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i.1

Augustine introduces the period of his life when he was acting out of vanity. He admits that there will likely be proud people who would laugh at him, but in so acknowledging them he rebukes them and notes that it is their own unhealthy souls that will find this unbeneficial.

ii.2

He was a sophist in the order of Gorgias in the Socratic dialogue of the same name. He also was in a monogamous non-marital relationship which was entered into for sex. Augustine seems to imply here that all extramarital relationships are characterized by the lust of the flesh, which I think must be true of relationships whose end is not a godly marriage.

ii.3

A good Manichee, Augustine professed hatred for killing of any kinds of animal for any reason, especially to demons–but notes that since his indignance was not Christian, he was making sacrifice of himself.

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References.
Augustine, St. Confessions. Henry Chadwick, trans. ISBN 0-19-283372-3 (Paperback).

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i.1

Augustine introduces the period of his life when he was acting out of vanity. He admits that there will likely be proud people who would laugh at him, but in so acknowledging them he rebukes them and notes that it is their own unhealthy souls that will find this unbeneficial.

ii.2

He was a sophist in the order of Gorgias in the Socratic dialogue of the same name. He also was in a monogamous non-marital relationship which was entered into for sex. Augustine seems to imply here that all extramarital relationships are characterized by the lust of the flesh, which I think must be true of relationships whose end is not a godly marriage.

ii.3

A good Manichee, Augustine professed hatred for killing of any kinds of animal for any reason, especially to demons–but notes that since his indignance was not Christian, he was making sacrifice of himself.

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References.
Augustine, St. Confessions. Henry Chadwick, trans. ISBN 0-19-283372-3 (Paperback).