A Treatise Against Two Letters Of The Pelagians
A Treatise Against Two Letters Of The Pelagians
(CONTRA DUAS EPISTOLAS PELAGIANORUM.)
EXTRACT FROM AUGUSTIN’S “RETRACTATIONS,”
BY AURELIUS AUGUSTIN, BISHOP OF HIPPO;
IN FOUR BOOKS,
WRITTEN TO BONIFACE, BISHOP OF THE ROMAN CHURCH, IN OPPOSITION TO TWO LETTERS OF THE PELAGIANS, A.D. 420, OR A LITTLE LATER.
TRANSLATED BY DR. WALLIS
Book II. Chap. 61, On the Following Treatise, “contra duas epistolas pelagianorum.”
Then follow four books which I wrote to Boniface, bishop of the Roman Church, in opposition to two letters of the Pelagians, because when they came into his hands he had sent them to me, finding in them a calumnious mention of my name. This work commences on this wise: “I had indeed known you by the praise of your renowned fame.”