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Often appears with: sin and salvation · providence and divine governance · education and the training of the young · education and student discipline · divine providence · crime and punishment · conversion to christianity
Usually: narrative (1) · temptation (1) · the test or trial (1) · detachment (1) · reverence (1)
Augustine explains that he went from Carthage to Rome for calmer student discipline, contrasting unruly behavior in Carthage with more regular order in Rome, which God used to redirect his life toward salvation.
the steps of a man are ordered by the Lord, and He shall dispose his way. Or how shall we obtain salvation, but from Thy hand, re-making what it made? Thou didst deal with me, that I should be persuaded to go to Rome, and to teach there rather, what I was teaching at Carthage. And how I was persuaded to this, I will not neglect to confess to Thee; because herein also the deepest recesses of Thy wisdom, and Thy most …