Quotation preserved in indirect speech
Collective letter 4.8.20
Their enemies have adopted Augustine’s statements out of hatred for the truth. Throughout the entire West, a doctrine as foolish as it is impious has been accepted. Signatures confirming it have been extorted from unsuspecting bishops who remained in their own places, without a synod being assembled.
About this text
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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