Quotation preserved in indirect speech
Collective letter 4.2.2
The old law, which according to the apostle is just, holy, and good, was able to grant everlasting life to those who kept its commandments and lived rightly through faith, as the prophets, patriarchs, and all the saints did (Romans 7:12).
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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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