From St. Augustine's Confessions again. The collocation of these two representatives of eastern and western asceticism, as the culmination of this part of the poem, is not an accident.
Eliot had another quote from St. Augustine ("to Carthage then I came") on line 307 That quote was from Confessions, Book Three, Chapter 1, Section 1. This quote ("O Lord Thou pluckest me out") comes from St. Augustine's Confessions, Book Ten, Chapter 34, Section 53.
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