Collective Letter to Thessalonica · §2.6.11

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Collective letter 2.6.11

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Augustine says that the authors deny that infants inherit original sin needing remission in baptism. They nevertheless affirm, and indeed proclaim, that the washing of rebirth adopts them from being children of human beings into being children of God (Titus 3:5; John 1:12–13; Romans 8:15).

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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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