He begins to leave who begins to love

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He begins to leave, who begins to love.
Many are the leaving who know it not;
For the feet of those leaving are affections of the heart
And, yet, they are leaving Babylon. - St Augustine

What does this mean? This was used as a signature on posts by my uncle, and when asked he simply said, “St. Augustine had the gift of saying much in few words.”
 
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He begins to leave, who begins to love.
Many are the leaving who know it not;
For the feet of those leaving are affections of the heart
And, yet, they are leaving Babylon. - St Augustine

What does this mean? This was used as a signature on posts by my uncle, and when asked he simply said, “St. Augustine had the gift of saying much in few words.”
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In the first verse could it be that those who truly love totally as did Christ are concerning themselves less with the temporal things of this world and realigning themselves to the spiritual?

In the second verse might it be saying that love itself wells up from the heart and is laying the foundation for what is to occur as per the first verse?

In the third verse would you consider that the spiritual of the first and second verses are directed not by the mind but by the indwelling process of love and faith?

Finally, isn’t this world really Babylon compared to Heaven?
 
I think I had a similar idea in the back of my head, and the way you put it makes it seem logical. Perhaps I am trying to read into it more than was meant to be. Still, the quote grows on me. St. Augustine must have been a clever guy.
 
You leave your “old” self behind, as you grow into a new self.

Many are leaving their old selves through love, without realizing they are doing it.

Those that leave, do so because they know it is right…even if they leave their idea of “heaven” behind.

But who really knows?
 
or, many are leaving and don’t know they are leaving.

I like this one better. many are leaving and know it not

knowledge as a union of likeness.

They are leaving and what they are leaving they never knew . They ,in a sense, are not leaving something that they knew or, as it were, bore a likeness too, but were leaving something they never knew, or as it were, were not like…
 
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Finally, isn’t this world really Babylon compared to Heaven?
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As far as I knew, Babylon was closer to Hell. The Tower of Babel, the invasion of the Baylonians, the Whore of Babylon. Babylon didn’t mean anything good, and largely came about as a euphamism for anything bad. Diabolically bad.

So leaving Babylon would be a good thing! But, ah, as for the rest? 🤷
 
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