Retract
. i. cap. 14. Moreover now at Hippo-Regius as Presbyter
I wrote a book
on the Profit of Believing
, to a friend of
mine who had been taken in by the Manichees, and whom I knew to be
still held in that error, and to deride the Catholic school of
Faith, in that men were bid believe, but not taught what was truth
by a most certain method. In this book I said, &c. * * *. This book begins thus,
“Si mihi Honorate,
unum atque idem videretur esse.”
St. Augustin enumerates his book
on the
Profit of Believing
first amongst those he
wrote as Presbyter, to which order he was raised at Hippo about the
beginning of the year 391. The person for whom he wrote had been
led into error by himself, and appears to have been recovered from
it, at least if he is the same who wrote to St. Augustin from
Carthage about 412, proposing several questions, and to whom St.
Augustin wrote his 140th Epistle. Cassiodorus calls him a
Presbyter, though at that time he was not baptized. In Ep. 83, St.
Augustin speaks of the death of another Honoratus, a Presbyter.
Towards the end of his life he also wrote his 228th Epistle to a
Bishop of Thabenna of the same name.—(
Bened.
Ed.
)
The remarks in the
Retractations
are given in notes to the passages where they
occur.