Capitolo 35
occupations must have withstood to; it is vain to try to repair the life to
include them, and they must simply be eliminates. This sight is
maintained, for example, in God's love from those among us who
you/he/she has really called monastics, and in the love of the wisdom from all those
who have been of relief among men as sincere philosophers. For in each
run, gentiles or Hebrews or Cristiano there has been always some
who excelled their individuals in faith or in the purity of them
life, and from what you/he/she had separately put from their crowd
continence or from their abstinence from worldly pleasures.
Among the Hebrews of old man they were the Nazariteses that consecrated
them to the God, some of them the prophet's children Elias
and others the followers of Eliseus, the monks of whom on the
authority of St. Jerome (Epist. 4 and 13), we read in the Old one
Will. There were more recently the three philosophical seven
what Josephus defines in his/her Book of the Antiquities (xviii, 2),
calling them the Pharisees, the Sadducees and the Essenes. In ours
times, there are besides the monks that or they imitate the
the town life of the Apostles or the first and the solitary life of
John. There is among the gentiles, as the has been said
philosophers. It did them they don't apply the name of the wisdom or the philosophy
as a lot of to the religion of the life as to the search to learn, as
we find from the origin of the same word, and likewise from the
testimony of the saints?
There is a passage on this subject in the eighth book of Street
The "City of Augustine of God", where he distinguishes among the
various schools of the philosophy. "The Italian school", he says, "it had
as his/her Pythagoras more found of Samos that, it is said, it originated the
a lot of word 'the philosophy.' Before his/her time those that were considered
evident for the praiseworthiness of their grapevine you/he/she had called
wise men but him, on him to ask of his/her profession responded that him
it was a philosopher that is to say a student or a person in love of the wisdom,