Where does this famous St. Augustine quote about the repentant thief come from?
Upvote:1
According to Augustine: A New Biography by James J. O'Donnell,
Samuel Beckett tormented his interpreters with a story he told one time, supposedly to help them understand Waiting for Godot. He used to read, he said, a lot of Augustine in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris and recalled one passage in particular: "Do not despair," he remembered Augustine saying, "one of the thieves was saved. Do not presume, one of the thieves was damned." Thinking of Vladimir and Estragon as the two thieves crucified with Jesus is intriguing, to say the least, and is wonderfully Beckett-like that the particular passage cannot be found anywhere in the surviving writings of Augustine or anywhere in the pages of Patrologia Latina, for all that language and tenor are quite perfectly Augustinian. Did Beckett make up the quotation? Is he the most modern of pseudo-Augustines?
When searching around, the quotation is usually appended to Augustine and it is through Beckett that it all started, though it is a growing consensus in academia that it was not Augustine that penned the phrase but Beckett.
More post
- 📝 Can angels speak to us?
- 📝 Does Catholic Church believe that Jews suffered because of the curse of their forefathers at Matthew 27:25?
- 📝 How does Christianity work with all the biblical covenants?
- 📝 What is the Catholic Church's attitude to the use of Viagra in marriage?
- 📝 Why did Nehemiah need to tell us that the Queen was sitting beside the King?
- 📝 Why did the children of Israel run out of food in the wilderness, causing them to complain?
- 📝 What are the classics/giants in Systematic Theology?
- 📝 What exactly is the purpose of a Patron Saint?
- 📝 What is the Catholic position on ethnic parishes today?
- 📝 How do Calvinists interpret "Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path" and "He shall direct your paths"?
- 📝 When did we begin to exist?
- 📝 Do we have free will to choose salvation or is our "choice" an illusion?
- 📝 How many children did Adam and Eve have?
- 📝 Does Malachi 4:1 and Jude 7 prove that hell is temporary?
- 📝 How do the (Roman) Catholic Church and the (Anglican) Church of Uganda view "wife inheritance"?
- 📝 What is the meaning of creeds?
- 📝 When did female missionaries appear after the Reformation?
- 📝 What does it mean to be perfect?
- 📝 What actions does the LDS church (Mormon) take when a member does not pay tithing?
- 📝 Why do other religions exist if Yahweh is the one true God?
- 📝 John Wesley's influence by ancient fathers
- 📝 What were people called who believed in the "Christ" before Jesus was born?
- 📝 What Biblical support for praying to the saints is usually cited by those Christians who practice that?
- 📝 What reforms did Erasmus seek for the church?
- 📝 What is the biblical basis for the belief that Mary is the mother of God?
- 📝 According to the teaching of the Reformed Church do we contribute anything to our salvation or is it all of grace?
- 📝 Does the RCC allow confirmation names that aren't based on saints?
- 📝 According to the Catholic Church, when can a priest refuse to grant absolution in confession?
- 📝 Who, in the Roman Catholic Church has declared that Matthew 16:18 teaches empowerment of the Magesterium with inerrancy regarding faith and morals?
- 📝 What are the objections to Newton's critique of 1 John 5:7 and 1 Timothy 3:16?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Where does this famous St. Augustine quote about the repentant thief come from?
- 📝 Where does this Augustine quote come from?
- 📝 What is the source of this quote from Augustine about thanking heretics?
- 📝 From where does the tradition come that Mary rode on a donkey to Bethlehem prior to the birth of Jesus?
- 📝 Where does the tradition come from that Noah's sons went separate directions?
- 📝 Where did St. Jerome say this quote about the manger of the nativity?
- 📝 Where does this Martin Luther quote come from?
- 📝 Where does this definition of humility come from, if not the Catechism of the Catholic Church?
- 📝 Where does Taizé Community phrase, “Stay With Me” come from in the bible?
- 📝 Where does the idea come from that the KJV is the proper bible to be used?
- 📝 Does this quote from Origen prove the Bible is corrupt?
- 📝 Where can I find out more about other people rising from the dead, when Jesus died on the Cross?
- 📝 From where does the doctrine that there is no time in heaven originate?
- 📝 Where does the story of the spider on the cross come from?
- 📝 Where does the Catholic tradition that Mary did not have pain giving birth to Jesus come from?
- 📝 Where does the story of "the Cross on top of Adam's Skull" come from?
- 📝 What is the basis for King Melchizedek actually being Jesus? Where did this idea come from?
- 📝 Where does the belief that the Earth is relatively young (6000 years) come from?
- 📝 Where did the belief that Saul fell from a horse come from?
- 📝 How does the view of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints about Jesus Christ differ from Protestant Trinitarian Christology?
- 📝 What does the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints teach about who Jesus is and where He came from?
- 📝 Where does the belief the Bible is written by the Holy Spirit come from?
- 📝 Where did the hierarchical designations of priest, cardinal, bishop, and pope come from in the Catholic church?
- 📝 What does the Bible say about this question- Why do Jesus and God have two seats in heaven when they are the same God?
- 📝 Where does the book of Job come from?
- 📝 From where did the Pearl of Great Price come and how did it become recognized as Scripture in the LDS church?
- 📝 From where did the Book of Abraham come and how did it become part of LDS Scripture?
- 📝 Quote about judging "a man by his post" from the City of God, according to Alain de Botton
- 📝 According to the Jehovah's Witnesses, where does the Devil come from?
- 📝 From where does the teaching on women in ministry come?