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  CONFESSIONS - BOOK X - CHAPTER V
  by St. Augustine
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7. For it is thou, O Lord, who judgest me. For although no man \"knows
the things of a man, save the spirit of the man which is in him,\"[327]
yet there is something of man which \"the spirit of the man which is in
him\" does not know itself. But thou, O Lord, who madest him, knowest
him completely. And even I--though in thy sight I despise myself and
count myself but dust and ashes--even I know something about thee which
I do not know about myself. And it is certain that \"now we see through
a glass darkly,\" not yet \"face to face.\"[328] Therefore, as long as I
journey away from thee, I am more present with myself than with thee. I
know that thou canst not suffer violence, but I myself do not know what
temptations I can resist, and what I cannot. But there is hope, because
thou art faithful and thou wilt not allow us to be tempted beyond our
ability to resist, but wilt with the temptation also make a way of
escape that we may be able to bear it. I would therefore confess what I
know about myself; I will also confess what I do not know about myself.
What I do know of myself, I know from thy enlightening of me; and what I
do not know of myself, I will continue not to know until the time when
my \"darkness is as the noonday\"[329] in thy sight.

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