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The first document of the semi-Pelagian controversy, the Defense of St. Augustine examines several mutually connected points of doctrine, all of them centered on the gratuity of grace, the undeserved gift of God.

not of yourselves, for it is the gift of God. Not of works, that no man may glory.39 7. Let, then, human weakness and all generations of men condemned in the first man acknowledge their true state. When the dead are brought to life, the blind made to see, the ungodly led to justice, let them confess that Jesus Christ is their life, light, justice, and He that glorieth should glory in the Lord,40 not in himself. When he was ungodly, blind, dead, it was from his Saviour that he gratuitously received
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