Quotation preserved in indirect speech
Collective letter 2.3.5
The Roman clergy were so frightened by an order that they were not ashamed to commit the crime of betrayal. In their earlier judgment, their recorded proceedings had supported catholic teaching; afterward, contrary to that judgment, they declared that human nature is evil.
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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.
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- Fragments Augustine, Against Two Letters of the Pelagians II–IV (Latin · Collective letter)
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