Quotation preserved in indirect speech
Collective letter 3.2.2
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They say that the law of the Old Testament was not given to justify those who obeyed it, but to become a cause of more serious sin.
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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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