For my last handout, you should have this one, just one side, because I have less text that I want to talk about and more lecture that I'm going to supplement our textual discussion.

What I'm going to do today a little bit different than what my pattern has been done, been the last three

days, is to walk through the text with you looking at a few passages, as we've been doing for about half the time.

And then the other half of the time, I want to introduce you to two ways of reading the city of God in book 19,

because as you may or may not be aware, book 19 is the Locus classicus for fierce modern disputes

about how to read Augustine. And so, in the second half, I'm going to turn to our own version of originalism and textualist arguments about how to read Augustine.

And that will be basically a dispute between medieval and modern readings of Augustine.

Is Augustine's, does the Augustine that we have read so far fit better with modern liberal order,

the sort of philosophical operating system since the 18th century,

or does it fit better with, say, medieval Christendom?

And that's what we'll discuss in the second half is,

what's the most plausible reading of Augustine?

And does it matter?

Does it matter?

So that's how we're going to divide up our time just a little bit differently.

So be patient with this, a new approach.

But I think it's good to get a kind of

common set of texts. The one trick of getting this many people to sit down around a text

and read is that you have to pick things out. And so I'm picking out a few things for you, and you might see other things in book 19

that you want to put your finger on, and feel free to do that at any point.

But our first half hour here, I want to give us just looking at the text together.

I want to point out just one text that's prior to book 19. There's quite a few

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