Augustine continues his remembrance of learning Greek and compares it to how he learned Latin, his first language. Greek he was forced to learn with under threat of punishment and he hated it, Latin he learned freely by simply conversing with everyone around him and he loved it. He thinks that learning is most effect when it is freely pursued but decides that God mixes bitter discipline with sweetness so that we are called away from having too much fun lest our fancies carry us away from God.
He's taken a seemingly mundane observance and spiritualized it. I'm not sure what I think of this.
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