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This volume brings together writings from early and late stages of Augustine’s involvement in the Pelagian controversy. On Nature and Grace and On the Proceedings of Pelagius both date from AD 415–416 and constitute two of Augustine’s most extensive treatments of the actual words of Pelagius. On the Predestination of the Saints and On the Gift of Perseverance were probably written in AD 428, near...

first question is on the passage, “What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? By no means!”48 up to the place where he says, “Who will deliver me from the body of this death? The grace of God through Jesus Christ our Lord.”49 In this question,50 the words of the Apostle, “The law is spiritual, but I am carnal,”51 and other words where he shows that the flesh wars against the spirit, I have explained as though he were describing a man still “under the law” and not yet living “under grace.”52 Long afterwards,
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