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These 18 prose letters serve as a spiritual autobiography, providing an intimate view of monastic life in Italy during the fifth century. Volume 2 contains letters 23–51.

Now I feel the power of that hostile law which lays its hand on me and strives to drag me captive to the law of sin. I recognise that it is through my unhappiness that Paul burns, that it is through my disposition that he cries out in grief for me: Unhappy man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?50 But Paul is also the master who reforms and refashions me. He shows me the path out to salvation, if only to will is present with me,51 so that through the grace of God I may deserve
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