you command, and command what you will.”7 Pelagius, putting two and two together, concluded that Augustine’s view of grace led inevitably to sin. He opposed it out of a concern for proper Christian ethics. For his part, Augustine’s view of sin and grace was tied to his conversion experience. So great was his sense of his own sinfulness, and of the divine mercy necessary to deliver him from it, that he formulated a doctrine of grace in which salvation is all of God, with no human will or effort. This