Tolle, Lege! (Take, Read!)

'... all at once I heard the singsong voice of a child in a nearby house. Whether it was the voice of a boy or a girl I cannot say, but again and again it repeated the refrain "Tolle, lege! Tolle, lege!" [Take, read!]. At this I looked up, thinking hard whether there was any kind of game in which children used to chant words like these, but I could not remember ever hearing them before. I stemmed my flood of tears and stood up, telling myself that this could only be a divine command to open my book of Scripture and read ...'

Augustine of Hippo, AD 354-430

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