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Answer to Letters of Petilian, Bishop of Cirta, Book 2, Ch. 60 — Tolle Lege

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St. Augustine

Answer to Letters of Petilian, Bishop of Cirta

Book 2 › Chapter 60

Chapter 60.

¹³⁵ Petilianus said: "Under what law, then, do you make out that you are Christians, seeing that you do what is contrary to the law?"

136. Augustine answered: You are anxious for strife, and not for argument.

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Source: Answer to Letters of Petilian, Bishop of Cirta (New Advent)