Quotation preserved partly in indirect speech
Collective letter 4.2.2
Nothing evil has passed from Adam to everyone else except death (Romans 5:12). Death is not always an evil, since for martyrs it is a cause of rewards. What makes death good or bad is not the dissolution of bodies, which will be raised in every class of human beings (possible echo: John 5:28–29), but the difference in people’s deserts, which arises from human freedom.
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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