Augustine continues on to recount his young years going to school, an important privilege in the ancient world. He also remembers how he had learned from his parents and elders and peers about the existence of God and that He was some person of incredible power who, even though undetectable by our senses, was nevertheless able help us if we called upon Him. Augustine remembers calling upon God often to spare him the discipline for neglecting his studies and further remembers regretting the such prayers were never answered. It was ok though because he realizes in hindsight that the lessons were good for him as was the discipline even though it was painful at the time.
I have to wonder at what he must have thought in in his younger years. That he would write a book and that hundreds of millions of people would read about what he was going through for the next thousand and a half years probably never entered his head.
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