Augustine

I’m (re-)reading Augustine’s Confessions. Sometimes he dwells on strange things, and it’s hard going. But usually it’s very thought-provoking and even convicting.

In the first section of Book 3, he writes:

For within I was hungry, all for the want of that spiritual food which is Thyself, my God; yet [though I was hungry for want of it] I did not hunger for it…

The part in [] is something the translator inserted to make the meaning clearer.