Reported interpretation
Collective letter 4.4.7
Augustine reports that in the apostle’s words, “Through one man sin entered the world, and through sin death, and so it passed to all human beings,” the authors understand death, rather than sin, as what passed to everyone (Romans 5:12).
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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