An idea from Confessions

Did it happen exactly like that? He himself could recall no children’s game with those words, and since 1950 scholars have argued over how much of the scene is literal and how much is shaped. The outcome is not in dispute: he quits teaching, drops the marriage, and is baptized.

From Confessions by Augustine

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