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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...

for evil, or did he, rather, judge that it was a good work to correct evil men even by evil? If it were always praiseworthy to suffer persecution, it would have been enough for the Lord to say: ‘Blessed are they that suffer persecution,’ without adding: ‘for justice sake.’28 Similarly, if it were always blameworthy to persecute, it would not be written in the sacred Books: ‘The man that in private detracted his neighbor, him did I persecute.’29 Sometimes, then, the one who suffers it is unjust and
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