Annotation XXXIV, Whether anyone can hate God (Matthew 6:24)

Annotation XXXIV

”No one can serve two masters.” — Matthew 6:24

Whether anyone can hate God. Ps. 73.

Augustine, in the second book On the Lord’s Sermon on the Mount, chapter 22, expounding this, says: “Scarcely anyone’s conscience can hate God.” This same thing he retracted, in the same book and chapter of the Retractations, as contrary to divine Scripture — which says of many, “the pride of those who hate thee.”