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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...

to ensure that the child lives until the time he attains to the washing of saving water. But truly the effect of this regeneration does not come from any man’s will or manner of living, but from God who has mercy, who both stirs up the parents’ will and gives aid to the willing ones. 19. Therefore, the Redeemer works mercifully so that a child may be redeemed by the work of regeneration. He prepares opportunities, provides wills, grants persons, and arranges places. And he does this not only in the
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