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Welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church History.

On this episode, we're going to be looking at our good old friend Augustine, but this

time we're going to be considering Augustine and his friends and Augustine on friendship.

Friendship was very meaningful to Augustine.

In fact, one writer said that Augustine is the first person to think of and to give

us a theology of friendship.

Friendship was very important to him.

He often liked to quote the famous line about friendship from Cicero.

The Greeks often thought about friendship.

They thought what is the nature of friendship, what brings friends together, and all this

sort of culminates in a thought that was presented by the great Roman thinker Cicero when he says

that friendship is agreement with kindness and affection about things human and divine.

Augustine believed this, and throughout most of his life, he would quote this when he was

writing to good friends of his.

But later in his life, he adds a little bit of a twist to this definition of friendship.

But before we get to his definition, let's talk about some of the friends that are in Augustine's

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