Looking for Help Finding a Sermon

Hi everyone,

I read a quote attributed to Augustine in the Ancient Christian Commentary Series volume on the Minor Prophets under Micah 6:8. Here it is:

THE LORD REQUIRES THE SELF. AUGUSTINE: You ask what you should offer: offer yourself. For what else does the Lord seek of you but you? Because of all earthly creatures he has made nothing better than you, he seeks yourself from yourself, because you have lost yourself. SERMON 48.2.

I wanted to read the quote within its context. I found what claims to be a translation of Augustine's Sermon 48 on-line at this website:

http://kingsgarden.org/English/Organizations/LCC.GB/LCIS/Scriptures/Fathers/Doctors/AugustinOfHippo/Sermons/Sermon48.html

However, I did not find this quotation within the sermon. Would anyone on the Logos Forum know where (if anywhere) these words can be found within Augustine's works?

Many thanks for any assistance!

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fgh

The link goes to Sermons on the New Testament. Judging from the footnote, it should probably go to some sermon on the Minor Prophets. I'll report the incorrect link.

Don Awalt

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/597793#Comment_597793

It is actually a quote from a series that Logos sells, Barnes Notes on the Old and New Testament. In it is the book Pusey, E. B. Notes on the Old Testament: The Minor Prophets: Micah to Malachi. Vol. 2. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1885, which is the footnote 39 in the ACCS book. It is Pusey's book in the Barnes series which quotes Augustine Sermon 48.2 (footnote 15 below is the footnote to Augustine's sermon 48.2):

He hath shewed thee. Micah does not tell them now, as for the first time; which would have excused them. He says, He hath shewed thee; He, about Whose mind and will and pleasure they were pretending to enquire, the Lord their God. He had shewn it to them. The law was full of it. He shewed it to them, when He said, And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, to keep the commandments of the Lord and His statutes which I command thee this day for thy good? They had asked, “with what outward thing shall I come before the Lord;” the prophet tells them, “what thing is good,” the inward man of the heart, righteousness, love, humility.

And what doth the Lord require [search, seek] of thee? The very word implies an earnest search within. He would say, “14Trouble not thyself as to any of these things, burnt-offerings, rams, calves, without thee. For God seeketh not thine, but thee; not thy substance, but thy spirit; not ram or goat, but thy heart.” “Thou askest, what thou shouldest offer for thee? Offer thyself. For what else doth the Lord seek of thee, but thee? Because, of all earthly creatures, He hath made nothing better than thee, He seeketh thyself from thyself, because thou hadst lost thyself.”

fgh

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/597796#Comment_597796

It is Pusey's book in the Barnes series which quotes Augustine Sermon 48.2

But which Sermon 48.2? Not Sermon 48.2 on the New Testament.

Paul Yeager

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/597799#Comment_597799

On the one hand, Don is correct. The quote is cited from the book by Pusey. And yes, looking at Pusey's book, the quote is found.

On the other hand, Augustine's original use of the quote is elusive. I can't find the quote in the sermon Pusey cites -- Sermon 48. It makes me wonder if these words real are Augustine's, to be found in a different sermon or work OR if they are from someone else? My hope is to read the quote within its full context.