Inexhaustible Riches

Augustine, Letters 137.1.3 ( Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum , vol. 44, pp. 99-100; to Volusianus; tr. Peter Brown): For such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures that, even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else, from boyhood to decrepit old age, with the utmost leisure, the most unwearied zeal, and with talents greater than I possess, I would still be making…