Augustine: Addendum to Note on Lexicon

Like Jerome, I am continuing with Augustine with my current reading of history from my last, and I have discussed him for his relationships with Optatus and Orosius. I am reading the Confessions, as translated by Henry Chadwick for Oxford World's Classics. I posted last week about the lexicon of "catholic" and "orthodox." In Book VIII, Chapter vi, Section 14, Augustine describes the Christian religion he (eventually) joined as the "orthodox faith and…the Catholic Church." I think this agrees with and illustrates the point I was making about the equivalence of the two terms at this point in history.

A different translation is available at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.