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These letters, taken as a whole, present a vivid and fascinating view of life in North Africa at the beginning of the fifth century. In addition to the comments about ecclesiastical and episcopal affairs, there are also letters on various threats to peace and security common in this period of the late empire, on slavery and the growth of the slave trade, and on Roman involvement in African...

Devil is overcome, notwithstanding, if ‘our eyes are ever towards the Lord, that He may pluck our feet out of the snare,’40 and if, ‘whether we eat or drink or whatever we do, we do all to the glory of God,’41 and if, as far as in us lies, ‘we be without offense to the Jews and to the gentiles and to the Church of God.’42 Those persons have too little regard for these thoughts who eat with offense or fast with offense, and by either excess stir up scandals, whereby the Devil is not defeated, but
Pages 157–158
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