{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_012: Thus, I understood,", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_ff3ed38a7864", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_012: Thus, I understood, by my own experience, what I had read, how the flesh lust...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Thus, I understood, by my own experience, what I had read, how the flesh lusteth against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh. Myself verily either way; yet more myself, in that which I approve", "authority_tier": "father", "source": "Augustine, Confessions (c. AD 400)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_bd5cb25aa5d9", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_017: Wondrous depth of Thy words!", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Wondrous depth of Thy words! whose surface, behold! is before us, inviting to little ones; yet are they a wondrous depth. O my God, a wondrous depth! 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