Saint Augustine responds
Answer... José Anoz Gutiérrez
José Anoz Gutiérrez, born in 1943 and an Augustinian Recollect friar since 1962, holds a licentiate in Sacred Scriptures. As member of the team that edits Avgvstinus since 1990, he published San Agustín. Sermones nuevos (Madrid 2001) and various studies on Saint Augustine, among which is the updated chronology of Saint Augustine (Avgvstinus 47, 2002, 229-312). He also…
Dear Rodrigo:
I do not find in the “Complete Works” of St. Augustine, at least literally, the lines you quoted.
In his sermons on Psalm 40, 17, which refers to Psalm 140, 5 there is something quite related to your question: [Allow that it be translated freely] “I must bear with flatterers… They praise in me that which I do not want; the little that I have they extol.And flatterers, liars and humbugs censurethat which I highly esteem in my person.”
Till the next time.