[ 3 ] Augustine of Hippo , St . Augustine ’ s Confessions , 465 . “ I snatched it up , I opened it , and in silence I read that chapter which I had first cast mine eyes upon : Not in rioting and drunkenness , * not in chambering and wantonness , not in strife and envying : but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ ; and make not provision for the flesh , to fulfil the lusts thereof . No further would I read ; nor needed I . For instantly even with the end of this sentence , by a light as it were of confidence now darted into my heart , all the darkness of doubting vanished away . ”