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Fulgentius, bishop of Ruspe (ca. 467–532), is considered the greatest North African theologian after the time of St. Augustine. When Fulgentius was born, North Africa had been under the rule of Germanic Vandals for several decades. His family was repeatedly victimized by Vandal persecutions, and Fulgentius himself suffered persecution and exile. While in exile, he continued his pastoral labors...

person in his punishment will have penance for this purpose only that he can never at any time lack either penance or punishment. And so that will which here held itself unchangeably wicked until the end, to this purpose it will have penance without end for its crimes, that from then on it can never be converted nor can it ever for eternity lack torment. It is not always penance when the sinner, touched beforehand by the grace of a pitying God, declares his sin by doing penance in such a way that
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