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Often appears with: self-discipline · repentance and divine grace · renunciation of worldly pleasure · moderation, luxury, and excess · duty, conscience, and obligation · conversion and faith · abandoning rhetoric teaching
Usually: reflection (1) · praise (1) · reverence (1)
After conversion, Augustine praises God for breaking his bonds and describes how freely he no longer desires worldly pleasures; he also resolves to stop speaking as a rhetoric teacher and waits until the vintage vacation passes.
O Lord, I am Thy servant; I am Thy servant, and the son of Thy handmaid: Thou hast broken my bonds in sunder. I will offer to Thee the sacrifice of praise. Let my heart and my tongue praise Thee; yea, let all my bones say, O Lord, who is like unto Thee? Let them say, and answer Thou me, and say unto my soul, I am thy salvation. Who am I, and what am I? What evil have not been either my deeds, or if not my deeds, my w…