"Having manifested what he was and what he is, he shows the great fruit of his confession."

"Attaining his thirtieth year, he, under the admonition of the discourses of Ambrose,..."

"He speaks of his design of forsaking the profession of rhetoric,..."

"Of the goodness of God explained in the creation of things, and of the trinity as found in the first words of Genesis...."

"He continues his explanation of the first chapter of genesis according to the septuagint..."

"The design of his confessions being declared, he seeks from God the knowledge of the Holy Scriptures,..."

"He finally describes the thirty second year of his age, the most memorable of his whole life,..."

"He recalls the beginning of his youth, i.e. the thirty first year of his age, in which very grave errors as to the nature of God and the origin of evil being distinguished"

"He describes the twenty ninth year of his age, in which having discovered the fallacies of the Manicheans,..."