Augustines Confessions
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Augustine on his own view stole the fruit for the mere enjoyment of the sin and theft that the stealing involved. He says in (II,4)
“Behold, now let my heart tell you what it
looked for there, that I should be evil
without purpose and there should be no
cause for my evil, but evil itself. ....
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.... was more desirable than the fruit which they stole. The fruit was sought as an opportunity to be deceitful and to gain self enjoyment from it.
Augustine, however realizes that the theft that he committed
for the enjoyment of the sin of the crime was indeed unlawful. He thinks of why couldn’t he have received enjoyment by committing a more lawful act. In Augustines Confessions (II,6) He states:
“ O rottenness! O monstrous life and deepest
death! Could a thing give plea ....
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