Direct quotation
Collective letter 2.5.10
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Under the name of grace they assert fate: they say that unless God breathes into an unwilling and resisting person a desire for good—even imperfect good—that person can neither turn away from evil nor take hold of good.
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Surviving material from the bishops’ letter; not a recovered complete text. Open the Latin source witness on each section.
Surviving material from the bishops’ letter as Augustine quotes it in Against Two Letters of the Pelagians II–IV. Not a recovered complete letter.
Witnesses
- Fragments Augustine, Against Two Letters of the Pelagians II–IV (Latin · Collective letter)
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