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13. The vintage vacation being ended, I gave he citizens of Milan
notice that they might provide their scholars with another seller of
words; because both of my election to serve Thee, and my inability,
by reason of the difficulty of breathing and the pain in my chest, to
continue the Professorship. And by letters I notified to Thy
bishop, the holy man Ambrose, my former errors and present
resolutions, with a view to his advising me which of Thy books it was
best for me to read, so that I might be readier and fitter for the
reception of such great grace. He recommended Isaiah the Prophet;
I believe, because he foreshows more clearly than others the gospel,
and the calling of the Gentiles. But I, not understanding the first
portion of the book, and imagining the whole to be like it, laid it
aside, intending to take it up hereafter, when better practised in our
Lord's words.
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