In his superb introduction to the New City Press edition of Augustine’s de Trinitate ( Trinity, The (Works of Saint Augustine A Translation for the 21st Century) ), Edmund Hill offers a chiastic outline of the treatise:
1. Introduction, 1
2. Divine missions: exegetical, 2-4
3. Trinitarian language: philosophical, 5-7
4. Modo interiore , 8
3’. Psychological analogies: philosophical, 9-11
2’. Disorder and redemption of image: exegetical, 12-14
1’. Conclusion, 15
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