{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_015: Can it at any time", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_4e743297cf2f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_017: At no time then hadst Thou not made any thing, because time itself Thou madest.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "At no time then hadst Thou not made any thing, because time itself Thou madest. And no times are coeternal with Thee, because Thou abidest; but if they abode, they should not be times. For what is tim", "authority_tier": "father", "source": "Augustine, Confessions (c. 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