The Punishment and Forgiveness of Sins and the Baptism of Little Ones: Three Books for Marcellinus An urgent concern also arose which forced me to write against the new Pelagian heresy. Earlier we were opposing it, when there was need, not in writing, but by sermons and conferences, as each of us was able and ought to have. After there had been sent to me from Carthage some questions of theirs which I was to resolve by written reply, I first wrote three books, the title of which