懺悔錄(英漢對照)（簡體書）

作者：（古羅馬）圣·奧古斯丁 譯者：（英國）派茵科芬 任小鵬

圣·奧古斯丁，古羅馬帝國時期的基督教思想家，歐洲中世紀基督教神學、教父哲學的重要代表人物。在羅馬天主教系統，他被封為“圣人”。對于新教教會，特別是加爾文主義，他的理論是宗教改革的救贖和恩典思想的源頭。

擁抱自然，思考社會，回歸常識，豐盈自我，影響人類的偉大思想。《懺悔錄(英漢對照)》偉大的思想家圣·奧古斯丁用簡潔的文字，帶給人類最偉大的思想啟迪，我們用簡單的方法，走近這些卓爾不群的人物，聆聽他們振聾發聵的聲音。

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Yet all the while,far above,your mercy hovered faithfully about me.I exhausted myself in depravity, in the pursuit of an unholy curiosity.I deserted you and sank to the bottommost depths of scepticism and the mockery of devil-worship.My sins were a sacrifice to the devil,and for all of them you chastised me.I defied you even so far as to relish the thought of lust,and gratify it too,within the walls of your church during the celebration of your mysteries.For such a deed I deserved to pluck the fruit of death,and you punished me for it with a heavy lash.But,compared with my guilt,the penalty was nothing.How infinite is your mercy,my God!You are my Refuge from the terrible dangers amongst which I wandered,head on high,intent upon withdrawing still further from you.I loved my own way,not yours,but it was a truant's freedom that I loved.
Besides these pursuits I was also studying for the law.Such ambition was held to be honourable and I determined to succeed in it.The more unscrupulous I was,the greater my reputation was likely to be,for men are so blind that they even take pride in their blindness.By now I was at the top of the school of rhetoric.I was pleased with my superior status and swollen with conceit.
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然而，你的仁慈總是在高處信實地庇護著我。我在墮落和瀆神的好奇心中筋疲力盡。我離棄你，沉入懷疑主義的最底層，還模仿魔鬼式的崇拜。我的罪是給魔鬼的獻祭，為了這一切你責罰我。我竟然冒犯你，在教堂舉行你神秘的盛典之時，我竟充滿肉欲的思想，并從中獲得滿足。因這一行為我理應被判處死刑，你用重重的鞭打懲罰我。但是與我的罪相比，這懲罰算不得什么。主啊！你的慈愛是多么的無限，當我在高處走，卻執意后退、更加遠離你的時候，你是我所經之極危險之境的避難所，我喜歡自己的方式，而不是你的，但我所愛的這種自由是不負責任的自由。
除了這些追求以外，我也學習法律。這樣的抱負是被尊崇的，我決定繼續下去。我越是無恥，我就越有名，人們都瞎眼了，以至于以其瞎眼為榮。那時我在雄辯學校名列前矛。我很滿意自己高高在上的狀態，并且傲慢自大。