Quotation preserved partly in indirect speech
Collective letter 4.2.2
The Lord says in the Gospel: “He who made them in the beginning made them male and female” (Matthew 19:4; Genesis 1:27). And he said: “Increase and multiply, and fill the earth” (Genesis 1:28). “Therefore, what God has joined together, let no human being separate” (Matthew 19:6).
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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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