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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...

40. (XIX.) Furthermore, lest anyone strive to attribute the difference between the various gifts to any kind of human works or merits, the same blessed Paul shows that the free gifts are bestowed through the abundance of spiritual grace, which finds no merit on the basis of which it might confer a gift, but does itself give the beginning of good merits. Thus, he says, “There are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are varieties of ministries, but the same Lord. And there are varieties
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