that Luther and Calvin often quote Augustine, for in his theology of grace and his view of predestination they found a kindred spirit. Augustine often proclaims, especially in his anti-Pelagian writings, that believers are saved by grace and not by works. Salvation is of the Lord, for believers cannot do anything apart from what they have received (1 Cor 4:7), a verse to which Augustine returned again and again in the Pelagian controversy. Augustine differs from the Reformers, however, in that he
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