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This volume contains roughly a third of St. Peter Chrysologus’ authentic sermons, now available to an English-speaking audience. The sermons offer readers a glimpse into the daily life, religious debates, political milieu, and Christian belief and practice in the second quarter of fifth-century Ravenna. Chrysologus preached and served as bishop at a time when the seat of the western Roman Empire...

have assumed this nature to work its repairing. Do you believe that it has been created for life, if you still doubt that it has been repaired by its Creator? ‘For until the Law,’ the text states, ‘sin was in the world.’ When you hear the words ‘until the Law,’ understand them to mean all the way until the end of the Law, that is, up until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. ‘Because sin is not imputed,’ it says, ‘when there is no law.’ And when was the law, which began with man himself, non-existent?
Pages 179–180