Collective letter 2.9.19

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Augustine reports that the authors read the saying “It is for a human being to prepare the heart, and the Lord gives the tongue’s answer” as meaning that preparing the heart—that is, beginning something good—belongs to a human being without the help of God’s grace (Proverbs 16:1).

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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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