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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...

The prominent place occupied by Adimantus in the Manichaean party is attested in Augustine’s treatise, Against Faustus, the Manichaean, where Faustus is said to consider the study of Adimantus second only to that of Manicheus (cf. Against Faustus, the Manichaean 1.2; Retractations 2.33). It seems that the arguments of Adimantus, designed to show that the writings of the Apostles and Evangelists were not in accord with the Law and the Prophets and which Augustine opposed in the present treatise, either
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