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-- 21. Petilianus said: "Hemmed in, therefore, by these offenses, you cannot be a true bishop."

22. Augustin answered: By what offenses? What have you shown? What have you proved? And if you have proved charges on the part of I know not whom, what has that to do with the seed of Abraham, in which all the nations of the earth are blessed?

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Writings In Connection With The Donatist Controversy

Augustine's writings against the Donatist heresy, addressing fundamental questions of baptism, church authority, and the nature of the true Church in North African Christianity.

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