the wandering instability of its spiritual
deformity, unless it had been converted unto him, from whom it
had its then degree of life, and by his enlightening became a
beauteous life, and the heaven of that heaven, which was
afterward set between water and water. And under the name of God,
I now held the Father, who made these things; and under the name
of the beginning, the Son, in whom he made these things; and
believing, as I did, my God as the Trinity, I searched further in
his holy words, and lo! thy Spirit moved upon the waters. Behold
the Trinity, my God!--Father, and Son, and Holy Ghost Creator of
all creation."

That I might convey to my reader a just impression of the
character of St. Augustine's philosophical writings, I have, in
the two quotations here given, substituted for my own translation
that of the Rev. Dr. Pusey, as contained in Vol. I. of the
"Library of Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church," published at
Oxford, 1840.