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Fulgentius of Ruspe and the Scythian Monks: Correspondence on Christology and Grace is unavailable, but you can change that!

St. Fulgentius of Ruspe was perhaps the most brilliant North African theologian in the era after St. Augustine’s death. He wrote widely on theological and moral issues. Between the years AD 519 and 523, Fulgentius engaged in correspondence with a group of Latin-speaking monks from Scythia, and that correspondence is translated into English—almost all of it for the first time—in this volume. The...

7. It is good for you to bring these two points, which you propose separately, into agreement with the Catholic consensus. For these points appropriately acknowledge the grace of God and show that you do not deny the mystery of prophecy. For those two brothers are rightly understood to signify two nations, especially since it was foretold to Rebecca, who was consulting with the Lord, that two nations would be separated from her womb. Truly, one must recognize in that separation both undeserved goodness
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