Augustine's Confessions

Now when this man of Yours Simplicianus told me the story of Victorinus I was eager to imitate him. Indeed this was Simplicianus purpose in telling it to me. But when he went on to tell how in the reign of the Emperor Julian there was a law passed by which Christians were forbidden to teach literature and rhetoric; and how Victorinus in ready obedience to the law, chose to abandon his school of words rather than Your Word by which You make eloquent the tongues of the dumb he appeared to me not so much brave as happy because he had found a reason for giving his time wholly to You. For this was what I was longing to do but as