By Regis Martin, Crisis Magazine - What will God, whose chief instrument is often irony, choose as His weapon to pull Augustine back from the brink? A book by Cicero... But the wisdom of which Cicero spoke, which he exhorts his readers to embrace for its own sake—“which excited me and set me burning with fire,” says Augustine—was not something that Cicero, or any other pagan author, could finally know. How could they, having lived before the coming of Christ, the very Logos of God Himself, who came among us to reveal—to enflesh no less!—the whole truth of God.