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The major portion of St. Augustine’s literary output listed, accounted for, and criticized by the author himself—such is the work here published in English translation for the first time. As the aged Augustine reread his extensive production, he sought to identify and to report to his widely scattered readership anything in his writings that had offended him or might offend others. In achieving...

things which rightly have the power to move him here. For not every sin is immorality; God who daily hears His saints when they say: “Forgive us our debts,”29 does not destroy every sinner although He destroys everyone “who is unfaithful to Him.”30 But what is to be understood by immorality and how it is to be limited, and whether, because of it, one may put away his wife is a most obscure question. Yet there is no doubt that this is permitted because of the immorality committed in licentious acts.
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