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Saint Augustine: Letters: Volume V (204–270) is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

and our brothers, to persevere in the Catholic faith, which neither denies free will whether for a bad life or a good one, nor allows it so much effect that it can do anything without the grace of God, whether to convert the soul from evil to good, or to persevere and advance in good, or to attain eternal good, where there is no more fear of falling away. To you, also, dearly beloved, I send in this letter the exhortation which the Apostle addresses to us all: ‘Not to be more wise than it behooveth
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