Welcome back to another episode of Five Mids in Church History on this episode.

We are celebrating our 10th anniversary.

It was ten years ago in August that the very first episode rolled off and it was on a

gustan.

Actually it was on one word in a gustan, the word magnus.

It was the very first word that a gustan used when he started off his magnum opus, the

confessions, and it is a word about God.

God is great magnus.

Well to celebrate our 10th anniversary, I want to return to our good friend Augustin.

But let's look at some of his final words, not his first word.

If we go to that great book, the confessions, his final words there are, but you, speaking

directly of God, but you are goodness itself.

He goes on to say, what man can teach another to understand this truth?

What angel can teach it to an angel?

What angel can teach it to a man?

We must ask it of you, seek it in you, we must knock at your door.

Only then shall we receive what we ask and find what we seek.

Only then will the door be opened to us.

As we move to his other magnum opus, that big book, City of God, when we get through

all of those pages, 867 in my edition, we find this sense.

For what other end do we propose to ourselves, then to attain to the kingdom of which there

is no end?

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