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Composed in AD 413, this work refutes certain writings that taught good works were not necessary to obtain eternal life.

luxury, idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, contentions, emulations, hatreds, dissensions, heresies, envies, drunkenness, revelings, and such like. Of the which I foretell you, as I have foretold you, that they who do such things shall not possess the kingdom of God.132 All these, then, are false. For if all one has to do is believe and be baptized, though he continues to commit such sins as these, he will be saved by fire. Consequently, those already baptized in Christ, if they commit these sins, they
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