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What we call the Pelagian heresy actually took many forms, and had multiple proponents at different stages before it was officially condemned. Augustine, as bishop of Hippo, saw that these teachings were dangerous and set out to address them by explaining the true Church doctrine on these subjects. He first denounced the heresies verbally, in sermons and conferences. When a friend asked him to...

so that, as sin reigned for death, grace might reign through righteousness for eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord (Rom 5:20–21). Show us, then, how your sin, that is, inherited sin, began to abound after the law; show us what increases that sin received after the ministry of Moses. AUG. (1) Rather, show us how, as you put it above,224 the reign of sin collapsed when the law was given, though the apostle says that sin abounded when the law was given. I, however, state what I said because
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