Direct quotation
Collective letter 3.3.4
They also claim that baptism does not truly make people new: that is, that it does not grant full remission of sins. They insist that people become partly children of God but remain partly children of this world—that is, of the devil. (Luke 20:34; possible further echo: 1 John 3:10.)
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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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