Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I/Volume V/On Rebuke and Grace/Extract from Augustin's Retractations

Extract from Augustin&#8217;s “Retractations,”

“de correptione et gratia.”

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again to the same persons another treatise, which I entitled On Rebuke and Grace, because I had been told that some one there had said that no man ought to be rebuked for not doing God&#8217;s commandments, but that prayer only should be made on his behalf, that he may do them. This book begins on this wise, “I have read your letters, dearly beloved brother Valentine.”