This experience was summarized by Augustine in one of the most famous passages of the Confessions: he recounts that, in the torment of his reflections, withdrawing to a garden, he suddenly heard a child's voice chanting a rhyme never heard before: tolle, lege, tolle, lege, "pick up and read, pick up and read" (VIII, 12, 29).
Ovo iskustvo Augustin je saeo na jednoj od najpoznatijih stranica Ispovijesti: on pripovijeda da je, povukavši se u vrt obuzet razmišljanjima, iznenada čuo dječji glas koji mu je ponavljao pripjev što ga nikad ranije nije čuo: tolle, lege, tolle, lege, "uzmi, čitaj, uzmi, čitaj" (VIII, 12,29).vatican.va vatican.va