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Monsignor Ryan's main purpose in the present translation is to give a clear and accurate rendering of the Confessions. His method in translating this work has been first to try to determine what St. Augustine thought, and then to state those thoughts in clearly understandable English for the modern reader. He has resisted temptations 'to paraphrase and to substitute current expressions that correspond, more or less, to those that St. Augustine set down.'
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