Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I/Volume V/On the Proceedings of Pelagius/Chapter 38

Chapter 38 [XV.]—The Same Continued.

Bishop John narrated all this in the hearing of Pelagius; but he, of course, might respectfully say: “Your holiness is in error; you do not accurately remember the facts. It was not in reference to the passages of Scripture which you have quoted that I uttered the words: &#8216;This is what I also believe.&#8217; Because this is not my opinion of them. I do not understand them to say, that God&#8217;s grace so co-operates with man, that his abstinence from sin is due, not to &#8216;him that willeth, nor to him that runneth, but to God that showeth mercy.&#8217;”