A Treatise On The Grace Of Christ, And On Original Sin
A Treatise On The Grace Of Christ, And On Original Sin
(DE GRATIA CHRISTI, ET DE PECCATO ORIGINALI, CONTRA PELAGIUM.)
EXTRACT FROM AUGUSTIN’S “RETRACTATIONS,”
BY AURELIUS AUGUSTIN, BISHOP OF HIPPO;
IN TWO BOOKS,
WRITTEN AGAINST PELAGIUS AND COELESTIUS IN THE YEAR A.D. 418.
TRANSLATED BY DR. HOLMES.
Book II. Chap. 50, On the Following Treatise, “De gratia christi, et de peccato originali.”
“After the conviction and condemnation of the Pelagian heresy with its authors by the bishops of the Church of Rome,—first Innocent, and then Zosimus,—with the co-operation of letters of African councils, I wrote two books against them: one On the Grace of Christ, and the other On Original Sin. The work began with the following words: How greatly we rejoice on account of your bodily, and, above all, because of your Spiritual welfare.’“